[00:00:01] Speaker A: Want to protect your business. The time is near. You've given it heart. Now get it in gear. It's passage to profit with Richard and Elizabeth Gearhart.
[00:00:12] Speaker B: I'm Richard Gerhardt, founder of Gearhart Law, a full service intellectual property law firm specializing in patents, trademarks, and copyrights.
[00:00:20] Speaker C: And I'm Elizabeth Gearhart. Not an attorney, but I work at.
[00:00:23] Speaker D: Gearhart Law doing the marketing, and I have my own startups.
[00:00:25] Speaker B: Welcome to passage to profit, everyone. The road to entrepreneurship, where we talk with startups, small businesses, and discuss the intellectual property that helps them flourish. Now it's time for our guest, Dr. Reika Galbreth. Welcome to the show. So nice to see you again. We met a while ago, one of the Clint Arthur seminars. You said that you were very anxious to be on the show, so we're glad you could finally make it.
[00:00:51] Speaker C: Thank you for having me. I so enjoy sharing my message, and I can hear the passion behind your voice, that you're of the same vein when it comes to your field.
[00:00:58] Speaker B: Absolutely.
So tell us about what you do.
[00:01:02] Speaker C: So, I was a traditionally trained medical doctor in the field of family medicine. I delivered babies all the way, took care of them from birth, I'd like to say, through the geriatric age and pretty quickly in private practice, I realized I wasn't curing anyone. And it took me about a decade, and I found another field of medicine called functional medicine, where we look at identifying the root causes of inflammation and removing those triggers for inflammation to restore balance. And it's been both life and career altering. And as a practice, I restore the energy of my patients, particularly the high performers that come in, business owners, entrepreneurs. We see a lot of that. I do that, and then we segue into not only recovering them, but helping them live along well through some antiaging longevity protocols that I have in place.
[00:01:48] Speaker B: So why did you feel like you weren't curing people when you were a medical doctor? I mean, you still are, right? But when you practice traditional medicine.
[00:01:58] Speaker C: So one of the most common symptoms that came in back in the day was fatigue. And here's what the training in allopathic medicine entailed was. You would do the exam, and now with seven minute visits, I think the exams are falling on the wayside. There just simply isn't that time. You do the blood workup, and more than 90% of the time, the labs were normal, and then we were to suggest to the patient, and this is the way we were trained, that perhaps they were depressed. So within a few months of practice, I had a woman come in. Same scenario. Labs were normal. So I said, could you be depressed? And I knew it in my heart of hearts, and I could see it on her face. She absolutely was not depressed. And as I walked her to the lobby and opened the door to escort her back to her family member that was waiting, and it was a friend, and she says, does she know what's wrong with you? And she said, that dumb doctor doesn't know what's wrong with me. And at first, you're. But more than that, it was, what am I doing? Then I came out to cure, to heal, to help. And it's become, as we had said, the book is energized, feel fantastic forever. And it really describes my theory behind why people acclimate to lower levels of energy. That I'd love to share with you.
[00:03:14] Speaker D: Yeah, I think that's really insightful, because I will be honest with you. Most experiences I've had going to the doctors has just been very prescription based. Right. So it's like there's a pill for that where I feel most people have that experience when they go and they don't leave with any real resolution. So would you say a lot of your diagnosis is based on blood work, based on physical symptoms? How do you come up with how to treat someone?
[00:03:37] Speaker C: It's a combination of everything. So we do a really in depth. My intake form is over 24 pages long, and it looks at what they eat, what someone eats, how they sleep, what is their purpose in life? Who is their support system? What do they do for movement? What is their job? And just, like, how they rate all aspects of their life, what was their birth history, their family history. So we get clear on the history. I do an exam maybe once a year. I find something that's been missed, which is, I'm grateful I can do that. A lot of times it contributes, as far as you can tell, nutrient deficiencies, which are vitamins and minerals by a skin exam or their nail exam. And then I'll do the labs. And it's more than just your standard metabolic panel, blood count, maybe a vitamin D and a lipid panel. It's pretty extensive.
And, in fact, sometimes we have to break it up into two lab draws. So many. And then we have specialty tests that look at what is going on in our intestines or microbiome or all the bacteria in our intestines. And how does that contribute largely to our immune health and to our mental health? We can do testing on what toxins has someone been exposed to? So we decide at each visit what are the next best steps? And I've identified over the last ten years, what are the right steps to take so that I can quickly improve someone's energy? And I describe that. I call it the 3d energy protocol. It's awesome.
