Full Transcript Introduction and Survival Paradox Overview 0:09 Welcome back to the conversation. 0:10 Today we have Dr. 0:11 Isaac Eliaz. He's one of our fan favorites. 0:14 Hi, Dr. Eliaz. Welcome back. 0:16 Hi, thank you so much for having me because I'm very excited 0:19 about our conversation today and about being part of this summit again. 0:23 And thank you for inviting me. 0:25 So let me introduce you to our audience who may not have met you yet. 0:30 You're an expert in the field of integrative medicine. 0:32 You specialize in cancer detoxification, immunity. 0:35 Really 0:35 You help people with complex conditions. 0:38 You're a physician. You're a researcher. 0:39 You're a bestselling author and educator. 0:41 You're also a mind body practitioner, which I've always found fascinating, 0:45 because you don't see many physicians who are also mind body practitioners. 0:48 And I absolutely love this about your practice. 0:51 So today we're going to talk about stress survival, mitochondria function. 0:57 And we're going to get deep here into some of the groundbreaking concepts 1:01 from your bestselling book, The Survival Paradox. 1:04 So can you start off by giving our listeners 1:08 an overview of what do you mean by survival paradox? 1:11 And what is the main culprit here? So 1:17 the survival paradox is it sounds 1:19 is a paradox in that what really drives us to survive 1:25 is actually what also showtunes our life and drives many diseases. 1:29 So how how really does it happen? 1:31 We are all aware, especially with the COVID behind us 1:35 or with us still, that inflammation drives 1:39 really every chronic disease and a few diseases. 1:42 And we know it in the integrative field for decades. 1:44 Now Western medicine recognizes it with the cytokine storm, 1:48 but inflammation is really not the cause. 1:51 It's a result. 1:51 And we're driving. 1:52 Inflammation is the survival response. 1:56 So the survival paradox really offers a new paradigm of understanding 2:02 of a deeper understanding about our life, our health, 2:06 how we can improve our life and what drives our illnesses. 2:09 So because we are built lower, because we are built to survive, 2:14 because it's innate in us, it's present in every cell in our body. 2:18 And it's it's really automated. 2:21 There is the autonomic nervous system through the sympathetic system. 2:24 And we respond, as we all know, in a fraction of a second when there is danger, 2:28 when the body feel it in a survival mode, we respond either 2:32 with fighting which equates biochemically with inflammation. 2:37 Always flight 2:39 fear in flight with freezing 2:41 or with running away, which equates to hiding, 2:45 to isolation, to creating a shield which will then drives 2:50 organ dysfunction and fibrosis. 2:53 So these two automated processes 2:56 can be balanced relatively easily if we don't do it all the time. 3:01 When we take a deep breath, when we relax, 3:06 when we are more open, when we are in nature, we can balance the system. 3:09 The issue that within minutes the biochemical system gets triggered 3:15 to a survival response 3:17 through proteins called alarmins 3:20 alarmins molecules that sound the alarm 3:23 and once they turn on, they don't turn off so quickly. 3:28 And the cue I have been researching for almost 30 years 3:31 and made the key discoveries about blocking 3:34 it is the way to attenuate and reduce inflammation fibrosis 3:39 and regulate immune system is called Galectin-3, 3:42 and this is a protein that drives the survival response. 3:46 So when we look at the survival response, we want to look at what we can do 3:50 in a simple way, in the simplest way of blocking this protein. 3:54 And there is a natural blocking modified citrus pectin 3:57 and what the survival response is when it's in balance means 4:01 to us, to our life and what we can do about it. 4:06 I guess I'm I'm trying to I think this is a very complex 4:11 concept for our 4:12 viewers to understand, because it's almost like the thing that 4:16 that protects you also can kill you. So. 4:19 So the way I'm thinking about this is it's almost like if you have an engine, 4:24 a very high functioning, expensive engine, like, 4:28 I don't know, it's a maserati or something. 4:30 And if it's revving constantly at a high, high level, 4:34 eventually stuff's going to start to break. 4:37 And our body I mean, if I'm trying to simplify this. 4:41 Is that this is 4:44 This is only one limited way of looking at it,
