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Speaker 1:
[00:00] When you see celebrities that look so great at 60, what is it that they're doing?

Speaker 2:
[00:05] Food is medicine, there's no if and buts about this. Secondarily to that is your sleep. The last part of those three is exercise.

Speaker 1:
[00:14] Exercise helps your skin?

Speaker 2:
[00:15] If you do the right exercise, you increase oxygenation, you increase blood flow to the vital organs, and skin's a vital organ.

Speaker 1:
[00:23] What is a treatment that you know about that's making women look 10 years younger without obvious work?

Speaker 2:
[00:28] Exosomes. It's a product that we basically take our cells and force them to secrete out high molecular weight, hyaluronic acid, collagen 1 and 3. These are the building blocks of your body. A group of young women got burned. One of them got it done. They didn't have to have skin grafts and the skin looks almost normal.

Speaker 1:
[00:46] This is like the regenerative skin treatment that all rich women are doing?

Speaker 2:
[00:49] Correct. They're all doing it.

Speaker 1:
[01:15] I want to know what the most beautiful women in the world are doing to get such perfect skin. Not only that, but tips and tricks for everyday immune health, beauty and hormones, plus what is up with stem cell therapy? Is it unethical? Is it a complete and total game changer for health? Is it a good or bad idea for people with cancer? And what are the health and wellness treatments that the world's elites are flocking to get? This episode is with Dr. Rafael Gonzalez, Chief Development and Science Officer at ReSTEM and a PhD scientist in Biological Sciences, whose research focused on spinal cord injury in the immune system. He spent years at the forefront of regenerative medicine and cell therapy, studying how immune health impacts aging, recovery, fertility, and longevity. All the top health and wellness nuts out there that you know and love, like Gary Brecka and Dana White. Go to Dr. Rafael for treatments. We'll talk about what the uber wealthy are doing, but also free and inexpensive things obtainable for you and I to not prevent aging, which is impossible, but slow it down. Watch today's episode on the Real Alex Clark YouTube channel or Culture Apothecary on Spotify. Please leave a five star review. Let others know why you love this health and wellness podcast and go to the QTService Facebook group to keep the discussion going afterwards. Please welcome Dr. Rafael Gonzalez of RESTEM to Culture Apothecary. Why do some women look 28 at 40 and then others look wrecked at 32?

Speaker 2:
[02:37] I think a lot of it wrecked at that age is illnesses, internal illnesses. That is a big problem, especially in the context of the immune system, which is what I always focus on, on getting your immune system straight. Unfortunately, we're plagued with a ton of different viruses. Viruses cause immune dysfunction and think of, you know, the immune system, your skin is the largest barrier. It's part of a component of the immune system. And that is why ultimately you have to look at internal health to look good too. You know, then again, the ones that look good that are 32, 40, you know, 50 years of age, like my wife looks phenomenal at 53. And she spends a lot of time taking care of her skin. You have to. It's the largest organ you have. You have to do this. It's not, you know, like you don't. You have to understand your environment, what you're using, every little detail, the water, the cosmetics, what you're putting on your skin. You know, we take showers, which is crazy. Regular shower, it's like where that water come from.

Speaker 1:
[03:42] Right, yeah. When you're not using a filter.

Speaker 2:
[03:44] When you're not using a filter, you're not understanding something like that on a daily basis that you're exposed to. And then maybe you're putting on lotions that can be bad. Everybody's skin is completely different. You know, take care of your skin. Ultimately, if you look good, you feel good.

Speaker 1:
[03:58] Why do you think Gen Z is aging worse than millennials? Because a lot of them look older than me and I'm 33.

Speaker 2:
[04:04] There's several things going on. The amount of contaminants and the amount of what's going on outside. The food is a massive issue. Activates the immune system. New viruses that come into play, like the one that happened five, six years ago, tap the immune system and cause burden and cause these individuals to be more problematic. Environment's getting worse and food production's just getting worse. Like people are just trying to mass produce to lower price, you know. Understanding eating, people don't do it now as much. Eating organic, eating clean, eating the right things. And not veering, especially when you're young. You gotta take advantage of that opportunity now because otherwise, yeah, you couldn't look wrecked.

Speaker 1:
[04:47] Scientifically, how does stress age our faces?

Speaker 2:
[04:51] What ends up happening is when you stress, and especially when you're stressed, you actually burden multiple different things. You burden the hormone system with excess cortisol, and that's a problem because hormone imbalances then transpire, that's one. Two, you actually stress your immune system. Think of, you don't know this because you're too young, but I'm 60 years old, and individuals of my age that get shingles. Shingles only transpires when you're stressed out normally. The immune system becomes suppressed. Something surfaces because these viruses live dormantly in your body, and unfortunately, 85% of our world is infected with Epstein-Barr virus. And Epstein-Barr virus, when you think about it, they're like, what is that? It's the kissing virus. When we were 16, 18, 20, a lot of people spent a lot of time making out with other people.

Speaker 1:
[05:45] Just mackin.

Speaker 2:
[05:46] Correct, macking. Exactly, macking and getting sick. After that, you got sick as sick can be, you got mononucleosis. That's Epstein-Barr virus. That virus is a massive issue, which actually causes, we now know, multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases, too.

Speaker 1:
[06:03] Really? I had mono, now I have Hashimoto's. You think that's correlated?

Speaker 2:
[06:06] I believe that's truly correlated.

Speaker 1:
[06:08] I've chalked it up to, I mean, one, I was a completely different person. I mean, I lived off older processed food. I am fully vaccinated, got a flu shot as an adult every single year. I mean, I was seriously so ignorant. Tons of chemicals in my body products and all those types of things. Perfume all the time, terrible light exposure, just everything you can think of. My toxin load bucket was completely overflowing. So I just attribute all of that together to autoimmune, but I never thought about mono.

Speaker 2:
[06:33] Yeah, cause what ends up happening is one of the theories with these viruses is, and it makes complete sense is, how do you get something that attacks against your own body? So a virus, which is basically a foreign entity, requires a host. You're the host. And this thing actually sort of looks like, if you look at images up, and you can look this up in Google, it actually looks like an alien almost, like an alien spaceship that injects itself into your cells, while then they replicate. And at some juncture, for instance, in Hashimoto's, one of the cells there might have possibly been injected, then all of a sudden, when a cell proliferates, your immune system could recognize this as, it's a virus in you, but it thinks it's a virus, so it's attacking you. And this is common, it's already known in multiple sclerosis, but it's already known in multiple autoimmune diseases. There's also a common correlation with mononucleosis, Epstein-Barr virus and cancer. It attacks your immune system, it causes havoc in your immune system, and it can make people sick.

