Revolutionizing Health: Navigating EMF Dangers, Seasonal Eating, & Mitochondrial Insights

Welcome to the Alchemist Library podcast. Today on the show we have Tristan Scott. Tristan is a published author whose work focuses around health optimization. Tristan was an engineer who got into the world of health after suffering a traumatic brain injury. He went on to heal himself, and that developed a passion for health and for helping others. This episode is jam-packed with insights, so I'm gonna leave it at that and catch you guys inside Peace. Let's go.

I was gonna try and keep the energy level up Two hours left of my fast, but I feel pretty good, so I'm stoked, I'm stoked. This is gonna like distract me for an hour or an hour and a half.

So, in a good way, tell me about the fast. How has it been? So you're like two hours from three days. You're two hours from three days, yeah yeah.

So, yeah, I just decided I kind of wanted to do one but didn't really have the time because I was traveling and I was getting back into things. And then, yeah, I was like we're not doing much over New Year's and you know, it's kind of a great way to go into the new year and we interviewed this guy who's like a COVID researcher and he just like scared us a lot about, you know, covid and vaccines and everything. And he was like, yeah, the best things you can do is like a three day or three to four day fast. And I was like, all right, I wanted to do one anyway. So then I told my buddy here in town in Wyoming and he's like, yeah, I'll do one too.

So we just decided to send it because it's hard when you have like a lot of stuff you're doing or like exercise, you know protocols, to just stop everything. So this week just like made a lot of sense. But yeah, it's a, it's a fun experience. I don't know if you ever done that long. This will be the second longest one I've done.

It's it's such a fascinating experience. I think the longest I did was 48 hours Nice, but I got to do those longer ones. I think there's some something to it from not just the health stuff but for more of like a spiritual perspective as well, like for some reason you're just like I have all this time on my hands, like what do I even do with myself?

It's definitely worth.

I think everyone should do it, like once or twice a year, like two to four days thing, for sure and so one of the things I really want to talk about today is that we're in the middle of winter here. We're getting into like the coldest months, and one one thing with your work that has stood out to me is a lot of its geared towards staying healthy in the winter and eating seasonally, eating in accordance to your environment. What have you learned in that world?

Yeah, I mean I talk about that a lot because I think it's this nuance that doesn't really get communicated as well, because the health space in general, even the holistic, alternative health space, it's very cookie-cutter approach, like you know. Just go carnivore, just do this, get cold like, get in the sauna and yeah, a lot of these things are great, but they lack kind of context to your environment and also your genetics as well, which, specifically, probably your mitochondrial genetics matter more than the rest of your genetics. But we can get into that. We have the seasonality component. It made a lot of sense to me in general, kind of living in a very seasonal environment, like in the Rocky Mountains, where in the summers it's hot, in the winter it's cold. I really enjoy getting cold and I enjoy, like the sauna as well, but I always noticed that I kind of run hot, like I definitely prefer the cold. My body produces heat, like pretty well, and I kind of just dove down the rabbit holes of why that is what happens when we lean into getting cold in the winter. And then how does that align from a complete perspective of your entire lifestyle?

So I've been talking about eating local, supporting local producers for years now and I wrote a book. You know, kind of talking about the importance of that from a food system perspective. But I really started learning about why that's important from a health perspective as well and it really just makes a lot of sense because what will be able to be grown in your environment is kind of the food that you should be eating and it's giving your body all the right input signals to really thrive in that environment. And when you kind of stray from that and really, you know, alter the input signals, your body is going to be a little bit confused and it's not going to be able to up, regulate certain systems, certain processes, so that you can thrive. So I think about everything as kind of input and output signals.

In terms of biology, as an engineer makes sense to me and really I think we've gone so far from having the right inputs and what does that come down to? It comes down to like light food temperature really are the big three that I think. And yeah, I think we're more disconnected than ever and that's leading to a whole host of health issues. But I've been kind of doing this end-of-one experiment this winter to really see how much I can embrace seasonality and it's fun and I feel great. To be honest, I mean I'm fasted right now but you know, I've been keeping my house. I've gotten it down to like 52 degrees at night and co-blunching every day, but outside in the hot springs every day, fully carnivore or fully low carb, 99% carnivore at this point, which makes sense because I'm in Wyoming and there's nothing growing here January 3rd and there's snow on the ground. You know, that's just to me what makes a lot of sense.

But it's very nuanced and people don't like that because you can get into debates and get into the nitty-gritty and it's hard to tell a wide audience the same message if it's all dependent on your context so essentially like in these colder months which ancestrally it makes perfect sense when in during the winter, in these colder environments, there's not a lot of it, there's not fruit being grown, there's not a lot of carby foods and really you have to lean on more of a lower carb approach ancestrally. Now we have globalization that allows you to have carbs whenever you want and ultra processed carbs, but what has the experience been been like from your end on really diving into this and embracing it? Have you noticed anything?

yeah, I mean, whenever you go like keto, carnivore, low carb, you definitely feel like a sense of mental clarity. I think it was one of the most profound things that helped me recover fully from or recover tremendously from my brain injuries years ago and I did like four months of straight keto. But now, doing it in a seasonality context, I feel even better and I just noticed that, you know, I don't I don't feel any sluggish, nish sluggishness. I don't feel any seasonal depression. I feel great. You know I have high energy, consistent energy.

