[00:00:00] Hey, hey, welcome back to another episode of superhuman radio. We have a jam-packed show. Today. We're going to cover a few different topics that I will also going to announce the winner of the power block dumbbell giveaway that ended on the 31st of May. I've been slow to pick the winner. I actually had somebody else to pick them for me.

[00:00:52] I didn't want to be involved. I said randomly select from our list and we did that. So I'm going to announce that name. This [00:01:00] person is also received an email by now, hopefully. If email was received to make sure that they are still interested in receiving them if they are not we will pick an alternate winner, but I'll keep everybody up to date and so we'll be joined by Jay Vollmer.

[00:01:16] Who is the head guy over there at PowerBlock USA to talk about some of their products and announce the winner beginning of the show. We're going to talk about the most underappreciated body parts. Take it from me pay attention. We're going to be joined by Leslie Burke from Wise Choice medicine because she's the appropriate person to have this discussion with and then a little bit later in the show.

[00:01:40] I'm going to talk about why it really sucks being a thought leader. I've been told I'm a thought leader and I got to tell you there's no real benefits. It's a thankless position. So we'll talk about that a little bit later. But right now let's be joined by Leslie Burke. How you doing Les. Oh, I'm doing great Carl.

[00:01:56] Thanks for having me on today. Yeah, you were the right person to talk to about this quite [00:02:00] frankly and so as the audience knows. Going on five weeks ago. I scratched my cornea and my right eye and being the vein older man. I am I insisted on continuing to wear my contact lens on that eye and at the same time I was using dexamethasone eye drops to help the cornea heal faster and what I did basically was create fertilizer for a fungus to infiltrate my corner.

[00:02:26] Now as it turns out I was told by dr. Finch and dr. Parasha they are the experts in corneal transplants here in town. And that's what they do. They do, you know three four week each and. That a fungal infection in the eye is the most dangerous infection because it's harder to control fungus is of much more robust and can withstand fungicides and and fungal drugs longer and as a result, sometimes they can win and actually [00:03:00] burrow into the eye in which they have to remove the eye and when I heard that like I stood at attention Okay, I'm paying attention now I said and you know.

[00:03:11] This is given me time this five weeks of being blind in my right eye. The things that I can no longer do that. We all take for granted like judge how far away I am from my front bumper to your rear bumper in traffic or drive at night. Like I can't drive at night right now. I one night. We drove home from a party and I said at least let me drive and halfway through she was very patient.

[00:03:38] Very quiet. She said, you know, I really can tell you're struggling I said, yeah, you know what I want to pull over let you drive. I couldn't drive at night, you know, it changes your life. Yes, and and what but really what really. Resonated with me that I kept thinking was I basically opened my eyes in the morning and close them at night and that's pretty much other than putting [00:04:00] can see in them which I've been doing now for 14 years.

[00:04:03] Other than that, which is probably more than what most people do. We don't really do anything to take care of our eyes. Yeah, well much like the medication that you were putting in your eyes to heal the cornea that ended up feeding the fungus right? It's sort of a food for healing can see is the same.

[00:04:27] It's a natural protein. And so generally if somebody has an infection we would advise them against putting can see in the eye especially if they were, you know, using some type of antibiotic ointment or a steroid or something to address. And in fact, it's a natural product can see is a natural product.

[00:04:48] It increased improves healing but it has the potential to feed bacteria or fungi. If they are present because those because those things [00:05:00] leverage everything that is good for healthy eyes. It's so confusing and it's very counterintuitive. You know fungus is a really weird thing. You know, it just is like you were saying and.

[00:05:12] You know, they know that cancer is actually a fungus or there's a lot of you know, really high level researchers that have found that to be true. So it is a tricky thing you're dealing with here. It's a very scary thing. I think I think you're right, you know, the eyes are actually part of the brain.

[00:05:31] Right. So so it's kind of like one of those things that you know, you're not aware of your eyes when you're looking around, you know, you don't see them, right? We don't see our own eyes unless we look in the mirror. It's just kind of like your brain function. And so it's very easy to sort of just take them for granted and that's why I think it is so terrifying when something goes wrong, you know, they say it's one of the greatest fears that people [00:06:00] have of all the things.

[00:06:01] Could go wrong with your health is losing your vision you see but I've heard that before. Hmm, but I've never thought about losing my vision. I am willing to bet.  that if I could see hands go up in this audience listening to the live show on the podcast that.  most of us are more worried about.

[00:06:24] Other things happening to us like being overweight being over. Yeah not be able to see your abs not be able to deadlift and and the last thing we think about it. In fact, it's after the last thing we think about is the fact that we may not be able to see again because our eyes are so dependable they are built.

[00:06:47] To because they're so important miraculous. Yeah their islands that they connect directly to the brain through the optic nerve there islands. Unto themselves, they have their own [00:07:00] bone structure to protect them and and you know, and even the degree of vasculature in the eye is pretty much relegated to the periphery the outer part of the eye the inside of the eye doesn't have any blood vessels.

[00:07:14] The cornea doesn't have blood vessels except. I'm undergoing a phenomenon called injection right now because my body wants to get white blood cells. To the infected area. So I actually she showed me the picture. I actually have like little tunnels going into my cornea that will recede once the infection is gone, but the body is going oh we need blood there right now.

[00:07:36] So we're going to build an irrigation system to get. Oh my goodness. That's so interesting. I mean the eyes are the one area that we still don't know a lot about you know, and I know and when I hear things like that, I mean, I've never heard that before, you know, and all the years that I've been, you know working with, you know people with eye problems and working at prevention.

[00:07:59] I have not heard that [00:08:00] particular. Explanation of what's going on in the eye before that's fascinating. Well, the eyes are so Dynamic even though they don't have blood flow, you know, a lot of blood flow isn't I just you know, it's the the activity that's going on the healing and repair mechanisms.

[00:08:17] I've said this before I think on your show that you know, the eyes the cellular repair rate and the cellular communication rate in the eye is 500 times that of any other system in the body including the brain. And what that means is that if there's an imbalance or if there's a problem in the eye the spiral downward of health is very fast as you experienced, right and but the other good news about that is that if you get the homeostasis right get the offending agent out of the way the potential for healing and repair is equally as fast and magnificent.

[00:08:57] Okay, so so this. [00:09:00] When people are going through something really terrifying like this, they can feel hopeful and encouraged because the eyes are built to regenerate themselves you basically get a new II every couple of years and interesting and say that because because typically corneal abrasions resolved within six days now people would say, oh that's not a big deal a scratch on your arm will scab in 6 days.

[00:09:23] No, no, no a corneal abrasion will not only. Heal up, but it does it in such a way as to leave. No Telltale sign that it ever existed because remember the cornea has to be completely transparent without any way Venus or scarring because otherwise that causes an aberration and now you have a change in your visual field the cornea.

[00:09:48] Is so precise on the way it healed that it heals up and you can't find where you were scrapped before if you scratch yourself on your arm, even though it's healed up six months later. Your skin will still be [00:10:00] discolored. You may have lack of pigment in that area when it comes to the eye healing.

[00:10:05] It's like it's like it's got a super. Blueprint of everything that is there and it puts it back to the way it was before the situation happened describe stem cell activity to do it's almost really recreating a new cornea for you, you know. Which is just so fascinating. And so I think you know, of course when you are dealing with something like this first, you have to get the fungus out of there.

[00:10:33] We gotta beat the fungus out of the way, but simply by creating so that's what people want to be aware of, you know, you want to create the optimal environment for the I so you want to do several things. You want to reduce the stress load, right? You want to just baby the heck out of them and then allow time.

[00:10:52] Right around a little time. We have to do something called patience and it's very difficult, especially when it's your vision. [00:11:00] And so some several things such as you know keeping your eyes well lubricated. Okay, right that reduces the stress load unbelievably and allows for a better human and also helps to keep the pH balance more alkaline versus acidic because when the eyes are the least bit dry guess what the whole pH has now become acidic and what happens when the eyes are acidic.

[00:11:27] Every healing and repair mechanism comes to a screeching halt. Okay. So by keeping the eyes lubricated this is such a simple trick. You can actually improve your vision going in for your eye exam or going in for your driver's license test simply by lubricating your eyes really well for 24 hours before you go in I kid you not it's amazing the difference.

[00:11:50] Yeah, your actual focusing response improves that quickly the other thing that is. So important is, you know, keeping the [00:12:00] bacterial load in Chuck, right? So by simply doing an eyewash with the little cup, you know where you put the saline solution in simply doing an eye wash, you know, even once a day feels unbelievable.

