1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,000
welcome to power up recovery with nutrition it is time to make nutrition

2
00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,000
part of the conversation I'm your host Christina velock and I'm so glad you're

3
00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:18,000
here did you know that it's our brain's job to allow us to cope with stress

4
00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:25,000
gracefully but to do that it needs to be fed optimally have you ever wondered why so

5
00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:31,000
many committed people relapse or maybe even die why so many people on

6
00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:38,000
psychotropic medication still feel lousy and still have cravings What if the missing piece is

7
00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:45,000
food the right food what if the right nutrients like amino acids or even

8
00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:50,000
eating protein every 4 hours could actually balance your brain chemistry

9
00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:57,000
and your mood without medication and support lasting recovery in this podcast

10
00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:05,000
we explore the powerful connection between feeding your brain well mental health relapse and recovery from

11
00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:11,000
addiction we will share insights from experts inspiring recovery stories and

12
00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:16,000
practical strategies you can use today whether you're in recovery a health care

13
00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:22,000
professional or someone passionate about emotional well-being this show is for

14
00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:28,000
you let's dive in and discover how fueling your body and brain with the

15
00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:34,000
right food the right vitamino acids and other key nutrients can fuel your

16
00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:41,000
transformation today welcome welcome to another episode of

17
00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:47,000
Power Up recovery with nutrition I am Christina velock your

18
00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:55,000
host and today we're talking about the amazing world of genetics and

19
00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:01,000
neutrogenia and epigenetics we'll explain all those terms in a minute

20
00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:07,000
and how they can impact and sometimes even drive mental health issues and

21
00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:14,000
addiction disorders and therefore when addressed effectively using

22
00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:21,000
nutrition this is where the neutrogenia comes in how we can positively and in a

23
00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:27,000
very precise directed way impact your recovery Journey we're going to

24
00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:33,000
introduce B prar today Val welcome so much for being on

25
00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:39,000
our show and thank you so much for agreeing to speak at our conference in

26
00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:46,000
Columbus in May oh uh thank you very much the the pleasure is all mine I'm very much

27
00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:51,000
looking forward to it and uh I'm really glad to be here with you

28
00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:58,000
today so can you tell us a little bit about you your expertise and what brought you to this

29
00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:04,000
amazing speci specialty oh um sure so I'd always been

30
00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:11,000
interested in health and nutrition uh I grew up in Los Angeles and um I was

31
00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:17,000
introduced to some alternative medical and alternative Wellness principles back

32
00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:25,000
in the 90s uh eventually I went to school for it I went to University of Illinois and I got uh my bachelor's and

33
00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:31,000
Masters in nutrition now I'm working on a doctoral program um at the University of

34
00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:37,000
Bridgeport and uh one of my uh focuses is actually uh neurotransmitters and

35
00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:43,000
some things in the uh in the addiction and mental health space I am currently

36
00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:50,000
um the genomics neogenomics consultant at designs for health it's a wellness

37
00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:56,000
neutral company they used to do just supplements but in the last um in the

38
00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:02,000
last couple years they've gone into the testing uh space as well so they have different

39
00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:08,000
types of tests because uh in order to know what is best for you as far as

40
00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:13,000
Foods supplements lifestyle then knowing

41
00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:19,000
Labs you know microbiome metabolomics genomics really you can

42
00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:27,000
fine-tune um your Wellness protocol so I've been doing a little bit of that Consulting with a few companies okay uh

43
00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:34,000
doing a little research and uh just trying to help as many people as I can and however long I'm here for that's

44
00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:41,000
amazing we're really talking about Precision medicine aren't we which a lot of people call the future of healthcare

45
00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:47,000
yeah that really is true um medicine used to be uh quite

46
00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:53,000
imprecise I mean to the point where doctors would uh uh taste a patient's

47
00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:59,000
urine just to see if it's sweet to know if someone had diabetes we're talking many many decades ago of course now

48
00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:07,000
we've come a long way but in my opinion even 10 20 years from now we're going to

49
00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:12,000
look back on 2024 and say hey we were in the Stone Age back then that's how far I

50
00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:18,000
think we're going to be uh advancing uh in the coming years and

51
00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:24,000
decades well I think so I heard Dr Daniel aan speak recently about how

52
00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:31,000
tragic it is that Psychiatry is still really in the dark Pages because again

53
00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:38,000
it guesses it doesn't look it doesn't take off the hood and actually look into

54
00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:45,000
the engine itself to see what's wrong and then they wonder why they have to move somebody from one medication to

55
00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:51,000
another to another because they're not getting the results they want it's incredibly

56
00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:58,000
imprecise yeah absolutely and the field of Psychiatry is imprecise for several

57
00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:05,000
reasons um um I would say one major reason is there's no strong financial

58
00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:14,000
impetus to do more natural medicine Andor preventive uh research so if

59
00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:20,000
you're Pharma company can profit a billion dollars off of a drug uh that

60
00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:27,000
will help reduce symptoms they'd rather do that than figure out what the actual

61
00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:34,000
problem is because then you would get off of them completely like for example um I did some uh I did some

62
00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:41,000
research into uh sales and uh marketing of mental

63
00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:48,000
health uh Pharmaceuticals in the US last year and I think if you if you look at

64
00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:55,000
all drugs prescribed if you take away uh medicine for high blood pressure

65
00:06:55,000 --> 00:07:03,000
which doctors almost forc people to be on hey you're going to die and if take away insulin right which also like you

66
00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:10,000
could die right if you don't have if you're a type 1 diabetic or if you have very severe type 2 diabetes if you take

67
00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:16,000
away those just those few essential medicines guess what the number one most

68
00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:22,000
prescribed medicine in America is ader Aderall oh my goodness proac is

69
00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:27,000
high up there too and so is so is Rin and you know all those

70
00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:36,000
ceraline and then you get later on down the line you get benzo diazines and some other ones but but really um

71
00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:43,000
snris ssris and SN ssnr those three are really really

72
00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:49,000
really highly prescribed so then the question begs why do you need a

73
00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:54,000
norepinephrine or a dopamine reuptake inhibitor when you can just increase