My cold adaptation is ridiculous, like my house will just be like 55 degrees and to me, you know that's normal. I'm wearing, you know, like shorts and a t-shirt or shorts and a long sleeve. You know that's like a comfortable temperature for me now and I'm gonna push that even further, kind of as we get into February here. So it just tells me that if you really lean into your environment, your body will adapt and it will be able to handle that. You know the modern conveniences we have are just not really indicative of how we would have lived for, you know, hundreds of thousands of years as a species and I think it's had a tremendous impact on our health. But yeah, so far so good. I feel pretty great. I mean the food, the diet. I've never gone full carnivore for like an extended period of time, so it can definitely get a little bit boring. But you know I'm trying to have a variety. I just picked up a pastured poor a pastured pig to mix in with some beef and salmon and eggs that I eat.

So I'm stoked about that there's a lot to be said about the boring nature of food. Like I had a time period as well where I was really really really strict with with what I eat and it gets super boring. But it's fascinating. It kind of goes back to what we're saying about with the fast and the spiritual component of it. It's like when you're not deriving so much pleasure from food, it can cause for a lot of people like a little crisis. You're like what's like you. You start to realize how much of your enjoyment and pleasure and attention goes to food and when you limit those choices, it's like.

It's something I think is worth exploring for most people yeah, I mean, I could tell you right now there's nothing more that I'm looking forward to than eating.

I don't care what it is, it's gonna taste so good. So, and I think that kind of has this perspective as well. Right, like that seasonality, cyclicality, it almost makes you value your food a bit higher. Right, if I I'm not gonna have carbs or fruit really for like three, four months, you know, when I do reintroduce those into my diet in a seasonally consistent time, they're gonna taste even better, I'm gonna have a deeper experience with that food. So it is kind of that spirituality aspect that you know you mentioned. And yeah, when you have access to something 24-7 we know this with everything, right like the, the cheap dopamine hits are just not worth it. So, kind of digging a little deeper, valuing things for the what they are, and then, you know, having them in the frequency that makes sense.

So I'm excited for that oh yeah, so you listed the big three light, food and temperature during these winter months. If you are somewhere that's cold, how are you prioritizing that? So you're, I saw you're eating your meals outside. You're prioritizing trying to get that light. So are you grounding still in the winter, when it's when it's cold out?

grounding. Yeah, that's a good one, and that's probably, you know, the other main input signal. I guess it's a bit different earth or electrons. I mean everything food is electrons, so your two main sources of electrons are gonna come from food and the earth. So again, another reason why being disconnected is a big problem for our health. But, yeah, I'm grounding quite a bit. So that's why I love where I live, because I have the hot springs and I have the local river. So it is really a challenge to ground significantly.

In the winter, right, it's colder. You're not gonna be out in barefoot. I do wear like wool socks and my grounded risel slippers, which I love. So I'm walking around. I go for two, three walks around the neighborhood and stand in my yard or or workout outside in those shoes. So I'm grounding in that regard.

And then I have been also, you know, sleeping outside, or, sorry, sleeping with a grounded rod outside my window that have been connecting to my socks or my bedsheet. So I've been doing that. And then, yeah, the hot springs are fantastic because you're in water. You know geothermally active water that's very mineralized, very, you know, electron rich, and then you're also outside. So I just think of ways that I can compound benefits right. So I know I have to do work. I know I can't just stand outside in the freezing cold for six hours a day unless I'm moving or unless I'm doing something. So that's why I love the hot springs, because then I can be outside, I'm getting grounded, I'm getting electrons, we're getting light.

I love exercising outside in the winter because I can ground, I can get sunlight, and then I can also get some cold exposure and movement as well. And then eating meals outside, even in the winter, I make it a big priority, especially for breakfast and lunch. Sometimes I'm eating dinner right at sunset or right slightly after sunset, so I'll eat that inside, but pretty much all breakfasts and lunches I'm eating outside, to just compound the benefits once again. So I think it's really important, especially if you live somewhere that it's cold, like Wyoming or further north east coast, canada, europe you have to be very deliberate about your actions to thrive in the wintertime and that's why it is such a challenge. And, yeah, that's why it is a lot easier when you're in a warmer place, a lower latitude, that has abundant sunshine. But you really kind of have to go out of your way in this modern world we live in to align with those inputs.

No doubt. I mean, it is so much easier if you're like, if you're more passive, um, and you're not like being deliberately, um, deliberate with your sun exposure, your ground, like all that stuff is so much easier when you live in a warm place to just do those actions by accident. Uh, so it I really like being deliberate with that in those cold environments, because if you're not, you're probably going to be doing none of those things. And you know, we see like seasonal, depressing, depressive, uh, depression, um, running rampant and just a big part of that is being disconnected with nature 100%.

Yeah, it's the biggest. I mean that's the root cause of it, right, is is completely being misaligned and you're not getting enough sun in the summer, so then that's not able to carry you through the winter, and then in the winter you're not leaning into what would help you thrive, which is cold, and you know low carb or whatever. That it's just a misalignment on kind of all fronts and you know then people just want to supplement their way out of things, which sure it might make you feel a little better, but it's definitely not the same, it's definitely not a replacement for a disconnected lifestyle.

Totally. And so you mentioned, when you're grounding, you're wearing um the Rizal shoes and wool socks. Do you still get the full benefit of being grounded, even even with wearing those?

Probably not from a conductivity perspective. You're not going to be absorbing as many free electrons, but you're still grounded, so it's still a benefit from that. But, yeah, um, I would say it's probably less or so. It's kind of hard to measure the exact you know conductivity, um, on surfaces it's really hard. But, uh, you know, water does improve conductivity, so if there's a little snow on the ground it could be a bit better. Um, however, yeah, the more kind of layers you're wearing definitely is going to disconnect you a little bit from the amount of electrons you're absorbing. However, from my measurements, you're still grounded, which is, uh, you know, from an electrical perspective, is still very important. And then, yeah, that's why I've been experimenting and trying to do it at nighttime as well, when I'm sleeping.