Galectin-3, Inflammation, and the Survival Response 4:46 because really you're describing wear and tear. 4:50 And when there's higher wear and tear Galectin-3 4:53 it goes up why because the body needs to repair. 4:57 So whenever the body see that, 4:58 there's something that needs repair, it's a survival issue for the body. 5:02 So when we are very young, when we are babies in utero, or even more, 5:06 if you get a scar in utero or when you are just a newborn, 5:10 this if you get it cut, the cut heals without a scar. 5:14 Right? There are no consecration. 5:16 Consequences to the healing process because we are fresh, because the response 5:22 is more efficient and the response is fresh in a deeper sense. 5:26 What I mean when 5:27 when I say fresh, the response is based on what's happening at the moment. 5:32 When we get an issue and we have 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 years old. 5:37 Now, the response is attached to a baggage 5:41 of experiencing through our life interpretations. 5:44 And last time I hear this, that's what happens. 5:47 I need to respond in a different way. 5:49 And then suddenly the response is not it's fresh 5:52 and it lives it lives in after an aftermath, you know, it leaves 5:57 scar, it leaves a layer, and slowly the scars accumulate. 6:02 And this is really important in general, 6:05 and this is specifically important when it comes to mitochondrial function. 6:10 Okay. So let's talk about that. 6:11 How does this survival response relate to mitochondria 6:16 and energy production and healing and prevention of chronic pain? 6:20 So it's important for the viewer to really see the interdependence 6:25 and interconnectedness of all of these elements. 6:28 And I want to emphasize it now, 6:31 because it's really what makes the difference between just 6:36 struggling or really healing in between being an okay 6:39 Doctor and amazing Doctor is this interconnectedness of everything. 6:44 So our metabolic system, our energy production system 6:49 is functioning in order to serve us, right. 6:53 We need energy to do what we want to do. 6:55 And based on our state of mind, based on our state of physiology, 7:00 based on how we feel about ourselves in the moment, 7:04 and based about how we felt about ourselves in the past 7:07 and how our ancestors 7:08 felt about themselves, which affect us genetically and epigenetically. 7:12 We will have a response in the moment, and this response 7:16 is regulated by the metabolic system. 7:20 That's the definition of the metabolic system. 7:22 So when you see this is it. Wow. 7:24 So if I'm very relaxed, if I feel very safe, 7:29 if I'm in no rush, I can produce energy 7:34 more leisurely. 7:36 I can produce energy without too many byproducts. 7:40 I can produce energy more efficiently. 7:43 And then what happens, mitochondria is it's great mitochondria. 7:49 Doesn't the cell feel like it has oxygen, it's relaxing, it's not in danger. 7:54 So the factors that signal danger 7:58 within the cell or 8:01 that I'll shut down 8:04 and the cell gets glucose coming to the cell in an efficient way, 8:07 something called AMPK gets activated into one, gets block. 8:12 Hypoxia inducing factor is a factor within the cell 8:17 that tells the cell, Oh my God, there's no oxygen we've got to produce energy. 8:21 It's emergency. 8:22 You shut down and then the mitochondria 8:25 opens up, glucose breaks to pyruvate. 8:28 We make 36 ATP from one glucose. 8:32 That's a basic healthy metabolism where we are 8:35 not producing too much oxidative stress 8:39 and we don't 8:40 need too many antioxidants because it's all balanced. 8:43 It balances itself and it is a state of balance. 8:47 When the cell goes into a survival mode and it happens within a second, 8:51 then the cell says, Oh my God, I need more energy. 8:54 A great example when we do it, when we sprint, but when we do a hundred, 8:59 100 meter sprint, right, we can run as fast as we can. 9:03 And then suddenly afterwards, we get exhausted by this amazing 9:07 professional run of how tired after the 100 meters, you know, 9:12 it's all because they mobilize the energy systems and then the body 9:16 repairs and cleans and clears lactic acid and clears the oxidative stress. 9:22 So at this stage, we can produce energy 9:25 100 times faster. 9:28 It's amazing, but we produce it at 5% efficiency. 9:34 Two molecules of ATP for one molecule of of glucose. 9:38 So if you think about the number of 9:42 of of of glucose molecules that we need to consume. 9:47 Okay. 9:48 In order to produce the same amount, our efficiency is actually 2000 9:53 times lower because we are working at 5% and we are doing 100 times more. 9:59 Right, 20 times times a hundred them down with this 10:02 has very deep, grave consequences. 10:05 We can maintain it for a very short time 10:08 and then you start damaging our metabolism 10:11 and it basically when it's done on a long term basis, 10:16 it's part of different factors that we can of course 10:19 talk about and we'll talk about it such shifting the metabolism. 10:23 And as a result, if you and I talk before 10:26 you drive practically every disease. 10:29 Yes. And I think what's important 10:30 to think about right now is we're talking about the analogy of an athlete 10:35 that is sprinting, but many of us are sprinting in our life 10:41 with stress or we're sprinting in our life with being in relationship 10:46 to that Texas or working in jobs that we don't like or,