[00:12:13] It feels marvelous. You can't believe the difference. It's crazy. Once you do it you get almost hooked on it. You know, what's really funny about that? So when I'm in the really young boy. Uh-huh, my mother her sisters and and her brothers. I remember the bottle. It was a blue bottle and it had a cap and the cap actually.

[00:12:33] I half of a football shaped curved thing that you took the cap off. You poured it in you put it against your eye and then you went up in the air like you look it up in the air and then you blink you blink you took it down and they used to use that and I've never saw that since my grandparents and people did those.

[00:12:49] Yes, you know, they knew to do those things my grandmother. I remember her mixing a big mix measuring cup full of lemon and water in the morning. My grandmother, [00:13:00] I'm in my 60s, right? So, you know, that was a long time ago. She knew to do that. But but the same thing yeah what and what you're what you're doing with that and boy, I'll tell you there is no burning there is nothing but Heaven it has this cooling feeling.

[00:13:15] It's just a saline solution. You know, that's all you're doing. You're just putting the saline solution in the eyes, but it flushes every bit of bacteria. And of course just like your mucus membranes everywhere in your body right there teeming with bacteria. So how much of the healing and repair mechanisms in the eye are you know, busy battling that bacterial load all the time.

[00:13:38] They're fighting the bacterial load fighting the bacterial load keeping that balance right? And if you have any dryness or implementation or stressors the bacterial load goes. Right. So then you have more of your resources being allocated to keeping the bacterial load and check. So what do you think happens when you flush that bacteria out at night?

[00:13:57] All night long your eyes are healing and repairing. Yeah, [00:14:00] you're gonna love your movie insult you removing insult. That's right. And boy, I'm telling you you do that. I wash you know once a day or even a couple times a week and then keep your eyes lubricated any kind of eye condition that you've got if you can do those two steps and you know allow a few weeks and just baby your eyes not over stress them on computers or.

[00:14:22] What have you you know, the the healing response is just tremendous. Just tremendous there's a doctor. His last name is black Cami and he wrote an incredible book called dry eye syndrome and he allocated almost all degenerative eye conditions to unchecked pH balance in the eye and bacterial load, you know, in other words, you know, that's why he called it dry eye syndrome because.

[00:14:49] Generally, that's the result of those problems. The eyes are as you said they're just very Dynamic. They're you know, they're very responsive. [00:15:00] So just you know, put them in the spa for about a month and allow some time and once you see how much that transforms your vision. You know, you'll never forget it and you have that tool in your toolbox to protect your vision and help your eyes throughout the rest of your life, you know, you know, of course can see what it's doing is feeding a natural amino acid to the eye that.

[00:15:30] The I had a nun incredible abundance of When We Were Young. We have L carnosine, you know, we all know about L-Carnitine, especially on your show and the eyes need it to that is you know, there's there's several amino acids. There's a whole list of them in the eyes that are very critical but you know, I don't know if you want to go down this direction yet, but when we're going to talk about that in a minute, yeah.

[00:15:52] I'm out of the break. I'm actually going to talk about that. But what the other thing I wanted to mention was this sure so twice a month now. [00:16:00] I do a show with dr. Carl page called the pep talk when we talk about peptides. These are injectable peptides. So tailor-made Pharmacy and Nicholasville Kentucky is the only Pharmacy.

[00:16:13] In the United States today registered with the FDA to create and fill prescriptions for injectable peptides for patients and doctors and now prescribing different kinds of peptides bpc. 157 is a very popular one because. Can actually resolve soft tissue injuries, like tendinitis and bursitis, but it also helps you recover faster between workouts while there's a schwack of really good studies.

[00:16:41] That show in rodents. That receive corneal scratches that an ophthalmic preparation of bpc 157 not only cause the cornea to heal faster, but it healed with fewer imperfections meaning no evidence of scarring the biggest threat I have right [00:17:00] now.  After this heels is that it may leave a blemish on my cornea now.

[00:17:08] If the blemishes minor and it's outside my field of vision no prep. No no problem. I ignore it. But if it's in my field of vision, then I have to decide whether or not I want to move to something called a full scleral contact lens, which is I used to fit them in college there. They are very large and cumbersome.

[00:17:30] Now the materials they use today are more gas permeable. So you can wear them for longer periods of time, but the only way to not have the contact lens take on that bump in my cornea and ruin my vision would be to go to one of these very rigid contact lenses. So since I have access to a tailor-made, I had my doctor write a prescription for an atomic preparation of bpc.

[00:18:00] [00:18:00] At 1% No way.  Is it one percent it's about it's about 10 micrograms per drop 10 micrograms per drop and a therapeutic injectable doses 300 micrograms. So putting 10 micrograms right in my eye is a lot and as we're watching the ulcer. Originally was four and a half centimeters. And this is the first time it's been under to over Harmony over how many days or weeks?

[00:18:30] So this is what we switch to an antifungal approach three weeks ago. So over three weeks it has shrunken from four and a half centimeters to now under to wow, but the more amazing thing. Is and and dr. Proctor took a picture for me last time. He saw me that where the ulcer was and where the cornea is now an ulcerated.

[00:19:00] [00:19:00] There's no scarring the cornea looks great. And so he's very excited about this because if this works for me. Then I'm sure the folks at John Kenyon I sent are going to go because they're like, what is this bpc? 157 they're all asking me. So I emailed them a bunch of studies and they're like you can get this I said, yeah, I have it and I've been using it twice a day just like the study showed with rodents and I believe that I'm going to come away from this really bad.

[00:19:28] Fungal e created corneal ulcer with not a scar on my cornea and if I can do that that's going to be unbelievable because this was a huge deep ulcer. Wow, and and well I have a million questions, but is it so this is something that. You know any type of person with any type of corneal damage, I mean, I wonder how how critical the timing is.

[00:19:57] Well, the timing is important. I [00:20:00] mean because once they once the cornea has healed, yeah, then the only way they can try to employ bpc 157 in my mind. I'm thinking about this would be they have to go in and do a procedure where they take like something and scrape the cornea and to to get it too.

[00:20:16] Change, you know be back in an injured state if you will and then you use the bpc 157 while it's healing that time. I just don't know that that is as good as introducing it immediately on the integration jury and and bpc 157 at this point in time. It would have to be prescribed by a doctor because of the FDA guidelines for these peptides.

[00:20:42] But I mean, that's easy. I mean any doctor could prescribe it and Taylor Made in Nicholasville Kentucky. Could they send it out in an ice pack? You know, you keep it refrigerated and boom has no preservatives in it. It's really great. Wow. Fascinating and thank goodness Carl. I don't know. I [00:21:00] know you were scaring me here a little bit.

[00:21:02] No, but I mean think about this think about this. I mean, like if it were not for this show, I wouldn't have access to any of these things. Well, I know well, if not for being a Searcher of knowledge right wasn't this show. I mean, I would have never known about can't see eye drops if it wasn't for show I would have never known about bpc.

[00:21:24] Of an ophthalmic preparations if it wasn't for the research I started doing in my eye because I knew I mean really I'm really very fortunate. A lot of people wouldn't have the luxury I guess to well that knowledge. You've made this your life, you know helping people find answers to healing and it's what your passion is.

[00:21:44] And and I think there's a lot of us out there. I know that I do the same and I'm you know hats off to everybody in the audience who's even sitting here listening to this conversation because you have to have a certain level of independent thinking. You know somebody who is a knowledge Seeker if you will [00:22:00] and who somebody who's willing to think outside the box and most of us that are doing that kind of thing have most of our family thinking that we're crazy because we take these steps in these Majors not so much now, but Carl you and I are old enough to remember that even 20 years ago, you know how different the world was and how much more doctors were sort of gods and you didn't question.

[00:22:25] When people really thought you were Bonkers and I you know, I've always been this way and I know you have to you always, you know, sought answers but this is just a perfect example of how important it is to be that kind of person, you know, and you find that after many many years pretty soon. It's your family that's coming to you asking the questions, right?

[00:22:43] I can just I can hear everybody in the audience nodding their head. They were laughed at in the beginning but now family comes to the price. So, you know, it's interesting to see how things have have actually changed and thank goodness for the better because I feel like the whole medical [00:23:00] profession has has shifted unbelievably, you know in the last 20 years, you know, it used to be they would just poopoo you and and now they're they've become much more humble, which is better for.

[00:23:12] Them and better for us and they're much more willing to listen to their patients ocular medicine is still a little touchy most people when they go to their eye doctor their kind of rushed in and rushed out if you try to talk to them about a lot of alternative things. They not only do not have the time to listen.