And you mentioned mitochondrial genetics. That's a topic I don't know too much about. Um give me the big picture. Um story behind that.

Yeah for sure. It's really important in regards to seasonality and our environment. So what I told you, that I do really well in the cold, because I produced a lot of heat, um, that is because of my mitochondrial genetics. Um, you know, likely, you're in the same boat. A lot of us are, you know, european descent. So our ancestors lived in a very seasonal environment. The winters are cold, the summers are warm. So they had to adapt. The mitochondria had to adapt because we didn't have, you know, houses that we could heat to 70 degrees. We had to be outside and even with fires and you know animal pelts, it was still cold and we had to survive. So the mitochondria adapted so they could be better producers of heat.

That is actually where we produce our heat, um, in our brown adipose tissue. That's very metabolically active, very mitochondrial rich, and it's this process called uncoupling. And when your mitochondria uncoupled, you produce more heat, uh, and less ATP per mitochondria. And that has to be activated, however, from environmental stimuli, and that can be activated by cold exposure. Number one activates it the most, so temperature, but then also your diet and other things can activate it as well. So high fat diet will activate it, um, carbohydrates will suppress it. Uh, melatonin will activate it, vitamin D will suppress it a little. So it's kind of like everything stacked up. You know, your diet, your cold exposure, the temperature, um, and then also the light environment as well, can have an impact on how well your body produces heat.

And then, in terms of the genetics, how uncoupled or how much heat you can produce is dependent on the mitochondrial genetics. So me, maybe you, uh, folks at European descent, we can produce heat, we can uncouple really well. However, if you have African descent and you have what's called well, the call, it's called haplotypes is mitochondrial genetic groups, it's called haplit groups or haplotypes, so African descendants. Uh, well, you know, we all originally originated, but again, mitochondria adapted over millennia. So if you're African American or of African descent, you're going to have a very tightly coupled mitochondria, which means you're not going to be able to produce heat really well, but you're going to have an extremely efficient ATP production. So they're going to have advantage in, you know, warmer climates, cause they're not going to be dissipating as much heat. However, they won't really do well in colder climates, or they won't do as well.

So it's just this important nuance and understanding, um, both the combination of your mitochondrial genetics and your skin type, because your skin is going to determine how much light you let through into your biology, how much light you can absorb. So, again, if you're fairer skin, you're going to let more light through, you're going to be able to synthesize vitamin D faster in the summer because you have less melanin, um, as opposed to someone who has darker skin. So that's where it does actually matter from a genetics perspective. I think those two components matter more than probably anything else in terms of genetics and leaning into that can be really helpful. But where that kind of comes into conflict of discussion or conflict of interest maybe, is like, if you're African descent, you probably shouldn't be living in Canada or a very cold Finland, sweden.

Like you're, you're not going to do well. Straight up, you might be able to survive we're very adaptable humans but you're not going to thrive, whereas you know, caucasians are a bit more flexible. However, if I go to the equator, you know they're after a certain point. I definitely don't feel amazing in the high heat environment. I feel okay, I feel good, but I don't feel as good as I do in kind of a seasonal, cyclical Northern hemisphere environment like Europe or like Wyoming.

It's such a fascinating conversation, like eating and almost living in accordance with your genetics versus your current location, like if those two are not in sync. It's an interesting balance, like some people do. Some people, genetically, are from the equator and for millennial they were eating a much higher carb diet and then they're in like a colder area. It would make sense to go lower carb, but you know that balancing act between the two is quite interesting. Yeah, and that's what it goes back to.

And just so the listeners are aware, you only inherit your mitochondrial genetics DNA from your mother Interesting, so it's all dependent on your mother from that side of things. And yeah, exactly what you just said is that. You know. What you just said is tremendously important and people don't realize that context.

When you're at the equator, when you're tightly coupled, you have a higher efficiency in your mitochondria. You can do way better with a high carb diet. You have way more light, you have way more UV. At the equator, you're getting sunshine all the time, so you can get away with eating carbs or easy fuel, and it actually makes sense from a thermodynamic perspective. However, in the winter in Northern latitudes, there's very little light and there's no carbs growing. So that's just a mismatch and that's something that's a big problem today in our modern lives. And something that's also important to consider really is indoor living, because we're just not getting the light that we used to. It's blocked via so many different things and we're just getting all the wrong input signals there.

So you could argue, even though we're fair skinned, people like going to live at the equator or closer to it or further south in a very sunny environment, as you were saying in the beginning, just makes it a lot easier to be healthy without even trying. So that is what a lot of people advocate for, and I'm not against that. But something that I take a lot of pride in is showing people that they can thrive in a winter environment. There's very few health influencers, I would say, who talk about that. So is you know, go to the beach, get the sun. That's fantastic, I love it. But not everybody can just move to the beach, you know, it's not, it's not realistic. And I also have pride in embracing kind of a more ancestral environment in the winter as someone who is fair skinned, absolutely.

And you mentioned the late environment there. In this world of indoor living we're in now surrounded by blue light constantly and that's a conversation I wanted to dive into as well especially with the rising popularity of like red light devices. Have you looked into that? What's what's? What has your take pen on utilizing these red light devices that that you're seeing more and more people get their hands on?

