Doctor Stephen Hussey, welcome back.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Good to be here. Good to be back.
Meredith Oke:Part 3. Love having you on. Okay, so let's just
Meredith Oke:start. We, you know, we have a lot of new
Meredith Oke:listeners to the podcast who are new, not just to
Meredith Oke:the podcast, but to the idea of, like, what do we
Meredith Oke:even mean by the words quantum biology,
Meredith Oke:biophysics, bioelectricity, chronobiology, like,
Meredith Oke:what are you all, what are you people all talking
Meredith Oke:about and how is it different from all the other
Meredith Oke:stuff? So let's just kick off, like if you could
Meredith Oke:give sort of your, your high level framework, the
Meredith Oke:paradigm that you operate out of when you think
Meredith Oke:about humans and health and biology.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Yeah. Well, I guess maybe this was intentional,
Meredith Oke:maybe it wasn't. But there has been, I think,
Meredith Oke:historically, maybe the last 200 years, I guess,
Meredith Oke:this push to make humans biochemical, to
Meredith Oke:understand humans or life in general as
Meredith Oke:biochemistry. And I guess kind of the focus has
Meredith Oke:been on that and it's influenced us to ignore all
Meredith Oke:the other stimuli that happen on this planet,
Meredith Oke:this universe. Different ways of, I guess
Meredith Oke:signaling is what you could say, or energy usage
Meredith Oke:or energy distribution or things like that. So,
Meredith Oke:so I think that when we talk about medicine, we
Meredith Oke:talk about biophysics or quantum biology, you
Meredith Oke:know, we're talking about how humans operate and
Meredith Oke:how that physiology works in many different ways.
Meredith Oke:So unfortunately, because of, I think nutrition
Meredith Oke:science and pharmaceutical science, that things
Meredith Oke:have come down to bio biochemistry. You know,
Meredith Oke:every medical student has biochemistry course. We
Meredith Oke:don't have quite quantum biology courses. And so
Meredith Oke:I remember you learn in there, you learn like,
Meredith Oke:okay, these molecules interact with these, and
Meredith Oke:then this step happens and this step happens and
Meredith Oke:this step happens and it's like this linear thing
Meredith Oke:that happens. And so that has led us to thinking
Meredith Oke:that we can control biology or influence biology
Meredith Oke:by taking this thing that affects a certain
Meredith Oke:biochemical pathway. And I'll never forget having
Meredith Oke:this realization that that was what all of
Meredith Oke:medicine was about, because I used to work in a
Meredith Oke:chiropractic clinic that was more or less down
Meredith Oke:the street from Virginia Tech School of Medicine
Meredith Oke:and Research Institute. And I would have all
Meredith Oke:these researchers come in or medical students,
Meredith Oke:and I'd say, what are you looking at? And they
Meredith Oke:describe some, you know, very small biochemical
Meredith Oke:pathway that they're investigating. And I was
Meredith Oke:just like, oh. And it was like that. And they
Meredith Oke:were like, I'm trying to, you know, manipulate
Meredith Oke:this pathway so that we can make a
Meredith Oke:pharmaceutical. And I'm just like, man, what a
Meredith Oke:reductionist way to try and understand something
Meredith Oke:or try and affect the body, you know, and so
Meredith Oke:we've kind of been.
Meredith Oke:So is it almost like that pathway was operating
Meredith Oke:in isolation? Like, I'm just going to manipulate
Meredith Oke:this one tiny little thing that's. But there was.
Meredith Oke:Without acknowledging that it may be interrelated
Meredith Oke:with everything else.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Exactly. And I like to think, yeah, and so that's
Meredith Oke:just kind of like reductionist. And it's like how
Meredith Oke:you're supposed to understand how something fully
Meredith Oke:works by studying one very small piece, let alone
Meredith Oke:one organ system or whatever. Like, because, you
Meredith Oke:know, medicine has all these specialists and
Meredith Oke:everything. So it's just. I was starting to think
Meredith Oke:about that because it was repetitive. Every
Meredith Oke:single one. I'd ask, they'd say, I'm studying
Meredith Oke:this particular thing. And I like to talk about
Meredith Oke:what I called. It's almost like an inform, a form
Meredith Oke:of inherited wealth. Like, you don't like, you
Meredith Oke:know, the. Like the scientists that are like the
Meredith Oke:heroes of history or whatever, that discover all
Meredith Oke:these things and these new techniques of studying
Meredith Oke:things. You know, the scientists of today are
Meredith Oke:just learning to stand on their shoulders and
Meredith Oke:take the next step. But there was no humility
Meredith Oke:gained in the process of learning that original
Meredith Oke:information. And so the scientists today just
Meredith Oke:take the next step. And they don't think about
Meredith Oke:the context of what that means for either the
Meredith Oke:entire organism they're studying or the universe
Meredith Oke:itself or all life on the planet. They're just
Meredith Oke:looking at it in these very simple ways because
Meredith Oke:we've got this technology to do that. And
Meredith Oke:research is largely funded by people with
