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Hey, guys.
Hey, what's going on, man?
Oh, man, just chilling, you know, just listening to everything you guys got to say.
Good start to the show this morning.
Strong.
It's fun.
If you guys, if you want to pivot to to the guest first, if he's got limited time, I mean, I
can stick around and do the price report afterwards.
I think we're, I think we're good.
I think we're good.
I think they're good.
Okay.
Let me see.
Let me just check my.
Yeah, it's all good.
Just go ahead.
Okay.
It's good.
Go ahead.
Well, I see you.
I see you got our, this is when we made our guesses for price for Monero Topia.
Yeah.
I mean, right now I'm closest, but with the way price is moving to the top side,
maybe you'll, maybe we'll all be wrong.
I hope we're all wrong.
What did I put in?
I put in.
You put two or two.
All right.
You're the orange line.
We gave you the coveted burnt orange color for the chart here.
We'll be flying high, man, that the tequila will be flowing.
I actually don't really drink much tequila these days.
Well, we'll definitely, or Mascal, I haven't really, you know, I pretty much
stopped drinking just purely, purely a weed smoker these days.
Okay.
Yeah, stay away from the alcohol.
But I mean, down in Mexico, I'm sure I'll have a Mascal.
And I've learned from you are, are you, are you complete straight edge?
Well, well, you know, well, no, no, definitely not.
I, um, I went total straight edge from like October of last year until
maybe like a couple of months ago.
Um, you know, I was doing blood work.
I'm always trying to like get stuff to be more ideal or like fix little things.
And I was trying to solve something called high ferritin, which is like
in high iron content.
And I was trying to figure out if it was really high iron content or if it
was some other problem.
So like to try and like eliminate every cause, you know, systematically, I quit
drinking for like six or nine months or something.
Um, but no, I started, I started having, you know, like a few days on the weekend.
Did that, was that fix your problem or no?
No, no, I still had high ferritin.
It turned out to be a high iron thing.
I think it's like about 10% of the population has like the natural propensity
just to grab as much iron as it can and hang on to it.
So you basically have to donate blood to get that down.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
I have heard that.
Yeah.
I've never, I've never gone down the, you know, starting to just
test my blood on a regular basis and, you know, look, that's just a rat.
I mean, that could become a real time sink, right.
And then it's like, and you don't really, there's always something.
And I feel like psychologically it starts to psych you out a little bit.
My, my, my thinking is what, no matter what my blood is saying or anything,
I'm going to be doing ultimately the same things anyway to try to fix it, right?
Which is eat organic foods, right?
Whole organic foods, meats, whatever, good pasture raised eggs, things like that.
I'm going to try to sleep my eight hours.
I'm going to try to, you know, get, get enough sunshine and try to exercise.
Like no matter what my ailment is, I'm going to try to do the same
things to fix it anyway.
That's, I don't know.
Is that that's, that's my take.
And then that allows me to, to not worry about the, you know,
trying to whatever to monitor my, my, my body, rather just focus on
what the fixes are anyway, which is, it's, it's, it's the same things.
We, we, you know, there's, there's no, there's no super hidden secret, right?
I don't know.
Um, I, that's kind of like the 80% solution.
Like 100% for the vast majority of people just doing those things
is going to get you a really long way, especially if you're say under 40.
You can basically just do that and have a pretty good result.
The problem is that, like, there are, there's these little things
that everyone, like that individuals have and they, they start to compound over time.
Like, so for example, this high ferritin thing, this, this high iron content,
you won't really notice it.
It'll slowly creep up over time, especially if you're like me
and you eat just like a shitload of red meat.
Like I ate probably a kilogram of, of red meat every day.
You know, but since my body has your iron, well,
your iron, like your body should be able to regulate that well,
but about 10% of the population doesn't regulate that.
You just hang on to as much iron as you can.
So if I test it and I know that my ferritin is like double what the,
the maximum recommended, you know, level is, then I know, like, oh, I know,
I need to go give blood.
