Full Transcript Introduction to Mark Squibb and Levo 0:08 Welcome back to the Reverse Alzheimer's Summit. 0:10 I'm so excited to have Mark Squibb here today. 0:12 I've used his product 0:13 Levo to with my patients and our residents at Marama for years, and it's been so 0:18 exciting to see the phenomenal changes just with adding contrast. 0:22 Oxygen therapy. 0:23 Mark is a compulsive inventor. 0:25 His current flagship, Levo to evolve from a family health journey 0:29 to what could be 0:30 the most powerful, effective and affordable health tool on the planet. 0:34 Since the invention of Levo two, the platform has become a cornerstone 0:38 for health, with nutrient utilities that resolve addictions, 0:41 minimize all illness, and roll back age. 0:44 Most users can should 10 to 20 years of lifestyle age within just months. 0:51 This journey was prompted by family members with health issues. 0:54 Mark spent about 25 years developing Timestream Software, 0:58 which was sold to Seagate. 1:00 And also he has multiple patents. 1:03 So Mark, thank you so much for joining us today to share some of this wisdom. 1:09 Well, thank you, Heather. 1:10 I'm excited for our listeners to start getting the benefits 1:13 of conscious oxygen therapy and all that. 1:16 You've learned at Levo, too. 1:17 So first, can you tell us tell us what contrast oxygen therapy is? 1:23 Well, it's a it's a technique 1:26 to send as much oxygen 1:29 to and through the brain and the rest of the body as possible. 1:33 I basically developed it, you know, in pursuit of some family goals. 1:38 Pretty clearly, one of my sons was injured, 1:42 had a chemical injury where he lost, you know, had some brain damage. 1:46 And, we were able to see partial or I should say significant reversal 1:51 of that within about 48 hours of the first training. 1:55 I can share those results, hopefully. 1:58 And then, my 1:59 grandmother had had, Alzheimer's and
What Contrast Oxygen Therapy Is 2:04 very badly interfered with her quality of life as she got older. 2:07 And then my father also had a stroke. 2:10 Unfortunately, we didn't have little to for my grandmother, 2:12 but I did for my father, and we were able to reverse his stroke. 2:15 And I believe, I'll not erase he's 85 now 2:20 and erase his whole concern about developing Alzheimer's. 2:24 So really the whole conversation about, you know, brain health and maintaining 2:29 healthy brain function as you roll forward, either 2:32 for young athletes, something's wrong or if you're getting older 2:34 and you want to stay good, then, you know, that's kind of where I was coming from, 2:38 because reality is it's like, well, my grandmother, I've got, 2:41 you know, some of those same risk factors probably inherited as well. 2:45 So, you know, I'm being a little selfish in terms of developing these products. 2:49 But at the end of the day, you know, 2:52 having a brain that works better is a blessing every day of the week. 2:55 Absolutely. 2:56 So if somebody were to be using levo to like my patients, I resident. 3:01 Can you describe what that looks like? 3:03 How much time does it take? 3:04 What what kind of equipment they need? How does the equipment work? 3:08 Okay. 3:09 It's very simple. 3:10 So what Levo two does is it 3:14 allows somebody who's exercising 3:17 to vary the amount of oxygen 3:20 that's inside their breathing mixture while they're exercising. 3:24 And there are basically two modes. 3:27 There's mountaintop mode, which is if you're on a mountain top, 3:30 your body will open up and it will be as efficient as possible 3:34 and move as much blood 3:35 as possible through the brain and through the vascular system. 3:39 Then you sweat through a switch and it delivers as much oxygen as possible. 3:42 And that by switching back and forth between these two modes, 3:45 you can track the body into super oxygenating the brain. 3:49 So from a user perspective, it's basically exercise 3:54 or hypothermia or something because of physiological challenge. 3:58 And that by doing the, you know, by using oxygen 4:02 in this way, you can increase the oxygen level to the brain. 4:06 Like for example, we've got fairly 4:09 large protocols which will 4:10 create surges of oxygen to the brain in the blood plasma up to 24 times normal. 4:16 And when people do these protocols, they just massively oxygenate the brain. 4:22 And so that burst of oxygen 4:25 is awesome for brain health, either for optimizing basic 4:29 daily performance or if you're trying to recover from something. 4:32 It's great for driving detox because the blood flow 4:35 through the brain helps the brain detoxify. 4:39 And, so what does it look like? 4:42 Basically, exercise with a mask on your face for 15 minutes 4:47 and then your very your oxygen mixture and your exercise 4:50 within your own capability. 4:52 So it's a 15 minute workout. 4:55 Very. 4:55 One of the things that surprises so many people that I talked to 4:58 about this, and even so, it still surprises me to this day. 5:01 It really only takes 15 20 minutes for you to get on the bike. 5:06 We use a bike or get on a treadmill, some sort of stationary exercise equipment 5:10 and get hooked up to the mask 5:13 and you can really get an amazing workout. 5:16 I swear, like more on the level I do than I do sometimes in the sauna, 5:20 particularly in 20 minutes. 5:21 It's so quick and I often I'm sore afterwards a little bit. 5:25 You know? 5:25 I feel like I've gotten a good workout and feel so energized. 5:29 It's really an amazing way to spend 20 minutes. 5:33 It's so efficient. 5:34 And so what we're talking about basically is there's three 5:38 sort of concentrations of oxygen levels, right. 5:41 So typically we're we're breathing 20% oxygen. 5:45 And then 5:46 your system has an oxygen concentrator and then a reservoir, basically 5:50 a great big bag of concentrated oxygen that's about 80%. 5:55 And then somebody who's on the bike or on the treadmill, who's working, who's doing 5:59 the exercise is flipping back and forth between that 80% oxygen and zero oxygen.