[00:23:32] But just the mindset is is such that they're not willing to listen, but I got to tell you so these doctors that John Canyon I was so impressed when I when I walked in there and I said, you know bpc 157 early on they didn't say, you know, well, you know, we don't know about that. So let's just move past it.

[00:23:56] Do you have any information on it? So I sent both doctors the [00:24:00] research and. And you know now the naturally they can't go. Oh, this is great. Let's start using it because there are standards that they have to live up to because they have licenses they could lose. That's right, but that's right. When I told them I have bpc 157 and I drop form and I'm using it they didn't say well don't use that because you know most doctors back in the day was a no.

[00:24:20] No, I don't want you using that because you know, we don't know what that's going to do and they said well go let's what good could use it. Let's see what happens. So I think we're seeing Young. Doctors yes a much more open because I think that they are now realizes younger doctors who grew up with access to the internet now realize you know what I may not know this patient may actually know more about this than me.

[00:24:47] Yeah, and so they'll be you get an older doctor like like and I had this. Within the same practice. I'm not going to mention his name, but one one week my primary doctor for this eye problem was on [00:25:00] vacation and the other doctor wasn't available. And so I saw a third doctor and. I can just tell by his level of disinterest.

[00:25:10] Like I said, you know, I'm using this bpc 157 he looked at he didn't even say what is it? Like he didn't want to he didn't want to have to say to me. I don't know what that is. So he just looked at it and he he didn't say anything else and he looked at mine and he's the guy who wanted me to take for antibiotics.

[00:25:26] I says, is it possible that this is something else he goes well, It could be a fungus he says but it takes a month to find out if it's a fungus, you know, because they have to culture it and culture and culture it. So we're going to add another a so he has to be taken for antibiotics. So when my primary got doctor came back, she was like no no, no, we're not take a for.

[00:25:47] This is not responding. Let's go ahead and try an antifungal and sure enough as soon as we tried the antifungal the next time it's getting smaller and how much damage could have been done had you waited the four weeks and kept and just kept and wrangling. They would have had me [00:26:00] at 12 different antibiotics by then.

[00:26:02] Meanwhile, those antibiotics were hurting my I Leslie I was taking Vancomycin anybody. Who knows what Vancomycin is it is the most horrible anybody in the world. People who have to take it intravenously in the hospital they get so sick from it that they want to die from the original problem as opposed to have to stay on the vancomycin and I'm putting it in my friggin eye.

[00:26:26] Oh my gosh. Well, you know, I it's. Yeah, thank goodness. You had the resources and the backbone to you know, pursue something else and save your vision our vision. I feel very confident. I'm going to come out of this is totally different than if I was just the average person off the street not not taking anything away from dr.

[00:26:47] Finch or dr. Prochik because these are I'm very lucky to have gotten them as my. My eye doctors, but I well and I am so sympathetic to eye doctors and in any you nobody in the medical [00:27:00] profession because of their risk factor for lawsuits or whatever. So they kind of have to keep themselves in that box.

[00:27:07] You know, it's really important that they do really because the potential. You know for that is huge as we all know doctors are getting sued every single day. And so really it is up to us. We really do have to recognize that they are in very narrow boxes. And I think you know to be informed we are in the position.

[00:27:28] We don't have the risk of a lawsuit. We can be the broad spectrum Spectrum knowledge gatherers whenever you go to a doctor and recognize they are going to speak to you from a very narrow position. And yes, they are experts in that position. So go and get all the information you can but you don't have to lock yourself into the same box that they're in.

[00:27:50] Right. So II just think you know exactly how you handle it, you know is very important for people to be aware of. Yeah, it's not the final say it's not [00:28:00] the final word, you know pull from all the resources you can when you're facing a real serious health challenge like this and thank God for websites like the National Institutes of Health PubMed where average people can go and read the same science that is available to their doctors today.

[00:28:17] Absolutely. That was a game changer. Did you know there are doctors who bristle when you know, they like to just go. Well, what did you use? Dr. Google wait a minute. Don't don't pooh-pooh. Dr. Google because I can find the same studies that you have access to thanks to dr. Google and here's a tip anybody who uses Google to search for answers.

[00:28:40] If you just put the letters NIH after anything that you put in that Google search bar, you'll only pull up studies from the National Institutes of Health. So if you want to if you say oh, you know, I have a bad gallbladder. I don't know what you put in your symptoms and gallbladder and NIH and all you'll get is [00:29:00] scientific papers instead of some website that says a you know, eating bear claws will heal your gallbladder, you know and a million.

[00:29:08] Site selling something. Yeah the same. Yes. Yeah, I use that too. And it really does it just eliminates all the nonsense and allows you to get right to what you're looking for. And like you said PubMed is an excellent resource. You can type in any ingredient any supplement any doctor's name, you know and pull up a whole.

[00:29:30] Litany of wonderful and what's nice is that they you know, they post the summary in there. Excuse me, so you can read just you know, a brief summary of the study the headlines usually tell you, you know, very clearly, you know, if this is something you know in line with what you're looking for and so it is a little daunting at first because there's a lot of medical jargon in there, but honestly, you know once you start searching in there.

[00:29:57] It doesn't take long for you to kind of get [00:30:00] the gist of it and you can look up anything anything. You know PubMed.com. That's a great resource walk into your doctor's office with the print it out and say what about this and then watch your doctors face if your if your doctor bristles or grimaces at you or doesn't even look at him you put him down in front of he does it look at them or you then that may be a sign that you need a different doctor.

[00:30:25] Yeah, yeah ordered that guy looks at it thoughtfully and goes, you know, I'll read these later and then say great after you read them. Can you like email me or because doctors don't like that you to have their email address. Can you can you let me know leave me a message because don't just take I'll read them later because what they mean by that is I'm not going to read them at all.

[00:30:47] Yeah, I'm gonna satisfy. So when they say, will you I'll read the latest a great after you read them. Can you just let me know your thoughts maybe contact me because if you don't say that. They're not going [00:31:00] to read them because they're too busy. They're already too busy not because they think that you're full of baloney or they're not going to learn that they're too busy.

[00:31:06] So you got to hold their feet to the fire a little bit. We're going to take one quick commercial break. We'll be right back with more we're going to actually talk now about can see eye drops. And here's why you and I have drawers filled of supplements that do everything from improves sleep build muscle faster lower your cholesterol naturally all these other things right, but I.

[00:31:28] You don't have anything for your eyes unless you're like one of us who's been using can see now for 14 years. There is nothing better than can. See you can stop their bike and see for your eyes and really start taking care of them now because I got to tell you. Once this cornea corneal ulcer is gone.

[00:31:46] I still don't need reading glasses and I'm going to be 68 on the 11th of June. I mean 61 Jesus. I said 68, what's wrong? What's wrong with me? 61. Holy crap. I'm going I'm going a little too fast [00:32:00] 61 on the 11th of June stay tuned. We'll be right back.  I have to update the blue chew commercial who wants to have better sex because I neglected to say that all the blue true products.

[00:32:13] Chewable, which means they literally hit you in minutes. So add that to the repertoire of wonderful benefits from Blue to.com. Check them out. So Leslie what I said going into the break is really very accurate. So many people in this audience have 45 supplements that do this for five seconds at but they really don't do anything per se for their eyes other than open them in the morning and close them at night and I really believe I say this unabashedly.

[00:32:41] Because I have been using can see eye drops for 14 years. And you know, you know, I mean I order just like any other customer and their periods of time where I'll go a few months without them just because I'm busy I forgot to order and I've actually delegated Lisa orders them now all the time, but when I go for like [00:33:00] maybe three or four months without them iced, I know I need them because my vision changes.

[00:33:06] Well, yeah, and and and three or four months is really about the time that. You will have then used up all the natural carnosine resources in the eyes say and so then and you're hypersensitive Carl most people probably wouldn't notice for maybe four or five months, maybe six, you know, even you know, once you've you know, seen the improvements, you know, I hate the things where they say.

[00:33:29] Oh, you have to take them for the rest of your life. Yeah, but I think it's really important to understand that again that carnosine is this natural amino acid that when we're young we have this. Credible abundance of it in alright issue. I mean, it's in the cornea. It's in the retina. It's in the lens.

[00:33:47] It's in all the muscle systems of the eye and our wonderful aging clock making sure that we're all going to leave this planet someday, right dials [00:34:00] down all of those natural healing peptides that we have in our. Okay, that's why are our digestive enzymes leave us as we get older right? We have to start taking digestive enzymes because our body doesn't break down the food well enough.

