Kyal Van Der Leest
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that can cause permeability of the brain. And then all of the toxins that are getting through your permeable gut, like lipopolysaccharides, endotoxins, can then go into your brain and cause deep neuroinflammation. And that's what I dealt with.
And I know that's what Dave Asprey dealt with and what basically sparked his whole journey into biohacking and to bulletproof, bringing his brain back from, I think he claimed that on a brain scan, it showed severe brain damage and he had like an eight year old's brain from mold. Well, Probably not as bad as Dave, but I still had that happening. I had mold colonized in my sinuses.
So in the sinus cavity, pretty much trickling directly into my brain, I had mold toxin going in there until I managed to clear it out with sinus flushes and grapefruit seed extracts and all the other things that you can do. Even a little bit of a knack in a sinus cleanse, which I recommend you do very cautiously because it burns, but...
Yes, exactly right. But yeah, neuro is my attempt to, A, bring my brain back, restore any potential brain damage, which probably occurred from being in three years of mold, and then to help my dad out. And again, using the naturopathics, Lion's Mane, BDNF booster, Gotocola, Ginkgo, Bacopa, all blood flow enhancers help get oxygen and nutrient delivery to the brain and waste removal.
Use a bit of dihydroberberine to stabilize the blood sugar. And what I love doing, my biggest passion is finding ingredients that work better than what the mainstream are aware of. Like NAC has gained a lot of popularity. For good reason, it's the precursor to glutathione. But there are other forms of NACs. There's also forms that are sort of downstream of NAC converting through to glutathione.
You can use NACet, which is an ethyl ester form of NAC that has substantially better bioavailability. And it's also capable of crossing the blood-brain barrier, so increasing glutathione levels in the brain. It's often called neuro NAC.
The other one you can use is GGC, which is on the three steps of conversion through to glutathione, the middle step, NAC being the first, GGC is the second, and then it just converts directly through to glutathione. I like the precursors more than I do glutathione unless it's like a really good quality liposomal one. at increasing glutathione levels than taking it.
So yeah, including Nasset in the neuroformula was pretty important and terastilbene, two really good antioxidants, anti-inflammatories for your brain to help with that neuroinflammatory cascade that I believe is probably one of the few causative reasons why neurodegeneration occurs. And then sort of rectifying it with the peptides.
Again, we come back to combine the naturopathics with the powerful modern scientific cutting edge peptides like dihexa, like P21 and C-max. All of these peptides have been shown in animal studies, granted, hopefully the human studies come, to increase BDNF, increase NGF, nerve growth factor. These peptides...
work on so many different growth factor cascades that all ultimately result in improved brain function. And that's why I love this product. But one thing that I need to caveat is when you boost BDNF, some people, especially when they like lion's mane, people might say this, for example, they get a little bit brain foggy from it.
Because when you boost BDNF, it actually is quite a metabolically taxing process to grow new neurons or to remyelinate or to undergo neuroplasticity. So you do end up with a little bit of inflammation from that. So by using the things like the nasa, the terastil beans, the ginkgos and bacopa, you're sort of quenching that inflammation that can occur when you really push BDNF.
My personal anecdotal experience having used it is every time I'm on it, it's like increased mental focus, increased verbal fluency, and also skill acquisition. That's a big thing that BDNF is beneficial for. When you're young, your BDNF levels are much higher than when you're older. I think before you're seven, it's ridiculously high. That's why kids just pick up everything straight away.
And learning a new language is so much easier when you're younger than seven than it is when you're older. But since taking it, I've managed to and this is like a chicken or an egg thing. Did I start to do these things because I knew when I took dihexa and P21 that I needed to probably get the benefits by learning a skill, but I have managed to pick up piano.
Not great, but I'm starting to learn that and it's finding it pretty easy. I've managed to learn how to serve a tennis ball, and I'm getting significantly better at basketball. Just obviously, if you practice things, you get better. But I'm finding comparative to when I did all those things before, it's much easier for me now because of that BDNF boost.
And from my understanding, you do need to actively work on skill acquisition when you're boosting it too. So that's what I've been doing and liking.
I don't know about you, but my kind of order of operations for healing people is work on adrenals. Yep. Then gut, then liver and detoxification and elimination.
then hormones and then you can sort of do all the extras wherever else like if it's kidneys are still not functioning they can go after them if it's neuro brain fog all that sort of if that's not already resolved from working on those prior ones then you can bring in things like neuro and then the additional things oh i want to like slow my rate of aging i want to use nmn i want to boost mitochondrial function too that kind of plays in wherever you kind of wanted to as an add-on on the side
Yeah, they're a fantastic circuit breaker or a spiral reverser. If you're stuck in a downward spiral, sometimes you just need to get pulled out. And if a GLP-1 or a BPC or whatever it is pulls you out, even if it's a pharmaceutical, I'm not opposed to them if they're going to long-term get you to your health goal.
Like an SSRI, God, I definitely cannot say I'm a fan of them long-term, but short-term, they might be the exact thing you need to start doing the interventional, the lifestyle, the mental things to get yourself off of them in the future and get yourself in a better state of health.
Absolutely. A big reason I like the oral peptides is you can dose up and you're not going to make the mistakes that you can with reconstitution. And you don't have to worry as much about... We still have incredibly high purity. We always test on our stuff. But if you're to inject a peptide that's contaminated with LPS or heavy metals...
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