Yeah, I mean, I've had a red light therapy device for like three years now and I think it's great and I've gone down way more rabbit holes in the past year. But really red and infrared, mostly near infrared light, which is like the first wavelength that we can't see anymore. But that's when we feel that's the heat that's coming from the sun, that's that warm feeling it's. It's around 50% of sunlight is is infrared light, red and infrared light. So when you're getting outside, that's what's your, that is what you're mostly getting, especially when it's not, you know, high UV, like mid noon. You're getting mostly red and infrared light. And the infrared spectrum is very healing, very stimulating to our mitochondria. So again, it's that light environment, it's stimulating mitochondrial health, preventing dysfunction. That leads to, you know, high energy, it leads to proper immune function, it leads to things like wound healing, good for your skin, good for your hair. Really, it's just beneficial for your mitochondria because If you get outside in sunlight, that's what you're mostly getting from an energy perspective of the light.

So yeah, I think the red light devices are good, but they don't replace sunlight. So I use them kind of passively, more so in the winter. I almost never use them in the summer because I just have my windows open and I'm outside all the time in the summer and it's way easier. But in the winter you do have to be a little bit more deliberate. I still crack windows and things like that and I don't have the low emissivity glass that's blocking a ton of the infrared. It's a little bit better in my older house here, but I still turn on the red light and I have it passively on in the background because I think near infrared light might be the biggest nutrient deficiency in the world. To be honest, and people will be like oh well, it's not a nutrient and if you look up the definition of a nutrient, it is something that is like vital to life. And near infrared light is 100% vital to life and it probably is more important than any nutrient that you're getting from your food because it's really stimulating to the mitochondria. It's synthesizing or it's causing synthesis of melatonin, which is repairing your mitochondria and dictating a lot of functions there.

And again, from an energy perspective, in the summertime and overall folks say on average depends where you live in the season. You know we can get two thirds of our energy from sunlight and one third of our energy from food. Now, these are different types of energy. We're talking like photons compared to electrons, protons, but that's a massive chunk right there. So you're talking about the majority of energy from, you know an energy density perspective coming from near infrared light.

That, to me, is a big problem and folks like Scott Zimmerman and Russell Ryder have written a lot of fantastic research on this, so you can look up showing just how little infrared light we get from indoor living just completely as a result of being inside all the time, and it's fallen off a cliff.

So this is where I do think the red light devices can be helpful, especially if you're working. And again, I just have it sometimes like passively on in the background and all day, and I'll take whatever I can get, but really, even in the wintertime I'm trying to be outside as much as I possibly can. So, yeah, I think one other thing to mention on the red light devices is they do use like specific wavelengths as well. So again, it's not completely indicative of sunlight, which is giving you the full spectrum like thousands on thousands of wavelengths. Red light is usually like two, three wavelengths one or two in the red and one or two in the infrared spectrum, so it's not replacing sunlight basically, but it could be a nice additional boost to have if you can't avoid indoor living.

So would there be, with that said, an additional advantage to using like an infrared sauna if you have access to it over like a conventional? What are, what are the conventional sonas? Ran on Like just a dry?

sauna or wood. You know wood burning sauna, yeah. Yeah, I think the infrared sauna thing is interesting. They mostly use like far infrared, which is a much longer wavelength and I haven't taken too deep of a dive. I mean, there's definitely benefits to far infrared as well. I don't think it's as potent as near infrared, but I don't know. I love the traditional finish. Like wood burning saunas. They get hotter. I think you're going to get more of like a heat shock, heat shock, protein activation and you know it just depends how much time you're spending in there. If you have like an hour, hour and a half to go spend in an infrared sauna, that could definitely be a benefit from the infrared perspective as well, and it's really penetrating deep into your skin. That's one of the the main mechanisms of action for infrared light. But personally I think that a OG finish wood burning sauna is the way to go. However, yeah, if you can get any sort of boost in infrared, I think it's always beneficial. So it's just personal preference, I think.

And another big aspect to stuff you talk about and something that's been rising in popularity and awareness is the EMS and this whole world of 5G, and we're just constantly attacked by different types of radiation and all this stuff Depending, like you mentioned, to your traveling. It's like you almost can't get away from it in many ways. What have you gotten out of studying EMS and really trying to limit your exposure, even when you're traveling and out in cities, whatever it may be Like, it's a very hard thing to get away from.

Yeah, and this is what I spent a lot of my time researching and creating education on as an electrical engineer. This always fascinated me and it's something again, I've been aware of these things but I didn't really take a deep, deep dive until about a year ago and has been accelerating ever since. But again, at the end of the day, it's the input signals to our biology and what most people don't realize is that EMS from technology. They are light, it is just a non visible form of light. It's all electromagnetic radiation. So they're all photons, they're just oscillating at different frequencies and different wavelengths. We just can't see them.

So we have exposure to a band of frequencies, radio frequencies, which is what we're using to communicate with our cell phones, wi-fi, 5g, 4g. This is all like in the radio frequency band which is around, you know, like a billion to maybe 10, 20, 5g, pushing up to 40 billion wave cycles per second. And then we have our power outlets which are operating at 60 hertz frequency, which is only 60. So it's very low frequency oscillations of power, but very high power 120 volts, you know, 240 volt systems, high power appliances. So we now, for the first time in human history, in the last, you know, 100 years, 150 years and especially in the last 20 years with the advent of mobile technology. We just have all of these non native electromagnetic fields generated from technology that our biology just really isn't designed to use.

So to me it's giving our biology the wrong input signal, it's distorting instructions, it's creating a lot of noise, right? So the way I like to think about it is, if you're in a high EMF area, your body is not going to be able to communicate very well because that signal to noise ratio is going to be extremely, extremely low. It's kind of like me and you are talking. Right now it's just us. If we were in a room, just us two, it'd be very easy to talk to each other. But now imagine there's 100 other people in that same size room. It's going to be a lot more challenging to communicate and then you might misinterpret instructions or someone might bump into you and like, start talking to you. It's going to really derail the main input signal which is, let's say, you and I talking, which you could interpret as us and the sun.