Mitochondria, Energy Production, and Chronic Stress 10:52 you know, stressing, watching the news and that same type of taxing on the body 10:58 also is like the marathon sprinter. 11:01 So can you talk a little bit about that and how stress I mean, 11:04 there's there's different types of stress, right? 11:06 There's there's healthy stress. 11:08 There's bad stress. 11:09 There's a concept of you stress. 11:11 So I think this is a good time to talk about that because 11:16 some people may be watching this right now thinking, well, I'm not a sprinter, 11:18 I don't run marathons. That's not going to happen to me. 11:20 But you may just be sitting in your office all day long stressing out 11:23 and this is happening. 11:25 Yeah, yeah. 11:26 The marathon is just an example of people who are really well fit. 11:29 And yeah, that's a very important and really important concept. 11:33 And it's a concept right now. 11:35 There's more interest in the concept of home basis, 11:38 you know, is stress to induce a balance. 11:42 But I can tell you and I'm going to air, it's great 11:46 that there's a lot of research on it, but there's a big catch 22 with it's 11:50 just like there was a catch 22 with everybody using ketogenic diet in 21. 11:56 So what happens? 11:57 It's very easy to feel good about 12:00 and feel, you know, justify being stressed because it's good for you. 12:04 So in principle, stress 12:06 is not good for you is a big category. 12:09 It's good for you when it's driving you. 12:13 I mean, it's useful can be useful when you 12:16 when you use it in a controlled way, 12:19 in a controlled way, either as part of your lifestyle 12:23 and in a controlled way when it happens 12:26 for very short period, like a run, they're running 100 meters. 12:30 So many of us, when us are in stress all the time, so we are sprinting. 12:36 We may not be sprinting with our muscles. 12:39 We are sprinting with our brain. 12:41 And our brain needs to get glucose just like the muscles. 12:44 The brain is glucose dependent in the beginning. 12:47 Then it can it can switch to ketone bodies. 12:50 It's why the ketogenic diet to to kind of to help in alternative metabolism. 12:55 So when the brain is under stress and on an ongoing basis, 13:00 we have different transmitters that are coming into into play. 13:04 And this neurotransmitter will affect growth 13:07 factors, IGF one and an insulin 13:10 and will create obesity and will affect metabolic processes. 13:15 We are focusing on metabolism, but it will also create a wear and tear. 13:19 So we're entering the brain now. 13:21 Inflammation is very devastating is not the topic of today. 13:25 So what happens 13:28 we can and it's interesting it's 13:31 this is fascinating for me because I don't think I ever shared it. 13:35 But when I was in the medical school, 13:38 I was a yoga teacher. 13:41 And I was noticing that when you exercise, when you dance, 13:44 when you move, your blood pressure gets better. 13:48 That means activity. 13:50 Putting the body into activity helps, which is really the concept of home 13:55 is of work because the body and I'll explain why it's important. 14:00 It's really the caveat today that I want to go a little bit deeper into this, 14:03 but at the same time, I noticed in red and experienced 14:07 that when people just relax, we also get the same effect 14:11 and it was really challenging for people and they kind of remember 14:15 I came with the whole theory how it works together. 14:18 I can get to the same place, you know, once 14:21 you get to the same point from two sides by letting go 14:26 and going into 14:27 the parasympathetic mode or by working out. 14:31 Because when we work out, there's always a state of relaxation afterwards. 14:36 And it's really fascinating for me 14:37 that it's coming back and becoming a big topic now. 14:40 And it's it's all about 40 years later. 14:44 And and so so really 14:48 what happened when you when we challenge our body, it's people who do cold showers. 14:53 I don't like cold shower me either. 14:55 I hate it. 14:56 And I don't care how good it is for my health. 14:58 I love what was was like. 15:02 I like to swim in the ocean when it's not too cold. 15:06 But fortunately, there's a lot of ways to stimulate or misses. 15:09 Exactly. Cold shower is not very good. 15:12 So some people like it, but the basics that we know when we haven't 15:16 exercised for a long time, when we start exercising, our muscles ache 15:20 and as we exercise every day, we can do more. 15:24 We can do more because our mitochondrial function is improving. 15:28 Right. 15:29 And if we do it at an early stage in our life, 15:32 we actually create more mitochondria and we and we 15:35 and we don't have the same muscle aches because we're able to clear lactic acid 15:39 because our antitoxin system is working better. 15:43 So this is a very useful system, 15:47 but that when we are under stress 15:50 because of the survival mode 15:52 on a repeated basis, 15:55 it really affects our whole being and it will affect Sinaloa metabolism. 16:01 And let me give you a little bit of an image 16:05 right now. 16:05 When we are talking right now, when people are listening, 16:09 they are reacting to us, right? 16:12 Everybody listening goes, oh, my God, I love what I 16:16 that's just oh my God, this guy's nonsense. 16:19 Or we just become more neutral. 16:21 We really don't care. 16:22 We are multitasking anyway right now. 16:24 Okay, so that's a reaction. 16:27 So whatever we feel outside is going to affect us inside. 16:32 This cell function metabolically is affected 16:36 by the interaction of the cell with its environment. 