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00:00:01
Christian Yordanov
Hey, it's Christian Yordanov here. Thanks for tuning back into the show. Hope your summer's going great. I just wanted to drop a podcast today because just to make sure you know we're still here.
00:00:13
Christian Yordanov
We're still open for business type thing. didn't disappear off the face of the earth. And today i wanted to talk about why I created the Live Longer Formula by the title of the show, as you know, we're dealing, and you don't already know this, probably preaching to the choir here, but it's also worth explaining some of the rationale behind the Live Logger Formula because I think a lot of people they they come to us with a problem usually.
00:00:44
Christian Yordanov
Some folks come just to optimize health but more often than not people are coming with one or usually more health challenges whether that's a gut problem, sleep problem, skin problem, fatigue is another common one or usually it's a combination of those with some hormonal imbalances thrown in for good measure, you know.
00:01:02
Christian Yordanov
But so people come to us with a specific health challenges that, of course, our goal is to help you resolve as many of them as quickly as possible. But I think what I also, it the old sort of adage, give people what they want, of course, but also give them what they need. So my goal with with this program is not just to help you resolve the health challenge and you know hope for the best my goal is to teach you how to resolve it and then maintain your health and
00:01:39
Christian Yordanov
optimal health and longevity for life. you know That's kind of the goal. And to to do that, we really what we have to do is we have to teach people, first of all, we have to raise a bit of awareness about what are the modern, specifically modern health challenges that many of us and maybe aware of but maybe not fully aware of or even if we're aware of them we're not sure how exactly to to deal with them right so a lot of people just i'll start with the first one the first sort of couple really is that the modern human diet is actually pretty deficient i think most of the listeners of the show yourself included know the soils are depleted like the people listening to this podcast the people come that come to us for help
00:02:28
Christian Yordanov
they're not beginners for the most part. Most of our clients are already eating grass-fed organic but they also know that the soils are pretty depleted due to bad farming practices, monocropping, depleting them, you know, not rotating crops, all this stuff, right?
00:02:49
Christian Yordanov
This industrial scale agriculture is just really bad. And further to to the diets being deficient and a lot of people eating just really glorified, what I call glorified toxic slop, uh,
00:03:05
Christian Yordanov
So beyond that, a lot of the food is super contaminated with, as you know, pesticides, glyphosate, herbicides. Then, of course, the processed foods, we have tons of like chemicals, emulsifiers, what have you.
00:03:19
Christian Yordanov
But then on top of the food being contaminated, just our modern environment is extremely...
00:03:25
Christian Yordanov
how shall I say, we we are i don't want to like sound too doom and gloomy because we are very much solution focused, right? um But again, if you don't understand difference the sort of the gravity of the situation, I think a lot of people will not actually take serious action to to start protecting themselves. People, a lot of people, they just wait until like something is wrong, like some fairly serious health problem has developed and only then the pain is kind of the biggest driver. So if we can actually...
00:03:57
Christian Yordanov
if we can And again, I'm not like doing it to scare anyone because I think people know this already, they either intuitively or they've already done the research. But if we can just light a fire under a person's ass a little bit, oh shit, this is like, whoa, it's pretty bad. I got to do stuff. I got do stuff. Otherwise, I'm going to end up with a statistic.
00:04:16
Christian Yordanov
that will help motivate people. So, you know, that's the best motivator is like sort of this proactive, i want you know, focus on longevity and and optimizing my health.
00:04:26
Christian Yordanov
The problem is few few few of us are really like that. you know, even myself, I, I only started becoming proactive and motivated when I saw the suffering and pain that my grandparents went through in the in the final decades of their lives. And i was like, damn, that's not a great way to go, even if you had a great life before that.
00:04:47
Christian Yordanov
so The modern environment yeah puts a massive burden on us due to the toxicity and everything. So just even around my office here, plastic mouse, keyboard, remotes for my things.
00:05:02
Christian Yordanov
You know, my podcasting equipment is metal and plastic. You know, there's flame retardants in a bunch of these plastics as well on top of it. Even if they're safer plastics like polypropylene,
00:05:16
Christian Yordanov
for example, that still has flame retardants, you know, not as bad as PVC, but it still has the flame retardants, which are lipophilic. They're persistent organic pollutants. they They're very difficult to detoxify ones in the body. They sequester in our fatty tissues, you know.
00:05:34
Christian Yordanov
So there's just dozens and dozens of micro exposures. You know, you go into like a ah shopping mall or something, there's going to be the air fresheners and the cleaning chemicals. and you might not have the stuff in the house anymore, but think about it this way. Most people, you don't get, like, we didn't grow up and with this knowledge. Like, I...
00:05:55
Christian Yordanov
i When I was like nine years old, my favorite food was freaking French fries cooked in sunflower oil. That was my favorite thing. I was eating that as much as my parents would allow me.
00:06:07
Christian Yordanov
Obviously, were not you know we ate a lot of good food as well, but like that's the thing that I would eat the most if I had the choice. So we learn these things much later in life, most of us, which means that Over the decades, we've been getting a lot of exposures. We've been accumulating a lot of damage.
00:06:24
Christian Yordanov
And this is what I think people don't realize. They just don't realize that what on the one hand, most people's diets are pretty bad, pretty woefully deficient.
00:06:35
Christian Yordanov
Then even my clients that come to me with a decent diet and then we further tweak the diet and improve the diet. And then we do food sensitivity testing. It's the one lab in the States that does this. the like This is a game changer test. all the Basically, most of the other food sensitivity tests are completely, not completely, but largely worthless.
00:06:55
Christian Yordanov
But this one... The lab takes your blood and they expose it to the various foods. So we then, I give you my clean diet guidelines. We juxtapose the food sensitivity test data. So we remove the inflammatory foods because even even good foods, quote unquote, can be inflammatory for an individual at a certain point in time.