We are really only designed to interpret or take in the photonic energy from the infrared to the UV spectrum and then also the very low, low intensity, native magnetic field of the earth and electric field of the earth, which has been superseded a million times over by the power grid, and just exposure to EMFs on a daily basis. So to me, at a high level, it's a really big concern from an electromagnetic interference perspective, from a signal to noise ratio perspective, over a biology, it's extremely damaging to our mitochondrial function, which runs off of light, which runs off of electromagnetic processes, and it's the most pervasive environmental toxin, in my opinion, that nobody's talking about, because it's one that you cannot avoid at all, Like you're saying. I mean using technology. Right now I'm doing a good job of it by using wired headphones, having hardwired internet into this laptop, but it's a challenge, it's almost it's impossible, I should say, to really avoid these things. And then, as you mentioned, you go into a city you go into an airport.

You traveling. That's really bad. It's an environment that is completely overwhelming for our biology and it's very toxic. We're seeing the results of this now and we're only going to see chronic disease continue to proliferate, and I think cities are going to be a hot spot of that and areas that do roll out 5G a lot harder, which will be in the population centers.

Damn. So you said it's the biggest environmental toxin and so I mean I guess for most people, no matter what we say there's for them, there's no getting away from it, right, like if you're living in the city and you're just somewhat concerned about your health but you're not committed enough to go live in the woods and be really intentional with all this stuff, how do we mitigate it? From a standpoint of the average person who wants to still be in the city and still travel and still take part in the way of the new world, I guess you would say yeah, and it is the biggest challenge.

But I can say for sure that you can do simple things that cost pretty much nothing or very little and, you know, mitigate exposure by 80-90%, and some of that just looks like using technology smarter. So, turning off your Wi-Fi at night time or when it's not in use, sleep is a really, really big component. So, like I mentioned, you know we're exposed to all these toxins and we talked about fasting in the beginning. Why is fasting good for your health? Because it up regulates autophagy in your body. Autophagy is cell cleanup, so it's taking damaged cells and repairing them, or it's upregulating apoptosis, which is programmed cell death, so when cells are beyond repair, your body will tell them to commit suicide. And that's a good thing, because you don't want damaged cells messing up. You know cellular processes, biological functions, so that happens every night when we go to sleep, if we have sufficient levels of melatonin. That's why melatonin is very anti-inflammatory, it's anti-cancer, it's anti-everything, it's a potent antioxidant, one of the most potent, because it's up regulating these processes. That's why fasting is good for you, and if we don't have proper sleep, we're not going to be able to detox or restore or repair from the toxins that we're exposed to during the day and that looks like EMFs. It looks like glyphosate, anything, plastics, whatever you name it. Emfs, especially because when you have light on, like your Wi-Fi is technically a light, people can imagine that blue light at night, they know, is bad for their sleep, like most people agree that staring at your screen before you go to bed is a bad idea. Well, again, wi-fi, having your cell phone on in your bedroom, is just another form of light, a form of radio frequency, and that can also suppress your melatonin production. That can also suppress your sleep quality. So you're not restoring, you're not repairing from the day's exposures, so you're not going to be keeping up with that daily battle of toxic exposure.

So prioritizing a sleep sanctuary to me is the number one thing to do. Turn the Wi-Fi off, turn your phone off, turn it and put it in a different bedroom. If you need an alarm clock, you know, put on airplane mode or buy like an analog alarm clock. Unplug all the appliances in your bedroom that are not really being used, especially if they're two-pronged, ungrounded plugs. They shouldn't be in your wall because your wall is powered on and that will produce an electric field and it's really frustrating because it might seem overwhelming to a lot of people, but these are like small things and they're also good from a safety hazard perspective.

But if we just designed like our house is different. For example, if we use steel conduit or shielded wiring in our houses, it could reduce the electric field exposure and the e-math exposure from the power. Frequency is like 90 to 95 percent and you know, if you had a hardwired internet, fiber optic cables, things like that, you could also reduce your RF exposure tremendously. So we can use technology. We could just be a little smarter about it.

But when you're traveling, when you're in cities, to me everything else you do it matters even more so. So getting the right sunlight, getting grounded, eating good food when I travel, you know, fasting that'll be the only time I do use a couple supplements are really helpful because, especially if you're switching time zones drastically, the circadian rhythm disruption is massive. So again, it's just an onslaught of our mitochondria from a toxin perspective, especially with the e-maps. So how are you going to offset that? You have to really fine tune all the input signals, like I mentioned. And yeah, if you're not deliberate about it, you're kind of just going to be at the whim of the modern world. But yeah, I would say, even moving to the suburbs versus living downtown would be like a massive benefit.

So Tristan, what I'm hearing right now is we need to get into the home building business and start developing houses that have grounded floors and are wired correctly and have mineralized water, and that'd be a cool business. That's a.

That's a cool, yeah, yeah and I've done some consults with people like building additions on their houses or building new homes, and yeah, it's real and thinking about this beforehand is the best way to do it, but it's unfortunate. You know, most people are living in, homes have been built and you know even the wiring in my house is pretty. It's really bad and you know it's just a simple thing like that. And then you could align the windows, you got better glass and you know more sunlight coming in. If we just thought deliberately about a lot of these things, we would be so much healthier as a society. And then don't even get me started on the actual technology, like if we didn't have, you know, blue lit based LEDs for the screens and maybe we had more reflective and more you know sunlight, full spectrum, sunlight emulating screens, you know there'd be a big health improvement from that regard as well. So you know that's what it's all about. You know that's why I talk about. What I do is because people need to get educated, because there's going to be a massive there's already a massive awakening from COVID and now we're seeing a lot of people get really scared about their health, probably from the jabs.