[00:34:13] Well, the same is true with a lot of the the essential amino acids that we need to heal and repair our bodies. And so by the time we hit 40, we know that a lot of those levels have greatly diminished, you know, whether it's just the aging process or to the stress factors that we all deal with today and then a lot of the amount of toxins were all exposed.

[00:34:35] Cause those levels to drop even earlier in life, which is why a lot of people are having degenerative eye conditions hit them a lot earlier than they used to. Okay, of course using computer screens. I mean, you know, we've only been using computer screens for what 30 years 20 years not even and and you look at a chart of the ocular disease that has resulted from that and it's [00:35:00] just like.

[00:35:00] It's like a you know, it was almost like a straight line gradually going up up up of degenerative eye conditions. And in the last 15 years, I mean just like a straight up lying. You know, I mean people so, you know, we use our eyes a lot differently than the good Lord intended. Let's say that in the beginning and so you know what you're doing as much the way you take vitamin C for your body You're simply re-establishing optimal levels of carnosine.

[00:35:30] So can see is not washing away. Any degenerative condition that you have is simply restoring a natural amino acids. Now the I can do what it does. So well heal and repair itself very efficiently and uninhibited. So what happens one of the initial things that happens when you get the carnosine levels established is the inflammation in the eye goes down.

[00:35:52] Okay the oxidation levels. Go away, and those are major Inhibitors to healing [00:36:00] and repair response. Okay, so you can and I think what's so exciting about a product like this is that you see improvements, you know. Within two or three months many people within weeks, you know, it seems like if people have a more severe situation, you know, they're dealing with the you know, unmanageable glaucoma.

[00:36:19] For example in there on three different medications, which are causing irritation all kinds of things to try to manage their eye pressure. They start using can see and within a few weeks. It's like the eyes are just saying, thank you. Thank you. Thank you, all the medications are doing nothing, but deplete all those natural levels.

[00:36:35] They're just pulling them out and so when you. Putting that natural amino acid back into the I tissues the eyes are just like, oh my gosh, I know what to do with this. They recognized it immediately. It's bioidentical by the way. It's formulated very specially for the eyes. So there's no you can use it in definitely.

[00:36:53] There's never any residual build up. There's no free Riyadh achill free radical reaction to. So the eyes [00:37:00] use it as as they would as it would their own natural amino acid when they would then they were younger. So it's essentially brings your eyes back to a more youthful state. You know, you don't see very many young children with cataracts.

[00:37:13] Right and cataract is the perfect example of what oxidation looks like it is that same oxidation that results in eye pressure elevation. It is that same oxidation that inhibits people suffering with macular degeneration for this, isn't it? Isn't it funny that you say that because one of the things that actually can keep macular degeneration from degenerating.

[00:37:39] And one of the things that can actually help reduce intraocular pressure is a very powerful antioxidant that is one of the only antioxidants that gets past the blood-brain barrier and that's melatonin. So that literally supports your statement right there. Well, we actually have a product for macular [00:38:00] degeneration and melatonin is part of the formula bam.

[00:38:03] And and so there you know, it's called armed AR Meed and it the research on that product is just mind-blowing. It just absolutely unbelievable. It was a Chinese Doctor Who actually contacted the world leading melatonin expert an anti-aging doctor. Dr. Pierre Paoli from Italy and they collaborated on this study because the Chinese Doctor Who had been researching and studying macular degeneration.

[00:38:34] Theorize that the only time the retina heels and Reaper the back of the retina heels and repairs itself is during the Deep REM state of. Sleep at night. The retina synthesizes the hormones that they actually go through the retina isn't that fascinating? So melatonin is actually synthesized by the retina.

[00:38:56] And so when it goes through the retina, there's a dynamic that happens [00:39:00] there. And so what they found was and he had already found this was that people who had macular degeneration had lower levels of melatonin for their age, Then people who did not have it so they collaborated and formulating its a it was bonded with this melatonin.

[00:39:20] It's an organic melatonin was bonded with selenium and zinc and they did studies and they actually got a healing and repair response. They did both wet and dry macular degeneration. What's the difference between wet and dry macular disease where is bleeding? So it's much more serious. Now you have a bleeding lesion back there, right?

[00:39:39] Okay, and usually by the time you get to have wet, they're doing an injection to help slow the decline of the eye but the injection, you know, most eye doctors themselves will tell you how frustrating it is because it generates very little good read. It only delays slightly. The end result of there really is no treatment for macular degeneration.

[00:39:59] [00:40:00] And this this formula in the studies 90 percent of the participants within 90 days and they've actually got before and after pictures from the clinical data, you know, very high-level research and you can see you can see the lesion and we're healed in the back of the eye. Wow. And so there and there's a combination of products that we actually suggest for people who you know who have macular degeneration can see being part of that protocol because again, you know oxidation being a huge culprit and nothing better than canxida get that under control and then your point to your point about the screens that we look at all day computers wounds.

[00:40:42] Okay. So the. One of the most fascinating areas of science today is circadian rhythm science, and we know that blue light shuts off melatonin production. Yeah, and. This is why I wear [00:41:00] blue blocks BL. You biello x.com blue blocks blue blocking glasses. And so does the Lisa we put them on at 7 p.m.

[00:41:08] At night so we can continue to work or look at our phones or watch a TV show but but the brain goes. Oh no more blue light. It's nighttime. Let's start making melatonin and you know, This is not a subtle thing here the fact that we stare at these blue screens too late in the evening and it's linkage to suppressing melatonin production and it's possible correlation with macular degeneration.

[00:41:37] This is easy stuff folks. You don't need a population study to see what's going on in the population. But let me throw something else at you that no one is talking about yet. Except me. I did a Show recently with Chad Jared we talked about the discovery that cilia on cells. So [00:42:00] every cell has cilia around him and the Cilia is designed for extra cellular.

[00:42:08] And Cilia is basically like hair on the cell, but you can think of it as a different way since it's designed for extra cellular communication like to get data and information from the calcium and that's in between cells and all that sort of stuff. These are effectively antenna that range anywhere from 2 microns to 2 millimeters in length.

[00:42:34] A recent study on the bumper crop of adult mitral valve prolapse that we're seeing in the population is saying that these cilia may be defective and picking up signals that will unintended for them. And the last line of the of the study says that some of these signals can actually be originating from [00:43:00] outside.

[00:43:00] The body and so now we're talking about radio frequencies. Now, let me let me just I'm going to do this real fast during that interview. Well, we talked about this. I mentioned a study that showed that 3G 2.3 gigahertz, which is also the most popular cellular will get enough going to wear and for now we're going to 5, so 3G has been shown.

[00:43:26] To damage the Cilia in mucosal tissue. Thus causing the mucosal tissue to stop producing the mucus. Okay. We we know that this is what's going on in leaky. It's going on in people's faces. It could be part of the dry eye syndrome for all we know we don't know no one's doing this research because God forbid you talk bad about cell phones.

[00:43:53] Nobody wants to give up their cell phones today. Well, let me tell you one new thing. [00:44:00] So the wave frequencies work back in the day in the 80s. The the radio industry went to something called frequency shift keying FSK. What they discovered was UHF and VHF will use those carriers where they would carry voices but what they discovered was if you shifted the frequency momentarily from.

[00:44:24] 463 75246 337623782373 up and down back and forth. You could actually now send Digital Data where the frequency itself was the information not the carrier and frequency shift keying gave rise to digital technology and. The way you get more information per second to go is you use higher and higher frequencies because higher frequencies are smaller, but there's more of them to let's say an inch where where [00:45:00] where let's say to I'm just using these numbers.

[00:45:02] These are not accurate, but let's say 3G. In one inch there's 10,000 waveforms up and down 10,000 times and 5 G. There's 50,000. So now you can carry more data per second to the other end. Well as these frequencies carry more they get smaller and as they get smaller they're going to start stimulating those smaller cilia and we're going to see a whole new bumper crop of disorders hit the population and this could be anything from.

[00:45:34] Hi, idiopathic high blood pressure. People have no reason to have high blood sugar have it. It could be what's underlying the the rise in neuropathies. We see today where blood vessels is shutting down and not feeding nerves and people getting to neuropathy in their hands and feet and these people take care of themselves people who run athletes people who crap on their lives.

[00:45:56] They're all getting neuropathies today, so we don't even know. [00:46:00] What holding that dumb phone up next your head is doing to your eyes. Well, yeah in 5G, you know, I mean that's that's a whole other subject but they say that each of those like 4G 3G, you know, they just went up a thousand Giga Hertz with each one.