74
00:07:54,000 --> 00:08:00,000
dopamine or maybe increase the health of the cell

75
00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:05,000
um you know of all your cellular membranes with Omega-3s and some other

76
00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:10,000
things um maybe you can inhibit the genes like

77
00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:16,000
CT that break down dopamine to increase it naturally and there are even natural

78
00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:23,000
supplements that also reduce re-uptake of some of these neurotransmitters so

79
00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:30,000
why not just do it naturally right well that's because there's no billion dollars you can't I mean I can go buy a

80
00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:36,000
Year's worth of five HTTP for like a hundred bucks you know you could and probably St

81
00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:44,000
John's wart too which that's that wonderful you know reup St John's word yeah St John's word really really really

82
00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:49,000
has um great effects on some people I remember a couple years ago I think I

83
00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:55,000
bought 40 years worth of vitamin D for 40 bucks so you know if you if you uh if

84
00:08:55,000 --> 00:09:01,000
you look at the numbers then it starts to begin to make sense you know what's

85
00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:08,000
the prime directive well for a for a corporation that has some ethics it

86
00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:16,000
would be make money and help people right but for a corporation that let's say is run by uh not very ethical people

87
00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:22,000
then the prime directive is to make money and they don't really care if they help people as long as they look like

88
00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:28,000
they're trying to help or they sort of help then um then that's okay with them

89
00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:35,000
but obious viously it's not okay with us and it's not okay with people in general so that's the whole that's part of the

90
00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:42,000
whole process of waking up people are waking up now they're like wait a minute you know I thought that was just uh some

91
00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:50,000
crazy Theory but now it's actually true oh yeah well yeah you know the biggest U the biggest payouts the biggest uh uh

92
00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:55,000
crimes the biggest uh civil lawsuits unfortunately have been against

93
00:09:55,000 --> 00:10:02,000
pharmaceutical companies so they haven't well and that's why this podcast is

94
00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:08,000
titled power up um recovery with nutrition because my goal and I think

95
00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:14,000
yours is as well is to empower the general public with this

96
00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:22,000
information so that none of us are dependent upon um Pharmaceuticals or

97
00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:30,000
psychiatrists to repair and support our brain function and therefore by by

98
00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:36,000
repairing and supporting brain function improving mood improving Behavior

99
00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:42,000
improving addiction treatment and recovery and thriving as human

100
00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:49,000
beings right yeah it's really important um long-term

101
00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:55,000
long-term uh good health and improved outcomes uh I think would help

102
00:10:55,000 --> 00:11:00,000
everybody and if we if we focus

103
00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:07,000
on um the positives and not necessarily the negatives I think we'll be able to

104
00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:14,000
do even better so I'm not really I'm not really against um pharmaceutical companies

105
00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:21,000
there are some drugs that I think are great and they work and and they save lives yeah and they save lives so even

106
00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:28,000
even things like uh you know uh Aderall riddlin Prozac Zoloft uh in certain

107
00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:36,000
segments of the population based on genetics U something like that

108
00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:46,000
temporarily could you know really impact uh someone's health so I'm not really against that however uh if you look at

109
00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:52,000
the actual State of Affairs the State of the Union so to speak

110
00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:59,000
today in theory doctors temporarily prescribe benzos temporarily prescribe

111
00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:07,000
SSR temporarily prescribe this or that and then it just becomes you just keep taking it right or temporarily prescribe

112
00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:13,000
Suboxone and methadone which is how they were originally designed to be

113
00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:19,000
shortterm detox supporters the problem is is is nobody was working on

114
00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:25,000
rebuilding neurotransmitter systems so you get a heroin onto Suboxone and then

115
00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:32,000
they try to pull people off Suboxone and the Brain goes crazy and so do people because their

116
00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:37,000
neurotransmitters are still very very depleted that the brain cannot function

117
00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:44,000
without that type of support as we both so well know once you bring in that

118
00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:50,000
neurotransmitter support um with def phenoline with um

119
00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:55,000
all the aminos to rebuild PC which is the precursor to our

120
00:12:55,000 --> 00:13:01,000
endorphins and etc etc now the brain is getting what it needs and once it gets

121
00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:08,000
what it needs people can come off Suboxone they can come off methadone they can come off these other drugs

122
00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:16,000
because the brain is is functioning you know an analogy Val short story I had a

123
00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:22,000
client come to me who said she was going to need years of emotional um of

124
00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:28,000
counseling for her emotional eating that she was a compulsive overeater for 30

125
00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:35,000
years turned out she was eating potato chips Non-Stop and her that's another problem

126
00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:44,000
so yeah in her 3-day food diary this woman was eating potato chips vanilla ice cream and had exactly two deep fried

127
00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:51,000
uh chicken legs in the entire three-day span and my heart broke for her and I

128
00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:57,000
said look I'm not going to take anything away from you but let's just add a few things would you be okay with adding a

129
00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:03,000
few things so we added 80 gram of protein 20 gram every 4 hours and nine

130
00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:10,000
servings of fruits and vegetables because my theory was that her brain was trying to make up in quantity of potato

131
00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:17,000
chips what it was missing in nutrients yeah absolutely that next week

132
00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:23,000
that woman came in radiant Bell she had not had one potato chip nor one bowl of

133
00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:31,000
ice cream the entire week she hadn't wanted it at all because her brain was now f finally being well

134
00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:37,000
fed and that's what we do with these neutrals yeah that's that's a very good

135
00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:44,000
point once you have the right the proper uh the proper nourishment macronutrients

136
00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:51,000
micronutrients some different Botanicals uh you combine that with a little bit of exercise and Stress

137
00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:58,000
Management all of a sudden it's a new person you've got a new person and these things can help you sleep better and so

138
00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:05,000
sleep is is crucial as well because you know we don't believe in a onelegged sto it's not all brain chemistry we also

139
00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:11,000
believe in you know healing trauma and lifestyle and spiritual growth and all

140
00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:16,000
of that but we do have to feed the brain what it needs to function optimally for