How Levo Works in Practice 6:05 Is that right? 6:06 Oh, it's actually they flip back 6:08 and forth between a simulated altitude of about 10,000ft. 6:12 So it's kind of at the top of the mountain. 6:14 No not really. 6:15 Or it's about the same 6:17 oxygen concentration that you experience when you're on a commercial air flight. 6:22 So but because you're sitting on the commercial air flight 6:25 not doing anything, you don't notice that they've. 6:30 Reduced the oxygen level. 6:34 So basically, 6:35 yeah, you switch back and forth between low oxygen and high oxygen. 6:39 The oxygen level is about four atmospheres or 85%. 6:44 And so the low oxygen or simulated altitude tricks 6:47 your body into being super efficient at moving blood. 6:50 And then the high oxygen basically blasts it. 6:54 What's interesting about this is like age, 6:59 you know, like, for example, I've got young kids 7:02 that have started using Levo to as young as eight. 7:06 Okay. 7:06 And then my father uses it at 85. 7:09 And so one common misconception is you don't have to be a super athlete. 7:13 The ability to use the simulated altitude basically means if you're I'll call it 7:18 not that strong and worked out in a long time, 7:21 you can still get a great workout and a great oxygenation experience, 7:26 even if you can only exercise a little bit. 7:30 Because what the altitude function does is it 7:32 leverages the exercise you can do 7:36 so that you get more cardiovascular activation, 7:40 and that makes it usable by people of literally all ages. 7:44 I mean, I think our oldest user is about 95. 7:47 He used to run a interesting TV 7:50 show that talked about the price of things. 7:53 If you know who I'm talking about, 7:56 I think he's 95. 7:58 Wow. So and then you also have athletes that do use this, right? 8:02 You they're professional athletes that you work with. 8:04 And this is kind of like their Kryptonite. 8:05 This is where it really helps them excel 8:08 and really perform. 8:14 Yeah. That's correct. 8:14 So like we work with, quite a few top, top level, hockey players. 8:21 I can't use brands, but also the most recent big football game, 8:25 that particular team takes, four of our systems prior to every game. 8:32 So if you notice older athletes doing very, 8:36 very well beyond their, expectations based on their age, 8:41 like the older people that throw balls and football games. 8:43 Those guys, I can name three of 8:49 in three out of the four last 8:52 very popular football games that use our product before the game. 8:56 That's great. 8:57 Yeah. 8:57 So people are noticing that they are, you know, whether it's brain function or 9:03 muscle function or, you know, that ability to really perform is is being elevated. 9:07 Now, I'd imagine and certainly what I've feel like 9:10 I've experienced with my patients is that it not only affects 9:14 brain function, but you get better liver function. 9:16 Like you mentioned, you're getting better detox. 9:18 You're probably getting better immune 9:19 function, lots of other things that maybe we haven't measured or explored, 9:23 but it's just sort of common sense because you're getting better perfusion, 9:27 better circulation to all of the tissues in your system. 9:31 So have you I know that you have different protocols, 9:34 and certainly brain is what we're here to talk about. 9:36 But all of it's related, all of it's connected. 9:39 I know you've talked to me 9:40 about sort of universal improvement in the people who use the Vo, too. 9:44 Can you talk a little bit more in depth about what what all you guys have seen? 9:49 Sure. 9:50 You know, we got one protocol. 9:51 It's really engineered for neurological performance or neurological recovery. 9:56 And that particular protocol, the hybridized XR, uses 10:00 a number of supplements to drive different categories of detox. 10:04 And that, it's interesting because you can't really separate, 10:09 you know, you can't detoxify the brain without first detoxifying the liver. 10:13 And so like the protocols, they start out by super oxygenating 10:18 mostly the detoxification organs, liver, kidneys and so forth. 10:23 But once they do that the oxygen travels elsewhere. 10:27 And it sets up this situation, especially with the exercise 10:31 that when you get the heart beating and you get the body fluids 10:36 spinning around the circuit really fast and moving, 10:39 then what happens is the detoxification really kicks into high gear 10:42 because as the blood and lymph move through, 10:46 whatever organ has a problem, that garbage gets swept 10:49 into the bloodstream, filtered through the liver. 10:52 But say, for instance, 10:53 your heartbeat is twice as high or three times as high as it is normal. 10:57 Lee, what'll happen is that blood 10:59 gets pushed through the filters 3 or 4 times faster than normal.
Brain Health, Detox, and Whole-Body Benefits 11:03 Kind of like the oil filter in a car. 11:05 If you want the car to filter the oil, you rev the engine. 11:09 Okay? 11:09 And then that enables the filters to do a better job. 11:13 So like with Alzheimer's or any of these conditions that involve 11:17 a combination of toxicity, you know, it really starts by number one. 11:22 And most people don't understand, like you go to a doctor and the doctor says, hey, 11:26 do you exercise? 11:28 Well, most people 11:28 that are in a degenerate state of health will answer that question with no. 11:32 Well, one of the things that exercise will do, 11:35 whether or not you're using the VO2 is it basically turns 11:38 the fluids over in the body so that the filter organs, kidneys 11:42 and liver have a better opportunity and better basis to detoxify. 11:47 So, you know, like with liver to in that process, 11:50 we are first when the heart when you're breathing the oxygen, 11:55 the first thing that happens is those detoxification organs 11:59 get a blast of oxygen. 12:00 So you're bumping up their metabolism. 12:02 So not only do they have more flow, but we're basically supercharging 12:07 the detoxification organs before you start. 12:10 So you know 12:13 it when you think 12:14 about the brain and nervous system, 12:18 you know, there's really the whole body is an approach. 12:20 So when you oxygenate the whole body, literally every organ in the body 12:26 will have an up an increase 12:29 in its ability to do its job. 12:32 So its energy production increases because you've supplied it's oxygen. 12:36 And when the body's super oxygenated, just like, 12:39 you know, the history of hyperbaric people go and hyperbaric 12:42 and whatever's wrong with them, whether it's neurological or Joe Namath, 12:46 with all the football injuries and the concussions, you know, over 12:49 a period of six months, his brain healed and he's basically normal. 12:53 And that higher level of oxygen just enables the body 12:56 to heal so much better than it would otherwise. 12:59 And like with the VO2, what we see is dramatic reductions and, 13:03 you know, very significant improvements in the rate at which people heal. 13:08 Or if your agenda is not, 13:09 you know, or if your agenda is to maintain your quality of life, 13:12 you'll stay better, faster, longer, much like you do with your own patients. 13:17 So most people are familiar with exercise, right? 13:21 Movement. Everybody gets that and that. 13:23 That's healthy for you, right. 13:25 If only we could put that in a bottle 13:27 and then the other piece that you mentioned was hyperbaric, 13:30 where you're getting increased oxygen or concentrated oxygen, 13:33 and you're kind of pushing that, using pressure to push that into the body. 13:37 But you're doing this kind of with the VO2 is is like this mixture, 13:40 the combination of both that really potentiate 13:44 each of them. So you're getting that 13:45 increased circulation plus that higher oxygenated state. 13:48 And that's where the magic happens. 13:50 Is that right? 13:52 That's correct. 13:53 I'll try to tie this together into three three different pieces. 13:56 So the first thing is people have kind of heard of hyperbaric okay. 14:00 Hyperbaric is like thinking your body is a sponge 14:04 and you take the sponge in, you soak it in water, okay. 14:07 Just like in a bath okay. 14:10 So then you take exercise. 14:13 And exercise is like taking the sponge 14:16 and holding it underneath the shower. 14:20 Okay. 14:22 But there's another version of exercise. 14:24 It's called high intensity interval training 14:27 where what you do is you take your body and you exercise. 