16:41 And that's really an important concept 16:43 to understand that the interdependence between cells and it's 16:47 also affected by how this cell interacted with its environment 16:52 in its history during our life, genetically and epigenetically. 16:57 We're all aware of it, right? Yes. 16:59 So the cell has a certain state of mind. 17:02 And I really look at cell to the living being, 17:05 and I'm really glad that now more people are looking at it. 17:08 I really because it's just a boundary, it is a metabolic system, 17:12 it reacts to the environment and how it's going to function. 17:15 So the cell puts different receptors on its surface, right? 17:19 That will decide how it's going to react, 17:22 what is going to take in, what is going to note taking. 17:25 And based on this, it will affect all these pathways 17:30 that we talked about that will affect the mitochondria. 17:33 So we are under constant stress in the cell is in a constant survival mode. 17:38 It will change its receptors in an adversarial way 17:42 and we will affect our metabolism in a certain way, 17:47 very different than when we put 17:50 the body under a very short defined 17:54 stress at times of stress. 17:57 And one more thing, stress can come from different places, 18:01 says stress can can come from a place of crisis where we are 18:06 emotionally, mentally, psychologically, 18:09 psycho, spiritually in crisis, in trauma. 18:13 That's very damaging. 18:14 Stress and stress can come 18:17 when we love what we do 18:20 and we just keep doing it. 18:23 And, you know, there's not enough time and we just committed to helping 18:27 another ten people are doing. 18:28 But we love what we are doing and then the whole effect on the body is different.
Healthy Stress, Recovery, and Cellular Adaptation 18:33 This is healthy stress because we are mobilizing ourselves 18:38 to something which comes from our heart 18:41 and we know the heart is happy. 18:43 Every cell in our body is happy. 18:46 I mean, the electromagnetic field of the heart, which is everything in our body. 18:52 When the 18:53 heart functions better, we get blood supply better. 18:56 And when the heart is open and spacious and compassionate, 19:01 our being happy and compassionate. 19:04 These are the three levels of body, speech and mind in Buddhism 19:07 translated into physiology. 19:09 So all of this system is affecting us on a cellular level. 19:14 So now when we look at stress, we got to look at it in this way. 19:19 It's great to to rely on research, 19:24 but for me, 19:26 research is just a confession, a confirmatory act. 19:31 What I talk, my insights do not. 19:33 I mean, research supports them. 19:34 Obviously, I'm a bona fide researcher with religion, age grande to study 19:40 is this protein 19:42 Galectin-3 and the removal in in blood filtration in a few ways is so and 19:46 I published all the time so obviously I'm a researcher but what drives the way 19:50 I try to understand life, the way I treat people is insight from it. 19:55 From my meditation practice, from connecting inwardly and outwardly. And 20:02 and so in this 20:03 sense, I wanted to a little bit present, a little bit expand this idea of stress. 20:09 And really, for each of us, we can look inside and see what it does to us. 20:12 And it takes time. 20:13 You know, although I sometimes when I sit and meditate, 20:16 even for a few minutes and I really feel, wow, you know, 20:20 and I tell myself, well, why did it take I started meditating at 815. 20:25 So almost 50 years got and let's say 20:28 and why do I realize things now? 20:31 Why did it take 50 or so? 20:33 A certain process of maturity, of understanding. 20:37 So when we connect with our body, 20:40 if people are meditating, especially, 20:42 then connect with your cells 20:46 and open up. 20:48 So usually I know I talk a lot about open heart medicine, right. 20:50 And we talked before about it is a transformative 20:53 and it's really the essence of 20:55 the solution, the transformative quality of a survival product. 20:59 I know I'm actually not able to talk about it as much. 21:02 I want to talk about the recipients of our open heart, which ourselves. 21:08 So when we come from a place where we are connected to a sense of compassion, 21:13 of community, of we are all in all of this together 21:17 our cells get opened up 21:19 and when our cells get opened up, we can handle stress much better 21:24 because the receptors on the cell feel safer. 21:27 So insulin will work better in the mitochondria will function better, 21:32 there will be less byproducts and there will be less oxidative stress. 21:38 And the balance between antioxidant processes and oxidative 21:41 stress becomes better, you know, and so this is part of the process. 21:45 I want to take a different angle today. Yes. 21:49 I'm so glad that you just explained it in this way, because we all know in, 21:53 you know, the functional and integrative medicine space 21:56 that we can run labs on people and we can write supplement protocols 22:00 and lifestyle protocols and we can detoxify people 22:04 and we can remove toxic elements from the environment. 22:07 But if people don't handle the end, if they don't do the internal work, 22:12 if they don't do the emotional, internal work, then oftentimes they will get stuck. 