[00:46:15] Right? But 5G is like 500,000 more. I mean they say that there's a such a huge jump from for G25 G and like you say they're there it's a lot smaller. It's a lot more Compact and so of course it's getting into our bodies, right? So when they say it'll go right through walls your home. Your car doesn't it doesn't go through he's so here's how our refworks right RF doesn't go through.

[00:46:42] It finds a way around like the so the bigger the frequency. It needs a bigger space under your door to get into your house. That's literally how it works. It doesn't go through. I mean, I spent a lifetime in land mobile radio, but the smaller the frequency the easier it is to find small [00:47:00] cracks in walls to to oscillate through it.

[00:47:03] Comes and hunts us down. Yes. Yes. Yes crazy. It is scary stuff. Scary. Yeah, so I want to I want to just get back to Kansas City for a second because I have been a strong supporter of can see for many many years now. It's 14 years and I think the point you're making is that we all have to become a lot more proactive at boosting our immune systems and supporting the health of our bodies because we have far bigger battles to fight.

[00:47:33] As you know as the future comes closer. Yes, and I and the you got to do more and more right as the years go on in order to stay healthy. I'm telling you that right now. Yeah, I think it's a really important and I think there is no better investment than you know your health because we all know what it costs when something goes wrong right productivity to mention one, but not to mention the medical expenses.

[00:47:59] You know, the number one [00:48:00] cause of bankruptcy since the year 2001 has been some catastrophic health condition for insured Americans. That's amazing. For people with insurance. So you know and as we all know the whole insurance thing is crazy. Yeah, but you know, there is no real protection in that direction.

[00:48:24] The only protection that you really have is what you do for yourself. You know exercise getting you don't get enough oxygen going in your blood the right Foods. I mean it goes down and all the way. Yeah, all of those things are so important because we really are fighting a battle. You're fighting a battle for your health, you know, you're fighting a battle not to be dependent someday right and not only disease right exactly because I think if you ask most Americans today, What will you get a disease?

[00:48:57] You think when you turn 60 70 80 [00:49:00] most people say yeah, of course everybody does right. That's that's that's that's what happens. No, it's not Gary we disease is not a guarantee. No, it's not you don't have. And and your eyes I can't tell you the experience that I've had not being able to drive at night the pain in my face the eye has the cornea has the most open-ended nerves in the body per inch and the pain in my face that keeps me up at night.

[00:49:28] This has been this has been an eye opener. No pun intended. And I'm telling you right now I am so thankful that my eyes are healthy. I know a lot of people have eye problems for years for years and I attributed all granted My Lifestyle I get good sleep. I focus on things but. Can't see eye drops.

[00:49:49] I'm telling you if you're not using can see you're not taking care of your eyes. You don't have to have something wrong with your eyes to start using them. Just like you don't have to have something wrong with you. You don't have scurvy to take [00:50:00] Vitamin C. Yeah. Yeah, and it's a different concept. I think a lot of people are thinking you know, my eyes are okay now, I don't want to start putting something.

[00:50:08] I don't want my eyes to become dependent on something right, you know all the things we kind of tell ourselves. This is not something that you will create a dependence on and you won't if you were to discontinue using it. You're not your eyes aren't going to feel bad or they're not going to get worse than they were before you started, right, you know, you won't you're only improving the health of your eyes with as you're supporting the function of your immune response in your eyes.

[00:50:36] And and so people generally do notice just even within weeks. They start noticing subtle improvements three months, you know, we tell people give it at least 90 days and then you know, of course, once you start seeing improvements, then the confidence goes up. The other good news is that you start out with a little higher dose with this product because your your re-establishing what's missing right your [00:51:00] re-establishing those those carnosine levels once you've re-establish them.

[00:51:06] Three or four months then you can cut the dosing down into half because once the levels are there the eye is operating at such a better level that it takes very little of the product to maintain those levels. How about working out winner just be clearly a drop a day or drop every three days or 1 1 drop every day would be sufficient.

[00:51:27] I find that most people they love the way the drops feel in their eyes so much that they at least do one drop in the morning one drop in the evening now a medicinal dose. Be twice that much two drops in the morning two drops in the evening time. We do not suggest applying the drops right before bedtime.

[00:51:44] The Russian doctor explained that you know, it's better to use your eyes for a period of time after you put the drops in to get the maximum benefit from them. So maybe like right after dinner is a good time run it over your evening application. You can use any other I drop [00:52:00] income, you know conjunction with can see so, of course, you know if you're a guacamole.

[00:52:05] What patient you would want to bring me information in and inform your doctor that you're using them? But as long as you space the applications about an hour apart from any other medication, there's no conflict. You can use any lubricant, you know in between your can see drops. If you happen to have a dry eye problem.

[00:52:24] We encourage you to do that. It actually keeping your eyes alkaline using a lubricant drop in between can see improves the overall outcome. If you're battling cataract or some type of did. To condition to be uploaders also that combination works beautifully interesting. So interesting very easy to use very website is Wise Choice medicine.com and people can go there and I mean, it's a simple process.

[00:52:50] It's not an expensive product. It lasts a long time. It's got nothing but upsides no downsides, so don't wait for something to happen to your eye. To [00:53:00] realize you should have been taking care of them all along and you can use it for your dogs. Yes. Yes. I had I just had a guy email with the other day said these can't see work for dogs.

[00:53:09] I know a lot of people have gotten rid of cataracts in their dog's eyes. It's even faster and dogs. That's what's kind of funny because with dogs you can actually see the Cataract on their eyes much, you know on humans. It's more inside the lens and dogs. It's more on the surface, right and you and and the Russian Doctor Who developed this actually coined a phrase.

[00:53:27] He called it. Open snow and so it actually starts shrinking from the parameter in word. So it's really fascinating. If you have a dog with cataract to watch that process because it is thinning out also at the same time, but you can actually visually see it shrinking from the outside and you'll start seeing more of the brown color around the eye we've all seen that dog with the blue looking eyes, right?

[00:53:50] It's kind of a blue white Haze. I had a sheet soon that had. We didn't have can't see back then but he had he just did I just gets white that's whatever [00:54:00] and cataracts are very irritating to dogs. They actually feel the roughness of them because they are more on the surface and so the can see also in addition to addressing the Cataract.

[00:54:10] It really makes our eyes feel better. And so with dogs it's a little less dosing instead of the for drop medicinal dose. The only do three a day and then you can drop down to one drop a day with dogs. Once you've seen a good Improvement. Okay, so very easy to use love your dog to Leslie. Thanks for being on today.

[00:54:28] You bet. Thanks for having me Carl. We'll talk soon. All right, bye-bye. I we're going to take a quick commercial break and when we come back, I'm gonna have Dave Ulmer on because we're going to announce the winner of the power block Quick Change dumbbells over $600 value stay tuned. I'm going to be joined by Jay Vollmer just a second from power block.

[00:54:47] We're going to announce the winner of the power block dumbbell giveaway talk about new product. What's going on / Powell? PowerBlock my humble opinion.  Makes the single best.  Workout [00:55:00] equipment in the world whether it's for home or the gym, the dumbbells are amazing. They take a very very small space in your gym, but they do so much.

[00:55:09] There isn't a day that goes by I swear. There isn't a day that goes by that. I don't pick up my power blocks and bust out a set of curls or dumbbell Kickbacks or shoulder presses right before we're going out at night. I want my arms to be nice and thick. I love power block. We're going to talk with him and just a second.

[00:55:26] And then later in the show. I'm going to tell you why it really sucks being a thought leader. So apparently I am a thought leader. I've been told this by some other people. I don't think of myself that way, but if in fact I am it's not a great place to be so we'll talk about that just II J Vollmer.

[00:55:43] How you doing, man? Hey, good girl. How are you doing? Wonderful. Last time. I saw you you were standing at a booth at the Arnold Arnold the Arnold J day is always at the shows. He's always at we just booked it for next year already already already. I guess I better get on it and get it to get my [00:56:00] room set up soon.

[00:56:01] Oh God, it's hard to get a room there. Yeah, and it's a madhouse to it really is. I don't know how you do it. You've been doing this ever since I know you I mean my God, I want to I can't even think of the first Arnold I went to where I met you. And I do remember the conversation. Yes, honey. We've been power box has been doing power block for 26 years now this year when and we've done the Arnold since when I first did it we used to make a product called the a bench for Ironman magazine.

[00:56:35] And the first Arnold I did was at Veterans Memorial. Coliseum it's not even there anymore. And and I was in I had a 10x10 Booth Ironman magazine had 10 boost, you know, the magazines were huge back then and and they said if you'll if you'll rep the a bench you can bring your power box, [00:57:00] too. And we'll put you in put you in this booth.