141
00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:23,000
everything else to work so given your expertise and

142
00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:29,000
neutrogenia and epigenetics and if you could explain those terms

143
00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:36,000
how can we use that to precisely determine what any particular person's

144
00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:43,000
brain needs well that's a that's a very good question Christina and I think to start

145
00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:48,000
off I would say what I do when I first uh get a

146
00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:56,000
patient and they're having some symptoms where I think maybe there's some addiction issues or some uh

147
00:15:56,000 --> 00:16:03,000
neurotransmitter col catac colomine issues uh the first thing I do is of course I

148
00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:08,000
just talk to the person and just kind of get an idea of is this person having

149
00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:17,000
more uh anxiety or more depression I like to I like to take things that are U

150
00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:22,000
that are bodal kind of see along what part of the spectrum someone lies then

151
00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:27,000
maybe I'll ask about activity level is this person completely sedentary a

152
00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:32,000
little exercise exercise over day maybe over exercises

153
00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:39,000
are they you know training for a marathon um I look at dietary

154
00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:48,000
habits I try to um get an overall picture of nutriceutical

155
00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:55,000
supplementation protein Powers bars Etc and then we dive into the biology of it

156
00:16:55,000 --> 00:17:02,000
so we look at genomics I usually run a genomic panel um and then occasionally

157
00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:08,000
uh I uh we do a stool sample a microbiome test and then a a metabolomic

158
00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:15,000
which is a urine do at home tests all these tests do it do it at home really nice to do

159
00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:20,000
and for neurotransmitters there are of course

160
00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:28,000
several different you know besides endorphins you you also have a tryptophan and its

161
00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:34,000
eventual conversion to 5htp and serotonin and melatonin then

162
00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:42,000
you have the korine pathway which there are ways to there's like a korine ratio

163
00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:52,000
and quinolinic acid ratio there's different types of ways to measure whether you're creating some toxic um

164
00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:58,000
compounds in your brain or not so using simple metabolomics labs and genetics

165
00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:04,000
you could figure figure out which way someone's going the same way if someone had some sex hormone issues where they

166
00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:14,000
have like a beta versus Alpha um this is a issue that happens uh

167
00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:19,000
for the conversion of DHT dihydro testosterone some people have like very

168
00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:26,000
very uh you know Ying versus Yan so this is a this is a Yan very male DHT

169
00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:31,000
dihydrate testosterone production or whether it's low they have the other U

170
00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:39,000
they're high in the other pathway so you're able to figure that out with genomics um well you you are I want to

171
00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:44,000
um interrupt you for a moment and just point out this chart that we use along

172
00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:50,000
with everything you've mentioned to identify where people the symptoms of

173
00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:56,000
neurotransmitter depletion people have because this chart will then allow us

174
00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:04,000
okay people have symptoms of low seratonin or symptoms of low catac colomines either low dopamine or low you know

175
00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:12,000
norepinephrine symptoms of low endorphins or Gaba and from this we can then say ah they're really low in

176
00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:17,000
catacomb meines they have low energy they may have ADHD they may be craving

177
00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:24,000
you know stimulants and buying ader all you know off the street I wonder

178
00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:29,000
why I wonder why right and then we can

179
00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:36,000
use all of the so we can use this to drive amino acid therapy and other

180
00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:42,000
nutrient therapies but then the answer to the I wonder why question is all the

181
00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:48,000
testing that you were talking about the the looking at the gut looking at the

182
00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:54,000
different genetic Pathways in the production of um dopamine or the

183
00:19:54,000 --> 00:20:00,000
production of neopine phrine or whether giving somebody Crypt ofan is going to

184
00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:07,000
cause more toxicity in their brain or actually help them sleep better right

185
00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:13,000
right yeah very good point and so uh all of these should be taken into

186
00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:21,000
consideration by the practitioner and uh unfortunately current allopathic

187
00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:28,000
medicine doesn't really teach too much maybe you take one course in nutrition and that's about it but I think the

188
00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:34,000
field of functional medicine is really booming um like for example I gave a

189
00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:40,000
gave a talk at a4m in Boston last month and uh there were there were dozens of

190
00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:47,000
uh functional medicine practitioners U all types MDS NDS dos

191
00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:53,000
chiropractors and uh had quite a few discussions so I'm really really looking

192
00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:59,000
forward to how uh the overall uh subfield of preventive medicine evolves

193
00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:06,000
over the next even even the next few months I mean there there are things that are happening at a much faster rate

194
00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:14,000
than they used to have that's right that's right so if somebody has um

195
00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:22,000
say a poly drug user you know they're just going to use whatever they can get their hands on to

196
00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:28,000
relieve emotional pain how could you using some of your

197
00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:35,000
genetic testing determine where the brain chemistry

198
00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:42,000
issue is originating from we can identify the trauma issue we can identify all of that but it's all

199
00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:47,000
mediated through the brain right some people can have a traumatic incident or

200
00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:53,000
more and be really resilient and come through in flying colors and other

201
00:21:53,000 --> 00:22:01,000
people struggle their whole lives and can't get over it and I believe it's because there's genetic blockages in

202
00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:06,000
these Pathways in the brain can you speak to that oh yeah absolutely so

203
00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:13,000
there are many genetic blockages and there are uh basically there's there are

204
00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:19,000
several different types of issues the first would be if you have a blockage in

205
00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:24,000
a pathway or network so for example let's say you're not really good at

206
00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:34,000
breaking down dopamine so you have um you have uh very low maoa very low

207
00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:41,000
comt and both of those are the main drivers of metabolizing dopamine right

208
00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:47,000
so you may have high dopamine levels and part of that has uh will also impact

209
00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:53,000
negative feedback loops because those are in place so you may have reduced

210
00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:58,000
production of dopamine and inability to control

211
00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:04,000
dopamine levels so there's not much to go anyway but then once it's there it

212
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:13,000
builds up really high and it goes high and low it's kind of like a high tide and low tide right um but you don't want

213
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:18,000
that because that can cause you know a lot of maybe mood swings me different

214
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:24,000
types of imbalances and the same thing if it's the other way let's say you're really

