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Transcript for Episode 24 – Dr. Paul Jaminet
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the human experience is diving into diet
supplements evolutionary biology and all
things health with my guest co-author of
the perfect health diet dr paul gemman a
doctor Gemini thank you so much for
making the time to be here sir welcome
to the program oh that’s great to be
with you Xavier so dr. Jimmy for
listeners that may not know can you just
get into your education and your
background please um yeah well I’m a
little bit overeducated I got a PhD in
physics and had a career as an
astrophysicist for a little while but
then I decided to leave and become a
software entrepreneur and that was
during the Internet boom and and then
when we sold that company in 2001 then I
I started consulting and working on some
books I’d always wanted to read some
books and I’ve gotten some good ideas
and Business and Economics that I wanted
to write about but as I did that you
know I have been noticing my health
declining and in it and it kept getting
worse I every year and I finally decided
that I should actually focus on help for
a little while first and so that’s how i
got into thinking about help Wow
astrophysics interesting so I mean let’s
let’s go through what was going through
your mind I mean how did you get to that
point where you felt like you need to
write this book and create awareness on
on health I well it really just started
with my own health problems first of all
and then my wife’s so we both had I and
you could call the middle age health
problems but I you know things that
really shouldn’t have been happening and
then you know we knew we’re not just
normal aging and in my case I’d
had some problems since birth I was in
and out of the hospital first four years
of life with chronic ear infections and
I had adenoids tonsils removed as part
of that and um and I always had some
problems with fungal infections and acne
and and things like that but then in my
20s I took a year-long course for
antibiotics to treat the acne and all of
my problems got worse and and then from
then on it seemed like every year I
would get less and less healthy and less
and less able to do things and my
reactions became very slow I started
dropping things all the time I had a
very bad essential tremor I couldn’t run
or exercise quickly I had memory loss
and you know so I was really worried
about you know if things keep getting
worse year after year what what am I
going to be in ten years and my wife had
hypothyroidism and endometriosis and
other problems and you know so you know
we knew things burn bright but we didn’t
know how to fix them you know we would
go to the doctor once a year and and he
would say oh there’s no I don’t see
anything I can do and you know so it’s
hard to uh it was hard to get a
diagnosis or working treatment and I you
know and it this went on for years and
you know but I just didn’t know an
avenue to pursue things and then a a
couple things came together in 2005
first we tried some chinese herbal
medicines and those made a difference
they made some things better but they
also gave me like an allergic type
reaction so i stopped them but that
started me thinking all the things i put
in my mouth ah matter you know because
those this wasn’t you know like a pill
that you would buy these were you know
the actual leaves and
bark and herbs and you’d make a you make
a tea decoction and you know so it’s
much like food and you notice i started
thinking oh it looks like you know
nothing in medicine had helped us but it
looks like something that his food like
has you know powerful effects and so I
started thinking well you know it makes
sense that food would be important and
so I started thinking about diet but I
didn’t believe the mainstream diets and
you know I didn’t know how to pursue
things and then I came across the Paleo
diet and decided to give that a try and
that also like the Chinese medicine had
some powerful effects and really you
know changed the symptoms some things
got better some new symptoms appeared um
you know but it was really educational
and exciting and you know so now I new
diet really mattered and you know and
then it became a problem of refining the
Paleo diet to make it better and yeah
and that was what we ended up spending
the next five years working on yeah very
interesting so I mean I know that you
get into evolutionary biology it’s but
what what is in your opinion is an
optimal diet how does a person determine
what that is for them well on the way we
started determining it was by looking at
nutrition and looking at all of the
known nutrients and figuring out what’s
the optimal amount of each for our
bodies and then putting that together
translating it into foods saying what
mix of foods do we need to eat in order
to optimize our diet and that’s what
took five years it took a lot of
research but then when we did that I
what we found is a lot of remarkable
coincidences that led us back toward
evolutionary explanations for what the
optimal diet lost and so for instance we
noticed our diet the composition is very
similar to that of breast milk and you
know send a light bulb goes on of course
breast milk is the optimal food for
infants
and you know it must have been selected
to be you know the most nourishing
possible food and so it makes sense that
something similar would be optimal for
adults so the adult the Apple adult diet
has a little more protein a little fewer
carbs than breast milk but it’s very