Meredith Oke:interests that want to identify this pathway that
Meredith Oke:you can do something. So we're stuck in this
Meredith Oke:biochemical world. And then when I started
Meredith Oke:reading more and getting steered in the right
Meredith Oke:direction, you start reading all these other ways
Meredith Oke:that the body physiology operates or all the
Meredith Oke:different signals that they can get. And so now
Meredith Oke:we're talking about magnetism, we're talking
Meredith Oke:about electricity, we're talking about light,
Meredith Oke:we're talking about just different forms of
Meredith Oke:energy, vibrations, sound, all these different
Meredith Oke:things. And you start to realize that all of them
Meredith Oke:influence our physiology. And so we can't just
Meredith Oke:say, take a supplement or take a medication or
Meredith Oke:just eat food, really, and expect that
Meredith Oke:biochemistry to dictate how our entire physiology
Meredith Oke:is working. And so you look at deeper levels of
Meredith Oke:things and you start to see that, oh, the
Meredith Oke:mitochondria are emitting light, they're emitting
Meredith Oke:different forms of energy, and they communicate
Meredith Oke:cell to cell, like. And they create
Meredith Oke:electromagnetic field, and then a bunch of
Meredith Oke:mitochondria create a bigger electromagnetic
Meredith Oke:field, and then a bunch of mitochondria in a
Meredith Oke:tissue create a bigger one. And that's why we
Meredith Oke:have electromagnetic fields in the body. And
Meredith Oke:that's my. It's almost like how I'm reaching out
Meredith Oke:into my environment and communicating with it.
Meredith Oke:And then you see all the effects of just sunlight
Meredith Oke:on the skin or in the eyes and all the physiology
Meredith Oke:that that drives. And. And you're like, wow, this
Meredith Oke:is way more than just food. And it explains why
Meredith Oke:you know, people. The idea about health is like,
Meredith Oke:okay, diet and exercise, that's what keeps you
Meredith Oke:healthy. And the statistics show that more people
Meredith Oke:are exercising more and eating more whole foods
Meredith Oke:or better diets. Despite what, you know, this
Meredith Oke:epidemic of heart disease, people. More people
Meredith Oke:are trying to do that, but it's not working
Meredith Oke:right. We still have this epidemic disease
Meredith Oke:because we're ignoring all this physiology. And
Meredith Oke:the other aspect is, is that there's an. There's
Meredith Oke:a certain part of this that I. Or there's a
Meredith Oke:certain level of this I don't think we'll ever
Meredith Oke:fully understand. And I think that makes us. Or
Meredith Oke:it forces us to be humble about this. And instead
Meredith Oke:of trying to master the human body and study it
Meredith Oke:and change it, you know, manipulate it, that kind
Meredith Oke:of thing, with this biochemistry, we kind of have
Meredith Oke:to step back and be like, whoa. We just have to
Meredith Oke:put ourselves in the right environment and let
Meredith Oke:the body figure it out. Because, you know, in
Meredith Oke:mathematics, if you study the way two things
Meredith Oke:interact with each other, you can predict the way
Meredith Oke:those two things are going to interact. But if
Meredith Oke:you get a third thing, it becomes harder. If you
Meredith Oke:get a fourth thing and how four things are
Meredith Oke:interacting, that becomes harder. You get 100
Meredith Oke:things, it becomes impossible. And then that's
Meredith Oke:exactly how the body works. There's no lock and
Meredith Oke:key mechanism that this happens and this happens
Meredith Oke:and this happens and this happens. It's like
Meredith Oke:something happens and then a hundred other things
Meredith Oke:happen at the same time. So they call it
Meredith Oke:nonlinear reactions. And that's going to be
Meredith Oke:impossible to predict or control. So it forces
Meredith Oke:you. When you study quantum biology or
Meredith Oke:biophysics, it forces you to say, okay, I need to
Meredith Oke:put my body in the right environment of those
Meredith Oke:physics and the right stimuli, and then trust
Meredith Oke:that the body is going to do the right thing. We
Meredith Oke:just have to figure out what that environment is
Meredith Oke:and study how the environments have changed and
Meredith Oke:made it the wrong environment over the last
Meredith Oke:however many years. You want to say.
Meredith Oke:Right. So when we think about the idea of, oh,
Meredith Oke:just take this pill, There may be situations
Meredith Oke:where taking medication is obviously needed or
Meredith Oke:helpful, but the idea that you can take an
Meredith Oke:exogenous substance and put it into the body
Meredith Oke:without thinking about the environment that that
Meredith Oke:body is in. And the only response you're going to
Meredith Oke:have is the one that you want. Seems kind of
Meredith Oke:crazy.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Yeah. Or that there's not going to be side
Meredith Oke:effects or it's not going to affect other
Meredith Oke:physiology that you weren't even expecting. I
Meredith Oke:mean, in pharmaceutical science, they admit that
Meredith Oke:they're like, well, we were studying, trying to
Meredith Oke:make this effect and we saw the drug had this
Meredith Oke:effect, so we just use it for this instead.