22:18 And so in my history of working with people, 22:21 the ones who just get stuck and can't resolve 22:25 their symptoms, oftentimes it's an internal job. 22:29 There isn't a supplement I can give someone. 22:32 There isn't a you know, you can't exercise your way out of this. 22:37 You can't eat your way out of this. 22:38 You must do the internal emotional work. 22:42 And this is what I'm hearing is inside of us. 22:46 It it it imprints in ourselves. 22:48 It imprints in our inside our bodies. 22:50 And this can literally stop us from healing. 22:53 EcoNugenics, makers of PectaSol 22:54 modified citrus pectin is one of our summit sponsors. 22:58 PectaSol is a unique super nutrient that provides 23:01 powerful natural support for your health. 23:04 It's actually backed by over 80 23:05 studies, six patents and 30 years of clinical success. 23:09 And it's a Doctor 23:09 formulated supplement that delivers support 23:11 for your optimal health through its unique mechanisms of action. 23:15 Now, research shows that PectaSol all blocks the destructive actions 23:18 of rogue protein Galectin-3 like you heard about in this interview with Dr. 23:23 Isaac Eliaz. 23:24 It's also a natural binder. 23:25 It's clinically shown to remove toxins from the body 23:28 and supports carriers of your health, which is why we're talking about it. 23:31 On this summit, I invite you to continue your health journey today with 23:35 EcoNugenics PectaSol 23:37 And they're offering 15% off at econugenics.link/silent15 23:40 with code SILENT15. 23:44 You can just click the EcoNugenics link on this page where you're watching 23:47 the video and use code SILENT15. 23:51 Yeah. You're so right. 23:52 And so what? 23:53 They gain a little bit of a fear of a jump, which is one of my weaknesses. 23:57 They jump from topic to topic sometimes 23:59 is that when we are aware of it and we are working on it, 24:05 I want 24:05 to just bring up the idea of so metastasizing it. 24:08 There's a way of so metastasizing it, bring it into our body 24:13 and then when we bring it into our body, 24:17 how we respond to it, we relate to the survival response. 24:21 So, you know, so we talk, for example, about Galectin-3, 24:25 that is the repair protein 24:28 and about about modify it, respecting the block city, you know, 24:32 and there's so many I like to unpick this all the motivated to speak 24:36 and I developed over 80 published papers on Galectin-3 over 10,000 papers 24:42 in the papers and modified, so to speak, you know, in multiple health issues. 24:45 So that's one part. 24:47 And we got to address it because that's why I feel motivated to speak 24:50 and is the most important supplement because it it helps to regulate 24:56 such a key process that really damages our health. 25:00 But now taking the other and the mind and is it 25:05 when we can have this sense of openness, 25:10 of compassion, of understanding 25:13 that we are all capable of doing and we all are capable of losing? 25:17 Right. 25:18 I know from my experience, I lose it one moment 25:21 and I get it one moment and they lose it one moment, they get it one moment. 25:24 The more we are trained in it, the more it embodies who we are, 25:29 the more it becomes part of our essence, the more our sales 25:35 get this quality, and 25:37 then they start treating their communities around them 25:41 in such a way in their microbiome, just the way we treat other people. 25:45 We have this idea that our body is different than the environment. 25:48 It's a microcosm of a microcosm. 25:50 And within this microcosm it does have almost 50 25:54 trillion cells that a lot of cells, you know, 25:57 each of them close to 1 million reactions a second. 26:00 It's insane. 26:02 So looking at this, each cell is in this amazing relationship. 26:07 I mean, think about it. 26:08 It's infinite, which is like beyond genius. 26:12 It is whole that we are alive. 26:14 And really, the reason why mitochondrial function is, is the essence of we know 26:19 last left you I emphasize it is because 26:22 it's really the great regulator. 26:25 So we have the great regulators in our body. 26:28 We have more than immediate metabolic rate in function. 26:31 We have the thyroid 26:33 and we have the adrenals. 26:35 We do know which cortisol in different adrenal hormones 26:40 and sex hormones that gives us the drive and the move. 26:44 These are different qualities of movement, but within the cell, 26:48 all of them, the bottom line, they're driven by metabolic function. 26:51 So metabolic function is so important. 26:55 But what you said and what what I want to emphasize is that it's 26:59 really a reflection of how 27:02 we think, how we feel, how we live our life. 27:05 And in this sense, we actually have a choice. 27:10 And it amazes me, I will say it in the list 27:13 of symptoms of the COVID, long COVID and I think fully recovered 27:18 that I would feel that I will feel a certain symptoms. 27:21 It's amazing. 27:22 You just relax the mind
