Be The Giraffe (Aired 09-05-25) Break Free from Big Medicine: Reagan Archibald on Longevity

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Everybody is missing something in life i felt prisoner to my own success change is hard change is hard i get it change or die i'm gonna change things so what the hell can we change if we can see things differently we can have some different results only on now media television networks welcome to be the giraffe i'm your host and guide chris jarvis if you are looking for ways to stand out and reach higher in business with money and in life then you're in the right place on be the giraffe we meet the innovators who dared to be different and stick their necks out we learned how they broke free from the herd and used their long necks to discover better paths today we have a fantastic show my guest is reagan archibald reagan is one of the leading peptide functional medicine and longevity specialists in the nation his award winning center east west health has performed nearly ten thousand labs reviewing over one hundred important markers to help patients not just treat symptoms but to understand and address the root cause of health issues reagan is an international speaker and is the author of nine books including the peptide blueprint and ageless future his podcast unreasonable health has featured countless thought leaders from across the from across the globe today we have the honor of featuring him as our thought leader it's time for you to elevate your perspective and see your better path to health and longevity reagan archibald welcome to be. [00:01:32] Speaker B: The giraffe great to be here chris. [00:01:34] Speaker A: So you have we met through mike kiddings and charles byrd two of my favorite people and through your brother cade and also one of our favorite people and you started in healthcare so my career started with doctors and you started on that same path so you grew up you wanted to be a doctor yep so tell us about that because it does take a little left turn. [00:01:59] Speaker B: At albuquerque yeah well i had an uncle who was a doctor and growing up i worked on the cattle ranch with my dad my uncles my grandpa and i always said i want to be anything but a rancher when i grow up and he had the soft hands his clothes didn't have cow manure on it i was like he's got the good life but it was really when i was thirteen i had surgery on both of my feet so i used to run a lot in cowboy boots and just grew up in cowboy boots not good for the feet and especially when you're running i calculate i was running about ten miles a day you know running around the farm and doing various things like irrigation and so this surgery i grabbed this book called inner athlete my dad gave it to me and i read that book by dan millman and i learned the power of visualization and how the mind could help the body heal so i was like well i got nothing else to do so i'm going to learn how to meditate and access this deeper part of my healing wisdom and when i went back to the podiatrist the podiatrist was like i've never seen anyone heal this fast and my mom's like well he's young and the podiatrist is like you have no idea this is like lightning speed and so you know and i was asking the podiatrist will i be able to run faster when i get the surgery that was my big criteria because i had to make the football team the track team the basketball team to get out of farm work and so i was very motivated to have the surgery be positive as far as the outcome goes so that was really my first introduction to human biology and the way that the body can. [00:03:24] Speaker A: Heal so i have a dear friend doug hostetler he grew up mennonite on the farm and he talks about growing up and they played football and he said again we all made the team because that was a chance to get out of a chore or two this is it and he said i hated hunting season because it meant i had to get up go hunting then do chores then go to school right so there's this whole there's this very hard working this work ethic that comes from the farm and like you he's not a farmer either so there's a whole pay attention in school and like when you have some adversity when you're young you realize i'm going to do something different okay so you had this thing you healed with your mind and i can remember well in twenty seventeen i had back surgery and i can remember going to the going to my appointment after a microdiscectomy so it wasn't that serious but let's say it was the two week checkup and there's a two week checkup and then there's like a six week or an eight week checkup and i was at the first one and i got in a fight with the nurse who kept saying this is your eight week i said no it's my two week it's got to be your eight week it's your two week and i asked why does this matter to you and why are you so upset because it's my appointment i know when the surgery was and she said because nobody heals like this you're either a vampire or you have the date wrong and i said i have a chinese acupuncturist who trained as a medical doctor in china and he was a medical doctor in japan and then he comes to the us and can't practice medicine in a traditional sense so he said i don't want you to get surgery but if you do you have to come to me every day yep and i went every day for two weeks so much so that a nurse who'd been doing this for thirty five years argued with me that i had the date wrong because you shouldn't heal that fast so it took me a lot longer i was in my forties when i finally in my mid forties when i finally had that awakening of ooh there's something else yeah and so you had this magical moment when you were young what did you do with that so you went on to med. [00:05:23] Speaker B: School right yep i was university of utah and that's where things kind of took a turn because i got sick there and i really appreciated great health when i was a kid my mom followed the food pyramid though and the food pyramid as you remember in the nineties was you know pretty much whole grains and then the healthy stuff it should have been reversed right it should have been flipped and you know skim milk even though we had access to really good food she was just trying to help us with our health and i was also exposed to a lot of chemicals and when i was in school i started noticing brain fog would set in and i was like man this is not good i mean i had pretty severe adhd as a class clown and stuff like that as most entrepreneurs are and then i like finally after going to five doctors i was frustrated because all they told me is i think you're too stressed and i was like look at my skin i had psoriasis