Dr. Daryl Gioffre

Hey, Dr. Patrick, always so good to see you. You look incredible by the way, every time I see you kept getting better and better, and keep up the good work. And it’s just an honor and a privilege to be with you guys today.

Patrick K. Porter, PhD

Yeah, that’s great. And I know that you just came out with a new book, we’re gonna be touching on that, “Get Off Your Sugar”. Because a lot of people, may ask, what do I need to do to fix my brain? And what I was when I was reading through your book, which I thought was phenomenal, just like your other book was, “Get Off Your Acid”, and I thought, wow, this is easy to read, you don’t only talk about the problem, you give a great number of solutions.

Your diets are delicious. And maybe you can share a few of those here, but tell us a little bit about what got you into this, because people think brain fog only happens with dementia when you’re older, right, when you’re 60, 70 years old. I mean, they’re actually tracking Alzheimer’s in 30-year-olds, I think you mentioned that in your book or 39 year olds or something like that. So why don’t you give us a little bit of background about you and what got you into this. Coming from being a chiropractor to a functional neurologist to doing what you’re doing now?

Dr. Daryl Gioffre

Yeah. Thank you so much. I mean, there was a study in 2017, I believe, with UCLA, and they actually reported in that study that 47 million people in our country have preclinical diabetes. I mean, that’s insane to even think about that, you know? And to your point, yes, brain fog, I was dealing with that in my 20s because of my addiction to sugar, and that’s kinda my story that led me to where I am today, to writing that book, “Get Off Your Sugar”. I mean, for as far back as I could go, Patrick, I mean, even back, you know, as five years old, growing up, you don’t think anything twice about it.

Our parents, I have the greatest parents in the world, I lost my father a few years to goiter cancer. My mom is just an amazing warrior, but they were doing everything that their doctors, their parents, I call it MFTP, mother, father, teacher, preacher, told them. We were drinking milk every day. Now I definitely wanna talk a little bit later about calcium and that big myth as well. But my whole point was is that I developed this addiction to sugar, and I’ve coached thousands and thousands of clients through sugar addiction and cravings and things like that. And the effects that it does in the body, as far as how it drives up inflammation, it drains your energy, it makes you store fat, and also affects your brain on so many levels.

But I was dealing with brain fog, you know? And so this does happen, it’s not just the elderly. And just because you’re older, doesn’t mean that you’re gonna get that either. There’s things happening inside your body that forced the body to get these symptoms. But remember, by the time we get the symptom, that’s not the beginning of the problem, it’s already there. It’s like if I get a toothache. The day before I have that toothache, my tooth felt fine, but was my tooth healthy? No way, it just hit that threshold, that tipping point. And then the symptom was there to let my body know, hey Darryl, you gotta get this thing fixed no matter what it is, before you actually lose that tooth or before something else happens in the body.

So for me, as a high schooler, I was getting horrific acne from all the sugar that I was eating. And what were most of the doctors doing? I remember my mom taking me to a dermatologist. I had all these black spots on my skin, Patrick, it was crazy. So what did they give me? They gave me a bunch of bleaching agents. So every night I would go home, I would put all these white spots on my skin trying to bleach the dark spots to become whiter. And it was crazy, just two minutes later, they got wiped off on my pillow anyway.

But here’s the problem, all of these people, no matter who I went to, they didn’t get down to the true cause, the underlying cause of why my body was having all the different issues I was having, headaches, IBS, skin issues, and the list went on and on and on. And as I became my own health investigator in my 20s, as I followed the evidence, the evidence led me to acid, this acidic lifestyle. And what is the biggest acid you can put into the body? It’s sugar, sugar equals acid and acid equals inflammation. And talking about dementia and Alzheimer’s, I talked about this in my first book, “Get Off Your Acid”. And this was two years before the “New York Times” talked about this, ’cause they did. And what I said was, “Alzheimer’s parallels inflammation of the brain.” And what’s one of the primary things that can actually drive up inflammation in the brain, it’s sugar.

Patrick K. Porter, PhD

So a lot of people don’t understand even inflammation that might be on the call today. So tell them what happens, what’s the mechanism that makes sugar so bad, what’s going on there?

Dr. Daryl Gioffre

Well, sugar does a lot of different things in the body. I mean, number one, it prematurely ages your cells. You know, I like to kind of keep it simple. Think about like a fish tank or you have a couple of different ponds, right? Imagine the fish swimming in that pond. So here on the left, we could have this innate pond, it’s loaded with nice water, clean water, fresh algae, healthy fish, and then the pond next to it, which I call the Standard American Diet pond, all right, get the analogy here. You’re putting, Coca-Cola, potato chips, sugar, grains, dairy, artificial sweeteners, processed foods, right? You can have the same fish, same genetics, same DNA, they could be twins. And you put one fish in each pond, what’s gonna happen to the fish. That fish is only as healthy as the terrain it swims in, it’s the biological terrain.

So we have all this talk about as we’re climbing our way out of this crazy pandemic a year and a half later, what I’ve been talking about over this past year and a half, is not the things we can’t control, it’s what we can control, it’s what you put into the body. It’s the things that you put into the body as far as how you eat, how you think, how you move or lack thereof, that’s gonna strengthen your cells. ‘Cause that’s the reality, Patrick, every time we eat, we’re either doing one or two things. We’re either fueling a disease or refueling health, right? We’re either stressing our body or strengthen our body. So our cells, which we looked at and live blood cell analysis, are only as healthy as the fluid that they swim in.

So every time you eat sugar, it metabolizes into something called lactic acid. We might’ve heard of that with exercise, when you’re exercising very hard, and it’s anaerobic without oxygen, your body actually is gonna start to ferment sugar. And the by-product of that is lactic acid. Now your body does that ’cause it needs energy. We’ve lost the ability to get the energy through oxygen. So now the body ferment sugar, it’s the same process that creates cancer. So this is why no matter what’s going on in the body, we got to get off our sugar. It’s gonna make our healths healthier, it’s gonna give you greater longevity, it’s gonna prevent dementia. And that’s when I say we got to slow down the premature aging process that sugar is creating.

Obviously it makes your liver more toxic every time you’ve dumped sugar into the body, especially fructose, which is probably the most dangerous toxin you can put into the body. It goes right to your liver, and from there, it’s gonna create so many different issues. Obviously, triglycerides and insulin resistance indirectly, it drives up inflammation, and then of course the brain, Sugar is literally, it’s not even a food, I mean, we’ve got to call it for really what it is, it’s a neurotoxin. Every time sugar goes into the body, it has this process that happens called glycation. What that means is, when there’s a lot of sugar hanging around the body and the blood, and then you have too much unhealthy fats, like omega-6 fats, which are the bad fats, right? omega-3 or anti-inflammatory, omega-6 are pro-inflammatory or too much protein, that sugar molecule will latch on to that protein or unhealthy fat, And that is basically, what’s gonna create these plaques.

We call that glycation. They’re advanced glycation end products. It basically creates these free radicals and not all free radicals are bad, but a lot of them are bad. And what these free radicals do, is they basically rust and rot your body from the inside out, including your brain. So again, I mean, the list goes on and on in terms of what sugar does the body, just know that sugar is one of the most evil things you could put into the body. And we got to get our bodies off of this stress eating rollercoaster.