Meredith Oke:Right.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: You know, they weren't, they don't know. Like
Meredith Oke:there's, there's all these unaccounted for
Meredith Oke:things. The things we can never, never really
Meredith Oke:figure out.
Meredith Oke:Right. And the one that's coming to my mind,
Meredith Oke:because there's a lot of discussion on this topic
Meredith Oke:right now on social media is our SSRIs or
Meredith Oke:prescription medication for mental health. Right.
Meredith Oke:And you have people on there swearing that it
Meredith Oke:changed their lives. And then you have people on
Meredith Oke:there saying that it made them suicidal and it's
Meredith Oke:the same. Right. Like they took the same thing.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Yeah.
Meredith Oke:So, you know, how can you predict what the
Meredith Oke:outcome is going to be if. And it. Part of. I
Meredith Oke:guess what we're missing is like, what else is
Meredith Oke:going on for those people? It's not, they're not,
Meredith Oke:you know, in terms of what could affect the
Meredith Oke:consequence that that drug is going to have in
Meredith Oke:their body.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Yeah. Or even supplement. You know, I just
Meredith Oke:recently posted something about melatonin on
Meredith Oke:social media showing that it can stabilize plaque
Meredith Oke:and prevent plaque from rupturing. And somebody
Meredith Oke:on there was just like, well, we have to
Meredith Oke:supplement with it. Like, even though I was
Meredith Oke:saying, like, no, we need to, like, optimize
Meredith Oke:mitochondrial function and we need to set
Meredith Oke:circadian rhythm. That's how we get optimal
Meredith Oke:melatonin. And they were like, well, as we age,
Meredith Oke:your melatonin production declines. And I was
Meredith Oke:just questioning them. Like, well, you know,
Meredith Oke:that's probably true, but it's probably going to
Meredith Oke:decline a lot more if we're in this environment
Meredith Oke:that is not suitable or not hospitable to our
Meredith Oke:physiology. So we have to change the environment
Meredith Oke:too. We can't just take this thing and say, oh,
Meredith Oke:because I need more of it because it's declining
Meredith Oke:as I age. It's like, we also need to optimize the
Meredith Oke:environment. And so it's like, if we're, if
Meredith Oke:we're, if the message is, oh, just take more of
Meredith Oke:this, that's the wrong message. Like, you can use
Meredith Oke:supplements to Supplement your lifestyle. But you
Meredith Oke:have to tell the person about how to optimize the
Meredith Oke:lifestyle too, because I mean, there's pretty
Meredith Oke:clear in the research that, you know, melatonin
Meredith Oke:acts like as an antioxidant, but endogenous
Meredith Oke:melatonin production is way better than
Meredith Oke:exogenous, meaning taking it as a supplement. So
Meredith Oke:as far as antioxidant, so that who knows what
Meredith Oke:else that's better as better at when we put
Meredith Oke:produce it inside our bodies and get ourselves in
Meredith Oke:the right environment. Plus the process of
Meredith Oke:creating that environment for just optimizing
Meredith Oke:melatonin is doing so many other beneficial
Meredith Oke:things for you. So it's not reductionist now. Now
Meredith Oke:we're getting all the benefits rather than just
Meredith Oke:saying, oh, I'm doing this for this one thing.
Meredith Oke:No, you're doing it for everything, for every
Meredith Oke:single hormone. And that's kind of the message we
Meredith Oke:need to be giving people. And then here and
Meredith Oke:there, yes, we can selectively say, okay, let's
Meredith Oke:support you with this supplement or that
Meredith Oke:supplement, but if you don't get the environment
Meredith Oke:right, those things aren't going to work as well
Meredith Oke:anyways.
Meredith Oke:Right. And then the, like the cascade effect of
Meredith Oke:optimizing your environment is a beneficial
Meredith Oke:cascade as opposed to a cascade of side effects.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Yeah. Or unpredictable things.
Meredith Oke:Okay, so let's get into the heart, which is an
Meredith Oke:area of focus for you. You've written a book on
Meredith Oke:it and we talked about it a little bit in our
Meredith Oke:first interview. So let's circle back to what
Meredith Oke:your, you know, your take on the heart is in
Meredith Oke:terms of it. Our common understanding is that
Meredith Oke:it's a pump. You have a different point of view
Meredith Oke:and then you've also gone down even into like
Meredith Oke:some deeper layers of how you see the heart in
Meredith Oke:terms of our overall biology and perhaps biofield.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Yeah, definitely. So, yeah, I mean, the term like
Meredith Oke:the heart is not a pump is thrown around a lot
Meredith Oke:these days, made pretty famous by Tom Cowan. And
Meredith Oke:I don't necessarily agree that it's not a pump
Meredith Oke:per se, but it's definitely not a pressure
Meredith Oke:propulsion pump, which is what it's thought that
Meredith Oke:it is. Like it's sucking in blood from somewhere
Meredith Oke:and then forcefully pumping out somewhere else.