14:30 You go as hard as you can recover, hard as you can recover 14:34 in that special version of exercise. 14:37 What it does is it basically activate your vascular system 14:40 so that you're pounding and flushing and pounding and flushing. 14:43 With live O2, you're pounding and flushing, 14:45 but you're supercharging all of the organs. 14:48 So it's like, you know, the high intensity interval training with a turbocharger. 14:55 And so when you take a look at how long it takes to get results with a hyperbaric 14:59 chamber, it's like, yeah, you do 90 dives, 90 hours in hyperbaric chamber, 15:03 get get great results over a period of six months okay. 15:08 But when you use the exercise combined with the oxygen, 15:12 with the supercharging, you know, we see results literally in weeks. 15:16 So it's the same result, in a much shorter time just because that, 15:21 you know, we're just leveraging the body's ability to breathe 15:24 to in an active world as opposed to, you know, soaking 15:28 a sponge versus spraying a sponge with a, you know, like a, a shower or a, 15:34 you know, a nozzle so that you really move things out. 15:37 Does that make sense? 15:39 Yeah. Yeah. It's like that analogy. 15:41 So another thing that you mentioned was traumatic brain injuries. 15:44 And I think most of our listeners know that traumatic brain injuries 15:47 put people at much, much higher risk for developing Alzheimer's. 15:50 And part of that is because the one is a reduced 15:54 reduction in perfusion or circulation in the brain. 15:56 Another part of that mechanism is an increase in inflammation. 16:00 And another thing is that that inflammation 16:02 and that that trauma can cause the brain to basically try to protect itself. 16:06 And some of those mechanisms of protection include beta amyloid plaques 16:09 and how proteins. 16:10 So with your system we see some improvement. 16:14 I actually use levo to for patients who have TBIs, regardless of how old they are. 16:19 Use it with teens and seeing great results. 16:22 And so my question is what exactly is going on? 16:26 Are you reversing all of those mechanisms with Levo two or just some of them? 16:30 How do we get these great results turning around the the TBIs? 16:34 And also, does it have to be right when it happens or can it be decades later? 16:42 Well, let me let me start with the beginning. 16:44 Okay. 16:45 So when you first get, you know, whack your head. 16:50 All right. 16:50 So I'll just hit myself up the head, okay. 16:53 The impact of, you know, my skull decelerating is going to squish my brain 16:58 against the one side. 16:59 And then most of the time, 17:00 the brain is going to bounce backwards in the opposite direction 17:03 and get a reverse squish on the other side. 17:05 So what you see in terms of TBI is you'll see a symmetric pattern front back, 17:10 you know, side to side where you got similar damage on both sides. 17:14 Okay. 17:14 So one way to think about that is a bruise. 17:17 So when you squish the brain up you basically damage the vascular system. 17:21 And so like when somebody hits their head a lot of times the area 17:24 that's that's injured stops working okay. 17:27 So you see people that have had brain, you see personality shifts, mood shifts 17:31 and then what happens is over a period of roughly 17:34 3 to 5 years, the brain will say, oh gee, I can't use that part anymore. 17:38 And it will start building pathways to work around what's not working. 17:43 Okay. 17:43 So and that's where you get into a lot of the changes 17:47 that happen as a result of, you know, the TBI. 17:49 So the. 17:52 And then over 17:53 time, eventually the brain figures out what happens with the blow. 17:57 Two is like, we've got a specialized protocol 17:59 that's, you know, somebody that's gets in shape is when you use what we call brain 18:03 oh two, you challenge yourself very hard so that you can hear your heart 18:07 pounding in your head. 18:09 And what that does is it creates enough pulse, pressure a lot of times 18:12 more or less, to break through or squirt 18:15 blood through the areas of the brain that got squished. 18:19 And when that happens, it turns the blood flow back on to those areas. 18:23 And interestingly enough, we've seen those areas 18:26 actually start working again in two hours. 18:29 Wow. That's an, 18:32 Well, it's amazing because they're not really injured. 18:35 They're just kind of asleep because the blood supply to those tissues. 18:38 So that's one of the reasons we, 18:39 you know, if somebody is able we always try to 18:41 take them to the, to the brain or to and the, the recipe for that is 18:44 they exercise under low oxygen conditions enough to like and hear their heart 18:48 pound in their head. 18:49 Now I realize that maybe beyond the physiologic physiological capacity, 18:53 a lot of your audience, but there's a lot of athletes out there 18:56 that have have had a recent concussion where if we can do that, 19:01 then what will happen is they can often see and experience, 19:06 a restoration of function, because as soon as that 19:08 part of the brain gets oxygen, it'll switch back on. 19:11 And, but anyway. 19:12 And that's for, I'll call it younger athletes. 19:15 And to your point, so what we see is basically a timeline of somebodies 19:19 recent concussion, meaning within the last three years, 19:23 a lot of times that you can see them come right back online. 19:27 If they're five years, go post concussion. 19:29 What happens is they'll come back online immediately, 19:32 but their neurological scores will drop for a period of about three days 19:36 as their brains figuring out how to unwind all the neuroplasticity. 19:41 And then in a week, they're like, oh, like I feel better. 19:45 So, you know, the first question is really a plumbing problem, 19:48 which is when you have a concussion, you damage the vascular system 19:52 and when you hit it or squirt it with enough oxygen, a lot of times 19:56 that tissue, the brain tissue that's 19:58 sitting there dormant, can just come back to life. 20:01 And what's amazing about that is you see people literally saying, wow, 20:04 I feel normal. 20:06 One of the most interesting ones is we had a color pro football player 20:09 that was I was training in Denver one day anyway, and he 20:12 I didn't realize at the time he lost the previous season 20:16 and he reached around the back of his head 20:18 and I said, well, I feel a tickling or a tingling in the back of his head. 20:22 And I told his trainer, I said, well, what's happening there is the injury. Or 20:27 I wasn't 20:27 familiar with his history, but that injury was basically healing. 20:31 It's time anyway, to get to your point. 20:33 So number one is there's a time zero or very fast response. 20:38 And then the other thing that happens is if you take those areas 20:42 that have had a an injury, concussion or whatever 20:47 over a period of years, like five, ten, 15, 20:50 and what happens is that those that brain tissue lives in the low oxygen state. 20:55 So when it comes time to grow proteins or full proteins to manufacture, 20:59 try to heal because the supply chain of nutrients 21:03 and oxygen is damaged, then those that brain tissue 21:06 lacks the energy it takes to properly, you know, to heal. 21:10 Okay, so if somebody is going to steal injury 21:13 like now, football players that have played some number of years 21:17 and then they end up with these amyloid artifacts and various 21:20 other things once they start to oxygenate the brain. 21:24 At that point, what will happen is they'll have the resources 21:27 to create better recovery tissue. 21:30 So you'll see sort of the tendency over time, not only for them to I'll call it 21:36 ten to 21:37 a well, their brain pictures will start to look more normal, 21:40 but also their dysfunctions that occur 21:44 as a result of biological or, you know, injury will start to drift back to normal. 21:50 I mean, we've got people that are, you know, five years post major brain injuries 21:53 that are actually feeling starting to get sensory back. 21:57 And yeah, 21:58 kinetic movement, back and arms and legs that have been paralyzed for 5
