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New Year Special - Check in, Feedback, Highlights, Books, & Goals
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Join me this week as we have an informal, solo chat on the podcast so far!
We begin with a brief check-in to assess how things are progressing. Next, we delve into some feedback I've received, as well as addressing common rebuttals to the topics we've discussed.
We touched upon the notion that viruses were proven to exist and cause diseases before the invention of the electron microscope. Additionally, we explored the distinctions between the scanning electron microscope and the transmission electron microscope. We discussed the importance of examining the root cause when discussing diseases and health.
Following that, we reviewed some podcast highlights and delved into my thoughts on these topics. I also shared some of my favorite books that I've read this year.
Lastly, we discussed the goals I have for the podcast and some personal objectives. We explored the future trajectory of the podcast.
I hope you enjoy this episode!
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Transcript
Introduction to New Year's Special
00:00:01
Speaker
Hi everyone, welcome back to another episode of the Beyond Trade Podcast. I'm your host, Lee O'Dalton, and today we are going to do a New Year's special. So it's going to be kind of an informal podcast. It's just me today. We're going to go over a few things. I guess we can get right into the agenda for
Podcast Progress and Listener Feedback
00:00:19
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today. We'll talk about a little check-in, right? We're going to talk about the podcast so far, my thoughts on that.
00:00:27
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feedback that I received. We'll move into some highlights of the podcast, things that I liked and
00:00:35
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Just things that really stood out to me because, you know, every podcast that I've recorded so far, they've been pretty unique so far. And I love that. And I know it can be a lot switching topics every week. And I kind of enjoy it because I tend to move pretty quick through topics and I cycle through them. So I'll cycle back. That's just kind of how my mind works. But the podcast is good too, because I kind of focus for a good week on the topic and, and I can kind of really delve
Community Growth and Sharing Information
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into it. So.
00:01:04
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Yeah, we're going to go over some highlights, just some thoughts that I've had on the podcast so far on some episodes, maybe specifically. I'm going to go over some books I read. I'll bring out my favorite ones. I want to talk about some goals, too. It's New Year's, so it's a good time to talk about goals. We're going to talk about the podcast goals, and maybe we'll even touch on some personal goals.
00:01:26
Speaker
I got some notes here with me. I don't have a presentation for you guys. So it's just me and my face. And I hope you guys enjoy this episode. So it's very informal, but yeah, it's starting to move right. We'll get right into it with the check-in. So, you know, podcast.
00:01:43
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In my mind, it's been going absolutely amazing. I'm extremely happy with it. You guys have been amazing, giving me great feedback. I mean, the growth is great. I love it. And it seems that we're attracting a good group of people who are really interested in this topic. And that's kind of what I wanted, right? It's not about getting famous or anything like that. It's more about just getting the word out and talking with people who are open because at the end of the day, like, you know, I'm not changing anybody's minds.
Value of Open Discussions and Differing Opinions
00:02:10
Speaker
people are coming to their own conclusions. And that's what's really important to understand. It's, you know, I'm not out here trying to change people's minds. I'm kind of just presenting information. Obviously I have my own opinions and things like that. Everybody's got opinions, right? So, but, uh, nevertheless, right. It's, it's important to understand that, um, that, you know, and that's what I try to preach because, you know, I try to tell, you know, try to say that, you know, we're all sovereigns, we all come to our own conclusions and we're all capable of coming to our own conclusions, right? They're
00:02:39
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There may be a learning process involved in trying to understand logic and, and how to decipher what is true. But even the way that you look at the truth depends on the person, right? Some people look at good, bad. Some people look at true, false. So, and, and that's really important thing to distinguish too, right? Because not everybody's going to look at life through the same lens. So, you know, definitely attract like-minded people. That's a given, but, um, I've had some conversation with people who've, who've never heard of,
00:03:08
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you know, the terrain paradigm or anything related to the terrain. They've been super interested in, you know, these people are not, you know, well-versed in this topic, but it's coming
Healthy Living Goals and Challenges
00:03:18
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to light, right? The information's out there and people are hopping on, right? They just, it's something to consider at least, right? It doesn't matter if you fully agree with it or not. The way that you get there matters less than the goal too, right? Like, so if you're leading a healthier life,
00:03:38
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a truly healthier life where you're minimizing toxicities and increasing nutrients. It doesn't matter how you got there in my mind. It's a matter of if you're feeling good, if you live a long life, if you're moving well, if you're achieving your goals. That's the real important part here. I think that's super important.
00:04:00
Speaker
You know, I love that. I love the conversations that I've had a lot of people like disagree, right? And, and I think that's great because when people disagree, like this is where growth happens, right? And it can be uncomfortable and it can be quite confrontational, but you know, it's all about respect too. At the end of the day, like, you know, there, and obviously there's always disrespect present, right? And it happens, right? Especially in the social media field, people are, are tall on social media. So.
00:04:29
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And so you got to kind of look past. But a lot of people are extremely interested, right? And even though they may not agree, they're very interested in hearing the perspective. And so at the end of the day, that's where a real good discussion comes from my mind. Obviously, two people who agree on something have a great discussion.
00:04:49
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know like definitely on the podcast I've had like-minded people on and I think that's really important too right because we're kind of pushing things forward and digging deeper and getting some good quality information out there so that plays a role but I do love the idea of talking with people that disagree with you because I think this is fundamentally where science flourishes right it's it's in disagreement you know there's also the idea that
00:05:16
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There's no reason why
Personal Growth and Self-Belief
00:05:17
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everyone has to agree with each other, right? People are obsessed with making other people agree with them and I think that's kind of foolish and a waste of energy too because like at the end of the day, like there's nothing I can do to change anyone else's way of life too, right? And you know, you can even, you can know this information and not act on it. That's, it's still, you know, that's something that I still work on, right? We can always get better in this area where, you know, you,
00:05:45
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You learn about how to minimize toxicity or increase nutrients and, you know, different things like this and even in the brain paradigm here, like, but then implementing these things like grounding every day, like, you know, it's cold out and it's not really snow on the ground. Like going out and grounding is pretty uncomfortable, but it's something you gotta, you gotta work on too, right? Gotta do more. And this partly part of my personal goals moving forward is consistency and
00:06:13
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You know, and that's, that's a goal. That's, that's pretty good for everybody in my mind because we're not perfect either. But yeah, I mean, getting back to it, like, you know, there's, there's nothing anyone else can do for you, right? Everything comes from within and that's, that's something that I really learned over this past year. And I'm going to expand on more going forward.
00:06:32
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You know, there's no one out there that can save you and there's nothing out there that can save you. You know, everything really does come from within. And this may sound a little woo woo preachy, but it's like, it's fundamentally very, very true. Your mindset is so important. If you're reluctant, if you're fighting something that, you know, arguably makes you better objectively, just the fact that you're fighting is going to be problematic. It's going to cause, there's going to be a disconnect there. There's going to be a wall. So.
00:07:03
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So I think that's really important too. I think a lot of people just get obsessed with this idea that everyone has to agree with each other. And I just think that's so counterproductive. I think if people disagree with you, I think that's fine. Problems do arise when you can't have a respectful conversation. So I don't want to put anyone down who disagrees with me, but I would certainly love to have a conversation because not only does that
00:07:29
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you know, give them a different perspective, but it gives you a different perspective too, right? Like if you can understand the other side of an argument, this is the best way to move forward, right? Getting this criticism, getting this criticism back to you, this constructive criticism is going to just help your ideas flourish and solidify them, right? If you really think you're on the path to truth, nothing can question that, right? If you think that you have to hit the nail on the head with what you know,
00:07:58
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you should be able to take on absolutely anything because you're sure in your truth. And guess what? If you take, if you listen to somebody who challenges your ideas and you think, Oh, these guys might be correct. Well, then you're only getting closer to the truth too. So this is comes into being open-minded, right? And obviously this is super important being open-minded, but yeah, I think you should be able to talk to people you disagree with. Now a lot of people are reluctant to this idea. Like they don't want to necessarily change their way of thinking.
