94% of US adults have some element of mitochondrial dysfunction. So they can't make energy well or they can't detox from that gasoline power car that our cells are running. GABAs are primary inhibitory neurotransmitter that calms down the firing of our brain. It's like the brakes. Cortisol, neurophenephenephrine, epinephrine, another neurotransmitic called glutamate. Those are all your gas petals. You don't build in the gym. You build after you relax and recover. No matter how many supplements I give you for your mitochondria, on its own, it's not going to work. Between your sets, you should be trying to get as parasympathetic as possible, too. Don't have your coffee immediately when you wake up. Let your body have its own cortisol rise. Let do his thing and then you can have your cortisol spike with your caffeine maybe, you know, 90 minutes later. I think to make this podcast more weird today, I'm going to throw my glasses on so people think we're stranger than we already are. Shut up and mine on too then? Yeah, absolutely. I have mine. I can do it. Yeah, we can all look like cooks. Okay. But you're an actual doctor, though. What's it?

We're not usually not used to having people. Well, we have smart people on the show. But a doctor, it's kind of like getting pretty serious in here. Are we doing the full? Doing the thing? Really? Okay. Yeah. You can do it. I'm doing the thing, man. All right, well, doing it. I have the same company.

Talk about methylene blue and we're going to wear weird glasses.

Orange glasses.

B. You can do it. I'm doing the thing, Matt. All right, well, doing it. I have the same company.

Talk about methylene blue and we're going to wear weird glasses.

Orange glasses. EMR tech glasses. Yeah. Mine's got like, how come you can't get these smudged stains out of here? They're harder to get out of the yellow ones, I feel. I think you just see them more, you know? Yeah. Yeah. I can't ever.

Figure with you being a doctor, you would know how to do this.

I know nothing about the eyes.

Oh.

Except that we need them to see. All right. So you were in Tibet? Like where the hell's Tibet? What were you doing? Yeah, Tibet. Sounds like it's far away. It is very, very, very far away actually. It's, well, it's in China. but if you you go to china there's no such thing as tibet anymore so you have to be careful there right so because tibet was its own autonomous country

until the 1950s when the chinese took it over and then this is when people refer to the dali lama right

the dali lama had to flee Tibet he's the you know sort sort of like the spiritual leader of Tibet. Now he's in India. I think he's in his 90s now, actually. But so Tibet is a very spiritual, very beautiful place, mountainous ranges. I mean, you get off an airplane in the capital, which is called Lhasa, and you're at 12,500 feet when you step off, which is kind of funny because on an airplane, you know, I just got here, as you guys know, when you fly, you're pressurized to 8,000 feet, right? So that's, so that the plane is lighter, so it's easier to fly. But when you land in Lhasa, it's like, Well, nope, you're actually at 12,000, 500 feet now. So you're even at more altitude than you were on an airplane.

And instantly, which is, which can be challenging for people. Have you ever been to altitude like that? No, not like that. It's pretty, it's pretty, pretty gnarly. I was in, um, Vail, Colorado. Yeah. And I think I was up over 10,000. And, you know, this is back when I was

really big and fat. I've seen pictures. We've all seen them. I started setting up, uh, for the,

for our, uh, we had a, uh, a seminar that we were doing out there. I started setting up chairs and

stuff. And I'm like, yeah. And then I was like, holy shit, like, am I in like a lot of trouble? Like, am I, am I going to, you know, am I going to go down? Like, what the hell is going on? Yeah. And I wasn't really thinking about the altitude. And then one of the guys that ran the gym, he came over to me. He's like, it's the altitude,

big man. He's like, you're going to be okay. He's like, you should probably sit down though. And I was like, okay. I just sat there for a minute and then I started to feel okay. But it was a little scary. Yeah, it can be. And were you drinking alcohol too? No, no, no. Yeah. And that's the thing that people come to Colorado and they go to a place called Red Rocks, which is, which is a beautiful, beautiful music

venue. And it's at, you know, No, no, no, no. Yeah, and that's the thing that people come to Colorado and they go to a place called Red Rocks,

which is a beautiful, beautiful music venue and it's at about 8,000 feet. So you get off an airplane in Colorado from, you know, zero feet of sea water, which is typically where people live, and you're 5,500 feet as soon as you get off the airplane, and you go to red rocks and you're going to like a you're going to see like you know fish or something like that

and then all of a sudden you're at 8,000 feet. And then on the way up to the get to your actual seat, they have all these oxygen little locations. You can get a little oxygen hit as you go up and up, which is helpful actually. And it actually was helpful when we were in Tibet as well. Even though I came from 5,500 feet, 12,000 feet is a lot.

That's a lot of what we call hypoxic stress.

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