215
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:30,000
good at breaking down dopamine right so you break it down so well you have low

216
00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:36,000
dopamine so now you have that's what Dr Blum was famous for is for figuring out

217
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:41,000
RDS reward um reward deficiency issues

218
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:48,000
and so that causes addictions and a whole slew of other issues depression Etc so the question is what which of

219
00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:53,000
these Pathways the dopamine pathway the serotonin dopamine toep norepinephrine

220
00:23:53,000 --> 00:24:00,000
conversion which of these does a person have and I could do a I could do a quick share screen to show kind of how this

221
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:08,000
works if you'd like are you are you able to see my screen we go into all of this in great detail in the courses offered

222
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:15,000
by the academy for addiction and Mental Health Nutrition ah my favorite chart so

223
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:21,000
this chart was uh was developed uh initially by um a very nice gentleman

224
00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:27,000
named Peter Dr Peter diadamo creator of the blood type diet between him and his

225
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:32,000
dad James diadamo and he is a doctor but he's also a coder

226
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:39,000
so he wrote this program in Pearl back in 20145 it's called Opus 23 and this is my

227
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:46,000
genome so let's see here we can we can look up do a Power analysis and see just

228
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:55,000
how high or low every Gene is so we'll we'll zoom in here here's tryptophan right tryptophan is converted to 5htp

229
00:24:55,000 --> 00:25:02,000
and that is affected by tph1 and two so tph1 function is a little bit uh below

230
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:10,000
optimal but as you can see here Christina tph2 is all the way down in the toilet for me so what does this mean

231
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:15,000
this means I have less five HTTP what do people with less 5 HTP have they have

232
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:21,000
less serotonin and less melatonin well no wonder it works really well for me so

233
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:27,000
if I want to know exactly which tph2 genes I have then I can actually click on the gene it'll tell me a little bit

234
00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:33,000
about it I'm actually the the editor for those programs so a lot of the Snips you see here I'm the one who put them in in

235
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:38,000
addition to Dr diamo and another gentleman uh Dr Greenfield from the UK

236
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:44,000
so I can see exactly which Snips I have and then I if I want to click on the

237
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:52,000
snip I can find out like for example this one's associated with Heroin addiction another snip might be

238
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:58,000
associated with uh increased chronic fatigue fibromyalgia early onset OCD

239
00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:05,000
reduced vascular endothelial growth factor increased stomach cancer ulcerative colitis etc etc but the other

240
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:12,000
Al linked to obesity waist circumference Bell's paly so there are different uh

241
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:19,000
benefits and drawbacks to each snip each gene and also bh4 production and

242
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:24,000
MTHFR affects neurotransmitter creation or

243
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:33,000
manufacturing of it and if we look all the way on the left side of the screen El tyrosine eventually is converted to

244
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:40,000
elopa and by virtue of DDC finally ends up as a dopamine so you have tyrosine

245
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:46,000
and you have tryptophan all end up with serotonin or dopamine which then get

246
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:52,000
broken down by dbh the maos and compt or comt right so it's nice to see which

247
00:26:52,000 --> 00:27:00,000
Pathways uh people who have low dopamine but high energy like the Ty typical adht

248
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:05,000
ADHD person that you would Envision they would have very high dopamine beta

249
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:12,000
hydroxy a and they have very low maoa so then dopamine turns into norepinephrine

250
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:18,000
and then just sits there so you have low dop low dopamine and you have high norepinephrine and

251
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:23,000
epinephrine it's bad combination yeah that's a very very ADHD

252
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:29,000
combination so if I look at this there's no impulse control yeah not much impulse

253
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:35,000
control and there are some other genes too that also play a factor but this is one of the these are uh like the main

254
00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:42,000
sets of Pathways for it so basically if somebody comes in with a mental health issue and I look at their genomics and

255
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:47,000
then I run their metabolomics urine test it's I mean I don't want to say that I

256
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:55,000
do this but it's almost like I don't even need to ask them what the problem is I kind of already suspect it you know

257
00:27:55,000 --> 00:28:02,000
just because I've seen it over and over done I mean I've done hundreds and hundreds of these analyses on people so

258
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:09,000
the same things keep coming up so it's it's pretty uh it's pretty evident when that happens sure and just looking at

259
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:14,000
this for instance you'll know then that you want to give somebody 5 HTP rather

260
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:21,000
than tryptophan because tryptophan might have a really hard time making it to

261
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:29,000
5htp and it's going to be a lot more likely than to go down some of these other Pathways that's exactly right yeah

262
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:36,000
that's exactly right and I also do um some confirmation analysis and also

263
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:42,000
other other uh types of mental health analysis with the other program I'm working on

264
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:48,000
which is this one uh this program is called self decode and I'm actually

265
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:56,000
working with um the primaries in both companies to uh to do a joint venture

266
00:28:56,000 --> 00:29:02,000
sort of like a a little uh um participation behalf of both companies

267
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:10,000
to create a new test so we're working on some new things right now that'll probably be launched uh sometime in

268
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:16,000
spring or summer so St stay tuned for that one but uh the thing I like about

269
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:22,000
self decode is it looks at U many different types of uh

270
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:28,000
biomarkers like for example in the biohacker Hub app so to speak of the

271
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:34,000
program you can look up and see if you have a high or low phase one detox so

272
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:40,000
phase two detox and uh compare the two so phase one detox of course is sip 1 A1

273
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:48,000
sip 1 A2 you know all the major ones sip 2d6 all the main liver enzymes so here I

274
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:54,000
think I helped um I was on a two or three person team to develop this uh

275
00:29:54,000 --> 00:30:03,000
it's either this one or the other one the detox and there's a few of the panels cool so here is an incomplete

276
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:08,000
list of the 32 variants I think they list up the 2025 of them so you can see

277
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:15,000
here sip 21 there's several Snips there and there's your sip 1b1 there's the 1

278
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:22,000
A2 there's the 2d6 I'm sure 1 a1's hanging out somewhere over here if it's not listed and these these sip jeans

