that was me a year ago ladies and gentlemen yeah that was your boy stepen a I can't even tell you how bad I was I was 208 lbs I was always skinny I was skin and bones with a pot belly 208 lbs nearly 30% body fat a cholesterol level over 300 and .1 point away from being a fullblown diabetic and that was after I had covid which damn near killed me this is a year later as you can see times have changed I feel lovely I think I look lovely and guess what I'm on a mission to do make sure I can do EX exactly that for you too Stephen A Smith show ain't just about sports it ain't just about pop culture and entertainment it ain't just about politics it's about helping everybody make their life better whatever way we can pull that off the number one mission is Health there is no wealth in any category without good health we going to start today doing everything we can to make sure we we address that issue you want to get healthy you want to be better you want to do what you can to move your life in a forward more positive direction listen to this special edition of the Stephen A Smith show yours truly with the one and only Gary Breer but 10x Health wait till you hear this brother drop his knowledge let's go y'all what's up everybody Welcome to the special edition of the Stephen A Smith show I've been looking forward to talking to you guys and ladies for a very very long time obviously over the last year or so you've heard me do something that I have never done and that is mention my health in a positive way it was so bad for me as I pointed out in the cold open I had no reason to look in the mirror other than for brushing my teeth and washing my face I didn't want to look in the mirror because life was that bad needless to say things have changed and I have a couple of people to thank for it but none more so than the individual that I'm about to introduce you all now to as well first of all he's got his own Instagram account his own Tik Tock account he's got a couple of millions of followers he's the co-founder of 10x Health System obviously he's got a podcast a big- Time Podcast the ultimate human um he is the one and only Gary Breer wow he is sitting right next to me what's up big time how are you son how's everything going to you brother it's good to see you how you doing I'm doing great man uh I think it's appropriate to start off this conversation really this interview by giving you uh major props and thanks um I appeared on your podcast a few minut a few months ago I definitely saved this because um I'm in pretty damn good shape right now are I'm feeling good about myself and you obviously have uh you deserve a lot of credit I can't thank you enough for the help that you have given me when you first saw me MH tell the audience they saw a picture of me yes but tell the audience what kind of condition I was in well you know everybody sees what's going on on the outside right so we were taking a look at what was going on in the inside we did a gene test we did a blood test and um the blood revealed something called metabolic syndrome and um people might have heard of this and don't really know what it is if you know what it is um then then good for you because it's it is the leading cause of cardiovascular disease and what it is it's it's any two of the following five abdominal obesity um elevated blood sugar elevated insulin high triglycerides blood fat and high cholesterol and you had all five of those right the when you came to see me um the blood was was sort of a disaster right and we talked about this and we've been very upfront about this and you know this happens slowly over time it's not like you wake up one day and you got abdominal obesity and you're insulin resistant and your you know your triglycerides are High which is a measure of blood fat and and your your sugars are off the charts it it happens slowly over time and there are people listening to this podcast right now that had two or three or four of the five signs of metabolic syndrome and they do not know it one of the first signs of cardiovascular disease is sudden death sudden death that a sign you died that a sign that's that's a symptom that's one of that's one of the signs so they say what are one one of the first signs of of of of advanced cardiovascular disease sudden death and so that's why they call the sudden killer you know the silent killer they're called the the left anterior descending artery the Widow Maker um because so I and I don't want to make you know too heavy of of your condition but what I'm saying is there so many people were in the place that you were in and you were finally I think driven to me because of the consequences you know you were saying you had brain fog and you were tired and you were having a hard time getting through the interviews on the air and and um you know your joints were aching you weren't sleeping well you had a little bit of water retention and and this is all too common it just happen so slowly one day like you said you wake up and you look in the mirror and you're like man I do not like what's looking back at me is it all too common with everybody or do African-Americans get affected by certain things differently than white Americans differently than Latino Americans anything like that well African-Americans are more prone to a few things they're more prone to type 2 diabetes um there's no question about that they're more prone to to um vitamin D3 deficiency vitamin D3 if you were to say you know what's the most important single most important nutrient in the human body there's lots of them but I would probably say it's vitamin D3 the sunshine vitamin it's the only vitamin that human beings make on our own there every single cell in the body has a receptor for this vitamin the African-American population is 75% of that population is deficient in vitamin D3 um 50% of the world's population deficient in vitamin D3 effect it was the second leading cause of morbidity in Co when Co um when the pandemic was at its height they said well the pandemic is is disproportionately affecting minorities this was very true it had nothing to do with their minority status it had to do with the pigment of the skin right and the vitamin D3 the darker the pigment of your skin the less your D3 the less your D3 the more compromised your immune system so um when you talk about you know differences between races that's one of them you know um also the propensity for type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance is higher in the African-American community so these these are just things that that people should get data on you know most of us have so much data on our business we have so much data on our kids on our families we keep sports stats we know things like that but we don't have any data on our Temple and you know I I I I do an interesting exercise sometimes when I when I speak in front of large audiences young entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs you you ask them I actually spoke at Damon John's event a a few weeks ago and I a room full of high profile entrepreneurs I said how many of you really believe that your health is more important than your wealth um every hand went up how many of you believe that your health is more important than your business every hand goes up and then when you bring a few people up onto the stage and you ask them a few questions about their business how much did your business make last month okay made $668,000 how much did it net last month $148,000 how many employees do you have 72 um what's your net revenue per month $142,300 what's your hemoglobin A1c where your testosterone levels what's your D3 level blank and they and I do that to Rattle their cage a little bit to say you need data you got to get some data on your body but but my question to you would be when folks are lacking the data usually you go to a doctor when you're not feeling well or you go to a doctor for a particular checkup they give you an exam they analyze you they dissect you and they say okay this is what your situation is they might show you some of that numb they may give you a copy of your records and what have you but that's basically it that's what you go by so is it really about the patient and not really prioritizing getting their numbers or is it about the fact that we live in a culture where you go to the doctor and you just trust what the doctor is telling you and you go from there unless you're feeling too bad that you need you feel an urgency to try something different all right this this is going to get me in some trouble it's probably going to split your audience right in half but the truth is that you know we we have a sick care system um and it is designed and it makes hundreds of billions of dollars a year to manage symptoms and um and manage disease we are very good at symptom maintenance we are very good at disease management so when some traditional not all but when some traditional Physicians will look at your medical record they're looking to see if you have disease or pathology they're going to say Stephen I'm looking at this you're fine you don't have diabetes um you don't have heart disease um you don't have any markers that you've had uh you know any kind of active pathology in your body come you know come see me in next year but then you go well well I'm having a hard time like recalling names at cocktail parties and you know I'm having a hard time you know with words making it to the tip of my tongue and just not making it out I'm having a difficult time remember where my car keys and my wallet are and I just don't feel good I know that I don't have the same energy energ level and I know that I don't have the impetus to work out libido has left the building I don't feel aroused any longer I've got no interest in in in sex any longer I'm not out of love with my spouse or not attracted to my spouse I just don't have libido and um and and so they they don't want to live like that when you made a you you gave me one of the greatest quotes of all time and you said there's a difference between being alive and living and living and I love that quote because most of the time time we're going to go to our doctor to Keep Us Alive but if you really want to live if you really want to thrive you've got to put raw materials back into the human body God meant for us to have it all the libido of a tiger the energy of 10 men to sleep like a bear to have clean clear waking energy to have that positive aggression towards working out to feel aroused to have the full range of emotions and as we get older and these things creep up on us we just sort of accept all of these things as a consequence of Aging weight gain water retention brain fog poor sleep poor response to exercise they are not a consequence of Aging at all they are a consequence of missing raw material in the human body you know I always tell the story about when I was in grad school and and um I had to take all these plant botney courses which I hated I was trying to get a second degree in human biology right but if you have a leaf rotting in a palm tree and you call a true arborist a true botanist out to your house they'll look at that leaf and they'll they they will not touch the leaf they will CEST the soil and they'll say you know what Stephen there's no nitrogen in this soil and they will add nitrogen to the soil and the leaf will heal human beings are no different we just stopped thinking about it this way we've lost all faith in humanity and Mankind the body's ability to heal itself the power that