TBI Recovery and Neurological Repair 22:01 to 10 years. 22:03 So anyway, that's a question of the timeline. 22:05 Yeah. 22:05 You turn the plumbing back on, they get a response that tissues springs back. 22:10 But if there's actual healing to do, 22:13 keeping that tissue in a highly oxygenated state 22:16 enables it to heal more and more quickly than it would otherwise. 22:20 Does that make sense? Yeah. 22:21 And so there's so 22:22 and that speaks to your amyloid proteins and various other things I'm sorry. 22:26 No, no. 22:26 So the concept here is that it's not black or white right. 22:29 There's tissue that healthy like you might see in a child who's 22:33 who's neurologically still developing. Right. 22:35 That's really healthy tissue 22:36 that's going in the direction of learning and memorizing and, you know, 22:41 getting good concepts into their brains. 22:43 And that's that's kind of like what we would want. 22:45 That's kind of ideal brain tissue. 22:47 And then there's post stroke where maybe there's been an ischemia event 22:51 and there's literally cells in the brain that just die. 22:55 What you're talking about is some gray area in between where 22:58 maybe it's not fully optimal neurological tissue 23:01 and it's not completely dead neurological tissue, but it's somewhere in between. 23:05 And what we can do it as we oxygenate it and perfused it with the nutrients 23:09 and fluids and everything else that needs, and take the trash out is we can go more 23:14 in the direction of that, like developing youthful, 23:17 highly optimized brain. 23:21 Yeah. 23:21 So I think there's probably four different categories now. 23:24 There's one healthy 23:26 brain tissue that's well oxygenated that works like it's supposed to. 23:30 Next down I'll call it brownout where you got tissue. 23:33 That's quote unquote not mechanically injured, 23:36 but it's not working to cause the blood supply to it's been compromised. 23:40 So it's trapped in a low energy state. 23:42 And if you can get blood to that. 23:43 So if you have a stroke, then you usually have a fossil. 23:46 I have the stroke tissue downstream of that. 23:48 Some of it will be killed or, you know, damn irreversibly damaged. 23:52 But then there's usually a gray zone around that that has 23:56 if you could get oxygen to it, it would work normally. 23:59 And and then another category is like say for instance in as all 24:03 Alzheimer's condition where you've got a systemic situation 24:06 where there's a chemical or toxin load across the brain. 24:09 So the entire brain's not working right. 24:11 So it may it's still working, but it's not working right, 24:14 because that it needs to detoxify. 24:18 And then the fourth category would be like, okay, somebody that's had a stroke 24:21 where you've had actual destruction of nerve tissue, tissue. 24:26 And as a result the brain needs to, quote 24:29 unquote, go grow new, new brain tissue. 24:32 The reality is, in terms of our customer base, we have people 24:35 and each with each one of those verified injuries, okay. 24:38 Like and even the fourth case, I mean, we've got people 24:41 that are 50 years old that are recovering from stroke. 24:44 And, you know, the survivor, I'm talking about a guy named Ben Menefee. 24:50 He had a severe brain bleed while he was in, in Afghanistan. 24:55 And the completely surprising thing about him is 24:57 doctor says you'll never get out of the wheelchair, etc.. 25:00 But, you know, I think he's 5 or 6 years, and every time we debrief him, he's got, 25:04 you know, more feeling in his arms and legs that have been paralyzed 25:08 for the past year, which gives me a basis to assert that, okay, he's 25:12 not just turning on tissue that lost its blood supply. 25:16 His body's actually regrowing nerve tissue 25:20 that his previous doctors told him he should not ever expect to regain. 25:26 So, and we see this quite a bit. 25:28 Almost everybody that that is in here will gain some. 25:31 You can't look at them and say, and certainly 25:34 you never want to make a promise that they'd be able to grow anything back. 25:37 But I do know, as a matter of observation that what the neurologists say can grow 25:42 back versus what God says or nature says, 25:45 or grow back or absolutely not the same. 25:48 And if you supply copious volumes of oxygen to the organ or the brain, 25:54 then a lot more, well, it'll grow back better than it would if you didn't. 25:58 Which is why you see such great results. 26:01 I'm sorry. 26:02 Please repeat. 26:02 There's certainly more potential for recovery if you're delivering 26:06 everything that the body needs to heal. 26:09 Correct. 26:10 So like when you go and you look at the research around 26:12 hyperbaric and stroke care and stuff like that, or, you know, the John Amos 26:16 story about, you know, his recovery from so many years of football injury. 26:19 You know, supplying the brain with large quantities of oxygen always helps. 26:25 You can't say how much when you begin, but if you know, 26:30 they were to treat every stroke by, you know, prescribing hyperbaric 26:33 chambers or something like that, I think the outcome 26:36 would be vastly better than it is. 26:38 And it's just a question of, you know, give the body as much oxygen as you can. 26:43 And when you do that, you're going to have a better outcome. 26:46 Or if 26:46 you're looking to not or to preserve your brain function, 26:50 you know, if you give your brain as much oxygen as possible, chances 26:54 are it's going to continue to work better. 26:56 So there's two ways to look at it. 26:57 You can look at it from a recovery, and you can look at it from a prevention 27:01 point of view. 27:02 I'm I'm kind of big on the prevention based on my family history. 27:06 It's certainly a lot easier to prevent this kind of thing 27:09 that Alzheimer's, than it is to reverse it. 27:12 However, a lot of people are not as motivated early on, and it's 27:16 certainly harder to measure prevention than it is to measure reversal. 27:20 So with level two, a part of the magic is actually the CO2 27:25 that's generated when you're in negative O2 and oxygen isn't. 27:29 I know, I know, we're talking about delivering more oxygen 27:31 as if it's only good, but you can't get too much oxygen, right? 27:35 Like, tell me how we balance that here. 27:40 Well all right, 27:42 so when you use the word oxygen, 27:45 most people jump to the conclusion that oxygen is very good. 27:49 And the truth is it is oxygen is very good. 27:52 The challenge with oxygen, however, is that if you only breathe oxygen, 27:57 then like, for example, oxygen alone 28:01 is a vasoconstrictor, which is a big word that says okay, it 28:05 actually causes the body to compensate for axis 28:08 oxygen by shrinking the arteries 28:11 and reducing the amount of blood that it moves around the body. 28:15 Okay. So that's a that's a misconception. 28:17 So like for example, if you just give somebody passive oxygen 28:21 then it's it's helpful. 28:24 If you give somebody oxygen while they're exercising 28:26 then you've got the exercise basically increasing the blood flow through the body 28:31 by creating demand, which also causes it to create carbon dioxide. 28:36 So the vaso constrictive effect is offset by the demand 28:39 and the production of carbon dioxide though. 28:41 So you end up counterbalancing it. 28:44 So you will end up with a much higher level of oxygen 28:47 than the third level of that is we actually developed the technique of, 28:51 you know, using a low oxygen mixture mixture 28:54 to vaso dilate the entire body. 28:57 So like for example, if you mix low oxygen mixture, 29:00 then what happens is the body will adapt to the low oxygen mixture 29:04 to just open the pipes up and maximize the blood flow. 29:08 And that's where we kind of 29:09 came up with, you know, the brain protocols, just for example. 29:13 And this is what we did with my son and I do routinely myself, 29:17 I invented the adaptive contrast technique when I went up in the mountain skiing, 29:20 and all I could hear was my heart pounding in my head. 29:23 When I researched that, the heart pounding in the head was because I was at, 29:27 I don't know, 14,000ft or something like that. 29:30 My body was like, oh, well, 29:31 I guess it was more like 12, but the low oxygen mixture says, 29:35 wow, I need to get as much oxygen out of what's left of Mark's brain. 29:39 Okay. 29:39 And then when that circuit opens, by the time you hear your heart pounding 29:43 your head, your body's approximately 29:45 squirting four times more blood through your brain than normal, okay? 29:49 And four times more blood is when you hear your heart beating your head. 29:55 Okay, so it occurred to me that just like, okay, if I could 29:58 get that flow pattern active 30:00 and throw a switch and send more oxygen to the brain, to the brain, 30:04 while there's four times more blood, then that could be significant. 