That’s what we really saw happening over this past year and a half, when we were blindsided by the pandemic, what do most of us do? We started stress eating. So to really kind of prevent these things from happening, we need to know the specific strategies to move away from that stress eating rollercoaster and move into what I call, a strength eating diet. And when you start to strength eat, what you’re gonna do is you’re gonna strengthen your cells, you’re gonna strengthen your energy, you’re gonna strengthen your brain. That’s what we got to focus on.

Patrick K. Porter, PhD

A lot of people think that they need sugar for energy, But in your book, I love the way you said, “We either burn sugar or we burn fat.” Why does our body need more fat? I mean, you talked about a little bit with the omega-3, omega-6 scenario, and you give some options on what you can do. What can they do at the grocery store today? I mean, if somebody out there going, what do you mean I need more fat? They think fat is bad, they still think that a lot of people do.

Dr. Daryl Gioffre

And we can blame the sugar industry for that. You know, this goes back to the 1960s, when the sugar industry actually paid off three Harvard scientists, $50,000, at that time, that was a lot of money, to manipulate the studies, showing that sugar wasn’t the problem, that was the problem. So for the past 70 years, what have we been seeing everywhere, even to this day, we’re now we have this great ketogenic diet trend, but we saw fat free everywhere, low fat, fat free. So what happened was the sugar industry basically created this manipulated story. And now we started basically taking fat out of everything.

Now, there was a big problem with that. You take the fat out, your food tastes like cardboard, and that’s not gonna fly. So now who came into the rescue, the sugar industry. And they started basically pumping up all of our different foods out there was sugar. And to this day, if you go into a grocery store, Patrick, 74% of the foods that you’re gonna see have some form of added sugar or sweetener in it. It’s crazy to think about that. It goes all the way back to the 1960s, but what do we see along with the spiking of all the sugar that came with our foods? We saw chronic disease, like heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and yes, Alzheimer’s. I mean, growing up, I don’t even remember hearing about Alzheimer’s.

I sadly I lost my godmother, my aunt to Alzheimer’s a few years back. So it’s something that I’m highly passionate about, as am about cancer. But listen, it doesn’t matter which way it’s gonna go, I mean, disease will take one turn or another. We’re either going towards heart disease. We’re going towards cancer, which by the way, has now overtaken heart disease in 21 states as the number one killer. Patrick, our genetics haven’t changed for 40,000 years. But what has changed is the diet, the acidic diet, the high sugar diet, it could be Alzheimer’s and diabetes. So again, which pathways the body gonna take, but it’s all chronic disease that eventually is gonna basically take away our quality life and kill us.

So we can thank the sugar industry for that. And to this day, people are still afraid of fat. They think that if you eat fat, you’re gonna get fat. But what we have to understand is that there are fats that heal and there are fats that kill. So of course, we’ve got to stay away from those damaging fats, those omega-6 fats, things like soy, corn, soybean oil, corn oil. I mean the amount of soy that we’ve consumed in the past 100 years have skyrocketed by over 1000%. We should never eat soy for many, many reasons. But other forms of omega-6 fats, like grape seed oil, margarine, it is not just about eating these things directly. If you go to a grocery store, as you talked about, we gotta look at those labels, right? And usually you’re gonna see that, first ingredient as other ingredients, soybean oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil, corn oil, those are the ones that are gonna take you out.

Those are the ones that are gonna make you age prematurely. Those are the ones that are gonna actually create dementia, not just when we’re older, but at an early age. So we got to move away from those omega-6 fats and these inflammatory fats and move towards these healthy plant-based keto fats. So obviously more avocados, we’re coming up to avocado day next week, I’m so excited. I love avocados, my kids love them, we call them gods butter, it’s like the most perfect food. Coconut oil is a big one. I mean, there’s so many studies showing that if you consume two tablespoons of coconut oil a day, that’s the therapeutic dose that your body needs to actually prevent Alzheimer’s.

Why is coconut oil so good? Because it doesn’t get metabolized by your gut, it’s a medium chain triglyceride that goes right to the liver, gets metabolized by the liver, and then the body turns that into ketones, which is the preferred source of fuel for the brain. ‘Cause here’s the reality, Patrick, we don’t need sugar. Sugar is not an essential fuel. The body doesn’t need it. In fact, there’s only one hormone in the body that is designed to actually decrease the sugar. It’s called insulin, right? And insulin is not even a sugar lowering molecule, it’s a transport molecule. It’s it’s job is to get sugar from the blood into the cell.

But do people realize that we have five different hormones that are designed to actually make sugar? So God forbid, if you need sugar for fight or flight, because that’s what we need sugar. If I see that saber-tooth tiger, I don’t want to burn fat for fuel, I want to get out of there quickly, so I’m not food for that tiger for lunch. So that’s where sugar comes into play. It’s a fast burn, but it’s a dirty burn, it creates acid, creates inflammation. It’s like, this is the difference between sugar and fat. Sugar is like riding a Model T fat is like riding a Tesla, which would you prefer? The brain prefers these healthy ketogenic fats. These are the things we need to eat more of, if we wanna protect our brain, they’re neuro protectors.

Patrick K. Porter, PhD

Right, that’s awesome. Now there’s a big trend, and I think it’s very true that they’re saying that Alzheimer’s or dementia starts as Type 3 diabetes. Can you kind of talk a little bit about that? Because people don’t understand, they don’t understand that the body makes sugar, so that was a great point you made. We always tell people, one stressful event but it’s like eating a candy bar, so you have to handle it. If you’re already eating a candy bar and you have that stress, you’re just combining. And then maybe after you explained that, maybe when people go to the grocery store, they don’t know how to find out about hidden stress.

I know you talked about that in your book, but like, when I look at a package now, I’m looking for net carbs. But they don’t realize that five carbs, a teaspoon of sugar. Maybe you can tell them about how to read the labels too, because whether you’re the caregiver or the person going grocery shopping, when you start looking at these things, it might say no sugar, but you have to look for other things, right? I mean, it’s not just about sugar, it might not be listed as sugar.

Dr. Daryl Gioffre

Yeah, well, let’s start with the Type 3 diabetes. I mean, how crazy is that, that that’s what they’re calling Alzheimer’s? So most of us know what Type 1 diabetes is, obviously Type 2 diabetes is something that’s skyrocketing in epidemic proportions. And by the way, people that have Type 2 diabetes have a 73% increase of the risk of Alzheimer’s than people that don’t have that. Why is that? Because Type 3 diabetes is insulin resistance of the brain. Now, as I said before, it’s like, there’s so many doctors and even nutritionists out there that are still saying that sugar is the preferred source of fuel or that’s what the brain needs to run on glucose. It’s just not true.

Now the brain will use the sugar first, but why is that? Because it wants to get rid of it. You see, our bodies are so smart, they’re so innately intelligent, we don’t need to direct the body what to do, it knows what to do. It prioritize for you, your health and your wellbeing and your longevity. So it wants to get rid of that sugar first. So what’s it gonna do? It’s gonna burn it first, but once that sugar is gone, then we start using fat for fuel. That’s why intermittent fasting is so powerful. I mean, intermittent fasting is powerful for your gut, it makes stem cells and resets your microbiome, but also protects your brain.