00:08:29
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Because we get stuck. A lot of people get stuck in their ways of thinking. It's something that I certainly want to avoid moving forward through my whole life, right? And it happens worse with age, I think. You don't want to get stuck, right? You want to remain open-minded. Closed-mindedness is problematic. That's when you become fixed and that's when growth stops. That's what inhibits growth. A closed mindset. An open mindset is conducive only to growth.
00:08:58
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It's good to always remain open-minded, but yeah, I definitely, um, you know, I want to keep moving forward and I want to talk to people on the other side of the spectrum this year. Um, but it can be challenging. People don't want to, they don't want to open up or they don't even want to have the conversation because they don't want to change their mind, right? They're closed-minded. And this is a problem in the scientific field because, you know, you're working in a lab and you're working for a company who is funding you.
00:09:29
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And they have a certain opinion. And you need to meet their goals. You need to meet the people who are funding you. You need to meet their goals. Because if you don't meet their goals, they're not going to publish the study, first of all. And they're not going to rehire you. So if you're working for a supplement company or a drug company, if you're not proving that the drug or supplement is doing what the company wants it to do, or if there's no positive benefits to it, that study is not getting published.
00:09:59
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It can be difficult for scientists especially to get out of the, out of their dogmatic ways of thinking, especially they've been taught the same thing for a very, very long time, right? From, from primary school, right? You know, you're learning in science class, all of these dogmatic ideas that are set in stone and it just gets worse and worse as you go and you do university and you know, everything you're just told that everything's a fact when, when there's definitely a lot left.
00:10:28
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to know, right? We don't know quite a lot. So that's really important, I think, to distinguish. But yeah, it's important to understand that people are reluctant to change. They don't want to change. And it's understandable. And yeah, in the scientific field, you see it. They don't want to change because obviously they have their funding and they have their ways of thinking. So there's a couple avenues that really
00:10:51
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that really inhibit this and that's tough and trying to break through that is difficult. And like I said, I really want to talk about people that disagree with me. It's been challenging so far to find people who are truly open to the conversation, right? Because it's also no fun to have a conversation where you're being talked down to the whole time, being talked to like you're an idiot when it's like,
00:11:17
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You know, I'm just trying to bring valuable points to the table here. And so that's no fun, right? Nobody wants to really go through that. And if push comes to shove, you know, it is what it is. But yeah, I mean, I think that that would be super cool to talk to people who disagree with because I've loved it. Honestly, the comments have been fantastic. You know, people bring up great points. They bring up fantastic points. And so I guess we're going to kind of move into some feedback that receive. I got three major points really that that that come up.
00:11:46
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And I guess we could get into one more that's kind of specific to more parasites. That was a big, big one. But yeah, so a great, a great piece of feedback I received was that viruses were discovered before electron microscopy. And I thought this was super, super interesting because we talked about it briefly. We talked about it briefly. So I believe his name was Ivanovsky.
00:12:15
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discovered it and it was the tobacco mosaic virus and he discovered the the virus because he essentially in essence here I don't want to straw man the argument here for the purpose of the conversation I might a little bit look into it for sure look into his process but I'll do my best here I'll do my best the tobacco mosaic virus you notice tobacco plants were getting diseased right so
00:12:44
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He took the fluid from the tobacco plant and he created a filter, right? And so he filtered out anything that was too large. This would be like microbes, right? So the idea at the time was that microbes could cause disease. This was coming to the front, but viruses weren't very well known. So, you know, he, he created this filter to get rid of,
00:13:11
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he got rid of the microbes. And so what would pass through the filter would be smaller than microbes. And so essentially he tried to inoculate this into other tobacco plants and they were diseased was his, this was his body of work, right? So his findings were essentially that something smaller than a bacteria or a larger microbe is capable of causing disease.
00:13:40
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And so they name this, you know, whatever, this biological agent, I suppose they were predicting a virus. Now viruses, interestingly enough, have been around for a long time. The word virus derived from Latin actually means poison. So the idea of a virus has been around for a long time. And so I just find this distinction so interesting, right? When you look at the etymology of it,
00:14:11
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how it's a poison, right? So smaller than a micro. So, you know, my thoughts on this immediately are like, well, what's in this filtrate? You know, what's in, what is in the liquid that has been filtered, right? Because you have everything smaller than a microorganism. Well, guess what? Poisons, chemicals, biological or artificial, whatever it may have been at the time, is present, you know?
00:14:41
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Obviously, maybe some, even some proteins would get through, right? Because the protein is much smaller than a microorganism. So that was obviously my, the big caveat with that work, right? So the filtration process is obviously different back in the day, back in that time.
00:15:00
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than it is now, right? Because now they kind of use these, you know, they may use globulins or antibodies to try and bind virus, try to, you know, they use different solvents to try and really isolate viral particles alone. And they may use two different types of filters where they filter out smaller stuff and they filter out the bigger stuff. So you're kind of left with things on one size scale.
00:15:28
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So there's different techniques that they use now to isolate the virus, but obviously the, you know, we already went over the problems in isolating the virus. And I guess I could go over it briefly here that obviously the, the isolated virus, right? Isolated through the filtration process may be a decent isolation. It may be a decent isolation. I'm not going to lie, but the problem arises in,
00:15:58
Speaker
where they need to go to produce disease using this virus, right? So they can't take the virus off the filter. They can't take the pure virus and produce disease in a person. That's never, ever, ever, ever happened. And the argument is that there's not enough virus to produce disease. I'll get back to that. But they grow it in a culture, right? So they put it on virile cells and they treat it with antibiotics.
00:16:25
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So the virile cells are kidney cells and antibiotics are obviously toxic to kidneys and they produce more virus. And then so they take that, which obviously there's more than just antibiotics in this culture, right? But in the growth medium.
00:16:46
Speaker
And they try and produce disease with that, but now it's contaminated, right? So there's a ton of contaminations in it, so it's not pure virus anymore. So it's interesting, right? You have the old way of filtration and you have the new way of filtration, right? And so one was not isolation, so there was no isolation done. And the other one is
00:17:07
Speaker
We could try to isolate it to the best of our abilities, but then we actually need to recontaminate it to produce disease in both of these, right? So in both cases, contaminations are present. There's never been a true isolation of a virus. The other idea is that viruses are only visualized in the lab. And now I guess we're kind of getting away from the criticism itself, but viruses are a laboratory artifact, right? They're observed in lab and they're not observed in nature.
00:17:38
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And so that's a major, major distinction as well. So the electron microscopy process in itself is problematic. And so this brings me to a next great point of feedback. Somebody brought up electron microscopy. They brought up the two different types of electron microscopy. So there's a scanning electron microscopy, and there's a transmission electron microscopy.