279
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:29,000
they regulate the breakdown of your psychotropic medications as well as other toxins in the blood don't they oh

280
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:36,000
yeah like sip 2d6 I think sip 2d6 metabolizes some obnoxiously High number

281
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:44,000
like 25% of all drugs I mean it's just it's just ridiculous um just how impactful it is

282
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:51,000
to know hey I'm really high on Nat 2 I'm low on sip 2d6 I have high sip uh you

283
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:59,000
know 19 etc etc there's so many of these um so for example where some of those

284
00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:05,000
like um genom mind some of those other genetic tests that psychiatrists are using to determine what might be the

285
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:11,000
best psychotropic medication choice for a patient or why the meds just aren't

286
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:16,000
working or creating all of these horrific side effects exactly so here

287
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:23,000
for example so this snip if you have if you have both copies of the AAL which

288
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:30,000
15% of people are CT heterozygous so I guess a lower percentage would be

289
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:36,000
TT but if you have that you are sixfold

290
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:43,000
more likely to have side effects if you switch anti-depressants sixfold more that's

291
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:50,000
600% that is a huge number if some snip had even a 20% increased risk would be

292
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:55,000
significant right and this is 600 so yeah you can see just from just from a

293
00:31:55,000 --> 00:32:02,000
simple ad hoc exploration and Analysis of just one snip in one gene uh is very

294
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:07,000
impactful for improving not only short-term symptoms but getting to the

295
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:14,000
root cause of whatever issue or illness or it's usually a combination of issues

296
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:20,000
that's leading to the symptoms and that's that's the beauty of a highlevel

297
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:25,000
deep dive neutrogenia I can look up someone's tnf

298
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:31,000
wait could could you go back to that chart again that you were showing us of all of the

299
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:38,000
different um Snips and the different um Pathways that one yes because you

300
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:43,000
know so many people have heard about

301
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:49,000
MTHFR and but they don't really understand what it is or why it matters

302
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:55,000
but their doctor May say to you say to them oh you have MTHFR and so they come to me or one of

303
00:32:55,000 --> 00:33:04,000
my trained coaches and say I have MTHFR and I we say well you have one two

304
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:09,000
three or all four of the potential Snips and they

305
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:19,000
look at us blankly and say I don't know right that this is a problem where

306
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:25,000
um a lot of the medical professionals actually may not understand some of these distinctions

307
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:33,000
themselves but it actually matters for for those in our audience who have heard

308
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:39,000
about MTHFR could you speak to that a little bit and how it impacts mental

309
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:44,000
health and therefore addiction oh of course absolutely and

310
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:51,000
how we might want to address it um you know n nutritionally oh yeah um so

311
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:58,000
MTHFR is of course very relevant for um for a lot of different health aspects

312
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:05,000
one of which is uh mental health but there are a lot of other things too uh one of the

313
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:13,000
most common uh and well researched aspects of different MTHFR genetics is

314
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:20,000
uh homosysteine and cardiovascular health one of the biggest problems is that people with homozygous MTHFR

315
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:28,000
mutation especially both of the big ones the 1133 and those are those people are

316
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:37,000
usually have reduced methylation and it connects with

317
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:44,000
other genes in those same Pathways and networks for methylation and we'll look

318
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:51,000
at in a minute we jump just for a secx so yes we if

319
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:58,000
people are under methylators they are much more likely to not be making

320
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:05,000
not be turning the amino acids into the neurotransmitters right because in the

321
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:13,000
pathway that turns tyrosine into dopamine and neurin that turns 5htp into

322
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:20,000
serotonin we actually need enough methyl groups running around to make that

323
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:26,000
happen and that's can be one reason why amino acids don't work and a huge reason

324
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:31,000
why psychotropic medic may not work that that's exactly right

325
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:38,000
and uh there are some doctors that min minimize the effects of MTHFR they say

326
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:43,000
oh genetics that's just Hocus Pocus there's not enough research and they say

327
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:49,000
the same thing about tph2 Snips they say the same thing about DDC maoa

328
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:56,000
CT uh even pnmt dbh all of these and you know what by

329
00:35:56,000 --> 00:36:03,000
themselves these researchers these critics are absolutely correct by themselves they have a small impact not

330
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:10,000
really a huge deal however and there's a big however if you combine several of

331
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:17,000
them in a row so if you have low tph2 low DDC low maoa now all of a

332
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:23,000
sudden you have systemic blockages in Pathways and networks and that can

333
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:30,000
become a bigger problem it's the same thing with anything else if you just look at glyphosate glyphosate is a

334
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:37,000
little bad for you but it's not horribly bad for you and they did test after test study after study and they're showing

335
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:42,000
yeah glyphosate is a little bad but you know what when I eat um when I eat some

336
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:47,000
corn chips I'm not just getting glyphosate I'm getting glyphosate and

337
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:55,000
about another couple hundred other other chemicals some of which have been in the soil for decades like DDT some of which

338
00:36:55,000 --> 00:37:00,000
are new some of which are not that persistent others of which are very precis and they're going to be in there

339
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:06,000
for decades and when you combine all of those it becomes incredibly incredibly

340
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:11,000
bad for you very delerious to our health effects and the same thing can be said

341
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:19,000
for vaccines every vaccine has been studied very very closely by themselves and no

342
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:26,000
vaccine is like really really bad for you right there are benefits you get antibodies to certain diseases but when

343
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:32,000
you have the entire schedule pumped and all at the same time then the question is okay well there's obviously something

344
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:38,000
going on I'm not saying all vaccines are good or all vaccines are bad but certainly uh the schedule should

345
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:45,000
probably be looked at right we should analyze it and that's another problem that I see um there's a big there's a

346
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:50,000
big Push by um Pharma subsidized entities organizations and Pharma

347
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:56,000
themselves to to call anyone that questions anything that they don't want

348
00:37:56,000 --> 00:38:03,000
questioned crazy or not smart yeah or sensationalist

349
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:10,000
or fake so I don't think that's a really good approach I think a good approach is to

350
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:17,000
be to have healthy skepticism and have an open discussion and not uh not censor people