like my hair was falling out i would run and i was a good runner and i would be sore i couldn't run more than once a week and i was like something's wrong and so finally a friend of mine turned me on to a naturopathic doctor who was also an acupuncturist and he ran the labs and he said oh have you ever been exposed to chemicals i was like well roundup but it's safe the rep told us i could drink it it's so safe and we took it at face value now i wish i would have just offered it to the rep and then i also had exposure to formaldehyde and so we would dip the fence posts in it so it preserved them longer when you'd build corrals and then when i was in anatomy class at the u that's when i was spraying the cadavers that's what triggered a lot of these symptoms and so it was that toxic burden in my brain that just turned things off and then my immune system was wrecked because glyphosate which is the chief ingredient in roundup i mean it's a registered antibiotic i mean we're just destroying our guts and we're still doing it today unfortunately but it was getting the right information by getting the right diagnostics that led me down a whole. [00:07:24] Speaker A: Different pathway but how long did you have this because there's a lot of people who tell people what you experience brain fog to be because it gets misdiagnosed a lot yeah well brain fog. [00:07:38] Speaker B: Is essentially the the absence of the ability to promote cognitive and executive function so the cognitive function of the brain you take in information at night you go to sleep it gets encoded in your hippocampus and then the next day you can recall the memory very easy if you have brain fog there's no encoding and there's no executive function where you can't take that information and apply it and so in school it's pretty devastating because now i've got a final i've got the midterms and the only time my brain would work was between seven and nine at night i had like a two hour time period where i'd be lucid and that saved me because i brought these little cassette tapes and i would just record the lecture and then in the evening i'd go back and listen to it and i'd have my textbook and then i could actually retain the information so that got me through school but i realized like the medical system was broken i had a really cool professor doctor baumann and he looked at me and he said reagan you ask questions that most of the med students don't ask like do you want to be a carpenter when you grow up or do you want to really help people heal and i was like well of course i don't want to be a carpenter he's like no no well you're on a program that would train you how to be a carpenter what does a carpenter do i'm like well they read blueprints and then they follow the the instructions on the blueprints and they build the house and he's like exactly medicine's not like that biology's not like that and he said there's a path for you that will yield a lot greater outcomes if you just go with what you're good at and that was really insightful for me because i trusted him it was a history of medicine class and so he exposed me to all these new theories and applications he was big into acupuncture big into eastern medicine he thought at the time this was in the nineties he said there's going to be a tidal wave of new medicine coming out because chronic disease is the biggest threat to people in the united states and he said western medicine is designed to treat crisis care and so he helped me find a school in hawaii where it was the founder of the pacemaker earl bakken he founded this school this little school that was connected to the northern hawaii community hospital so i was able to study eastern and western medicine there and got exposure to like some of the best professors on the. [00:10:00] Speaker A: Planet i want to go back when you said for people in the audience when they asked if you wanted to be a carpenter they weren't talking about you going back to fence posts they were talking about medicine is about cutting and repairing and attaching and it's a very process surgical cut so it's mechanical it's not metaphysical that's it well and. [00:10:23] Speaker B: It'S very prescriptive for lack of a better word it's like as long as you can identify the imbalances in the lab and you match it with symptoms now you've got a diagnosis and then here's the prescription so no different than okay we've got to build this wall here and we've got a window there and we need to put a header here to support the load and and that was a revelation to me so. [00:10:48] Speaker A: That'S so today's medicine is the challenge in there's a lot of challenges in western medicine i'd say but a big part of this was you had that moment of somebody who gave you the insight right which a lot of people and you are twenty years old twenty five young twenty one twenty one when you had this twenty two yep and so someone so this whole brain fog thing you weren't able to do what you used to be able to do right and it wasn't just lack of focus it wasn't about being a young boy it wasn't about being distracted it wasn't testosterone it wasn't there was something really wrong with you yeah and so what should people before we go on next time i want to get into the deeper stuff with the shift in eastern and western medicine but what can people look for to know that that might be something what's a sign for someone who's young or maybe not young or someone who has kids that there might be something at there might just be something to notice some signs that maybe there's something wrong that could easily be misdiagnosed i think the biggest thing. [00:11:49] Speaker B: With kids is if you notice their behavior change is different when they eat fast food for example or when they go to the birthday party and they have too much ice cream or you may notice with yourself when you go into certain buildings and suddenly you have brain fog and you just suddenly your cognitive function is not what you're used to you'll notice it if you're achy for no reason and it's like oh i must be getting old you know i see people in their thirties like oh this is what getting old feels like i'm like no even if you're in your fifties or sixties seventies eighties like pain is you know i have a no pain policy but pain is one of those big kind of warning signals that you need to check the. [00:12:31] Speaker A: Engine that's great so we i want to get into you had your experience with health and then you were exposed to a new kind of medicine i want to go into after the break i want to talk about what you've noticed in the shortfalls of the system and some of the things that people are