Oxidative Stress, Antioxidants, and Balance 27:25 and suddenly they're not there. 27:27 It's not that I pushed them away. 27:30 I just relaxed 27:32 and it went all the way to the cellular level and the cell relaxed. 27:36 And that's a place where 27:39 this integration between oxidative stress and antioxidants, 27:43 between proper function all comes together. 27:47 Well, let's talk about that oxidative stress piece, 27:50 because we know that mitochondria produce free radicals. 27:54 That's part of normally normal energy production. 27:58 Right. 27:58 But we also know on the other side that antioxidant 28:02 supplements can actually damage mitochondria. 28:05 So there's a paradox. 28:07 So how do we avoid the buildup of oxidative stress in the body 28:10 and get around that? 28:12 You know, that's a great topic. 28:15 And I know I know, by the way, there are no easy solutions 28:18 because it depends on our balance at the moment. 28:21 And the 28:24 so this really relates to our, you know, 28:27 wisdom is people know what, you know, wisdom on a cellular level. 28:33 So the systems it needs to be functioning and producing energy. 28:38 When they are producing energy in a more efficient way, 28:42 they mitochondria is normal. 28:43 We need less, less, less of the support, less of the clean up 28:49 antioxidant is still very, very, very, very important. 28:53 But the image to think about it, if the 28:57 if you are trying to heat a place 29:00 or you're making a fire and the fire is very tiny, you put a little bit of 29:03 what are you going to distinguish, extinguish the fire, right? 29:07 The fire is huge and it's about to burn the whole field. 29:10 You got to put water on the sides. 29:12 So it's a balance between mitochondrial function 29:15 and antioxidant capacity, and that's why it's regulated. 29:18 Like after you have a after you really have a big burst of energy, 29:24 of energy challenge in production. 29:27 Let's itself after an extensive exercise or other activities or challenging 29:32 activities, you need more antioxidants 29:35 to clean the field. 29:38 So it's really a balance and and the balance 29:41 is not only in the biochemistry, the balance is also in the personality 29:47 part of people who have 29:49 very great adapted, adaptive vitamin 29:52 A, very adaptable people who can really have a big burst 29:56 and do a lot, but also the ability to recover well. 30:01 So some of us can do it on an ongoing basis 30:04 in some of us need to have defined time to do it. 30:07 They've been my in my lifestyle 30:10 and I'm not as extreme as I used to be, 30:14 but I need time for repair for the antioxidant work. 30:18 So in my life is history story. 30:23 I would do a lot and it would go every way. 30:26 Every year I would go away for, you know, 6 to 12 weeks 30:30 on my own to meditate for 20 years. 30:32 And during this time there would be an enormous repair where 30:36 I would look different when I come back, I would people literally I would look 30:40 10 to 15 years younger. 30:42 My, my whole being would change y 30:45 because this was the repair time I really went into the repair mode. 30:49 The more more balanced way is to do it all the time. 30:53 Right. 30:54 And that's a part of being building a lifestyle 30:59 where during the day we take time to play hard 31:03 emotionally, psychologically, mentally, 31:06 physically, and we take time to rest. 31:10 This is really important 31:11 because I know people listening right now are thinking, well, that's great for Dr. 31:14 Eliaz, that he could leave his life for six weeks and, you know, 31:18 go meditate and repair. 31:20 And, you know, people are thinking, I can't do that. 31:22 My job only gives me, you know, three weeks a year off my family members. 31:27 So this is a listen between the lines, right? 31:29 He's not suggesting everybody has to care for six months. 31:33 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 31:34 Of course, this was my my personal choice and journey 31:39 and I probably would have done it again and did not like. 31:42 I mean, yeah, every time I went, it would risk 31:44 my clinic collapsing and my, you know, I took a risk. 31:48 I decided 31:48 I want to meditate and it's not like I was all off and I would just leave. 31:52 But it was a choice. 31:54 But then within it, for ten years, I meditated for every day, 31:58 which again, not everybody. 31:59 This time it's not suitable for us now, but we can, 32:02 when we wake up in the morning, sit in bed for 5 to 7 minutes 32:06 and just let the whole space in front of us open up. 32:11 We can do it before we go to bed. 32:13 We can remind ourselves to just take a few deep breath and relax, 32:17 and we can add this as an exercise regimen, 32:21 even if we have 5 to 7 minutes, you know, or 10 minutes. 32:24 So these days, everything is intense. 32:28 The body adopts. 32:29 One of the reasons why the the 32:33 the stressful time we are living in right now 32:36 is also an opportunity to heal much faster because everything is happening faster. 32:41 I see now in a being trained in very traditional methods of meditation 32:46 that I trained in again, when I teach you, they do it in the context of 32:50 of diet and exercise and other methods. 32:54 It's amazing what happens. 32:55 People in a few days while in the past people would go away for months or years. 