00:07:17
Christian Yordanov
So we remove that. we We further lower inflammation. We encourage current clients if they're not already buying you know organic and pasteurized and all that good stuff we encourage them to clean the diet up further right but then i have my clients many clients track their diet so i can see at a glance in a day's sort of eating and i can see how hard still With all of this, it's still so hard to meet basic RDAs, you know, recommended daily allowances for nutrients, which, by the way, ah ah even meeting the ah RDAs is not enough.
00:07:57
Christian Yordanov
The ah RDAs were basically made so the factory workers wouldn't keel over and die of scurvy or whatever, bury, bury on the freaking factory floor. They were made to keep the plebs alive so they could work the, you know, so the economy wouldn't grind to a halt.
00:08:14
Christian Yordanov
you know there were they're not There's nothing about optimal health. And so even like people that I would talk in the past like that would track their diets, I'm like, look, I met all my ah RDAs. I'm like, that's not necessarily enough.
00:08:29
Christian Yordanov
you know But it's here's the thing. It's super hard for most people to even meet the ah RDAs. like This is the the insanity, right?
00:08:40
Christian Yordanov
So I can see how hard it is to consistently eat well in ah in a a sufficient manner, get all the nutrients and all that stuff, so which means that this is, again, a modern problem to a great extent.
00:08:54
Christian Yordanov
And just a lot of the foods that that we eat, again, are... are just generally nutrient poor. if you If you kind of start looking into what what are the most glorified foods right now is nutritious, actually they're not all that nutritious.
00:09:10
Christian Yordanov
In fact, they're kind of, I think a lot of them are pretty unhealthy. But anyway, that's beside the point. So then this means that this modern problem of, you know, a lot of toxicity, you know, depleted soils, fairly deficient diet.
00:09:25
Christian Yordanov
We have to meet that with modern solutions. This is why we've emphasized so much supplementation. It's so important. enough ah you I meet the occasion person they're like, oh, I believe ah ah need to get all my nutrients from food or or or even worse, people say, i believe i can get all my nutrients from food. And i some, like,
00:09:49
Christian Yordanov
I'm trying to think of like a funny way to respond to that because I don't want to like you know offend anyone. But like I believe in the tooth fairy and Santa Claus. So you know I have my beliefs. You have your beliefs. doesn't mean our beliefs are correct. So the point is, and I have an episode, an older episode on this.
00:10:05
Christian Yordanov
If you don't supplement your diet in today's world, you are screwed with a capital F. okay So think about it this way.
00:10:17
Christian Yordanov
let's say, and I've used this example before, and you know apologies if I'm repeating myself, but imagine you, let's say you you have 2,000 calories, your your optimal intake of food, and imagine you ate 2,000 calories with the perfect ratios of carbs, fats, and protein, and all the nutrients, minerals, vitamins, all that stuff.
00:10:41
Christian Yordanov
Imagine you you were able to actually meet that consistently ah ah in this dream scenario of ours. Even that in the modern world is not enough and I'll tell you why.
00:10:53
Christian Yordanov
It's because with all these dozens and dozens of micro exposures throughout the day that, you know, happen literally your entire life, decades and decades, that all that toxicity
00:11:08
Christian Yordanov
requires energy and nutrients for the body to you know capture, mobilize, transform, make water soluble, neutralize, excrete, all of that takes energy and nutrients. So let's say pretend that takes one percent of the energy you cons consume in a day and the nutrients whatever is taken up to to to do all these defense and repair and detox processes.
00:11:33
Christian Yordanov
So that means that you're like at a 1% deficit. let's Let's just say it's 1%, you know, which I ah ah think it might be more, but depends on the person, of course. So let's say 1% deficit, which means now 1% of the energy and nutrients of the day that something in the body has to go without and luckily the body is good at triaging these things and saying okay well the brain, the heart and you know the kidneys and the lungs all of these like things are super critical for immediate survival so they're gonna get their share but then other things eventually start getting down regulated they go without so this is where
00:12:17
Christian Yordanov
accelerated This is why a lot of people in the modern world have accelerated aging. It's because they don't know how to protect themselves. Just as an example, I spoke to a gentleman a couple of months back and as soon as he... i had his age on my forums before we met. and As soon as I saw this person's face and i saw his age, i'm like, this guy...
00:12:46
Christian Yordanov
needs a lot of help because he visibly was a lot older than people his age are in general and you know I have clients that are, you know, five, 10 years older that look younger than than this particular gentleman, you know?
00:13:06
Christian Yordanov
So I'm like, okay, this this dude really needs help. So then he started telling me, you know, how he eats and ah ah he he he was actually, he said like, I believe I should get all my nutrients from food.
00:13:17
Christian Yordanov
And i just, at that point, I just kind of knew that, you know, we were not going to, like, when I do these free metabolic function assessments, that's not a place for me to really, to be convincing people of anything. Like, if you think fasting is good for you, that's not the place.
00:13:35
Christian Yordanov
We don't have time. Or if you think plant-based is the way to go, or if you think low-carb has merit long-term and is really great, that you know, those are not, that's not the place and time for us to kind of debate that because, like,
00:13:52
Christian Yordanov
We the it will take a lot longer. and that That really defeats the purpose of of the metabolic function assessment. It's more like to help people get clarity on their health challenges and then see if we can help them and if we're a good fit together.
00:14:04
Christian Yordanov
So I knew immediately that we were just not a good fit. But like things like that, like for me, for people, are a huge sort of issue, right?
00:14:19
Christian Yordanov
if they can't get over the fact that it's the modern world, therefore we need to supplement our diet, you know it's not going to end well for them. So when clients come to us, usually I have a lot of clients that are sometimes taking 20 and up to I've seen had people with up to 30 supplements that they're taking and like like a drawer or like a cupboard full of supplements that they've been experimenting with. So a lot of the clients that come to us are super...
00:14:48
Christian Yordanov
on board with supplementation. They love it. and Many clients love it. The occasional person doesn't. and In those cases, we definitely do a more stripped down, bare bones protocol.