Meredith Oke:That's not how the heart works. And there's a ton
Meredith Oke:of literature mainly. I mean, the best source for
Meredith Oke:most of that literature is Dr. Franco first book,
Meredith Oke:the Heart in Circulation. But yeah, so it's first
Meredith Oke:of all, if you just look at the heart and the
Meredith Oke:size of it, and there were studies way back in
Meredith Oke:the 17, 1800s that were when the original
Meredith Oke:circulation of the heart was being described or
Meredith Oke:circulation of blood was being described, that
Meredith Oke:cast a doubt on the idea that the heart of this
Meredith Oke:size could forcefully pump all the blood around
Meredith Oke:the body and, and do that efficiently. And
Meredith Oke:there's modern day studies that show that if we
Meredith Oke:look at the heart as a pressure propulsion pump,
Meredith Oke:it's about 30% efficient, which if you believe we
Meredith Oke:were designed or evolved or whatever, that's not
Meredith Oke:an efficient way to do something. So it must not
Meredith Oke:be its job or suggest that maybe it's not. Its
Meredith Oke:job is to forcefully move blood. And so there's
Meredith Oke:evidence with structured water and how blood
Meredith Oke:moves in other ways. Paramagnetism, electrostatic
Meredith Oke:properties, there's ways that blood moves through
Meredith Oke:the body that they don't require this pressure
Meredith Oke:propulsion pump. And they've actually shown in
Meredith Oke:Dr. Pollock's lab that when they stop the heart
Meredith Oke:of a chick embryo, the blood continues to move.
Meredith Oke:And they can create more movement in blood if
Meredith Oke:they shine infrared light on the arteries. And
Meredith Oke:they showed that too. Back in the 1940s and the
Meredith Oke:1960s, there were experiments done on dogs where
Meredith Oke:they stopped the heart and the blood continued to
Meredith Oke:move for up to two hours after the heart stopped
Meredith Oke:beating. So there's definitely a lot of evidence
Meredith Oke:to suggest that blood has other ways to move. And
Meredith Oke:so that begs the question of what is the heart,
Meredith Oke:why is it there, what is it doing? And the first
Meredith Oke:thing that it's doing is that it's actually a
Meredith Oke:vortex. I just read an 800 page book about the
Meredith Oke:heart's vortex and it was hard to get through
Meredith Oke:because it was very, very scientific, even lots
Meredith Oke:of parts above my head. But yeah, it's definitely
Meredith Oke:well recognized in the literature that as blood
Meredith Oke:moves through the heart, it is vortexed in many
Meredith Oke:different ways. Whether it's moving through
Meredith Oke:valves, the way that flows into the heart, the
Meredith Oke:way the heart contracts in a spiral, like nature,
Meredith Oke:like the heart is vortexing blood. And the reason
Meredith Oke:it's doing that is because of new vortex water,
Meredith Oke:which the blood is half water in the presence of
Meredith Oke:oxygen, which oxygen is always present in blood,
Meredith Oke:then it will become energized, it will become
Meredith Oke:more likely to become structured water when it
Meredith Oke:gets into the lining of the arteries. And when it
Meredith Oke:becomes structured water on the lining of the
Meredith Oke:arteries, that's what propels blood flow, that's
Meredith Oke:what keeps blood moving. So in a way, the heart
Meredith Oke:is responsible for blood flow in that way, but
Meredith Oke:just in a very indirect way. So that's one
Meredith Oke:purpose of the heart, is that it's kind of
Meredith Oke:swishing the blood around, which is the way water
Meredith Oke:is in nature. It's always moving and being
Meredith Oke:swished around. It's crashing on the beach, it's
Meredith Oke:rolling over rocks and rivers. It's evaporated,
Meredith Oke:precipitating, it's moving. And when water gets
Meredith Oke:stagnant in nature, like in a puddle or a pond,
Meredith Oke:it's kind of gross. Right. And so to keep things
Meredith Oke:clean and moving, we have to. We have to keep it
Meredith Oke:moving. But in laminar tubes, that doesn't do the
Meredith Oke:swishing around. Right. It kind of keeps things
Meredith Oke:moving linearly, and that can create less
Meredith Oke:energized water. So why is there this thing
Meredith Oke:placed right in the middle of the arterial and
Meredith Oke:venous circulation that swishes blood around?