missing out on and what they don't understand kind of like the man pull back the curtain to see what's really going on with the wizard because i think if you understand that there'll be a greater appreciation for which is a lot of what rfk junior is doing now so after the break we want to talk about pulling back the curtain so you can actually see what's really going on in medicine so that you can make better decisions for yourself so make sure you come back we'll be here hey chris jarvis this week on be the giraffe i am with regan archibald who is the author of the peptide blueprint and the founder of east west health he has some fantastic knowledge about health care what you should know about the current healthcare system how to avoid the pitfalls and how you can take control of your life your health and your longevity this is one you are not going to want to miss we are here with longevity expert reagan archibald and in the first segment you talked about your health and the fact that you had this this gift of you had a couple but the gift of working on the farm or in the ranch which was teaching you hard work but also exposing you to chemicals then you had the gift of getting sick but getting sick early enough that somebody cared about you and could diagnose that this wasn't what medicine was telling you it was and so you're not the only person there's a reason why you've done ten thousand labs right the challenges with doing things for the masses right the whole right now we've got ai and people all have formulas for building funnels and doing things and it's about everybody becoming a number and the truth is bodies don't work like that so tell us a little bit about your revelation or your discovery into the difference between prescriptive and more diagnostic medicine and what you notice in the system and one of the holes that the audience need to understand how medicine as a business actually works and that maybe it doesn't do for them what what they think it does well i. [00:15:21] Speaker B: Think the biggest problem that we have is if you don't fit into the diagnostic box then you're dismissed and so many people they're really excited to figure out what's going on with their labs they're like man i'm sick i'm tired i'm overweight i don't know what's going on with my body but i feel like i'm in pain all the time and they go to their doctor and their doctor says hey good news everything looks normal on your labs and they're like well i don't feel normal something's wrong and so what i learned in my training is if you go deeper and you look for the root cause and you don't stop you know you don't leave any stone unturned there's not just blood work you want to look at gut health you want to look at a test called metabolomics where you can look at the urine and see any of the upstream factors so it's not just what's the cause but it's what's the cause of the cause and that's where most doctors are stopped short because the system doesn't allow that exploration to happen and just like you said biology is not it's not like building a house like there's not like a very specific set of blueprints there's engineering where everything has to be a certain way but if i put one input into you and there's ten other people here and i do the same input your biology is going to respond differently to that input and so the biology it's all systems and i call it the body operation system just like you have an operating system on your computer if you can understand the smallest level of input that yield the highest level of results where that person starts to change that's when you can really start seeing massive improvements in people's health and it doesn't happen within this seven to fifteen minute visit because i have to understand not just what's on the paper like you can't ai your way out of a chronic disease is what i've learned it's like there needs to be some intuitive process that goes on where i take your symptoms okay chris what are your goals what do you want your health to be like in ten years from now what are the things you'd love to do that you could do ten years ago that you can't do today tell me what it's like in the morning what's your energy like what are you eating what what do those foods do to you like do you notice anything in your digestive system you get acid reflux but if we take the time to ask those questions then i can apply it to what the data shows me on the labs and then we can stack it together and get a more complete picture the problem is most doctors don't have time because the system has trained them with billable codes and so there's not a billable code if you're you know yes there's a comprehensive evaluation code but that comprehensive evaluation is even more important after we apply input so the second time i meet with you is far more valuable than the first time so that we can test our hypothesis and when. [00:18:04] Speaker A: You'Re talking about the bodies are responding differently you're not just talking about age sex race like you're going much deeper this is a true individualistic reaction right so it's not it's not just well just because your sister or your brother or your parents have something doesn't mean that you're going to respond the same. [00:18:27] Speaker B: Way not at all yeah because genes are just a small fraction of the story it's the epigenetics it's the things that are expressing the genes or not expressing the genes and that's where looking at the gut biome for example i mean if you look at the innovations in just gut health generally speaking we know so little about it there's so much that we're now uncovering and that's where ai is really helpful because it can assimilate and aggregate large amounts of data and then we can apply what data is useful based on what your lab show i mean we're seeing with for example just doing microbiota transplants we have a lab out of canada and we can actually reinoculate the entire gut for people who have autoimmune disease neurological diseases any kind of cognitive decline we see massive improvements just by that just by looking at the gut and saying okay what if instead of throwing some probiotics at things and some prebiotics maybe we just need to completely plow the field and replant and that's where we. [00:19:31] Speaker A: See massive changes and the reason behind this when it comes to diet and food and general health around eating which we'll get into rfk junior and your relationship and interaction for sure i hope today but this idea of food it's cheaper to eat poor yeah no doubt like eating you know called whole paycheck for a reason not whole foods right it's a whole it's a different