00:14:59
Christian Yordanov
But I always want this be emphasized that this to be to be emphasized in the modern world with the huge toxic burden and our generally poor diets and our fairly high levels of stress, you just will not be able to thrive long term, right?
00:15:20
Christian Yordanov
Because again, all of that energy and nutrients that will it will take to detox those things, which you will do that. you your body will If they're poison you know dangerous poisons in in minute quantities and they're in your body, the body will put that high enough on the priority list to excrete those things, right?
00:15:42
Christian Yordanov
But then what what doesn't get something? Is it is it the skin? Is it you know like the eyes? the eyes um um like Things that are nice to have, fertility, libido, just having a nice head of hair.
00:15:59
Christian Yordanov
I mean, like and I don't have great hair or anything, but that's that's definitely genetic because I've always had like very thin hair. Or maybe it was all the Cedos I ate as a kid. You know what i mean? It's hard to say. modern challenges you know modern chasm we most of us have been exposed to seed oils from the day we were born like if you're you know born in the 80s like i i am uh you you were probably like your parents didn't know my parents certainly didn't know most people didn't know so we've been eating seed oils and and omega-6s and whatever the the heck else non-organic stuff with pesticides for for decades and decades so there there is
00:16:37
Christian Yordanov
This is a huge challenge that i I saw needs to, we need to teach more people how to actually deal with this challenge. And I know we've kind of seem to be belaboring the point here, but when you when you break it down,
00:16:53
Christian Yordanov
Like this is much more than, you know, people say, oh, it's such a toxic environment. And that's really the extent of what they do about it because, or I shouldn't say not because, but that's not going to cut it long term.
00:17:09
Christian Yordanov
And what I've also seen another thing, starting to ramble here, I guess, but what I've also seen is clients that eat well, pasture, organic, and they they've removed all the toxic products. They don't buy you know like know Johnson & Johnson shampoos and like just this real poisonous garbage from the you know the local Costco grocery store. So they don't the minimize use of plastics, they don't microwave plastics, and so they don't buy Teflon and aluminum pans. and
00:17:43
Christian Yordanov
you know they've They've done a bunch of stuff in the home, but then when we do the the urine test where we get like 150 plus markers, a lot of people, big percentage of people actually show...
00:18:01
Christian Yordanov
poor detox capacity or increased toxic burden, right? So we can we can yeah check things like glutathione status, which you may know is the master antioxidant in the body, in the cells.
00:18:13
Christian Yordanov
So oftentimes that is showing basically quote-unquote glutathione deficiency on on the lab work. We're showing increased exposure to, for example, certain gasoline additives, we can catch that as well, toxic metals, or we can see nutrient deficiencies, or vitamin, like minerals, or vitamin deficiencies. So, or another great one that we ah ah we have on that test is DNA damage, the marker is called 80HDG, 8-hydroxy-2-deoxyguanazine, really interesting marker to because like I've seen it in healthy people where it's not elevated elevated, like not in the like the red or the yellow, but close to yellow.
00:18:56
Christian Yordanov
So these these are like so is the canary in the com coal mine type thing, super early markers that something in the body deeper down is there's something going on whether that's an exposure whether that's reduced detox capacity or some combo of both it doesn't even matter because we're going to address both of those right so when we see when i see this and like we again we see it often And of course, maybe my my sample size here is not great and my ah ah my sampling of people that come to me is people with health challenges.
00:19:36
Christian Yordanov
But i I'll tell you this, I also see it in healthy individuals. It just hasn't caught up with them. you know i i I can give like concrete examples, just as an example. and we This is public information because we've done episodes about this. But you know Charlie Robinson...
00:19:52
Christian Yordanov
my buddy that hosts the macroaggressions podcast, we, when we did this kind of test with him couple, two, three years back, he he was already showing signs of this detox capacity wasn't great, right?
00:20:08
Christian Yordanov
So I gave him some some stuff there to to resolve that, but he's very healthy, like he's I don't know, he's like 8% body fat. and you know Maybe he's, i think he's a bit too lean, but he like he's lean, he's ripped, he's he's strong, he's healthy, he his ah brain, his mind works really well. So very, like he's a specimen, I gotta say, he's an amazing specimen that we need to study more. That's why I keep sending him lab tests because I just need to study this guy, you know?
00:20:37
Christian Yordanov
Like it's research. But like we caught that And he was about 50 at the time. so we caught that and we put something in place. And then we retested that later on.
00:20:48
Christian Yordanov
And it it it was in a much better... Like we we did all the toxic metals, the nutrient elements, and things were looking a lot better, right? So the point there is that...
00:20:59
Christian Yordanov
just because you are healthy right now just because you you feel fine doesn't mean there isn't an undercurrent of oxidative stress inflammation dna damage deficiencies these things just take a very long time to manifest because the body is really good at just keeping it together the key can keep it together for a very long time i remember uh at the beginning of the year a gentleman uh that came to me last year around the summer time we we did a the same test and like his oxidative stress marker for uh it's uh the t-bar style barb to a thio barb to recreate us acid reactive substances that that's a not really good marker we can we can uh
00:21:48
Christian Yordanov
catch it's a marker of lipid peroxidation so his one was the highest i ever saw it was actually off the charts like red red way into the red the first time i actually saw something that crazy off the charts usually the lipid peroxidation marker if it's in in a place i don't like it's like close to the yellow so it's you know green high green that's kind of borderline yellow and then yellow is like you know warning warning So I already don't like it if it's if it's in the high green.
00:22:20
Christian Yordanov
But he was beyond the yellow... Beyond the red, off the charts, like almost 2x above the the top of the range. and But here's the thing.
00:22:32
Christian Yordanov
There was a bunch of like four or five toxic metals were in the red. Deficiencies out the wazoo, candida, all that, like just almost every single area of the test that we tested for, vitamin deficiencies, neuroinflammation was elevated. That's another great marker we can catch.