similar and so that was one thing we
noticed and then we also noticed though
our food is really delicious it’s it’s
very similar to gourmet food in the
high-end restaurants and you know why is
that and then and then we thought oh
well why did are you know in the
restaurants to trying to make food that
you know people love and you know that
our brains react to very positively and
say oh this is great and if you think in
evolutionary terms why would our brain
say this is great it only because it
would be helping us be healthy and be
more successful and have more children
and grandchildren you know so it made
sense if we eat meals that are delicious
and satisfying then I that’s likely to
be a very helpful diet if it’s one
composed of natural whole foods like we
you know the sorts of things we would
have had access to in the Paleolithic so
you know so we still stuck with the
ancestral paleo template but we refined
it and so our diet ends up being about
three parts plant food to one part
animal food so it’s more plant food rich
than you know people may think of paleo
but it’s still a Paleolithic type diet
it’s a type of diet that our ancestors
ate in the Paleolithic it’s a natural
whole foods diet but it’s delicious it’s
combined in the proportions that will
make us really enjoy our food and be
really satisfied after the meal is over
hmm interesting because I tend to be a
very busy person and so most of the time
I am just kind of grabbing what’s
available and eating that and I usually
find that’s not the best way to approach
things are were there are some food
that you found that specifically that we
should maybe absolutely avoid to
maintain a healthy lifestyle oh yeah i
would i would definitely avoid processed
foods industrial foods you know any of
the things made with purified nutrients
so usually those are things where the
ingredients list starts with starch oil
sugar um you know so those end up you
know they’ve taken out all of the micro
nutrition and the fiber from food that
just kept the calories and then they
repackage the calories with some
flavorings and so you don’t want to eat
those I generally highly processed foods
are going to be bad for you and then in
terms of ingredients you generally want
to avoid anything with vegetable seed
oils I you know there are high in
omega-6 fats they tend to have toxins
they need a lot of processing in order
to remove the toxins but the processing
can add toxins itself I it’s good to
avoid added sugar we don’t really need
it just the natural sugars and in fruits
and starches and other plants are the
optimal amount for us and in general you
should be suspicious of seeds because
those are going to have the most
defenses and especially the seeds of
plants that grow in grasslands I like
the cereal grains like wheat because
those have it co-evolved with
herbivorous mammals and so the the big
evolutionary challenge for the seeds was
getting digested by mammals and they
don’t want that to happen so they all
have digestive inhibitors and various
things that interfere with the
functioning of a mammals body and and
not all of them are destroyed in cooking
so we include white rice in our diet
because I all of the known toxins and
white rice are destroyed in cooking but
I’ve in general you should be suspicious
of grains and and some of the beans
because they’ve tended to evolve toxins
that affect mammalian biology hmm are
there are there are some specific
vitamins that we absolutely need that
you recommend that people take and um
well we definitely need to be well
nourished so we need we need all of
vitamins and minerals and actually some
other nutrients that are classified as
vitamins or minerals and you know the
reason things were called vitamins is
they’re necessary for life if you had a
diet without any of a vitamin you would
die um so they’re all necessary but some
of them are really easy to get from food
I so just eating a natural whole foods
diet not one of the you know processed
foods diet that doesn’t have the micro
nutrition gets you a long way and then
it’s really good to eat what we call
supplemental foods so foods that have uh
you know we call them that because their
foods we think you should include
regularly daily or weekly in your diet
just like supplements and those include
things like egg yolks liver
extracellular matrix material from bones
joints tendons hoods on and seafood
fermented vegetables ah ha you know so
we have a we have a list in our book and
on our website and and then there’s
still a few things that it’s very easy
to be deficient you know so you know if
you eat oysters you can get enough sink
but many people don’t eat oysters and
find it easier to supplement you know
similarly if you ate enough sweet
peppers you could do okay with vitamin C
if you’re not too sick but you know many
people have trouble getting enough
vitamin C and it’s worth supplementing
many people have trouble getting enough
magnesium on vitamin D we don’t get out
in the Sun enough expose our skin to the
Sun so it can be beneficial to
supplement that a lot of people don’t
eat seafood regularly enough so
supplementing iodine can be beneficial
um you know so it’s really you have to
look at
and text of your diet and see what
you’re not getting from food and then
and then it can be beneficial to supply
those particular things in supplemental
form was there was there any anything
game-changing for you that you found
that would improve your life by adding
into your diet um well for most people
it’s going to be egg yolks liver seafood