But I saw, I saw something online today that said South Korea has like the lowest fertility rate in the world. This is like a major population center in the. You know, it's a major developed country, big businesses, big economies and it was something like for every four Koreans or sorry, for every hundred South Koreans that exists, only four of them will have grandchildren or children, I forget which one, but it's like a 96% reduction. And their fertility is just been eviscerated. And one of the biggest side effects of EMF exposure and even fertility doctors are now admitting to this is that it ruins fertility in males and females, and that, to me again, is another sign of mitochondrial dysfunction, because the most energy intensive processes, the most energy intensive tissues in our body, so reproductive organs, your heart, your brain, your liver they're the most mitochondrial rich, most energy intensive processes. So and they're, you know, mitochondria the most electromagnetic. That's why we use an EKG and an EEG to measure the brain and the heart activity, which is an electromagnetic reading are going to be the most effective from EMFs and then other toxins that also affect the mitochondria, such as, you know, glyphosate, and processed food as well, which is really high in deuterium, and blue light is also a non-native EMF. So I'm really concerned.

Um, I tweeted this morning actually I think it's a natural balancing mechanism because Elon Musk tweeted about depopulation being like one of the biggest issues in the world, and I think he's right it is. I don't think people are going to have, they're not going to be able to have kids in like a generation, because guess what? The mitochondrial DNA mutates 10 to 100 times faster than your nuclear genetics. So the genetics that determine, like, your hair color and you know things like that that that's very slow. You know that's pretty much programmed in your mitochondrial DNA mutates, based on epigenetics, 10 to 100 times faster. So if you're someone who's already third generation American, been exposed to a bunch of toxins, you know, maybe had to go through a bunch of health issues, then your patent, you know the the mother is passing that on to the next generation.

So we're just getting worse and worse and worse. And what does that show? In chronic disease at a younger and younger age, which is really scary. I mean, kids have all these chronic disease issues in their teenage years, in their 20s, their 30s. You know people are getting Parkinson's in their 40s. This isn't, this is not normal and it's only going to accelerate unless there's a mass awakening and movement, but I have a hard time believing that's going to happen. I mean, you know there is a alternative health movement, but there's so many forces going the opposite direction. So I think, you know, five to ten percent of the population is only going to be the ones having kids that are healthy enough to reproduce.

I mean that population crisis is no joke. I mean it is. It's crazy when you hear about the statistics, especially in like China, where you, like, all of the populations are aging so much like the average age. I don't know what it is in China, but it has been getting older and older and it's hard to see a way in which that turns around. And you look at like. You look at like Italy, where you have all these like dying towns and dying cities because the generation is just older, and then the kids move into the city and then, oh, it's just, it's a crazy world in terms of the rapid collapse in and the rapid rise in infertility. I mean, it is just, it's no joke.

Yeah, it's also a collapse of the family unit and that that area of it is a complete byproduct of fiat money. Right, so people can't have kids at you know, 20, 25 anymore. They don't have the money to do so. They all, you know, both man and woman, have to work full time to support the family. If they do have one. It's being pushed out to later and later. And then, yeah, the social programming that's very anti a family unit, so that there's more people in the workforce, so that they can keep propping up the fiat economies.

That's what's pervasive, that's the mind virus that has taken society and, again, that's why I think it's only going to be like five to ten percent of the population. That's kind of actually having children. It's uh, it's a recipe for disaster, maybe, or it's a recipe for self-balancing, kind of in a multi-generational rollout or shift or transition period, however you want to call it. But I'm still optimistic for sure, because I know that there's a good core group of people who are taking this as a priority, who are trying to educate folks, who are putting the proof of work out there to become more sovereign individuals and take control of their health and their wealth so they can be outside of the system, so they don't have to be reliant on what comes along with that.

I think that the I mean it's so funny to me how, when you dive into the health stuff, and especially the alternative side of health things, you start to almost become I'm reluctant to use the word conspiracy theorists in many ways, but you start to see some of these things that make you question more and more. Like, even if you just go into it purely health-wise, you don't have a conspiratorial bone in you. You just end up seeing more and more things that make you question things.

Well, it's like once you look through the world from a certain lens, you can never go back, and I think that's the most wonderful thing about our space is because it leads down so many other paths and you realize it's all coming back to the same issues of the centralized governments, corporations that are running the world and this you know broken monetary system we have because all the incentives are misaligned. So that's one of my biggest missions in general because you know I'm really into Bitcoin and I'm obviously really into alternative health and decentralized health is to bring that group of people together, have people in the health perspective understand the other side of the coin and have people in the Bitcoin camp understand how important it is to take control of their health, because it's the same reason and that's what's so funny about EMFs. And if anyone doesn't believe anything that I've said, you can go look up any of the studies. There's literally thousands of studies. This one researcher, dr Henry Lai, has a Google Drive of literally 2,500 studies showing harmful effects of EMFs since 1990. And there's thousands more before that.

But yeah, I'm like what do you mean? You guys don't? You know, you're carnivore, you don't like seed oils, but EMFs is like too big of a stretch for you. No, like this is, this is the biggest one. Guess, what's propping up our economy is tech, is big tech. And again, I'm not saying we need to go back to the caves, but I'm just saying you need to consider this perspective from this lens that you have now and question it and understand that this is another giant experiment as a society that we have not consented to and that is now deeply ingrained and in trillions of dollars of you know market worth.