00:22:52
Christian Yordanov
But then when when we actually discussed the test with him, and I kind of explained things a little bit, he was already feeling a lot better, by the way, because that was like, he only collected that sample like six, seven months after we started working together. So he already started putting into place some of my recommendations. But what he said is that, wow, now I understand why last year i thought like i was i was about to die like i was dying and uh yeah i'm like yeah because we also did a stool test he had he had caught like traveling in asia he had caught this parasite so he was like actually hospitalized like for quite a while and uh it's really rough like he was proper gonna like perish the the the poor guy you know but uh you know the
00:23:47
Christian Yordanov
The thing is that all of those processes that we caught in like a super crazy high know or deficient state or a lot of toxicity or deficiency of vitamins minerals, oxidative stress, like that is like he still survived all of that.
00:24:06
Christian Yordanov
He still survived that and was able to travel and do do stuff and whatever the case. So the point is the body will keep, keep it together for a very long time like like my grandmother like three decades of statins and drugs and blood pressure medications and she basically continued to eat seed oils like her entire life and she lived to 84 years old and and would barely eat like most like like oil and maybe some cheese ah ah some tomato like just that was her diet a bit of bread like that was like her diet for
00:24:40
Christian Yordanov
A very long time. And she kept it together and taking care of my granddad through his degeneration and sort of deterioration for a long time.
00:24:53
Christian Yordanov
And she kept being able to take care of him. She only started really taking a turn for the worst when he passed away. That was really heartbreaking. And that's when she started having her strokes and she multiple strokes. But think about it.
00:25:04
Christian Yordanov
Eight years, she she kept it together. And of course, she had her gallbladder taken out, glaucoma, some other kind of eye stuff was the other one that's very common. catar Yeah, cataract.
00:25:17
Christian Yordanov
She had a lot of problems, but she kept it together for a very long time however at the expense of just horrific horrific quality of life the last let's say 10 plus years so that is why
00:25:36
Christian Yordanov
live longer formula because i ah ah saw what my fate was if i didn't change and I see what many, many people's fate is.
00:25:47
Christian Yordanov
I saw it, and I didn't even see it all that close because I ah ah couldn't stomach it, you know but my mother and my my sister and my aunt, they saw it a lot closer. And was largely shield shielded from all of that to be quite honest.
00:26:02
Christian Yordanov
But it was in it was enough to still just be almost traumatic if you know what i mean. so that's why that's why ah ah Live Longer Formula.
00:26:13
Christian Yordanov
But hold on a second. Mr. Blabbermouth here, was like one of three talking points that I had prepared. I thought I would be done by now to be perfectly honest with you. And if you're still here, you know, just give yourself a pat on the back. and all you Send me an email. I'm going to send you a free hardcover copy of my book for for listening to this. If you send me and an email in the next 20 days citing this episode, I will send you a hardcover copy book, How to Actually Live Longer Volume. I will send that to you. If you're in the US, Canada, Australia, I'm sorry, can't send it other places, UK as well. Okay.
00:26:54
Christian Yordanov
Email me about this in the next 20 days and we'll get that sorted for you. just for Just for persevering. Like I'm surprised people even like tune into the show. Anyway, so that one reason why
00:27:09
Christian Yordanov
The Live Longer Formula is what it is because i want to prepare you and teach you how to protect your health and your family's health, ideally, for life. Not just let me just resolve this gut problem and or whatever, or sleep problem, and I'll go off on my merry way.
00:27:24
Christian Yordanov
i want to of course, help you with that stuff, but I want to give you the tools to protect your health because if we don't, accelerated aging, and with that usually comes disease early on, earlier than it would have happened.
00:27:39
Christian Yordanov
is on the menu, is on the card. So we we don't we want to avoid that as much as possible. I want to pay it forward that I couldn't help my grandparents. I want to pay it forward to other people.
00:27:49
Christian Yordanov
you Now, the other problem, the other modern challenge is these unnatural levels of stress that almost all of us are dealing with. so if you if you read my book or or if if you listen to the podcast more you you will know that stress I have this model in the in the book of the the three primary drivers of of aging and dysfunction so one of them the main one is really stress and stress can be psychological
00:28:21
Christian Yordanov
It can be physiological. It can be mechanical, you know, with injuries and broken bones and whatever the case is there. But stress really is what one of the primary, it's it's what ages us. It's what kind of accelerates disease. And the reason it does that, ah ah even if psychological, because the like psychological stress causes biochemical cascades in the body.
00:28:46
Christian Yordanov
It's like my buddy, Brendan Vermeer, a great functional medicine expert, he look has this great saying, thoughts become proteins. So you could think yourself into a higher cortisol state right now as we speak. you know And that then has ah ah what what that has an effect on the body is of that of an effect of degeneration.
00:29:09
Christian Yordanov
but It degenerates the body. It weakens the immune system. It suppresses the immune system. And if you look into it, you see that high cortisol or elevated cortisol is implicated in almost any condition and disease you can think of.
00:29:25
Christian Yordanov
Things like Cancer, of course, which is you know intuitive, but also things like depression, right? So cortisol, it it will raise your blood pressure. It will dysregulate your lipids.
00:29:39
Christian Yordanov
Your doctor will label that as hypercholesterolemia. It will give you a statin to further poison you, right? Even though the cortisol is already causing damage and a health problems, they will put you on pills to further, you know,
00:29:55
Christian Yordanov
destroy your health and that that's actually ah that's the third point so I won't get ahead of myself so yeah so these unnatural levels of stress it might not necessarily be visible right it could be like the light at home that you have you know I man I I walk my dog at like 10 o'clock at night for about an hour just to kind of let her run around without stress stress of you know humans she's very scared of humans she was traumatized as a as a baby so she's still very scared of most people especially kids they're scared the bejesus out of her but anyway I um i walk at 10 o'clock at night just kind of in the neighborhood here that the dog run around and I see some people
00:30:39
Christian Yordanov
they still have those long sort of fluorescent lights in their kitchens, their living rooms and stuff. So, I mean, LEDs we know are bad enough, Christ, but like people have fluorescent lights still.