351
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:24,000
right so absolutely and and it seems to me that with this VX conversation right and you just said it

352
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:30,000
with the schedule where you know a young child is getting exposed or even

353
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:35,000
somebody going into the military is being exposed to all of these vacines

354
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:44,000
all at the same time it seems to me we could go back to that um list of cyp sip

355
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:51,000
variants and the detoxification Pathways and I think that every baby should be

356
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:57,000
given a full genetic test at Birth and their detoxification pathway should be

357
00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:03,000
be analyzed as to whether that child is capable of

358
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:09,000
detoxifying a variety of vaccines and everything in the vaccine all at the

359
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:15,000
same time or if there are children because of their genetic Pathways and

360
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:21,000
their detoxification systems are at really high risk for getting overloaded

361
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:31,000
and therefore really really sick we know that not all children get really sick the question is why why if you look at

362
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:38,000
these Snips they can tell you exactly why yep so for example I ran I ran a

363
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:45,000
simple uh search in the uh program literature for pusis right whooping cuff

364
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:50,000
and there is a gene called esr1 estrogen receptor one which actually interacts with

365
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:56,000
CT and people who have mental health people

366
00:39:56,000 --> 00:40:01,000
who have the teal or especially both copies of the teil have increased risk of

367
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:07,000
prusis and there are several genes and Snips that are associated with whether

368
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:13,000
it's prusis diptheria any type of mencal diseases a

369
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:20,000
Hebb all of these so you can tell but look at that V we also have increased

370
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:25,000
schizophrenia increased alcohol intake increased depression increased

371
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:32,000
postpartum depression increased mood and Sleep Disorders they all run together yep

372
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:38,000
exactly and and a lot of these have to do uh it's because of uh uh increased

373
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:44,000
estrogens and reduced testosterone in some people and if you look at the other copy if you have the sealil what does

374
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:53,000
that have that have incre that has increased testosterone so there's a testosterone to estradiol connection and

375
00:40:53,000 --> 00:41:01,000
U they're obviously neurotransmitter is isues because as I said comp and esr1 are very

376
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:08,000
connected um so this is one way to figure out what you have issues with and what

377
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:13,000
are potential like are there increased side effects from one particular vaccine

378
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:21,000
which very much speaks to your point that you made a couple minutes ago really you know compared to3 $40,000

379
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:27,000
that people drop at Cleveland Clinic Mayo Clinic for various issues genetic

380
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:35,000
testing is it's just a few hundred bucks it really should be conducted on everyone it's probably what 3 or 4% of

381
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:42,000
the cost of a birth nowadays so we're really talking about very very you know

382
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:48,000
Pennies on the dollar uh for potentially very important information and not to

383
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:56,000
get too off topic here but yeah that that goes in any field so if you look at any one thing you zoom out and you see

384
00:41:56,000 --> 00:42:03,000
the entire system or network um then all of a sudden drugs supplements lifestyle

385
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:09,000
different types of decision decisions like that become a lot more

386
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:18,000
clear here's one oh go ahead go on go on oh I wanted to show you um one of the um

387
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:24,000
hold on see if I could find it here well while you're looking I've got

388
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:31,000
a question I've heard that there are some genetic sniff that actually determine to what degree you might get

389
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:36,000
or be affected by PTSD is that one of the serotonin

390
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:42,000
Snips oh yeah uh PTSD there's actually uh there's

391
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:49,000
actually a PTSD algorithm based on very large numbers of

392
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:54,000
genetic uh test that were done on people it's called These are called gases

393
00:42:54,000 --> 00:43:02,000
genome wide Association studies and PTSD um there's an algorithm

394
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:09,000
available that looks at about half a million Snips and gives you a very very

395
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:15,000
precise uh Point like how much PTSD do you have so it's called psychological

396
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:21,000
trauma in this H particular test and I'll zoom in a little bit here

397
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:27,000
so for me personally I am on the 22nd

398
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:34,000
percentile so I don't have a lot of PTSD genetics I'd probably I probably

399
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:43,000
wouldn't be here if I did just because of just the different things I've seen in my life uh women are

400
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:48,000
generally a little bit more prone to PTSD than men uh part of that has to do

401
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:55,000
with estrogen and testosterone ratios uhuh and that even happens like

402
00:43:55,000 --> 00:44:00,000
even in a cycling woman like during a part of the menstrual phase when she has

403
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:06,000
higher testosterone just mentally right she is

404
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:11,000
calmer less phased and then and then when that the shift happens with the LH

405
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:16,000
and FSH then progesterone of course changes and there's more estrogen and

406
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:23,000
less testosterone and then there's just like a greater imbalance right that um she's

407
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:29,000
more emotional things affect her more and that's one reason why you really

408
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:34,000
need to look at your genetics because you don't have to have a bunch of PMS

409
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:41,000
you can actually uh I mean I'm not saying you know take a bunch of drugs and narcotics to combat it but you can

410
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:49,000
gently do certain things to uh certainly to to balance out those ratios between

411
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:57,000
the different hormones you know PMS is a major risk factor for relapse in women

412
00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:03,000
it's the highest uh risk time during the month for relapse as well as mental

413
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:09,000
health issues as well as being arrested for Crime W I did not know that makes

414
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:14,000
sense yeah we have found that simple interventions such as eating protein

415
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:20,000
every three hours rather than every four hours to stabilize blood sugar taking

416
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:25,000
extra 5htp because as estrogen drops at the

417
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:30,000
end of the month so serotonin as progesterone drops at the end of the

418
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:38,000
month so does Gaba so by bringing in extra Gaba or Gaba support bringing in extra 5 HTP or

419
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:46,000
even St John's wart it evens everything out taking an

420
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:53,000
phytoestrogenic herb like black kohos can modulate estrogen and

421
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:59,000
again people just women just like stabilizing again and feel normal again

422
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:07,000
and their relapse risk drops down to zero right isn't that

423
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:13,000
something so uh so here are the recommendations based on this one program for PTSD let's say I have some

424
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:21,000
PTSD symptoms uh the first recommendation is psychotherapy and the recommendations