[00:05:00] Speaker B: So how do you discover whether somebody is depressed or fatigued because they have a physical problem. So lots of times I hear people talk about, well, I'm depressed, but you said earlier that sometimes that's because they're physically not well. So how do you distinguish between the two?
[00:05:22] Speaker C: They oftentimes go hand in hand. And as far as the depression, you want to make sure they don't have suicidal ideation, that they don't have a plan. So you're looking for that, and those are the more serious cases. So you're not going to take six weeks to try to remedy that. And you may use an allopathic approach, which is a prescription. So it's always the first and most important thing is to protect the patient and do no harm as well.
But they often go hand in hand. What I would say is that within that short four to six week time period, if someone does modest amounts of the protocol I've asked them to implement, which is diet, lifestyle, gentle supplementation, movement, they usually get at least a 50% improvement. And so if they lift that quickly with no medication, then you're on the right track. So we are asking the right questions to ensure it's not fluorid depression or are they just secondarily depressed so it's a little more nuanced and we're looking for any serious signs so that we can take a slower approach to it, so that we restore health. And even, in any case, even if it were depression, as I'd said, the microbiome, which are all the bacteria in our large intestine, make about 70% of our serotonin. So if the gut bugs are off, then your mental health can be off.
[00:06:37] Speaker D: That's interesting you say that, because I think a lot of people just think about the vitamin D level, and that is the main area of focus. But I love that you mentioned the microbiome, because, like you said, it's like a little chemistry experiment that's going on in your body, and if that's out of whack, then you're going to have a different experience.
[00:06:53] Speaker C: Absolutely. You see me shaking my head, I'm just like, absolutely, that's absolutely right.
[00:06:57] Speaker B: So how do you get an appropriate microbiome? Everybody's different, right? So do we all have different microbiomes and then how do you tune up yours?
[00:07:08] Speaker C: Okay, excellent question.
So we found there was a documentary that was done a little while ago called the gut movie, and it paralleled and kind of followed a producer from Australia who ate the standard australian diet. And he did a stool test to look at what was the bacteria in his gut. And then he flew to Namimbia and he ate just what was grown in the land and what they hunted, and they retested him. And he went from a very inflamed profile to non inflamed in seven days. So largely, what you eat is going to dictate whether you have a good microbiome or not. Or we call it, you want an imbalance. And when it's out of balance, we say dysbiosis.
[00:07:48] Speaker B: So we eat a lot of raw leaves and berries. We go out. No, how do you eat, like, an american diet and have a good microbiome? Or is it just you can't do it?
[00:07:58] Speaker C: You can't do it so that you want to build resilience. And sadly, if diet were just it. And that's where my second step comes in. If diet were just it, antibiotic use, even one time, can eradicate some very important bacteria to our health. And it can be challenging to restore. And there are certain probiotics, spore based probiotics, that will help restore that imbalance. And sometimes you'll get a bacteria that's a trigger for our immune system. And what happens is our body recognizes the bacteria as foreign as far as the protein in the bacteria, and then the protein in that bacteria mimics our own body tissue. So if it's our joint, it could be rheumatoid arthritis. And there's a fancy term for that. And not to bore the listeners, it's called molecular mimicry. So the body gets confused. So then there are herbal protocols, and believe it or not, you can even use antibiotics. But I typically don't.
[00:08:53] Speaker B: Right? I mean, we've had some professors on from Rutgers University who also created a movie, and they were talking about how the overconsumption of microbiotics, starting with children from a very early age, predisposes them to serious diseases later in life. And they theorize that it's because their microbiome systems keep getting challenged by these antibiotics, and it makes their microbiome systems more and more weaker and weaker and weaker, and that makes them susceptible to cancer, heart disease, diabetes, all sorts of conditions. So it really is super important, but I still want to know, is there a way that I can improve my microbiome if I come to you, do you test for that? And then do you say, okay, you should try this, that, and the other thing.
[00:09:45] Speaker C: Yeah. So we would start with the 3d protocol. So we talk about diet, and I've created, if you ever wonder why one diet works for one person and another doesn't, it's because we're all genetically different. So we have people track things and add things that are missing first, and then we usually ask them to do an elimination of foods for a short period of time to see which are their triggers, and then we have them add it back in, and we can actually help you figure out how to eat. So that is the first step. The second step we'd run you through, like, what makes proper digestion, and you can turn around and look in the toilet. As unglamorous as that may sound.