[00:57:04] So I went and I got all set up and then the. Robert can't think of his last name but he was a clothing guy clothing was huge for them to baggy pants and stuff. Yeah, and so he comes late onset up night and and he's he's frantic to get the booth set up. You're supposed to be out of the hall by a certain time and that and I said, well, I you know, I'm all set up.

[00:57:31] I got nothing going on. I hope you so I helped him for a couple hours and and he said he goes. Any clothes you want just take them, you know anything you need right? I think I had to get another suitcase to get all the body building close home. Oh, that's a layer of that from that trip. And then and then he goes like on Saturday, then they you know, they always have the big bodybuilding contest because you know, I've been going I've been going to this for [00:58:00] years, you know, if you want to go he goes I'll give you my ticket.

[00:58:05] And and I go God, that'd be you know, that'd be fantastic two years ago is this now? Oh man. This is who must be must be around 20 years ago or so that's amazing. And so he gave me his ticket and he picked me up. I didn't have wheels. He picked me up my hotel and he drove me to the to the to the you know, they now seem right.

[00:58:29] Yep, and then and then and pick me up efforts brought back my hotel. Well, he didn't tell me that that you know, I had a super duper seat. So I went down so I'm sitting between Ruth and I want to see Lonnie temper. Huh? Was that other guy? They were covering the show fryer my magazine. So I'm in like the second row from the stage and and and Lonnie.

[00:58:58] Is sitting in the aisle [00:59:00] seat and I'm in the second see he's he's MC in the show. So he's going back and forth up on stage and back, you know, and then and then ruse taking notes and pictures and she's you know, she's there there were literally covering the show for the magazine. That's hilarious.

[00:59:16] That's hilarious. That was and that was the first time you went to the Arnold and I won't put my first Arnold now 20 years later. It's a little it's a little less. It's a little more lackluster for you now, right? It's all work. Now. It's insane. Now. I mean how it's changed and grown. It's just they occupy every orifice of Columbus, Ohio prior Arnold every year.

[00:59:38] It's the biggest tourist attraction in the state of Ohio, and it's just is just giant its worldwide. It's every sport you can imagine fencing ping-pong. Weightlifting powerlifting bodybuilding is just everything you can imagine Fitness and and only Arnold [01:00:00] would have dreamed something like that.

[01:00:02] Right? Because he just he just didn't have that conventional way of thinking right, you know, he's he's well, we're having us bodybuilding Benton and of course then Expo and then and then you know, he's gone. I wish you'd have ping-pong. No, I mean, you know, he'd come up or something crazy like that and and they did it.

[01:00:21] You know, I nobody laughed at him because he's like crush them, you know, but I mean, it's true. They have fencing they have equestrian. I mean, it's amazing now. It's a big it's a big, you know, it's bigger event than the Olympics.  As far as the number of athletes that show up. I don't doubt that because there's just there's so many sports.

[01:00:41] It's yeah, it's crazy. I Met You in 2007 and here's how it went. And and you know what? I don't look a day older. No, you don't you look better after you actually look like you're getting younger. I want to know your secrets. I met I met youin to I made you in 2007 and the hotel I stayed. The workout room had the [01:01:00] old original power blocks in them.

[01:01:01] Oh, yeah. It was probably a Marriott. We used to be it was we were in all the Marriott's so suspect in I'm working out with these things. I'm thinking man. These things are great because all the other Quick Change dumbbells. When you took the weight off from the bar was still as long as as if you had all the weight on it.

[01:01:20] So you couldn't do any any pronated curls from the you know straight. I mean you could do anything with them. They were so clumsy. I thought this yeah, I was like were five feet long. Yeah, these things were the size of a shoebox when everything was on them and they just got progressively smaller as you strip weight off.

[01:01:34] I thought this is brilliant. So. I didn't think anything else. I remember the name power block good idea was great idea. I'm still is I owned power blocks before I worked here. That's funny. Yeah, and I found you I found I happened to walk by the booth and I'm like PowerBlock. I walked up to you and I said, I love your dumbbells.

[01:01:57] They're amazing. And then I told you I had this podcast and nobody knew [01:02:00] who I was and you were like, I will call me when you get home. I will see if we can we could put a little bit of our budget and you came right on the show you advertise on the show. You were one of my first big act like big big company advertisers power block.

[01:02:13] Very cool. Yeah. Yeah and are cool but helping and supporting the show ever since and that's why the audience has to love you and and I'm telling you if you have equipment at home and you don't have a set of PowerBlock dumbbells you are missing out. On really like taking making a very relatively small purchase taking a very small space in your home gym, but adding a lot of great stuff to it.

[01:02:36] I even have power block. Kettlebells that go up to 55 pounds of hand. Those are the ones that I do my famous Farmers walks that everybody watches me on video when I take pictures of myself doing Farmers walks around the neighborhood. I use those kind of great that we have a handle that kettlebell handle that you can pop in you can substitute your dumbbell handle out of the weight stack and pop this in and use it [01:03:00] for kettlebell exercises.

[01:03:01] And then you also have don't you have a curl bar, too. We do have a crew EZ curl bar and a straight bar for the dumbbells as well. So you can so you can turn the adjustable dumbbells into adjustable. Barbells, like the I can I don't understand why everybody doesn't have power block equipment at home because you could create a whole gym with just those three things that we just talked about just now.

[01:03:26] Oh, yeah. Yep, that that the 90-pound set just has an example for some numbers in 90 pound set replaces Twenty Eight pairs of dumbbells in the space of one pair that two thousand five hundred and sixty five pounds of free weights. In in 18 by 22 inches of space and those are the big ones the 90s a big.

[01:03:46] I mean I have healthy and so yeah, that's 180 pounds. That's serious. I mean Robin dumbbell said, you know, and they seldom. I mean he doesn't like sporting good stores carry them. I know Play It Again Sports. [01:04:00] It has mm Shield. Yeah Play It Again Sports has an even in some of their stores. We've got several different series.

[01:04:08] We have commercials. There's also we have speaking of heavy. We designed them years ago, Carolina Panthers was the first team that had them but but now tons of them have them but we've got commercial dumbbells up to a hundred and seventy-five pounds per hand. Wow. That's amazing. And then and then what happened was you went from just the metal on metal and you put that coating on it like a plastic.

[01:04:34] What does it need a parent holding us up like an hour now are our top tier home. We redesigned that, you know, we're always resent them are always trying to improve them and and last year the end of the year. We redesigned our urethane which is our top-of-the-line was our top-line home series and now it's the pro.

[01:04:57] Series and then and then and [01:05:00] that their urethane coated and then they also have a flex technology built in them. That's really neat and then our commercial dumbbells. Also they were they were your thing coated also there now the pro. Pro Commercial Series and and they've all been upgraded the handles have 50% more room some style changes that just the colors really blend in with a still have that selector switch where you just select the weight.

[01:05:29] Yep. There's a selector been you shape Flex opinion you select weights. It's like many weights that acts like a weight stack for each hand you select weights using a selector pin like a weight stack machine at a gym. Wow, this is I mean really take about two seconds. You can go from from five pounds and 90 pounds in two seconds.

[01:05:50] I think about that when you do in drop sets, if you want to do drop sets the thing that slows you down is going from one way to the other so you just put them back in you select the next way you [01:06:00] pick them back up and you're ready to go to the next the next set. Yep. I'm a jury. Yeah. Yeah, so.

[01:06:07] Where are you going to be in the near future? So people can come and say hello to you and say they heard you on the show. I just we just kind of got done with the show circuit. I pray I won't be out probably now. I'll be at the Olympia. Okay in September. Yeah, another consumer show. We do we do to Consumer shows and then and then rest of them are B2B during the year.

[01:06:28] And so the next one will actually be our second consumers. Oh. Arnold in the mr. Olympia and that'll be in Las Vegas in September when you go when you go past the power block. Booth there's two things you need to do. The first thing you need to do is say hello to J and say hey I heard you on Superior to the other thing is they always have this cut out where you put your head in it and it it's like a muscle guy but it's a it's a caricature.

[01:06:53] It's a cartoon and everybody wants to get their picture taken with that. I even have one on my phone. I've never posted it yet. Maybe I got to [01:07:00] post it today, but get your picture taken with the power block muscle do. Yep, and that's free free fun free fun. I so until we have a winner today. This is the me going on for three months.

[01:07:12] Now if anybody signed up for our newsletter, they will automatically entered and that means even people who already on the newsletter list will already entered so we don't penalize you because you signed up two years ago, and they are going to receive a five to fifty. Set of power blocks tell them what it what it is that they getting well will and we'll give them one of the new Pro Series so it'll be top of the line.

