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I don't think that there's one better anti-aging, life-enhancing substance or biohacking thing

that you could do than supplementing with melatonin.

Sleep is just a little piece of melatonin.

Melatonin is made by every cell in your body, every mitochondria makes it to quench oxidation.

It's our primary antioxidant system.

It even works in the gut. Melatonin is secreted by the lining of your intestines and it stimulates

microbiomes swarming. And so your whole microbiome thrives on melatonin. Methylene blue

mops up the inducible nitric oxide, which is the inflammatory nitric oxide,

which is the nitric oxide that causes depression. And what elevates this is infections. And so now

you have the root cause of the depression, which is the infection triggering the elevated

nitric oxide, which then when you take methylene blue, it calms that down.

In this modern world, there's just too many stressors.

And I think that we need to adapt as a species to these stressors by mitigating them with something.

And I believe these two molecules are at the top of my list.

John, when you're working with a new patient, wherever they're at on the continuum of being

preventative or all the way to suffering from a chronic disease, what are the foundational

pieces you look at in the diet and lifestyle realm to make sure nothing big is being missed?

Yeah, well, that is a pretty broad spectrum, right?

I think there's so much to consider within that that it can be quite overwhelming

to be completely comprehensive with any individual in the beginning.

Because whenever someone's first starting to lean into, like,

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