00:18:05
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Basically, I'll call it SEM for the scanning. That essentially creates an image where they deflect electrons off. They deflect it off of a physical phenomenon, right? Say like, you know, they visualize the eyes of bugs or insects, right? Insects, not microbes. So, and essentially the electron bounce off it, and that's how they get their image, right? So it's a black and white image of a
00:18:34
Speaker
of a sample, right? But the difference is in a transmissive electron microscope,
00:18:47
Speaker
This passes electrons through the actual sample to create an image. So the scanning electron microscope is actually quite interesting and produces fair images. You can look at the really close up images of insects and
00:19:05
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things, but it's on a much larger scale than what you're getting at with the transmissive electron microscope. So it's really two different topics. Now, the setup process involved in a scanning electron microscope is similar, but you're looking at very different structures. You're looking at larger structures, right? You're looking at, you know, you're looking at crystallized structures as well, right? So, but the idea here
00:19:33
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And this is interesting. This is my idea. And this is my own criticism of, you know, maybe a Hillman mindset is that, and it, and it takes an alchemical lens, right? As above, so below. So if we're crystallizing these insects, if we're crystallizing these larger samples, and we're doing the scanning electron microscope where it's bouncing off the image to gather an image, is it producing something similar to the transmissive electron microscope? Right. Now.
00:20:03
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this is this is challenging right because if you freeze if you freeze a sample it should freeze in its place right but the difference to here is that you're getting the whole you're freezing something whole in scanning electron microscope in SEM so you're freezing the whole insect and you may add some
00:20:30
Speaker
heavy metal stain to it or something of the matter. But you're freezing it whole. Whereas when you're doing it with cells in transmissive electron, TEM, you know, you're cutting a slice of it, right? So it's not like the whole cell is being visualized here. So you're cutting a slice of it. You're freezing it. Sorry, you would cut the slice at the end. So you're freezing it, you're dehydrating, you're adding its stains. Now,
00:20:58
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The problem with this too, is that you're changing the chemistry of, I'm answering my own criticism here too, you're changing the chemistry of the cell. So we've changed the chemistry of the cell. When you're changing the chemical makeup of it, you're adding foreign chemicals into it, like these heavy metal stains, which we know are destructive to cells. We know they bear a completely different electrical properties, right?
00:21:27
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So you're changing the entropy, you're changing the order of the cell. This is super problematic. You're not only doing that with the freezing, you're doing that with the chemicals, right? So you're doing that, you're adding these chemicals to it. So you're changing the properties of the cell. And so the cell's gonna act out in this matter, right? Whereas when you're freezing something whole, like if I cut my hand off and I put it in the freezer, well, it's gonna still look like my hand, right? But like, if I'm gonna put
00:21:56
Speaker
If I'm going to add a bunch of chemicals to my hand and all this stuff, maybe the structure does remain the same. Maybe the structure does remain the same. But as you take my hand, you add chemicals to it, you do all this process and you cut a slice out of my hand, right? It gets a little more complicated. So scanning electron, I think, I think basically what the conclusion I'm coming to here is that scanning electron microscopy and transmissive electron microscopy are different, different topics.
00:22:25
Speaker
I don't think that you could compare them directly because one, you're bouncing off, right? If you were to isolate an organelle, if you were to isolate a Golgi apparatus or a endoplasmic reticulum and you were able to use a scanning electron microscopy process to visualize the exterior structure of it, you know, that may be something to talk about. I don't believe that's ever been done.
00:22:54
Speaker
because they use transmissive electron microscopy, which introduces a whole plethora of problems, right? When it comes to angles, when it comes to this. And so you're cutting these slivers of the sample because it has to be super thin to get the electrons through it. I just think this is causing a plethora of problems, right? And this is what Hellman was getting at, even in the problem with angles, right? And so if you're also, if you're cutting
00:23:19
Speaker
like if you're cutting small thin samples, it should look different with every sample, right? So if you're cutting a sample of my hand and you cut it in between my pinky finger and my ring finger, well, the hand's going to look a lot different than if you cut it in the center of
00:23:36
Speaker
my middle finger, right? Because this is going to be very long and you're going to get a very different image. The interesting thing is when we're visualizing these Golgi apparatus and these, um, endoplasmic reticulums, you're getting extremely similar images every time. Right. And so that's another criticism. Uh, we covered that briefly in the podcast there. We were talking about Harold Hillman and his work because that was one of his greatest criticisms. How does the Golgi apparatus show up time and time again in the same, it's the same image. And so you can throw that question right back. Right. And so.
00:24:06
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It's like, how does the same image come up every time? Right? How does that make sense? Right? Because you're looking at this endoplasmic reticulum, that's it's all shriveled up like a raisin. You know, this is you should get different slices every time you should get different images every time, however, similar images are coming up. So that's food for thought. You know, and I think the other inch, like,
00:24:33
Speaker
The thing about TEM, you know, the dehydration of its cells are so hydrated, right? If you were to dehydrate my hand, it would not look necessarily the same as it does now too, right? So that's another thing with SEM. I wonder what the dehydration has to do with it because I think they're really, they're using, they're doing it on small, like you see the SEM pictures, right? You see them in insects and right. So it's,
00:24:59
Speaker
It's very small, but it's not as small as a cell. It's not as small as a cell. And so that's a really important thing to distinguish. It's a very important thing to distinguish. It's a very different topic. SCM is interesting. I don't think it's necessarily problematic. I don't know what it really tells us. You can look at these small structures.
00:25:27
Speaker
to visualizing proteins and visualizing these things. It's another interesting thing as well that we could probably get into a little more. I did take one course on the process of NMR and x-ray crystallography, which were both really interesting in the way that they
00:25:48
Speaker
visualize the protein structures, but even with our advancements in science and using these techniques, NMR and X-ray crystallography, you know, how we're visualizing chemicals, right? You know, NMR does quite well. And I do love NMR. And I think that's really, it's a nuclear magnetic resonance of spectroscopy. You know, so
00:26:15
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You're looking at the basis and I don't really have a philosophical argument against the chemistry behind it and the physics used behind it. Because it gets quite mathematics and it's mathematical and it's in its workings and it's a lot of graphs and things like that. It's quite a complex topic. Honestly, I've struggled with the course when I was studying how they use these tools to visualize it and how we actually come to the conclusions we come to.
00:26:46
Speaker
They seem quite good, but regardless, right, you're looking at crystals, you're looking at these, well, sorry, not NMR, but an X-ray crystallography for proteins. You're looking at crystallized proteins, right? So we know about, you know, we know quite a bit about the primary and secondary, maybe even a little bit of the tertiary structures of proteins, right? Which the primary is the amino acid sequence. We know that secondary structures like,
00:27:14
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uh, beta sheets or alpha helixes or things like this. We, we could visualize quite well as well. So we're understanding these, these properties, right? And we understand these, we understand poor friends for the most part, we understand these things, but we don't understand entire workings of proteins, right? We don't understand the quaternary structure, right? Which is where, um, the tertiary structures, I suppose would be how the protein folds up together. And then the quaternary structures actually have proteins integrate with each other.
00:27:45
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because you have things like heme, which would be like four similar structures come together, right? So we know little about tertiary, we know very little about quaternary structures of protein. So even with these beautiful pictures and graphs, right, because it's all CGI, it's all computer generated, there's only so much you can draw from these images as well, right? Like it's like, at what point is this not helpful?
00:28:13
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You can see a point where it's not helpful. And at this point, it's not something that we should stop exploring per se, because it's very interesting. I love it. But it's just at this point, we don't know enough for it to be helpful. So should we stop looking into it? Probably not. I mean, it's an area that you can look into. I mean, obviously with the caveat of understanding that, you know,
00:28:35
Speaker
You're looking at a crystal, you're looking at these frozen structures, you're not looking at live states. And so that's an important distinction. Is a protein that's crystallized the same as a protein that is alive in the body? Well, that's hard to say.