[00:10:22] Speaker B: That sounds awful.
[00:10:23] Speaker C: I know, but you want to be having bowel movements once a day. And I always say one long snake once a day means your digestion is working right. It's a poor man's test to say it's working right.
[00:10:35] Speaker D: The toilet is very telling.
[00:10:36] Speaker C: I love it.
[00:10:39] Speaker D: I do want to talk about the big h, hashimoto's disease, because I feel like it's becoming more mainstream in terms of terminology, but a lot of people still don't know what it is. They still are under diagnosed due to it. So can you talk a little bit about it?
[00:10:57] Speaker C: Absolutely. Because I myself have Hashimoto's thyroiditis, and there's this argument between the naturopathic doctors and allopathic doctors, and the allopathic doctors are like, believe it's not your thyroid, because they will have women come in or men saying, I'm fatigued. And in one aspect, I will agree with them. When I was diagnosed, it was about ten years after I had symptoms. So I felt horribly for ten years. However, I'll give them this. It wasn't my thyroid. It was everything that led to the imbalance that needed to be corrected.
[00:11:29] Speaker B: So what are the symptoms of this disease?
[00:11:32] Speaker C: So, Hashimoto's thyroiditis is your body attacking your thyroid gland, and it can manifest as depression, fatigue, dry skin, constipation, maybe a little brain fog. My big manifestation was a fatigue, and I simply needed almost 10 hours of sleep a night, and I just wasn't rested and couldn't recover very well. And when I was put on adequate medication, I went to sleeping 8 hours a night. That was my main symptom. Everyone presents a little bit differently.
[00:12:04] Speaker B: Wow, you have a new book coming out. Tell us a little bit about that.
[00:12:07] Speaker C: So the book is energized, feel fantastic forever. And it really explains my theory on why do people become fatigued. And whether for anyone listening, whether you feel tired or not, I can bet that you've probably, if you don't feel tired, have acclimated to a lower level energy. And I see this in my 20 year olds. When we're done walking them through diet, digestion, detox, those are the first three steps. They will say, wow, I didn't know I could feel, that's fantastic. And that's someone who doesn't have symptoms at all. And what happens is we're born, and I've been testing vitamins and minerals, we call them nutrients, in people for over a decade. And most adults have three to five deficiencies, vitamin D being at the top of the list, but zinc and magnesium, and even if you ate a whole foods diet, you could still be deficient. But over the last decade, that number has crept up more like five to seven. And we need certain vitamins and minerals to make our energy, our atp. And then as we age, the mitochondria, which are responsible for making our energy go down in number. And then on top of that, when we're stressed, stress eats up magnesium and b vitamins, which makes it even harder to make energy. And then you mix in a little bit of everyday toxins. So air pollution from car exhaust, what you put on your face, and that damages our mitochondria. So it's this vicious, never ending cycle that kind of gets the ball in motion. And the name of the book should have been like, how to prevent or cure mitochondrial dysfunction. But that's pretty boring, right?
[00:13:41] Speaker D: Nobody's going to read, but nobody's going to get that won't be a bestseller. I don't.
[00:13:46] Speaker B: Let's say I'm going through a super stressful period in my life. Are there any eating changes that we should consider that could help kind of address the stress?
[00:13:55] Speaker C: Yeah. So you want to watch the sugar intake. So, sugar drives insulin, and then you put on the weight and over time your body will become less resilient. So that's one. Number two is we teach all of our patients a modality that increase something called heart rate variability. And I teach every single patient that walks through the doors because it allows them to regulate the stress response. And it's just using your breath to regulate the heart rate to get you out of fight or flight. And how heart rate variability is used in medicine otherwise is. Remember, if you've ever delivered a baby, they slap a monitor on you and you want to see wavy pattern with the baby's heartbeat. But as it starts to get erratic, that's a stress state. But I'll see that in my executives. They'll have that stress state. But there are some herbal supplements that I'll use to help people while we're implementing the lifestyle changes. And so it's not just stress will take you out, but the sleep contributes. So think about being on our devices. Probably not a good idea till right before, when you fall asleep.
[00:14:59] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm getting into the habit. I turn my phone off when I go to bed, and then I turn it on when I get up in the morning. Usually one of the first things, but at least I don't have it on. So I'm getting all sorts of alarms and alerts during the evening. And then lately I've been turning my emails off at around 06:00 which I think shocks a few of my clients and other people because they're used to getting responses. But I also think it helps me relax a little bit more before bed.