Why? Because intermittent fasting lowers that insulin resistance. So if we’re literally pumping up our body with sugar, sugar, sugar, we’re dumping glucose into the blood. And what happens is as your glucose rises, that’s not good because that’s dangerous for your body. So to keep this simple, the pancreas is gonna secrete that insulin, and insulin’s job is to basically get that glucose from the blood into the cell. But here’s what happens if you don’t change your diet and you keep on pumping up your body with sugar, sugar, sugar, eventually you’re making so much insulin that the cell stopped paying attention.

I mean, it’s a silly analogy, but back in high school, when we played sports, you would walk into that locker room and it’s stunk, it was smelly. But after being in there for 30 minutes, guess what? You didn’t smell anything you got used to that smell. That’s exactly how it works. So what happens is the body and the brain, you start to develop this insulin resistance. And this is also triggering the cravings for sugar because when we dump insulin to the blood, not only is actually aging us.

In fact, this has been proven in the research that the more insulin we dump into our blood and our bodies in our brain over the course of a lifetime, is gonna lessen our longevity, which means we die sooner. But what it also does is it actually dumps dopamine into the brain. This is why, when you actually look at the scans of the brain, you see those dopamine receptors light up eight times more in a sugar addict than someone who’s addicted to heroin or cocaine. I mean, when you think about that, that sugar is actually more addictive than cocaine, it’s hard to even contemplate that as truth, but that’s the reality. So we’re literally dumping the sugar in, and it’s just, it’s creating this fire storm of inflammation of the brain. It’s creating the glycation, the plaques. And eventually what happens is the brain gets so much inflammation.

It starts out as probably brain fog and processing speed issues and memory loss, and all things like that. But that’s gonna actually develop into more significant issues. And again, that could be any significant brain issue. So to really change this story, Patrick, we have to win the war and where we win that war, and that leads it to your second question, the grocery store. So we gotta become label readers, and we talk about this in “Get Off Your Sugar”, in the book, how sugar has about 62 different names that it hides in. So these manufacturers got really smart. They stopped putting sugar on the label ’cause we all know sugar is bad, right?

Everybody knows that. But what they did was they added words like dextrose, and maltose, and sucrose, and maltodextrose. So basically if that has “ose” at the end of it, that sugar. So if you look at the other ingredients, the first ingredient is what creates the most of that ingredient the product. So if sucrose is the first ingredient, that means that sugar is the most in that actual product. But now you’re not gonna see your sugar as one thing, you’re gonna see sucrose and dextrose, and all these, they’re scattered out, so it looks like there’s less harm in that product. So we have to look out for these things. And I think the best ways to shop in the aisle where the fruits can go bad. If those foods can go bad, like broccoli and kale, and all these like acid kicking foods, the foods that strengthen your body, green juices and fruit and things like that, those are the foods that we wanna eat more of, because those are the foods that are actually gonna strengthen the body.

Usually find all these bad ingredients in those processed foods, the boxes and things like that. So again, just flip that label around, look at the carb number, look at the fiber number and how you figure out the net carbs, which is the real number we’re interested in, is you’ve got to take the total carbs minus the fiber. So let’s say the total carb was 20, the fiber was five, the net carb of that specific product is gonna be 15 net carbs. And the goal is really, I mean, ideally, if you’re really dialed in, is to keep your net carbs lower than 50 grams per day. If you’re intermittent fasting, if you’re doing a ketogenic diet, you literally can lose a pound a day by doing that. When you’re in the 50 to 100 gram range of net carbs, that’s like the sweet spot for weight loss.

You’ll lose one to two pounds a week. When you go from 100 to 150 grams of net carbs, you’re stable, you’re maintaining where you’re at. Once you go above 150 grams of net carbs, that’s where the trouble begins. You’re driving up inflammation, you’re creating all the bad stuff, you’re gaining weight. And in the back of my first book, “Get Off Your Acid”, we actually give a very detailed list of every net carb of every food you can ever imagine. So if you wanna calculate that, it’s right there for you to save.

Patrick K. Porter, PhD

That’s great. Most people don’t know either that five grams, when they see five grams of sugar, that’s a teaspoon, right?

Dr. Daryl Gioffre

Yeah.

Patrick K. Porter, PhD

I mean, so if you think about it, like they go, wow, this, this has 30 grams of sugar . That’s like eating, who’s gonna eat six teaspoons of sugar. You’re not gonna do that, but they hide it in the foods. So I agree with you, God did the best labeling. We need to keep it that way.

Dr. Daryl Gioffre

100% and to that point, it’s like the research shows that the average American consumes about 130 pounds of sugar every year, and I think the number is actually higher than that. That equates to about what like 32 teaspoons a day. It’s insane. So if you look at the amount of sugar that people are really eating, and that’s one thing that I do with my clients, when I’m coaching my nutrition clients is, I’ll have them actually make a food diary, not of what they’re about to eat, but what they ate over the past 48 hours. Because when we know someone’s looking at that food diary, we’re gonna make it look a little bit better. But when we look at what’s behind us and we write it down, then we actually calculate, most of the time, the amount of sugar that has snuck its way into our diet and that’s hiding in our foods, even these so-called health foods, like grains.

And you mentioned Kelly, that’s what I talked about, when I went on the show at Kelly and Ryan, two of my favorite acid kickers, we talked about how so many Americans have had breakfast for dinner, but most of us unknowingly are having dessert for breakfast. It’s literally from the moment we wake up, it’s something that we’re putting in our body more than we think. So doing that simple task of taking in a food journal or a food diary is gonna be so enlightening. So you can really inspect exactly what your body’s doing.

And from there, once you inspect it, you can respect it and start to make the changes that you need. And my changes is always about adding, not taking away. Deprivation, for some people it works. It’s a noble way to go about getting off sugar, but here’s the problem, you’re taking away the poison, which is the sugar, but you’re not giving the body the antidote, which is the underlying reasons of really why we crave sugar in the first place. And I’m gonna tell you, magnesium is the top of the list. And how that comes into this whole topic of Alzheimer’s. Magnesium is the number one neuro protector of the brain. We are so deficient in magnesium. It’s probably one of the top nutrients we all need to have more of.

Patrick K. Porter, PhD

So is this something that needs to be supplemented or can they get this in foods?

Dr. Daryl Gioffre

200 years, a great question, 200 years ago, we could get this in the foods because our soil didn’t have the depletion that it has now. I mean, the list goes on and on from synthetic fertilizers and acid rain and just the overturning of crops and the depletion of the soil and all that. So whether you’re eating it all through the plants or from the animals that eat the plants, we’re just efficient. So it doesn’t really matter what diet you choose to basically take on. What’s the most important thing, Patrick, is diet variation. It doesn’t matter if your philosophy is keto, vegan, vegetarian, paleo, Mediterranean, I mean, there’s a million different diets out there. What I always tell my clients is that 80% of your diet must be plant-based.