30:08 So I tried that and I did an IQ test before and after, 30:14 and I have no obvious brain damage. 30:18 And what happened was that when I measured my IQ on Monday 30:21 and I did this protocol, and then I measured my IQ on Wednesday, 30:24 my IQ went up by 17% between Monday, Monday and Wednesday. 30:29 And I'm like, wow, that's really interesting. 30:33 Okay, so when I go to work or if I have to manage or solve hard 30:37 problems, you know, having my brain work better because of that experiment 30:42 and being able to just maximize that oxygen. 30:44 Number one, it like the chances I'm going to develop a, 30:48 you know, I'll call it Alzheimer's or whatever are lower in my perception. 30:52 But the you know, the principle there is about the oxygen 30:55 using the low oxygen tricks the body. 30:58 And if you rapidly switch from low oxygen to high oxygen, you can supercharge. 31:04 And that supercharging of the brain, for example, is easily measurable 31:08 and has improvement in cognitive and neurological function. 31:14 I hope I answered your question. 31:15 Yeah. No, absolutely. 31:16 And what I get excited about as a clinician and as a, 31:19 you know, a cheerleader for people doing this kind of thing is like, imagine 31:22 if you start combining that with then good sleep and great nutrition, 31:26 really good food and a great environment and loving relationships. 31:30 Like all of a sudden you just have this recipe. 31:33 You have this formula for really, really improving cognitive function 31:37 and just like well-being, right? 31:38 Enjoying life more. 31:42 Well, and that's interesting. 31:44 One of the places we went next in the scenario, which is, you know, 31:47 now that we had this ability to like, like if you take the brain 31:52 example, there's oxygen, the brain, but there's also the process of quote 31:57 unquote, flushing the brain fluids out the lamp, etc. 32:01 by, you know, basically exercising in a way that turns the fluids over. 32:05 So like, for example, if you're trying to do help somebody 32:08 that has an Alzheimer's or some toxic type of problem, all right. 32:13 If you preload the organ that you're trying to detoxify with, agents 32:19 that help with detoxification, like it EDTA 32:22 or glue, thiamin or DMSO or whatever, 32:25 then you can actually use the combination 32:29 of the detox agent, the flush process of the high flow, 32:34 plus the oxygen process to expedite any sort of healing process. 32:40 So, you know, with respect to Alzheimer's, you know, what we've done is 32:44 we build out, you know, a program that actually creates a daily cycle of, 32:49 okay, use these detoxification supplements, followed by a workout 32:54 at a particular time, followed 32:57 by a food or a meal that is very rich in substances
Oxygen, Exercise, and Mitochondrial Energy 33:01 that the body will use to, you know, grow back or heal brain tissue. 33:06 And we call this or what we call it neuro fusion. 33:08 We've used that with a few people with, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, etc. 33:12 so that's another point, which is once you've got this oxygenation tool, 33:16 you can combine it with literally any other healing tool 33:20 to help people achieve their goals or recover or whatever they'd like to do. 33:31 Oh, okay. So, 33:36 I did. 33:41 So then as you combine 33:42 these things together, it seems like we're going to get more 33:45 and more and more potential for healing, right? 33:47 It's not about just one thing on its own, although oxygen is one of those things. 33:51 We certainly see this with people who have sleep apnea 33:54 that when they have sleep apnea, we see quick 33:57 degradation in cognitive function and in energy levels. 34:00 I mean, in mood. 34:01 Everything is affected when you don't get enough oxygen to the brain. 34:04 So we know full well just from seeing what happens with sleep apnea, 34:08 that not getting enough oxygen is going to cause damage. 34:11 And then this is incredible because what we do is we go to the flip 34:15 side of the extreme right, 34:16 let's super oxygenate people and see what kind of healing we can get. 34:21 Yeah. 34:22 So I think the way to generalize the healing function 34:26 is really just by looking at the concept of quality of life. 34:30 So like, you know, we spoke with my dad a few days ago. 34:34 And, you know, the thing that was novel about him is he's 85 years old. 34:39 He still has three girlfriends. 34:41 You know, he still lives pretty much by on his own. 34:45 And if you take a look at, you know, other members of my family that turned 85, 34:48 by the time they were 85, they they really had lost their quality of life 34:53 or enough of it to say, well, you know, you know, what's what's life about. 34:57 And so most of our users, by the time 35:00 they've used to for a couple of months, you know, then that their list of health 35:04 issues will go from this long to about this long. 35:09 All right. 35:09 And if they look at that as a clock that turn backwards, 35:12 they'll usually roll back their health issue set by 10 to 20 years. 35:19 Okay. 35:19 So back to the concept of health is like, you know, we look at aging 35:22 well the real you know, I wrote once that the definition of age is 35:27 when you start to measure time. 35:28 Is that interval between doctor's appointments. 35:31 And once you regain your health and your body starts working like it did before. 35:37 Okay, not only do you feel younger, yaki younger, you're less likely to get sick. 35:41 You got your vitality. 35:43 And life is about living, not about, you know, managing. 35:46 You quote unquote long, extensive growing list of health problems. 35:51 And, you know, I was like, that's where I'm really at. 35:54 Which is like, look, man, I want to live and kick ass as long as I can. 35:58 I you know, started having kids again when I was 40. 36:01 You know, I'm, I'm 60 now. 36:02 I was like, well, you know, we had a big party yesterday. 36:04 We're chasing Easter eggs. 36:06 And yeah, the point is not about the Easter egg was like just feeling like, oh, 36:10 there's nothing wrong with me. 36:11 Let's go have some fun. 36:13 And, you know, just to have everybody in that deal, 36:16 like, yeah, getting older is fun. 36:17 Let's go. 36:18 Pardon my French, but kick some ass and have some fun. 36:21 There's so much freedom in that. Right? 36:22 And also I think as a society we think of our 36:27 first of all, we don't really acknowledge that we're going to get old 36:29 and there's a lot of denial around what's going to happen. 36:32 And then when it does sneak up on us, because we haven't really thought through 36:35 what that's going to look like in a realistic way. 36:37 Now, we at this point, a lot of people are just moving into homes 36:42 and hopefully have the financial capacity to be in a nicer home. 36:45 But if you're in one of those homes, they're you're getting fed 36:49 just cake and ice cream. 36:50 And right, everyone's saying, well, just enjoy yourself, kick back, 36:53 watch some TV and and enjoy some carbs, right. 36:56 Because they're inexpensive and and our brains are programed 37:00 to want more of them. 37:01 But that isn't what sets us up for success or health. 37:05 And and if we can re-imagine a world where, okay, you do 37:09 need some extra support, you go into a place 37:11 that really is supporting your health so that you can engage with your family 37:14 so that you can show up for Easter egg hunts, 37:16 so that you can garden, so that you can engage in relationships, 37:20 whether that's with your family or in your community, 37:21 in your church and government systems. Right. 37:24 They can you can be maybe even in work if you want to keep doing that. 37:27 So it's just an exciting thing to imagine that as we age, 37:31 we don't have to become a drain on our families or our communities, 37:36 but we can actually continue to contribute. 37:38 We can be an asset. 37:40 That's one of the perspectives I'll offer, which you'll probably recognize. 37:45 And I expect a lot of the people listening could, would too, which is, 37:48 you know, there's, you know, if you're in my time 37:51 alive for your time of life, you know, you have parents and you got kids, 37:57 and, you know, something happens to one of them, all right? 38:00 You end up with all the stress of trying to take care of them, 38:05 okay? 38:05 And, you know, like, for example, if you've got a parent or grandparent 38:09 with Alzheimer's and you're the care provider 38:11 or the person who's responsible for getting them taken care of, 38:15 the fact that they're losing function, you know, creates stress on you. 38:19 All right. 