00:28:52
Speaker
Some proteins can be crystallized and frozen. And after they're thought out, they can still be used. So the structure is similar enough that after it's frozen, you could still use the protein. So that's an interesting point. And so that's why I don't necessarily think that stuff like X-ray crystallography is useless. And NMR seems to be fairly useful in its purpose, in the visualization of chemicals.
00:29:21
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The way science moves is where the funding is at. The funding largely comes from pharmaceutical companies, and that's the way that science is moving. We're visualizing chemicals. It's a lot of pharmacology. It's a lot of producing chemicals to create drugs or even supplements or industrialization that obviously has a large thing, so we use plastics or we use
00:29:50
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You know chemicals for fragrances and things like that all to our demise That's that's just an important thing And it's a big topic and it's complicated and and kind of disputing it is complicated as well because it gets if you're gonna get Nana native Grady it gets really technical right because it's really mathematics is calculus It's like it's always a big
00:30:12
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scary topics that are kind of boring on us. I shouldn't say that. I do love the study of mathematics. I'm not well versed enough in it. I think it's something that I'll get to in later in life because I find it really interesting. I think it is the language of the universe. I love, I love mathematics. I just, at this point, I don't have the time to get into it, right? I'm looking at things through a different lens right now, but that's a project for later life. I digress. You know, there,
00:30:42
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piece of feedback there is kind of reoccurring, right? So what we're trying to get at here is looking at the root cause, right? We are concerned with the root cause. So here's the rationale behind looking for the root cause. You want to look at the area in which things stem from. And so correcting the area in which things stem from is the way to
00:31:09
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is the way to ameliorate to heal everything down the line. So if you have a chain reaction of dominoes, well, if you hit the first one, everything down the line goes. If you hit in the middle, everything before is untouched. So it's the same. And if you look at it through the chemical pathways of a metabolism of classical biochemistry, if you're addressing things like,
00:31:39
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glycolysis. Well, if you're adding in glucose, which is the first product of glycolysis, that's going to change the entire metabolic process. But if you're adding in something halfway through, that's only going to change the processes downwards. It's not going to necessarily change going back. Now, it can have effects of going backwards in kind of an indirect way.
00:32:08
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Right? Because if you're lowering a certain metabolite down the path, it changes the thermodynamics of the entire sequence, right? So it's kind of a delicate process that if you do interfere halfway through a metabolic process, this will, it could deplete a protein halfway down the line, or it could utilize up that protein halfway down the line, which may require more magnesium or more of a mineral up the line or down the line. So it's rather complicated, right?
00:32:38
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But getting to the root cause of things beyond this classical way of looking at the biochemistry, because biochemistry really is so complex, right? Because we've made it complicated. First of all, that's the most important thing to distinguish. We've just made biochemistry complex, because life in itself is not necessarily complex. We've just overcomplicated it.
00:33:01
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But when you're looking at the biochemistry of things, you have to look at it from its basis as well. You need to look at it from the chemical standpoint, and you need to look at it from the physical standpoint, from the physics of it, and then you can even look at it from the mathematics. If you're going to over-complicate things, you've got to take it all the way back. You've got to take it to its root. And as above, so below here, when you're looking at the root cause of a disease, you want to look at what started it.
00:33:29
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Because if a disease is caused by a toxicity, say it's caused by heavy metal, and you're consuming this heavy metal every day, say it's through cosmetics, say it's through breathing in chemtrails or breathing in car fumes, even say you have a glass at home that has a nice design on it, a nice drinking glass that has a nice design on it, and there's lead in the paint, and it rubs off on your hands, and you're slowly absorbing it through your skin,
00:34:00
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you know, you're getting this intake of heavy metal. So there's two ways that you want to go about it. You want to get rid of the lead in, I guess you want to get rid of the lead in two different ways. You want to get rid of the source of the lead and you want to allow your body to excrete the lead. You want to detoxify the lead, right? You want to detoxify the chemical. So there's the two ways of looking at it, right?
00:34:29
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you obviously want to cut it off from the source because you could do all the detox you want, but if you're just going to keep replenishing your toxicities, you know, the detox will help. I will say it will help because you're, you might not build up as much of deep chemical. It might not store as much deep in your tissues, but nevertheless, you want to cut it off at source, right? So I think it's really important to address the root cause. Now say you have a heavy metal toxicity and a parasite is present.
00:34:59
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cleaning up, biotransforming these chemicals, these heavy metals into a way that the body is able to detox it. Or, you know, maybe consuming it and then, you know, there's a lot we don't know about parasites and what they do, but we do know that they are in the presence of heavy metals. That's something that's been coming to light here recently too. So I think this is interesting and we'll use it as a little example, right? So the parasite is there and you have the heavy metals. It's important to
00:35:30
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to remove the heavy metals. Because that's the parasites food, it's the parasites environment. Everything in life adapts to its environment. Humans, humans can create their environments, which is a little important distinction. However, biological or like beings, and even ourselves, ourselves don't necessarily create conditions, only our consciousness does, right? So biological organisms adapt to the conditions, right? Because adaptation is how we
00:36:00
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is how we reach this homeostasis, right? So the parasite adapts to the environment, right? And the pleomorphic cycle suggests that parasites can actually be grown within us and we don't necessarily catch parasites, although that topic is not necessarily absurd so long as the parasite is being consumed with the heavy metal.
00:36:22
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Say you're eating a farmed fish, it's full of toxins and chemicals and it's full of parasites as well. Well, consuming that fish obviously is going to burden your stomach with the chemicals and heavy metals as well as the parasite, which is there cleaning up the mess. So then, you know, you may have the presence of a parasite after that, but you still need to look at the root, right? You still need to look at the food source. You need to look at the environment of the being, of the biological organism, right?
00:36:52
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So, you want to address the root cause. You want to get rid of the heavy metals. You want to get rid of it in your body, right? Now, there's a couple ways to get rid of heavy metals in the bodies. There are detoxification processes that you can help along, right? Our bodies are quite good at detoxification. It's what they do well. That's pretty much the whole process of disease, is our body detoxifying itself. You obviously want to cut it off at the source, so why are you consuming these heavy metals?
00:37:23
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When you are diseased, this is one of the pieces of feedback that I get. It's like, okay, you're overloaded with parasites. Well, at what point is it good to get rid of the parasites to allow yourself to detoxify properly? Well, my argument is that the parasites are part of the deoxification process. It may hurt, it may suck, it may be uncomfortable. That's life. Being sick is not necessarily enjoyable. It's not necessarily something you enjoy. It's not comfortable.
00:37:52
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comfort is a poison in itself. So you it's uncomfortable. And I'll say that. And, you know, the overburdened body of a biological organism, say a parasite is a distinction of a diseased environment. So my
00:38:14
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You know, general take on this is that you shouldn't get rid of the parasite because it's there for a purpose that's adapted to your internal environment. Parasite does not show up. The term parasite is a misnomer. The fact that it just is consuming your body and giving you no benefit. I don't think that's seen in nature, but we'll call them parasites for the purpose of the conversation.
00:38:37
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So you want to look at the root causes. So you want to get rid of the parasite's environment. Now, the reason that you should not target the parasite is that because if you target its environment, once the parasite has no food source left, the parasite will disperse on its own. It will pass on its own, right? Whether it dies, whether it passes, whether it goes back to the microzyme, right? There's likely a few different ways that you could get rid of a parasite.