Speaker 1:
[07:35] So your theory is that we're aging poorly because our body really just forgot how to clean house.

Speaker 2:
[07:39] Correct.

Speaker 1:
[07:40] How does that happen?

Speaker 2:
[07:41] Cleaning house is maintaining optimal immune health. You have to, every single disease has an immune component to it. Even genetic diseases, there's an immune component to them.

Speaker 1:
[07:50] And if you just go through one solitary bad season of stress, can that accelerate aging?

Speaker 2:
[07:55] Absolutely. And then you have to basically try to revert back to, how do I fix it? How do I take care of it? The great thing about it is, for instance, like what you said, you had all these compounding effects. Now you're doing much better. You have the opportunity, the body has an innate ability to heal, to regenerate, to do what it needs to do. And you can.

Speaker 1:
[08:17] So what are the steps to that? We're all gonna age. But what you're saying is that we can age slower than others.

Speaker 2:
[08:23] Correct.

Speaker 1:
[08:23] And so when you see celebrities that look like, so great at 60, what is it that they're doing?

Speaker 2:
[08:31] The key thing is your food. That's number one, is you have three important things that happen. Three important things that you can impact your life completely and three important things that you have full control over. Every single one of us have full control over. What you put in your mouth. You have full control over that.

Speaker 1:
[08:49] I said this on Twitter the other day. I'm not even kidding you, Dr. Gonzalez. I got absolutely roasted. These people refuse to believe that I do not have filler or Botox. I used to years ago, but I have not for years and years and years. I was like, there is nothing in my face right now. They were like, you're lying. You're filtering your photos or whatever. I'm like, I'm not lying to you. It's the food. I completely cut out ultra processed food and junk in my life. I'm not drinking soda. I was drinking like four or five Dr. Peppers a day. I mean, I totally transformed what I was putting in my body and on my body. And they cannot fathom it. But you're saying that food really is medicine.

Speaker 2:
[09:22] Food is medicine. There's no if and buts about this.

Speaker 1:
[09:26] And really the ultimate cosmetic procedure.

Speaker 2:
[09:28] Correct. Yep. It is a hundred percent. And if people that doubt that think of this, okay, it's fine that you cheat every once in a while and you eat that slice of pizza. What happens when you eat that second or that third slice of pizza? Why do you feel like crap? It's because the gut can't process it right. You get an inflammatory response. Believe it or not, you get inflamed. You then don't feel well. You have what's called the gut neural axis. Your brain tells you, stop eating, don't eat it. Or if you're eating anything that's processed, it's bad. Like for instance, I can't tolerate any bread here in the United States except an organic piece of sourdough toast. That's the extent of bread processing that I can actually do here because I will feel horrible. Secondarily to that in your food is you're not understanding of the other thing you have control over is your sleep. People are not sleeping enough. They're eating late as late can be. They're eating all this processed stuff. What is transpiring metabolic function? Your liver has to process all this stuff. You're prematurely aging all aspects of your body period because instead of resting and healing, you're not getting that.

Speaker 1:
[10:36] Isn't there a certain window of when you need to be sleeping for your cells to be able to repair and for your brain to basically vacuum itself? Like if you just think, well, I can get eight hours of sleep, but I'm going to fall asleep at 2 a.m. You're missing that window.

Speaker 2:
[10:52] You're not sleeping at that right time. You're not optimized because we have a circadian rhythm in our body. And when daylight transpires, which is early morning, the body is custom to this. So unless you're going to sleep at... If you're going to sleep at 2 o'clock in the morning, unless you're fully blacked out and you're tricking the brain to have that rhythm on doing this every single day, it's not working. It's not going to work because you're going to get exposed to daylight, temperature changes, etc. You have to sleep and rest a good amount. Look at the turtle. The turtle sleeps. The turtle lives forever. It's such an important component of it. And when you talk about sleep and skin, people spend too much time sleeping on their stomach and their sides, and sometimes they just get used to it because you're used to wanting to sleep in that fetal position, which is where we came from. You know, we were balled up and it's the comfort zone. But technically speaking, you're supposed to sleep on your back because then you don't affect or you don't crunch your skin or anything like that. You're supposed to be perfectly aligned to sleep well so you don't mess up your skin. These are important aspects. The last part of those three is exercise. The reason why exercise is important is because you increase muscle mass. That is a longevity, organ is one. Two, you're not understanding that everything requires oxygenation. When I go take a long walk, what do I do? I increase blood flow, I increase oxygenation to every single vital organ, including my skin.

Speaker 1:
[12:31] Exercise helps your skin?

Speaker 2:
[12:33] 100% it does.

Speaker 1:
[12:34] How?

Speaker 2:
[12:35] Yes, it basically, if you do the right exercise, you increase oxygenation, you increase blood flow to the vital organs and skin is a vital organ.

Speaker 1:
[12:44] So like what types of exercise is ideal for that?

Speaker 2:
[12:46] Simple walking is ideal. People take for granted that, you know, I don't want to walk here, I don't want to walk there. Simple walking lifts up your basically your heart rate and it increases blood flow. It's the simplest thing in the world. You're not pounding, you're not doing anything like that. If you're talking about muscle building, then you're talking about lifting weights or something different, but walking is one of the key things to longevity.

Speaker 1:
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Speaker 2:
[15:57] Every cell in your body has a fate. And the fate is three things. The number one fate is something that happens on a daily basis in your body. And this is called apoptosis. It's natural cell death. Every day, it's crazy how about 300 billion cells just naturally turn over. It's part of the cycles, part of the cycle of life. The second one is actually called necrosis. And that's when you bang yourself a cell burst. The last one is this zombie cell, which in science, it's called the senescent cell. It's a cell that has stopped dividing, and it's aging, and it occupies space. All it does is occupy space, and that zombie, believe it or not, sort of bites other cells and forces them to be old too. And this is what causes gray hair, wrinkles, fibrosis of the lung, cirrhosis of the liver, all processes of aging. And it happens sort of throughout life. Like the skin has one of the largest amount of senescent cells. That's why as you age, a lot of times, you'll see these aging spots on skin. Those are senescent cells that are just staying there, and they're not being eliminated. They need to be eliminated, and your body can regenerate and heal.