and seaweed and fermented vegetables to
support the gut flora and extra
extracellular matrix material so those
will probably be the biggest things that
are beneficial in terms of supplements
I’d probably say magnesium iodine and in
people who are less healthy vitamin C
would be uh you know highly beneficial
things to do add and and then I’d say
another huge factor in health that many
people overlook is timing of when you do
things and meal timing is very important
so we recommend intermittent fasting
having an overnight fast of 16 hours and
making sure that you’re a tower feeding
window is entirely in the daytime so you
want to coordinate your eating with your
light exposure and your physical
activity and your social interactions
and and then have a period of rest at
night which you don’t eat hmm very
interesting can we get into that a
little bit more so you’re saying that we
should have a period of eight hours
where we spend and and those eight hours
we should eat within that window and the
other was at 16 hours of the day that we
should we should not which not be in
just in food at all ah that’s right so
um you know so I would recommend fluids
and electrolytes in during the fast you
know some things like coffee tea I
vegetable soup um you know but basically
minimal or no calories and
you know so at our health retreats we
suggest you know special people who have
adrenal issues on you know keep like a
cherry tomato and some salt and water by
your bed and then you can replenish
electrolytes because if your adrenals
aren’t functioning well you’ll tend to
lose electrolytes you won’t be able to
maintain them properly in the FAFSA if
you replenish them I you know through
the night just before bed and after
waking that’ll make the fast less
stressful um but in general it’s a very
good idea to do intermittent fasting and
accentuate the circadian rhythms of food
you know so that your calories are
concentrated in the daytime hmm it’s
very interesting there seems to be some
mixed research on dietary supplements on
one of the two battling sides there’s a
multi-billion dollar industry and these
these manufacturers are putting out
vitamins mineral fiber amino acids on
the other side there’s there seems to be
a growing body of research that suggests
people should have been abandon
multivitamins completely and that this
is a placebo and that we’re being duped
how do you respond to this and how can
laymen such as myself kind of navigate
these opposing claims yeah well that’s a
it’s a complex topic so that there’s a
lot of nutrients and uh and in general
the you know the health effects of a
nutrient are you shaped so your health
is poor if you’re deficient but your
health can also be damaged by getting an
excess of the nutrients so a lot of
nutrients turn into toxins when you get
too much and you know so that means
there’s an optimal amount and whether a
supplement is going to help you or hurt
you depends on whether you’re below the
optimum are above it and I you know so
something like a multivitamin where for
marketing purposes it seems the best
strategy is to give people a hundred
percent of the RDA of everything uh and
you know but that means you know most
people are getting one hundred percent
of the RDA
things in food and so that means you’re
giving them two hundred percent of a lot
of nutrients and that can potentially
tip over into the toxic and on the other
side there’s a lot of things that are
left out of multivitamins because
they’re too bulky I you know so people
are willing to eat you know several
pounds of food but they’re not going to
eat a very large multivitamin and you
know so they don’t tend to put in bulky
things like magnesium or vitamin C into
into multivitamins and you know so
there’s a lot of things that are missing
from multivitamins or are there in you
know homeopathic type quantities and and
it happens that a lot of the things that
are missing from multivitamin type of
things that people are actually most
efficient in and a lot of the things
that multivitamins provide you know
people arguing okay with and don’t
really need more of so it’s not that
surprising that multivitamins have you
know shown is pretty much neutral in in
most studies hmm so so what supplements
do you personally use and you’re in your
life uh I’d take I take some extra
vitamin C I take a low dose of iodine
daily even though I eat a fair amount of
seafood but I don’t need seafood every
day and I think it’s beneficial to get
some iodine every day and I just find it
easiest to take a take a pill I take
vitamin D in the winter because I have
difficulty getting I live in Boston
which is a little bit far north and I
have difficulty getting enough sunshine
in the winter on and a few others i took
some zinc once a week and let’s see i’ll
take some silicon occasionally if I
don’t eat if I don’t need liver for a
while I’ll take a little vitamin A um
but ah pretty much I try to get most
nutrients from food hmm okay where do
you what do you think the current
established kind of standing of the
Western medical system is I mean I know
that you’ve battled with this chronic
like illness disease type stuff and you
know how do you feel the Western medical
system is addressing these health
problems that more and more people seem
to be having well I think that’s
starting a part job I think I you know
we got a little carried away by the idea
of pharmaceutical science so you know
just the way medical science developed I
you know when they started putting it on
a good footing in the early 20th century