33:00 Everything is fast. 33:00 I often say that if you take a yogi 33:03 from the mountain, from the Himalayas, from 500 years ago and you drop them 33:08 inside Wall Street in the stock market, they would be dead in 22nd. 33:12 Nobody would not be able to handle the stress. 33:15 We are our adaptability 33:18 is a result of where we live. 33:21 We have our the amount of radiation of all kinds, 33:25 which puts pressure on the body that we have now 33:28 compared to 100 years ago, estimated or even founded. 33:31 Clear source is ten to the 15th power. 33:35 Okay, so not million, not billion, 33:38 not trillion, 1000 trillion times. 33:42 And this is radiation to the. 33:43 Body of all kinds. Exposure. 33:45 Yet we only live, 33:48 of course, the cost, 33:50 the adaptability. 33:52 It's a whole mess. So it's happening. 33:54 So we meet within it. 33:56 We also adopted the ten or 15 minutes 34:00 of exercise done in a very wise way, 34:04 may, may serve us for certain people. 34:07 Like somebody would take a slow walk for three, 4 hours 34:10 and you know, it's not the same. 34:11 I want to say we are able to adapt differently. 34:14 And this is the same dialog like between 34:17 oxidative stress and antioxidant in how we run our life. 34:21 If you live our life in a more balanced way, we need less of support on the edges. 34:27 If we really work very hard, we need time to recover. 34:32 But what we care is what 34:34 happens in the middle, the in the middle way, in the middle. 34:39 And the more, the less we go up and down, 34:42 the more our life is balanced, the more we can wear the same hat 34:46 because we are not as reactive to the situation. 34:49 I feel a lot better about myself right now because I'm super fast paced. 34:54 Person as I know. Yes. 34:56 And I'm that person who does. Okay. 34:58 I've got 10 minutes before I start my day to sit in front of my red light, 35:02 read some scripture, you know, get clear my head, meditate, whatever it is. 35:08 And then when I'm working and I got 20 minutes to lift some heavy 35:12 weights, it's like I'm I don't 35:16 I don't have the luxury of two hour meditation and three hour walk. 35:20 I wouldn't even get anything done in my day if I did that. 35:23 But so I feeling better about myself. 35:26 But it's more than feeling better. 35:28 You started the day by relaxing 35:30 exactly what we talk today about relaxing power sympathetically 35:35 and you 35:35 edit on the other side exercising in intensity. 35:39 It's exactly what we talked about today. 35:43 Yeah. 35:43 So actually it's both sides are balancing themselves. 35:46 This is a great way to wrap up this conversation because what
Detoxification, Honokiol, and Closing Resources 35:50 we just established is everybody listening right now can do this. 35:54 You don't have to go off for six weeks and meditate to restore your body. 36:00 You don't have to. 36:01 So listen very carefully to what Dr. 36:03 Eliaz is suggesting, that there's little moments, 36:07 those in-between moments in your busy day. 36:10 Can a huge difference in your cellular adaptability? 36:15 Definitely. Mm hmm. 36:17 It's important to remember, I don't go for six weeks anymore for. 36:20 Many years, you know. I don't I. 36:23 Yeah, definitely. 36:24 Yes. So as we as we wrap up here, always when I speak with you, it's profound. 36:30 And it's I'm I'm hanging on your every word, every time. 36:35 Any other recommendations 36:36 you have for our audience right now to help balance 36:40 their biochemistry and support, you know, their mitochondrial energy production? 36:45 We covered a lot of ground, but any final words on. 36:48 Yes, yes. 36:49 Okay. 36:49 Of course, I think it's important to use to do to put lifestyle into it 36:54 as much as we can. 36:56 And because it's free, it's available. 36:59 And it's the same principle of relaxation, 37:03 of exercise, of good hydration and of sleep. 37:07 And this can be on on on on on the 37:10 on the on the grand way of really taking time or in small ways. 37:14 In 30 seconds, in 60 seconds, we have to address Galectin-3 37:20 and Galectin-3 drives practically every disease. 37:25 That's why I feel motivated respecting 37:28 a picture is so essential and it's remarkable the feedback 37:32 we get from all over the world in situations we were not aware of. 37:36 And in the beginning, when the initial work on what effects 37:39 it was packed in Galectin-3 was on cancer, it's my specialty. 37:43 And then I started watching the people's blood pressure gets better 37:47 and the joint pains get better and the memory improves. 37:50 And then later on, 37:52 Galectin-3 was recognized as a driver of inflammation and fibrosis. 37:56 The basic processes of aging. 37:58 We have to support our cell, our mitochondria, 38:03 by removing things that put pressure on it 38:07 diet, emotional and psychological. 38:10 But also 38:11 we didn't touch on it. 38:12 Today, environmental toxins. 38:16 We are bombarded, 38:18 heavy metals, environmental toxins of all kind and pesticides. 38:24 So pesticides, huge pesticides, especially glyphosate. 38:27 And there are many others that really are so prevalent in the United States affect 38:33 affect our lives, affect the gut lining. 