Speaker 1:
[17:17] How do you eliminate them?

Speaker 2:
[17:18] One of the key things we do is we use a particular cell called a natural killer cell. Natural killer cell is a cell on your immune system that basically is in charge of eliminating, besides viruses, besides mutated cells, it eliminates a senescent cell.

Speaker 1:
[17:32] So what does that mean? It's like an injection, like a peptide?

Speaker 2:
[17:34] We do this intravenously. It's a full body elimination of senescence. Of immunosenescence as much as possible.

Speaker 1:
[17:40] Because you have a clinic or something in Mexico.

Speaker 2:
[17:43] We have basically a collaborator that we work with in Mexico that has two different clinics, one in Cabo, one in Cancun. We license our US based technology to these individuals that also work with individuals, places like UCLA, Baylor. They have different cancer platforms out there too, that we work with.

Speaker 1:
[17:59] Gary Brecka loves this.

Speaker 2:
[18:00] Gary Brecka works with us.

Speaker 1:
[18:02] Dana White.

Speaker 2:
[18:03] Dana White has gone with us too.

Speaker 1:
[18:04] Yeah, yeah. So this is like the top of the top people that are super into health and wellness. Like these are the treatments that they're doing. And so what are they noticing when they do that?

Speaker 2:
[18:14] Number one, first and foremost, you feel really good. Number two is you will notice that time in between getting sick is much longer. You can be exposed to a ton of people and your immune system is optimal. That's the most important aspect of the whole thing. I eliminate these zombie cells in your body and I give your immune system the opportunity to deal with what it has to deal with every day. You walk outside, you have a mutation from the sun. You have to be able to eliminate that. And the natural killer cell is part of eliminating that.

Speaker 1:
[18:44] So when you're getting this stuff done, in order to keep your immune system on the up and up, how often do you have to go do these treatments?

Speaker 2:
[18:51] Depends on the individual, but normally this is anywhere from six months to a year. And a lot of people talk about this stuff is not affordable for the standard person. There's other baby things that you can do. And what people do not understand is you have to invest in your health. Otherwise, longevity is not in the play. You're not going to feel good, you're not going to live good, you're not going to live to what you want to do, what you want to, your family, et cetera. You have to invest in your health.

Speaker 1:
[19:17] So if someone is listening and they're like, and they're like totally all in on biohacking, and they're like, there's no expense, I won't pay. They might go to Mexico to do the treatment thing. But for the stay at home mom who's on a budget, their one income family, what are little things that you think can improve your immune system? Besides, you said eating real food, sunlight, walking, are there any other little things?

Speaker 2:
[19:37] Yep, there's many things. Taking in things that help your natural killer cells, such as clean things like yogurt, because help with gut health. One thing, colostrum does really, really well.

Speaker 1:
[19:49] We love colostrum on the show.

Speaker 2:
[19:50] Colostrum does really well with increasing your natural killer cell activity, because as you age, it becomes sort of like, we call it a dormant government worker. It's not doing the right stuff.

Speaker 1:
[20:00] And this is a conservative audience, so we know that better than anybody.

Speaker 2:
[20:04] And it's not doing what it needs to do. So you want those active, you want your immune system active, you want your immune system to be able to take care of eating the right stuff, exercising, believe it or not, direct sunlight in the first thing in the morning helps basically activate the immune system, taking the right supplements. You know, I'm big on vitamin D and K and K2, especially for women because women are more prone to getting osteoporosis. You know, you're taking something that's basically helping with energy. And then also when you add the K2 part of it, you basically have now a conversion of the ability to absorb, you know, bone. So basically taking the calcium out and bringing it into bone.

Speaker 1:
[20:45] Could your immune system be why you're not getting pregnant?

Speaker 2:
[20:48] Yes, it can. If your immune function is not working well, your vasculature, your blood flow is not working well, which is really, really common in actually things like endometriosis. Individuals that have these type of issues. Yes, the immune system is correlated with everything.

Speaker 1:
[21:02] So true or false, improving your immune health can make someone biologically younger reproductively?

Speaker 2:
[21:08] 100 percent, yes. Because basically when you have good immune health, good immune health goes hand in hand with good blood flow. And good blood flow is the key to basically longevity in being, you know, for instance, perimenopausal women a lot of times talk about when they find ways to increase their blood flow. And there's actually now some things that are out there that when you increase blood flow, you can actually even get out of go out of menopause and become perimenopausal and get a regular cycle. What?

Speaker 1:
[21:38] Yeah, this is crazy stuff.

Speaker 2:
[21:40] So there's actually new things that are out there now that basically they're talking about women are able to get pregnant at much older ages.

Speaker 1:
[21:47] What are women doing now to preserve fertility beyond just freezing eggs?

Speaker 2:
[21:51] I would tell you the most important thing is eating healthy, making sure you're optimizing immune health, making sure you're getting exercise because we talked about that whole thing. One of the keys to basically longevity is that exercise, that increase of blood flow. The increase of blood flow actually helps basically. You know, you go through a cycle every month. And how does that cycle become optimized is blood flow has to be optimized.

Speaker 1:
[22:17] A lot of women look in the mirror and they do work out and they're doing all these things and they feel like they look very healthy. But a lot of them, you believe, are secretly inflamed. How do you know that you're secretly inflamed?

Speaker 2:
[22:28] Number one is if you're feeling bad, if you're sleeping poorly, then you should know something is going on, even if you look good. If you're not feeling well or one little thing is off, then what you want to do as far as the feeling inflamed aspect of it is simple blood tests. Simple blood tests such as the HSCRP, high sensitivity CRP, fibrinogen, homocysteine. Look at your blood panels. And it's really important, these are things that are really inexpensive actually, and it's important to look at your a comprehensive metabolic panel to understand where are your vitamins at, where are you at? Like some people think, oh, I'm going out in the sun all the time. But guess what? A lot of times you're not even absorbing, you know, the sunlight the correct way. You've added on unusual chemicals onto you and you're not absorbing any sun, you're deficient in vitamin D. And it's very common, even individuals that work outside, it's common that they can be deficient in vitamin D.

