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Hi,

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everyone. Welcome to another episode

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name is Hershel Perth. I'm the doctor Heimin Plus

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Community Manager, and I'm joined by

1:27

Darcy Gross, who is one of producers

1:29

of the longevity roadmap docu series.

1:31

Hi, Darcy. Hi, good morning.

1:33

Good morning. And of course, we are here with

1:35

our expert, Dr. Mark Heimid.

1:38

Hi, Dr. Heimid. Hi, everybody.

1:39

Thanks

1:40

for joining us today and

1:42

answering the Ask Mark Anything questions.

1:45

So let's go ahead and get started.

1:48

So our first question comes from Arc Media

1:50

and they want to know what is the best way

1:52

to prevent breast cancer or

1:55

prevent it from reoccurring. And also,

1:57

do you recommend thermography or

1:59

mammograms for early detection?

2:02

Alright,

2:02

thanks. Well, that's a great question. breast cancer is

2:04

a big problem, and it's affects

2:07

so many women. It's so common,

2:09

but it didn't used to be. And I think part

2:11

of the reason is one hour diet and

2:14

two environmental toxins. So

2:16

the two things I think you can do and

2:18

there's many, many things will through, but the two things

2:20

that I think that are most important to do are one,

2:23

to address your diet. In some resistance,

2:26

sugar, starch, is

2:29

driving high levels of insulin, and

2:31

that drives inflammation, and

2:33

the whole process of cancer is

2:35

fueled by sugar and starch. So if

2:37

you really want to address

2:40

the risk for breast cancer, the key is

2:42

to really deal with the visceral belly

2:44

fat. And then it's following all the guidelines

2:46

I've put out for the pro. for all these years around,

2:48

for example, low glycemic diets,

2:51

low starch sugar diets, higher good

2:53

quality fats, And I think

2:55

encourage people to actually, if they're really

2:57

struggling with weight or metabolism or have high

2:59

blood sugar insulin, to do a

3:01

ten eighty tox diet, which is basically

3:03

my ten eighty talks, but you can do it for longer.

3:06

The ten days was sort of a a trick. You

3:08

you wanna get people in and try it.

3:10

They'll feel great. They'll stay on it. until you get

3:12

to your ideal weight and metabolism. So that's

3:14

really important. Second thing is

3:16

to really focus on reducing exposure

3:18

to my myeloid toxins. A lot of toxins are

3:20

called Zenobiotics or Zenoestrogens, they're

3:23

essentially foreign molecules that

3:25

make estrogen, they're highly synergistic and

3:27

toxic. So pesticized plastics,

3:29

phthalates, all the stuff that we're exposed to and

3:32

cosmetics, and our water, and our air, and

3:34

our food. in our household

3:36

cleaning products. These are all things that we're

3:38

constantly exposed to, and there's just

3:40

lots of them. So the best way to reduce

3:42

them is to reduce your motors by changing what

3:44

you're using in terms of what you're eating.

3:47

So organic food, ideally,

3:50

filtered water, filtered air in

3:52

your house, having

3:54

the reduction in

3:56

your household cleaning product with toxins. And

3:58

skin care products. And the great resource

4:00

for that is the Environmental Working Group, ewg

4:02

dot org. And they have great guides on SkinBE,

4:05

one of the best skin care products, evernote toxins,

4:07

household cleaning products, food,

4:09

and so forth. So it's really important to reduce your overall

4:11

exposures. Some of those people

4:13

need to address, like, toxic burden. So maybe

4:16

different detoxification programs can help.

4:18

The other thing I really focus on is the gut,

4:20

you know, the gut plays a huge role in

4:22

the cancer

4:24

process. And it's quite

4:26

interesting. There's various bacteria

4:28

in the gut that can actually cause your body

4:31

recirculate estrogen. So

4:33

when you detoxify estrogen and you get

4:35

it through your liver, it essentially

4:38

can be

4:39

excreted and pooped

4:41

out essentially, or there's

4:43

these enzymes called beta glucagonase, which

4:45

comes from kind of nasty bacteria in your gut

4:47

they can unpack the estrogen from their package,

4:50

and then you reabsorb them. And this causes this

4:52

recirculation of estrogen. And we

4:54

see, you know, women, for example, who take antibiotics,

4:56

have high risk of breast cancer, because it changes

4:58

the gut bacteria. So keeping your gut

5:00

healthy, we have something called gut food, which is

5:02

it's like a multilateral gut probiotics,

5:04

probiotics. All that is really

5:06

helpful. Polyphenols to keep your

5:08

gut healthy. So keeping your gut healthy is really important.

