Dr. Nathan Bryan
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first heard Feb 2025
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So you'll find in one study, conductors who do this, you know, orchestra conductors, they have some of the lowest rates of heart attack and cardiovascular disease than any other profession. And why is that? Because they're doing this and this is fueling the muscle battery pack that supplies the heart. So that heart never runs out of voltage, never conductance.
And if you do that all over, we have to contract our muscles and get those battery packs. So when we lose voltage, When we lose this transmembrane potential, which is about minus 25 millivolts, and if you convert that to pH, it's a pH of 7.4, right, which is normal physiological pH.
When we lose that transmembrane potential and we lose the ability for that cell to maintain some sort of negative inside with respect to outside of the cell, we develop dysfunction. And when the inside of the cell becomes positive with respect to the outside, we call that cancer. And that's, you know, the Warburg effect. So cancer only grows in a low oxygen, low pH, low voltage environment.
And so when we move, when we exercise and we eat food and we ground and get electrons and we maintain some voltage and electron flow, then we become a little bit protective, not a little bit, we become a lot protective from chronic disease.
Be sedentary and eat an ultra processed food diet, which unfortunately is most Americans.
That's most people, yeah.
Look, there has to be benchmarks, right? You have to have something, kind of a milestone. I think it's not difficult at all to walk 3000 steps a day. So if you're not getting in 3000, then yeah, I think that's probably, if you're just walking from, you know, the couch to the toilet, to the kitchen, to the garage, from the parking lot to the, you should easily be able to get 3000 steps.
And if you're not doing that, then yeah, I think that would certainly be sedentary.
No, that's right. The lymphatics, the lymphatic system is dependent upon muscle contraction, right? Especially in the lower extremities. If you're not moving them, you're going to get lymphedema. You're going to get pooling. And you're going to get neuropathy and, you know, vascular disease, peripheral vascular disease. So that's just one aspect. But you have to have a target.
You can't set goals if you don't have a target. So, yes, some of these numbers are random. Is it 3,000? Is it 10,000? It doesn't matter. But you have to have a target. You can never hit your target, hit your goal if you don't have a target. So I think it has some meaning. But what is the right target? Number? I don't know.
You can't do it one day and go, oh, I did that and then never do it again. You know, for me, I travel every week. And so sometimes I would, you know, when I when I arrive at a new hotel in a new city or new country, always go to the gym. Right. No matter what time of day it is, because I've been sedentary in an airplane for sometimes 15, 16, 18 hours.
And then when I figured out, you know, that's not always possible. So now what I do, and I've been doing this for probably six months, when I wake up, usually within five or ten minutes, I do 100 push-ups and 100 squats every morning. And that takes me less than five minutes. And I don't have to go to the gym anymore. And then I did that, and at first it was pretty difficult.
But now I can get it in and no problem. So what I did, I'm not content with that. Now I'm doing 200. And I'll do that. When that becomes too easy, then I'll up it. But that, for me, I mean, I do an 18-hour fast every day. I wake up every morning, do 100 push-ups. Now it's 200 push-ups, 200 squats. And it just gets your day going. And it's mobilizing the lymph.
It's removing a lot of the inflammation, the bags under the eyes, because everything's pumping. Blood's pumping, lymph is flowing, and you just feel better. There's no better way to start your day.
Now, just one short comment on firefighters. You know, firefighters in a general population have about the same risk of heart attack as any other profession. However, when they go into a burning building, their risk of heart attack within 24 or 48 hours after entering a burning building goes up tenfold.
Because they're breathing carbon monoxide and all these toxins and pollutants. Particles 2.5, PM 2.5. And so they're at risk. And so we're, you know, certainly during the fires here in LA, we donate a lot of product to them to protect them. I mean, they're protecting the community and going in when... you know, doing their job and it's putting them at risk.
Yeah, yeah. I don't think, again, there's no benefit to not doing exercise. Yeah. And there's enormous risk. So, again, if we're using that same risk-benefit quotient, yeah, it's got to be at the bottom.
Well, again, I think it's individualized. It depends upon your metabolic flexibility. You know, continuous glucose monitors are available anywhere. Anybody should do it. And I think everybody should do the experiment. So broadly speaking, nightly dessert is not good. The worst thing you want to do is eat right before bed, and especially get a spike in blood sugar and insulin before bed.
You're not going to sleep well, and it's just going to, it's a recipe for disaster.
Yeah. Now look, what you do one day a week is going to kill you. It's what you do the other six days. It probably will. So an occasional nightly dessert is not great, but as long as you're not doing that every night. And again, for me personally, I speak to what I do. I try to eat my last meal before 6 PM and then I don't eat again until noon the next day. So it's an 18 hour fast every day.
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