00:30:55
Christian Yordanov
Because these homes were built in early 2000s, so just imagine all the older buildings from the 70s, whatever, older buildings like from seventy s eighty s whatever they still have like for less fluorescent lights in the corridors and all the other places. it's Just think think about the stress of that. ah ah ten and I'm talking about 10, 10, 30, 11 o'clock at night. these are These lights are on in those people's houses, homes.
00:31:22
Christian Yordanov
So that's a stressor that a lot of people don't realize. EMFs like i went to I was visiting my sister in Ireland like a couple three months back and like they have a I think it's a 5G router on maybe two routers and they're on all the time they don't turn them off and Like felt like a weird, almost like a buzzing, like a pressure in my, in my skull there. so It was very similar. Like when I was in Mexico and and an Acapulco earlier the year, like I had like this buzzing or this pressure in my head and it was like cell phone towers every, i don't know, I guess half a mile type thing.
00:32:05
Christian Yordanov
there and I was actually during the conference I actually got to talk to some people that also reported the same thing like headaches and feeling pressure inside the head and that's a stressor that many of us don't realize and and many do but they don't do anything about it it's like the the the toxic burden you know people know about it they don't buy toxic products as much but they still don't know how to boost their detox capacities because again when we do the urine test it comes back people that eat clean clean lifestyle clean home they still have detox problems and and deficiencies right so similarly with the ems people know about ems but then i have a a question on my intake forms that uh it says you know where where is your wi-fi router you know it'll be like oh it's like it's
00:32:58
Christian Yordanov
10 yards away from me my office and i work there all day or whatever or near it's next to my freaking kids bedrooms or and i have a question is you do you put your uh phone on airplane mode when it's on your person and honestly the last hundred people most of them said no most of them like maybe 90% of them would probably have said, no, they don't keep it on airplane mode.
00:33:26
Christian Yordanov
So people know, but they they don't actually do stuff. Like I... like When I travel, not that I use all of these things, but I have like have EMF scarves. It's a really nice, silky-looking one.
00:33:39
Christian Yordanov
Really awesome. It really works. I've tested it. I have an EMF meter. I've tested these things. and all have the like When my daughter was born, bought like these throws, like these like blankies that were know EMF protecting. And I have, obviously, like I said, yeah em and an yeah EMF meter. and When i put my office together, when we bought this place, I tested, made sure, not that we have Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi is never on in our home, but like when I put my, because I have a lot of gear here in the office.
00:34:10
Christian Yordanov
So I actually tested the electric fields to make sure that I was sufficiently far away. from outlets and extension cords and things that, because a lot of those fields, they're actually cumulative. You have a bunch of stuff plugged in close together, the the field will increase.
00:34:26
Christian Yordanov
So I always, like, even once in a while, just because have device creep, ah ah In the modern world, you have a bunch of like stuff. So over time, you have more devices. So every once in a while, I take the meter out, I check, make sure everything is sufficiently far away from me. It reduces some of that stress. It doesn't necessarily eliminate fully because you you know I'm still looking at a screen. But then the other thing is the screen.
00:34:50
Christian Yordanov
like i have like When people look at this screen, they're they they're almost like their eyes start to burn because I have this blue light filter app. that has reduced the blue light so much that it's all almost, it's really horrible at first. You have to accustomed to it and over time lower it lower it but then when i uh just the other day i realized when i record videos it's without blue light and it so looks like orange and weird so i i tried to record a presentation with the blue light back on 100 and just after like 10 minutes like man my eyes are like burning from all this blue light destroying know like burning holes in my eyeballs
00:35:31
Christian Yordanov
So things like that, a lot of people, you know, you get accustomed to the stressor, whatever that stressor is, relationship, physical stress, running every day, whatever.
00:35:42
Christian Yordanov
so Intermittent fasting, you get used to the stressor, but that doesn't mean it's not slowly but surely weakening and degenerating you, so suppressing your immune system and, you know, aging you faster. So the point here is,
00:35:57
Christian Yordanov
We're dealing with unnatural levels of stress in the modern world, whether we believe it or not, whether we realize it or not, and whether we are cognizant of the various types of stressors that we're dealing with. And most people, yet again, even people that are conscious of these things, they might know about the stresses the stressors,
00:36:15
Christian Yordanov
but they don't do enough about them. right So this is why the Live Longer Formula, i almost I'm going to like make a trademark, this phrase or something, but what we use what we what I call aggressive stress reduction.
00:36:29
Christian Yordanov
and We have to be a little bit aggressive with the stress reduction because it's the stressors are very aggressive. where Again, whether we believe it or not, whether we feel it or not, it's beside the point. A lot of guys...
00:36:43
Christian Yordanov
especially they don't feel stressed. Actually, a client of mine, he comes to the coaching calls and he's like, I feel great. I feel great. you know and And he himself now realizes like the problem is I feel great, I feel great, and then boom, I'm in the hospital.
00:37:01
Christian Yordanov
So you know a lot of guys are like that. And we don't whether we feel it or not whether we sensitive to it or not that there's a lot of stressors and we have to meet the stressors where they're at that's why we have to there's a lot of there's a lot of ways we can lower stress so people think lowering stress is like you know not I guess not working too hard which yes not yeah maybe doing meditation to lower stress or breathing exercises. And I mean, that that stuff is sure. It's great.
00:37:37
Christian Yordanov
But we're talking about eating in a way that supports reducing stress, eating in a way that doesn't allow stress to creep up in terms of like cortisol, adrenaline, uh, doing stuff supplementation wise that will lower cortisol, block cortisol, that will, you know, prevent stress from then destroying sleep or stress hormone cascades destroying sleep and so on and so forth.
00:38:01
Christian Yordanov
And then when you do that, the nice thing is that Like i said, stress suppresses the immune system, but then what when you lower stress, the nice thing is that it allows for good things to happen, again, in the body, like a repair and regeneration is halted by cortisol in the cell.