Meredith Oke:Because we need it to be swished around. And
Meredith Oke:that's one role of the heart. Right. So, I mean,
Meredith Oke:again, like, if there was a pressure propulsion
Meredith Oke:pump, we wouldn't. Like, if you want to pump
Meredith Oke:water up a hill, you put the pump at the bottom
Meredith Oke:of the hill. So if we want to pump water from our
Meredith Oke:blood, from our feet to our head or whatever, we
Meredith Oke:put the pump at the bottom. But the. Our heart's
Meredith Oke:in the middle of everything, so it doesn't make
Meredith Oke:sense for it to be there if it was a true
Meredith Oke:pressure propulsion pump. So, yeah, there's other
Meredith Oke:mechanisms of blood movement, and the heart is
Meredith Oke:vortexing. And there's interesting studies that
Meredith Oke:show that when you increase the blood flow,
Meredith Oke:artificially increased blood flow, that the heart
Meredith Oke:actually just. The valves just kind of open and
Meredith Oke:let it kind of go through. And so we're not
Meredith Oke:talking about cardiac output, like the cart, the
Meredith Oke:heart is pumping out this fluid. It's more like
Meredith Oke:cardiac throughput, like the amount that's moving
Meredith Oke:through and they've increased the heart rate or
Meredith Oke:the artificially increased heart rate of the
Meredith Oke:heart and how much it's contracting. And the
Meredith Oke:blood flow stayed the same, like the amount of
Meredith Oke:blood moving through stayed the same because it's
Meredith Oke:just how fast it's contracting, it's not how fast
Meredith Oke:it's pumping. If you want to increase blood flow,
Meredith Oke:then you increase the cardiac throughput and how
Meredith Oke:much is moving through it. So interesting. So
Meredith Oke:that's the first role.
Meredith Oke:So is that why exercise is so good? We're
Meredith Oke:increasing that blood flow or infrared saunas or
Meredith Oke:what's happening to our blood when we move and.
Meredith Oke:And move and expose ourselves to healthy light?
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Yeah. So, you know, there's a lot of reasons why
Meredith Oke:those things are good, but one is, yes, you're
Meredith Oke:like, you're increasing tissue demand for blood.
Meredith Oke:And the tissue demand is what drives blood flow.
Meredith Oke:You know, if there's areas like if your tissues
Meredith Oke:start using up certain nutrients or oxygen or
Meredith Oke:whatever, then the concentration gradient of
Meredith Oke:those things and the tissues drops and the blood
Meredith Oke:is drawn to it because, you know, areas of high
Meredith Oke:concentration flow to areas of low concentration.
Meredith Oke:So if you deplete the tissues, the blood will
Meredith Oke:want to go into the tissues more. So that's
Meredith Oke:what's driving blood flow. And the heart is just
Meredith Oke:catching up. It's just keeping pace with how much
Meredith Oke:blood is moving. So yes, if you increase blood
Meredith Oke:flow by sitting in an infrared sauna because
Meredith Oke:you're building structures, water and lining the
Meredith Oke:arteries, increasing blood flow. Yes, your heart
Meredith Oke:rate will increase. If I go sit in the sun, my
Meredith Oke:heart rate will increase, not drastically because
Meredith Oke:I'm not creating a huge tissue demand because I'm
Meredith Oke:not exercising, but it'll increase because I'm
Meredith Oke:increasing blood flow. And the heart's just
Meredith Oke:trying to catch up. It's trying to energize or
Meredith Oke:structure that blood as it moves through there as
Meredith Oke:more blood is moving through the heart.
Meredith Oke:So what's happening if someone is out of shape or
Meredith Oke:not? Well, and they get out of breath very
Meredith Oke:easily, or their heart pumps really fast, really
Meredith Oke:quickly, even with minimum exertion. What's going
Meredith Oke:on with that?
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: That's more like they're having trouble adapting
Meredith Oke:to stress, which exercise is a stress. So then
Meredith Oke:they start to try and exercise and their body
Meredith Oke:goes into an acute stress response, which is an
Meredith Oke:adrenaline response. And so when you're doing
Meredith Oke:that, you're telling your body we're in danger.
Meredith Oke:And so that's kind of this old evolved response.
Meredith Oke:And so that's having more of like a hormone
Meredith Oke:effect, signaling effect. Like your body's going
Meredith Oke:through this thing that it is not used to doing.
Meredith Oke:And it's like, something must be wrong. We must
Meredith Oke:have a stress response. So if they can't handle
Meredith Oke:that stress and return to normal, return to
Meredith Oke:homeostasis. That's poor health. Right. So
Meredith Oke:health. To me, one way to define health is the
Meredith Oke:ability to handle a stress healthily, adapt to it
Meredith Oke:and return to homeostasis. If you can't do that,
Meredith Oke:there's, there's poor health. So you could talk
Meredith Oke:about that as simple as a high glucose meal. You
Meredith Oke:know, can you handle that glucose meal, adapt to
Meredith Oke:it, use that glucose properly through insulin
Meredith Oke:signaling and then, and then return to
Meredith Oke:homeostasis. Normally if you can't, that's type 2
Meredith Oke:diabetes. You know, if you can go, you know,
Meredith Oke:sprint 50 yards. And you can handle that and your
Meredith Oke:body figures it out and then you can return to
Meredith Oke:homeostasis within a normal amount of time.
Meredith Oke:That's more healthy than someone who can't do
Meredith Oke:that. So that's more of like a stress response.