It has to be plant-based. Because it’s those dark green leafy vegetables that are gonna give you those life giving minerals. Why are minerals so powerful, especially magnesium, because they strengthen the body, they strengthen the brain, they strengthen your cells, because they’re neutralizing the acid, the inflammation. So if you’re eating an 80% plant-based diet, at your foundation, you’re getting good variation, diet variation. Just like we want to exercise, right, variation, you wanna change it up, we need to do that with our diet.

You’ll get about 200 milligrams of magnesium a day. The average adult needs about 600 milligrams. So therefore we got to supplement that difference, that 400 milligram difference. But you don’t wanna just kind of like load up on it, especially the magnesium. ‘Cause unlike calcium, if you take too much calcium in, which most Americans are doing, the calcium doesn’t get released by your body, by urination, deprecation and things like that, it actually gets stored in all the places we don’t want it to go. Like your blood vessels, which is gonna cause hypertension, like your kidneys, which is gonna cause kidney stones.

That’s why we get kidney stones. And unfortunately your brain, which is gonna cause dementia. In fact, there was a study, I believe in 2016, from the “Journal Of Neurology”. And it was a study in the elderly group, And we’ll get back to the magnesium levels in a second, So don’t make me forget that one. But the “Journal Of Neurology”, they basically, it was a huge group of elderly women, age 70 to 92. And basically they gave one group, 1000 milligrams of a calcium supplement a day. The other group was a placebo where they didn’t give that calcium supplement. The group that got the extra calcium had a 700% increase in the risk of Alzheimer’s compared to the group that didn’t get it. Now, why did they do this study? What they were trying to show or question was if we give these this group more calcium, is it gonna decrease the risk of hip fractures, osteoporosis, osteopenia? And here’s the crazy part, iT’s the group that actually got the extra calcium had doubled the risk of hip fractures.

So the problem is not the calcium. The average American has 10 to 15 times too much calcium in the body, It’s literally the bullet in the body. The real issue is the magnesium. We are massively deficient in magnesium. We’re not getting enough calcium. If you’re taking a supplement like our Acid-Kicking Minerals, it must have a one-to-one ratio of calcium to magnesium. If your supplement has more calcium than magnesium, throw it out, OR as I like to joke around, give it to a neighbor that you don’t like, Just kidding. So, again, we need those minerals. I don’t recommend taking magnesium by itself unless you need to really just spike up that magnesium in the short run. in the short run to fulfill a deficiency, which most of us have, we wanna take it in a well blended supplement because we wanna get those other minerals.

‘Cause if it’s magnesium by itself, we will deplete the other minerals. So you wanna get 600 milligrams total of magnesium, the 400 you’ll get through minerals. And what I recommend you do is increase it, 500 to 75 milligrams a day. Because again, unlike calcium, if you take too much magnesium, you’re gonna be in the bathroom giving you diarrhea. So you titrate slowly. And if you get to that point where you start to get diarrhea, you bring it right back down. So that’s why in our supplement it’s powder, it’s way more powerful because it’s more bioavailable to the body, they’re medical grades, so you can really get more efficiency out of them, but you gotta eat your vegetables too.

I mean, you can’t supplement your way of a bad diet. So yeah, lots of dark green leafy vegetables, drink a green juice every morning. A green juice is literally at the core of a stress eating diet. Get a green smoothie without the fruit, right? Get green soups more stir-fries and things like that. Take Epsom salts bath because that’s magnesium sulfate with some baking soda. Put some magnesium lotion on your arms every morning, do that for your kids. All right, because again, it’s that magnesium variation that the body loves to make yourself more sufficient.

Patrick K. Porter, PhD

That’s right, one of the things I wanna point out, because when I started taking the minerals, I was getting cramping, right? I contacted you, said, hey, this is… So a lot of people might’ve taken minerals, but they were taking them incorrectly. When you told me, hey, a half hour before bed, just do your scoop of minerals. And I haven’t had a problem since and love it. And I can actually track my… I track, everything, you know that. So I have my sleep scores and I can tell when I’m traveling, if I didn’t get my bus too tight, I said, I’m not gonna do those minerals, I’m just gonna go to bed, I can see it in my sleep score, because it actually helps me to sleep deeper and better. So it motivates me to take them.

Dr. Daryl Gioffre

And that’s my nighttime ritual. I mean, I take my minerals and my kids too. You know my kids, I’ve talked to you about them a lot. We go literally, right for minerals as a family, then we go right to BrainTap. Every single night without fail, I am doing BrainTap before I go to sleep. It’s so important for our bodies, our brains, and Patrick, you’re gonna die. Can’t wait for you to meet you my children, when you come out to California, because every night they’re like, “Dad, can you put on Dr. Patrick Porter please?” And it’s every single night, it’s so funny. But back to the minerals, the reason why they’re so effective for sleep, they don’t make you sleepy, so you can take minerals in the morning.

I recommend you take them after workout, why? Because when you’re working out, when you’re cranking, I love to work out, I’ll work out with my very dear friend, Hannah Kaiser. And we go really, really hard. But when you work out hard, the body creates that lactic acid. So what the minerals do is they’re neutralizing the acid, so the acid doesn’t neutralize you. We got to give our body a helping hand. We are literally being bombarded by toxins and stress and environmental issues. And that’s all affecting our body.

So this is why supplementation has become necessary. But I like taking the minerals at nighttime because the body is most acidic between 1:00 and 3:00 o’clock in the morning. And it peaks at 5:00 a.m. That’s what we call the liver time. That’s when the liver is literally dumping all of its toxins out into the microbiome. So what those minerals do is they’re neutralizing the acidic components in the body that’s causing that possible chronic low grade acidosis in your body that’s draining your energy.

So now the minerals neutralize that acid so that your body can actually get that deep REM sleep. If you find yourself having trouble sleeping, waking up, especially waking up and urinating, definitely at that !:00 to 3:00 o’clock time, that’s a sign that your body’s in this acid, over acidic state, you got to get off your acid, that’s what the minerals do. So if you take them during the day, it’s not gonna make you sleepy, they’re gonna make you focused, why? Again, because magnesium is the number one neuro protector of your brain. Same thing with the omega-3 fats. Those are all very, very important.

Patrick K. Porter, PhD

I wanna make sure you were gonna mention something more about magnesium. So I wanna give you a chance before we move on to the next question, did you answer that or do we do we need to-

Dr. Daryl Gioffre

So basically the remainder, if we’re getting 200 milligrams of magnesium from our diet, from a really good, healthy stress eating diet, the remainder of that we have to get from other sources. And again, I think supplementation is the easiest. I try to move away all my patients and clients away from taking a tablet on, because even if your microbiome is working 100%, none of ours is, I test all the time. But assuming that the most you’ll absorb from a tablet is 10 to 30%. When you go to a capsule, it’s at 50%. But when you use those powers that go into liquid, it’s just so much more easier for your body to absorb it. So you wanna get that remainder of 400 milligrams. If you want a really easy way to calculate it for your own weight, you wanna basically do for every pound you weigh, you want three to 4.5 milligrams of magnesium.

So let’s say you weigh a hundred pounds, that’s 300 to 450 milligrams, a little bit less than the amount you would get at the 600. So that 600 was just like an average number based on most adults. But if you really wanna calculate it, for your specific weight, where you’re at right now, that’s an easy way to do it.