5:10

The only thing that's really important is look at your

5:12

methylation status. This is b vitamins

5:15

B6 full IP12. And what we

5:17

need, we really now understand is that there are various

5:19

estrogen metabolites. Some of them

5:21

are

5:21

the pro

5:22

cancer, some of them are anticancer. For

5:25

example, your your body when it

5:27

produces estrogen, it gets detoxified. And there's

5:29

those interesting as estrogen. By the way, they're estrogen's

5:31

Ester Dial, Esterholm, Esterial.

5:34

And Ester Dial is the main one that

5:36

you produce for most of your reproductive

5:38

life. And that gets broken down by

5:40

the liver into two

5:42

estrogens or sixteen count, two

5:44

hydroxy or sixteen hydroxy or four

5:46

methoxy, all the different breakdown products.

5:48

So the the two to sixteen ratio is

5:50

something you can actually measure in the urine. You look at

5:52

the breakdown products in your urine. You see this a high

5:54

level of level two. That's great. that's

5:56

protective anti cancer, high level sixteen,

5:59

not so much. So you look at the ratio

6:01

of that. And the good news is the two you

6:03

can increase by increasing

6:05

Christopher's vegetables and broccoli,

6:08

organic and non GMO soy foods

6:10

like tempeh tofu. you

6:12

can increase it by reducing

6:16

increasing amount of exercise you do.

6:18

So all the there's a lot of things you can do to actually

6:20

boost two hydroxyethrone. That

6:22

should dial sorry. Two hydroxyethrone. But

6:26

if you if you

6:27

actually want to to

6:30

reduce sixteen, you have to deal with this insulin resistance

6:32

stuff in toxic so environmental toxins in

6:34

the whole insulin problem that that actually

6:36

causes a sixteen to go up, which is

6:38

the more dangerous carcinogenic form.

6:40

So you can actually measure these in your urine and you

6:42

can change your diet and your lifestyle. For example,

6:44

there's a broccoli extract called dendomethane or

6:47

OncoPlex because one brand

6:49

of Sulfurphanes, but acylates actually

6:51

boost the this

6:53

two, which is basically

6:56

important for reducing the risk of cancer.

6:58

And these products have been really well studied

7:00

in terms of stroke, cancer, or breast cancer.

7:03

And one of them is made

7:05

made by Johns Hopkins. It's it's

7:07

a the brand is is a Zymogener and Oncoplexis,

7:10

the product. but it's basically group

7:12

distillates and and

7:15

so far things that actually help with this detoxification

7:17

process. Obviously, exercise also

7:19

helps. I mean, stress reduction helps. And I

7:21

think there's some really interesting data around

7:24

trauma and and the expression

7:26

of feelings and anger, and There

7:28

was been some pretty interesting studies looking at

7:30

women with breast cancer. They tend to kind of

7:32

repress their feelings for press anger,

7:35

not really have sort of fully dealt with trauma,

7:37

beat more people pleasers. So

7:39

not being fully expressed also seems to be a

7:41

risk, and there's, you know, obviously, many ways to work

7:43

through that through therapy

7:45

or coaching or

7:46

even novel therapies that are now being used to

7:48

deal with traumas such as sell side in MDMA,

7:50

which I think Zoom will be legalized. So

7:53

that's sort of a big overarching view.

7:55

Taking the vitamins b six, fall, like b

7:57

twelve, making sure you're gonna

7:59

vitamin d, All these are really

8:01

important in terms of reduction of cancer risk. So

8:03

that's sort of high level due

8:05

to mammogram or thermography. I think

8:07

they both have their role But

8:09

I think, you know, it's important

8:11

to get checked regularly. That's the main main

8:13

take home. Howard Bauchner: Great.