eating healthy is expensive and and eating poorly is cheap i think it's the same thing with medicine isn't it isn't like the eat like money is money's a reason for a lot of this isn't. [00:20:13] Speaker B: It well if you look behind the people with the most power in the country are usually the companies with the largest bank accounts and so the agricultural company they have influenced us for years i mean you remember the commercial milk. [00:20:28] Speaker A: It does a body good yeah like. [00:20:30] Speaker B: It'S crazy that's good marketing right like we both remember that you remember the food pyramid i talked about that your eyes lit up you're like oh yeah i remember that damn thing the problem is we subsidize a lot of the foods that are really toxic for the american population and yes you have to say well the pharmaceutical company is right there behind it because food is medicine food needs to be your first source of medicine and if you're eating food that has chemicals in it that are not good for your biome and we just stop every expression every cellular expression is informed by the bacteria in your gut you have more dna for bacteria than you do human cells and if you're eating foods that are destroying a lot of the healthy bacteria you're losing that signaling and then you bring in these chemical laden foods and we all know them they're in boxes and we could talk about the companies and and then the way that we treat it is not hey let's have you get rid of the processed foods or ultra processed foods which are so damaging because they're addictive i mean you can't eat just one dorito you go for the dorito it's in the back of your head and you're like okay i need to go find some more next thing you know you've downed a whole bag or you know you drink a soda and it's it's got the perfect texture it's got these little flavors that our body can't find in natural food because it's a chemical but there's millions of dollars that are spent on getting us addicted to these foods same thing with our phones it's like cool let's get humans addicted to as many things that draw them away from their nature as possible and then there's drugs that treat those things and so with the pharmaceutical companies for example they make up about fifteen hundred diagnostic criteria every single year you can make up a condition like social anxiety do you get a little nervous when you go to a party where you don't know anybody or a business event i do i mean it's uncomfortable like i'd never met you in person and i was like oh this is a new environment but i don't i wouldn't call that social anxiety as anything pathological but i could take a drug called paxil and that would have helped me today right so it's just kind of ironic what we've done and that's where rfk for once we have somebody who has the authority and has a position in the government that can actually stop the crisis because the health care crisis is far deeper than what people realize i mean your first twelve books were written for doctors i mean you helped doctors solve their financial burdens and what did you see in the field that was the most surprising thing. [00:23:02] Speaker A: Yeah that was our first niche market was going after physicians and we had eighteen thousand of them call our office so i got a decent sample size and the most unsurprisingly the ones who want to save the most taxes are the ones who make the most money and the ones who made the most money owned surgery centers because they could collect facility fees they owned labs they owned things that weren't about seeing the patient they owned the businesses around medicine that's where most of their money came from it didn't come from from the actual seeing of the patient it came from the other thing and so there's so much overspending because once you're in the job you want to make money doing the thing that you do so you said oh i'm going to own the surgery center i'm going to own the lab i'm going to own the real estate which is fine i'm going to get into all the businesses around medicine that ironically people with mbas fools like me or people with my training we're allowed to own those businesses but we're not allowed to own the medical practice but most of the money goes to the other side so it's the medical device companies it's the surgery center it's the drugs i think something like i'm on the board of a medical school too and it's three percent of the money in healthcare goes to the physician so where's the rest of it gone yeah because it's not actually going to the carpenter who's doing the finished work or who's your only point of contact you don't know who owns your surgery center you don't know who designed the medical device you have you don't know the person who did all the research on the pharmaceuticals you're taking there's nothing there's nothing there so it's like you're only getting the one doctor but they're not getting most of the money. [00:24:39] Speaker B: Yeah and i think that's the big problem because most of the doctors that i've worked with they tell me they said i wish i would have taken the educational route you did because having md behind their name they're handcuffed to it because the board can strip their license if they say the wrong thing if they're not practicing medicine the way that that state board wants them to and it's devastating because the lack of innovation in our country i mean we have the data is so powerful so many new research articles come out every day and medicine tends to be about twenty to twenty five years behind the science i mean some of the same drugs we're using for thyroid conditions like synthroid came out in the nineteen fifties seventy five year old medicine and more and more people have thyroid issues and so my whole purpose has been how can we transform healthcare so that it's about getting the right data and doing the right thing for the patient at the right time and helping transform their health instead of just treating a symptom. [00:25:40] Speaker A: That'S great if you after the break we're going to talk to reagan about how you can take steps to not be a number so you're not just one of the masses it's one of our big things avoid the masses and the asses and you want to definitely break free from the herd and figure out how you can elevate your health and take steps to deal with your individual personal situation so i'll also share a little bit about a story i had which reagan doesn't know but he's about to find out and i'm sure he's going to give me some great advice but come back after the break and we're going to learn how to elevate your health hey chris jarvis this week on be the