00:38:18
Christian Yordanov
For example, high cortisol will lower testosterone. For example, if you if you do things that lower stress in various different kinds of ways and and the stress hormones are lowered, the immune system can can run better.
00:38:33
Christian Yordanov
repair Repair of tissues can actually work. So there's just a lot of benefits to doing this aggressive stress reduction. What I noticed, especially in the last couple of years, me doing this um aggressive stress reduction, and what I noticed is Over time, it seems like almost I've changed. like At least currently,
00:38:55
Christian Yordanov
just i'm less i'm a i feel like I'm a bit more resilient to just random stresses that come up because when you live in a high-stress state and you're a little bit like strung out and like everything's triggering you, it's it's pretty horrible, but you get used to it and then you chalk it down to like that's my personality or that's my lifestyle.
00:39:15
Christian Yordanov
But then when you live in the lowest stress sort of state for a while, first it takes some time to get used to, but then over time, it just kind of, it almost like through neuroplasticity, it shapes you to then respond to stress in a more positive way.
00:39:33
Christian Yordanov
Or maybe I just have been pretty low stress in the last few months. and But I used to be like really like very easily triggered, very sort of hot blooded. I'm like a Balkan, like pretty hot blooded. So, you know, pretty all my life has been like pretty crazy.
00:39:49
Christian Yordanov
a lot of demons to deal with and stuff. But ah ah I find over the last couple of years, feels like I'm in a much better place, you know,
00:40:01
Christian Yordanov
psychologically and it it has to do with just physically lowering the these stress hormone cascades and you know boosting certain things in the body that then allow for the biochemistry to be you know in a much better way if you know what i mean and that's that's super important and everybody's needs are different but the the fact is that most of us are experiencing a lot more stress than we would have let's say a couple hundred years ago or even 50 years ago, right?
00:40:30
Christian Yordanov
Or even 30, even in the 90s, just was no devices like this and Wi-Fi and 5G and 4G and whatever the case is. So this is why in the Live Longer Formula, we talk so much about lowering stress in various different kinds of ways because this is one of the primary drivers of aging and dysfunction, aka disease. And then the final point is...
00:40:57
Christian Yordanov
that the the final sort of reason I created the Live Longer formula is couple reasons, really. So, like I said, with watching my grandparents basically from their 50s onwards get hooked up on more and more drugs every year, every couple of years, they were just on another thing and another thing. and did nothing do Nothing really made them better.
00:41:21
Christian Yordanov
it just kind of, it just felt like they were just, being poisoned for no real benefit, you know. So i I said to myself some years ago, you know, when I saw my grandmother going through through the the last sort of legs of her journey with this, said, I just,
00:41:45
Christian Yordanov
I can't end up like this and the way I was living ah I was on an accelerated path to to ending up like that it's like man I gotta get my shit together because just kind of like met uh my wife my wife to be I knew she like you know we're gonna get married and stuff at some point a lot later than she expected though huh uh had to get her pregnant for that just kidding just kidding she won't listen to this. It's okay.
00:42:12
Christian Yordanov
But yeah, so I said to myself, cant can't end up like that. And to not in order to not end up like her, i had to understand that
00:42:24
Christian Yordanov
you cannot become dependent on the man in the butcher coats, as my ah friend of mine likes to say, because there's no the incentive there for cures or healing, right?
00:42:38
Christian Yordanov
But, okay, so what what do we do though? Okay, we a lot of us get that, But then what do we do? Like, what I did is I go to, turn to people I respect, influencers that look, that I i ah ah resonate with, and i look to them for for health advice, right? so Influential friends, got they got me on plant-based bandwagon. Then ah started looking to social media and then you know carnivore people and ah ah Dave Asprey and the Bulletproof coffee and the keto, cyclical keto and all that stuff.
00:43:16
Christian Yordanov
And what I found over the years as I did some things and experimented with all these different things and listened to all of these people's podcasts and stuff, what I found is that Unfortunately, a lot of the mainstream and alternative mainstream health advice, a lot of is pretty horrific.
00:43:36
Christian Yordanov
Like, does it doesn't hold much water when examined, even for... a little bit in terms of the veracity of their claims. Like, for example, Dave Asprey, which, you know, nothing against Dave Asprey. Learned a lot from him and his guests on his podcast and stuff.
00:43:54
Christian Yordanov
But he he seems to have some beliefs that he he's going to defend, like, pretty strongly. For example... I remember hearing him hearing him say, I think it's... i like He said, I believe it's really beneficial to enter into ketosis once in a while. And, I mean, that's literally ah ah belief.
00:44:18
Christian Yordanov
There is no evidence. like A lot of these evidence evidence-based things, like there's no evidence for it. There's no real evidence that just because our ancestors went into ketosis due to starvation...
00:44:32
Christian Yordanov
that that was so beneficial for them first of all I'm not sure this is true to be honest with you but they say that now we live longer than ever which I honestly i don't believe that but let's pretend that that that's true so If we live longer now than we did 100 years ago 500 years ago and whatever, or like if you look at the the people like Hadza, Tanzania, you know the hunter-gatherers, they don't live 80, 90 years of age. They might live to like so in their 60s, 70s. They don't live that long. So you could say we live longer.
00:45:02
Christian Yordanov
But yeah, so now we have access to food all the time. you know so is it the food god knows is it maybe the better health care definitely fucking not oh excuse me excuse my french there uh it's the reason the reason we live longer now if true there's a lot of reasons it could be it could be just i honestly think it's just we have access to food all the time and we don't have to hunt for our food and gather it and we have shelter and we don't have to like go and
00:45:33
Christian Yordanov
put our lives in danger and we expend a ton of energy to acquire food. I think that's probably one of the reasons if we do, if we're actually living longer, that's probably the reason. I don't think, ah here's the thing.