this has over this and when we get certain pieces of data one of which in my opinion should be a genetic test I think everybody in the on the planet to do should do one time in their life the same test you did same test Dana White did it's a genetic methylation test it tells you what raw material what vitamins minerals amino acids nutrients can your body convert into the usable form and what can it not once you have that piece of data and you only do that test once in your life you are now supplementing for deficiency and not the sake of supplementing you want to go down a rabbit hole you start getting on social media and you start getting on Facebook and the internet and you start talking to your friends about well what should I be taking why are you feeling so good and it's nmn and nicotin and my riboside and ashwag Ganda and St John's wart and CoQ10 and multivitamins and and the truth is the biggest fallacy in all of modern medicine is that what goes into your body and goes into my body is treated the same way we need to know what our body processes and what it doesn't and when you find that out it's like the missing nitrogen in the soil magic things happen and you're saying the genetic test can do that that genetic test did that the one we did with you that's right mm you know I remember when you gave me the test the first thing I don't know if you remember you should remember this the first words that came out of my mouth I'm not Dana White do not tell me do not tell me how much time I got left to live you chose Dana White I mean that was I mean of all the great things that you've done that that has been not you know has been noted throughout the years obviously one of the most popular things you ever did was you were the guy that told Dana White the president of the UFC uh he had 10 point four years to live the first words out of my mouth to you was if we're going to do this I do not want to know I want to have no clue you very very well did say that I do remember that you made that very clear I do not want to know how long I have to live that's right I didn't want to know that I want that creeping up on me or what have you but when you saw me and you saw my blood work and you saw what needed to be done one of the things that I've been to telling people throughout the last year or so they've watched me they've seen my transformation I still got a ways to go I'm just getting started I'm not finished I promise you that but I lost a lot of fat I went from 29.6% down to 10.4 I was with you the communicating with you the whole time yes and a bunch of people said I had people come up to me man you that OIC must be good I'm like ain't I didn't take that you did not take that I'm doing cardio six days a week weightlifting five days a week I take my supplements and vitamins but I'm not doing that yep so I what did I do what was it about me that I was able to attack that ultimately got me to this point of your estimation well I mean the bottom line is you put in the work and nothing frustrates me more and it doesn't frustrate me for me it frustrates me for people like you people like Dana White Steve Harvey when when when when they get on the air like this and they tell a very vulnerable story they talk about their blood work and their and their their sugar levels and their insulin resistance I mean this is not something that we popularize and then and then the media and social media the they'll say oh I could have done the same thing if I had a million dollars I could have done the same thing if I took anabolic steroids and they want to take away the actual work that you put in right I I I will say this emphatically without disclosing your your medical record you are not on steroids you are not on growth hormone you did not take OIC or wagi or tagde or to Zepp any of those things that um these common weight loss drugs it's not that I don't think that they have a place right you did three things you began to supplement for deficiency so what we did was we took that genetic test of yours and I said Stephen this is the type of B12 you need it's called methy cobalamin you actually are very deficient in one of the most key nutrients in the human body called methylfolate we think that folic acid is a necessary nutrient in the human body it's not folic acid is a man-made chemical um you cannot find folic acid anywhere on the surface of the Earth it does not occur naturally in nature but yet we spray our entire grain supply all white flour all white rice all white bread all white pasta and all cereals with this chemical folic acid and then we wonder why we have so much add so much ADHD so much um um bipolar so much depression so much poor sleep so such a skyrocketing rate of um of infertility we have skyrocketing rates of um um you know miscarriages multiple miscarriages and yet the body is just missing simple raw materials I'm not saying all the time but there's enormous amounts of clinical evidence peer-reviewed clinical evidence that support the fact that when you have a gene mutation which you had called MTHFR the most common gene mutation in the world your body cannot process this folic acid you have to give it methylfolate when we gave you methylfolate all of a sudden we saw some of these major markers of inflammation homocysteine C reactive protein start to come down we saw the gut motility start to return to normal people spend a lifetime struggling with gut issues they got gas bloating diarrhea constip irritability cramping they look at food sensitivities they look at food allergies they do stool testing they do all this stuff they Overlook the fact that the body needs this nutrient methylfolate in order to have the pace of the gut be normal my entire staff is listening to you because each of them got bellies but go ahead go ahead go ahead go ahead except one I see except one okay all right these are my next superhuman projects that are right off camera here um my next Super project so so what happens is you put that raw material back in the body now we did do a couple of things with some peptides because I I want to point out you pointed out the amount of body fat that you lost but what's really important is you not only did not lose muscle you gained lean muscle mass over the same period of time and that's critically important because when people use these um wois aics um um stide you know the weight loss drugs a third to half of the weight they lose is lean body mass now when people say they want to lose weight with what they really mean is I want to lose fat right that's what they mean they don't mean I want to lose muscle I want to lose connective tissue I lose bone I don't want my bones to demineralized I don't want to lose um you know tendons ligaments cartilage I I don't want to erode I want to lose fat and that's a really important distinction you you began a weightbearing exercise program um we balanced your testosterone without testosterone um I'll just be clear about that um you were deficient in vitamin D3 and something called DHEA right we restored those levels your testosterone numbers came back you did take an amino acid peptide 44 chain amino acid peptide called cin which helps rewind your pituitary to a more youthful level of growth hormone secretion which helped you maintain your muscle mass and build muscle mass we put you on a very specific U multivitamin um that multivitamin was designed for you based on your genetic test and then you started slowly climbing out the hole you also made some dietary changes we started watching the suar IO keto diet I did that I did cardio I do still do cardio 6 days a week I live five days a week yes that's where the work comes in the work did not come from anabolic steroids the work did not come from Magic weight loss drugs or pills the work came from your diet and lifestyle changes and we supported the human body by giving it the raw material it needed to do its job it's interesting that you bring all of that up and I thank you for that and again I thank you for all your assistance I remember Steve Harvey called me and he raved about you Dana White is the one who introduced me to you uh and and obviously you know how I feel about him you know when people look at any of them or the few people that might mention something about me and if they allude to something like OIC or anything like that to me it's not an attack against me it's an attack against you and you have a lot of people that have so many questions about how legit you are how real you are and what does 10x health and what does the ultimate human in the podcast that you have the ultimate human podcast bring to the table when you hear these things about yourself particularly in this day and age how does that make you feel I told you before I'm used to the scrutiny I don't know if you were well I mean to be patently honest with you you've you've actually helped me a lot with that um you've helped me understand that I i' I've never had this level of media exposure and you know I was a mortality expert for for large life insurance for 22 years and I I spent my time reading medical records and predicting how soon people were going to die mhm and I wasn't in service to humanity um I knew that if I were able to pick up the phone and contact these people I could have made a material change in their life let me stop you right there though what do you mean you were not in service to humanity I was in service to myself man all all I really wanted to do was be wealthy um I I I love the data I was I'm a scientist you know my undergraduate degree are biology my postgraduate degrees are in human biology and I worked for the mortality Division and essentially we would take 10 years of medical records on you and 10 years of demographic data and we would predict how many more months you had left on Earth and you begin to realize very quickly that the reason why people are not living longer healthier happier lives or what we called modifiable risk factors which meant had I just been able to and I was precluded by law but had I been able to pick up the phone and just call that person and say listen you need to stop taking uh stop taking the method trxade start taking this um uh start taking vitamin D3 get off of this take that you know get your your your anemia is non-responsive to what you're taking you need to switch to this had I just been able to contact a patient now I understand why they don't didn't allow me to do it I'm not licensed to practice medicine I am not a physician I'm a human biologist I have an entire team of clinicians that work for 10x Health that are that are board certified MDS and what have you um but had I been able to contact that patient on average I could have added seven years to their life and I woke up one day and and realized that this was not just data that there were human beings on the other side of these spreadsheets how long ago was this it was was nine years ago and um I made a very conscious effort a very conscious decision that I was not going to spend another day of my life predicting how soon people were going to die I was going to spend the balance of my lifetime helping people live healthier happier longer lives because for 22 years I had access to to one of the most incredible databases that had hundreds of millions of lives in it and I could see that people were dying because of lifestyle choices and because of nutrient deficiencies and that disease and pathology wasn't happening to us it was happening within us and I saw that how how people were suffering from