[01:07:39] Wow, and so it'll be the the Pro 50 set. It actually replaces 20 pairs of dumbbells and a space A1 has a weight range of 5 to 50 pounds per hand you're able to get all the five pounds. I'm sure actually even be able to get every two-and-a-half pound increments. From 5 to 50 pounds per [01:08:00] hand, really?

[01:08:01] Yep, that is stats. Amazing. That's it. I always thought they just went in five-pound increments. How did you get it to go two and a half pound town? Well, it's about the the Pro 50 set has fought the the set that you have has 10 pound weight plates, right and then and then and then the handle that you have is a variable weight.

[01:08:21] It can be five pounds seven and a half pounds or 10 pounds, depending on how you have it adjusted writers to two-and-a-half pound Chrome weights. It come right by the house right now. So you can you can actually even use one of those I see you just take the Chrome way to I got you now, I yeah, but if you yeah, if you have the handle it five pounds with the five-pound weight plates is just 5 10 15 20, if you have seven and a half pound handle with one weight in it, then you've got seven and a half and now you're adding 5 pounds.

[01:08:51] As you go down the weight stack so very nice that's called a 70 and a half. Yeah, so I don't have a drum roll. So hold on a second.  [01:09:00] The Winner's name is what about 90 all the years of drugs and stuff like that. Yeah, good I can I can I wait hold on. Let me play my air guitar. Um, well and right now you just can't see ya Natalie and Halen Natalie Tyrell.

[01:09:13] Natalie has received an email from somebody here. Today if she is not able to accept then we will have an alternate will get back on the am will pick an alternate but right now the winner of the this one this is over six hundred dollars in equipment, correct? Yep. Yeah. Well, we'll do the will do the Pro 50 Cent will put a stand-in to and that's that's so sweet Natalie Tyrell.

[01:09:39] I hope you appreciate it. Now. The only thing I want from you Natalie's when you get your pet your when you send us your address will forward. To Jay when you get your set, you need to take pictures with it and we need to have those pictures up on Instagram and Facebook and I need you to send them to me so we can send them to J and they can use it on their social media as well so we can [01:10:00] make some noise about how much you love your new power block dumbbells.

[01:10:04] There you got very good and congratulations Natalie. Yeah, there you go. And I guess I'll see you at the at the Olympia next time. That's probably the next time I'm glad you did you go to the yeah, I do and I don't you know, I lived in Vegas for eight years and Vegas isn't as exciting to me as it is to a lot of people but I am going this year.

[01:10:26] Yeah, we all go - you okay Lisa wants to go and then I'm also going to be at the a4m convention at the end of the year. You know, you should do that convention.  Nobody has nobody has workout equipment. Nobody brings workout equipment and yours is the most sensible piece of equipment, you know, you can't talk about anti-aging unless you're talking about exercise to you know, there is.

[01:10:49] Where's that at? It's going to be the big one is in Las Vegas every year. Okay. Okay, it's in the said the first first week of December. I think it is. There's a show we do. I think it's [01:11:00] November that athletic business conference and I believe it's in Orlando this year and and they have an anti-aging conference in conjunction with it now every year also, I thought maybe that was that one.

[01:11:12] No, but I'll send you the information. I'll talk because I really do think that it would I don't know that the first year you did it you would just kill but I do think you would because if you brought kettlebells, I mean if you brought dumbbells with the Kettlebell handles the curl bar handle and I mean, I think you can convince a lot of people that this is what you need and a bench for a home gym.

[01:11:35] You don't need anything else. You really don't you got everything right there. So I'll send that to you. Okay, Jay. Thank you. Thank you for always supporting the show. It's been 14 years this November the show's been on the air and you've been a supporter since the very beginning and I really really really really appreciate that.

[01:11:52] Okay. Well, it's our pleasure to be involved with the Carl. All right. Thank you for everything you do. Thanks Carlton. I have a good one and congratulations Sally. Thank [01:12:00] you. We're going to take a quick commercial break and when we come back, I'm going to tell you why being a thought leader is actually pretty sucky stay tuned.

[01:12:09] Welcome back.

[01:12:12] Testing the new mineral blend. It's in a taste great going to be having some samples for some testers. I hope we can release it within the next month is my goal.  And a benefit of my new mineral blend is it alkalizes water for all those people who believe that alkaline water is really good for you.

[01:12:32] So I'm not promoting that necessarily I'm just saying that it does.  I never really thought of myself as a. Is anybody who profited or I should say proffered in the the sharing of ideas?  I do like to share ideas. I have ideas. Some of them are pretty stupid. I'm the first one to [01:13:00] admit it but every now and then there's a nugget of wisdom that shines through I never thought of myself as a thought leader.

[01:13:11] The first time I heard a sentence with my name in it and the idea that I was a thought leader was from Ron Penna who I have so much respect for in the guy has been an amazing amazing. I want to say beacon in my life that.  that is shared so many great ideas with me and actually giving me opportunities to grow.

[01:13:39] Even further as a human being and so when he had the collection of people who went to California to be part of this this Think Tank if you will, you know, he invited people who were thought leaders and I was like, oh, I'm a thought leader. I never I never really gave [01:14:00] myself that title. But okay, that's really interesting.

[01:14:03] I know a lot of thought leaders I know. I'm not going to Rattle the names off, but there's a lot of people out there that are breaking ground in great areas and sharing information that I learned from.  So but being a thought leader, I mean a real thought leader. I don't mean being the loudest voice in an existing swell of new information.

[01:14:34] I mean actually being one of the first people to say something is a very lonely place so.

[01:14:44] As you know, the show will be 14 years old a third week of November of this year. I had my first show on keto. As the very first show I ever did with dr. Mal di Pasquale and he talked [01:15:00] about ketosis in that interview, but he talked about it from a standpoint of he called the phase shift diet. Where was high high fat and protein Monday through Friday and then carb refeed 's on the weekends because that was really the basis of his anabolic diet quite frankly.

[01:15:21] I. Did my first show on Paleo with in the first quarter of 2006 with dr. Loren cordain? Nobody was talking about paleo or Kettle back then?  They were relatively obscure Niche kind of topics. That's very very small audiences.

[01:15:43] My interest in melatonin and circadian rhythmicity happened in 2006 when I started to interview people. Like Duck, dr. Russell Ritter Rider. I always get his name wrong.  He had authored over [01:16:00] 800 papers on the pineal gland at that point. I'm ready and several textbooks on the pineal gland and circadian rhythm.

[01:16:09] He was did my first show on melatonin with him where I said that the possibly the anti-aging pill for pennies a day.

[01:16:18] The reason I'm even bringing this up is because a friend of mine. Dr. Steve B8 o who's a great guy? And he counseled me on my foot sir. My seconds foot surgery. He actually detailed everything that needed to be done and my surgeon here in town who was an amazing foot surgeon. Dr. Thomas Childress agreed with everything that dr.

[01:16:38] Pietro said he says yeah. This is the only way to fix your foot. So recently I invited him to come on the show. I said, you know, let's do a show, you know, people take their feet for granted kind of like the eyes really, you know, you get up on them. You stand up on them you walk around on. Maybe one day they heard a little bit do you back off but feet a very complex.

[01:16:59] It's [01:17:00] amazing. We you literally walk on the muscles think about that. So you think about your bicep imagine doing a bicep curl with a vise clamp to the muscle. That's how you feet work. There's a large group of muscles that you literally are standing on while they're activated and. And when things go wrong with your feet man, your life is effed up because if you can't walk it's kind of like not being able to see I mean, you just can't can't do much of anything and they hurt and so you're pretty much relegated to sitting and we know that sitting makes you die faster so we could say that keeping your feet healthy will make you live longer.

[01:17:40] Because you'll be able to be active longer. So I thought you know, let's get dr. Steve on and he sent me a really nice well-thought-out message back. He said, you know, I don't know how much we could really talk about and is really not a lot in that area of you know, preventative and then he [01:18:00] said, you know, Ben Greenfield had a doctor on who's all about Barefoot and he mentioned her and I love Ben and Ben's great and.

[01:18:09] He said he had this doctor on last year. She wrote a book on Barefoot Bubba and and I thought about it. I thought wait a minute. I did a show about barefoot in 2009 or 8. It was let me take eight or nine. It would think it was I think it was nine. I actually did a show in 2009. I called the Paleo feet because the whole paleo movement was all about.

[01:18:31] Returning to our ancestral indigenous diet and I was promoting the idea of returning to our ancestral indigenous way of walking and I even had. The director of marketing for Vibram Vibram however want to say on the show. I can't remember her name and for because the room had just introduced a just introduced their Five Finger shoes.