Patrick K. Porter, PhD

Does your little scooper do that? I mean, you have a little scooper inside there that you put it in there. Is that pretty much like my weight, should I be taking two of those or unlike 220 pounds?

Dr. Daryl Gioffre

So again, we’d have to see how much you’re getting from your diet. But again, each scoop has about 75 milligrams of magnesium. It’s magnesium glycinate. So the magnesium, and why, again, why is magnesium so important? Not only as a neuro protector of your brain, it’s gonna prevent against dementia and all those bad things, but it’s gonna help you against your cravings for sugar. You know, when you consume magnesium, the body actually requires about 56 molecules of magnesium to neutralize one molecule sugar. That’s the reason why we’re so deficient. So why like our minerals is that it’s 75 milligrams in that powder. So based on your diet, ’cause everyone’s got different diets, assuming it’s 80% plant-based, let’s assume you’re getting 200 milligrams, then you can start adding. So if you’re starting out, then I would say, just add one scoop a day.

‘Cause always less is more, how you do, then the next day you can add a second scoop. So, I’ll do three scoops a day at different times a day. I’ll do it after my workout, I’ll do it before I go to sleep. I’ll do it sometime in the morning. And again, I just love getting it from a lot of different sources, so for me that’s the key. So really just looking at your lifestyle, try to do as much variation as possible, but magnesium is number one on my list. There’s five essential nutrients we all have to take, even our kids that research shows we are all deficient. Magnesium is number one. And by the way, omega-3 fats is number two. And those are the two top neuro protectors of your brain. omega-3s are critical, right? We measure the omega-3/omega-6 ratio, which basically tells you how much inflammation there is in your brain.

This is how we can really check if we’re set up for dementia. It’s a simple at-home test that we have on our site. They send you a kit. You do a little prick of the blood, you put on the card and you send it to our lab. And in 12 days, you’re gonna know one of the most important ratios of the body. It’s the omega-3 to omega-6 ratio. Omega-3s drive down inflammation, omega-6 is drive up inflammation. You want that ratio ideally to be one-to-one. You want it to be less than three to one, omega-6s to 3s. And by the way, that’s what our pre agricultural ancestors were from their diet. They were one-to-one, they were two to one, but once it goes over three to one, we started to get into trouble. Once we go over 10 to one, that becomes a serious problem. The average American has 20 times more of these damaging acidic, omega-6s compared to omega-3s.

Now why is this relate to the brain? Because the brain is made of 60% fat and these omega-3s and omega-6s, they compete for the same enzymes. So if you have 20 times more of these dangerous omega-6s, which we talked about earlier, compared to omega-3s, it’s gonna hijack your brain. It’s gonna take your brain out. It’s gonna win every single time. And there’s actually, I interviewed this doctor, his name is Dr. Joseph Hilbun, who did all the research. And he actually did research on murderers and people in insane asylums. And what he discovered was is that their average ratio of omega-6s to 3s was 70 to one. And while he was saying is above other things, like psychotropic drugs and things like that, is that this huge imbalance of these unhealthy fats to healthy fats, was so damaging, it created so much chemical inflammation of the brain, it made their brains whack it’s hijacked their brains, so they couldn’t even make conscious decisions.

And it just made their brains so far out of balance, it did these crazy things. So again, that ratio is something that I think everybody needs to know about. You can test it, it’s very easy. One prick of the blood, two weeks, it tells you how the deficient you are in omega-3s. What that ratio is, is gonna actually tell you on a scale, what your precursor, or how much glycol, things like that, how much issues in the body that can actually create dementia down the road. So it really gives us some great information. So things like that are so important for people to test. And again, what you inspect, you’re gonna respect.

Patrick K. Porter, PhD

Yeah, what’s coming out in the news, which people like yourself have known for years is there’s a connection between like the gut in our brain. In fact, even now, we have brain biome, just like we have gut biome, and they’re fighting things out. So tell us a little bit about that connection and why this is so important that what we eat is actually feeding our brain and not just our body. I mean, it’s feeding both, but the brain gets first choice, but if you’re not giving it a choice, it’s gonna take what it gets, right?

Dr. Daryl Gioffre

100%, I mean, the heart of my research right now is the gut. Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine said it best, “Look to the gut because it’s the cause of all disease.” And when I say dis-ease, I use that hyphen because that means a lack of balance, lack of harmony, which means inflammation. The more dis-ease in your gut, leads to disease in the body. And we do these kit called GI-MAP, it’s a DNA stool sample test, which literally looks at the entire microbiome. You’re looking at stealth pathogens, you’re looking at inflammation via something called calprotectin. You’re looking at things that are creating leaky gut. You’re looking at the GI North, which is basically your three most important organs to digest food. Which is the acid in the stomach, which is critical as we age, because we get less and less acid production.

So now we’re not digesting our food, which creates more inflammation in the gut. And the acid is the first line of defense for all these pathogens. I mean, you don’t have to be in a third world country, walking barefoot in the soil to to get a self-pathogen like strep or Enterococcus or staph or Klebsiella, or the myriad of things we test for. This happens from the air we breathe, the food we eat the water we drink, which is why filtered water. Our good friend, Dr. Paul Bertera, it’s so important. We got to get filtered water and things like hydrogen water, which is gonna actually help our microbiome. It actually builds up the anaerobic micro flora in your gut faster than even something like an antibiotic and break it down. So the gut is where it’s at.

All the downstream problems we see in the body from inflammation, liver issues, which is where we detoxify the crap that comes from the gut, hormonal imbalances, and yes, brain imbalances, inflammation of the brain, it all comes from the gut. That’s where we start. In fact, they did a study, I believe it was the “Journal of Neuroscience” in 2015, where they actually fed mice, a high carb, high sugar diet for 12 days. 12 days only, think about how long I was addicted to sugar, for most of my life, this was 12 days. And 12 days of this high sugar diet created so much disturbance in the microbiome and in the gut bacteria, that it actually started to cause cognitive dementia and cognitive decline in the brain cells. It’s insane. So what I do with all my clients is we start with the gut. I don’t care what the downstream problem is, if you don’t fix the gut first, literally it’s like a dog chasing its tail. You know, you got to clean up the diet.

You’ve got to look for the things that we’re deficient in as far as supplements, get rid of the toxins and clean up the gut. But you’ve got to know what you’re looking at. So that’s why we got to do these testing. That’s my model, that’s my mantra. Test, don’t guess. We can’t wait for the body to break down before we start to test, because by then, it’s way too long. We gotta be proactive, especially now, where we are more toxic than ever in human history. So once we start to clean up that gut, that’s the gut brain connection. I mean, 80% of your nerve system lives in your gut. 95% of your serotonin, which is what makes our happy hormones, makes us feel good, lives in the gut. It’s so important. So we start there and again, we go downstream after that.