anxiety and and anxiousness and depression and ADHD and all these things that they chalk up to a consequence of Aging which are not consequence of Aging they're consequence of missing raw material in the body and I I I quit my job and I literally came home one day was my girlfriend at the time became my fiance is now my wife and I told her I said I quit my job today and I had a calling and I said I I want to I want to start a wellness for franchise and uh but not being licensed to practice medicine I had to find a physician I had to find a I had to find a PA and a nurse practitioner and I ran it out of a little place in the strip mall and I just and I started taking all of the data and information and educating these doctors and we started treating people and um and it just exploded and it and it took off and I never really had the vision of you know building a billion dollar company or even a hundred million dollar company and it really had the vision of like um uh you know making a lot of money or being as big as we are I just knew that I wanted to be in service to humanity that I I knew that I had a message that people needed to hear and so I've just gone out and told that message over and over and over again and you know when the content became viral and I started to get some patients that were or some clients that were uh well known like Dana White and yourself Steve Harvey and and I was on episode of Kardashians and all of this which is not really what I wanted to be known for I wanted to educate the masses um then man the vitory all came it's it it's it's astounding like people will watch hours and hours and hours of my content and find the one gotcha moment and then they'll they'll just do reals on it and and write articles about it and I make mistakes like everybody else I'm not infallible sometimes I'll read an article and then I'll talk about it on social media and then I'll get torn apart on social media and I'll go back and go you know what I really shouldn't have said that I I really shouldn't I should have checked the I should have checked the cited research I should have looked up the study myself I should have validated um that this was a a real clinical study before I put it out in the public domain so some of it is you know I I I deserve because I you know put that information out there but uh but it's hard to deal with sometimes because I see when they tear down the people that are putting in the work it bothers me more that people are attacking Dana White for doing things that he hasn't done like accuse him being on anabolic steroids accuse him of of being on all these weight loss drugs and they accuse him of having cosmetic surgery even and and I happen to know that none of that is true with you too and so I I you know I take the heat to me personally um but when it comes to you know guys like you and the clients that I'm working with it's like man don't take away the guy's hard work right I mean he's waking up every day he's putting in the work he's watching what goes into his mouth he's on a supplement regimen and I'm happy to tell you what that supplement regimen is and yes he spent $150,000 on equipment but that same equipment you can get for free I tell people all the time you can drop 120 Grand on a red light bed or you can expose your skin to sunlight you can use a hypermax oxygen system for five grand or you can learn to do breath work you can you can use a pemf mat in your bed for five grand or you can touch the surface of the Earth but but aging is the aggressive pursuit of comfort you see people pursue comfort so aggressively that they accelerate their aging we have got to stop telling Grandma not to go outside it's too hot not to go outside it's too cold to just lay down to just relax to eat at the very first Pang of hunger this is destroying Humanity we the human body responds very positively to stress if you don't tear a muscle it doesn't grow if you don't load a bone it won't strengthen if you don't challenge the immune system it weakens and atrophy kicks in atrophy kicks in you know what you're seeing coming out of this pandemic you are seeing the consequences of a global weakening of the immune system again not not to make a I I divide audiences when I in half when I say this but the worst thing that ever happened to humanity was residential quarantining masking and social distancing you take human beings out of contact with other human beings the immune system stops defending itself it weakens and now all of a sudden you got monkey pox what did you ever heard of monkey pox five years no you we're on our eighth version of omnicron right um there I think we're at sixth seventh booster now and and my point is that um I believe a lot more in what God gave us than what man makes us and we have the ability to defend ourselves as long as we condition the body like that it's called hormesis I can tell you this one of the things I've never been an individual um of course I go to the doctor often never been scared to go to the doctor got something wrong with me I'm going to the doctor me too number one you've never discouraged me from going to the doctor you wanted me to go to doctor and you challenge me let's see what the results are now that you've been doing X Y andz so I always appreciated that but one of the things that I pay a lot of attention to when I see folks within the medical profession I'm not going to mention any names but when I see folks in the medical profession coming after you and they're talking about the success that you've been able to reap and the money that you've been able to make I don't recall any doctors treating me for free everybody is trying to to to make money and I don't have a problem with that my concern is whether or not you know what the hell you're doing and that's the biggest thing for me and what you can't afford you can't afford and what you can't you can't you find different ways to work around it which I've done all my life and so many others have done as well do you find yourself tempted to challenge these folks in a public platform who have challenged you and your knowledge yes but not for the purpose of Bering or belittling them for the purpose of benefiting our audiences I think a good spirited civil fact-based debate is going to benefit our audience you know there was a there was a big hitpiece on me in the um uh Daily Mail okay um I I don't have a whole lot of respect for the daily mail but it ended up in the Daily Mail and and what was astounding to me was um I said uh I talked about a clinical study was actually in the Wy Journal of headaches in 2016 okay um if your audience wants to look it up and it showed an invert relationship between sodium intake and migraine headaches so in other words it showed that low sodium increased the incidence of migraine headaches and by actually increasing sodium intake it decreased migraine headaches now what's interesting about my my past is I came from a big data past you know hundreds of millions of lives and now the platform that I have we see to you know November we did 20,000 Gene tests we do 15 to 20 ,000 of these tests a month so we have enormous pools of data on real people real human lives and I rarely see the people that are um challenging or or or taking issue with me putting up their results that they're having in patient or client after client after client they're just busy knocking down what your attacking the the phrase you know the you know the phrase or the Nuance that I made in a you know three-hour podcast I mean there's some of these these guys on social media that after my Joe Rogan podcast said I'm going to spend 40 hours debunking Gary's podcast and I said well first of all how do you know that there's anything to debunk before you even watch it and you're really going to dedicate 40 hours of your life to actually going through and dissecting every surgical word that I said to see if I made a mistake and then extrapolating that why aren't you out there in service to humanity too I mean we're actually all on the same platform that's why you'll never see me be or belittle or attack one of my competitors or or even these guys assault you know make a regular project out of assaulting me um because I don't think it's in in furtherance of our mission you know I the greatest advice I ever received you know from my father was if if you want to if you want to shrink your problems grow your purpose and and it doesn't grow my purpose to get into a battle with these guys what would serve humanity is for them and I've invited them some of these people onto my podcast and say listen I'll have a platform you bring whatever issue it is if you um the sodium issue with migraine headaches by the way if you have migraine headaches understand that migraines the brain does not have pain receptors so it actually is not capable of sending a pain signal so we know that migraine headaches don't come from the brain they come from the covering of the brain the dura the the the covering of the brain and the dura Hat's being stretched and contracted and it's very sensitive to the sodium gradient now I'm not saying that all people that suffer from migraine headaches need that uh take sodium but people that take mineral sodium like Baja gold salt and Celtic salt and add it to their they're they're drinking water I can tell you not anecdotally from thousands of clients that have come through our our clinics MH it has a positive effect on migraine headaches you were one of those people yes that woke up every morning with with headaches and and after I had you start drinking this in the morning you called me and said the headaches are gone I went I went from age 19 to age 55 with a headache every single morning I would start out behind eight ball proverbially speaking figuratively speaking actually behind a ball um I came to you and I asked you about my headaches and that's how it really started before I even got to the part about wanting to get rid of my belly and what have you the number one reason I came to you initially when Dana White introduced me to you is that I was waking up with headaches every morning and my head felt like it was banging it was banging and you had it and at the time you called it cogn nourish and you talked about how I'm not dehydrated I'm low in sodium yes and that was 14 months ago and in 14 months I've had three headaches there you go in 14 months I've had three headaches there are thousands of clients that would repeat that same story and now someone wants to go into the published peer-reviewed clinical literature and find a a clinical study where that might not be true but we we at some point we have to acknowledge some of the worst research done on human beings is when we study things in isolation you know when you you want to cut a human being's life expectancy in half put them in isolation you want to see really poor clinical trials done on human beings take one cell or one organel out of the body and study how it behaves in a Petri dish we we we live in communities and cells function and thrive in communities when you take them out of their Community they behave differently when you start to understand real human physiology human beings and and human anatomy you start to understand that very often it is simple missing raw material in the human body that is causing it to behave in some way you know we have an enormous body of patients that uh that come through our clinical system um see our our our physicians they have ADD they have ADHD they have OCD and and nobody