8:14

Thank you so much. Thanks for that detailed information.

8:17

And that was that was really

8:19

interesting information about the the supplement

8:21

from John Hopkins. We'll make sure we Mhmm.

8:23

-- for that as well. So thank you.

8:25

Darcy,

8:25

over to you for the next one.

8:28

Yeah. For sure. Thank you for all that.

8:31

So kind of switching gears a little. The

8:32

next question has to do with

8:35

food sensitivities. So it would be helpful to

8:37

kind of give an introduction into what a

8:39

food sensitivity sensitivity is

8:41

versus like an allergy. But the

8:43

question is, Also,

8:45

what food sensitivity

8:47

test would you recommend? And

8:49

of the ones that

8:50

business, like, how do you decide which one's

8:52

the for you. Oh,

8:53

this is a this is a warm haul,

8:56

rapid haul. Very small.

8:58

Let's just sort of distinguish two things. One

9:00

is the fact

9:02

that there are food sensitivities and they're real

9:04

and they exist, and

9:05

then the testing for them. There are two really two separate

9:08

questions. So I'm gonna sort of address them separately.

9:10

The first thing is that, you know, we're all friendly with food allergy.

9:12

That's, you know, a peanut allergy, shelf a

9:14

challenge. That is when

9:16

you get anaphylaxis hives, your

9:18

tongue smells up and you can't breathe that

9:20

life threatening and dangerous. Those

9:22

people know they have it. It happens immediately.

9:24

It's called an IgE

9:27

reaction, which is one type of antibody called IgE

9:29

that your body makes, and you have different antibodies

9:31

for different things. So you have antibodies

9:33

deal with acute infection, you have antibodies

9:35

deal with chronic immunity, in

9:37

a long term immunity

9:39

like IgG. You

9:41

have IgE, which is actually

9:43

for allergy or or dealing with sort

9:45

of parasite stuff and they've got,

9:47

you know, IgM, which

9:49

is more of the acute infection, IgA,

9:52

which lines the the epithelial

9:54

lining of your respiratory tract, your digestive

9:56

tract, the kind of first line of defense. So there are

9:58

all these different divisions of your immune system.

9:59

Most doctors when

10:02

they think of food sensitivity or allergy

10:04

talk about IgE and they'll do skin

10:06

testing, they can do blood testing, and

10:08

you can measure that, and that's fine. that's

10:10

really unusual and rare compared

10:12

to food sensitivities, which are not true

10:14

allergies, but they may be the we call them

10:16

type three. We actually or delayed hypersensitivity

10:19

reactions. So it's IgG

10:20

usually, but but could also

10:22

be IgA. And what happens

10:25

essentially is that your gut and

10:27

your immune system all are connected.

10:29

Sixty to seventy percent of your immune system is

10:31

in your gut. And when

10:33

that lining

10:34

and your gut breaks down, we call it leaky gut.

10:37

Going to the little like the cells sort of come

10:39

apart and the the little tight

10:41

junctions like LEGO connections start

10:42

to break down. Food and

10:45

bacterial, food particles or partially

10:47

digestible food and bacterial products tend to

10:49

leak out and

10:50

cause no significant problems.

10:54

And they leak into your bloodstream,

10:56

which is right underneath your gut, and

10:58

that's where your immune system So all

11:00

the foreign particles

11:02

are not supposed to be there. Your body goes, what is

11:04

this? And starts creating antibodies against them.

11:06

This is called IgG. and that

11:08

creates these low grade sensitivity reactions

11:10

that can be, you know, fatigue, brain

11:12

fog headaches, digestive issues, congestion. I mean,

11:14

I I don't want the other day. She said, well,

11:16

every time I have dairy, I immediately start

11:19

eating dairy and my nose runs. Well, that's

11:21

that's an IgG

11:23

reaction likely, but it's probably a chronic IgG.