[00:15:27] Speaker D: I'm so disciplined and impressive.
[00:15:29] Speaker B: Well, with your cell phone now, you can set it up so that it just turns it off automatically.
[00:15:34] Speaker D: No, I know that, but I'm just saying to have the discipline to actually do that, I totally don't want to do that.
[00:15:41] Speaker B: Well, now I know we can get you 24/7 can you?
[00:15:46] Speaker D: I think it's hard for everybody to disconnect. Right.
[00:15:48] Speaker C: But I'm impressed that. Yeah, I love that, Richard. I think that is super disciplined because it's easier said than done. And I'm going to challenge you to do one thing, is to turn the phone off an hour before you go to bed and see if that makes a difference with sleep.
[00:16:01] Speaker D: Anything you've ever seen that has been incurable.
[00:16:05] Speaker C: If a disease process gets to us too late, there is a thing. Don't wait till it's too far gone because even memory loss starts as brain fog. So if you're forgetting why you walked into a room, identify it early.
[00:16:21] Speaker B: Uh oh.
[00:16:21] Speaker C: Yeah. Uh oh.
Did you forget why you're here, Richard?
[00:16:25] Speaker B: No, I know that, but, yeah, I mean, I think there is a good emphasis now, especially in functional medicine, of preventative medicine. Right. Traditional medicine is just people getting cured as soon as they get really bad symptoms and get to the end. Now, there's so much we know, and then we can do. We can kind of set some diseases off. Right. And good diet, good sleep habits, I think are important. I think exercise is important.
[00:16:52] Speaker C: Yeah. What I'd like to say is you want your lifespan to equal your health span, so live long.
[00:16:57] Speaker B: Well, Dr. Rika Galbrith, physician, author and founder of the Simply Health Institute, and she also has a new book coming out called Energized Feel Fantastic Forever passage to profit with Richard Gerhardt and Kenya Gibson will be back right after this.
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[00:19:17] Speaker B: And I am here with Kenya Gibson. And we are here with Dr. Rika, author of the book Energized Feel Fantastic Forever. And she's also a functional medicine doctor. She's a board certified family physician and founder of the Simply Health Institute. So we've been talking about all sorts of functional medicine philosophies and treatments and approaches. One of the things, Dr. Rika, that we speak to on the show is the health of entrepreneurs, because it can be a very stressful way to make a living. And one of the things that you mentioned during the break was that oftentimes you treat executives who are going through difficult and challenging periods, and maybe you could talk a little bit about that.
[00:20:05] Speaker C: So we do have a higher proportion of both entrepreneurs and high level executives. And you're right. When you're an entrepreneur, the joke is you trade 40 hours a week for don't want to do that. And earlier in my days in functional medicine, these high level clients would come in and I'd recover them, but then they'd end up back in my office. I said, how do I keep this from happening? And one thing people should know is when you're that high performing, you may not actualize stress internally. The common complaint or retort I got was, but, doc, I don't feel stressed. And so we can run a stress test. You can do a blood test first thing in the morning. Preferable is I'll do a Slava test over four different time periods of the day. First thing in the morning, 30 minutes later, midday in the afternoon, and even before bed. And when you prove to these high performing people, look, your cortisol is through the roof, and those clients feel wired. Alternatively, with time, the cortisol production in the morning will go low, and then it'll increase at night, which is what you don't want. So those patients will wake up between two and 04:00 a.m. So if you are waking between two and 04:00 a.m. This may be a problem for you that you're so stressed out, it's taking a toll. And those people feel tired, but wired. And then you can flatline, just like with the heart rate variability, and have low cortisol. And those people are just plain old tired. So if I were to explain this, people, they'd say, oh, okay, and I wouldn't have to test. But I find for my higher level professionals, having that test is tangible, and they say, wow, I need to do something about this.
[00:21:36] Speaker B: I have those symptoms, by the way.
I find myself getting more jazzed as the day goes on. And then I usually wake up between two and four in the morning. So I don't know. So what do I do?