38:19 And even if it's impossible 38:21 for you to help them with the product, one thing that's the most important, it's 38:25 just like when the little oxygen mask pops down from the ceiling in the airplane, 38:30 you know, the instructions are you put the mask on yourself 38:33 before you take care of anybody else, because if you lose it, 38:36 it's like in my world, if I lose it, everybody in my family loses it 38:39 because everybody looks to me and they're depended on me to take care of them. 38:44 Okay. 38:45 And if you're that care provider or the anchor that, you know, 38:48 keeps your family and keeps it responsible for making sure 38:51 if you go down the the damage 38:54 and the the loss of quality of life to everybody in your world. 38:57 So I would, you know, as a, as a footnote 39:01 to anybody that's listening is like, if you're responsible for other people, 39:04 then the other thing 39:05 that you owe to yourself and to them is to take care of yourself first. 39:10 So a lot of people that I run into that are in this process 39:13 of trying to take care of somebody else is like, please, 39:16 please, please don't forget to take care of yourself first. 39:19 And that's one of the reasons, like, you know, I'm 39:22 I really committed to, you know, this, this whole the VO2 thing is 39:25 because it was one of the tools that not only I could help other 39:28 people, but, boy, I could protect myself from so much. 39:32 And now that I've kind of aged into it, it's like, 39:34 you know, that is really, really important. 39:37 And so, you know, please, if you're listening, 39:40 don't forget to take care of yourself. 39:42 Another two is a tool, a tool for that. 39:46 A year or so ago, I heard from a couple, 39:48 they were up in Oregon, 39:50 and she reached out because they were interested in Marama. 39:53 And feasibly they just. 39:54 You know, wasn't going to work for them to move down. 39:56 But they asked before we got off the phone, 39:58 she said, well, what's the one thing that I could do to help my husband? 40:03 Her husband was starting to go through pretty rapid and scary cognitive decline, 40:07 and she had been disabled for many years and unable to work. 40:10 So he really was her caregiver. 40:13 And she was again, like understandably just sort of panicked. 40:16 Like if he drops out of, you know, awareness 40:20 that he's not able to care for me, I can't care for him. 40:23 So they were feeling pretty desperate. 40:25 And I said, all right, give me two things that I can do. 40:28 And I the diet, of course, is one, but the other was level two. 40:32 And so over the course of the next few months, I didn't hear much from them. 40:36 I think you guys at level two to hear it a lot from them. 40:39 But, you helped and supported them. 40:41 And then three months later she wrote back and said, 40:42 you wouldn't believe it. We've been measuring 40:44 his cognitive function, and they used brain HQ to measure it. 40:48 And so she said, you know, and spatial awareness he's here. 40:51 And it had gone from like 80% to 95. Right. 40:54 So just incredible in in terms of math, he was here and now he's at 97. 40:59 Right. Like it was just really, really neat to see that. 41:02 That was 41:02 I don't know how they did with the diet, but I know that they were in touch 41:06 with Rob at level two, and they had done a really good job 41:09 getting on the system every day. 41:10 They were very committed and they got the benefits from it, and she did as well. 41:14 So it wasn't just him with his cognitive function, 41:16 but I think both of them were healthier after just 41:20 a few months of consistent use. 41:23 Well, I think there's two points there. 41:25 Number one, in that case of her taking care of him 41:29 illustrates my point, which is it's always very important to take care of yourself. 41:33 But I think it brings up 41:34 another feature of I'll call it the simplicity and convenience. 41:38 So I designed the book two as a do it 41:41 yourself at home platform. 41:44 You don't have to be super technical. 41:46 It takes 15 to 30 minutes to set up. 41:50 But the whole thing about having it at home as an extension 41:54 to your workout equipment, where you can get on and use it every day, 41:58 and it's price to be, you know, competitive with high grade 42:02 exercise equipment, that convenience that makes it possible. 42:06 And easy for people to take care of themselves. 42:09 Like, you know, for example, we had 20 guests in the house yesterday. 42:13 One of them says, hey, I've got a problem. 42:15 I said, here you go. Here's the tool you need. 42:18 And the fact that I was able to guide my family 42:21 and tell them what to do, or how to do what they needed to do, 42:26 put me in a position of being helpful not only for myself 42:29 and people, but also the people that drifted through my world. 42:33 So one of the other things that happens to many, 42:36 if not most of our customers is they end up becoming a go to resource 42:40 for anybody in their world who needs help simply because it's so easy. 42:46 Hey, I mean, you know, like I've had people having strokes 42:50 and I didn't, you know, I could say, here, let's do this. 42:52 And I was able to help them without even knowing I was intervening with something 42:57 that was a, you know, a challenge. 42:59 And I didn't want to cause stress by letting them know what was going on. 43:02 But it was, you know, they were in a remote location, etc.. 43:05 So the, you know, the personal power that comes with having your own tools 43:10 where you can help people that need it when you see they need 43:13 it, is is a blessing beyond words, you know? 43:17 And that's 43:19 I mean, I can't tell you how 43:20 many young people have come through my world 43:22 because they hit their head playing football and being able to, 43:26 you know, kind of do things that help them recover 43:31 without them even really knowing they were injured in the first place. 43:35 You know, let's me feel 43:36 very good about what I chose to do with my at this phase in my career. 43:40 And, you know, just kind of like, yeah, I help that person. 43:43 They don't even need to know what I did. 43:45 But I did like, for example, two of our guests 43:48 yesterday, they were sitting at a stoplight and a tow 43:52 truck plowed into them at 40 miles an hour. 43:55 Collapsed his lunch. 43:58 And, you know, they were, I mean, near death. 44:03 And so, they're they buy eggs from us. 44:07 And so when they came by, I trained their son, who was also here yesterday. 44:12 Long story short, they, she was 77 as of yesterday. 44:15 So we started working with them when they were. 44:17 She was 75 and he was 68. 44:19 The point was, okay, here's a couple of neighbors that were in trouble. 44:23 Okay. Within the day. 44:26 And certainly within two years. 44:28 Like, for example, we poured 1400 square feet of concrete in a day. 44:32 They went from being unable to walk 44:35 and to quote Eric, circling the drain to being able to come over to our house 44:40 and spend the full ten hour day finishing concrete. 44:45 Right. 44:45 So that's exactly this, the this reimagined sort of aging rate, 44:50 where you are engaged with your neighbors, engaged and, 44:54 and pouring concrete and whatever it is that you're excited about building 44:59 and doing that you can still show up and do those things versus 45:02 sitting in a home in front of a TV, kind of wasting away, feeling 45:06 like there isn't much to look forward to. 45:08 It's so exciting. 45:09 Before before I let you go, I do want to dive into a little bit more 45:13 of the mechanism here. 45:15 So we've talked about cerebral blood flow, certainly perfusion getting more oxygen 45:19 and more blood flow to those tissues, getting more trash out. 45:23 The mitochondria play a really big role here too. 45:26 So mitochondria are the energy powerhouses of our cells. 45:29 They help turn whether it's glucose or fat or whatever the fuel source is into ATP 45:35 or that that almost gasoline 45:37 that drives our cells and allows it to do the work that needs to be done. 45:41 So tell me what the effect of liver two is on mitochondria. 45:47 Okay. 45:47 So every cell has mitochondria 45:50 and mitochondria have two well-recognized energy production modes 45:56 which boil down to with oxygen and without oxygen.
