World No. 1 Biohacking Expert: "I Tested 100,000 People's DNA. This Diet Will Kill You!". Fix This Hormone And You'll Fix Your Anxiety! - Gary Brecka

**Gary Brecka** (0:00)
No one really tells people that have anxiety what it is. And this is why very often people don't have a specific trigger they can point to. So they're trying to pin it on their outside environments. But the truth is that they are deficient. Usually, and...

**SPEAKER_2** (0:15)
Gary Brecka. He's a human biologist. To spend 20 years working in life insurance, predicting when people are going to die to the nearest month. And now, he's on a mission to extend your life.

**Steven Bartlett** (0:26)
A couple of days ago, someone did a swab inside of my mouth. What was that test, and why did I do it?

**Gary Brecka** (0:31)
You did it to look at whether your parents gave you a gene mutation. And it's one of the most overlooked things in all of modern medicine, because it's this deficiency that leads to some of the most common ailments that we suffer from. Mental illness, ADHD, OCD, manic depression, bipolar, sleep disorders, very severe gut issues. I mean, there are so many that don't seem to be fixable with conventional therapies or dietary changes. Because very often, disease is not happening to us, it's happening within us. And I'm not going to stop getting the message out to the masses. Because I just think about all the times I could have made a real material change in somebody's life, and I didn't have the opportunity to do it. And it felt like I was, you know, sitting behind a thick glass wall, just watching blind people walk into traffic.
Now, I got a chance to make a difference.

**Steven Bartlett** (1:21)
So, what are like the simple things that we can be doing to prevent us even getting these chronic diseases?

**Gary Brecka** (1:26)
So, there's five things that I would commit to doing on a regular basis. Number one is, upon waking, I would...

**Steven Bartlett** (1:34)
I wanted to invite in Dr. Carrie Sada, who's gonna give me those results of my test. I wanna know if there's any sort of health implications that I should be aware of.

**Carrie Sada** (1:40)
Okay. So, that right there is an issue.

**Steven Bartlett** (1:49)
Gary.

**Gary Brecka** (1:51)
Steven.

**Steven Bartlett** (1:52)
Good to see you back.

**Gary Brecka** (1:54)
Don't throw me off. I know, I knew I threw your game off there. Steven. Great to be back, man. It really is.

**Steven Bartlett** (2:03)
If someone's just clicked on this podcast, and they're wondering why they should stay and listen, you're going to direct the conversation. I'm going to go where you want to go. I'm going to follow my curiosity and ask questions. But what are they going to get from this conversation today if you are at the driving wheel?

**Gary Brecka** (2:16)
I'm just state on how to live a healthier, happier, longer life. And maybe answers to some of the most pesky health related challenges that they're having. And when I say pesky health related challenges, I mean, everybody has these little tiny anchors off their stern, right? Weight gain, water retention, brain fog, lack of focus and concentration, poor waking energy, lack of deep sleep. It's shocking how many of these conditions have a common repository. I mean, like the hub of the wheel, where they all meet. All these individual spokes come together, the common hub of methylation. And methylation is essentially nutrient deficiencies in the human body. And I don't usually start off with this analogy, but I'll start off with an analogy. When I was in grad school, first of all, I'm a human biologist, I'm not a physician. My undergraduate degrees are in biology, my postgraduate degrees are in human biology. But when I was in my second four years of grad school, getting a human biology degree, I had to take all these plant botany courses, which I hate it because I wanted to study anatomy and physiology and human beings, but I'm studying algae.
But the one thing that stood out to me about plant physiology was, let's say you have a palm leaf that's rotting in a palm tree, and you call a true arborist, a true botanist out to your house, and they see that that leaf is rotting in the tree, they won't touch that leaf, they will core test the soil. And then they'll say, you know what, Steven, there's no nitrogen in this soil. And they'll add nitrogen to the soil, and the leaf will heal. Only we've stopped thinking about human beings this way. We've lost a lot of faith in humanity and mankind, the body's ability for this to heal this. And we believe very often, and this is true in some cases, that disease and pathology are happening to us, not something that happens within us. And if you go back to the tree analogy, you could put anything you wanted on that soil, right? You could supplement for the sake of supplementing. And I think a lot of people get lost in this realm where, well, I heard NMN is good and resveratrol is good and CoQ10 and St. John's Ward and Oshawa ganda and vitamin C and I should take a multivitamin. Pretty soon, you have this paralysis of analysis because you're supplementing for the sake of supplementing. And in the tree's case, if you didn't find the nitrogen, the leaf never would have healed. And the reason why most of us supplement for the sake of supplementing is that we don't have data. We just don't get data on our bodies. You know, when I bring, and you run into a lot more young entrepreneurs than I do, but when I run into them and I'll bring them up sometimes when I'm doing a stage talk, and you can question them about their priorities. Like, what's the most important thing to you? My health. How important is health to you? Oh, it's the number one priority I have. And I say, well, come on up here and let's talk about, you know, how much you're prioritizing your health. And you say, you know, what kind of business do you have in marketing agency? What is your business earn on a monthly basis? $148,000 a month. What's your net income? $38,250 a month. How many employees do you have? 16 What's your hemoglobin A1C?