even really tells them what it is right now so if you have a why do you think that is why are they not being told what it really is because if I can get you to believe that you have a disease I can get you to subscribe to a lifetime of medication I mean M's in a medicine well that's what you're saying the type two diabetes is $110 billion annual industry in the United States 110 billion is that the largest it is cardiovascular disease is the largest as a as a grouping but type two diabetes is 110 billion doll industry I mean you think that there's a meeting going on in some big farma boardroom right now trying to put that out of business and and and say how do we get that you know 110 billion off the balance sheet and you know it used to be that um you know the diet that they would put up on some of these websites were were really insulin dependency diets used to drive me crazy I'm like why are we telling type 2 diabetics to eat a bow oatmeal with Crush brown sugar natural honey and a glass of orange juice these people need fats and proteins you need to take the pressure off of the pancreas and and you know you got listeners right now you know um that that have ADD or ADHD and no one's actually told them it's not an atttention deficit at all it's an atttention overload disorder it's too many windows open at the same time you see in the human mind we don't just create thought we also break thought down so if you create thought at a faster rate than you break it down the mind gets clouded right so you're paying attention to too many things people with ADD or ADHD you know very often do not lack the ability to pay attention they lack the ability to pay attention to so many things so if we can actually get them to degrade thought at the same rate that they create thought then the Mind calms down you see modern medicine says okay if the mind is racing let's put an inamine into the body to race the central nervous system to match the pace of the mind so let's take the system that's not broken break it to match the system that is broken that's what vians Aderall you know um um riddlin these are these are amphetamines for the for the most part um whereas if we could just quiet the mind then all of a sudden that little anchor of ADHD would come right up off them you know a lot of people out there go like this I want some weed that will do it you that's what a lot of them do you know I need to quiet the mind I need to be a bit mellow I need to you know what I mean hell with the supplements hell with vitamins damn I'll be damned if I'm interested in exercising let me get some weed and I'll be fine mhm what does weed do for folks all weed's do and see is a coping mechanism there is a difference between coping and getting rid of something so let's say you know if you're on a boat and you throw an anchor off your Stern you got two choices you can either add power to the motor right and just drag it or you can pull it up and and so what you're talking about doing is just adding power to the motor you're like well I get anxiety so I smoke weed and I push the anxiety down you know I got this really active mind so I smoke weed to tranquilize myself into a tranquil State well what if instead of having to deal with it think about you know a lot of therapy and I'm not poooo in therapy by any means people have trauma that they deal with and I'm an enormous fan of counseling and therapy I've gone through my mother I have to I went through it for my divorce um and I and I'm I'm a big believer in it but my point is the majority of the way that we teach people um when they have a condition to deal with that condition is to cope we teach them coping mechanisms instead of saying why don't we get rid of this right I mean if you have anxiety and you you you're actually truly suffered from anxiety and I know a lot of people including my my wife that used to suffer from anxiety it is a crippling condition because you don't fake anxiety you fake being okay and if your anxiety has a couple characteristics number one you've had it on and off throughout your lifetime number two uh you can't point to the specific trigger that causes it and number three um when you take anti-anxiety medication it just makes you feel like a zombie that is a Telltale sign that it is coming from a nutrient deficiency and that is the majority of clients that have anxiety now why do I say that with so much conviction because we have seen thousands of these patients in our Clinic um they're not my patients they are patients of our clinical team and we have data and one of the big things one of the one of the you know the great things that I that I feel is a blessing that's been bestowed upon me as the is the access to so many thousands of people now I used to access them in a database and predict when they were going to die now I access them in a database and I can see what is making them live live longer so take it take this anxiety patient if you're listening to this and you have anxiety you need to do this genetic test and you'll find that very often not always but very often you'll have a genetic mutation called MTHFR or CT compt and when you supplement for this deficiency what happens is these fight ORF flight neurotransmitters that rise in your brain called catacol amines start to degrade because when people have anxiety what happens is these fight-flight neurotransmitters begin to rise in their body and in their brain without the presence of a fear you see we we don't understand how unsophisticated the brain truly is it really doesn't know the difference between perception and reality if you drove home tonight and you got out of your car and somebody was standing in front of you with a knife that's a very real threat your pupils would dilate your heart rate would increase your extremities would flood with blood you would start having a fight ORF flight response right and that fight ORF flight response is catacol amines rising in the brain fight ORF flight neurotransmitters adrenaline you know edrin dopamine edrone rising in your brain now you're ready to fight or flight well you could also be laying in my bed tonight we're on the 21st floor of a condo here you could be laying in my bed tonight you could start thinking about getting eaten by a shark and you could have the exact same reaction how is it that you can have the same reaction to the presence of somebody standing in front of you with a knife as to an entirely imagined event because the brain does not know the difference between perception and reality and to the brain that they exact same thing so now that we know it's a rise in catacol Mees what can we do to lower those you can take methylated B vitamins you can take methyl folate you can take something called Sam e these are proven overthe counter supplements that actually fill in the deficiency so your body can break these neurotransmitters down and all of a sudden people go oh my God I'm free of anxiety well you never had anxiety you had elevated catacol amines and and we just lost so much faith in the human body's ability to heal itself right that's my message my message is to the masses is to you are not as sick as you think you are you are not as pathological as you think you are 90% of what you are dealing with right now is not the consequence of Aging it's not the consequence of your environment it's not the consequence of stress ignorance consequence of missing raw material missing raw material which you have no knowledge about you don't know any better but there's a whole bunch of people in and outside the medical profession that don't know enough to tell the audience what you just told us I'm going to transition and switch just a little bit because I want to get to how you start off your day because see you don't have the problems you don't have the problems that most folks have there's a reason for that and people need to see this so stick around this is Stephen A Smith show coming at you right now when we come back we going to show you how this man starts off his day so you could have a clue as to the things he does to make sure he's vibrant energized ready to go on a day-to-day basis stick around Gary Breer with your boy Stephen A Smith back with more in a minute I want to take a second to make sure everyone knows that the NBA playoffs are fast approaching which means every basket rebound and assist is important and I don't know about you but I need to be in the middle of that action and how do I do that exactly I use prize picks the largest fantasy sports platform with more than 3 million members you see prize picks is not only super exciting but it's incredibly easy to play and it takes only 60 seconds to make your picks all you do is select two or more players from whatever sport you love the NBA the MLB or even the MMA and then choose more or less of their in-game stats which means every Point hit or round will turn into a into Big Time cash so if I know that LeBron is dishing out 10 assist or Aon judge is hitting two homers I need to pick that 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alkaline it actually separates all my red blood cells pulls me into a deep sleep this keeps me cool while I'm sleeping at night and when the body is kept alkaline what does that mean Alor in state is a Seas free state so the PH range of the body is actually very narrow it's only about a half a point but the more acidic you get the sicker you become the more alkaline you get the better you feel and so it's a very narrow range so one of the ways to keep that range is to use pulse electromagnetic field pmf also blows out all the EMF frequency in your body um it actually repolarizes the surface of your cells so they can eliminate waste and they can repair and they can detoxify they can regenerate so you might as well do that while you're sleeping so my sleep environment is really important to me behind you is a is an air filter we call this surgically clean air it filters my air down to 0.1 Micron not less than the size of a virus when I leave the house I run an ozone setting it kills mold spores and mot toxins so there's no dust no pollen no viruses in the air I keep the bed nice and cool I use a pmf mat to get me into sleep I know it sounds like a lot but sleep is so important well I'm going to say this you sound like you get in perfect sleep obiously have a perfect environment in which to sleep you would think that's all you would need to have a beautiful day but that's not where you stop that's just the beginning so let's walk around and please feel free to show us what other steps you take to make sure that you'll have a fruitful day a beautiful day cuz I want to see this for myself so I get into my bathroom and what I do is I Splash a little water on my face um I mean you want to know my exact routine I'll tell you I'm asking so I come in here Splash a little water on my face I brush the floss my teeth and then um this is just a spare uh cold plunge I just like to keep one closed but this is not the one I use in the morning Splash cold water on my face I brush my teeth and then I come in here and I get in I go straight into a cold bath and this is the hardest thing to do in the morning because cold bath cold plune whole plunge baby the one is Steve Harvey data white and everybody talking about the one you subjected me to this will become your drug of choice I'm telling you it will become your drug of choice it's 3 minutes minimum 6 minutes maximum that's it there's no evidence that I've see that longer is better or colder is better