425
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:27,000
are listed in order of uh evidence and impact so that would be one of the one

426
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:33,000
of the more significant ones but there's no there's no nutrients there uh no so

427
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:38,000
this is divided into supplement dietary and lifestyle so as far as supplements

428
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:47,000
Omega-3s are the highest ranked DHA allinine NAC deserene

429
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:52,000
carnosine um notice how amino acids are missing in here that's just because of

430
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:58,000
the lack of evidence uh the lack of the high level evidence unfortunately that's

431
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:03,000
required by they just not done the research they've just not done the research

432
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:10,000
because practice I can tell you exactly what amino acids help my clients with

433
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:15,000
PTSD and we'll be uh and the new programs that I'm working on will have

434
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:21,000
those so all all of our inputs will be in here as as we launch those I know

435
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:28,000
what you mean and uh and I'm I'm uh excited to see what uh What Becomes of

436
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:36,000
that as we you know as we evolve in that in that realm that domain so uh this is

437
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:44,000
essentially how this works the other one I wanted to show you is really cool medical reports so this one actually

438
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:51,000
shows you risk of pretty much all diseases based on hundreds of thousands of these genomewide Association studies

439
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:58,000
so the the triangle shows the highest risks that would would be a cataracts

440
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:03,000
prostate cancer seizures bipolar and Celiac then you have the

441
00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:09,000
octagons and the Octagon exclamations are increased risk so that's going to go

442
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:15,000
you know heart failure liver failure enyma Etc and then you get this you this

443
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:21,000
is me yeah ouchy and here are the check marks so

444
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:27,000
the uh the square or the diamond check marks is average risk so you know

445
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:32,000
systemic sclerosis mythia gravis I just don't have the genetics for it I can

446
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:39,000
still get it but it'd be milder and it would be a reduced chances of me even getting it right like for example um I

447
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:47,000
think I had schizophrenia you have more chance to getting bipolar disorder but less chance of becoming schizophrenic

448
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:55,000
exactly and then if you go all the way down to the bottom see there's heart attack liver sclerosis uh dementia if you go down to

449
00:48:55,000 --> 00:49:02,000
the bottom you get to the green and so the green is all the diseases that

450
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:08,000
you're actually protected from so mon neuropathy I'm actually I have a reduced

451
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:13,000
than average odds of getting it and if I did get it maybe it's milder

452
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:19,000
Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma probably not going to die of that diverticulitis rheumatic heart disease

453
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:25,000
thyroid cancer bladder cancer etc etc so you could see how knowing your genetics

454
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:31,000
it's really important um here's the longevity screener this this is the last one I'll show you before we go into the

455
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:38,000
other stuff so this one looks at your genetics and it also asks you a

456
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:44,000
questionnaire about family history personal history where your grandparents were born Etc and this is a very

457
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:53,000
accurate longevity screener so lifetime risk of prostate cancer and bipolar is

458
00:49:53,000 --> 00:50:00,000
highest for me this is 34 Times Higher this one's three times Tire none of the others usually people have like three or

459
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:07,000
four items in the red but I only have two you only have two so what are you doing to prevent your risk of bipolar

460
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:15,000
disorder what do you mean bipolar disorder trying to be funny um when uh

461
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:20,000
sometimes patients they have like depression and I tell them I'm sorry well that's really sad and then they start

462
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:27,000
laughing so you have to have a little fun or else you know you're going to go crazy with this stuff exactly

463
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:32,000
EXA yeah it's true with bipolar I uh if something requires my attention I can go

464
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:38,000
from 0 to 60 in about two seconds however I keep it very controlled right

465
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:45,000
um as opposed to wild animals you know we have Homo sapiens right we think and we we have feelings and we understand

466
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:50,000
things exactly and we can make we can make decisions so what what are you

467
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:57,000
using any neutrals to support your brain around the bipolar disorder risk

468
00:50:57,000 --> 00:51:03,000
um well I haven't really I haven't really had a lot of uh bipolar Tendencies although I could totally see

469
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:08,000
it in me um so I haven't really done too much of that for me ADHD has been more

470
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:14,000
of an issue ah okay ADHD canot run

471
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:23,000
together right right uh so I do a lot of U different amino acids um NAC I use

472
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:29,000
anasl fish oils some B vitamins uh lithium and some

473
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:36,000
other things so I uh I self-medicate intelligently based on genomics and

474
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:42,000
metabolomics but the important thing is if you take away what you're probably

475
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:49,000
going to die of then you're not going to die of that or there's a less reduced chance of it so I like to think of the

476
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:55,000
analogy of um a bunch of grim reapers sitting around at a long table and then

477
00:51:55,000 --> 00:52:02,000
the uh the process cancer Grim Reaper as well I can't kill Val because he's taken all this stuff to uh improve his

478
00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:09,000
prostate health so he he's not going to get that so then the heart disease guy goes well I can't take Val out because

479
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:14,000
he's taking all this stuff and he's doing well and you know so basically they're just sitting around a table for

480
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:22,000
decades and decades waiting for someone to finally uh get me so it's going to take a lot longer you see if you have

481
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:30,000
Vision yeah so that's that's one of the ways you can um improve your odds of uh of

482
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:38,000
having a good health uh not just lifespan but Health span yeah yeah the

483
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:44,000
ideal uh life is you know a long fruitful life and then you're not sitting around in a hospital for years

484
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:49,000
or decades right being sick you maybe like everything goes

485
00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:55,000
out right or being depressed or being so anxious you can't leave your bedroom

486
00:52:55,000 --> 00:53:00,000
right right and if and if you're if you're so depressed or anxious or you

487
00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:08,000
have OCD or phobias or panic disorder or anything like that and it affects you uh

488
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:15,000
significantly in some ways you've already died which is very sad and but in but the benefit of that is you may

489
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:22,000
have in certain ways already died but in actuality you're not dead you're alive so you can fix things and you can get

490
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:31,000
back to where you were uh before or even better like for example right now um at the age of

491
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:37,000
50 I have uh better thinking than I did

