#985 - Gad Saad

Joe Rogan (0:01)

No, abandon. Three, two.

And we're live. What's up, buddy?

Gad Saad (0:10)

Hey, how are you?

Joe Rogan (0:11)

I'm very sorry about that sound of the thing in the background, ladies and gentlemen. You hear that?

That's annoying. We'll shut that off. Can we shut that off?

Gad Saad (0:21)

Sure, go ahead.

Joe Rogan (0:21)

Okay. Can you shut it off, Jamie?

That is because there was smoke in this room, and the Godfather has an issue with the smoke. How did you get over your asthma?

Gad Saad (0:33)

Around puberty, it often subsides, especially if you're quite athletic, which I was.

And then it completely went away by about 13, and only came back by about 25 But now I'm not full-blown asthmatic. Only when I get sick, if I, let's say, get a cold, it will migrate to my chest, turn into bronchitis, and what will take you four days to fight might take me a month of whooping cough. Whoa. Yeah. That's why I'm really careful about not getting a cold.

Joe Rogan (1:02)

You must be a hand washer.

Gad Saad (1:04)

Well, that's why when I came out of the bathroom, my instinct was to tell Jamie, as I was shaking his hand, I washed my hands, because I'm always careful about shaking other people's hands, so I'd like to extend them the same courtesy.

Joe Rogan (1:14)

Yeah, man, I shake some people's hands, and it's like they just dunked it in the pool. It's some people, like, they get so sweaty, and you shake their hand, you go, whoa, okay, but what's going on with this hand? Like, what kind of weird bacteria? I read this article that was saying that water bottles, when you reuse a water bottle, they've tested them, and they say that there's less bacteria on dog toys.

Gad Saad (1:37)

It's pretty bad.

Well, that's why, by the way, I've resorted to fist bumping. Not because I'm cool, but it just reduces the amount of germ transfer from one person to the other by just going like this.

Joe Rogan (1:48)

But don't you think that that compromises your immune system by not exposing it to a lot of different things?

Gad Saad (1:52)

There is actually research on this, right? From evolutionary medicine, kids who grow up in very sterile environments end up suffering from greater respiratory ailments precisely because their system hasn't been kicked up.

Joe Rogan (2:02)

Yeah, I believe that. I rarely get sick and I shake a lot of hands, but I know a lot of people that don't and they're kind of sick all the time. Like, I don't want to get sick. I'm like, but maybe that's what's going on.

Gad Saad (2:11)

Maybe we'll French kiss later after.

Joe Rogan (2:13)

Ooh, exciting. Don't you threaten me with a good time.

I think it's also really important, I don't know how much you partake of this, but to consume probiotics, do you eat acidophilus or yogurt or kimchi?

Gad Saad (2:27)

I do like yogurt. I do like kimchi. I don't do it by design. I think maybe just those preferences are healthy, and so I'm happy to hear that they're good choices.

Joe Rogan (2:35)

They are good probiotics, and for grapplers in particular, grapplers are very particular about the consumption of probiotics because we get a lot of ringworm, and also staph infections too. There's a lot of different infections that people can get from, especially ringworm though. Staph infections is really more from an open cut, but having healthy skin floor is very important. That's why all you kids listening, don't use antibiotic soap. It's not the right way to go. There's a lot of healthy soaps that use tea tree oil and eucalyptus that are really good for you that are probiotic.

Gad Saad (3:10)

Right. Keep the idea of worm in mind because later I'd like to talk about brain worms and how it relates to a condition that is afflicting the West. We can get into it now.

Joe Rogan (3:18)

Brain worms, you mean like toxoplasma?

Gad Saad (3:21)

That would be one.

Joe Rogan (3:22)

Yeah, there's other ones?

Gad Saad (3:23)

There are many others. Do you want to get into that now?

Joe Rogan (3:26)

Sure. I had Sapolsky on last month. I know, I know.

Gad Saad (3:29)

I should write to him because a while ago-

He is amazing. I wrote to him a while ago, maybe a year and a half or two years ago, but at the time to come on my show, but he was, I think, very busy writing a few books, which I'm guessing he's probably done with now.