they discovered the major nutrients and
vitamins and and nutritional research
kind of came to a stop there in medicine
moved on I there was a big there was
huge progress against infectious
diseases and then when things shifted
toward chronic diseases with multiple
causes so things like cancer and
cardiovascular disease became the
dominant causes of death I then I you
know medicine wanted to stick with kind
of the pharmaceutical paradigm which had
been worked out for infectious diseases
you know of you know first developing
first vaccines and then antibiotics and
you know looking for compounds that
would module the would alter our biology
and hope that they could find those
compounds that would fix those diseases
and I think we can say at this point
that the pharmaceutical approach those
diseases really hasn’t worked so
basically it looks like the causes of
most modern diseases are in our diet and
lifestyle and nutrition and and if you
keep someone on a bad diet and and keep
them malnourished and keep them on an
unhealthy lifestyle
but you try to alter their biology you
can’t there’s no way to fix the harm of
being malnourished there’s no way to fix
the harm of not giving your body the
lifestyle environmental signals so what
the only thing the drugs can really do
is is move the symptoms around you know
so they can change where problems occur
you know so for instance in diabetes
people tend to get neuropathy early on
and the drugs can move the harm some of
the harm out of the nerves and towards
somewhere else you know so that you
sicken the whole body at the same pace
and so you don’t you don’t die quite as
early and you know those are beneficial
drugs but it really what people really
would have hoped for was to be made
healthy and I think what we’re starting
to realize is that I I a good diet and
lifestyle approach really can fix these
problems and remove the risk of the
diseases so I think in terms of where
the medical system has to head it has to
incorporate diet nutrition lifestyle
much more deeply and make those much
more central to the healing process
right what do you what do you think the
biggest misconception about diet and
healthy food is that you’ve noticed um I
would say you know probably the biggest
popular misconception is that you need
to go to extremes or you need to suffer
in order to eat a healthy time so um you
know a lot of the popular diet regimens
that are proclaiming this healthy are
you know somewhat restrictive um or they
may remove you know one type of food
entirely so the vegan vegetarian doctors
who removed animal food or went to a
very low fat diet had a you know a long
run and more recently the low-carb
movement restricted carbohydrates has
you know been very popular and we’ve
also had a lot of
uh other more specialized diets that you
know remove you know I’m thinking of
some autoimmune protocols or gut feeling
I putative got ealing diodes to remove a
lot of types of food and you know so 11
misconception I would say is that you
know if you if you just remove lots of
foods you you’ll tend to improve your
health you know we’re actually a
diversity of foods is most often that
what’s going to do the most good and
then on the other side about taste you
know like like we said earlier I our
brains evolved to make us healthy and
you know some things that taste good if
they’re made out of natural whole foods
are going to be healthy for us more
often than that so you don’t you don’t
want food that I you know is tasteless
or unpleasant or I you know leaves you
unsatisfied there’s probably something
missing if that’s the case hmm that’s
interesting just because i’ve always
found that the foods that are most
healthy for me usually tastes pretty bad
so um huh I wonder if you could go into
that a little bit more um well uh let me
tell you what I typically eat for lunch
so i’ll take a big bowl and i’ll make my
lunch out of leftovers and i’ll put in
some kind of starch like potatoes or
rice i’ll put in you know some kind of
vegetable I like like spinach often we
have leftover vegetables I’ll just put
those in um i’ll put in some leftover
meat or fish on i’ll put in three egg
yolks i’ll put in some vinegar some
coconut milk and fish sauce usually as
flavorings and then just heat it up in
the microwave and and it’s delicious and
you know so um and that’s actually you
know so we’re writing a cookbook we have
a we have a template or how do you
design a meal
it’s pretty much I you know if you get
the foods in the right proportions then
it’ll be delicious every time and I you
know and actually if you look at the
nutrient composition of that lunch that
I just described and you add in a little
bit of fruit or berries you know then it
would you know basically come very close
to the composition of breast milk and
you know like we said earlier that’s a
very healthy a combination of nutrients
was there was there any specific moment
where you realize there was a kind of
Eureka for you as far as okay this works
for me and kind of your in your
understanding of health and healthy
eating and if you could go into that for
us um I would say you know one thing
anyone who’s written a book will know
when you start writing you uh you know
you realize how little you know and and
you have to keep doing a lot of research
in order to be able to you know read
something that that’s good and so what
happened for us is on I was you know
getting to an age where other generation
before mine you know my father my aunts
and uncles were having you know starting
to have significant health problems so I