492
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:44,000
when I was 20 or 30 in some aspects and I have a um better physical fitness in

493
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:52,000
some aspects than maybe 10 or 20 years ago because of different things that I'm doing uh with my body as far as you know

494
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:57,000
diet lifestyle supplements that I didn't know back then like for example

495
00:53:57,000 --> 00:54:03,000
me too me too yeah like uh I was uh as a

496
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:08,000
kid I was chronically constipated I probably had significant IBS uh now I

497
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:16,000
don't have much of it at all and I don't have any constipation issues or any kind of issues like that at all and all of

498
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:22,000
that um is possible for almost anyone so it's it's really

499
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:28,000
nice to be able to uh to see that and then I wanted to show you um okay you can show us one more thing

500
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:36,000
because then we do have to wrap this up sure so this is a uh genomic Spotlight

501
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:42,000
sample report let me uh get it open so this is

502
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:50,000
a a genetic test that you can do at designs for health you could upload other programmatics to and the person

503
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:57,000
who wrote this is also Dr diamo he worked in conjunction with Dr David Brady to design genomic spot so here's

504
00:54:57,000 --> 00:55:03,000
my genomic Spotlight and it kind of looks at different hormonal protocols

505
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:09,000
prostate Supreme libido stem these are different supplements that work based on

506
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:16,000
um recommendations made risk of prostate cancer exactly and that's that's one of

507
00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:23,000
the things I do I try to think outside the box right and there are eight

508
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:28,000
categories in the test and I'm trying to to oh I I see

509
00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:33,000
what's going on so the program froze a little bit there it goes now it's

510
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:40,000
working so this is the hormonal multi-lip algorithm so I have low likelihood of

511
00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:46,000
high cortisol but I have increased risk of low testosterone and I also have

512
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:53,000
reduced uh TSH levels so it's nice to be able to see what your genetic Tendencies

513
00:55:53,000 --> 00:56:00,000
are and here are some of the Snips that were used in the report there's a gastrointestinal protocol for which I'm

514
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:06,000
currently using a canab Omega and imun mod imun mod has a lot of naacal

515
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:13,000
glucosamine canab Omega has fish oils and CBD oil so here's a predict

516
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:19,000
predicted serotonin gut serotonin activity elevated gut serotonin so if

517
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:27,000
someone has let's say someone has chronic diarrhea right and they have predicted elevated gut serotonin activ

518
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:34,000
are you going to give them 5 HTP probably not because then they're going to have even more diarrhea sure they

519
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:40,000
might their mental health G give it to them sublingually rather than in a oral

520
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:46,000
Capsule that's gonna go to tummy that's right because a surprising a surprisingly little amount of it

521
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:52,000
actually gets out of the GI tract and goes to the brain um higher support for

522
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:57,000
acromania that's probably because I'm a fot two nonsecretor Le nonsecretor

523
00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:04,000
status affects um diversity and a lot of other things in the microbiome lactose

524
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:12,000
intolerance I have the lactose intolerance genetics candida High candida Carriage I just did a microbiome

525
00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:19,000
test and I don't have any candida because I know how to prevent its accumulation in the body so if uh if you

526
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:24,000
had candida it's a lot easier to get rid of it if you know which Pathways to you

527
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:30,000
know to work on gluten sensitivity anyway there's a bunch of these uh there's one for mental health there's a

528
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:36,000
methylation one um there's one sounds like very very good and we're going to

529
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:42,000
put this in the show notes so people can have access to you and to some of these

530
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:48,000
tests so if somebody wants to get in touch with you Val how do they do it oh

531
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:55,000
they would just uh send an email to genetic wellbeing gmail.com okay and then we would order

532
00:57:55,000 --> 00:58:00,000
some of these uh designs for health tests or there's some other tests as well that

533
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:06,000
um there's a genomic Spotlight there's also a genomic Insight test and there's

534
00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:12,000
a lot of them everybody uh eventually settles on what they want to do so we figure out what

535
00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:19,000
their goals are you know what they want to spend people are on a budget I would say just

536
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:24,000
get the labs through your doctor uh or I could order them some discount Labs you

537
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:30,000
know just BAS basic Labs you know cortisol sex

538
00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:35,000
hormones cholesterol blood sugar A1C you know calcium sodium you know all the

539
00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:40,000
standard cbcs and then maybe like a a low-level genetic test that wouldn't be

540
00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:46,000
too expensive people who want to spend a little bit more money you can get just

541
00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:52,000
an obnoxiously good amount of information for you know maybe a thousand bucks or two you could really

542
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:59,000
really get to the root cause of uh pretty much anything and for very ill people and I would say

543
00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:04,000
your chronic relapsers your person who's gone from program to program to program

544
00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:09,000
it might be worthwhile investing in some of this to actually identify the

545
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:17,000
underlying biochemical brain chemical reasons for this right right

546
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:23,000
exactly that about that about says it well Val thank you so much this has

547
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:28,000
been very Illuminating um it certainly answered some of my questions about some

548
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:33,000
of these genes and how we identify them and what to do about them and I so look

549
00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:38,000
forward to seeing you at the conference in May you got it it it will be my

550
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:46,000
pleasure I I will see you there probably before as well probably before as well yeah we we've got some things we're

551
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:52,000
planning exactly all right well I really wish you well and thank you thank you Happy New Year Happy New Year to you

552
00:59:52,000 --> 01:00:01,000
thank you for tuning in to power up recovery with nutrition I'm Christina velot your host and I hope today's

553
01:00:01,000 --> 01:00:06,000
episode has inspired and equipped you with new insights and tools to support

554
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:13,000
your recovery Journey or practice if you enjoyed this episode please subscribe

555
01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:20,000
leave a review and share it with others who could benefit from the knowledge shared here stay connected with us for

556
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:26,000
more episodes filled with practical advice expert wisdom and inspiring

557
01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:32,000
recovery stories remember nutrition is a powerful tool in mental health and

558
01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:39,000
relapse prevention power up your recovery today I'm Christina velock and

559
01:00:39,000 --> 01:00:40,000
I'll see you next time