I keep this at 48 to 50° so I come in here got a pair of shorts on I'll just splash water on my face I'll brush my teeth and then I immediately I take three deep breaths and then when I hold that breath I just I get all the way at before and you know the f p m yes it's like how long does it take you to get but I don't know it well it takes me seconds to be quite honest with you it feels that way anyway I know when I use it it's hell it's never easy but the benefits are worth it I know that I never have felt more alive what else you do from here okay so then okay so now we in your Fitness next yeah now we're in I call it the pain Palace okay um so I get up on this treadmill um this is an EF free treadmill so it's just self powerered um so you power this thing yourself so you can walk on it you can run on it you got the NFL calls these the strength bill because either running backs can't outr run this cuz it doesn't have a top speed so you put this MK St and basically what this is doing you hear that okay that's [Applause] actually it's taking a 21% oxygen from the air the ambient air that we're breathing is 21% O2 this air is 93 to 95% oxygen so I put this mask on I'm connected to this bag and I breathe down 900 L of oxygen in the morning do and that does what for you so this is called ewat exercise with oxygen therapy for multi-step oxygen therapy there's a Noel laurate Prize winner in medicine Auto warber and Dr Van ardens who actually did a lot of work on multi-step oxygen therapy and multi-step oxygen therapy is increasing your heart rate just a little bit and using high amounts of oxygen to profuse your tissues the presence of oxygen is the absence of disease if you're not going to you know if you could if you could do one of these great if not you got to learn to do breath work and you got to blow out all that other gas out of your body by doing deep breaths if you're not going to do that which is you use what I'm do you do this hyper menance oxygen you read 93 to 95% oxygen 10 to 12 minutes flood the blood with oxygen dude you feel amazing you feel like you want a lottery day off of this thing that combined with that your body be an alkaline yes your body dude you just woke up from and from a deep sleep you slept cool you had your eye mask on you had your pmf mat keeping you alkaline you woke up you splash water in your face brush your teeth you hit the cold plunge when you get out of there you're you're switched off then you come in here and you warm your body back up 10 to 12 minutes of hypermax oxygen and then I got one more style for you let's go show me that one more style and I'm going to show you the red light therapy bed now this is amazing this is arguably my favorite anti-aging longevity device uh this is the most powerful red light bed on the market um there are 45,000 light diodes in here so some of this red light is visible some of it is invisible those are infrared or near infrared wave LS so red light therapy is a it's the rage in Sportz recovery It's A Rage in anti-aging it's great for your skin it it um reduces inflammation it dilates the micro capillaries and like your eyes and your organs your spine so when you lay in this thing basically what you're doing is you're in here for about 15 to 20 minutes it's reducing inflammation what it's doing Steve is it's kicking out a gas inside your cell called nitric oxide and forcing oxygen into the cell right you just flooded the blood uh blood with all that oxygen now you come in here and you drive it right what about the what about the person that ask why would this be leading when you just got out of bed you were laying on the PF pm me you you you got your system alkalized you went on a hypermax machine and you breathe all of that oxygen into your body if you've got all of that going on why would you still need this to reduce inflammation to increase collagen elastin and fibrine in your skin to dilate those micro capillaries and there's a nanometer away length in here that goes through the cell wall through the mitochondria the PowerHouse of the cell and then kicks a gas out or nitric oxide and forces oxygen in remember I said the presence of oxygen is the absence of disease well if I was to boil cellular biology down for you to to one sentence it would be this when oxygen enters the mitochondria enters this motor inside the mitochondria you get a 16-fold step up in energy cellular repair waste elimination detoxification regeneration there are lots of clinics that have these if if if you don't want to Spring to buy one of these beds or even red light panels which are available you can get them on Amazon sure you want one of those red light panels just Google around and find a clinic near you that allows a membership or something a pay for service and use this a few times a week see how you feel dude it's a game changer one more thing you want to show us now this is this what I use on occasion I don't use this every day this is a full system reset right cuz this called a Veni acoustic bed okay this is a fibro acoustic bed they they say that that um only the most enlightened milks can actually really get into a true they state state where you're devoid of call thought right so even even the thought about whether or not you're having a thought is a about that's true though it's true it's true absolutely true I'm not going to see you doing go meditation or anything I can't imagine D have you ever tried I've never tried it I've never tried it but I will because I've heard a lot of great great things about it it's amazing but you know I tried to do it and I like I I foret with these uh guided meditation they're like there's a tunnel and there's a light at the end of the tunnel and then my ADH ke kicks in and I'm like well if there's a light at the end of the tunnel something's going on down there why don't we get down there what are we doing down on this end and like I just can't shut my mind up so what this does it turns on an acoustic wave you'll hear it it's going to turn on a sound wave it's going to mash that to a light wave infrared near infrared far infrared light wav and it's going to sink that with a pulse electromagnetic field wave a magnetic wave so I got sound white and magnetism when they harmonize every cellular structures and body response and then you put these these data wave headphones on and it runs a data frequency into the brain and it does what there is no sensation of the passage of time so you get on here got 10 to 12 minutes into this treatment you're out and I've been on here after a shut for 90 minutes and I thought 5 minutes to going in fact I got on year before a podcast the other day and my production manager came in and woke me up 0 minutes later it was like Hey we got to shoot so it helps you sleep but what else does it resets your brain it allows your brain to really calm down puts you in a fat State very low brain wave activity to say think about the last time that you actually didn't have a thought in your head but what does that do for you if it gives your basically it's giving your brain a rest BR your brain okay so if your brain gets a rest once it gets that rest what happens to you after that when you come out of that state so when you get off of here I feel a little bit groggy for about five 5 or 10 minutes and then all of a sudden you feel like you took a limitless pit it's like you're clear you're clean you're comping you're awake you're focused it's just a a feeling of clarity and Zen that's it's hard to describe if you if you talk to somebody who's really mastered the art of meditation they'll tell you the same thing I come out of the meditative State and I can problem solve my stress is gone it seems like the problems of the world have melted away grew back focused on our purpose you know our problems have shrunk it's meditation if you can harness it is is is a longevity and drain Life Hack and that is how you start your day we got a lot to talk about welcome back to Stephen day Smith show right here over the digital Airwaves of YouTube and Beyond of course just saw some video of this man doing his morning routine the pmf mat you know I mean I mean red red therapy red celled light therapy red light therapy had that going on cold plunge which don't get me started which we are getting in after this don't don't tell the audience that please don't tell the audience that I'm trying to get out of that right now dude we're doing it there's so much stuff that you've done but not just the critics but the average viewer would say I don't have access to all of that I can't do that Stephen A's on television every day he's got a he's got an advantage this guy is Gary Breer he's a superstar in this business now made go and gobs of money because 10x health is so successful the ultimate human so successful you know I mean they're living in a different world to that you say what to that I say that all that stuff that you just saw out there is all it's doing is mimicking what we get from other nature we get three things from Mother Nature we get magnetism from the earth we get oxygen from the air and we get light from the Sun so the truth is if you want to know how to do it for zero you got to get back in contact with the surface of the Earth I know it sounds crazy but there is something called Earth or grounding it is very real taking your shoes off and touching the surface of the Earth you discharge into the Earth you can actually repolarize the body by touching the surface of the Earth so take your shoes off think about it if you're listening to this podcast right now think about the last time that you had bare feet touching bare soil I mean dirt grass sand that was the last time you discharged into the Earth then you can actually learn to do breath work very simple you know I read a statistic I don't know if it's true I didn't look up the study I got a lot of trouble for repeating it on but this it said there was an article that said that after the age of 30 95% of all human beings will never Sprint again for the rest of their life it made a lot of sense to me because you know when I started looking at the environment in the world around me even even the athletes that that you know people that go into the gym every day nobody is sprinting right so so we're not using our auxiliary muscles of respiration our intercostals those those muscles that really help us breathe and basically um you know our life expectancy is directly related to our oxygen level we we used to call it a hypoxic curve we would use this curve to predict the onset of and the severity of and how quickly people would succumb to disease we're actually we all actually die of the same thing we die of hypoxia lack of oxygen to the brain that's the definition of death now it might be a heart attack a gunshot you know a stroke a bust but the point is that we we are not getting enough oxygen in to our bodies we don't even use our auxiliary muscles of respiration anymore but you're telling folks what to do and they shouldn't deny it because clearly you know what you're talking about but they'll look at you and they'll say you're not doing it because of all the things that they just saw you do the machines that you have they I'm just tell they're telling they're saying Gary you're telling us to do that but are you doing it yes when I'm on the road I am absolutely doing that if you have the fortune to be able to mimic Mother Nature by buying some this equipment and putting it in your house for convenience then by all means do it and please stop badgering