Meredith Oke:That's really interesting because we think about
Meredith Oke:it as, as being unfit, but the lack. What we're.
Meredith Oke:But what you're saying is unfit is our body's
Meredith Oke:inability to handle these different states.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Yeah, I'd say it's almost like a shock to the
Meredith Oke:body to do that when you've never trained it to
Meredith Oke:do it, you know, or haven't trained to do it for
Meredith Oke:a long time. And so the body's having a response
Meredith Oke:that's having a stress response. It thinks it's
Meredith Oke:under threat almost.
Meredith Oke:Right. So just one more thing on this, because I
Meredith Oke:heard, I think it was, it was Dave Asprey
Meredith Oke:actually, and he was saying that what he, what
Meredith Oke:he's come to in his understanding is that this,
Meredith Oke:the high intensity things that we do where we
Meredith Oke:like go really hard and then rest and then go
Meredith Oke:really hard and then rest is actually maladaptive
Meredith Oke:because in evolutionary we would go really hard
Meredith Oke:and then we'd be out of danger and we'd, we
Meredith Oke:wouldn't keep doing it over and over. So his
Meredith Oke:recommendation was more just like, sprint really
Meredith Oke:fast one time instead of over and over and then
Meredith Oke:let your body recover. What are your thoughts?
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: I mean, I, I don't know what our ancestors did
Meredith Oke:exactly. You could theorize, you know, but they
Meredith Oke:may have had to sprint a few different times if
Meredith Oke:they were on a hunt, you know, a few different 50
Meredith Oke:yard sprints or something like that. But yeah, it
Meredith Oke:wasn't excessive. I mean, once they caught the
Meredith Oke:meal or didn't catch the meal, they're like, all
Meredith Oke:right, I gotta recover. Especially if they didn't
Meredith Oke:catch the meal, they really gotta recover because
Meredith Oke:they're not getting any, any nutrients to replace
Meredith Oke:or whatever. But I would tend to agree with them
Meredith Oke:that you could probably get the same benefits
Meredith Oke:with one sprint. You know, there's really good
Meredith Oke:evidence that we're spending way too much time
Meredith Oke:working out. You know, I, for the last two years
Meredith Oke:now, I've been like, when I do lift weights, I
Meredith Oke:just do one set to failure. I do a push exercise,
Meredith Oke:a pull exercise and a leg exercise to failure.
Meredith Oke:And I have maintained and gained muscle from
Meredith Oke:doing that. So I'm like in there for 15 minutes.
Meredith Oke:I almost feel guilty, you know.
Meredith Oke:Wow. So when you say to failure, it's like you
Meredith Oke:just do it till you can't do it anymore. And then
Meredith Oke:you stop.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Yeah, you really have to push. Like, it's. At
Meredith Oke:first, it's hard to learn to go to failure.
Meredith Oke:You're kind of like, oh, I'm tired. It's like,
Meredith Oke:no, not tired. Like, you need to go to where.
Meredith Oke:You, like, you literally can't move the thing
Meredith Oke:even, Right.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: You have to. You know, if you're lifting weights,
Meredith Oke:you gotta be careful with that. You gotta make
Meredith Oke:sure that it's like a machine or something, or
Meredith Oke:you're really safely set up on a squat or
Meredith Oke:something like that. Cause it's kind of intense
Meredith Oke:to go to failure with those types of lifts. But,
Meredith Oke:yeah, it's more efficient. I want to buy a weight
Meredith Oke:set for my garage and do it so I can open the
Meredith Oke:garage and work an outdoor light. But it's like,
Meredith Oke:I can't justify buying that expensive of a thing
Meredith Oke:if I'm in there for 15 minutes twice a week. So,
Meredith Oke:yeah, I just go to the gym. But yeah, and then
Meredith Oke:other forms of exercise are good too, but you can
Meredith Oke:get the same benefits. So doing that kind of
Meredith Oke:stuff so it makes sense, like, you challenge the
Meredith Oke:tissue, you tell it wasn't good enough, and it
Meredith Oke:rebuilds stronger.
Meredith Oke:Right? I've heard that story. I mean, I hear that
Meredith Oke:story from everyone who has adopted a sort of
Meredith Oke:quantum circadian lifestyle that they just don't
Meredith Oke:exercise as much and they're in better shape.
Meredith Oke:Like, they still exercise. I'm not saying they
Meredith Oke:don't, but this idea that maxing out on the
Meredith Oke:hardcore exercise is the only way just doesn't
Meredith Oke:seem to be the case.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: And it's kind of a misnomer of like, doing
Meredith Oke:cardio, you know, because, I mean, cardio, like
Meredith Oke:getting your heart rate up and, and. But even
Meredith Oke:just walking or whatever is. Is good for you, but
Meredith Oke:more cardio is not good for you. Like, if you do
Meredith Oke:like super long endurance type stuff, that is.