Speaker 1:
[23:20] I think most people think that they're tired because they're really busy, but you are saying you might be really tired because you're inflamed.

Speaker 2:
[23:28] You might be really tired because you're inflamed and you have something else is going on. Hormone imbalance, inflamed, inflammatory system not working correctly.

Speaker 1:
[23:36] What are some of the beauty signs that show up in our face or our skin that show immune dysfunction?

Speaker 2:
[23:42] Sagging skin, blemishes is one big thing, which is very, very common. Normally microbial, there can be a secondary component to that could be hormonal. However, normally when you're post the 25, 30 years of age, it shouldn't be your hormone should be regulated pretty tightly at around that time. You shouldn't be having blemishes, acne, any of this stuff.

Speaker 1:
[24:04] So if you are having severe acne after 25 years old, what is that telling you?

Speaker 2:
[24:09] You normally have something microbial and something's going on with your outer layer of skin that you're not clearing microbes the right way.

Speaker 1:
[24:16] What is a treatment that you know about that's making women look 10 years younger without obvious work?

Speaker 2:
[24:21] Exosomes. So exosomes done right. And these are small little information packets that we obtained from stem cells. We developed one that's doing really, really well. The company is called JoovxO and it's doing really, really well. We've actually done a lot of studies on it. It's a product that we basically take our cells and force them to secrete out high molecular weight, hyaluronic acid, collagen 1 and 3. These are the building blocks of your body. And they also have these regenerative factors in there where individuals that are looking fantastic and have minimal work, they're doing the simple microneedling, even like a simple dermabrasion. You could get this stuff on Amazon for cheap, like dermabrasion devices. And then you spray this stuff on and it heals your skin, activates collagen, activates hyaluronic acid to give you a plump better look, which is really, really commonly done now. Also helps healing time if you decide to go a little bit more into the Morpheus devices, the microneedling radio frequency devices, helps your skin heal in a significant amount of time.

Speaker 1:
[25:29] Is this hypochlorous acid?

Speaker 2:
[25:30] You can do, that's like a chemical peel. You can do a chemical peel if you want it to heal quicker and you want to go outside quicker. This is a product that you spray on, add on, and you'll go out within 48 hours. Because normally, for instance, we're doing a study right now, split-face study at University of Arizona, using an argon laser, which goes into the deep dermis and it burns half of them. Normally, you look like a cherry tomato for like six months.

Speaker 1:
[25:53] Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2:
[25:54] And you can't go outside for like two weeks with it because you look like one of those horror movies. We have evidence that you can heal in a fraction of the time we're talking about within three days. You will look like you almost didn't have anything done and you heal so much quicker. We just had this, and I gotta say this amazing story we just had, we were contacted by somebody in Canada, one of the universities out there, the largest burn unit, a group of unfortunate young women got burned. And they were able to get approval to try to use this product by injecting it into burned areas. And one of the girls, the other ones have to have, because they only approved it for one person because they were worried about safety, which is what the government normally does. One of them got it done. They didn't have to have skin grafts and the skin looks almost normal.

Speaker 1:
[26:38] This is like the regenerative skin treatment that all rich women are doing.

Speaker 2:
[26:42] Correct, they're all doing it.

Speaker 1:
[26:43] And it's just, it's something, a topical thing.

Speaker 2:
[26:45] It's a topical thing.

Speaker 1:
[26:46] And how much does that cost?

Speaker 2:
[26:47] Topically, it's probably, I think when they do it combined with micro-needling and, when they do straight micro-needling, like I know the one that JoovXO, they have, they have like, they call it like a minor, they call it like a minor facelift. And they actually charge, if I'm not mistaken, like for one treatment, like $600 to $800 or something like that. You know, it's similar to, you've heard of like the vampire facelift?

Speaker 1:
[27:09] Yes.

Speaker 2:
[27:10] It's similar to that except way better, because it has way more factors. I don't have to take your blood out, I don't have to do anything, and it's a lot more potent.

Speaker 1:
[27:18] When you're doing treatments like this, the exosomes, does that help someone be able to recover from years of bad habits when it comes to their skin?

Speaker 2:
[27:25] You have to do it regularly.

Speaker 1:
[27:26] Okay, so you have to do it regularly, and what does that mean? Do you have to put it on once a week, every day?

Speaker 2:
[27:30] No, you do these type of procedures along with micro-needling. You would do this basically like once a month.

Speaker 1:
[27:35] Okay.

Speaker 2:
[27:35] And you'd go through a three to six month regimen on it.

Speaker 1:
[27:38] Okay, three to six months straight of doing that.

Speaker 2:
[27:40] Yep.

Speaker 1:
[27:40] And this you have to go to Mexico for?

Speaker 2:
[27:43] No, this is in the US. You can get this done almost anywhere in the US.

Speaker 1:
[27:45] Oh, really? Like at a med spa or something?

Speaker 2:
[27:47] At a med spa. Normally doctors, we only saw directed doctors. We saw directed derms, plastic surgeons, estheticians, the ones that are able to do this.

Speaker 1:
[27:57] What do you think is happening when women are saying, you know, my labs are all looking normal? Like when we're talking about blood work, inflammation, hormones, my labs are all showing up as normal, but I don't feel normal. Like what's your go-to suggestion?

Speaker 2:
[28:10] You're looking at standard labs. So standard labs do not cut it. If you went to your regular doctor, you went, hey, I went to get a physical. When I go get a physical just to do it, to have it on file, I tell them, add a hormone panel on, add an extensive hormone panel on, add in what we just talked about, high sensitivity C-reactive protein, add in homocysteine, add in fibrinogen. If I want to take it a step further, I talk about, let's test my gut microbiome, because that's normally the problem a lot of times. Let's look at, for instance, companies like Vibrant Labs, they sell these kits that you can test this, these go to your house. And simple, really easy tests, send it back. It gives you a lot more details. The other big issue is, normal is what? The reference labs basically look at, okay, here's a range from an individual that is 10 years of age to a range of somebody that's like 80 years of age. And let's say you're 30 years of age and you fell on this upper end right here. Is that normal for a 30 year old? That's not normal for a 30 year old. You might be on the higher end and they're going to tell you, no, you're within range. But that might be not the correct range for your age. Simple example is hormones. You know, hormones at my level, I don't want to have your 60 years old, you know, 180, 200 on your testosterone is perfectly fine. No, I want to feel like I'm 30, 40 years of age. I want mine to be 6, 800.