I need to get this iron content down.
And I've actually, I've been able to see it in my blood work
and my numbers as I've gotten that down.
It like high ferritin is correlated with all sorts of like all cause mortality.
I mean, you're talking heart disease, cancer, insulin resistance,
the full, the full gambit.
Now I didn't have like heart disease, insulin resistance,
but you know, my fasting insulin levels were higher than I thought
where they should be, you know, for a guy that's relatively healthy
and works out and all that is like, wait, why is my insulin slightly high?
It should be at the low end of the range.
You know, not, not, not a few points above.
So anyways, I've been able to see all of that start to come back into range.
Even things like your free testosterone can be affected by high ferritin.
So just in general, my thinking is that as you start to approach 40,
you really want to want to get a blood test at least once a year
because there could be little things that you're not aware of.
Maybe you're exposed to some environmental toxin that you weren't aware of.
Maybe you have a high sensitivity to like one particular thing.
And you just, in a lot of cases, like you won't know unless you measure.
So you don't want to psych yourself out about it.
But I do think that it's valuable to get your blood work done.
Yeah. No, I can't disagree with you there.
It's just, yeah, it's the same reason I don't follow the price charts.
You know, it's just like I just got my head down.
Foggy, like, I don't think it would, yeah, I guess if I, if I saw some weird
and I'll like, obviously if I had like high mercury, right?
They're like, oh, shit, but shouldn't need as much fricking tuna
for body tip.
He said, dude, don't worry about your high iron thing.
You live in Mexico, which is high altitude.
So your body needs the iron to get more oxygen.
All right. It's interesting.
I mean, that's definitely a question about like hemoglobin, for example.
Right. So you're at high altitudes.
Your body's going to want to have more hemoglobin to deliver more oxygen.
Yeah. I mean, when I say high iron, I don't mean like I'm on the high
end of the range. I mean, I'm like, well, holy shit, you're on the
border of recommended to go see a specialist.
And it's interesting.
So you said you did fix it though.
So what were the tweaks you made to fix it?
Well, I kind of did some experimentation, but the primary
thing you can do is donate blood, like for the vast majority
of people, if you donate blood two or three times a year, like
anyone that has high ferritin, if you do two, three times a year
over the years, you'll come down, you'll get back into range,
you'll be fine.
I was trying to experiment with sauna to see if I could lower it
without donating blood.
So like I donated blood a couple of times, my hemoglobin
bounced back in a week, which is like a classic sign that you
have a lot of iron.
And, you know, my ferritin came down a little bit, right?
It's like each blood donation is a little bit.
So then I said, OK, cool, it is iron.
I started doing a sauna to try and see if that would maybe
like if I could if I could like get rid of the iron that way
because saunas, it's known for getting rid of heavy metal stuff
like that.
Anyways, yeah, that works kind of for a while and then it stopped
working.
So now I'm kind of doing the blood donations again.
I should be there in about a month or two.
You're really not supposed to donate, you know, more than
once every like six to eight weeks.
But for ferritin content at my level, they will actually
prescribe phlebotomy like once a week or once every two
weeks until you get down to where you should be.
So yeah, you just have to monitor your hemoglobin.
You're meant to be, you know, like a freaking warrior out
there fighting every day.
Yeah, I guess that's in my blood.
Maybe I need to go lead some more.
I don't know.
You got to go like wrestle animals and try to kill them
with your bare hands and then eat them.
Like, that's the problem.
You're just eating the steak.
You're not, you know, you're not wrangling wrestling
a wolf.
I think that is kind of my thing.
You're not spilling enough blood.
You know, it could be it really could be an adaptation
for immediate term survival, midterm survival.
Oh, shit. I just, you know, on a hunt or, you know,
I just lost a shitload of blood.
Good thing I have high iron content.
I can replace that hemoglobin quickly.
But yeah, in terms of longevity, in terms of staying young and healthy.