wanted to write up what I’ve learned for
them and started writing something up
and then I kept finding you know things
I needed to think more deeply about and
and it kept growing and then I decided
you know once that was done that I
should turn it into a book and and kept
going and then we started a blog and we
kept learning from our from our readers
and then scribner and simon and schuster
came to us and asked us to do a new
version and stand so we did another
round of research and updated everything
and I would say the big you know Eureka
moments are you know things like first
of all if people mostly aren’t deficient
in vitamins they’re mostly defy
minerals and you know so that was one
thing where you know i i’d had kind of a
haphazard record of supplementing things
but i would tend to focus on vitamins
and you know most people don’t need b
vitamin supplements but most people do
need more minerals so that was probably
one of the earliest Eureka moments on I
would say you know once we saw once we
have gotten through all of the
nutritional analysis and saw a picture
of what the diet look like and realized
that it it looked like gourmet cuisine
you know that was that was a major
Eureka moment also realizing that it
looked like breast milk and then
starting to look into some of the
evolutionary explanations and and then
realizing well you know the breast milk
of all the animals is similar so why do
we animals eat different diets and then
looking into that aspect we realized
that it’s really only the digestive
tracts that evolve and the nutritional
needs of animals are pretty much all the
same and that’s why the breast milk is
very similar and I you know so all that
really evolves when animals move to a
different food sources the digestive
track changes in order to convert the
food stuffs into a different set of
nutrients and on you know so humans are
interesting we have a pretty minimal
digestive tract and therefore we need to
eat close to our optimal nutritional
needs and so the animals that can I eat
things that aren’t talking about total
nutrition need to have very big guts to
do a lot of fermentation of the of the
plant foods and transform them into a
different set of nutrients so I yeah
there were a lot of insights and then
and then also i would say in reading a
scribner addition we realized the
importance of lifestyle and you know
things like meal timing other circadian
rhythm entrainement factors and
coordinating the various circadian
rhythm and trainer so coordinating when
you eat with when your expo
delight with when you exercise with when
you get social interactions um those are
all important things to do mmm
interesting well thank you for sharing
that so you get into evolutionary
biology and you talk about how there was
a shift of the sort of hunter-gatherer
to your modern day super market if you
could get into that for a bit I think
that would be interesting um yeah well
there’s a there’s a number of changes so
uh you know one of them is of course the
hunter-gatherers all they had were
natural whole foods and we have those
around the edges of a supermarket but
then in the middle of the supermarket we
have all these manufactured foods which
were put together with only specific
nutrients and are often completely
lacking in other nutrients and so for
the first time you could you can eat
foods that have been designed to appeal
to our brains but that don’t actually
have the nutrients that our brain I
expects and that you know the natural
whole foods that had that same taste
would have provided so it’s now possible
to be malnourished in a way that hunter
gatherers could never have been
malnourished except in starvation you
know so for the first time we can be we
can be overeating calories but under
eating nutrition and that really
wouldn’t have happened in the
Paleolithic and then it’s also possible
now to have totally messed up circadian
rhythms so if you think back in the
Paleolithic it wasn’t that easy to do a
lot of things at night you know you
could you could start a fire but it’s
still not that convenient anyone has
gotten camping it’s not that convenient
to cook and I you know do a lot of work
in the dark
and you know some in the Paleolithic
most of the eating would have been done
in the daytime because that’s when it
was convenient to do all that work and
they would have eaten very little at
night but now we have artificial
lighting we’ve got refrigerators and so
on we can raid them @midnight and it’s
very easy to eat at night so you know a
lot of things have changed our
technology has liberated us in many ways
but it’s it’s also liberated us to do
unhealthy things and we’ve managed to
start doing them in quantity most of us
so I you know it’s definitely it’s it’s
now it’s now essential for people to
educate themselves about what is a
healthy diet what is a healthy lifestyle
and then manage their lives that way
because the environment doesn’t no
longer forces us to live with a healthy
lifestyle it allows us to be very
unhealthy if we choose to live that way
hmm very interesting so what is your
what is your I tend to go to the gym
quite a lot and in kind of the the gym
language they the ketosis is brought up
a lot and avoiding carbs and what’s your
opinion on that well um that’s another
you know we mentioned earlier some of
the restrictive diet approaches that are
sometimes used as therapies for various
things so the vegan low-fat restrictive
diets or the low-carb restrictive diets
and ketosis is it’s another form of
restrictive diet when we’re starved of