00:39:07
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And maybe the purpose of a parasite is to overburden itself with heavy metals for itself to be passed. Right. This is another idea that I want to look at. So maybe there is a time when a parasite is overburdened with the heavy metals that it is, there is a time for it to pass. But again, there's likely a distinctions in parasites and their reason for being there. There's likely heavy metal parasites. There's likely, um, you know, uh,
00:39:35
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say you consume food and you don't chew it enough, there's likely parasites there to consume the food and break it down for your body to absorb it, right? So there's different classes of parasites as well that we need to look at. So there's heavy metals, there's under chewed food, right? Whole foods in the digestive tract. There may be buildup in the gut, right? There may be improper mucous membrane of the gut. There may be lodged
00:40:02
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you know, food sources, tarry substances or mucus substances that are over.
00:40:08
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that are overstored in the gut that are unable to be absorbed, right? Maybe they're devoid of nutrients. Maybe they're pure. Maybe they've crystallized. Maybe they've, you know, there's, there's many different ways or, you know, maybe they're, they're too dense. Maybe they're too dense for the gut to absorb. So there's a lot of different ideas on why parasite may show up, right? So, and same with the fungus too, right? But you want to really address the root, right? And so, you know,
00:40:38
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There are some natural ways, right? Like raw cheese, unsalted cheese is a great digestive aid, right? Because it chelates minerals. Now there's cases of ancestors consuming clays, and even this is seen in the animal world where some monkeys consume clay.
00:40:58
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and clay can act as a binder, a chelator as well, where it binds things in the gut and helps move it through. Things like diatomaceous earth or bentonite clay are good ones. You know, these are more on the natural front. Now there's things like zeolites, which are seen in nature. And I quite enjoy zeolites, especially in
00:41:20
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world that we live in today, because we are overburdened by toxicity, it's hard to avoid the aluminum raining down on us from jet engines. It's hard to avoid the cadmium coming out of car engines, unless you're really living in the middle of nowhere. But then again, a plane might fly by every now and again, you might get a little source of aluminum or heavy metals, right? So I do like zeolites, funny enough, I actually have
00:41:45
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a brand here, Touchstone Essentials that I used before. I do want to touch on zeolites more because I do think they are a good tool in the modern world where we are overburdened by heavy metals. But yeah, it's all about getting to the root cause of things. There are real, you know, there are things that you could do like an enema, right? And this is a rather rigorous detox, right? So it may not be for everyone. It may be kind of harsh. And then again, harsh is not necessarily bad.
00:42:15
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It can certainly be overdone. So it's important to look at that. But the point that I get on is that you want to address the root cause, right? You want to look at the first thing in the line. What is the source of the problem? Where does it all come from? And that's why the terrain model works so well, because you're looking at the terrain. You're looking at the environment of the organisms of everything, right? So it's beyond the organisms, right?
00:42:46
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And I just think that addressing the organisms is not addressing the source of the problem, right? So when you're addressing the organisms, this is down the line from the source. So you could get rid of the organisms all day, but the toxicity persists and this is the problem. This is where the problem occurs. It's the same as when you address the symptoms.
00:43:04
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The symptoms again are a signification of disease and they're also a healing process, right? So getting rid of your symptoms, decreasing your fever, decreasing your inflammation, decreasing all of these things is not actually addressing the root cause, the root toxicities or deficiencies. That's another thing that I want to talk about more deficiencies and we'll touch on it here. So I guess we'll move into
00:43:34
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Just some things that kind of stood out to me. You know, we started off, we talked to a couple guys there on who are, you know, live in a truly primal way of life consuming raw meat. And I think that's a really important thing now. I don't eat a fully raw meat diet. I incorporate raw foods into my diet and it's helped me immensely, right? You know, I've been asked, you know,
00:44:03
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Do you need to go full raw? Things like this to be healthy. And in a way, maybe, but, you know, you know, we live in a world like, like the modern world requires balance, you know? And I think that in consuming raw foods, I think it is very healthy thing. I think it does help our bodies a lot. I think it is the way, right?
00:44:35
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I think a little bit of enjoyment in eating a nice, you know, seared steak. What's your problem with that, right? Now, when you're cooking food, right? This has been something I've been thinking about a lot. You do decrease the nutrients and that's important to understand, right? It's important to understand that you do decrease the nutrients. The beauty of eating animal foods is that you can eat them rare, you can eat the medium rare, and this may help and not decrease the nutrients as much as when you char the shit out of your steak.
00:45:06
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Now, it decreases, there's two types of nutrients, right? There's fat soluble, there's water soluble. The fat soluble may take damage. They might take damage in the heating process. And the water soluble are going to be dispersed, right? They're going to evaporate. Because their water soluble. Take away their environment, take away the water, and the water soluble, for the most part, is going to disappear. Some will stay lodged, but most of it's going to be gone. So now,
00:45:36
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If you're eating cooked foods, I think salt is important. This is something that I've talked to my buddy about, something I've been thinking about a lot recently. You see a lot in the primal community, the raw primal community, that they don't consume salt. This is something Agenist talked about, that salt is antibiotic, it's not good for you. I think if you're eating fully raw,
00:45:56
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You don't need salt, but once you cook your food, I think salt is important. I really do. And this is something, you know, I could change my mind on. Obviously you want to consume high quality salt. I think a sea salt is the best. Sun dried is also best. It needs to be a little bit wet, the salt. You don't want it to be fully dried. You want it to be a little wet. So that retains a lot of the nutrients as well, like the trace minerals. Because I do think that you're losing some of those trace minerals when you're in the cooking process.
00:46:26
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Now, something like a stew or soup, right, these pot meals, when you are, you know, you may lose a little bit of the, of the water soluble nutrients in the process and you may degrade some of the fat soluble, you know, for the most part, I think that the water soluble is leaching out into the broth too, right? So, you know, when you're talking about food, it's a little different, you know, should we eat all of our food fried? I don't think so.
00:46:56
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Uh, if, even if it's fried in tallow, albeit a better source of frying is tallow or butter. But definitely things like soups and stews and these hearty meals are definitely up there in, in being really good for you too. So I think it's an important distinction, right? Uh, do I think fully raw is necessary? Not necessarily. I don't. And I'm going to say for a couple of reasons, you know,
00:47:24
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Unless your goal is to maybe live to be 200 years old, you know, when you're eating raw meat, raw everything from birth, that may be possible. I don't know. I don't know. But there's a lot of people out there who live to be a hundred years old in great shape and they don't eat raw meat, right? Some of them even say that they drink Dr. Pepper every day, right? Some of these people have weird habits, these centenarians,
00:47:48
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They have these weird habits that you're not seeing across the population. It may even be seen as unhealthy. My thing is, if one person can do it, anyone can do it. If there's somebody that lives to be 120 years old and they don't eat any raw food,
00:48:08
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Well, then it's a difficult argument to say that raw food is absolutely necessary to live that long, right? And longevity, I suppose, in my mind is a good indication of health, right? But longevity also in health, right? You want to be as healthy as possible for as long as possible. So if you live to be a hunter, but you're diseased to hell and you can't walk and you got to poop in a diaper, that's not health to me. That's not worth it, right?
00:48:35
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You know, I want to be able to sit down and stand up, get up off the ground until I die. I don't want to be in home. I don't want to be, I want to be able to go out for walks. This is my longevity, right? So there's ways of looking at it, right? Meat in my mind, generally this, I can't deny the idea that meat is absolutely necessary. Cooked or raw, whatever, you need to eat meat.