Senescence, Hormesis, and Resilience 46:00 So if they're running with out oxygen, if I use an engine metaphor, 46:04 they get two miles per gallon or two atps per glucose. 46:09 Okay, so if you're driving a car that gets two miles per gallon, 46:12 you're not going to go 46:13 very far in a pack on a tank of gas, and you're not going to go very fast. 46:18 If a cell is able to manufacture energy 46:22 with oxygen, it gets 38 atps per glucose. 46:27 And let's pretend I got 38 fingers, so 2 to 38. 46:30 So when a cell is able to run at 38 miles per gallon, 46:34 its energy status is 19 times higher. 46:38 Okay. 46:39 So that's the net of having oxygen. 46:42 So like for example, in this case if somebody hits their head or they've 46:46 got a damage or some sort of injury that interferes with oxygen delivery, 46:51 and what happens is cells in that area end up being trapped at the low 46:55 energy level, using only as much resources they can get. 46:59 So like when you take a look at aging and all that, 47:03 in the process of loss of quality of life systemically from mitochondrial energy 47:07 production is as more your body loses the ability 47:11 to deliver oxygen, your ability to produce energy falls. 47:15 Your ability for your immune system to fight off infections falls. 47:19 Like, for example, when you get the cold or the flu, your systemic energy 47:23 budget drops to less than half of normal. 47:26 If you train on live O2, your systemic energy 47:30 will go back to not only normal, but about 30% above normal. 47:34 Because you've restored the oxygen that the lung injury interferes with. 47:38 So that's one mechanism. 47:40 The second mechanism is that as 47:43 we get older, the same mechanism of energy. 47:46 Basically like when you get an injury or you have a stress event, 47:50 what happens like first like you go through your divorce, you ever notice 47:53 how people get sick after they have a big stress event at t plus six months? 47:57 Well, this is like, kids in school. 47:59 Well, maybe not kids, but, like law students and medical students I've seen, 48:03 they go on vacation 48:05 and after exams, you know, they're not getting sick through exams, 48:08 but the second they're on vacation, they get sick. 48:10 Read that. Cortisol drops. 48:12 Yeah, the cortisol drops. 48:13 And then your body goes into retirement. 48:15 Basically what happens is that whenever you have a stress event 48:19 and you know, first thing your body does under stress as you stop breathing, 48:24 because in 48:25 response to a start, your body start, you stop breathing 48:29 because you want to silence the airway so you can hear what's threatening you. 48:33 If you're sitting at your office and you're being threatened. 48:35 So you know the body protects itself or, you know, by suppressing arrest, 48:40 suppression of respiratory reflex, that's one element. 48:43 But the second element is that as we get a stress event, 48:47 we can stay in this low respiratory state so that the oxygen in the bloodstream 48:51 actually falls low enough to call, cause what I call tourniquet injury. 48:57 Okay. 48:57 Tourniquet an injury is if you put a tourniquet on an arm or a limb 49:01 for 90 minutes, the limb will use up all the oxygen in the the blood. 49:07 And then the capillaries that are in that structure will actually crash. 49:12 And then the cells that are in the capillaries will blow up so that 49:15 the capillary capillaries basically the inner skin on the vascular system. 49:19 So when the cells in a capillary blow it up because they've been in 49:23 they oxygen depleted state of state for a long period of time, 49:26 the capillary will actually shrink. 49:30 And when that 49:30 happens the cells that are fed by this capillary more or less have to survive 49:36 on whatever sugar water as in low oxygen, 49:40 can sneak through this little hole. 49:42 The principle here is this is sort of a progressive effect 49:46 where as we get older, the aggregation, it's the mechanism 49:51 by which the aggregation of stress that we experience interferes 49:55 with our metabolism and shuts down our body's ability to produce energy. 49:59 One way to describe it would be the creeping crud. 50:03 You know, just people that are under a lot of stress, their health goes downhill. 50:06 That's because this mechanism of inflammation 50:10 is a consequence of stress. 50:13 Okay. 50:13 So like, oh, you know, somebody's 50:17 wife dies six months later, they end up very sick and die. 50:21 That's because it takes about six months for this mechanism. 50:23 So anyway, the point would be in terms of liver 50:26 to what's happening is you're setting up the body 50:28 into the natural circumstance where this injury about the tourniquet 50:33 that closes down the vascular system as a function of stress is reversed. 50:38 So like when we train people on the VO2, 50:41 we will usually see this effect within the first 15 minutes. 50:47 You know, we'll see a lot of that reverse 50:49 because you can actually watch the vascular system open up 50:52 and their metabolism kick back on or turn back on as the capillaries open up. 50:57 So like, have you have you ever trained somebody 51:00 and smelled, toxins come out of their breath. Yes. 51:03 Yeah. 8 or 9. 51:04 Well actually it was like session 12 is when 1213, 14. 51:09 So it was after people had been doing it for a couple of weeks, you know, coming in 51:14 three times a week or whatever it was. 51:15 And then it would be around session 12 that there were a couple times 51:19 we had a woman who, she smelled her 51:22 mom's perfume coming out of her skin or other. 51:26 I don't know exactly where it was, but it was in the room. She was like, 51:28 my mom's been dead for years, but that is so bizarre that her, 51:34 like, I 51:35 don't know if she had absorbed her mother's perfume over years. 51:38 And then all of a sudden it was coming out. 51:39 It was a really, really odd, scenario. 51:42 And I don't really I didn't have a great explanation for it. 51:44 Maybe you do. 51:45 Well, this is part of the like, the turn get injury. 51:47 So what happens is we get older, you know, and our vascular system 51:51 ends up with this progressive closed down effect. 51:54 Okay. 51:56 When you smell those things coming out here's 51:58 what happens is you've increased the metabolism enough. 52:02 And the heart rate that the vascular system is starting to open. 52:06 And like if you get a fatty compartment in the skin or something like that, 52:09 that doesn't have really good air or blood flow. 52:12 So once you get the blood in the capillaries open up like to this. 52:16 Let's just assume that on my on my hand right here, I had some mom's perfume. 52:22 Okay. 52:23 Once the capillaries to that tissue open up, the blood will wash through. 52:28 And any volatile liquid volatile fluids 52:31 that are substances that are there will get picked up by the blood. 52:36 And they'll be carried back through the arteries to and through the lungs. 52:41 If they're volatile, like an odorant, like a perfume 52:44 that volatile will diffuse 52:48 into the air in the lungs and you'll exhale it. 52:52 So when you smell stuff coming out of people's breath, 52:57 you know that wherever that came from 53:00 has been closed off so that those materials couldn't wash out 53:04 for a very long, 53:06 you know, for as long as it was until they were exposed to that substance. 53:09 So like, for example, a lot of times will people smell people blowing off, 53:13 insect repellent or perfume 53:17 or anything that they haven't used for 20 years, which lets us say 53:21 they're like, well, whatever opened up hasn't had good blood flow for 20 years. 53:27 So, I mean, you can see this in real time. 53:29 And if somebody is more aggressive about training, you know, 53:31 you can often see that with a minute that usually happens between minute 53:35 eight or minute 12 of somebody that's doing a more aggressive workout. 53:38 I know you're working with patients and you're easing them through and it 53:42 but once you start 53:45 to really see this perfusion and the tissue opening 53:48 up, stuff that's been hiding in there for a long time can come out. 53:53 And if you're in front of them, you can smell it. 53:55 We even have doctors when they're training, 53:57 people that have been on chemotherapy. 54:00 The doctor will wear a mask because they don't want to inhale the garbage 54:04 that's coming out of the breath of the person they're training. 54:08 Fair enough. 54:08 Yeah. 54:09 There was another guy where he smelled paint like really noxious fumes. 54:12 Paint smells, paint chemicals. 54:14 And then, yeah, he was like, oh, I painted my house by myself, you know? 54:19 But that was years ago. That was nothing recent. 54:21 And that that story you hear over and over again is like, no, 54:25 that smell that couldn't have been recent. 54:26 I don't know, you know, and we're all kind of struggling to explain it. 54:29 But this is a great. 54:30 Yeah, that really fits well to loop back to the Alzheimer's 54:35 to, you know, create a tangible 54:37 I mean, there's some pretty good data out there 54:38 that says Alzheimer's and many other disease 54:40 factors are a result of the body accumulating toxins. 54:44 So, I mean, you've done this enough times to offer personal 54:47 confirmation that, yes, you we personally do see things. 54:51 But the same effect I'm talking about also happens 54:55 with other toxins, metals, etc.. 54:58 So like for example, the lungs or how the body will vent, 55:02 volatile toxins that like gas. 55:05 Yeah. Things that can be aerosolized, right. 55:07 Aerosolized, but also the liver and the other kidneys. 55:11 So the point is by opening things up and flushing them out, that gives the puts 55:15 a body in a state where it can get rid of stuff that can have been caring 55:18 for a lot of years, which is why I talk about live though too. 55:21 And this exercise process, especially the adaptive contrast 55:25 as being such a potentiate or an amplifying factor 55:30 for driving whatever process to detox. 55:34 Which is why I was talking about our other protocol, which is, you know, 55:37 if you combine any detoxification agent or any other therapy, 55:41 Levo two will almost always, if not always help it work better. 55:47 So one 55:47 other piece of this puzzle is senescent cells. 55:50 And how what's happening? 55:52 Part of what's happening is, that you're putting a little bit of stress 55:55 on the system now. It's a, it's a good amount of stress. 55:57 So this is called often referred to as the Hermetic effect. 56:00 So this horn so is the concept that if you put some stress on the system, 56:04 you actually get more adaptability and a stronger, healthier system. 56:09 Now very obviously with oxygen, just as with food, 56:13 you know, if you don't get any of it, at some point you die, right? 56:15 And we're not going there. 56:16 But what we want is that kind of 56:19 first initial stress on the system so that your body adapts more. 56:22 And part of that adaptation is the triggering autophagy. 56:27 So can you talk a little bit about kind of the culling 56:30 of those cells that aren't optimally working and how that works? 56:33 Well, let me go. 56:34 Let me go up to senescence for one thing. 56:37 Okay. 56:38 So mostly a senescence is basically to be asleep, right? 56:42 Or not not functioning at an optimal level. 56:45 And so a cell can be in a senescent state for multiple reasons. 56:49 Number one, it's never called on the challenge, 56:52 which is never experienced a demand which would be atrophy in a muscle. 56:56 The other is that cell can 56:58 basically be in a nutrient or oxygen deprived state.