00:45:47
Christian Yordanov
We're talking about we have modern challenges, right? This is kind of the ah ah the problem right now we're dealing with modern challenges, right? So we have ah this for-profit medical industry that has warped what we believe is healthy and what' what what's not healthy, like you know cholesterol, for example, people who are fearing, I still feel like my older clients, many are still like obsessed with their cholesterol level. It's not completely irrelevant. but I guess my point here is there's definitely a lot of wisdom from how our ancestors lived, but you cannot take the things our ancestors did from 200 years ago, 2,000 years ago, 20,000 years ago, and then just slot that into the modern world because a lot of that stuff they did out of necessity due to scarcity of food and other problems with their environment.
00:46:46
Christian Yordanov
okay So that stuff we don't we should not be doing just because they did out of necessity. Then there is things that they they did or or or were subjected to, shall we say,
00:47:02
Christian Yordanov
Due to environmental factors, for example, they were out in the sun you know most of the day or in the day at least in daylight. they might You might be in the shade, but you're in the daylight type thing. You were more grounded, you know barefoot on the ground.
00:47:13
Christian Yordanov
So there's a lot of things they did out of pure just that's how the environment they lived in that we should be thinking about. how can we If we can't do those things, how can we at least approximate them, emulate them, right?
00:47:28
Christian Yordanov
so But we here's the thing. We cannot just say they ate like this or they did things like this. Therefore, we must do all of those things. We have to pick and choose and think critically.
00:47:41
Christian Yordanov
Are those things actually conducive to health? Or are they not conducive to health, they were subjected to them, for example, not eating for three days?
00:47:52
Christian Yordanov
I think that was a necessity. Well, not a necessity, they were subjected to that due to you know irregularity of food, for example, you know cold, harsh winters, whatever the case was.
00:48:03
Christian Yordanov
So if we actually examine, is that a harmful thing?
00:48:09
Christian Yordanov
And it is a harmful thing. then we shouldn't do it. And listen, fasting, fasting, ah ah you know i've I've written about it, i've I've talked on the podcast about it, don't want to get into it now, but this is what kind of ah ah found is the the mainstream and alternative mainstream, they, a lot of the stuff that is being pushed doesn't really have all that sort of ancestral wisdom ah behind it or ah ah scientific evidence behind it. For example, just because fasting is the,
00:48:40
Christian Yordanov
on my mind now, the fasting research, a lot of it is just rat studies, you know, like there's no real long-term studies that, especially, there is no like real,
00:48:52
Christian Yordanov
controlled studies where people don't fast and there's no like depth of blood markers being or biomarkers being measured you know they look at just stupid shit like their their cholesterol went down or their lipids or their blood they look like just stupid stupid kindergarten shit completely completely fucking useless really like just it's just it's just is just really pathetic so The point here, just getting worked up, geez, this was supposed to be lighthearted.
00:49:23
Christian Yordanov
So the point here is that a lot of the stuff that is in the mainstream, it's gonna, maybe not right not right now, a lot of people are already kind of sniffing this out, a lot of it is gonna turn out to be harmful.
00:49:40
Christian Yordanov
And this, because I... I actually went in and and did all of these things like boosting nitric oxide and the cold exposure and taking lots of fish oil and doing low carb and keto and trying to fast. I hated it and luckily I i never forced myself to do too much of that.
00:49:57
Christian Yordanov
but This is where people go yeah when they see the the for-profit disease industry, which I think a smart individual can quickly see through that, especially after the events of 2020 onwards.
00:50:09
Christian Yordanov
But then what do they do is they go to the mainstream and the alternative mainstream. And like I said, a lot of what's on offer there, it might work for the 20 something, 30 something influencers doing those things because they still are super resilient and healthy and they can withstand that stress.
00:50:27
Christian Yordanov
But it doesn't mean someone in their 40s, 50s, 60s, which is, you know, the the people that come to me will be 40 plus for the most part, 40, 50, 60, even some 70-year-old people in the in in the in this year have joined the program, which was an awesome experience actually, to help people. Because if I had my granny, even when she was like 70, 75,
00:50:49
Christian Yordanov
could have done an amazing thing to to help to support her health. So it's it's such a it's such a pleasure to help people that, you know, it's never too late, but there is a point of no return, I think.
00:51:05
Christian Yordanov
So it's it's been it's been awesome to to help people like that as well. Yeah, so most people will be like 40, 50, 60 type ages. So... like pageigs so the these influencers don't realize that if something works for them, it doesn't mean it will work for any everybody. and Like if something works for guys, doesn't mean it will work for women.
00:51:29
Christian Yordanov
So with the Live Longer formula, we just help clients remove all these stressful things, all the things that are harmful in terms of you know practices, dietary habits, supplementation strategies, all that good stuff.
00:51:44
Christian Yordanov
So we remove that. And my goal is to never need, really, to know everything you need to know to maintain your health and to never really need, unless it's an emergency, never need the...
00:51:55
Christian Yordanov
the you know
00:51:58
Christian Yordanov
the men in the butcher coats, if you know what i mean. that's kind of why I created the the Live Longer Formula. i didn't see a complete solution out there that would teach people how to feed themselves and supplement their diet to make sure and that that those gaps in the diet are filled consistently, right?
00:52:15
Christian Yordanov
Which will then support their detox capacities, which will help protect them from the massive and accelerating toxic burden of the modern world. And, how to recognize, first of all, the various sources of stress which are invisible in some cases and insidious in many, and how to protect ourselves by using this aggressive stress reduction strategy.
00:52:36
Christian Yordanov
And then Even if you won't need it all the time, you will have these tools in the toolbox. If you ever are dealing with a stressful situation, you will know exactly what to do. And it's not just supplementation. It's how you eat and what things you do and what things you don't. And even like with some clients, we teach them how to... it's Basically, we do breathing yeah reeducation re-education, which for many people is...