00:49:00
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Does it need to be red meat from cow? No, not necessarily. Can it be fish? Yeah. West and A price observe people who ate fish. Can it be rodents? Yes. He did that as well. Right. Doesn't necessarily have to be cow. It doesn't have to be, uh, red meat, right? A lot of people demonize chicken. Yeah. The chicken industry is shit. And so is the pig industry, but these are not inherently bad when raised properly. So if you're getting a good source, I don't see a problem with it. Right. Like this is, this is nature, right? It's part of nature.
00:49:31
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Weston A. Price didn't observe everyone eating big red meat, big game. That wasn't his observations, right? A lot of people ate mostly fish, right? Now, is fish overburdened with toxicities now? Perhaps.
00:49:45
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Perhaps they are, right? Especially freshwater fish. Freshwater streams are fairly polluted now, as well as the sea with microplastics. But I really don't think that avoiding fish is going to decrease your microplastic intake that much, right? The water, all the water in the world, if it's in a spring, right? If it's in a well, it's likely a microplastic center. So I don't necessarily think that you're avoiding microplastics or necessarily toxicities by avoiding fish
00:50:16
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And that's one thing that I do like about the primal movement, right? Is that they are consuming more than just red meat, right? That's the carnivore movement. I hate that. Like it's like you can only eat red meat every day for the rest of your life. I don't agree with that. I think all animals fine, right? It's quality that really matters. The quality matters. And now the interesting thing about eating it raw is that you may actually absorb less of the toxicity. So eating fish, I love to eat fish raw. That's the best way to eat fish.
00:50:45
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Do I love a nice barbecued sea bass in summertime? Of course. Do I like some barbecued mackerel? Yeah, I do. But eating it raw is very, very beneficial because they're absorbing as much heavy metals and likely other toxicities as well. This was something Adjutant's fonder plants proved with the studies on cats and maybe it was dogs, but regardless, yeah, eating it raw is beneficial. So everybody loves sushi. So, you know, there's no problem there.
00:51:15
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But definitely consuming animal products is necessary. Could you eat bugs? I don't know. I'm not some Bill Gates bot out here saying to eat bugs, but there are some traditional meals that insect-based, right? Ant pie is one, right? I think that's an African dish. Maybe they stemmed out of starvation.
00:51:41
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Maybe right. Same as the overconsumption of grains. Maybe that comes out of starvation or the overconsumption of potatoes. Maybe that's because of starvation, but in a decent quantity, these things aren't going to be problematic, right? And there isn't an idea that diversity is good in, in a diet, right? Eating a diverse range of things. You're not just going to eat one thing. You're not going to eat one. You're not going to just eat cow.
00:52:09
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Eating only one thing, I don't think that's going to bring about the best way forward. But then again, here's the thing. If one person can do it, anyone can do it. We're more than diet. It's more than just what you consume physically as food. It's much more than that. It's much more than that. I think that's the most important distinction that I can make. And if you notice, every episode I ask the guests what health means to them.
00:52:35
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Not once has it just been eat good food, right? It's always more than that. It's being connected to nature. It's being, you know, it's living, right? It's all about living. It's all about, it's more than just that. You gotta have your mind, right? You gotta have your spirit, right? You gotta have all these things, right? Beyond, you gotta have family connections, community, um, purpose, you know, meaning. So that's very, very important. It's more than just diet. It's more than just what you consume, you know, a diet,
00:53:01
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is more than what you consume in itself, right? It's what you consume through the screens. It's what you consume when you walk down the street, who you're talking to, who you're surrounded by. So it's always more than just what you consume through food. So is food even the most important thing for longevity? No. There's even an argument that fasting is good for longevity. And obviously a lot of people in the carnivore community and there's kind of this new movement that fasting is not good.
00:53:32
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I'm not on board with that completely. Now, is fasting good when you're young? I would argue against that. You know, I've done a few fasts so far. It would be challenging, right? You know, I'm still fairly young and, you know, I'm still pretty skinny too, right? But I think fasting benefits you more in later in life, you know, learning to, learning to control
00:53:59
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your temptation and food and control and this gluttony I think comes later in life. And I think there is a benefit to that, right? And it's beyond, it's beyond what you're consuming, right? It's, it's the mental benefits because really mentality is everything, right? I think longevity, I think the best key to longevity is focusing on living. You know, if you're focused on dying, you're going to die quick, but focus on living, you'll be all right, right? If you think that death is inevitable, you'll live forever.
00:54:29
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If you think death is coming, you know, if you think it's coming, it's going to come. So don't focus on it. It also doesn't matter because when it's your time, it's your time. So we will move on from here. Yeah. I love the chat on alchemy. Alchemy is something I love. I want to get into it more. Phoenix Rallius was a fantastic guest. I recorded an episode with him. It's not out yet. I'll let you guys know when that comes out.
00:54:57
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Uh, for his podcast, that was fantastic. I'm so, so much fun. I love the guy. He's so fun to talk to. We drive really well. He really opened up my mind to the alchemical transformation of knowing, right? How the splitting of the fields is an alchemical process. This has been my favorite, favorite thing to focus on lately. So we split the fields and how now is the time where it's all coming back together is the alchemical transformation.
00:55:25
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And I just love that perspective as it resonated so deeply with me. It's actually now a goal of mine over the, you know, long term is to be able to integrate everything together to take all of these fields, right? Because all of these fields are so separate and the people working in them are so narrow minded, right? For the most part, you know, bringing them back together, we're going to get a really cool perspective or really, I think we're gonna get really close to the truth too.
00:55:50
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And so I just love that. I love that episode. I want to have Phoenix on again in the future. He was so fun to talk to. I have here written on my episode with Ryan Alexander talking about nutritional deficiencies. Now there's also this new movement that I want to delve into further and that there are no, uh, diseases caused by deficiencies. And I do want to look into this further. You know, Ryan gives a really great, really great argument.
00:56:20
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for the fact that there are nutritional deficiencies. He's a great argument. Now, I think there's two ways of going about this, right? You know, taking the average Joe and giving them supplements in this day and age, I really think is a helpful thing, right? Now, if you've supplemented, if you've done that, if you're in good general, generally in good health, is supplementation going to be your friend? I don't think so.
00:56:47
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I think there are levels to it. You need to move on from supplementation at some point. You don't want to rely on supplements. You want to start sourcing better food. You want to start looking at the energy in your food. You want to start looking at practices beyond what you're consuming. You want to start looking at consuming structured water. You want to start grounding. You want to start getting your light health in order. You want to start sleeping better. You want to start lowering EMFs. And so I think this is something important to focus on.
00:57:17
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but Ryan's feedback speaks for itself. And I think that's really important. And so generally getting into health, you know, he works with a lot of people with chronic illnesses, right? For the most part, people with illnesses, right? And so there's a difference between an acute illness and a chronic illness, right? Something that's reoccurring. If it's reoccurring like, like a lot and it's constant, well, you're getting into something that's in a later stage of disease. So maybe,
00:57:46
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correcting the nutrition is important. And so the way that he looks at it is that they're giving more than the body necessarily needs to overload the body with nutrients so the body can rebuild itself in its way, right? In its proper way. And so essentially the body has the nutrients necessary to do what it needs to do. And at a certain point, then you need to start working on the proper balance of nutrients as well.
00:58:15
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Um, so I love Ryan's work. I think that he obviously disagrees, um, partly with the train model and doesn't necessarily view toxicities as a problem, which I can understand by in his perspective, right? Because he's, he's, he says that in his observations, in his work, you know, he's not, he's not seeing people get results from removing toxicities.