Closing Thoughts and Where to Learn More 57:02 And it's senescent 57:03 because it doesn't have the resources it needs to do what it's supposed to do. 57:07 So like I'll offer a basic benchmark when we work out, you know, people 57:12 workout with the VO2 and I'm training somebody who's reasonably an athlete. 57:16 I will watch their power during sprint. 57:18 Okay. 57:19 And so like a muscle soreness or something like that, like the muscles 57:23 will be 57:24 fractionally able to produce energy because they're overtrained 57:27 or something like that. 57:28 And so the muscles that are not supplied good oxygen because of inflammation 57:33 in the capillaries and the muscle beds will not be able to do work. 57:37 So by the time they've done their third or fourth sprint, I'll often 57:40 observe that their horsepower has gone up 30%. 57:44 Okay, so you could argue that those muscles are some that are 57:47 those cells are senescent because their supply chain is compromised. 57:51 Okay. 57:52 And that's just a matter of opening things up. 57:54 But then that then the other side is, you know, you have a cell, it's 57:58 basically asleep or, you know, fractionally performing because 58:04 it's not experienced to demand. 58:07 And so part of nature is, you know, it's just like 58:11 with the high intensity interval training, you know, the body is designed to adapt. 58:15 And if you train something hard 58:16 and the recovery from training basically wakes up the system. 58:20 And as part of that flow, get the heartbeat going, get, you know, 58:23 get things stirred up and that stir up and make it happen 58:28 and make it be is part of the life process. 58:31 And so, you know, back to the I call it very basic notion. 58:35 Life is for living. 58:36 And part of that is to, you know, well, just in the live 58:40 model, go out and have fun, but also to, you know, aggressively exercise. 58:44 You remember for years 58:45 people talked about go do your aerobics, go out and run five miles. 58:49 And then the guys that came along, they started talking about high intensity 58:52 interval training and what they saw is like, for example, high intensity interval 58:57 training by creating the pattern of massive exertion 59:02 and lactic acid from 59:05 exerting and an anaerobic level basically hitting the pituitary. 59:10 And then when they did that, they started seeing many, many 59:14 anti-aging effects as a result of the human 59:18 growth hormone release that was triggered by the lactic acid cycle, which is, 59:24 you know, another dimension of the VO2 is an anti-aging tool. 59:27 But when you get into this whole high intensity thing 59:31 by activating the system and triggering that challenge, 59:35 you're teaching the body, you're you're compelling the body to recover. 59:40 And the other thing that happens in the in the mitochondria, 59:43 which is a derivative of, some other language 59:47 or some other technology, is basically when you breathe 59:49 and you challenge the body and you use it, use the tissue in a maximum way, 59:54 you're going to kill off part of the mitochondria, 59:57 and the strong ones are going to survive and the strong ones will reproduce. 1:00:00 And this is a technique developed by what they call it the Iceman. 1:00:03 Or he popularized it where he'll do a breathing technique 1:00:07 that basically if a mitochondria is weak, it will die. 1:00:11 And over a period of some number of years, he's got to the point 1:00:14 where he can swim 100 yards under water, ice water. 1:00:18 Wim Hof yeah, Wim Hof right. 1:00:21 But that's the whole principle, which is, you know, challenge is a good thing. 1:00:25 And if you're able to do that, then that will make your body stronger, 1:00:28 which is the I'll call it one of the primary principles of training. 1:00:32 But to this audience, it really doesn't matter how old you are, 1:00:36 the more you can do to challenge yourself and keep, 1:00:38 the more your body's going to adapt and the higher quality of life you're 1:00:42 going to have for the rest of your life, and the more resilience as well, right? 1:00:45 If you do get sick, or if you do, you know, at this point, 1:00:49 as people age, they there are falls and there are things that come up, 1:00:52 there are things that happen. 1:00:53 And so the more resilience you're going to have to recover from those 1:00:57 faster and easier. 1:01:01 It has 1:01:01 been so wonderful having you share all of this, 1:01:05 these wisdom, this wisdom and all of these insights with us. 1:01:08 I want our listeners to know where they can find out more about Levo to 1:01:14 leave letter O, digit 2.com level 2.com. 1:01:19 Lovat is in the process of expanding our services. 1:01:23 We have another site for watches for customers where people can go 1:01:27 to look up our, I'll call it state of the art protocol library 1:01:30 that includes programs to deal with neuropathology. 1:01:35 We have customers that have used Levo to with 1:01:39 Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, ALS, various other neurological disease. 1:01:43 We've got protocols under development for top 1:01:47 level athletes, and any number. 1:01:50 So we're publishing a protocol about every 60 days. 1:01:53 And what we find is that most people that do these things end up 1:01:56 solving or certainly improving their health issues. 1:02:00 And so our our mission is basically to make it so 1:02:04 you never need to go to the doctor again with well, except for Heather, 1:02:10 you know, no, my 1:02:10 mission is as well to, to not only reverse Alzheimer's, 1:02:13 but to prevent it from happening in the next generation. 1:02:16 And I think that I sincerely believe that contrast 1:02:20 oxygen therapy is a huge part of that and very underutilized. 1:02:24 You know, I feel honored to be able to be introducing our, our summit guests 1:02:28 to live out to, in contrast to oxygen therapy, 1:02:30 because I think a lot of them have just never heard of it. 1:02:33 And being in the biohacking neuro hacking space through neuro hacker 1:02:36 and a couple other things that I'm involved in, I'm always shocked 1:02:40 that more people are not aware of Levo two and these concepts around, 1:02:44 contrast oxygen because it's, it's common sense but uncommon practice. 1:02:49 And again, very short. 1:02:51 You know, you don't have to put that much into it. 1:02:53 It's a relatively affordable, especially compared to a lot of the other 1:02:56 things on the market. 1:02:57 And very little time. 1:02:59 You do have to 1:02:59 you have to show up consistently and put in the work, put in the effort. 1:03:02 But the rewards are great and so Mark, thank you for making this available. 1:03:07 Thank you for inventing it. 1:03:08 Thank you for your time explaining it. 1:03:11 It's been an absolute pleasure. 1:03:13 Thank you. Heather. Of course.
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