Meredith Oke:That is not healthy, in my opinion. It causes
Meredith Oke:more inflammation because again, we're. We're
Meredith Oke:putting ourselves in that stress state for too
Meredith Oke:long. And there's people that argue that we're
Meredith Oke:born to run. There's a book about it even. But if
Meredith Oke:you look at lots of studies, especially
Meredith Oke:cardiovascularly, people who've run more long
Meredith Oke:endurance races have more scar tissue in the
Meredith Oke:heart, they have more atherosclerosis because
Meredith Oke:they're just in this higher inflamed state. And
Meredith Oke:people argue, well, were these people on
Meredith Oke:carbohydrate diets? And maybe they were, maybe
Meredith Oke:they weren't. But regardless, the response to
Meredith Oke:exercise is a hormetic stress. It's an
Meredith Oke:inflammatory thing. And so you want to do. It's
Meredith Oke:like there's a Goldilocks amount. You want to do
Meredith Oke:enough of it to tell your body to get better and
Meredith Oke:adapt to a stress better, but not overdo it. And
Meredith Oke:I think that we've kind of overdone it or we've
Meredith Oke:been programmed to overdo it if we don't get to
Meredith Oke:the gym, you know. But Dave Asprey's one to say
Meredith Oke:that, like back when he was unhealthy, he was
Meredith Oke:like, man, I was in the gym all the time and I
Meredith Oke:was just still super unhealthy. It wasn't
Meredith Oke:working. He was probably making it worse at that
Meredith Oke:point by inflaming the body without being able to
Meredith Oke:adapt to it, because there's other things he had
Meredith Oke:wrong about his environment that were wrong. So,
Meredith Oke:yeah, it's interesting, but you can get very
Meredith Oke:efficient exercise done in a very quick amount of
Meredith Oke:time that's just as effective. And the book Body
Meredith Oke:by Science by Doug McGuff, he's been doing that
Meredith Oke:for 30 years in his clinic, helping people
Meredith Oke:maintain muscle mass in that way. And he's got
Meredith Oke:all the stats and data to show it.
Meredith Oke:Oh, cool. We'll have to link to that book. We've
Meredith Oke:talked about the heart in terms of the new
Meredith Oke:paradigm function of the heart, which is as a
Meredith Oke:vortex. We have the blood circulating through
Meredith Oke:various mechanisms, not necessarily being pumped.
Meredith Oke:The heart is a vortex that swishes it around,
Meredith Oke:keep it fresh. Like the same way we want our
Meredith Oke:spring water bubbling over the rocks and not
Meredith Oke:sitting in a stagnant pond. Tell me about where
Meredith Oke:you're at with the, say more esoteric meanings
Meredith Oke:and importance of the heart.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Yeah, well, if you look at like every single
Meredith Oke:ancient cultures, like writings about the heart,
Meredith Oke:whether it's ancient Egypt, Sumeria, Indian,
Meredith Oke:Chinese, even Egyptian, they, they all describe
Meredith Oke:the heart as. I forget which one it is. I think
Meredith Oke:it's Chinese that tastes the orchestrator of the
Meredith Oke:body. And they, they describe it as like almost
Meredith Oke:the seat of the soul. You know, this is the
Meredith Oke:understanding. And it wasn't like all these
Meredith Oke:ancient civilizations were all talking to each
Meredith Oke:other, had the same thinking or philosophies. But
Meredith Oke:they all came to that conclusion and so they were
Meredith Oke:right. You know, I think that every organ has an
Meredith Oke:electromagnetic field. It gives off. But the
Meredith Oke:hearts is the largest, which we'll get to. But
Meredith Oke:they felt that, I think they didn't necessarily
Meredith Oke:have to have any concrete proof or measure
Meredith Oke:anything. They just. That's what they felt. And,
Meredith Oke:you know, there's a reason that we, I think,
Meredith Oke:associate the heart with our emotional state. And
Meredith Oke:we say, I love you with all my heart. And we say,
Meredith Oke:I gave it all my heart. You know, you can put
Meredith Oke:your mind to something, but when it comes to
Meredith Oke:emotion, you're usually talking about your heart,
Meredith Oke:not your kidneys or whatever. And so I don't
Meredith Oke:think that's by mistake. However, in this really
Meredith Oke:interesting story, it was King Charles, I think
Meredith Oke:it was. So there was this Irish nobleman who had
Meredith Oke:fallen and injured himself, and he. And it, like,
Meredith Oke:broke ribs and they kind of broke apart and it
Meredith Oke:abscessed. And it healed, though, but it healed
Meredith Oke:in a way that his heart was visible, you know,
Meredith Oke:and there was no, like, you know, open wound or
Meredith Oke:anything. Like, it healed, but it healed. Like
Meredith Oke:you could see his heart. And so he became like
Meredith Oke:this guy that traveled around and, like, charged
Meredith Oke:money for people to see his heart beating and
Meredith Oke:stuff like this. Anyways, he was near London and.