giraffe i am with reagan archibald who is the author of the peptide blueprint and and the founder of east west health he has some fantastic knowledge about healthcare what you should know about the current healthcare system how to avoid the pitfalls and how you can take control of your life your health and your longevity this is one you are not going to want to miss i am here with reagan archibald who is helping people find longevity improve their lives and disrupt the healthcare system a little bit which i like you brought up in the last which i haven't shared with this audience very much that my first eighteen thousand clients were doctors and i was on a medical school board i still am but the challenge i know a lot of doctors so if i need surgery i need help there's no shortage of people that i can call because i've saved them or made them a lot of money so they tend to return my call and when i had i needed a microdiscectomy and i had had i needed that on the heels no pun intended of tearing my achilles playing basketball one of those things i could do ten years ago i don't do now i called some doctors i had surgery and then i had neuropathy in my a bad response from my achilles surgery that nobody could all the tests said i was fine but my foot was numb and varied between numb and pain and i had back pain and i went to a pain management doctor client of mine in town who made quite a bit of money and i'd done a lot of work with him and he was always happy to have me skip the line and move in and give me injections and give me epidurals and whatever else i needed whenever i needed it which was fine but there was a day when i was sitting in the waiting room and it took him five minutes or so to get me and the room was full and i looked around and it looked less like it looked more like the star wars cantina the waiting room than it did there was nobody in that room that i wanted to look like there was a lot of sweatpants there was a lot of tupperware with drugs in it there were a lot of walkers with tennis balls there were a lot of really heavy people and i was like i don't want to be like these people so i was like this is the last time i'm coming and you get your bill and it says that my copay is one hundred bucks or two hundred bucks but i realized that the procedure was thousands and thousands of dollars but i could spend dollar one hundred or dollar fifty to get a two three five thousand dollars procedure but if i went to the acupuncturist which was my next plan and i went to the chinese acupuncturist doctor lee who's been fantastic for me that's gonna cost me one hundred bucks out of pocket yep and so going to that i can like that's on me so if i want eastern medicine it's gonna be one hundred percent on me when there's no pharmaceutical company no hospital involved if i go get the thousands of dollars then they're happy to just push that off on the healthcare system right i don't think that story i don't think my story is a unique one. [00:29:41] Speaker B: No not at all and the thing that you did differently though is you were proactive and you said i'm going to invest in my health because you probably looked at the waiting room of doctor lee and you said okay these are healthy people who are proactive yes. [00:29:56] Speaker A: And that was the i want to do something different because i don't want this result so trying to find something and so we have people now the difference today versus one of the challenge and opportunity today is that once upon a time you had to go to the professional to get the advice because because there was no advice you could either go to the doctor or go to med school right those are your choices and now we have the internet so i know you have a lot of great advice for people but before we get into that can you share your opinion on people seeing advice on the internet and now all of a sudden they see something on i can't tell you the number of times that my teenagers and their friends will be over and say oh i saw this on tiktok which is fine for a recipe but hey we should all be taking this and they found some magic supplement or they bought some expensive tea or they bought something because it had a million views or likes talk about what you're seeing on healthcare on that side and the good and the bad. [00:30:50] Speaker B: Of that well i think the big problem is things are taken out of context and so you and i we see influencers on there and they have a really great practice but then they're just getting like little tidbits of the conversation like the conversation we've had it could be blown out of proportion very easily because our attention spans are shrinking smaller and smaller and that's the big currency that people are fighting for and so if you have a solution that seems too good to be true usually it is and that's i think it's a problem with social media and medicine even ai in medicine ai now can read your labs it can give you very good data elon musk has been and very vocal about rock and how powerful it is replacing all the doctors but medicine is not it's not a binary science i mean yes we follow the laws of physics and there's laws of chemistry that we follow but really your biology is so unique and that cellular expression just the energy resonance in your body is going to require somebody who's got a level of intuition above their level of intelligence and above just data and so i think it goes deeper than that because the problem with people getting advice on social media is i've seen it be very damaging i mean i've seen people follow the celery juice diet i won't say who's promoting it and suddenly they end up with gastroparesis that's where your stomach just completely stops producing enzymes and you have bowel obstructive disorder like i mean you can die from that there's just because it's natural and just because it healed somebody's cancer doesn't mean it's for you so. [00:32:31] Speaker A: I think that's the big thing is it's medicine for you so medicine is a big business the big challenge is we have things called standard of care which is if you have this problem you will all get you can all get access to this type of treatment that's the standard and that's what's expected and so everybody goes toward i want this thing to be standard of care especially if it's your formulary your medical device your surgical procedure your pharmaceutical and so again it's everybody getting back to your i guess ranching days everybody's getting herded into this corral that these are the things that you can get so whether it's the doctor who's seventy five and you think is over the hill or it's the seventeen year old tiktoker it doesn't