11:25

For most IgG reactions, you might not even know

11:27

you might eat something on Monday and on Tuesday you

11:29

have a reaction or your legs swell, your joints,

11:31

or you feel a little tired or your headachey or

11:33

your achey or get a rash or a

11:35

pimple, like you just obviously can't

11:37

tell. And so that's that's

11:39

why an elimination night is the most powerful

11:41

test. If you look at what is the best allergy test

11:43

or food sensitivity test. It's an

11:45

elimination diet, eliminating foods for a

11:47

period of time and then reintroducing them one by

11:49

one to see what happens. that is the

11:51

best. And it's the cheapest, and it works.

11:53

And the ten day detox is a great model for

11:55

that. I've I've wrote that book a long time ago about

11:57

eight years ago, and that has a lot of information

11:59

about how

11:59

to actually do a elimination diet, how to

12:02

add things back in, how to watch for symptoms,

12:04

how to track your symptoms. That's

12:06

really the best because the tests are

12:08

really unreliable There are some that I

12:10

do use, but there there I

12:12

use them in the context of understanding

12:14

the overall picture. because people sometimes

12:16

will see a food sensitivity test. Well, I'm allergic to

12:18

food. I can never have that No. That's

12:20

not the the case. Your your

12:22

your body is telling you that you

12:24

have a leaky gut. So the key is a

12:26

fixture gut. and then you can

12:28

start to tolerate more food. So I used to have a

12:30

terribly heat gun. I fixed it and then, you know,

12:32

before I could barely tolerate anything and now I can

12:34

eat pretty much anything. So when you fix

12:36

your gut, you create resilience and then you're not

12:38

reacting to everything. Now some things might be more

12:40

permanent like Gary or gluten or certain

12:42

things to react to. You have to watch out for

12:44

that. But The main thing is to

12:46

do, elimination diet,

12:48

reintroduction, and pending taxes, really

12:50

a very simple way to do that. far

12:52

as testing goes, I do use certain labs to

12:54

use sirox testing for a bit, which

12:57

is looking at IgG and IgA

12:59

reactions to a whole bunch

13:01

of wheat and glucanogens. So

13:04

we get antibodies to all of those

13:06

antigens and we see what's going on. And

13:08

then we also do cross active foods

13:10

like dairy and other grains and

13:12

soy and rice and eggs and so forth. So those can

13:14

be pretty common. So I do like sirex.

13:16

Immunolabs is pretty good. I've used that

13:18

for years. But again, it's more

13:20

of a sense of, like, when you see thirty reactions,

13:22

it's not that they're really reactive to all those foods,

13:25

is that they essentially have a leaky

13:27

gut. It's the key is to fix the gut And

13:29

that's really the take home message here. I said,

13:31

the flu symptoms are common, they cause

13:33

delayed symptoms, they

13:35

are they're real. And there's been

13:37

some good clinical trials looking at this from being

13:39

on ADD, removing those foods from tests

13:41

and people get better. So

13:43

I think a lot more to learn about it, and there's a lot of

13:45

controversy about it. But I think the main thing is that

13:47

the tests are a guide, not like a

13:49

gospel. I bet if you program them, if you have a peanut

13:51

allergy and it shows up in your blood, than your

13:53

peanut allergy, like a true allergy.

13:55

But this food sensitivity

13:57

test seems a little bit different. And I think just

13:59

people need to

13:59

be a little bit more sort of

14:02

understanding of the context of it all,

14:04

which is that, you know, they really

14:06

mean to

14:07

tell you about how your gut

14:09

is and not so much that you're truly

14:11

allergic or. having a,

14:13

like, a solid fixed reaction that can change

14:15

over time. And I, you know, I had this one

14:17

kid who was severe ADD at, like,

14:19

thirty different food reactions. and

14:21

we fixed his gut and we checked him again. He had,

14:23

like, six mild reactions. So

14:26

the the body will heal and repair and those

14:28

antibodies will come down over time.

14:30

Yeah.

14:31

Well, that's a that's an incredible example,

14:33

and thank you so much for all that information. I

14:35

think that's super, super helpful.

14:37

And

14:38

over to you, Herschel, for the next question.

14:40

Alright.