carbohydrate and protein then our bodies
start turning fats into ketones and the
ketones can substitute for carbohydrates
in the brain and various other places
and you know so it’s a way of coping
with a carbohydrate restriction and I
and this can actually be beneficial in
certain health conditions
can be beneficial for neurological
function and some other issues and so
it’s you know it’s actually you know a
medically approved therapy for epilepsy
and it works also for many other
neurological conditions like migraines
but it’s um you know like all the
restrictive diets it’s it’s very easy to
become malnourished when you do that if
you’re not eating carbohydrates then
you’re probably not supplying your gut
microbiome with carbohydrates and uh and
you need to get quite a bit of
carbohydrate fiber in order to have a
healthy gut microbiome so and there’s
also a certain plant associated
nutrients and minerals like potassium
that it’s very easy to be deficient in
if you if you’re on a carb restricted
diet and and there are some risks to
getting too much oil also so you know
one of the ways people promote the
generation ketones is by overeating oil
and and that can lead to oxidative
stress and other issues you know with
potentially negative effects on the
heart and in other tissues so um you
know so i would say ketogenic diets
which could be limp ketosis there you
know potentially a powerful therapeutic
option but they’re also tend to be a
risky option and so i wouldn’t recommend
that as a as a routine diet but like i
said you know i recommend intermittent
fasting of 16 hours each night and so
that will start to put you in a little
bit of ketosis or the end of the fast
and that’s not a bad thing uh so you
know you want to be a unit right have a
certain degree of moderation in in
regard to ketosis yeah it does seem like
there needs to be a sort of sense of
balance in all things which makes sense
is there something that you could give
a person may perhaps listening to the
show right now one thing that they can
do that would immediately improve their
overall health um be well nourished you
know so supplemental foods things like
egg yolks I you know really do intend to
improve health look quite a bit I I
would say you know the meal timing the
circadian rhythm all circadian rhythm
and treatment is very powerful for help
it you can easily in studies shorten
people’s lives by six years by
disrupting circadian rhythms and I you
know and just disrupting any one factor
in circadian rhythms like if you don’t
exercise you lose six years off your
life if you get a night shift job you
don’t lose six years off your life you
know or if you get sleep apnea on if you
you know get a lot of loud noises or
bread lights at night then you’ll lose
six years off your life if you don’t get
enough social interactions in the day
then you’ll lose years off your life so
all of those factors are really
important eating at night is associated
with obesity and diabetes and various
other health problems so you definitely
want to focus your food intake in the
daytime and you know so probably those
are you know like the and you know of
course eating a natural whole foods diet
so you really want to avoid the you know
the manufactured foods in the middle of
the supermarket hmm makes sense to me is
there and one one question we’re rapping
about to wrap up here but one last
question that I like to ask all my guess
is there one thing that you would if
there was one thing that you could go
back in time and tell yourself when you
began this journey what would it be
um well I’d like to carry a copy of our
book back and give it to myself and say
read this because I actually the name of
the name of our book perfect health diet
I that is chosen it’s it’s not so much
that we’re claiming that our diet is
already perfect it’s more that we’re
saying you really need to aim / aim for
perfection in order to achieve goodness
in order to achieve good health and the
reason is that there are so many factors
that influence health you know there are
you know 50 to 100 nutrients but I have
a big impact on our health there are
also many lifestyle factors you know
things like meal timing you know things
influences on your gut microbiome so you
know there’s just many many factors that
influence health so there’s no one magic
bullet but if you get the complete story
together then it can make a huge
difference and so that’s why I’d have to
carry back our book which you know
discusses great many things and and just
recommend that so no no one specific
message for your younger self then yeah
well um you know I think I think we said
some of them eat natural foods be well
nourished and entrained circadian
rhythms would be the biggest things I’d
you know but if there were a magic
bullet and I had nutrition health you
know then it would have been found long
ago if all you had to do was do one
thing manager you know you’d have great
health and it would have been discovered
pretty quickly so where can people find
more about your work and what you and
your wife are doing well you can go to
our website perfect health diet calm and
we also conduct health retreats twice a
year in may and october and those are
called the perfect health retreat and I
and they’ve been a great experience so
far excellent thank you so much for
being here doctor Gemini I really
appreciate you making the time and and
being present here with us and this is
the human experience thank you so much
for listening we’re signing out all
right Thank You executive