matter either way this is all general advice and the danger of general advice is it's not specific yeah to your particular you talked about the we're all unique in our bodies in our body's thing so our body's chemistry and our reactions to different things so for example garlic silly things the audience doesn't need to know but about to find out people say oh garlic's great for you and the lycopene in tomatoes is great except i have an allergy to nightshades nightshades yeah so there's no garlic there's no onion there's no but it's good for you not for me right yeah so there is some danger to that so so for people who are saying okay that's great you've just told me that i can't that my doctor's not doing what's necessarily best for me western medicine's not great i live in the west and i have a phone but my tiktok's not giving me good advice what can people do like what's the first step somebody should take who wants to be healthy and what mindset what steps what processes what things can people do who want to take control of their health i think the. [00:34:09] Speaker B: First thing is get your sleep on point and so sleep is the foundational piece to all health and if you don't believe me just go without sleep for a few nights and see if you don't get grumpy and watch how your brain performs i mean they did one study was done on shift workers and they found that when these shift workers were on their night shifts you know they would do week on week off their cognitive function was twenty percent less and even going without a good night's sleep you'll see that your blood sugar goes higher your cortisol levels are out of balance your body starts to develop what's called metabolic dysfunction and metabolic disease is at the root of pretty much every disease that we see and so if you don't get good sleep then it's really hard to manage the metabolic function and then your metabolic function is what regulates your energy levels so the second thing you'd want to look at is okay if i'm sleeping well how's your energy throughout the day and then that goes to nutrition so the one thing everybody can do on sleep is what we call the three two one method and this you can just take a clip of this and put it out there and it's accurate but three hours before you go to bed stop eating just stop eating food two hours before you go to bed that's a good time to stop drinking fluids unless you love waking up to urinate at night be my guest and then an hour before you go to bed get rid of the blue lights anything stimulating is not going to be good. [00:35:29] Speaker A: For you you that's what phone computer. [00:35:31] Speaker B: Tv what yeah that's it just you know make love with your spouse you know grab a book you know meditate reflect on the day those are really helpful just having a positive outlook on your previous day that will add another seven years to your life you'll feel a lot more connected a lot less lonely loneliness you know we're more connected than ever through our phones but before you go to bed is a really good time to get oxytocin so you actually will sleep better and that's a good time to express gratitude to your family you know even if you need to call a friend yes you can have the phone away from your ear put in some headphones that are plugged in but you know just have a deep conversation with somebody read a deep book you know write reflections of your day that is the foundational to health. [00:36:21] Speaker A: So it sounds like even for people who don't have money you can do this but it requires a little bit of planning you have to three hours before you want to go to bed so if you want to be in bed by ten o' clock you've got to be done eating at seven that's it right like you do have to work backwards discipline discipline with the whole this is the time i know for me i started i changed my thing and my kids make fun of me because i go to bed at nine o' clock but i get up at four yeah so my day starts and i get a lot done long before anybody else it's magical it's time to work out do things and i've done my whole daily routine and it's not even seven o' clock yep like that helps but it took me but you have to work backwards so this thing is you set a time how much sleep do you need go to bed work backwards three hours for food two hours for water one hour for electronics and then you plan your time and amazing what happens the next day it's. [00:37:06] Speaker B: Phenomenal yeah and there's compounding it's just like we talked about fast food it's easy to get fast food it's easy to buy cheap food but it's expensive in the long run because it starts to catch up same thing with sleep if you don't change your habits around what you're doing the sleep can cause massive problems in your future so touch. [00:37:27] Speaker A: On that so for people who don't think it's so simple what things do you find that sleep you've worked with thousands of people what kinds of things do you find that sleep has an extraordinary impact on if you look at. [00:37:43] Speaker B: Just the balance of dopamine and serotonin so dopamine is the neurotransmitter that's the reward system so it helps us focus in the morning it helps us get more done like you get a massive dopamine hit just by doing your workout in the morning you know you feel that sense of accomplishment if people are not getting good sleep you don't feel that sense of reward and then your testosterone starts to get down regulated so your hormones your skin sex hormones aren't balanced you don't hold on to muscle as well the other thing sleep does is the glymphatic circulation in our brain like the human body can go longer without food than we can without sleep you can go sixty days if you stay hydrated you can go sixty days roughly without food you can go approximately two weeks without sleep they did a study on college students and they made them sleep deprived and one thing that they noticed is these college students start started having schizophrenia depression bipolar after just seven days of no sleep and you'll have a seizure if you go more than about three weeks crazy so right. [00:38:45] Speaker A: Now simple things great knowledge from reagan if you get your sleep in order cheap things everybody can do get your sleep don't eat three hours before bed so plan the time that you want to go to bed plan the time you want to get up work backwards on the amount of sleep you need three hours no food two hours no water one hour no electronics read do something positive write that book you've been thinking about doing start there and then in the next segment we're going to get to some more advanced stuff for those of you who want to