Patrick K. Porter, PhD

Yeah. So that’s really good. And when I turned 50, I realized like I couldn’t handle red meat as much, even though we eat really good meat, we get it from a farm and all that. And I found out I had to take hydrochloric acid, two of those if I was gonna have steak, if I didn’t have that around, I wouldn’t even eat it, because even though I was tested and they said, I didn’t have gout, I would develop gout-like symptoms. And what somebody else told me was, you’ve got gout. So I can’t have that ’cause the high uric acid content and all that it’s in the meat, but there’s also other enzymes, right. That we become deficient in, and that affects the gut. And I know in your book, you’re talking about, if you’re not taking digestive enzymes, we should. So what would you recommend are some enzymes for the brain to keep the brain going? And there are those part of what you put together in your formulas, I mean, I know you’ll talk about that.

Dr. Daryl Gioffre

And if I can say one quick thing about the red meat, ’cause this is important, I talk about this and “Get Off Your Sugar”, red meat is also high in copper, copper is a neurotoxin. Now copper is a very important mineral for the body, but most people have way too much copper, not enough zinc. And it’s the free copper. I’m not talking about the copper that you see in like in your healthy foods that you eat, like in greens and things like that. That’s healthy copper, but I’m talking about the free copper that’s really coming from the water pipes, which is here in New York City, hundreds of years old, but also in multivitamin.

So you should never ever buy a multivitamin. That’s what I want everybody, if you’re taking a multivitamin right now, go to your label, look at the copper levels. If it’s over 100 micrograms, mcg, 100 micrograms, if it’s greater than that, throw it out. Because the copper is what they actually found in high levels in the plaques of these Alzheimer’s patients. So you gotta be careful about the copper. So I think that’s something that we all, and look at your water supply and make sure that we’re drinking really good, clean, filtered water. Enzymes are so important as we age. You gotta think about it, as we age we don’t typically get stronger, unless you’re Dr. Patrick Porter, we get weaker. You don’t get faster, you get slower. We don’t produce more enzymes, we produce less enzymes. We don’t produce more hydrochloric acid.

We produce less hydrochloric acid. So when I say, get off your acid, I’m talking about the toxicity in the body, in the tissues, where that latent acidosis sits. But when I talk about the acid in the stomach, it’s critical. And one of the things that we measure in that GI-MAP test is an enzyme in the stomach, which is called elastase-1, which is a specific enzyme marker for protein metabolism. So every time we eat, are we digesting that protein? So you mentioned uric acid, which we see when we prick your finger and do a live blood cell test on my microscope, right over there. So uric acid, which can create gabble, which also can nick the blood vessel walls, ’cause it’s a sharp substance that the body can’t really break down.

It causes inflammation. It comes from either eating too much frutose, which is a dangerous form of sugar, or eating too much animal protein. And that’s something that we have to be mindful of. So we need these enzymes to break down these foods so that we can absorb these foods. You have to understand is that you’re not what you eat, you’re what you digest, absorb, and assimilate. So this marker, elastase-1, basically tells us, are we creating enough of these enzymes when we eat our food to break down the protein, to digest that protein, to take that protein and the nutrients in that protein for fuel.

Because again, sugar is not an essential nutrient, but fat and protein is, we need it. But the reality is is that the average American is consuming five times the amount of protein in the diet. So what’s the right amount of protein. I mean, we have to really look at that, are we eating too much protein in the diet? So that elastase marker, if it’s low, again, I don’t wanna get too technical, but if that number is lower than 500, that means you need enzyme support. So we’ll put somebody on an enzyme support. And you can assume if you’re not breaking down your protein, your pancreas is in a weakened state, it’s not breaking down your carbs, it’s not breaking down your fats.

So by doing a pancreas support, so every time you eat, what I’ll have my clients do based on those numbers, is I’ll have them take a digestive enzyme right before when we’re about to eat. And that helps the pancreas, it takes the burden off the pancreas. So that’s what we do when we’re eating. But some people need, what’s called the systemic enzyme, which you actually do on an empty stomach. So something like serrapeptase or Wobenzym or things like that.

There’s a lot of great ones out there, and melokanase. And what that does is it basically breaks up all the crap, the scar tissue that’s in our tissues, in our blood, in the brain. And it basically just freeze it up and it prevents future plaquing from happening. So I think enzymes are critical. Usually after age 35 is something that most of us need, Even without testing, it’s safe to say that you could probably benefit from a digestive enzyme. Not everybody needs it, but most of us do, but even taking a systemic enzyme, which I still take to this day, you take on an empty stomach, is so important for the health of your blood, your connected tissues and your brain. If you’re having pain in your joints and things like that, those are things that you can look into.

Patrick K. Porter, PhD

Which one do you take to do that? Because a lot of people have Alzheimer’s of course, or dementia they’re suffering in body aches, and pains that are mysterious. So that might help them as well.

Dr. Daryl Gioffre

I do it based on the blood testing that I do, the live blood testing, ’cause there’s a lot of different ones. But safe to say, if you’re looking for one for the blood and for the brain. if you’re having more issues with like muscles and joints, something like a Wobenzym will be better for that. Yeah, so I would speak to your specific health care provider about what would be the best one for you talking to everybody out there. But enzymes are phenomenal. When my dad was dealing with his cancer, enzymes were such an important part of his protocol. The doctors gave him just a few months to live, he he is out living.

What they told them by three years, prolonged his life. And we did so many different things for him. He was on a hardcore alkaline diet. He hated it, but he did it to his credit. My mom was just warrior rockstar. The person literally has his primary caregiver and I was the quarterback. And that’s, I think one of the big things I wanna give people is that there’s no such thing as incurable diseases, but there are incurable people. Your mind and your mindset is so important in this process, 80% of your health is your psychology, it’s when you’re dealt the specific card, like the pandemic, right?

Some people that entered into… or most people that when we were blindsided by the pandemic, what did they do, they crawled into their foxhole and they started stress eating, pumping carbs into their body, so much so that they actually gave a name to it. COVID-19 and quarantine 15 in regards to the weight that they gained from all the crappy carbs that they ate. I mean, it’s crazy, “New York Times” did a study a few months ago saying that the average person gained two pounds a month. But the people that, I don’t want to say walked into the pandemic, that ran into the pandemic, that were strength eating, and managing stress well with BrainTap and meditating and breathing and exercising, and doing all that stuff, they tended to fare better.

Yeah, it’s very sad that people that we lost. But remember if you go to the beach a day after a hurricane and you see this house that that’s older and hasn’t been well-maintained, and fortified, it’s in shambles. But that house right next to it, that’s being re reinforced with steel and concrete. That’s been maintained, and not just maintained, but optimized, it’s fine. Same beach, same storm. And if you get down to North Carolina, you know what I’m talking about? But my point is that, it’s not about the external factors, everybody, it’s about the biological terrain, what we put into the body.

So to the strategy, and we gave some strategy today, is 20% of your success. But this up here, what’s between the ears, that’s 80%. Because if you can, you can, if you say you can’t, you can’t. Argue with your limitations, sure enough, they’re gonna be yours. So that’s why health and healing, before we do anything in my book, we talk about the seven steps to get off your sugar. It’s a 21 day program that turns you literally into an energy field, strength eating acid kicking machine. Before we get into that, we start with detox, a week of detoxing your body with a three-day detox, detoxing your pantry, but most important, Patrick, detoxing your mind and your brain, right? Getting rid of that stinking thinking that’s basically holding us back from gonna the next level. If your why is big enough, your how we’ll find the way.