Speaker 1:
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Speaker 2:
[32:41] So, these are cells that now we can obtain from almost anywhere in an adulthood. Meaning, when somebody's born, you can obtain this from following post-birth, the umbilical cord, the amnion, the placenta, which has a few cells, but it has some cells in there. And then throughout adulthood, you can obtain them from fat. You can obtain them from bone marrow. You can obtain them from teeth, from many different areas. The problem with stem cells at anybody's age is, as old as you are, as old as the stem cell is. And if you're older, you have inherent issues. Those stem cells will also have inherent issues. So now the standards, like gold standards for these are basically, these are cells that you get post-birth from a qualified donor under the correct informed consent. And you test number one for, because people worry about, do I want somebody else's cells?

Speaker 1:
[33:40] Well, I think my audience too would be concerned, are they using aborted fetal tissue?

Speaker 2:
[33:45] No, no. So you get it post-birth. It's considered adult. After birth, you find an optimal donor. You go through, the way we do it is, we go through genetic profile of them, and then we do genetic testing. We also test for virals, viral burdens, test bacteria, look at family history, all of that. Once we've obtained post-birth tissue, a piece of umbilical cord, the cells that we use that are in multiple clinical studies for autoimmune diseases that we have in the United States, those have been put in specific, here we go back to food, a specific food that we developed to make them optimal for immune health. Make them be able to regulate the immune system because all autoimmune diseases are a dysfunction, a dysregulation of the immune system. The cells that we grow, we test for genetic, make sure there's no aberrations. And believe it or not, we got, we first embarked on this back in 2016. We got so many donations and 40% of them, when we grew them out, had genetic mutations. We go back and tell the parents, one of you are carriers of, let's for instance, say, as a simple example, Turner syndrome, which is mom has an extra X chromosome. Normally, she can't have a baby, but sometimes they can. And baby's a carrier. We can't, we don't want to pass this on to anybody. Test baby, 100% of the time, baby has a deficiency. The good thing about deficiency such when we go back and tell the parents from the cells is they can be proactively involved in, okay, in the case of Turner syndrome, when they turn, when they go to puberty, they got to put them on hormones so they can develop correctly, you know, things like this. So that's a good thing about it. So we get these cells, we qualify donors, we produce massive banks, so they're exactly the same. And we look at our company looks at biological age of the cells, which is out of about 20 years of age. When you're 20 years of age, your immune system is optimized. These are focused more on, like I said, how do I get, we call it modulating the immune system to a younger state reverting, because 99% of autoimmune disease are age associated. All diseases are age associated. And they all have a senescent component to it, what we talked about earlier. But autoimmune diseases are, you get them all from aging. Unless there's some aspects of some genetic ones, juvenile diabetes, type one diabetes, these type of ones are younger, there's some genetic components to it. Because if you have an autoimmune disease, and if you maybe go back to, there's a possibility, if you go back to your family history, you might find a family member that had a different autoimmune disease, which we now know. But there's no direct links right now, as of yet, to this genetic, this gene, to this gene on somebody actually getting it.

Speaker 1:
[36:36] When people talk about finding the fountain of youth, you really believe that that's stem cell therapy.

Speaker 2:
[36:42] I believe that cell therapies in general, like for me, one of the biggest fountains of youth is, how do I control my immune system and maintain youth health? That is working with that natural killer cell to eliminate senescence, and that is working with a particular stem cell to control the immune system and maintain it in a youthful state. That is the fountain of youth. What kills you, remember, the number one killer is heart disease. The second one is, like, I think it's cancer or something like that. Those are immune-mediated diseases. They have an immune component to them, especially the cancer aspect of it. Those are how you maintain longevity.

Speaker 1:
[37:24] So you're 60, you said. Have you ever tested your biological age?

Speaker 2:
[37:28] Yes.

Speaker 1:
[37:29] What is it?

Speaker 2:
[37:29] I have. Mine is, last time, well, I've done several different testing. Last one I tested was 55.

Speaker 1:
[37:35] Wow.

Speaker 2:
[37:35] But I don't do that many different. I'm more on, and actually it was 55 when I tested it. It was 55 not doing after any cell therapies. I do a lot of cell therapies. Giving it a while. And now I'm actually going back and doing a lot of testing because the last time I tested when I was 58, mine was 48 when I looked at it. But that's when I was on a consistent with cell therapies. And then I spent a little bit of time because I do crazy amount of travel. When travel is hard to control, like the food, the food thing is like you just have to stick to, you gotta be disciplined.

Speaker 1:
[38:09] Yeah, well, I've got your hookup for all the Phoenix places, all the clean food, all the organic spots, I've got that for you. So when it comes to stem cell therapies, who is that for? Who's ideal?

Speaker 2:
[38:22] The ideal candidate is practically anybody unless you are immune deficient, have cancer, or have other types of inherit disorders, genetic disorders. If you are having, which is a big problem, like the lung haulers, the chronic fatigue syndrome, we have to take a step back and look at viruses because you don't want to really control the immune system too much when you have sort of like a viral activation or viral overload. We want to focus on using a different type of therapy, is how do we eliminate the virus? We have to get the immune system under control. Then we talk about a stem cell therapy.

Speaker 1:
[39:01] What are some of the things that people are dealing with when they say they want to do this treatment? Aaron Rodgers did this for his torn Achilles or something, right?

Speaker 2:
[39:09] Yeah, orthopedics is very, very common. People are blown away with the results from it.

Speaker 1:
[39:15] Because it just helps you heal faster?

Speaker 2:
[39:16] Helps you heal faster and helps a ton of, it's back injuries, spine injuries, somebody's like, well, I had a herniated disc, orthopedic surgeon wants to operate on my knee, wants to do this, wants to do that. Guess what, I can buy you time on that operation. If you're gonna get a total knee replacement, there's no guarantees with that.