find the shortcut get there faster or overcome some bigger health issues we'll be right back hey chris jarvis this week on be the giraffe i am with regan archibald who is the author of the peptide blueprint and the founder of east west health he has some fantastic knowledge about health care what you should know about the current healthcare system how to avoid the pitfalls and how you can take control of your life your health and your longevity this is one you are not going to want to miss i'm here with reagan archibald who is a longevity expert who is also the author of the peptide blueprint you have tested ten thousand people over the years more than that more than that okay so it's a big one so you did all these tests you found that people were misdiagnosing things but it wasn't just your existence is not just to sit here and talk about how terrible the healthcare system is you're here to actually help people and you found that with the pharmaceutical industry that couldn't be trusted for a variety of reasons you found another path and this is what you do you help people get healthy by trying something different i'll let you talk about peptides why they're different from pharmaceuticals what you're doing great what i. [00:41:04] Speaker B: Found is the pharmaceutical companies the thing they do is they do really good science and there's really good scientists who are on the back end of things pharmaceutical companies spend roughly depends on the drug but they'll spend almost ten dollars for every dollar they're spending on research and so it's really what they've done is they've looked at novel solutions for really nuanced diseases like there's a peptide called ace zero three one and ace zero three one it works on the follistatin pathway and follistatin is a gene when expressed your muscles will keep growing like if you myostatin is the brake you know every system has a feedback loop so if you can turn off myostatin which that's what ace zero three one does then you get this better expression of follistatin and so they took a group of boys with muscular dystrophy duchenne's muscular dystrophy and they found that this peptide worked phenomenally well on these boys they were able to walk better they had better muscle gains they they just were able to participate in day to day life but they stopped the study and everyone says why did you stop it and they say oh one of the boys got a bloody nose and if you look at the research a lot of times really good science and really phenomenal molecules that get stopped short of ever making it to the market because at the end of the day there's not a big enough segment of the population to justify the cost it would take to bring it to the marketplace place and get an roi so what we've done is we've said okay ace zero three one that's a peptide that naturally exists in your body peptides are just protein structures that turn on genes you have peptide if your peptides stop signaling you're going to get sick really fast and so what we've done is we've just cherry picked the best science and then i tried on myself i talked to pharmacists i'm in a group called da vinci fifty these are fifty of the leading researchers in longevity clinics in the world and we bring the clinical knowledge to each other and we have this mastermind this think tank and that's how we can bring innovations quicker to humans who don't want to wait for the pharmaceutical companies to bring it to market because essentially that's what we've done with medicine is we've outsourced all the science where it needs to go through the fda approval the double blind clinical trials and what we've said is that science is really important you want to remove as many variables as you can and first make sure it's safe and then we got to see is it safe and effective and is it more safe safer and more effective than anything else on the market but if there's not a subset of the population to support the funding then it just gets put on the shelf and that's where we come in and we utilize these things so i just had a client of mine who we looked at his quad strength he's sixty two and he's like i'm stronger than i was he played college football i'm biking faster than i ever have and i want to see what muscle mass i've utilized in the last two months what have i gained and he's an individual with single digit nine percent body fat he's got the six pack fitter than he's ever been and what we discovered is he put on about six percent of muscle lean muscle in someone who's already leaning just by ace zero three one he doesn't want to do testosterone he doesn't want to do any anabolics but he wants to be the fittest version of himself because muscle ultimately with longevity it's your muscle it's your cardiovascular system and your brain those three organ systems we call the ageless axis if you can get those three systems lined up that's where you win the. [00:44:33] Speaker A: Game so this is a real interesting thing the peptides are natural and the fda monitors artificial things correct so people who are saying well do you have fda approval have they done stuff it doesn't even apply to natural stuff does. [00:44:50] Speaker B: It well if you're making claims that's when it becomes a drug so if i said this water that we're drinking chris it will heal your esophagitis let's just assume you had that condition the fda is going to say okay cool reagan where's your data and we need to run it through all the fda approvals in order for it to become a drug so a drug is anything that treats a condition so peptides you know we're using it for health optimization and that's why peptides are in this category called g ras or generally recognized as safe like the fda's like well it's not a supplement because it naturally occurs in the body but these peptides because it takes such acute awareness of how to sequence these proteins together it has to be made by a compounding pharmacy and these pharmacies that we use they're all five hundred one a five hundred one b compounding pharmacies and so there is some science behind it but a lot of peptides are fda approved these are natural like you've heard of ozembic you've heard of manjaro wegovy these are natural peptides called the gop one gop glp one agonist so it exists in your body and when that gets expressed greater you get full faster and it delays the time it takes the food to empty out of your body the fda that is now called a drug because what companies have done what the pharmaceutical companies have done is they put it through the rigors of the fda approval and said okay we want to treat type two diabetes and we want to treat obese with this obesity was really