and attacking the people that do right but if if you don't you can get all of those things that I just went through on that in in that little talk I you can take your shoes off and touch the surface of the Earth that is like using a pmf mat you can learn to do breath work that is like that hypermax oxygen system you can instead of take getting into a cold plunge you can take a cold shower everybody's going to take a shower if you live in the mid West or the Northeast you you have the advantage of having really cold water what's more advantageous the cold plunge or the shower because I remember you one time alluding to the cold plunge being about 29% better than the shower but yeah so so water is 29 times more thermogenic than air which means it removes heat from the body at 29 times the rate of air okay so when you get in a cold plunge yes heat is leaving your body at 29 times the rate of air at the same temperature that's why you can die hypothermia in 72 Degree water you can't die of hypothermia in 72 degre air right so but if if again maybe the cold plunge is the best but it's good to take a cold shower I'm telling you aging is the aggressive pursuit of comfort the more aggressively we pursue Comfort the faster we age so what if you woke up in the morning took your shoes off touched the surface of the Earth actually took your shirt off and Expos your skin to sunlight during the first 45 minutes of the day it's called First Light No UVA no UVB rays no damaging Rays healthy blue light resets your cortisol resets your melatonin receptors does more to turn your circadian back Rhythm back on and put you into a deep sleep that night than any drug that you could take touch the surface of the Earth you do some breath work in the morning you expose your skin to sunlight and you take a cold shower run that for a week run those four things for zero for one week take a 1 to three minute cold shower take three rounds of five obnoxiously deep breaths and in between each round the breast hold your breath as long as you can why because you want to drive up the carbon dioxide level and dilate the vessels in your body carbon dioxide is the main vasod dilator in the human body so we can access these things the question is will people do them right so the excuse of seeing somebody with a $100,000 light bed is I can't do that yes you can you can take your shirt off and you can expose it to sunlight so wake up tomorrow touch the surface of the Earth do a few rounds of breath work expose your skin to sunlight take a cold shower that the flip side see because I thought you liked me I really did until until until until you insisted that I get that damn cold plunge and oh that was one of the funniest moment you know I mean phone call I got from you I still haven't recovered from you exposing me to that damn cold PL St Harvey the one that gave you all the [ __ ] about go ahead give my audience give my audience the whole low down for the for the Cold plune Stephen A Smith experience that you subject me too by the way I talk about that first of all he literally tried to convince me that black people do not get into a coal punch he literally pulled a race card on me dud did I did I did I tried I and I said well Steve Steve har that's true exactly right one of the black guys off camera is like he's actually right about that it's true he's like first of all black people don't get a coat punch and I was like all right Stephen told me to call Steve Harvey I told you to call Steve Harvey and he he gave you he gave you a whole line he gave you a whole ration but um uh he was to your defense you got the cold plunge and the very first day you got in it for the very first time for six minutes yeah I remember that and you were like exactly how cold does this have to be to be a cold plune car and you said 58° I said 58° yeah that's where you start cold plunging now 50 48 to 50 is better but I said 58° and to your credit you got in for 6 minutes 58 deges right and then it became your drug of choice I told you that would happen because you get that peripheral Vaso constriction you drive that blood into your core it goes up to your brain your liver your lungs your pancreas your kidneys you get a um you get a rush of dopamine that lasts hours not minutes you get an elevation in dopamine and those um and dopamine does what for you it's well dopamine is the main driver of behavior dopam mean is is one of those um neurotransmitters that elevates your mood the endorphins that you get from the the runner's high or the exorcise high it's it's it's one of those neurotransmitters that drives mood it just elevates your mood and then you you activate something called Brown fat in the human body you you you turn a thermostat on right you exchange calories for heat by activating Brown fat because once you cool the body off there's a cost to return to normal body temperature and that cost is calories so you feel so awake so clean there's also a special type of protein in your liver called a cold shock protein there's also heat shock proteins and I've been I've been you know down the rabbit hole of these cold shock proteins lately there's one one called Lin 28a and Lin 28b um and they're highly associated with an improvement in insulin sensitivity so so now the cold plunge is being linked to things like improving your insulin sensitivity um reducing body fat and yes if you activate Brown fat and and increase your metabolism and improve your caloric expenditure you actually should be burning more fat um an elevation in mood an elevation in emotional state a prolonged elevation of dopamine and you can access this for free the reason why people don't want to do it is they don't want to leave their comfort zone tomorrow morning just try it just take you know lather up do your soap take your shower turn the shower as cold as it will get step out of that stream let it get nice and cold take a deep breath step into that water stream and just deal with it just deal with it for 60 seconds you'll get through it um and if you can push that to 3 minutes dry off and see how you feel the whites of your eyes will be crystal clear you will be wide awake and cognizant and clear you'll have that elevated enderin rush and you'll feel that way for hours when we started off the show M with this interview before the interview began I showed a picture of me from a year ago mhm skinny fat no definition no real lean muscle pot belly 208 lb that must be tough to look at man when you sent me some of those old pictures I'm like I just don't remember you being that round I look at it every day I look at every day my number one source of information inspiration I wake up every morning and I look at that picture of myself because I say never ever again body fat was at 29.6% um insulin resistant levels was at 27 uh cholesterol was at 301 I think it was 301 I was at that one your triglycerides were over 300 to that's right and my A1C levels I was at a 63 64 you still full-blown diabetic I was at 63 that's right insulin resistant levels dropped from 27 to two cholesterol dropped now 176 y right yep um I'm I'm looking at that's right I'm looking at that lean muscle I've gained about five six pounds blood sugar is in the normal not only not on the verge of diabetes which you are tenth of a point away you are not even pre-diabetic anymore more your normal blood sugar um you have single digit insulin maintaining um low levels of average blood sugar which means you are more insulin res more insulin sensitive that is a great sign it's one of the Hallmarks of longevity um cholesterol is down to 179 can we just mentioned you are not on cholesterol medication that is correct um I'll just put that out there that is correct um in fact you're not on any cardiovascular medication um your your testosterone this is gonna be really hard for people to believe but your testosterone level is approaching 1,000 and you are not on testosterone for the record and that's crazy I mean I'm wondering about I'm like you know I might explain a lot of things in very very very positive way you know what I'm saying I I got the testosterone level of a 30y old and I and I'm not I'm not really I'm not using anything to get me there you know I'm just saying you know I mean it's a good feeling it's a good feeling but but but but in all seriousness uh Gary of all the things that the condition that I was in and and the things that you had me doing what stood out in your mind as the most dangerous po element of my condition when you first met me what stood out to me was I I know from being in the mortality space and that um mortality factors okay abdominal obesity hypertension uh which which you had a time which you don't anymore um hypertension elevated very elevated cholesterol very elevated triglycerides very elevated insulin so these these we call them mortality factors at some point they begin to converge and when they touch they become comorbidities and there is a parabolic impact on the body meaning a dramatically negative impact on the body these were converging um in my opinion and I'm not um a licensed Medical Professional so I just give you my private opinion I as a human biologist being on the doorstep of being an insulin dependent diabetic um was your greatest risk factor and the reason why I say that is um when we would do mortality modeling what happens is people slowly their blood sugar Rises and it rises and it rises over time and then they become pre-diabetic and they sort of creep through this diabetic category 5.6 5.7 5.8 as soon as they cross this 6.0 Mark they're 410 of a away point away from being diabetic is a parabolic rise and it happens very fast it may take years you can spend years in the pre-diabetic range and once you get to the top end of that range it explodes once that insulin takes off and then it eventually crashes and the blood sugar takes off now all hell breaks loose the triglyceride Skyrocket the cholesterol gets out of control the abdominal obesity gets worse and and and now instead of something that took you two years to occur month over month over month it gets worse and we saw this in the mortality space so I I felt and I told you this at the time that it was very serendipitous that we met at the time that you did and and also that you were as committed and I think you know when I look back on it I remember thinking in my mind okay I'm gonna I'm I'm gonna shut these guys's heada I'm gonna shut this guy's headaches down right away I'm going to give him a glimpse in the next seven days of what it's like to feel normal because you told me you felt ever going back are you ever going I went from con I went from being conniving and slick and trying to avoid the gym to being pissed off that I missed going to the gym I know yeah that's how I went and I'll ask you a question you know what listen because I'm everybody knows I'm very yes I'm on ESPN yes I've got my podcast and my show here everybody knows a lot about me but they also know I'm incredibly private I don't divulge a lot of stuff about myself because damn it it ain't people's business and I tell them to go kiss off I ain't telling everybody stuff but when it came to the issue of Health I obviously differently because Co it was I was it was I was very public everybody could see the damage that it had done to me etc etc so let me write here on my own show ask you something that I never wanted to know and that is now that I'm out of the woods and I'm a little I'm a little better I'm a little I say a lot better but I'm only saying a little