[00:21:48] Speaker C: What do you do? I'm going to give you a simple strategy where you don't even have to have a device to bring yourself out of Fight or Flight. So many of us stay in Fight or Flight. Many of us breath hold when we're doing emails. So we're going to practice something called box breathing. Have you ever heard of that? No. Okay, so box breathing is where you inhale for 4 seconds, you hold for 4 seconds, you exhale for 4 seconds, and then you hold for 4 seconds. And if you just do rounds of that, maybe set a timer on your phone and once an hour do five minutes or ten minutes. In the office, we teach heart Math, which is a form of bioFeedback. And why I like that for my high level Executives, Entrepreneurs. It's a sensor that clips onto your ear and you use a breath Pattern. And believe it or not, most of us are over breathing. And you need to breathe 6 seconds in and 6 seconds out. And you can see, you can actually watch the screen. Not that we love screens. And it'll tell you, are you out of fight or flight? And so it's teaching, it's training you how to get your body out of fight or flight. The statistics on the improvement over six to nine weeks are pretty profound. So it reduces depression, fatigue, focus, improves sleep, and oftentimes, as kind of a fun social media post, I'll just take a screenshot of the benefits they've seen. And I say, what drug leads to this? And you get everyone guessing and it's not a drug. And so if you don't have the device, just do some box breathing if you do, over time, and if you're really jazzed up, particularly at night and you're waking up, there are herbal formulations we can use, including ashwagandha, and what we call that is an adaptogen. It'll bring up cortisol, or if you're too high, it brings it down, so it dampens that. And more than that, I really like something called phosphotidal serine. So it's just a fat found in our cells, helps fuel the brain, and it dampens that cortisol response, and it kind of takes the edge off while we get you utilizing the other modalities. And so that was really key. And our body has something called the limbic system, and it keeps us, it's our alarm system for the body. And if you're exposed to a major threat or it could be a traumatic experience, you'll be stuck on all the time. And so an entrepreneur that I had recovered now twice, there's various training programs out there that'll teach you all the modalities, and one is called the Gupta program. And when we added that, he said this was a missing piece. So remember he had relapsed. And I saw him like three years apart, and I said, yes, well, we've been implementing it now when we see fit.
But, yeah, the cortisol is definitely key in protecting yourself from just being taken up by anything.
[00:24:30] Speaker D: Do you think that? Because I consider myself to be a high performer, but I'm really good at masking symptoms, right. So being in denial about what I'm feeling, maybe I'm tired, but I'm like, no, I have five other things I have to do, or I'm stressed. And I'm like, that's not stress. I'm just going to push past. So do you think that we're better at masking symptoms?
[00:24:48] Speaker C: Absolutely. I think just by personality type, by perhaps even how you were raised. And another high performer said, same thing, I don't feel stressed. But she'd always get GI issues, so she was manifesting. Remember, the gut, the microbiome is so powerful. And so think about people who get nervous before they talk. They might be racing off to the bathroom because their brain is communicating down to the gut, saying, whoa, we got to get you out of here. This is scary. But, yeah.
[00:25:17] Speaker B: So does the cortisol create the stress, or it's a manifestation of the stress.
[00:25:21] Speaker C: So manifestation. So we normally cortisol should be higher in the morning and gently decline overnight, like a rolling hill. So if you can imagine that, and when you're constantly stressed, the whole curve will just elevate. And that's where we're wired. And then it'll invert, and so it'll be low in the morning and then high at night. And that's the tired but wired.
[00:25:41] Speaker D: I want to just take it to childhood for a second because you mentioned something really key about stress and coping. Do you think, like, in someone's childhood, if they've had a very stressful, overwhelming environment and that they've learned how to cope with that as a survival mechanism as a child, that they carry that over into their adult life and that could, in the long term, help them overcompensate for symptoms that they might be experiencing versus someone who had a healthier childhood.
[00:26:08] Speaker C: Absolutely. And let me tell you what's in that 24 page questionnaire. So embedded in there. I've inserted the adverse childhood event questionnaire, and it's ten questions. The higher the score, the more likely you will have a dysfunctional cortisol response for life. And having a high, we call it ace score, is associated with chronic diseases. So that's why I need to know. And so that's why I teach these modalities. And believe it or not, everything we're exposed to gets stored down at a cellular level and think about like as high performers, we all do a lot of the trainings that will help elevate our energies, the mental energies. And when you vibe high, don't you, and you're smiling and you attract all those people, it's the same is that you can affect cellular function with prior experiences and it's all at a subconscious level. So it's super important to know and super important to address.
[00:26:56] Speaker B: So, Dr. Rika, in your book, energized, feel fantastic forever. You talk about detoxifying your body. We haven't talked too much about detoxifying, but what does that involve?
[00:27:07] Speaker C: General detox is hydrating. It's eliminating via sweat, urine, or poop. I love talking about poop. Now I'm teasing.