hard to get approval for type two diabetes they got approval quickly and then shortly thereafter the fda said okay we're going to approve it for obesity because it's so effective but it's a peptide so it's natural but they can't patent something that's natural they can patent the administration of it got it. [00:46:42] Speaker A: But then if it gets approved then it's something that health care can pay. [00:46:46] Speaker B: For then in some cases healthcare can pay for it but you're paying five to ten times greater through your health care system than you would from a compounding pharmacy we can make it for a few hundred dollars versus a treatment that's roughly two thousand dollars a month and the pharmaceutical companies are dosing it at about ten times higher than what we'd ever dose it at so interesting it's a miraculous breakthrough i mean i think glp one s this peptide class is probably the biggest breakthrough in medicine ever i mean you're more likely to die of obesity than you are of starvation and we didn't have any way to turn that off now we have a predictable mechanism where we know if we can express glp one a little bit more just give it a little pulse people's appetite turns off they stop craving cigarettes they stop craving alcohol and for us that's the hardest thing is getting momentum in the beginning of someone's healthcare journey but once you see a win after the first couple of weeks you're like oh i'm losing weight i don't have the cr cravings that food noise is turned off that's where the miracles happen so if you're. [00:47:52] Speaker A: I think this is going to be an important well the answer the question's not important the answer is important you mentioned earlier that the medical field tends to lag the science by twenty five years the practice so you have doctors and i've had both my parents were cancer were cancer patients and their doctors were chemists like they would run through stuff and they want to see everything they'd ask can i take colostrum can i do this whatever it was and if they haven't seen a survey they're like i can't recommend that yep and so they didn't do a lot of my dad tried a lot of things my mother didn't try a lot of things but the so the medic your doctor's not going to tell you to do this right away peptides without claims you don't need to have fda approval nor do you need to be a medical doctor so there's a lot of people and we talked about the danger danger of tiktok and instagram and we'll call it meta medicine or whatever you want to call it social media medicine so we have people who want better results they want something faster than maybe they're not willing to wait twenty five years for medicine to catch up so they're interested in what's going on but they don't know who to go to because there's a lot of people out there right not everybody went to medical school not everybody studies this stuff there's fifty people in your mastermind but there's more than fifty people probably in people's feeds today in everybody's feed so how do people find somebody the right person or find somebody whose philosophy matches with them or know that somebody's credible versus just getting the stuff they just they got spring break coming up so they want to get ozempic and they find somebody who's willing to send it to them through the mail like how do you help people navigate this system of being healthier without falling victim or you know into the trap of working with with people who don't know what the hell they're. [00:49:31] Speaker B: Talking about well i saw a statistic where over eighty percent of people are buying research use only peptides so if you're able to buy a peptide without a prescription through a medical facility automatically you don't know the safety or the efficacy of that molecule we've actually studied like bpc one hundred fifty seven is a very popular peptide and you'll see it's usually just a fragment of that peptide and a lot of times you'll see there's contamination there's heavy metals so you gotta be careful of where you source it and even some of the medical facilities they're like my patients are asking for peptides and if your doctor puts you on the same peptide structure continuously then you need to hire somebody new because peptides once the genes express and you've got the right lifestyle then you want to cycle peptides so every month you're on different peptide stacks and even with ozembic you'd never want to take that alone you'd want to have like bpc to protect your gut you'd want to have a growth hormone peptide like sermorelin or tessamorelin because you'll lose muscle mass when you're losing weight you want to consider some kind of myostatin inhibitor like mod sc and you'll get better expression of those muscle fibers and better cardiovascular fitness so it's really i've trained about fifteen hundred doctors in functional medicine and peptide therapy but you want to have a doctor that will look at the labs and take your goals your health goals but get objective data so that they get you on the right peptide stack and that's probably the most important and then make sure that your doctor is actually using a licensed pharmacy because the criteria for pharmacies to make these peptides it's very nuanced it's an art i know three pharmacists that i trust in the united states this is after bedding dozens of them that actually make peptides the right way because it's a matter of do you get the benefit out of that peptide or not based on the pharmacy that you. [00:51:24] Speaker A: Get it from that's great so you can get the medicine from so this whole peptide revolution which is fantastic you can get it from almost anyone but you probably shouldn't be getting it from nearly anyone that's it yes so that's the key so this has been great reagan thank you for the insights i i love the sleep the food the water the thoughts the psychology behind all of this and the advice on how people can get this how can people. [00:51:48] Speaker B: Find you they can go to agelessfuture dot com and you'll see our website you get a free healthspan assessment and then for all the listeners on the show you guys can get a discount at blood lab where we run one hundred thirty different markers we'll look at liver function cardiovascular function brain function all the hormones your thyroid and your immune. [00:52:08] Speaker A: System that's fantastic i can't thank you enough this is great so if you want to elevate your perspective and your health take advantage of the free offer the discounted offer and we'll try to help you get there figure out the peptide blueprint for you to get your life better we'll see you next week.