And again, the weight loss is fine, but that’s what I call a superficial why? When I say why, I’m talking about something that is so compelling, so deep, that when you think about it, it literally moves you down to your very soul, it gives you goosebumps. For me, it’s my four-year-old, Alea, it’s my seven-year-old Brayden, it’s my wife, Chelsea. And it’s my family. It’s having lost my dad to cancer the same time that my daughter was born. And seen that full circle of life. So for me, I wanna be around long enough, but I don’t wanna just live to 120 or 140 or whatever the number is our genetic potential. I wanna have this intact. I wanna get there healthy, I wanna get there in style. I want to be surfing when I’m there. So that’s kind of the big takeaway. Let’s focus on strategy. Let’s focus on the why. You do those two things. You give it your best shot. The rest is in God’s hands.

Patrick K. Porter, PhD

Right. There’s great information. I mean, I think people can walk away from this learning a lot. They can go read your book, “Get Off Your Acid”, “Get Off Your Sugar”, I recommend both of those books, but as we come to an end to this discussion today, which they can find out more about you, tell us where they can find more about you, but also tell us ways we can protect our… What do you think are the top ways, what’s the top takeaways that they can start doing?

When we didn’t really talk about milk, but we wanna talk about that. You’ve talked about at the very beginning, because a lot of people think milk does your body good, you know, and all of that, and you were talking about that. So maybe we can end with some of that information. We don’t wanna be… there are a couple of things you got to take off the table. The training table shouldn’t have them on there anyway, and everybody turning for their own personal Olympics. So tell us a little bit about the ways you feel are the best to protect the brain.

Dr. Daryl Gioffre

I mean the most important thing, number one of my list is stopped the crappy carbs. And when I say crappy carbs, C-R-A-P, completely refined and processed, that’s what’s taking you out. You can put the best supplements. If you have a plant and that plant wilts, the plant needs water, it needs sunlight. It needs nutrients in the soil, those are critical for the life of the plant. But if there is some gasoline leaking in from the gas station next door into the soil, that’s affecting the root system of that plant. I don’t care how much sunlight, water, nutrients, you give that plant, it’s still gonna wilt, it’s still gonna die.

The reason why we get sick and the reason why we are dying early and suffering, is because of two things, Patrick, we’re deficient and we’re toxic, and it’s both. So we got to give the body what it needs, but we have to stop the crappy carbs. And there are all these foods that we grew up. I mean, I wish I had the studies when I was younger, showing that milk does not do the body good. Obviously the reason why we think, that the white milk mustache, no, it’s a green mustache. That’s what my kids have. The white milk mustache is a massively successful plan by one of the biggest lobbyists in the world, the dairy industry.

I mean, listen, let’s put this in a common sense standpoint. How many mammals out there are consuming on other mammals breast milk? We’re not, we’re the only mammals in the world that consume another mammal’s breast milk. Cows don’t even drink cow’s milk. Cow’s milk is designed for baby cows. Cows milk has 20 times the amount of casein, it’s damaging to your gut. Cow’s milk is made for a cow that’s 1000 of pounds heavier. We were designed to eat breast milk. And then we stopped that at the age, right, at that age, usually two years is when it actually will turn acidic in the body. So my point is that, why is cows milk bad for us? Number one, it’s the number one allergy in children. Number two, it’s loaded with lactose, which triggers a lactic acid, which is heavily acidifying into the body. Number three, and this is not my opinion, this is the research, it’s in the book.

Milk does not make your bones strong, it leaches calcium in the bones, why is that? Number one, because there’s so much sugar, your body needs more calcium to neutralize the acid, than it’s actually getting. Number two, it’s not usable. There is 10 times more calcium in cow’s milk than there is magnesium. Remember what I said earlier, to be able to absorb the calcium in the gut, you need a few things. You need magnesium and you need vitamin D3 and you need K2, right? So K2 is important because it tells the calcium where to go. D helps bring it in and magnesium helps bringing it as well. If you have 10 times more calcium than you do magnesium, it’s a bad ratio. You need that one-to-one ratio, when it’s not to be able to absorb it.

This is why things like orange juice is so bad. It’s a 27 then to one ratio of calcium to magnesium. So the average person has way too much calcium and that’s the problem. And now what happens is the body doesn’t get enough Magnesium, it’s got too much calcium. The calcium starts going not into the bones where you want it to go, goes into all the wrong places, like I mentioned, your blood vessel walls, your kidneys, your brain, so on and so forth. So we got to get off dairy. We weren’t designed to have dairy ever. We have to just eliminate it from our diet and other things like grains, which is gonna really throw the body out of balance.

So it’s really about getting rid of these damaging acidic foods, like the one I’m talking about and adding in, what are the top neuro protectors of the brain? So we said, stop the sugar. We want number one more magnesium. We want more vitamin D. We want B vitamins, another neuro protector of the brain. We have to exercise. We got to watch out for that copper, things like that are really the main things that you got to focus on. And of course get those healthy omega-3 fats. The average adult needs about 3000 milligrams of omega-3 fatty acids. We are heavily deficient.

If you’re pregnant, it’s so important that you get these in, because that’s the very first thing that the baby’s gonna actually steal from mommy to build the brain three weeks in utero. And from that, the brain is gonna form all the other organs, tissues cells in the body. And it doesn’t stop right there. The number one cause of post-partum depression is omega-3 deficiency. So again, like what are those key five nutrients we need magnesium and minerals. We need omega-3 fats. We need probiotics for the gut. We should rotate those probiotics every couple of months, we need a vitamin D3 in a liquid form, not D2, like most doctors give, and we need vitamin K2. We’re coming out in August with a D3 K2. Plant-based liquid. It’s incredible organic.

So things like that because that’s what we just can’t get from the food. My kids are four and seven, they have to supplement with that. So it doesn’t matter how old you are, no matter what your diet looks like, those are the key nutrients that you wanna add a little bit more in as far as supplementation goes. But again, remember this guys, you cannot supplement your way out of a bad diet, health and healing and lowering inflammation starts with the food on your fork. That’s where we got to go. So yes, we talked about the gut, the brain, but let’s take it one step further, what’s on your plate. Is that a stress eating plate or is that a stress eating plate? Right, we need lots of greens, lots of healthy fats, moderate protein, and then of course those fiber rich slow burning carbs. And if you have a well-balanced stress eating plate like that, you’re gonna be in good shape.

Patrick K. Porter, PhD

Dr. Daryl, thank you for all this information. It’s great information. Hopefully they’ll continue to do some research. Maybe see you, catch you on the next time you’re on one of these morning shows or afternoon shows. Maybe now the job in California, they’ll give you your own show. Do this with people.

Dr. Daryl Gioffre

We should do one together.

Patrick K. Porter, PhD

It gets out there doing it, but always interesting. You always come up with new information. I know you have the sugar summit. So if you are a sugar addict, which probably 99% of the people watching this are, they just don’t know it, they’ve hidden the sugar on you. You really need to follow Dr. Daryl Gioffre, he’s on all the social media channels. Just look for, “Get Off Your Acid” is his big book, but he just came out with the book, “Get Off Your Sugar”, which talks a lot about dementia and the brain. So I recommend that you read both of those books, get more education and try out some of his products.