00:53:04
Christian Yordanov
there's a lot of leverage in and improving the breathing, even five ten percent you know, there's a lot of leverage there, and some people definitely need it, like I've seen so maybe out one to out of I guess 10, 20 people, maybe some, I guess 5% of people for sure have breathing inefficiencies that are contributing to their health problems. And then of course, like I had what what one one client tell me, guess last month, he's a is a police detective.
00:53:34
Christian Yordanov
So they have to have certain fitness levels. So he told me that he, just by doing some of these breathing exercises that we gave him, he shaved off 40 seconds from his mile and a half run just by doing the breathing exercises. So some people can really benefit and it's not just about like fitness and and and health, it's also like literally, it's quite literally lower stress breathing in a better way.
00:54:01
Christian Yordanov
And I learned this from like one of the the the big breathing experts in the world. So a lot of the the program, what's in the program, I've basically, it's an amalgamation of my journey over the last 10 years of learning from the best in the world, the best experts.
00:54:16
Christian Yordanov
And I honestly, I'm not, um I don't think I know it all. I just am i'm lucky that I gravitated to amazing teachers and the experts in the in the industry.
00:54:27
Christian Yordanov
And I've been like able to put, I'm a, I think more of an integrator. I integrate things from the best from others. And ah ah this here's the thing, we all have blind spots. And none of us are perfect. None of our knowledge is perfect.
00:54:40
Christian Yordanov
But what I feel like now I'm able to do is someone that I respect, I can actually identify and not not let myself blindly follow everything they say.
00:54:52
Christian Yordanov
I'm evaluating things a little bit more. and All of these guys that I learned from, i i am seeing like blind spots that I have and certain things that that I think that they're not correct on.
00:55:05
Christian Yordanov
which allows me then to take the things that I think they're correct on, integrate those, and then the things I think that they're not correct, I don't integrate those, and i do I do something that I think is better.
00:55:17
Christian Yordanov
Because remember, I'm learning from um hundreds and hundreds of different experts, and this is why so I think it's so difficult for people to actually figure it all all out. It's because it has to be it has to be your job. like If you want to be like good at like fixing people's teeth,
00:55:33
Christian Yordanov
can't like do it on the weekend or moonlight after work. You have to like go to dentistry school and then be a dentist for like 10 years. And then you're going to be a good dentist type thing, you know?
00:55:43
Christian Yordanov
So it's like any other thing. You can't like dabble into like, the ins and outs of whatever, fixing a car. like To be truly good so we can help people with their cars, you need to like this needs to be your job, it needs to be your career type thing. This is what ive over is why I created the Live Longer Formula because not most of us cannot do that. We all have our own specialty, everything that we need to focus on.
00:56:07
Christian Yordanov
So my goal is you come to us, And we tell you everything you need to know. And we omit the things that are harmful and unnecessary and fluff. but This is the most important things you need to know. you know Because there's a lot of things you can know that would be good to know but are not necessary for you to resolve your health challenges.
00:56:34
Christian Yordanov
and Optimize your health and maintain your health and longevity for life and potentially even help those around you with their health, you know, some things are necessary But there's a lot of fluff that is unnecessary even even if interesting and relevant in terms of health into and true and whatever the case so we give you the most important things the actionable items, right? That's that's what I i felt the last couple of years was missing.
00:57:00
Christian Yordanov
Nobody really has
00:57:02
Christian Yordanov
has this container where people don't just get the clinical assessment, the lab testing, and then the recommendations, but we also have this, and we have chat support, and we have the group calls where any client can jump on three times a week and ask me anything about anything in terms of their health, protocols.
00:57:21
Christian Yordanov
So having that level of support, I think it's super critical because if you just give people, like let's say like I had people that have read my book and they listen to the podcast and then we do the clinical assessment at the start of the program and then they they're not doing just the basic stuff that I keep talking about on the podcast or that I talk about in the book. like they won't They won't have taken action on the book or the podcast, you know, and that's people that that's people that made that effort, right?
00:57:55
Christian Yordanov
So having the this container where we can support our clients over the six months of the program, I think it's super critical because not only is it important to to have some accountability and guidance when implementing the plan, but the plan changes. Like our health is like can we're constantly turning over, you know, cells and like things are constantly changing. So when a person responds in one way to the program,
00:58:21
Christian Yordanov
need to be able to quickly pivot and change the thing. So you might you might be you might need gut support the first couple of months, but when the gut issue improves, then our goals can change. Or if you have fatigue and we improve the fatigue, maybe not maybe now it's time to you know work a little bit more detoxing, work a little bit more on doing some gut cleansing, microbiome, up whatever.
00:58:48
Christian Yordanov
Or if it was a sleep issue and the sleep issue improved, Then we want to work more on energy. And then when the energy thing, may like I have people that they're like well, now I want to you know optimize my brain function. Let's talk.
00:58:58
Christian Yordanov
So having this container of six months working together is so valuable because again, we want to, I want you to, through through small changes over the course of weeks and months, I want you to actually like build these habits that you can just coast on because as you as you know, the hard part is changing the habit.
00:59:18
Christian Yordanov
and That takes a little bit of effort the first weeks and couple months. But then, The new habit takes as much effort as the old habit, except the new habit is now more conducive to health optimization, health longevity, maintaining health, or just living better, like being healthier.
00:59:35
Christian Yordanov
right So the idea is learn all of these things, implement these things, get the guidance and support, make the mistakes while you have the support to help you get back on the horse type thing or adjust, and then when you're out of it, you just can carry on.
00:59:51
Christian Yordanov
You just carry on and, you know, that's kind of the idea behind the ah ah program. I don't think... I never enjoyed doing single sessions because i had no idea did the person even...
01:00:05
Christian Yordanov
do the things i recommended never mind what if they stumbled with something what did they miss misunderstood something and i couldn't be there to help you know so that's why i i created a live longer form and that's why it is the way it is and yeah hope you found this interesting relevant useful uh yeah if you if you need help with your health you know what to do so thanks for listening or watching and i'll see you on the next one bye