38:36 But also affects the cell 38:40 membrane, also affect the blood brain barrier 38:42 producing no inflammation damaging 38:45 damaging organs like the kidneys, etc.. 38:49 So I've made it a goal of mine to find a solution and know our product 38:55 to go for detox just went through the second phase of of clinical data. 39:00 We will be publishing it shortly. 39:02 Great results in reducing life with it. 39:05 I'm really excited to hear this. 39:07 So I test 39:08 glyphosate levels on most of my clients find high high levels of it 39:12 in me are probably like 80% of people that I test. 39:17 And we're also bringing some glyphosate specialists on this summit. 39:20 So Stephanie, Dr. 39:22 Stephanie Seneff will be here. Yes. 39:24 So definitely catch that talk. 39:27 I'm so excited to hear that you are creating a product for this. 39:31 Yes. And then we it kind of how I do my work. 39:34 We actually we did we know we are in the midst of trials 39:39 and now we have we have more, more subjects. 39:42 And really it's consistent what we are seeing. So 39:45 that's that's another but the other part we talked about the balance 39:49 between activity and rest, between 39:53 oxidative burst and antioxidant. 39:56 So the compound that helps the cell regulate it 40:00 like berberine, like curcumin, like quercetin. 40:05 But nature has sometimes creates 40:09 the same quality of compounds 40:11 that can decide what we need to win. 40:15 And one of this compound, which is under use, despite the fact 40:18 that I've been talking about it for a long time, it would not kill for me. 40:22 Magnolia Bark. 40:24 It is an unparallel effect in that it becomes 40:27 an antioxidant and a protective 40:32 and will reduce possible post-exercise inflammation and damage in a normal cell. 40:38 And it will put pressure on the cell. 40:41 When the cell, the cancer cell 40:44 infection, it recognizes the different 40:48 molecules within the cell, 40:50 the p53 expression there, 40:53 the oncogene that protects us against cancer. 40:56 When it's an imbalance, there's a greater chance for the cell 40:59 to develop cancer or it's a cancerous cell. 41:02 It will attack the cell 41:04 so that a substance or not really is a substance 41:07 that can biochemically do what we talked about, 41:11 that when we look at the honokiol a lot of research on cancer 41:15 and you will see that it's synergistic with with different chemotherapies 41:19 with immunotherapy with the with biological agents. 41:23 I published a number of papers on it. 41:26 Only the only clinical data, 41:29 at least in the paper that I published and in the papers 41:32 in the same time it also relaxes our brain. 41:36 It moves us from glutamate to GABA, from an excitatory 41:41 phase to a relaxed, more efficient phase. 41:45 So it in effect, it reduces neuroinflammation, it is neuroprotective. 41:50 So it's I mentioning honokiol a little bit in more extensively 41:55 because it really mirrors our discussion today, Laura. 41:59 And it's it's a natural compound present in Magnolia bark 42:02 But, you know, one or 2%. 42:05 You all you always are so full of so much information. 42:08 Every time I interview you, which is multiple times now, 42:12 we could keep going for hours 42:14 So you have so much knowledge and information to share with our audience. 42:19 And you are you do have a bestselling book. 42:22 You you're an author you have a clinic up in Northern California. 42:26 You have a website where people can get information. 42:28 You have a product line of supplements. 42:30 Can you share with our audience where they can more of you? 42:35 Yeah, of course. 42:36 So people are welcome to go to 42:38 dreliaz.org 42:38 That that's one place where you can find everything dreliaz.org 42:43 And we have a high quality newsletter. 42:45 We have a staff of people who research and put out the informative 42:50 and really high quality information, including supportive research. 42:56 And you can find more information about, about, of course, my, 42:59 my interviews, my lectures, and I hope to start 43:01 teaching more meditation and healing in the United States. 43:04 I've taught a lot outside of the United States, and you can find 43:07 about PectaSol and other products that they developed and researched and. 43:12 Yeah, that's and the and my book, The Survival Paradox. 43:16 I really think for many people it really makes a difference. 43:18 It gives you a different 43:20 point of view of an understanding about life and about him. 43:23 So good. 43:24 Thank you so much for yet again dropping your wisdom on us. 43:29 And I also want to thank you for the huge contribution 43:33 to the medical space that you are. 43:37 You have really influenced the way that many of us practice 43:40 and many of us think about healing 43:45 from deep inside cellular healing. 43:48 And when I move my, my practice towards 43:53 the concept of cellular healing, 43:55 this is when people started to get better results. 43:59 So I just want to thank you for being such a stand 44:03 for this and educating and just thank you. 44:08 Thank you. 44:08 Thank you for having me. 44:10 Well, until next time, Dr. Eliaz let us take good care. 44:13 Bye now.
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