I mean, I use them all. I mean, in fact that was one of the products my wife finally agreed. ‘Cause every time I go to an event, people load me up with products to try. She says, what are we gonna do with all these? ‘Cause they want me to promote them. But yours is one we actually buy, we can’t do without. In fact, my son he’s kind of one of these people that they’re, oh no, dad, what have you got for me? He loves the coffee creamer that you have there. So if people wonder how they can do it, you even have it so you can take your minerals while you’re having your coffee. So you have some really neat things that you do.

Dr. Daryl Gioffre

And I have a treat and I haven’t announced this yet because this is coming out probably end of August, latest September, but we are creating two new flavors of the acid kicking coffee. So it’s not coffee, it’s a powder you add to the coffee, which neutralizes all the acids, so it’s got acid fighting minerals, but you have your healthy keto fats, like coconut oil, we talked about, the importance of the medium chain triglycerides, it has MCT oil, has Himalayan salt for sugar cravings, has fat burning enzymes. But we’re also launching, you’re gonna love this, a hazelnut flavor with brain boosting nootropics.

So we added some brain boosters like Lion’s Mane and Alpha-GPC and some other things that is now gonna give you, it’s not gonna get only get rid of the acid in the coffee. So now you can enjoy the upside of the coffee minus the down downside, but you’re gonna get these brain boosting neutrophils. So I’m so glad that you love it and vice versa. Patrick, your technology from the heart rate variability and from BrainTap has changed my life. The life of my patients, the family. I just wanna take a second to thank you. You are out there. You’re on the road. You are a trailblazer. You have helped so many people take their life and their energy and their wellbeing, and prevented things like we’re talking today to the next level. And I’m gonna tell you from a personal standpoint, what you did for me and my family, when my dad passed away from cancer, I met you through our very dear friend, Bob Hoffman, at his seminar, we became instant friends and I’ll never forget, you measured my heart rate variability. I went on your BrainTap for a 12 minute session, went back retested and every single marker was like 20% better. At that point I was sold and BrainTap has become such an important part of my life. I think that’s the takeaway, which is there’s no silver bullet here, guys.

It’s not about a magic pill, that’s gonna prevent cancer or dementia or heart disease. It’s in the lifestyle. It’s in all these things we’re doing now. The research shows that the plaques in the brain that are created as a self-defense mechanism actually come 20 years before you actually can notice them on testing. So no matter where you’re at right now, you have to start, start with your kids. You heard me say that, start before about the millions of people with preclinical dementia. So these are all things that we have to start to add, and don’t make yourself crazy. Being healthy is not about removing, it’s not about deprivation. Even if you’re addicted to sugar, how I beat my lifelong addiction to sugar was by adding.

And Patrick, you know my story, I started with one green juice a day. That was it, one green juice. I started bouncing on a rebounder, then I added a second green juice. In 21 days, my lifelong addiction to sugar was gone. My brain fog was gone. And in about three and a half months, I dropped 42 pounds. Why? Because my body was holding onto all that fat as a buffer to protect myself against the acid. And as I got off my acid from all these healthy foods I added into my body, my body did what it was innately designed to do, heal itself from above, down, inside out. And that’s the way we all work. You give your body what it needs. Like the plant, take out what doesn’t belong. Your body will do the rest. It will heal itself. As long as you don’t pass that limitation of matter. And I’m telling you for most of us, we haven’t crossed that line. But you got, if you wanna take that island, you got to burn the boats. You’ve got to raise your standards. You’ve got to step up and make a decision right now in this moment that I’m gonna do this. I’m not gonna try this. I’m gonna do this. Just like Nike, just like Yoda. Let’s do it.

Patrick K. Porter, PhD

Right. Great inspiration. And hopefully each of you watching this will take it to heart and really look at your diet. Even if you think you’re doing really well, I thought I was doing everything right, but I was doing a lot of things wrong because I don’t have the same education as you do. So you’re on the summit, you’re learning from a lot of experts. Dr. Daryl is sharing his wisdom, we appreciate it. And we’re gonna thank you for being here. And I know you’re always there if I ask you to help out, being on one of these summits and sharing your knowledge and information. And I believe in what you do, our family uses it.

Just like you’re talking about the BrainTap. And I think everybody, this is something I tell everybody, when they come to visit, in fact, when they say what’s for breakfast, I go, well, if you’re gonna eat my breakfast, it’s greens. ‘Cause I don’t eat until 12:00 or 1:00 o’clock, because over COVID I lost 35 pounds and I wanna keep that off. I decided no more excuses, this is great time, I’m not traveling, I don’t have to be bombarded by all these great restaurants. Like if I go to New York, there’s know 15 restaurants, I wanna go see, I got to stop that, right. And I’ve been doing a good job on that. And just by doing that, there’s little things you can do. You’ve learned a lot of the tips.

So hopefully you took notes during this presentation if you’re watching it, you’ll go look up Dr. Daryl Gioffre. You’ll tune into what he’s got to share. You’ll start using his products or do something. Right now you’ve got to do something, like he said. Start changing your table. Think of your life as a training for the next day’s level of success. And I’m blown away by that mice study, I mean that just 12 days, that changed the way they’re doing it. So and they don’t know they’re in their locker room, right. They don’t know they’re in a stinky locker room. We need to get them out of the locker room.

Dr. Daryl Gioffre

It’s the law of familiarity. It’s like, we’ve been at this for so long that you don’t realize that it’s actually taking you out. And that’s what sugar does, it desensitizes your taste buds. So you need like a drug, you need more of that sugar to get the high. If there’s a pebble in your shoe, it’s been there forever. You don’t even realize that it’s actually still causing damage. So I love what you just said, and maybe the most important thing of the day, which is start with one thing. Progress, not perfection. Do one thing, at least we said a lot of things. So it could be a green juice, could be coconut oil. If it is coconut oil, don’t start with two tablespoons a day ’cause you might be on the toilet, start with a teaspoon of workup.

But again, pick one thing and then become a master of it. Maybe seven days, 14 days, 21 days, you move to the second thing. But again, start to stack, start to stack. And over time, you’re gonna see that geometric change in your health. Dr. Patrick, always a honor and a pleasure to be with you. You’re one of my most favorite people in the world. I always just love talking to you and I get so much energy and just thank you for everything you’ve done, and always for having me on your summit. It’s always so awesome, thank you.

Patrick K. Porter, PhD

All right. Well thank you. And now get ready to listen to our next speaker. You’re gonna be amazed just like you were here with Dr. Daryl, who’s sharing these insights, so stay tuned. Tell your family, your friends, anyone that has an addiction to sugar, which is anyone who’s sitting to your right or left. Go ahead and get them to tune into this because we know statistically, they’re eating a lot of sugar, right? A hundred pounds of sugar a year. Wow. So let’s turn to the next speaker. Let’s keep learning and growing and knowing that you can improve your brain at any age. Thank you again, Dr. Daryl.

Dr. Daryl Gioffre

Thank you so much.

Healing Your Brain by Getting Off Your Sugar

Patrick Porter, PhD

Daryl Gioffre

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