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  1. “I have a tendency when I consider scenarios to go straight to worst case scenario. I'm an overthinker. I am prone to anxiousness and anxiety. I walk around at a six instead of walking around at a two. So things that would only move somebody from a zero to a two take me from a six to an eight. Very often people in their surrounding environment will say the punishment doesn't fit the crime the way that they react to certain situations. So this means that the mind is in an awakened state, a heightened state of alertness. Think about a fight or flight response, but not quite to that level, but they're in a heightened state of alertness. And this gives you that feeling of anxiety. Now what's driving the catacomines can have different drivers. It could be this gene mutation. It could be trauma. It could be the presence of a real fear. It could be that you're claustrophobic and stepping on a crowded elevator. But for people that have not isolated”

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  2. “And so, some people that have trauma and they wake up, for example, consistently in the past, right? Their first thought of the day is about the pain that they are already suffering from. Well, these thoughts, fight or flight thoughts, these thoughts have a tendency to be worst case scenario because they are also highly related to catecholamines. In fact, people that have that gene mutation fall into one of two categories. Think about it this way. If catecholamines rise very fast, you're a warrior. And the nickname for that gene is either a warrior or a warrior. Because as those catacolamines, they call it fast comte or slow compti. So just looking at this one gene mutation, if you're slow to break these catecholamines down and they rise, what are the consequences of that? I lay down to go to sleep at night and I'm body tired but I'm mind awake. My mind is just clicking through the day thinking about the most innocuous little thoughts.”

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  3. “Well, I mean, there are true anxiety disorders, right? And generally people that have true anxiety actually know what the trigger is. They're afraid of heights. They walk to the edge of a 30th floor balcony. They have an anxiety. Attack, they have a fear of flights.”

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  4. “It's a sense of impending doom. It's a sense of anxiousness. But what is it, physiologically, what's going on in the body? Well, very often it is a rise in catecholamines, the same class of neurotransmitters that are involved in a fight or flight response. And this is why very often people that suffer from anxiety don't have a specific trigger they can point to. They could be on a podcast like you and I are doing right now and all of a sudden as those catecholamines rise, they get that sensation of anxiety. And they're trying to pin it on their outside environment. They're trying to look for a cluster of symptoms outside their body. But this is because they are deficient usually in a complex of B vitamins, a very specific form of B12 called methylcobalman, methylfolate. These methylated nutrients that down regulate these catecholamines.”

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  5. “Yes, I mean, take, for example, that You would instantly have a fight or flight response. Your pupils would dilate, your heart rate would increase, your extremities would flood with blood. You would begin to have a fight or flight response based on that stimulus. But you could also be laying in your bed at night and you could start thinking about getting eaten by a shark. And you could have the exact same response because the brain doesn't really know the difference between perception and reality. The similarity between these two events, a very real fear and a reaction to it and an imagined fear is they both meet at catecholamines. It's a rise in the same class of neurotransmitters. So now some people are very slow to break these down. And what are the consequences of this? Well, if you've ever had anxiety or somebody that's suffered from anxiety, no one really tells people that have anxiety what it is. They describe the feeling. So they say it's a fear of the future.”

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  6. “So looking at your hormones and then specifically looking at what contributes to healthy hormone production, DHEA and a protein called SHPG. And then I would look at basic nutrient efficiencies, vitamin D3, magnesium, potassium, and vitamin B12, which are on most blood panels. And that is a great place to start to get the basics. How am I regulating my blood sugar? Are my hormones balanced? What nutrient deficiencies do I have? And then the second piece of information I would get, which you only do once in your entire lifetime, is a methylation test. And these are widely available all over the world. I'm sure they're very easy to get in the UK. And you want to look at five genes, MTHFR, MTR, MTRR, AHCY, and COMT.”

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  7. “Rises. There's a whole downstream cascade of events because insulin's not just responsible for helping us metabolize. Sugar, it's also responsible for blocking other forms of energy use in the body, one of which is fatty acid metabolism. And so generally people that have very high insulin have very high blood triglycerides. They have high blood fat. And high blood fat and elevated cholesterol are other markers for cardiovascular disease. So by actually bringing down one biomarker, you have a positive effect all the way downstream. And I would say if you're only going to look at three things, I would look at your glycemic profile, your blood sugar, and your insulin and your hemoglobin A1C, hormone panel.”