Speaker 1:
[39:33] Okay, but here's my question. Didn't Dr. Mark Hyman do stem cell therapy or something, and then was extremely sick?

Speaker 2:
[39:41] I don't know what happened there, but I know that he got some kind of a bad infection or something with somebody. You have to be cautious. The same thing happened to Dr. Josh Axe, which he came to us to help fix him. Because he did get what is like a bad batch, something that was infected, he had a problem.

Speaker 1:
[40:03] How do you avoid that?

Speaker 2:
[40:05] You have to go to the right manufacturing, and manufacturing even, for instance, you've got a bunch of individuals that just are trying to capitalize on this stuff. People, everybody is now an expert in the stem cell therapy space, yet they don't understand anything on manufacturing. It's some of the key things that are important on... There's a guidance with the FDA of why, and they're there on one aspect to protect you, to protect the consumer of is the stuff made correctly because it's a drug, is it clean, and does it cause an adverse effect? And these are the things that you have to look at as a consumer to try to understand where do they come from, are they pure, are they not pure, who manufactured them? And even when you find out who manufactured them, before you get this report, dig a little bit deeper. I like to talk to some patients that have had this stuff done. I like to talk to some people. Have you had any adverse events? Can you talk to me about what are the adverse events? Those are the smart consumers. In theory, the only adverse event when you're having a cell therapy should be, like, for instance, if you're doing orthopedics, pain, possible discomfort. If you're doing it intravenously, the possibility of getting some fevers and some chills the night of or the following day, a little bit of body aches, that should be the extent of it. There shouldn't be any more other adverse events.

Speaker 1:
[41:26] Okay, so if there is, then run.

Speaker 2:
[41:28] If you've heard of anything, then stay away. I would look at, you have to look at the key is manufacturing. Like, people are not manufacturing this stuff correctly.

Speaker 1:
[41:36] Should people with cancer be looking into stem cell therapy?

Speaker 2:
[41:39] No, absolutely not.

Speaker 1:
[41:40] Why?

Speaker 2:
[41:41] If you had cancer, if you had a blood cancer, that's a different type of stem cell. If you have a blood cancer, then you talk about a bone marrow transplant. That's a different type of stem cell. That's a blood stem cell that you have to go through chemo. You have to basically wipe out the immune system. You're like the boy in the bubble. You're basically trapped because you have no immune system for a while. You then rebuild the immune system with a bone marrow transplant, ideally from somebody else or if you have your own from a younger time when you stored it. If you have cancer and you use stem cells, meaning your standard one that you're hearing out there, you can put yourself possibly at risk of this stuff growing. Why? Because stem cells do increase blood flow. When somebody has cancer or a propensity for cancer, guess what? That cancer wants to get that blood flow more than regular cells in the body do. It gets those nutrients first. So much so that if you look at tumors, you will see vasculature that grows around it.

Speaker 1:
[42:41] So it could actually increase your cancer.

Speaker 2:
[42:44] It will increase your cancer.

Speaker 1:
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Speaker 2:
[45:58] I would tell you to make sure that, man, spend money on your mattress. I hate people that are chimzing on the mattresses.

Speaker 1:
[46:05] What's your mattress? Is it non-toxic?

Speaker 2:
[46:07] Yeah, it's non-toxic. I mean, you know, there's many of different companies that are out there, the avocados. There's a bunch of different ones out there that you can get non-toxic. Spend money on something good because you're not understanding that you're spending a third of your day in bed. Like, come on, people. Spend money on it and it's going to last longer and it doesn't matter. You know, 500 or 1000 to 5000 or whatever on something that's premium, that's actually really good. Make sure it's clean and it's good. Number two is we talked about the food. Number three is getting your own, you know, exercise the right way. Number four is incorporating these are simple things that you'll find in the gym. Saunas proven for heart health. Saunas are fantastic.

Speaker 1:
[46:53] And stop wearing, ladies, the lululemon and the aloe like sets in a sauna. You are cooking in microplastics. It's disgusting. And nobody's thinking about that. These girls are just like in the gym, sitting in their microplastic leggings or whatever, heating them up on their body, the most vulnerable areas of their body, absorbing it. It's like, hello.

Speaker 2:
[47:16] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And people drinking teas, the tea bags, dipping tea bags, people, those are made of plastic.

Speaker 1:
[47:22] Right. So do you advocate for loose leaf tea?

Speaker 2:
[47:25] I advocate for loose leaf tea or, I don't know if you're familiar with Elixir.

Speaker 1:
[47:29] No.

Speaker 2:
[47:30] Oh, it's a tea strip.

Speaker 1:
[47:32] What's that?

Speaker 2:
[47:32] It's a, oh, you have to have Josephine Lusko on here.

Speaker 1:
[47:35] It's a company called Elixir?

Speaker 2:
[47:37] Elixir, yeah. These are tea strips. She's phenomenal. She's actually, you would love her because she does, she's in her 30s, I believe, I don't know. She looks phenomenal and does all natural everything. Uses Exxasome like crazy, loves us.

Speaker 1:
[47:52] I want to do this Exxasome thing.

Speaker 2:
[47:53] She has. You got to do this. We'll get you on with-

Speaker 1:
[47:55] I'll like tape the whole thing so I can show my audience like what it's like.

Speaker 2:
[47:59] Yep. We can get you on and get it done. So I gotta go to Cabo? No, we can get it done. Let me see who's doing it here. I'll find out from a local sales rep who's doing it here. Or if you want to go, if you're ever in Miami, which is where a lot of times like Dan goes to do some of the things we can put you on with the official JoovXO people if you're down in that area.

Speaker 1:
[48:15] Dan is Dr. Pampa who came on.

Speaker 2:
[48:17] Dr. Dan Pampa, yeah. You can go do it there. But she's got a, she developed a tea strip that's made out of like a gel. And it's just a strip you put in your water and you stir it. There's zero microplastics.

Speaker 1:
[48:29] Oh my gosh, this is phenomenal.

Speaker 2:
[48:31] And she's got like a lymphatic one. She's got like a sleep wand.

Speaker 1:
[48:34] I've got to check this out.

Speaker 2:
[48:35] Yeah. And it's like disrupting the whole tea sector completely because it comes in a simple pouch. You just take the strip, dump it in your water, stir it and you're ready to go.