[00:27:16] Speaker B: It's only come up a couple of times.
[00:27:19] Speaker C: It's super important. No, I joke. When I went to my first functional medicine conference, I'm like, yeah, we're just like those Hollywood stars. They all walk away with Swarovsky encrusted phone cases and we had a poop test to take home. There you go.
But at any rate, yeah. So the generalities are you want to make sure your natural ability to detox is working. So that's hydrating, it's eliminating, it's movement of the body to move the lymphatic system around. So that's why sometimes it's popular, the rebounders just jumping up and down. So kids have it easy, right? They like to jump on the trampoline. But more than that, it's also aligning, believe it or not, what you eat, having the right nutrients, vitamins and minerals to detox. So the b vitamins are crucial. Having enough protein in our body. And I think one of our, the next guests will be talking about protein is our protein breaks down into amino acids and you need those to clear toxins. So toxins gets broken down into a more toxic byproduct. And if it gets stuck in that phase, you'll feel really sick and you need it to be wrapped up in a water loving molecule so you can eliminate it. And that requires protein. Precisely. Amino acids. So if you do a juice cleanse and you haven't done anything, you can be made to feel very sick. So it's not something I'm a fan of for someone who's not done one before and doesn't have everything lined up because you're not supporting that second phase of detox.
[00:28:45] Speaker B: What about fasting? I've heard that fasting is also a way that people can detoxify.
[00:28:51] Speaker C: Yes, I love fasting. And so one of the key, I.
[00:28:56] Speaker B: Don'T, by the way, it's hard. My blood sugar drops and I'm done after like 30 minutes.
[00:29:02] Speaker C: Okay, we're talking after the show and let's explain. So the first thing most people should be able to do is a twelve hour fast. And I think all adults should be.
[00:29:11] Speaker D: That's a long time.
[00:29:12] Speaker C: You should eat between, say, 07:00 a.m. And 07:00 p.m. That's something that most people can achieve. And not everyone needs to fast for 6 hours. So that would mean eating in an eight hour window. So that's a little bit harder. But what fasting does is it increases our body's way of cleaning out the clutter. We call that fancy term autophagy. And so that's super important because if that's not happening, if you have a cluttered house, you're going to start tripping. Same with the body. The body's not going to function as properly. And I do a longevity test in the office, and it looks at how fast someone is aging, and you want to age less than one year per one year. So I tested myself in January, and I'd love to share those results. I was aging at 0.9 years for one year. Sounds pretty good, but I thought, let's see if we can improve this. So I undertook a five day fast, three months in a row, and I'll describe how we can make that easy. And I repeated the testing, and I was at zero point 72 years. So that's a significant drop. So that means every four years I'm going to gain a year, if that makes sense.
[00:30:15] Speaker D: Is it like how old you are in dog ears?
[00:30:17] Speaker B: Sort of.
[00:30:18] Speaker C: No, it's just how fast your body's aging. Got it. So I'm aging slower. And it's definitely one of the best tests. We call it pace of aging.
[00:30:26] Speaker B: Is that a chemical test?
[00:30:27] Speaker C: It's a blood test.
[00:30:28] Speaker B: Blood test?
[00:30:29] Speaker C: It's a blood test. It's a fingerprick. So it's pretty easy. You can do it at home. And I absolutely love it because it says, is everything that you're doing benefiting your body?
But the five day fast I did, now, doesn't that sound daunting?
[00:30:44] Speaker B: It sounds impossible.
[00:30:45] Speaker C: It sounds impossible to me. The good news is, Richard, they've invented a fasting mimicking diet where you can actually.
[00:30:52] Speaker B: So you can eat and fast at the same time?
[00:30:54] Speaker C: Yes. It mimics fasting.
[00:30:56] Speaker B: Modern technology. I love it.
[00:30:58] Speaker C: Yeah. And so it's done over five days. So it's vegetarian for those five days. And that's one of the ways you can double your energy, is that you feel amazing by the time you're done, and you typically within a day.
[00:31:11] Speaker D: Interesting.
[00:31:12] Speaker B: So all of this is in your book?
[00:31:13] Speaker C: Yeah, all of this is in the book. And then we have a resource page coming out soon that will have kind of more detailed stuff. And even the double your energy in five days is a bonus. Content.
[00:31:24] Speaker B: That sounds great. Where can people find you?
[00:31:26] Speaker C: At my website, drika.com.
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