That connection is real. It's so funny, Like you see it, especially when you start creating content on Twitter, like even in the past I guess it's like five, six months at this point that I've started creating content on Twitter you just see a lot of the people that follow. You end up being like big Bitcoin advocates, Even if you're just posting purely health stuff. It's like those two worlds are intimately connected in a funny way.

They should be right, because we're fed up, you know, from one way or another, and my health journey got me hooked on Bitcoin and a lot of Bitcoiners came through a finance or a money lens and are now hooked on optimizing their health. So I mean, I can't imagine a world where I want to be reliant on, like the centralized healthcare system, even if I have, you know, a good amount of money from Bitcoin or whatever. That's just a very, very scary thought to me, because how the incentives are aligned in that system, yeah, I mean, you see it firsthand when you go to the hospitals.

It's just, it's definitely not the. A lot of people can't put their finger on what exactly is wrong with it. But if you just go to a hospital and you see how individuals are treated, especially with chronic health conditions, you start to see more and more like how messed up the whole thing is.

They're patients for life. You know the average American adult has, or you know 60% of US adults have, a chronic disease. I think 40% of two or more. It's crazy. And then you know, talk about medications. In general, the average, like 40 year old, is only a handful of medications. I don't know that's statistics specifically, but even people are age. It's crazy what they're taking on a daily basis, Especially if people are age, it's not good.

Yeah yeah, the stimulants is like a whole another camp. I was in what?

they need to get through the day I was in university and it's like it's so crazy to me how many people are taking stimulants, especially Adderall, like prescribed and not prescribed, and a lot of people who are prescribed have crippling anxiety and there is no mention of those two things being connected and it's just like it blows my mind, it's like they're so intimately connected, like this overactivity of the brain and this, all these excitatory new. It's just like this overactivity of glutamate based on all of these stimulants that these people are taking and there's no connection between the two. It's, it's weird. It's weird but lightly.

Yeah, I mean, it's so obvious, right, but you know that's the society we live in and that's just the unfortunate reality and it's only going to get worse and worse because people are just going to become more energy deficient, right, Like there's more dysfunctional and they're going to need more crutches, and that's why you know the medication. The supplement industry is thrilled about that because they have a solution that doesn't actually fix the root cause issue of their lifestyle habits.

So of the? What else do you think is fundamental of the things that we have at talked about today? What is some things that haven't been mentioned that you think are big picture things that people should be aware of?

That we haven't talked about. What have we talked about? We talked about light. We talked about embracing seasonality. Locality I mean eating real nutrient dense foods, you know plays a big role into that. We talked a little bit about, you know, eating a seasonal diet.

I definitely am an advocate for animal foods being the most nutrient dense on the planet, eating again something or from a source that you can verify the quality right. So I mentioned glyphosate a little bit. That's definitely a huge issue for me and processed foods because they're really disrupting our biology. So I can almost not eat like grocery store meat anymore. I buy my cow by the whole or half. Just got two whole pigs from the same rancher and 100% grass fed pasture raised, the pigs as well, 100% pasture raised, and it's just the energy in that food. The quality of the nutrients is far, far higher. So I think that plays an important role. You know diet is definitely tremendously important.

And avoiding toxins in any capacity. You know the glyphosate, as I mentioned the. You know plastics, the PFA's, the tap water, the fluoride I mean there's so much the heavy metals. I would say this is like you're not going to be able to avoid these toxins. But if you get your health back and you have the proper energy, you will be able to detoxify and repair from them. So that's really the message is that we're not. We can't avoid the toxins in a modern world. It's impossible. Even if you go and live in the woods and fine tune everything, it's still not going to be perfection, but that's not the goal. The goal is resilience and consistent improvement. So if you have proper, you know, energy production from getting outside, being connected, having a proper circadian rhythm, getting that sleep to repair and restore, you're going to be able to deal with the toxins a lot better and then they become less of an issue.

This is why, you see, you know centenarians who drank and smoke doesn't mean that stuff is good for you. It's not. But guess what? They were waking up at sunrise every day. They're highly connected, they're eating real food, they're eating seasonally, they have a sense of community, which is something I haven't mentioned. That's huge a sense of purpose and people of like-minded interests and priorities to elevate you to become the better version of yourself. This is what it's really all about. So it doesn't matter. You know the blue zones. They're a bunch of bullshit because they talk about, like eating plant-based diets and things like that. But really these populations and they all grew up in you know the early 1900s, so you shouldn't compare yourself to someone who grew up in the early 1900s either. It doesn't make any sense, it's very backward looking. We need to look forward and be in the present. But they all were very connected to their local environment and they all had a sense of community.

That was really important and it's funny because there's so many niches in the health space. You know gut health and brain health and you know whatever they're all the same issue. It's just your lifestyle habits. How far gone your health is determines kind of how hard core you need to go about it. But if you're just getting started, just try a couple things and See how that moves the needle for you and then just build on that momentum from there, because it is very Overwhelming. You can get neurotic about it. You can try and track all these things Completely overhaul your wardrobe, your pantry, your cookware, your clothing or I already said that I guess your emf environment. It's too much for a lot of people, so just chop away at it and Over time you'll definitely see a high ROI for doing so, I think and creating that resiliency, like you said, is so, so important because there's no getting away from it.

So finding ways to be deliberate in how to be, or learning ways to become resilient with your diet, with your light environment, with detoxing and Doing these things to create that resilience so you don't have to be neurotic about Every little thing, is just so, so important. And focusing on the approach of creating resiliency versus quote-unquote optimizing is. It's not an easy feat to create that resiliency, but once you have it and once you get consistent with it, the results are outweigh any bit of the Optimizing perspective that you see. With those guys all those biohacking guys now that are trying to live to 150, it's like if you can just create that resilience with your health instead, it's it's everything.