Speaker 1:
[48:46] Okay. So cool. I'm going to have to look her up. Okay. So those are all really inexpensive things. What about like the big money stuff?

Speaker 2:
[48:52] The big money stuff. I'd focus on elimination of senescence and modulating the immune system.

Speaker 1:
[48:59] Say that again like we're two years old.

Speaker 2:
[49:00] Let's get rid of senescence, those zombie cells.

Speaker 1:
[49:02] Okay.

Speaker 2:
[49:03] And then let me control your immune system. And this is done through a two-step platform that we've done with individuals that I have individuals that are 89, nine years and I measure their telomeres, which is a measure of of aging. And they're like 50 years of age. And I have individuals that are that old, that are running three miles, five miles a day.

Speaker 1:
[49:24] They're just thriving.

Speaker 2:
[49:25] Correct. They're doing this on a regular basis.

Speaker 1:
[49:28] And so when you're doing those treatments, the big money, I mean, how much is that just out of curiosity?

Speaker 2:
[49:31] Those are the big money treatments. One is 40,000, 35,000 around there. The other one is in the 20s.

Speaker 1:
[49:39] Okay, so these people that are 80 years old, I'm just asking the questions my audience are thinking. You're 80 years old, you're spending $40,000 on this treatment.

Speaker 2:
[49:47] Oh, they're spending $100,000.

Speaker 1:
[49:48] At that age, though, how many years are you actually able to buy back?

Speaker 2:
[49:53] I'm telling you, I have an individual that has 13 siblings, and he is one of the ones that's lasted, they've all died young. He's the one that's lasted the longest. He basically, it's amazing how good and how sharp mentally and physically fit at 89. I have another one that is 88 years old, that basically, another one that's just like, it's incredible, this guy has reversed his aging quite a bit, that he looks better, better mental clarity, acts better, all of it. I have one of the individuals that, God bless her, she's an angel, we call her an angel because she's actually funded, one of our clinical studies, that's for this alone, for a particular autoimmune disease. She's actually seen at the Brigham and Women's, and she's one of the largest funders over there for the Cardiovascular Center there. She came to us with a disease many years ago. She said, do you think this works? Because I'm on steroids and I'm on immunosuppressants. And both of these things are gonna eventually give me, which is cancer and a bunch of other issues. And then she was testing her biological age, and she's like, and look, I'm 55 years of age, my biological age says I'm 60. We put her on the platform we're talking about.

Speaker 1:
[51:15] The crazy expensive one.

Speaker 2:
[51:16] She's like, I'm willing to do whatever, let me fund your clinical study, let me be part of that clinical study. Three years into the study and into her doing these therapies, she's no meds, she's in remission of her disease and she's now four years remission of disease. Not only that, I've tracked her biological aging and right now, which she's I think 65, 66, she's 48 years of age.

Speaker 1:
[51:44] Whoa, that is a total reversal.

Speaker 2:
[51:46] And if you look at her, the original from the first time I met her to now people consistently saying, wow. Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[51:56] And I think this stuff is interesting. Obviously, I could never afford that. I know a lot of people in my audience are like, but I like to nerd out on this stuff. I like to know what people are doing. I think it's fun and interesting. I like to know what the cutting edge stuff is. So, I mean, what's your prediction? Like this is what every single celebrity is gonna be doing.

Speaker 2:
[52:10] A lot of them are doing it already. Many of them are doing it already. And we're getting the cool thing about it is that I told you some big numbers because we're talking about cell therapies. At some juncture, these things are going lower and lower because we increase manufacturing. We find various different methods to get around and do the same thing to make it more affordable. So that is where before we talked about facials using stem cells. Now we talk about facials using exosomes, which are the byproduct of the stem cells. And it lowers the cost significantly. We're going to get to that juncture of being able to do that. But there's a lot of things that you can do for your immune system. We talked about how do I increase my immune system to remove that. We talked about colostrum. We talk about eating foods that are good, fermented foods that are good for the gut. We talk about exercise. These are all things that will help you stay and look good.

Speaker 1:
[53:01] Sour kraut at dinner.

Speaker 2:
[53:02] Sour kraut at dinner.

Speaker 1:
[53:03] Such an easy hack. I'm on the sauerkraut train officially. This is very new for me. I was always way too scared to try. I was like, this is going to be gross. Tried it. It was so good. It tasted different than what I thought. I'm like a baby with trying things like this. Just FYI between you and I and everyone listening. So it took me a while to get brave. And then I tried it. I was with Dr. Casey Means and Cali Means, my friends who are all into the maha stuff and they have it at every meal. And I was trying it and I was like, this isn't bad at all. Why have I been missing out on this? It's amazing. And it's so good for you to have fermented food. Can you talk about that? Like what fermented food does?

Speaker 2:
[53:40] It helps because it naturally contains natural probiotics and it helps maintain gut health. The gut health, basically, especially the bacteria can get dysregulated. And these type of foods naturally help balance it and provide the correct bacteria that need to be in it, so you don't have gut neural issues. And there's another commonality. We talk about food as medicine. You know, people that have these like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, all these age-associated diseases, it's a gut issue a lot of times where there's been, you know, at the American Academy for Anti-Aging, I remember years ago, because I teach there. Years ago, there was an individual that showed a bunch of cases of individuals with Parkinson's disease that had severe tremor, could not walk. They did what's called a fecal matter transplant. So you basically take poop, that's what that is, from a very young and flourished individual. It goes into the gut of that individual. And guess what happened to those people? The tremors went away, they became like, it was like they were with no Parkinson's.

Speaker 1:
[54:50] Okay, well, I'm a young and flourishing individual, how much money do I get if I give my poop away?

Speaker 2:
[54:55] They'd have to test it, they have to, yes, yep.

Speaker 1:
[54:58] I don't know, I might still be on my health journey, they might say I'm not good enough. What are you obsessive about in your own routine?