14:41

So our next question

14:43

comes from a practitioner. So

14:46

Obviously, we have some members of the doctor

14:48

Hamid plus community that are practitioners and

14:50

some members that are not. And so this one is from a

14:52

practitioner, and I'm gonna have to read it off

14:54

because it's kind of long and Obviously,

14:56

this is something you would understand. So

14:58

I so she says, I recently

15:00

ordered a neural zoomer plus lot from

15:02

vibrant clinical laboratories. It resulted

15:04

in a positive B6

15:06

antibody and group A strep antibody

15:09

has Simon addressed treatment

15:11

for either of these in the

15:12

past. Yeah. Of course. So

15:15

first of all, what what

15:17

the the question is about is

15:19

about a test that looks at antibodies

15:22

or reactions to different viruses

15:25

or bacteria. And a lot

15:27

of people have latent infections and

15:30

many viruses out there. HH36

15:32

is one, CMV, EBV,

15:35

there's a whole range of

15:37

these viruses that compended, you know,

15:39

be something we live with, but don't

15:41

cause problems. For

15:43

example, if you get a a

15:46

cold,

15:47

it goes away. You don't care you

15:49

don't carry the virus, but you'll carry antibodies to the

15:52

virus. For example, if you get

15:54

chickenpox when you're younger,

15:56

It probably it doesn't really go

15:58

away. It it hides. And then you get shingled when you're

16:00

older. Or let's say you get

16:03

you

16:03

know, a herpes simplex

16:06

virus. Well, it stays

16:08

in your body, and so maybe

16:10

doesn't ever show up as a cold sore, but when you're

16:12

stressed or when you're tired

16:14

or, you know, something goes wrong,

16:16

you get a cold sore. So that's

16:18

where the virus sort of hides in the body. So

16:20

we manage this very well most of the time,

16:22

but sometimes it can cause chronic fatigue

16:24

or other symptoms and it needs to be

16:27

treated. Groupi strip is a bit different

16:29

tends to be a some an

16:31

infection that can cause various kinds

16:33

of problems with, you know, at

16:35

time of birth or they can cause other issues

16:37

around strep linked to pandas and other

16:39

things, which is a pediatric neurologic

16:42

condition that can be causing OCD that

16:44

comes from chronic strep infections.

16:46

So that's that's kind of

16:48

I I'm very cautious about how I use it, and I

16:50

really take taking care of it with a clinical

16:53

picture. the real question is how do you

16:55

support some of the immune system. So it's

16:57

the usual lifestyle stuff diet, exercise,

16:59

sleep, stress reduction, and then kinda

17:02

go deeper with with immune support.

17:04

There's various kinds of

17:06

herbs. I like transfer factor,

17:08

multi immune, which is essentially AAA

17:11

classroom like product that really helps to

17:13

boost immunity. I also like

17:15

using

17:16

antiviral sometimes

17:18

that are herbal antivirals, how use bimeramide

17:20

formulas or olive leaf extract or

17:22

other antivirals that are herbal.

17:24

Really, we'll use prescription

17:27

antivirus, but sometimes they can be helpful

17:29

depending on the case. What can really be

17:31

helpful is a ozone therapy. So

17:33

intravenous ozone ozone can be

17:35

done either direct directly directly

17:37

at home easily buy a

17:39

machine you can buy for, like, under a

17:41

thousand dollars and it's pretty

17:43

inexpensive. considering how long you can continue

17:45

to do the treatment. Also,

17:48

there's ten pesosome,

17:51

which is very effective. There's also

17:53

peptides, which can be very effective in immunity

17:55

like thymocin alfa one and others

17:57

FL37 that can help with infections.

17:59

exosomes help who are

18:02

another kind of more advanced

18:04

therapy that have to do with providing

18:06

them stem

18:08

cell like products in the body that help immunity.

18:10

So there's a lot of strategy

18:12

we use. Sometimes hyperthermia is

18:14

being used in some countries still with chronic infections

18:16

where they heat your body up to a hundred and seventy degrees,

18:18

like in Mexico and Germany, they have a lot of this. And

18:20

I've had patients who have chronic Lyme or

18:23

tick infections that can be a last resort

18:25

sometimes. So there's a lot of things we

18:27

we use to support the immunity, to

18:29

be antimicrobial, and to

18:31

help kind of sort through it all. Well,

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