Well, you need to understand that we are beings of the earth, right? So for me, something I realized even before I dove down a ton of these rabbit holes was very simple the more time I spent in nature, the more time I spent outside, the better I felt. Yes, the more time I spend indoors, the more time I spend on technology, the worse I feel. So that's all you really need to know. So if you just work towards that and then it becomes fun, right, like? Everybody loves going outside, or at least most people do. Some people are so disconnected that, you know, maybe the sunlight hurts their eyes and they're very fearful from the social road programming that's been ongoing. But really, like going outside is fun, like going on a hike, going on a run outside in the sunshine, going to the beach, jumping in the ocean. Like eating outside, eating a high quality Meal that you prepared with love for your friends and family or you cook together. Like that is enjoyable.

People like to paint health as some Dismal life that you have to live with with no enjoyment. Oh, there's so much. I love my life and people might think my lifestyle is insane or it's very neurotic, but to me I'm just living as much of a connected lifestyle as I possibly can and the enjoyment, the Vitality I feel is through the roof and it keeps getting better each year because I keep making you know, little improvements in terms of how connected I am to my environment and to nature, and really that's what it's all about. And yeah, you do have to be deliberate in 2024 here now, but it's not like some bad thing. But you may have to purge some friends, some you know hobbies or some pastimes, but you have to understand what is your long-term vision. What do you want to be in five years? What do you want your life to look like? And that's something I've found is very helpful Is kind of painting a long-term vision, because a lot of us young adults, you know, we go to school to get in the college, we go to college to get a degree, to get a job, and then you get out and you get this job and then you're like, wow, this is not what I expected.

This life actually sucks and I don't enjoy this job. I don't really know what to do, I don't really have anything that I'm passionate about. So I'd say, especially as a young adult, just think about. What do you want your life to look like in like five to ten, even 15 years. Paint that picture, make that vision clear. You don't have to worry about the short-term goals like three, six, twelve month goals yeah, those are nice. You want to run faster, lift more, you know, look better, lose weight sure, but the long-term vision is a way more important because that's ultimately what you're looking to achieve. And then everything else in the short term we're kind of ball into place because you have that picture that you're working towards. That's something I have found to be really helpful and it helps you kind of just have that mindset of you know, this is what I want to do, because that's gonna get me to the life I want to live so beautifully said, dude, and I think so many of those things that People quote-unquote derive pleasure from that like we're not doing.

They're so empty in many ways and when you think about how Unfulfilled so many people are and I think the root cause of that is cheap dopamine and when you're doing these things, that are more when that dopamine hit is Further down the line. It's just gonna be more and more fulfilling and it's almost addicting in a way, like when you really start to dive into this world, like there's no going back there. That that steak and sweet potato, those organic, that grass-fed steak and that organic sweet potato is like the best meal in the world and you couldn't Pay me to eat or you couldn't. I would choose that meal over any fast food or anything people see is like this delicious thing it's. There really is something to be said that when you start to really dive into these things, you realize how much more fulfilling that lifestyle is. Yeah, the low-time preference mindset is is huge.

And again, once you start doing a couple things Whether it's exercise, whether it's, you know, cold or fasting, or meditation or anything, buying Bitcoin this is all like a very low-time preference mindset and it's contagious and then it just proliferates to a lot of aspects of your life, if not all of them, and I know that's happened for me over the past five, six years and now I'm already thinking on a multi-generational Mindset as a 27 year old. So that's kind of really what it comes down to. But yeah, I get appalled at like Modern fast food and it smells and things like that. Now your body change, your body comes, becomes completely different, like you become a completely different person when you align the inputs to being, you know what they should be and you will never go back To craving certain things there was.

There was one time where I think it was a four month period when I didn't have anything processed. I was super, super dialed in and I had a piece of cake on a holiday and I took like two bites of the cake and it was like it was overwhelming, it was like too much.

It was just too much food science and that was gross yeah.

You realize actually how much is in our processed food.

It's like it's been so engineered to like light up your brain and your senses. You're almost just like well, it's insane. It's like too stimulating it's crazy.

I felt the same thing.

I felt the same way a couple times the past few years and it's just like, wow, it's almost good. It's like wow, I actually didn't even like miss this. But then, you know, I can have like a bowl of yogurt with some blueberries and honey, and that's like Next level.

Oh yeah, oh yeah, absolutely. So how we breaking this fast today. What do you break in? Yeah?

the most important thing about long-term fast is to break it slowly, which is the hardest part. So I've actually been tormenting myself all the fast because I've been cooking bone broth from these pigs. I got just put all the bones in a giant pot and I've made a ton of bone broth. So I'll be breaking it with bone broth, probably for the first hour, maybe have a small amount of meat, and then I'll be grilling. I think it's like a bovet which is like a skirt or a flank steak on the grill, probably an hour and a half Maybe after that. So yeah, I'm just gonna. Once I feel good, I'm gonna, just gonna keep eating. So Pretty, pretty stoked about it, local, local beef, only good bone broth. It's Nothing better really resets your how much you value the food and the nourishment you can get from from it.

No doubt about it, dude. Well, tristan, thank you so much for doing this today. It was a lot of fun, it was enlightening in many ways, and I I gotta go outside and take a walk in this right, 40 degree weather now.

That's right, man. Yeah, embrace it. We all can just do a little bit more. Small light breaks, small cold breaks they're helpful. I do the same thing, I.