#94 The Ultimate Growth Hormone and Bone Density Hack with Dr John Jaquish

John Jaquish (0:02)

50% chance of death after 50 years old with a hip fracture. Yeah, and 50 is not that old. You're putting your body in an environment are able to notice, wow, we're in a really different environment all of a sudden. We need to change.

The only thing the central nervous system can do is change based on environment. You can't look in the mirror and say, wow, central nervous system, I'd really like to lose 10 pounds.

Like, that's not the way to communicate with your central nervous system. The way to communicate with your central nervous system is to create an environment where you can't have that 10 extra pounds in compromising your health.

Siim Land (0:41)

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Welcome to the Body Mind Empowerment Podcast. I'm your host, Siim Land, and our guest today is Dr. John Jacquish. Dr. Jacquish is a scientist, researcher, and entrepreneur in the field of osteogenics.

He has a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Jacquish, welcome to the show.

John Jaquish (1:11)

Thanks for having me.

Siim Land (1:12)

Yeah, I'm pleased to have you. And when I was doing my kind of backstory research about you, then I found out that you actually have like a really inspirational story of what got you into the field of improving people's bone health. Can you like give a little, you know, story about it? Sure.

John Jaquish (1:28)

Yeah, I did this treatment of mother's osteoporosis. That's how I completely got started on the physical medicine path. And physical medicine, by the way, for those that haven't heard that term, it's using a physical intervention like exercise or nutrition or physiotherapy to treat a dysfunction as opposed to pharmaceutical medicine. So, yeah, my mother was diagnosed with osteoporosis and she was upset about it. And I read the statistics and I said, well, mom, yeah, you could, if you had a fragility fracture in your hip, that could really like challenge your mortality.

Hip fractures have an associated the same level of breast cancer.

What happens is they break their hip and then it's complications, either they can't survive the surgery or it doesn't heal correctly and they can't walk again. And then there's just a very rapid decline. 50% chance of death after 50 years old with a hip fracture.

Siim Land (2:39)

Wow, that's crazy.

John Jaquish (2:40)

50% after 50, crazy statistic. Yeah, and 50 is not that old.

Yeah, I mean, so sometimes every once in a while, like I mentioned osteoporosis and people are like, oh, that's for like 90 year olds, no, no, it affects. Now there are, I talked to somebody in the US military at West Point, the sort of elite training academy for the army, and they told me that they see osteoporosis in their recruits. These are 18 year old kids.

Siim Land (3:14)

Wow.

John Jaquish (3:14)

That's right. They're playing video games and they're eating garbage food, and that's, their bone mass is declining.

Siim Land (3:23)

What do you think is the main cause of declining in bone mass then?

John Jaquish (3:28)

Chronic cellular inflammation and lack of activity. It's the combination of those two things. Ultimately, you can eat all the wrong stuff, and if you're active, your body's still trying to reach homeostasis based on your environment.

So you live in an environment where there's hard impacts. There's greater likelihood that you'll build bone mass even with poor nutrition. When you have both, you don't have the proper nutrition. Almost every single person with an eating disorder, with like anorexia, bulimia, or the other associated things has osteoporosis or a compromised bone mass. Because there's something taking in the nutrients.

There's almost like, the poor nutrition is almost a guarantee.

Siim Land (4:18)

Wow, that's really, that's really crazy. Yeah, like it's also like reflective in the people way or the way people eat, especially like older people, like everyone knows that, or in most cases, like everyone's grandmas is eating like bread, processed bakeries, and they're not, you know, lifting anything, they're not exercising.

John Jaquish (4:38)

It's like every meal is a pastry.

Siim Land (4:43)

Yeah, it's quite crazy. But what did you do like to fix your mother's osteoporosis then?

John Jaquish (4:48)

So, what I did in, like I looked at the pharmaceutical interventions and so did she, and she was not happy with the recommendations that were in there.

I didn't like the side effects of the drugs and I was like, good mom, I don't like them either. So, what I ended up doing was I said, what if I could find a group of people that have like superhuman bone density? Maybe there's a type of athlete out there that has incredible power in their bone. And then if I figure out what they do, maybe I can build a device that will give that same effect. And it was interesting because that one idea, once I started doing the research, there was a crystal clear example. It was gymnasts, gymnasts have superhuman bone because of the rate at which they hit the ground. When they dismount, sometimes when they do a dismount from the uneven bars, you know, when they flip back and forth between the two bars, they get levels of force through their hip joint that are above ten times their body weight.