00:58:41
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I think the results of removing toxicities comes after you're well nourished. I think, I think that's a requirement. I think it's a requirement to be properly nourished physically, right? Because we can't necessarily ignore the physical body, right? So getting the proper physical nutrients is important. And obviously when you start supplementing and you start getting into this mindset of health, everything kind of changed at the same time, right? You may start going outside, more grounding, you know, removing EMS, things like this, right? So it's more than just health.
00:59:10
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But if you're stuck in this state of disease, supplementation might be helpful, especially depending on where you're at. If you're in a city, if you don't have access to any high quality foods, or if you can't afford really high quality foods, it may be beneficial, right? So you really need to look at your situation. Honestly, truthfully, where are you at on your health journey? Everyone's in a different area. Now, when it comes to health optimization, is supplementation going to be the thing that gets you there? I don't think so.
00:59:39
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I think it's going to become an integration with nature, getting closer to nature in every way. So that was a note that I wanted to make. I think the toxicity does come up too in everybody in the form of acute illness. I think things like seasonal flu is mostly due to electromagnetic frequency has a large part of it.
01:00:03
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You know, and I do think that there are sources of toxicity that cause chronic diseases where it's a buildup of toxicity. But I think there's, there's two distinct areas here. And this is something that I wanted to cite for more moving forward is which diseases seem to be caused by toxicity, which seemed to be caused by deficiency. Um, and we're definitely going to get into some super interesting discussions here where deficiencies actually lead to toxicities. And so you may have to address in a different manner, but everyone's health
01:00:33
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journey is different. That's another important thing to distinguish. So you need to take that into account. Yeah. And you know what, like the episodes have been fantastic. Like I've said, they've been diverse. We're really pushing the terrain paradigm forward. Jacob Diaz and I's conversation was fantastic. I really enjoyed that one. You know, we started talking about
01:00:54
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parasites, microbes, pleomorphism is something that I really want to get into soon. I got a guest booked up here. We're probably going to talk about that a lot because I think pleomorphism is super interesting, especially since we've overcomplicated health. We tend to overcomplicate solutions. So, you know, overcomplicating it can be beneficial for some people before you can get back to the truth, simplicity of life. Yeah. And I mean, we finished off strong. Our Christmas episode with Kira was great.
01:01:23
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We talked about light, EMF, how they're both the same thing. They're both just frequency on different spectrum. I love that conversation. Light health is something that I really want to get into more. It's something that you have focus on, but prioritizing it, I think, is something that's going to really benefit me. Especially I'm a structured person. I like to have my structure, and I think structuring in accordance to nature can be a very, very helpful thing.
01:01:52
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Um, especially in building your ego strength. All right. You look forward to the new discussions moving forward. I think it's, they're going to be super exciting. Like I am so happy with where the podcast is going so far. And, uh, yeah, I'm, I'm really looking forward to where it's going. So now I want to touch on, uh, some books that I read. My goal. I will accomplish two really good goals that I was really happy about that I'll share here. Two of my major goals.
01:02:22
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One of them was to read 12 books. I wanted to read one book per month. And my other goal was to start a podcast. So I accomplished both those goals. I read 16 books this year, which I'm pretty proud of, honestly. I know it may seem minuscule, but for me, it's pretty good. And obviously, we're going to try and increase it this year. But yeah, my favorite books, I got a few here that I've highlighted. I got this one.
01:02:52
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Moth and the Iron Lung. Fantastic, easy read. The biography of Polio. Very good book. Forest Meredy is fantastic author. He has a couple other books that I want to read as well. Super good introductory book. If you don't like reading, because it's really easy to read and it's quite enjoyable. This one, if you want to delve a little deeper into Microzymas, The Blood and its Third Element by Antoine Bichon. Obviously the
01:03:21
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one of the founders, the visionaries of the terrain paradigm, or at least the one who kept it alive. This was a great book, MicroZymos. Great introductory book on the ideas of the deeper terrain theories. Then we got this one. This one's a little different. We got Victor Frankel, Man's Search for Meaning. I thought this was a great book. A friend I went tree planting with recommended this book to me. Really amazing book about
01:03:52
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But Viktor Frankl was a Jew and survived the Holocaust, right? So a really, really interesting perspective, like such a beautiful book written, written very well, enjoyable to read again. His insight is, is, is unmatched. Amazing. Make you grateful for sure.
01:04:13
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All right, and here we have the only book on finance. I read a couple finance books. Finance is something I want to talk about more moving forward as well. I read Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, Your Invisible Power, the UCC Connection. That was more just about knowledge on the way the states are set up. The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Waddles and Rich Dad, Poor Dad. All those books were fine. They were all decent. Rich Dad, Poor Dad was pretty good.
01:04:42
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They all kind of tell the same story. Manifestation, visualization, all that stuff. The only book on finance you will ever have to read. The Richest Man in Babylon. This is the only book, George Clason. This is the only book you'll ever have to read on finance. Read it, study it over and over and over again. Everything you know, everything you need to know about finances is in this book. You, you know,
01:05:09
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You don't need to be a billionaire. You don't need to be a millionaire, whatever. Uh, this book will help you out always. This was, oh, this was a fantastic book. The invisible rainbow doozy of a book, but really good. Uh, again, a great introductory book getting into the train model. It's thick. It was a very enjoyable read. I really did enjoy reading this book. Uh, a lot of facts, a lot of scientific study, like, um, you know, a lot of scientific talk in it, right? But
01:05:37
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but I thought it was really good. It was really well written. Um, it wasn't necessarily difficult to understand either. I was organized well. Uh, and I have this book here, cells, gels and the engines of life. This is the cell biology textbook. This is the cells biology textbook. This is the book you need to read this. And I got it up there. Fourth phase of water. Those two books. I didn't read that one this year. I read that one last year, but this book is, is really, really amazing. So.
01:06:09
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If you guys want to read this, you want to know about cell biology, read this book. Amazing. Gerald Pollack is, is, uh, is really on the forefront here. All right. And lastly, I have a book on psychology, how to become a schizophrenic, the case against biological psychiatry by John Modro. Uh, this is a fantastic book. This is a topic that I'm going to be delving deeper in this year. Uh, psychology, right. And, um, this is really a great introductory book, enjoyable read talks about his,
01:06:37
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His story talks a lot about scientific literature as well. It's a well-researched book as well, but very enjoyable read. If you are into psychology, I highly recommend that book.
01:06:56
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is very important. And we're going to open up more about this and future works. I ordered some similar works that I'm going to get into and bring you guys that. So this gets into kind of the podcast goals too, right? So obviously we're going to have more guests. I think it's going to be guest oriented for this year. I have, obviously I have some ideas that I want to share of my own.
01:07:18
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You know, we'll see a lot of that on Instagram, social media. So that's part of my, my goals as well as to stay consistent on social media. Uh, obviously increase my relationship with social media, uh, because it can be challenging at times. It can really suck in, but yeah, I want to get more guests on. I want to talk to some virologists, uh, microbiologists, you know, these modern thinkers, right? The people who kind of are.
01:07:42
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taking on the modern perspective. I really wanna talk to them, I really wanna open up even though we disagree. I'm really gonna try hard to find people that disagree with me that want to talk to me because I feel like this might be a difficult challenge.