because I know where I'm aiming to go uh you know I I if you had to give my life expectancy back a year ago now that a year later I mean I think I'm ready to hear what what what around what you would have told me what would you have told me if I wanted to be Dana and I wanted my life expected to um well it would have been substantially less than it is now right right because um what would have happened it would have been 10.4 years and for the record I I I want to I want to say that you can't just do a blood test and a gene test and to predict when somebody's going to um die I've done one life expectancy prediction since I left the industry and that was Dana white okay I do not do it anymore and he asked you to and he and he asked me to he actually made it a condition on me meeting with him and um because when I left that industry I left that industry for good because I I I I want to forget that that time in my life it's actually what propels me forward right now I think that I found my purpose in in that pain um you know I've thankfully turned it around from really regretting regretting that time to saying okay well that's where I gain my education and that's where got the knowledge to to turn around and help people um but in your case what was very close to happening was the convergence of these mortality factors um mortality debits and like I say when they become comorbidities it's it's a very dangerous situation and one of the things that we would try to do in the mortality space is we would try to predict the chances that somebody would change we would try to predict the chances that we could continue this mortality factor for a prolonged period of time mhm and the majority of people do not make a change and they are leaving this earth years earlier than they should and they are they are like you said they they stop living and they become alive for many many more years than they need to be and then they die earlier than they should because they are not willing to modify these risk factors and so I would simply say that it has more than doubled the amount of time that you have left on Earth um that I'm certain of but to be exact I didn't didn't run those numbers but more than doubled what kind of trouble is society in right now compared to a decade ago two decades ago the food the processed foods y uh the carbonated drinks the alcohol the troubles with sleep MH um there's so many things that affect human beings and we see the world that we're living in and it just seems to be so much more Temptation like one of the things that frustrates me about what you tell me is when you tell me to stay off sugar I'm like how I mean everything has sugar I mean how the hell can I step I mean shoot sometimes water tastes like it got a little sugar in it for crying out L I mean I I just don't I you just look at it and you just lose it because it's like you're trying to figure out how to do it but it seems virtually impossible I'm wondering as we sit here today you reflecting on all that you know all that you've learned all that you continue to learn and ultimately try to teach to the world yes how much trouble are we in as a society healthwise compared to what it was a decade ago two decades ago well a decade ago life expectancy was still moving forward um for the first time in in measurable life expectancy history our life expectancy is getting shorter the United States is the number one spender in healthcare worldwide um we spend about $4 and5 trillion dollar a year on Healthcare we lead the world in five things we lead the world in um having the lowest life expectancy at Birth um we lead the world in infant mortality we lead the world in maternal mortality we lead the world in type two diabetes and obesity and we lead the world in um chronic multiple disease conditions so meaning the highest number of chronic diseases in a single body and we are ranked 32nd in uh in the world um in life expectancy 39th in healthc care delivery so we know that spending does not equate to outcomes medical error is the third leading cause of death in this country it it only Trails um cardiovascular disease and cancer um that's a 2016 study by by uh Johns Hopkins so we have to become citizen scientists we have to take our healthc care into our own hands and I am not saying if you hit a windshield and cut your face you got to go to the doctor get pain going down the left side of your body you need to go to the ER what I am saying is if you want to be in a state of Optimal Health it is up to you because the medical system is not going to do that and so I I I developed a couple of simple rules and one of them is I we should think about putting this invisible fence around our bodies and we should filter things before they get to the temple rather than allowing our Temple to be the filter okay um certainly we should filter our our tap water if you want to know the filter that I use I put it right up on my my Instagram if you want to know any of the supplements or products I use some of them I have affiliations with some I don't they're all on my Instagram but the point being that we should be filtering our water um we should be eating Whole Foods it's not keto paleo um raw food vegan vegetarian um pescatarian it is Whole Foods the problem now with most of the food that we eat is not the food that we're eating it's the distance from the food to the table right we take a we take a a seed oil like a a canola oil which you know if you if you if you press certain seed oil plants I mean they're they're harmless but then we take that seed oil and we deum it with um and it comes out gummy and we de gum it with hexane and no no neurotoxin then we heat it to 405 degrees and we turn it rancid then we deodorize it with sodium hydroxide which is a known carcinogen and then we bottle it and we put it on the shelf and we and we and we feed this to the public the amount of pesticide herbicide insecticide glyphosat-prozess recognized by the body you know if your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize it you probably shouldn't eat it and um and so I I I I want to try to teach people simple ways I did this thing on my my my Instagram and social media I call it lateral shifts where I will take any food that anyone likes to eat and make them two promises they open their refrigerator I do it live they open their refrigerator and I'll take any food that they like to eat I'll make them two promises number one I won't change the flavor profile and number two I will not add a penny to the budget I I'm allowed to make it less expensive but not allowed to make it more expensive to show people that you can take these lateral shifts from eating these highly processed foods you can exchange it for Whole Foods More nutrient-dense Foods you don't have to be it's not about fear mongering it's about awareness it's about education and it's about understanding that you can go into the grocery store shop the perimeter of the grocery store get everything that you need that's not processed that doesn't have all the folic acids and the and the Fortified and enriched flowers and things like that and you can materially change the trajectory of your life by making some very very simple choices but isn't it as simple as you make it sound because you're so knowledgeable it might sound significantly more complicated to somebody who doesn't know any better and one who is also inclined to listen to a medical profession where we've already conceited it the money's in the medicine I mean how do you combat that if you're just a regular Old Joe you know or Sue trying to make some you know trying to make make an honest living trying to live a good life and you're dependent on the easiest path to Prosperity because life is just so complicated when you bring all those other things into the equation well you've got to become a citizen scientist you have to educate yourself if if not you you will eventually pay the price I mean um and so it it depends on what your priorities are and when I ask the major majority of the people where health and wellness is and their priority they always tell me it's at the top well then where are you spending your time what are you reading what are you educating yourself on you know if I gave you a book on yourself would you even read it and why do you have more information on your on your on your business than you have on your own Temple and um the basics are you start with a gene test and supplement for deficiency and then eventually you work your way to getting some information from from blood work look at your look at your hormone balance your nutrient deficiencies and your blood sugar control just start there you get those pieces of data you will Mally change the trajectory of your life and your primary care doctor can do that for you maybe not the gene test but your primary care doctor can do everything else we're sitting here in your I don't even know what to call this I'm not going to tell the audience but it's Immaculate it's I mean you got some property here um you got a wonderful wife I've been very blessed you got wonderful kids you got a lot going on for yourself I got a couple of people here one's married he's he's nose wide open brother he's in love with his wife he he don't know what to do with himself okay I got another dude that that I mean he is about to get married he proposed to his girl and he was the one crying he was the one to cry not her I mean I mean you can't make this up I I I mean I would say happiness peace that goes a long way towards making yourself healthy amen is that an exaggeration is that accurate what can you tell me about that so think about this when you look at the Blue Zone research around the world right and you look at Blue Zone researches where they did the you know the longest life expectancies on Earth you know the the centenarians and the hyper centenarians what you found was not a lot of commonality the diets right you had the Mediterranean diet you had people that ate High carbohydrate diets like in Sardinia you had people like in um Singapore that actually eat High um volumes of meat um High meat and saturated fat and you have all you have this prolonged life expectancy there were some common themes that ran through all of these and two of them were number one was Mobility until late in life sitting is the new smoking sedentary lifestyle is the leading cause of all cause mortality sitting sitting is the new smoking sitting is as bad as smoking sitting is worse than smoking why am I not dead to sit I to sit down this show I got to sit down for First Take I mean how am I what because you move your ass you get in the gym every day oh that's true but I'm saying like the sedentary lifestyle is the leading cause of all cause mortality and um you know we are just not moving anymore um we don't even have to move to get food right I mean you got Uber eat you got instacart um and and and so you know the happiness if you were to ask me Gary what is happiness what is emotion what is a mood well it's a collection of neurotransmitters bound to oxygen so when you deprive the blood of oxygen you actually deprive your body's ability to access certain moods the reason why nobody has ever woken up laughing no human being is ever woken up laughing the reason why no human being is ever woken up laughing is you don't have the oxidative state to experience laughter but can you wake up angry yes because anger does not that emotional state does not require oxygen doesn't require an high oxidative state in the body so