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  8. “Your relationship with sugar. And it's also your relationship with insulin because very often, even people that don't eat high amounts of refined sugar and Ben and Jerry's ice cream every night have issues with insulin sensitivity. And so as insulin rises, it causes a whole myriad of conditions. It's one of the hallmarks of something called metabolic syndrome, which we're seeing in younger and younger populations. And it's generally easy to catch early on. You have three markers that look at how well you're regulating your blood sugar, glucose, which is a measure of the amount of sugar in your blood right now. Hemoglobin A1C, which is essentially a three-month average of your blood sugar. And then you have your insulin. And the higher your insulin relative to your blood sugar, the more insulin resistant you are, right? So the more insulin it takes to drop your blood sugar, the more resistant you are to insulin. This is an early warning sign of metabolic syndrome. But it's not just the metabolic syndrome. It's that when insulin...”

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  9. “Yeah, so there are, I would say three. Number one is what's called glycemic profile, which is a check of how well your insulin and sugar metabolism is. And it has three markers, glucose. Hemoglobin A one C three month average of your blood sugar and insulin. So definitely your glycemic profile because blood sugar, I promise you, is the root of all evil. So first I would do your glycemic profile. Second, I would do your hormones.”

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  10. “Conditions, including neural tube defects, because it's not fully acid that prevents neural tube defects, it's methylfolate that prevents neural tube defects. It's what the body commerts it into, the usable form. And so when we look at methylation in the human body, we get an exact roadmap of what we need to supplement with. So that we're not wandering around just supplementing for the sake of just supplementing.”

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  11. “Vegetable and it winds its way all the way up to helping you sleep. And it's not that the spinach leaf is helping you sleep. It's what the spinach leaf has become that's helping you sleep. And this sequence of events is called methylation. And what's astounding about methylation is that in many cases when it's broken, while we can't fix the gene, we can just supplement for its function. So the most common gene mutation in the world, which we talked about last time on your podcast, m-thFR, affectionately called the motherfucker gene. 44% of the population has this gene mutation. I talk about it all the time. And it's a simple inability to convert folic acid and its derivatives, folate, into the usable form called methylfolate. Well, it's very easy to supplement with methylfolate and very inexpensive, I might add, to supplement with methylfolate. And deficiencies in methylfolate are linked to all kinds of conditions.”

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  12. “It's not that it's born broken, it's just not functioning optimally, right? And all of us have genetic snips. We have these called single nucleotide polymorphs. We have these, our genes, which are coding for enzymes to conduct these different activities in the body. And what is astounding about human beings is how beautifully intricate the human body is. We take one raw material, we put it into a physiologic process, and then we take the waste product from that process, and we feed another process and on and on. So for example, we'll take folate from green leafy vegetables. We'll convert that into methylfolate. Methylfolate becomes one of the most prevalent nutrients in the human body. It helps to down-regulate an inflammatory amino acid called homocysteine, which then turns into something called methionine, which then goes up to the brain and helps to quiet the mind. So you start with this green leafy.”

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  13. “All of the esoteric super supplements and red light therapy and NAD boosting supplements in there actually just missing that one of those raw materials basic essential amino acids, basic fatty acids, and basic minerals. And that's where all human beings should start. And then from there, we should do some testing biomarkers in the blood, in my opinion, every human being should do a genetic methylation test, the very same test that you did, whether they do it through me or not, a genetic methylation test is a test you'll do once in your lifetime, and it will tell you exactly what raw materials your body can convert into the usable form and what it can't. Because in human beings, just like in that tree analogy, when you have a deficiency, you get the expression of disease.”

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  14. “Then we can go about quieting the mind and not stimulating the central nervous system to match that pace of the mind, which is kind of what Adderall and Five Ans and Amphetamines do when you take them for ADD and ADHD. So if we understood that as normal or as good as we think we feel we have no idea how good normal feels until we find the missing raw material in our body and we put it back, you want to see magic happen in human beings find the raw material that's missing and put it back in their body. And by raw material, I mean simple things. You know, I mean, depending on who you talk to, there's 72 minerals, I think 16 of those are essential minerals. There are two essential fatty acids. There are eight essential amino acids. It is astounding how many people are clinically deficient in some of those basics. And then they go searching and all.”

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  15. “I just really encourage people to get data, basic data on their body so they have some kind of roadmap so they are supplementing for deficiency not just the sake of supplementing and that they're getting the most out of their body because that's what they're going to get. That's how they're going to get the most out of their business. You know what I mean? Just picking up these little tiny anchors that are nibbling away at productivity, you know, people that suffer from ADD and ADHD don't really realize that ADD and ADHD very often are not detention deficit disorders or attention deficit hyperactivity disorders. They're actually attention overload disorders. And we characterize people that have ADD as not being able to pay attention. But the truth is they don't lack the ability to pay attention. They lack the ability to pay attention to so many things. And if we understand that this is an overactive mind, not a mind that's trying to pay attention to too many things.”