01:07:54
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But nevertheless, I'm going to try my best. I want to do that because even if they could dismantle our arguments here, I think that's going to help us move forward in a better light too, right? Because we're going to increase the strength of our argument too. So even if we're left with just some thoughts and some ideas that we get to research and move forward with, I think that'd be very helpful. And yeah, like I want to get into more topics too, like really broaden the horizon here, like
01:08:23
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keep it in the respects of the terrain model where, you know, we're, we're taking responsibility for our own life. We're, we're looking at things from the root cause where, you know, we're, we're concerned with the outcome of the transformation we're doing, you know, so I really want to keep it in that respect, but you know, I want to move into some talks about finances. I want to, I think that's an important thing that's, that's been ignored by, you know, the kind of spiritual community or even the health community, you know, they swear off finances as the devil, but certainly doesn't have to be.
01:08:52
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It's all about your perspective and how you take up, how you look at it, right? But there's no sense going with it, right? You can be poor and be happy. You can be rich and be happy. Obviously, you can be rich and be corrupt. You can be poor and be depressed. Really, you just get to choose. It's whatever you want. If you don't care about money, you don't want it. They don't need it. Who cares? Skip the episodes. It's up to you. If you're happy, that's what matters. That's what matters more.
01:09:19
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Big point is that you don't have to go there. So why go there? That's kind of my way of thinking of it. All right. And so, you know, other topics that I want to get to is psychology. I, that's, um, that's kind of my field. Uh, I know I talk, you know, definitely a lot about health and, you know, um, medical stuff, healing stuff, I should say.
01:09:41
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But yeah, psychology is super important. I think that sometimes it's beneficial to target the psyche rather than the body itself. Obviously, everything is connected. So it's really important to remember that.
01:09:54
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you know, everything goes hand in hand. So as I learn more about the body and as I learn more about biology, and I learn more about the physical world, the more you learn about the metaphysical world as well, right? Because it's as about so below, it's all connected. But psychology specifically, something I want to talk about a lot on this podcast, which also ties into the idea, you know, the field of philosophy, I think that's a really important field too. I think it goes hand in hand with science in general.
01:10:22
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We've lost our philosophical aspect of science. We don't use the logic. We don't use your rationale. We don't use deductive reasoning. We don't use anything that's... We don't use our minds, right? I want to talk about that more. And, you know, we've already kind of talked about that a little bit now. It's kind of hard to avoid. But yeah, I guess now that we made it this far, I guess we'll go over a couple little personal goals. Yeah, I mean, better light health is a big one.
01:10:52
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For me, I want to increase my, my light health. I'm pretty good. You know, I'm pretty good to get the dog out in the morning when the sun's coming up. Uh, where I struggle is, is going to sleep the screen time before bed. And I'm going to start experiment with, uh, blue light blockers. I don't think it's necessarily the entire answer, right? Minimizing is always best for minimizing the artificial lights for bed is, is better than blue light blockers.
01:11:20
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Blue light blockers might help if you are to be on screens before bed. So I want to experiment with that. It's a good brands to try out. Yeah, that's, that's a big one. Uh, decreasing electromagnetic frequencies as well as something that I've been doing in my house as a whole.
01:11:39
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that's been going very well. But again, it's about minimizing, it's about spending more time in nature, spending more time grounded. I want to experiment with grounding my house as well, like grounding my bed, see if we can hook up some copper to it and stick a pole outside and connect that up and see if we can...
01:11:56
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a little ground in that way. That might be cool. It might be a cool experiment. I'll, uh, that'll probably be over on my social media. Uh, you can probably follow along with that. If I am successful, that is, um, maybe I'll post if I fail too. Why not? Why not? We're not like these funders of the scientific studies where we only post positive findings. I guess, I guess I'll, I'll, I'll just, I'll show the progress. I'll show the progress. Yeah. I mean, continuing on.
01:12:23
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I have a lot of health related goals, obviously eat healthier, be healthier. That's always a goal. So consistency is really something important here. I want to be more consistent and I think it's something everyone can work on. I think I mentioned this earlier. Just be more consistent. Read more during the day. Instead of going on your phone, you just read a book.
01:12:47
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You know, there's a lot of different ways to look. Mewing is something that I'm focused on right now, and then I want to continue on. I think that's amazing, right, for nose breathing. I want to also increase nose breathing and breath exercise. I think breath exercises is a really underrated part of life as well, often seen as a little woo woo, but I think there's really some strong, there's really a strong
01:13:14
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foundation for it being an extremely healthy thing. So yeah, that's, those are kind of part of my personal goals, right? So consistency, just, you know, being more consistent and, uh, just better relationships in general, better relationship with social media. Uh, cause I've been consistent with the podcast so far, consistent with social media. Uh, so that's been lots of fun. I've really enjoyed that. And we're going to continue on with that. Like we're just getting started. I love it.
01:13:43
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Love recording these podcast episodes. They're great. I like the solo episodes. They're fine. I like recording them. I don't know if you guys like them or not. I know this one was less formal. Um, so listening, I really appreciate some feedback on the solo episodes. If you guys like them, if you guys don't like them, I'll scrap them. I will keep the Instagram pretty well. Solo kind of hard to buddy up on social media anyways. Uh, although you can do it a little bit.
01:14:08
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Uh, but yeah, guys, I guess this is, we're kind of coming to the end. 2023 was a good year. 2024 is going to be even better. We're going to keep growing the social media. Hopefully, you know, we'll see where it goes. We got to kind of take a day by day two at the same time. You know, we can only plan so much. We just got to keep it rolling and you know, see where it takes us. So it's been great so far, but we're going to keep it going. So I just, uh, that's great. All right. So.
01:14:38
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We're at the time, we're at the conclusion. It's over. I want to thank you all for listening. Uh, everyone should know this is not medical advice, not scientific advice, not psychological advice. This is not advice in general. This is just information. It's just information. So remember that. Uh, but you know, like I said earlier, I can't change anybody's minds. Really. It's really, really true, right? You only change your own mind. Takes looking into stuff, right? And you guys don't got to look into me. You're looking at the books that I read. You can look in.
01:15:07
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Look into what you find interesting, right? If you follow your heart, you follow your intuition, you'll come to the truth. You just got to look at what's interesting and keep your mind open. Keep your mind open. Just remember, we're all responsible, sovereign beings, capable of thinking, criticizing, understanding, absolutely anything. This is really important to understand. They're really important. We are all capable.
01:15:28
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We, the people in the Greater Forces, are together self-healers, self-governable, self-teachers, and so much more. Please reach out to me if you have any comments, criticisms, concerns, questions, whatever. I'd love some feedback on these NOLO episodes. You know, I don't mind recording them at all. If you guys like them, we can keep doing them. If you guys like them and don't like them on the podcast, we can do them Instagram Lives. We could do different ways. We could do, maybe Instagram Live would be good, so you guys could do more question and answer type stuff.
01:15:56
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Listen guys, just reach out and let me know. I'm really open to the feedback. I really love the feedback that I've gotten so far. I'm on beyond.terrain on Instagram. That's the best place to get to me. And I really appreciate you guys listening. Like I really appreciate you guys listening so far into the podcast. People have listened to every episode, even a few episodes here and there.
Gratitude for Support and Motivational Farewell
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Um,
01:16:18
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People follow me on social media, YouTube, whatever you guys comment. You guys like it. That's amazing. I love it, guys. Thank you so much. I really, really appreciate it. So give us a like, give us a comment, give us whatever. If you found it informative in any way, if you found it helpful, insightful, whatever, help me grow, help support me. That's the only thing I ask for. I'm not going to be selling nothing on this podcast, I don't think, unless it's my own, unless I've made it, unless it's my own thing.
01:16:47
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Yeah, just share, like, comment. And just remember, there's two types of people in the world. Those who believe they can, those who believe they can't, and they are both correct. So you have to choose who you are. Thanks for listening, guys. Take care.