Speaker 2:
[55:04] My routine has to be strict on the sleeping, when I veer off and the food. When I veer off the food, when I veer off the sleeping, I throw myself off. And every single body has to find that anti-stressor. When you're high impact, when you're working, when people talk about they don't have time, nonsense, you have time. If you have to wake up a half an hour earlier and figure schedule out, find that time, find that routine. It has to be a routine. You have to figure out the routine. For me, the routine is when I feel a little bit stress coming on, I gotta go hit the gym. It's my biggest anti-stressor, and it regulates me and it sets me. I have my routine. I'm in bed by 9.30. Now I try to focus on one key thing, which last night didn't happen, is I don't eat after 7 p.m. It's like a key thing for me, because I need that food to digest before I get in bed and sleep. And when I do that, it gives your body basically a healing response. It gives it the opportunity of everything you went through during a day that caused stress, that caused a problem. The body is optimal because you've already digested, the liver's not having to focus on digesting that food and producing what it needs to produce to maintain health. It's already passed. You want basically a system that can rest and go down. Do a simple experiment. And for those that do wearables is eat something late at night and go to bed. Look at your heart rate. Eat something three hours before and go to bed three hours later. Look at your heart rate. I guarantee your heart rate is going to be elevated.

Speaker 1:
[56:44] So you are super close with Gary Brecka. What are some of the craziest wellness things you've witnessed him do?

Speaker 2:
[56:49] He tries everything. The things that I've learned tremendously from him is really, one of the things that he pushes a lot is the oxygen and understanding that. And it's crazy how that simple thing of waking up and doing breathing exercises, and deciding to do breathing exercises, is not one of the craziest things I've seen him do. But for me, crazy is cold plunges are hard.

Speaker 1:
[57:12] Oh, I could know. I'm out on that.

Speaker 2:
[57:15] Those are hard, especially for those that just sit there and get used to it. And those are really hard. Those for me are the craziest things. And I get how they work. But you have to be able to tolerate it. You also have to take caution with it because you don't want to be in something too cold for too long and you can actually cause damage. You have to know your body on that. But the breathing is so important. The breathing is so important that people don't understand is you wake up tired and you wake up feeling a little bit like sluggish. Listen, my mom, when she calls me and it starts off with a little bit, she's 85.

Speaker 1:
[57:49] Is she doing your therapies?

Speaker 2:
[57:50] Yes, 100%. Yeah, yeah, she does. But she's 85 and when she calls me a little bit off and I can tell by the voice, we start off with, mom, did we take a step back and did we start our day with the breathing exercise? She tells me yes and she's still off and then I say, step two, did you go outside and just look up in the sky and touch the floor, touch the ground?

Speaker 1:
[58:15] Barefoot.

Speaker 2:
[58:16] Barefoot, correct. Look up, get that first sunlight, just spend five minutes. Thank God. Be grateful that you woke up that morning. It's a game changer. Some people talk about this as a placebo, but guess what? I had my daughter in college write a whole article on the placebo effect because there is such a thing of a placebo effect. However, you can maintain that positive attitude and you can be grateful. And there are studies that show that that little aspect of it is a complete neurological change and being able to increase your blood flow and your oxygen is night and day on waking up and feeling good and starting your day. It's the simplest little thing that I've learned from Gary from day one of make this a routine, change what is going on in your life by starting off positive and starting off with breathing exercises.

Speaker 1:
[59:14] Where can people learn more from you? Aren't you speaking at a huge conference coming up?

Speaker 2:
[59:18] I speak in multiple conferences. I'm speaking, the next one, actually, I'm speaking at a Dominican Republic in, I think it's three weeks. It's going to be on cell therapies for a particular organization called ISCA. We have a large event which I was going to invite you to come speak in Cancun.

Speaker 1:
[59:35] What?

Speaker 2:
[59:36] Gary will be there.

Speaker 1:
[59:37] What?

Speaker 2:
[59:37] Dr. Dan Pump will be there. Dr. Josh Axe will be there.

Speaker 1:
[59:40] Oh, my friend.

Speaker 2:
[59:41] Ben Azadi will be there. I'm trying to get Dr. Will Cole. Josephine Musco, which you'd have to get her on your show. The tea lady? Yes. You have to get her on. She will be there. And then a bunch of others, Dr. Matt Halpert, that does this cell therapy cancer vaccine that's doing phenomenal in patients that are stage four cancer, that's doing really, really, really well.

Speaker 1:
[60:01] When is the Cancun Conference?

Speaker 2:
[60:03] September 25th, 26th.

Speaker 1:
[60:05] And what's that called so people can sign up and attend?

Speaker 2:
[60:07] That is ISCA Conference. I can send you flyers or whatever. It's I-S-S-C-A. It's International Society for Stem Cells. But it's gonna be a longevity fest is what it's gonna be more focused on. And we're gonna talk about a little bit of cell therapies, but would love to have you there speak.

Speaker 1:
[60:27] I would absolutely love to do that. I'm honored to be invited. What is the treatment center called in Mexico?

Speaker 2:
[60:32] It's called ReHealth, rehealth.com. Our US company is called restem.com. And then the Exosome Platform, the company is called Juvexo. The company is Exora, Exora Skin Labs. And the product is Juvexo. And we have a specific type of, we call it a Juvexo facelift. It's a micro-needling with the product. It's done in a specific way. That works phenomenally well.

Speaker 1:
[60:56] If you could offer one remedy to heal a sick culture, physically, emotionally or spiritually, what would it be?

Speaker 2:
[61:02] Be grateful. Look at everything that's around you. Look at individuals around you. And even if you don't feel like you're healthy, there's always somebody that's worse than you. The grateful part is important. And then that's one. And then two, surround yourself with the right people.

Speaker 1:
[61:19] Beautifully said. Dr. Gonzalez, thank you for coming on Culture Apothecary.

Speaker 2:
[61:21] Thank you for having me. I appreciate it. Thank you.

Speaker 1:
[61:26] I love the episodes on beauty. I should do more, shouldn't I? I just geek out on this, but I know it's more for the girlies, but that's okay. Go back and listen to my episode with Jamie McGuire if you want more like this. Leave us a five-star review and tell us which guest should come back. New episodes come out every Monday and Thursday at 6 p.m. Pacific, 9 p.m. Eastern, wherever you listen to podcasts. This content is for informational purposes only and is not intended to be taken as medical advice. Always consult with a qualified health care professional regarding any questions or decisions related to your health or medical care. I'm Alex Clark and this is Culture Apothecary.