The Dylan Gemelli Podcast
Episode #126 Featuring Mark Young! Treating the CAUSE, NOT THE SYMPTOM!
23 May 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Creatine, one of the most proven and studied compounds in existence, yet still one of the most confusing. Most people think creatine is only for muscle, but creatine is for energy, not caffeine-type energy, actual cellular energy, the kind that your body uses for strength, focus, and recovery.
If your workouts feel flat, if your brain feels slower than it used to, and if your recovery is not where it should be, there's a high probability your energy system isn't supported, and creatine will help fix that. It essentially gives your body a reserve. So when your demand spikes, you don't crash. But here's where most people mess this up.
They grab the cheapest creatine they can find and assume it's all the same, but it's not. If it doesn't dissolve well, if it's not supported by the right cofactors, and if your body can't actually use it efficiently, you're wasting your time and money. And that's why I switched to Qualia Creatine Plus.
It's designed around how your body actually produces and uses energy, not just dumping in creatine and hoping for the best, Cleaner mix, better utilization, noticeable difference. If you're going to take creatine, take one that actually works with your body.
Chapter 2: How does Mark Young emphasize treating causes instead of symptoms?
Go to qualialife.com backslash Dylan for 50% off and use my code Dylan for an additional 15% off. That's qualialife.com backslash Dylan and use my code Dylan. Thank you to Qualia for sponsoring this episode. Today is extremely special for me for multitudes of reasons. One, as you can see, we're not in the normal studio. We are at Changing Life and Destiny.
And I am thoroughly honored to have the person that I'm interviewing today for multiple reasons. One, we met in person for the first time here. Now, I've been going back and forth with him here and there. As soon as we met, it was like an instantaneous click. I don't know how to explain it. You just know when you know when you know. And we both know.
Chapter 3: What role does diet play in health and wellness according to Mark?
And. I received an award here last night and had the privilege of being introduced by my guest, who gave a speech that I don't really know what to say other than it hit me in a certain way of the most touching and... My level of appreciation, I can't really convey into words, but I'm going to try to show that in our interaction today.
So my guest today is someone who has built a career around a principle that sounds simple, but it turns out to be everything. If you want to build something that lasts, you have to actually care about the people you're building it for. And that is super synonymous with everything that I can tell you this man stands for. He's an entrepreneur. He's an author. He's a speaker.
And he's a philanthropist. He's the CEO of Sona Health. And he's also the CEO and founder of Rise Agency. And I have to tell you, I meet a lot of people. I talk to, I don't know, without exaggeration, thousands of people a month. And I love the ability that I have to do that.
Chapter 4: How can individuals prioritize their connection with God in wellness?
But there's always a small select few that stick with you in just everything that you do. And this is one of those people. So my friends, welcome Mark Young.
Dude, I don't even know what to say in that intro. There could be tears here. I'm known for my intros. That is all I'm going to stop. My team reads my intros.
You know, I always tell people send me a bio and I never tell them I'm only going to use a couple sentences because it's it's it's there simply so I can hit your credentials. But everything else comes from me.
My team writes my bios. This is going to be so funny because every time I have a guest, I'm like, I'm going to read the bio because I could never do you justice if it just did. But thank you. I appreciate that. And Dylan, the honor of being able to introduce you yesterday at the event last night was all mine.
Chapter 5: What are the ethical considerations for influencers in health and wellness?
Genuinely all mine. And the point that I wanted to make in that was that you're, you're not here, you're not here, you're not here. You know, you're not talking about physiology like so many other people at podcasts do. You're not talking about just psychology. You're not talking about just spirituality.
Like you're one of the rare breed of people who integrates all of those things together and understands the, the wholism of the human organism and not any kind of container for, for categorization or, or, what not about people. And I appreciate that about you.
Thank you. Here's what I feel. And I start with this and you tell me what you think. So I feel like everybody's got a specialty, something they're just really good at. They're known for that. They know a lot about, but then they get out there and that's all they talk about.
Chapter 6: How does stress impact overall health and what can be done about it?
And that's all you ever see from somebody. And there's always more there. And I'm not saying they're an expert and everything, but there's more personality. There's something that they're missing. And my job and my goal is tenfold, really. It's one, it's to showcase the person because it's not about me when you come on my show.
I got the opportunity to go speak and you could talk to me about all you want. I'll feed you some things when you're interviewing with me. But what I want to do is not just showcase your strengths. And I'm not necessarily saying we're going to go look at your weaknesses, but your other abilities to show your versatility and who you are.
And if I am going to do that, I have to be able to bring all facets of health and wellness because health and wellness is not just one, two or three things. It is everything. It's all of it.
And I agree with you. I always use the phrase that if all I have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail, right?
Chapter 7: What insights does Mark provide on heart health and prevention?
Yeah. And I see a lot of people, particularly in this biohacking, natural health, wellness space, they have a product. They've got something. And I respect them so much for it. Because for many of these people, this is their story come to life. From their pain to their purpose, they've found something. They found a supplement that saved their lives. They found a device that saved their lives.
They found this stuff. And now everybody needs it. Not everybody needs it. Like just because it, just because the movie wanted the war doesn't mean everybody enjoyed it. That's right. Right. Like there's, there's flavors for all sorts of stuff.
Chapter 8: How can we leverage technology and AI for better health outcomes?
And particularly I was talking with our mutual friend, Sean Brape today, and we were talking about, we can't unpack physiology until we unpack trauma. Yeah. Like how does, and no two people have the same amount of trauma. I don't, I don't care. Like we've all lived different lives. We've all been impacted differently. And, you know, we've disclosed things about our own lives to each other.
And it's like, they're not the same. Totally different. And yet when you get to the, to the end result, literally people say we look just alike.
Yeah.
But there's so much that goes on back here. And I think it's important for anybody in this space to responsibly practice and recommend. And again, that's what I admire about you. You're not hawking things. You're genuinely caring about individuals. Yeah. And not just masses.
I think it's important when you're conveying like what something is that you're selling, that you really convey what it is and why you may need it. Not that you have to have it, but this is why you may need it. So if you have problem X, problem Y, or you want to address something that you're missing, this will be good for you.
But it doesn't mean that every single person, you know, you're trying to shove it down their throats. I feel there's some things out there that you and I discussed of like, You know, certain like creatine. I feel like almost anybody needs that can take it. Right. There's some things like that. But then there's things that I just I have a hard time with.
Well, it's like you promote Tongue Light. Yeah, I agree. There's nobody that I wouldn't say couldn't take that product. Yes. There's nobody I believe that couldn't take that product and benefit from it. Right. Do I believe it's a solution for everybody? No, no. But it's a great additive. Yeah, it's not going to hurt anybody. But I see people out there who are just like, oh, the vitamins are good.
I need to take all the vitamins. I'm like, yeah, except then I've looked at vitamin stacks where I'm like, that's great. You're taking this beef liver organ. You're taking this and you're taking this. You're done. I'm like. Do you notice how much vitamin A that you've put into your diet because you've taken all of these supplements together?
Let's go look at all of these vitamin A quantities and find out how long it's going to take before you go into heart failure. Right. Okay. Not everything is good. Yes. And not everything is good if you don't know everything else that the person is even taking. And that's it. It's responsibility. I mean, in pharmacies, we've cross-reference prescriptions and all of this.
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