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  16. “Where are testosterone levels? How much are triglycerides? Do you ever look at your C reactive protein? And their face is just blank, and we have more data on our businesses than we do on our temple. And I actually saw you on a stage talk, I believe it was. And you talked about how you could take anything away from me in my life. You refer to your dog and your girlfriend. Hopefully you still have the dog and the girlfriend, but you said, you know, if you took my girlfriend away, you took my dog away. I don't want to get you in a fight with your girlfriend. So let's talk about the dog. So you took my dog away. I'd still have my business. I still have my life, right? But if you took away my health, I'd lose everything, right? And I think most of us don't realize the importance of it until it is taken away. And so recognizing that the temple is the most important vehicle that we have.”

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  17. “About their priorities. Like, what's the most important thing to you, my health? How important is health to you? Oh, it's the number one priority I have. And I say, come on up here and let's talk about how much you're prioritizing your health. And you say, you know, what kind of business you have, a marketing agency? What does your business earn on a monthly basis? $148,000 a month. What's your net income, thirty-eight thousand, two hundred and fifty dollars a month? How many employees do you have? 16. What's your hemoglobin A oneC?”

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  18. “This to heal this. And we believe very often, and this is true in some cases, that disease and pathology are happening to us, not something that happens within us. And if you go back to the tree analogy, you know, you could put anything you wanted on that soil, right? You could supplement for the sake of supplementing. And I think a lot of people get lost in this realm where, well, I heard NMN is good and resveratrol is good and CoQ10 and St. John's warden, Oshawa Gandha and vitamin C, and I should take a multivitamin. And pretty soon you have this paralysis of analysis because you're supplementing for the sake of supplementing. And in the tree's case, if you didn't find the nitrogen, the leaf never would have healed. And the reason why most of us supplement for the sake of supplementing is that we don't have data. We just don't get data on our bodies. You know, when I bring, you run into a lot of a lot more young entrepreneurs than I do, but when I run into them and I'll bring them up sometimes when I'm doing a stage talk, and you can question them.”

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  19. “I don't usually start off with this analogy, but I'll start off with an analogy when I was in grad school, first of all, I'm a human biologist, I'm not a physician. My undergraduate degrees are in biology, my postgraduate degrees are in human biology. But when I was in my second four years of grad school getting human biology degree, I had to take all these plant botany courses, which I hated because I was like, I wanted to study anatomy and physiology and human beings, but I'm studying algae. But the one thing that stood out to me about plant physiology was Let's say you have a palm leaf that's rotting in a palm tree and you call a true arborist, a true botanist, out to your house, and they see that that leaf is rotting in the tree. They won't touch that leaf. They will cortes the soil. And then they'll say, you know what, Stephen, there's no nitrogen in this soil. And they'll add nitrogen to the soil and the leaf will heal. Only we've stopped thinking about human beings this way. We've lost a lot of faith in humanity and mankind, the body's ability for.”

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  20. “Just date on how to live a healthier, happier, longer life, and maybe answers to some of the most pesky health related challenges that they're having. And when I say pesky health-related challenges, I mean, everybody has these little tiny anchors off their stern, right? Weight gain, water retention, brain fog, lack of focus and concentration, poor waking energy, lack of deep sleep. It's shocking how many of these conditions have a common repository. I mean, like the hub of the wheel where they all meet, all these individual spokes come together to common hub of methylation. And methylation is essentially nutrient deficiencies in the human body.”

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  21. “Did it to look at whether your parents gave you a gene mutation? And it's one of the most overlooked things in all honor medicine because it's this deficiency that leads to some of the most common ailments that we suffer from. Mental illness, ADHT, OCD, manic depression, bipolar, sleep disorders, very severe gut issues. I mean, there are so many that don't seem to be fixable with conventional therapies or dietary changes because very often disease is not happening to us. It's happening within us. And I'm not going to stop getting the message out to the masses because I just think about all the times it could have. Made of real material change in somebody's life, and I didn't have the opportunity to do it and felt like I was sitting behind a thick glass wall just watching blind people walk into traffic.”

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  22. “No one really tells people that have anxiety what it is. And this is why very often people don't have a specific trigger they can point to. So they're trying to pin it on their outside environment. But the truth is they are deficient. Usually in”

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