[01:18:58] They weren't even in stores yet. [01:19:00] In fact, I got a pair for me and for Lisa so I know it was 2009 because we had just started talking and she was kind enough to send me complementary pairs of their original black ones that made you look like your feet had looked like gorillas feet.

[01:19:16] And I talked about this idea that walking barefoot is how we evolved putting a heel under a foot changes the geometry of the ankle the knee the hip and the spine and everything which is all true

[01:19:31] and it's much better to walk Barefoot and I wore my five fingers. From that period of time in 2009.  two.  around February.  of 2018 when I had my first foot surgery.  I wore them exclusively. [01:20:00] I had several pair.  The pair that I want to the gym stunk and I wore them out, you know, they would wear out and you throw them away, but I had a couple different pair and I had a pair that I would wear out to go to dinner and stuff like that.

[01:20:15] I love the attention. I got when I wore them.  Everybody wants to know what they were could back in 2009 when I first started wearing them. Nobody was wearing. Everybody would stop me. Like what are those? Oh my God laugh at me point at my feet as I was walking by. I loved it. I thrived in it.  But I was convinced that walking barefoot was our ancestrally appropriate.

[01:20:41] thing to do for our feet.  except I overlooked one really important thing. Throughout the majority of evolution. We didn't have asphalt streets and poured concrete pavement and tile floors and [01:21:00] all that other stuff. So I'll Arch actually got support from the grass under a foot the ground under a foot the sand.

[01:21:16] And also accept if we miss stepped and hit a rock the wrong way.  the great toe the main the major bone joint in the great toe the sesamoid, 's they didn't really take a big beating if you are on Sand or dirt or grass, but now you're talking about walking for hours and hours on. These new modern surfaces that will hard.

[01:21:48] and.  around some point in time. I started thinking, you know, I'm going to wear them to the gym, but I don't think I'm going to walk in them anymore because I'm starting to notice [01:22:00] that my feet are changing. My toes are changing like the knuckles are getting bigger and I don't think this is good.

[01:22:08] There's no there's no impact absorption in a pair of Vibram FiveFingers. And if you're walking all day on hard pavement, you're logging 12,000 steps a day on your or ring or your Fitbit and you're doing it all and five fingers and you're doing it all on hard pavement streets floors wood floors.

[01:22:32] You're not doing your feet any favor? You can't do that kind of thing to your feet long term and it's not how we evolved. We didn't evolve walking on those kind of on those kind of surfaces. In fact, it could be argued that you know, we started wearing sandals when the terrain we had a Traverse to get from here to there [01:23:00] wasn't.

[01:23:00] Complementary to what our feet had evolved under and then as we started to modernize cities and so on, you know, we had to turn to better constructed.  Apparatus has to protect our feet.  I like Converse All-Stars. They have just enough. Arch and just enough rubber but they don't have a heel so I'm still I'm not changing the geometry of my hips and knees and so on their flat.

[01:23:36] I think that they would fit.  The category of these new Minimalist Shoes that people are buying I like them. I wear them. I got a black pair of white pair red pair. I'm getting red pair for my birthday. Take that back. So I talked about this whole barefooting thing back in 2009.  And and now I'm on a new thing, right?

[01:23:59] So I'm [01:24:00] everybody loves coffee. Everybody's got studies to show that coffee is so good for you. It's gonna do this for you. It's gonna keep you from getting Parkinson's disease and but I'm seeing something else.  I'm seeing something else. I'm seeing people who drink coffee with stomach problems and GERD.

[01:24:17] And recently I last not this past Sunday, but the Sunday before I stopped drinking coffee and all caffeine actually.  Last night I had three plus hours of deep sleep. I don't I have never had three-plus hours of deep sleep and I woke up this morning feeling it. So those people out there say all but those rings are inaccurate.

[01:24:37] All I know is I went to the gym today I bounced in I crushed it. I bounced out I feel great. So something happened different last night. And I posted something on Facebook saying that you know, all you people telling me that coffee is so great. You know, you're basically stepping over dollars to get dimes because anything that improves your sleep that much and [01:25:00] then it comes out.

[01:25:00] Everybody's to all my sleep sucks. I'm going to give this a try and and it dawned on me.  I'm going completely Against the Grain right now. Because everybody's got coffee Bulletproof Coffee bomb-proof coffee this coffee that coffee.  And more and more people are drinking more and more coffee and more and more people are getting illnesses and gut problems and GERD and snoring when they didn't snore and not sleep in.

[01:25:33] I'm not saying it all fits all from coffee. Don't get me wrong. I'm not so know this but look man. This is what we do.  Once we take something that have portion of the population has been doing and doing well with.  we start studying it we start extrapolating and then we come up with reasons why everybody in the population should be doing it when in fact maybe the reason everybody in the population wasn't doing it before [01:26:00] was because it only seemed to work for some people in the population.

[01:26:04] Once science gets involved all within you these people have a protective effect from drinking coffee. So all people will get a protective effect from drinking coffee. No, it's not that way maybe the people who drink coffee and coffee doesn't agree with them and it actually causes an allergic reaction that they just chalk up as you know.

[01:26:25] Oh, yeah, every time I drink coffee I have to clear my throat for six hours after. If it does that your immune system, it's not good for you. I don't care what the study says.

[01:26:37] So here I am again. I find myself once again talking about something too soon.  Because he is my prediction. Remember I said if here today, June 6th 2019. Five six seven years from now we're going to see studies that say, oh people who drink too much coffee have gut problems. They have leaky gut.

[01:26:59] They have [01:27:00] autoimmune issues. They don't sleep. Well, they don't do this. Then everybody's gonna go coffee sucks. It's no good, but the voice is then are going to be in time.  and nobody's going to think back and say didn't call talk about that on June 6 2009 team because once again. Being a real thought leader means two things having thoughts and even though their counter to the culture sharing them with people having observations being a critical thinker going.

[01:27:30] Wow, there's some truth in this let me share it with other people see if they find truth in the too.  And but when you do it too soon.  When you do it before the masses catch up. Number one remembers you talked about it. They only remember the guy then that's writing a book about it 10 years from now.

[01:27:52] So, I don't know that it's a really great thing to be a thought leader. I think thought being a successful thought leader [01:28:00] and being one. That's just basically a tree falling in the forest is all about timing.  When you have the thoughts earlier on. You're more likely.  Not to be attributed with that information somebody closer to when the mass is start to grab ahold of it and has the louder voice will be the person that they'll say.

[01:28:23] Oh, he's a thought leader. He's talking about that.  So anyway, I thought I would just share that. It's my own little way of patting myself on the back. I guess more than anything else, but I'm telling you.  I'm sleeping so much better. I gave up coffee. I don't care what coffee supposed to do good for me right now for me personally personal observations for me not the people in the study coffee is not working for me, and I'm not drinking it anymore.

[01:28:54] But I do drink something in the morning because I still have that need that ritual to drink [01:29:00] something right now. I'm using 4 Sig Mattox products. I like them. They have elixirs. I'm drinking that chaga elixir in the morning because it kind of reminds me of coffee. It's got that thick kind of deep but a little bitter taste.

[01:29:19] But it's mushrooms and all sorts of good stuff. And it doesn't have any stimulating effect, except the mushrooms and what they do to the brain.  We actually have a coupon code if you go to for Sig Matic.com folds less shr and use the code shru. Say 15% off everything at the website and they have coffee products for you guys who don't want coffee.

[01:29:42] I'm not sexy. I guess what I'm saying more than anything else is do what's right for you and F the masses.  If coffee works for you, God bless you drink coffee. But for crying out loud if coffee [01:30:00] doesn't work for you stop drinking it and don't care what the what some study says that oh, you know or somebody on the Facebook when I said I was giving up coffee some guy posted a schwack of studies and I don't know what you're doing that you're you're missing out all these benefits.

[01:30:15] I'm like dude man. I'm sleeping better than ever before. I don't care what benefits are in that study those people aren't me?  if I could promote any one thing. Two things be a critical thinker in have the courage to do what's right for you and F the masses F the research F at all because in the end, it's your life.

[01:30:41] And you are responsible for its outcome. Not some study. I that's it for today. I'm off tomorrow we have oh, we have Jillian Revell coming on Monday, you know, she stopped bodybuilding and a lot of people want to know what's going on with her, so she's going to come on the show, and we're going to talk with her [01:31:00] and see what's what's new in her life.

[01:31:02] So that's going to be a really good interview. Alright. Thanks a lot. Have a good weekend and see you then.