if you want to experience the upper range of emotion passion Elation Joy arousal libido all the hell yeah I won the lottery kind of emotions you got to get oxygen into your body you got to get blood flow to the brain so you can actually experience those emotional states So when you say happiness happiness can be getting married happiness can be getting a new car or a new boat or moving into the house of your dreams but happiness comes from your physiology happiness comes from having a purpose and happiness comes from having the right nutrients in the body so you can make neurotransmitters to experience that mood you know it's interesting you know serotonin which is the main driver of emotion this mood this this neurotransmitter serotonin do you know what we make it from what we make it from an amino acid called tryptophan so is it possible that a simple deficiency in tryptophan an amino acid could cause a deficiency in this neurotransmitter yes this is what I mean about nutrients missing from the human body do you know how many times I saw people walk into their primary care doctor with a clinical deficiency in vitamin D3 and without even doing the proper testing the doctor goes you know what Stephen um you've got rheumatoid arthritis and why would he say that because the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis very often mimic the symptoms of clinical deficiency in vitamin D3 all you have is nutrient deficiency now you're diagnosed with a disease you know what happens once you're diagnosed with that disease they put you on something called a corticosteroid and you know what a corticosteroid does initially it causes a reduction of inflammation but then it eats the joint like a termite and now six years later you're having a joint replacement and as soon as you have the joint replacement you don't ambulate as well you're not as mobile and as soon as you reduce Mobility you start to bring in all the diseases that exacerbate with reduced Mobility so if you run this back you died of a disease that you never should have had because of a surgery that wasn't required because of medication that you did not need because of a disease that you didn't have you had a nutrient deficiency and this is what I mean we are not as sick or pathological as we think um we are nutrient deficient I know I've said that times and having said that have you ever thought about this just got a couple more questions before we in this interview have you ever thought about the fact that with all that you know all the knowledge that you have all that you've espoused what level of pressure that puts on you one would think the pressure is oh keep knowing what you're talking about I'm thinking about something else we better not see you depressed no we better not see you limping around we better not see you looking angry we better not see an abundance of things that you just spoke about that if your body has these kind of things inside of it you're going to be in Optimum Health and as a result you're not going to be subjected to some of the things that normal folks are subjected to have you ever thought about that at all and what kind of pressure it puts on you it's almost like somebody being in the public eye and they got to watch every little thing that they do an actor an actress an athlete etc etc some folks might look at you and say that's the stratosphere you're approaching to that you say what well it's I have an obligation to be authentic about what I say so the lifestyle that I that I Le behind the scenes is the same lifestyle that I put on Instagram I did three hours of live zooms today I took the the laptop and walked around the house I show all of the the I show what I use in my daily life on the on the ultimate human podcast you will never see an ad read you will never see me become a prostitute for products or Services um and and believe me it comes my way I have a hard and fast rule that I do not promote anything that I do not use in my daily life every day in my daily life or that I do not have firsthand knowledge of and you will never see me with this CBD gummy and this multivitamin and this energy drink and um unless I am using that in my daily life or I have firsthand knowledge of it you saw that graveyard of products in the back of my condo back there I am incessant about testing things because I want people to understand that you know I want to take the products that do not have a voice that are doing the right thing for Humanity and I want to give them a voice my my my partner said to me Grant Cardone said to me one time he said Gary what's more important the best product or the best known product and uh never forget because I I said well probably for Revenue it's probably the best known product which is why I am going to give a voice to the best products um I want to push them up through the noise like the the real grass-fed Farms the real um you know the the cereals that are not bad for kids the the snacks that actually have nutrients in them and are not full of like pesticides and herbicides and food colorings and High sodiums um to give a voice to those things so it makes the choices for people easier about how to how to navigate this but it is a crazy amount of pressure Stephen um especially the amount of vital that I get from from you know really just trying to do the right thing top misconceptions about you um top misconceptions about me wow that's a that's a great question um I would say the top misconceptions about me are that um I'm I'm driven by I'm driven by money and that's an success was a byproduct of being in service to humanity it wasn't the quest it's so funny because initially all I really wanted to do was be wealthy and I couldn't create any wealth and then I decided that I wanted to focus on people's well-being and then I became wealthy and now everybody accuses you because of your level of success of having some kind of ulterior motive it's it's the same thing I see them do to clients of mine that that have dramatic changes in their life and they always want to tear it down and say they must have cheated but a lot of times people like yourself and Dana and others are just putting in the work they really did just put in the work last question um when you see me when you see Dana we're about to be neighbors buddy when you see hopefully when we see Dana when you see Steve Harvey when you see so many of us you talk about us and our willingness to have put in the work in the end when you look at America out there and you're talking them to them and trying to encourage them to put in the work so ultimately there's a level of Health that they can achieve that will make them feel wealthy in and of themselves what's the best advice you can give to them to get them started to jump start their lives for the better well the word wealth is actually derived from the word well-being to be well in being so to be wealthy used to mean to be healthy and so that's that's the root of that word you know I I'll tell you just a quick story I was on a uh an episode of Access Hollywood a few weeks ago and um it was at Universal Studios and um and the Access Hollywood stage is in the center of the park and they actually picked me up at the back and I was getting walked through the park by by security and um and I was just looking around you know you see this heavy set Grandma she's in a she's in a motorized wheelchair she's got a 2 L of soda in her in her thing then you see heavy set mother in the fanny pack and then you see a really really heavy set um even obese kid that's dist entering puberty and I made a comment to the security guard it really his answer just really struck me it blew me away um and I was just trying to be funny I said what's with all the fanny packs it's like a fanny pack pandemic up here right and he said oh you know they can't put their hands in their pockets and I was like wow these guys are all wearing Fanny Pags because they can't put their hand in their pockets and I look over and there's a kid must have been 13 years old and he sitting on a he's sitting on one of the benches and he has a 64 ounce Big Gulp in his hand and he's got a paper with a funnel cake on it a plastic I mean a a paper plate with a funnel cake on it the funnel cake is it's deep fried white flour in seed oil um with 10x sugar on it and 64 o big golp I start running the math in my head I'm like that's 39 teaspoons of sugar and his his right hand it's another 50 gram of sugar in his left hand that's soaked in seed oils with 10x sugar on it and I realized like to me it actually made me a little angry I wanted to go to the mother and be like this is child abuse but I realized they just don't know and so that's why my message is for the masses because I truly think that people really don't know and there are some simple choices that they could make so here's what I would tell everybody listening to this podcast you want to feel the best that You' felt in the last five years to decade of your life for no money um number one wake up tomorrow morning try to wake up with the sun if you can expose your skin to sunlight go outside and get first light just get the benefit of this beautiful blue light with no UVA UVB light um Rays damaging rays in the morning expose your skin to that sunlight three rounds of five deep breaths with a breath hold in between come back in and take a cold shower just tell me how good that one choice makes you feel and let that be the start of your journey where you go out and get information on your body and you start to make a change based on that data I'm a skeptical individual I've gone to doctor so skeptical I've gone to doctors all my life I still go to doctors mhm you've never discouraged me from going to a doctor never um I still train all the time you've encouraged me to train as often as I possibly could and to seek encouragement I'm on my supplement protocol I've changed my diet but so much of what has happened to me is because of how you guided me and I just want to let you know for my audience I appreciate it there's so many components that we that that come with it and I get that but it has to start somewhere and it has to start with with you knowing exactly what's wrong and attacking the immediate problem so you can begin to cure your body I have felt better than I have felt in 30 years and I'm just getting started thank you from the bottom of my heart for all that you've done thank you for I definitely appreciate it the one and only Gary Breer right here with Stephen A Smith that's my journey you see the man that's helped me get here there's no question about that I know how I feel about you the proof is in put it damn it I look in the mirror now compared to how I didn't want to look in the mirror a year ago that's how it goes this is the Stephen A Smith show that's the one and only Gary bre can thank him so much again for your for your time your energy your knowledge and everything like that I hope yall enjoyed this episode I hope you make sure to prioritize your health there is no wealth without Health you heard him say it you've heard me say it a million times I'm G to tell it to you again this is why I got so many so much energy this why I have so many jobs this is why I can continue to flow the way that I flow because I'm actually trying to take care of myself I hope that was inspirational it should be we'll talk about this in the days the weeks and the months to come for Gary Breer this is Stephen A Smith signing off peace and love everybody until next time thank you brother