Meredith Oke:Or near wherever the king was in England. And the
Meredith Oke:king heard about it and he told William Harvey,
Meredith Oke:who. William Harvey is a very famous physician
Meredith Oke:because he was the original person that described
Meredith Oke:the circulation of the blood. That's what he's
Meredith Oke:known for. He wrote Dumotu Cordis, which is the
Meredith Oke:book that describes that. And he was the king's
Meredith Oke:personal physician at the time. And he said. He
Meredith Oke:said, find that guy and bring him here. We want
Meredith Oke:to see this. And so they brought him in and they.
Meredith Oke:And they go and they examine the heart. And
Meredith Oke:William Harvey notes that, you know, he was able
Meredith Oke:to feel the. The man's heart and feel it beating
Meredith Oke:and right there. And he said, with no offense to
Meredith Oke:this man, so. Meaning that. That the guy couldn't
Meredith Oke:feel it. Like you're touching the organ and he
Meredith Oke:couldn't feel it. You could feel, like the
Meredith Oke:outside you're touching him, but he couldn't feel
Meredith Oke:when you touched him inside. So he said it kind
Meredith Oke:of led to this idea that the heart has no senses.
Meredith Oke:There's no, like, no feeling, you know, combined
Meredith Oke:with the fact that Harvey also described the
Meredith Oke:mechanical circulation of the blood in the body
Meredith Oke:and saw the heart as kind of this pump that was
Meredith Oke:driving that circulation. That's when I forget
Meredith Oke:when this was. I think it was like 1600s or
Meredith Oke:something. I don't know. That's within. The idea
Meredith Oke:started to move away from the heart being this
Meredith Oke:seed of the soul and, you know, I guess sensor of
Meredith Oke:our emotions and things like that, more toward
Meredith Oke:this mechanical organ. And that's kind of taken
Meredith Oke:Off. And then now we're coming back full circle
Meredith Oke:with the work of Roland McCready and the
Meredith Oke:HeartMath Institute. And we're finding out that
Meredith Oke:the heart does have this very large
Meredith Oke:electromagnetic field that allows it to touch or
Meredith Oke:sense not only our external environment, but also
Meredith Oke:kind of orchestrate or sync up the entire
Meredith Oke:internal environment, all the other organs. So
Meredith Oke:all the other organs, electromagnetic fields are
Meredith Oke:being sort of aligned with how the heart's
Meredith Oke:electromagnetic field and what it's feeling. And
Meredith Oke:then the most fascinating thing is that we've
Meredith Oke:also got studies now that we've, we've I guess
Meredith Oke:developed the ability to do heart transplants is
Meredith Oke:that there are studies that show that, that
Meredith Oke:recipients of a heart transplant tend to take on
Meredith Oke:characteristics or personality traits of the
Meredith Oke:donor. So there's something about the emotion or
Meredith Oke:personality or something that is stored in the
Meredith Oke:heart and maybe, maybe all organs as well. But
Meredith Oke:since the heart has the biggest electromagnetic
Meredith Oke:field, like what they do is they. They interview
Meredith Oke:the people in the donor's life and they interview
Meredith Oke:people in the recipient's life and the recipient
Meredith Oke:themselves. And they find that anything from like
Meredith Oke:preferences in music, art, sexual preferences,
Meredith Oke:career preferences tend to show up in the
Meredith Oke:recipient from what the donors were that were
Meredith Oke:different than before. So it's fascinating.
Meredith Oke:There's way more to like memory and to our
Meredith Oke:tissues and probably stored in structured water
Meredith Oke:in the body. But when you transfer it to somebody
Meredith Oke:else, it can change them a little bit. So I think
Meredith Oke:that the ancients were onto something in that
Meredith Oke:this was the seed of the soul. This kind of made
Meredith Oke:us who we are, where lots of our personality was
Meredith Oke:stored or emotional personality was stored maybe.
Meredith Oke:And so it's very interesting. That's the, that's
Meredith Oke:the third role of the heart. I mean, we've all
Meredith Oke:been heartbroken, you know, and there's actually
Meredith Oke:a disease that can happen when you become
Meredith Oke:heartbroken. It's called Takatsubo
Meredith Oke:cardiomyopathy, which is basically broken heart
Meredith Oke:syndrome. You develop heart failure because
Meredith Oke:you're broken hearted due to extreme emotional
Meredith Oke:states. And there's mechanisms of heart attacks
Meredith Oke:that can happen due to imbalanced stress
Meredith Oke:signaling to the heart. Emotional stress
Meredith Oke:signaling can trigger a heart attack if you get
Meredith Oke:into the right situation. And I've talked about
Meredith Oke:that in other places and I talk about that in my
Meredith Oke:book too. So there's this extreme emotional
Meredith Oke:connection to this organ. And so I think that it
Meredith Oke:is what allows us to a create what they call
Meredith Oke:coherence or unfortunately convey incoherence.
Meredith Oke:And so we talk about, from a quantum aspect of
Meredith Oke:Things and quantum biology and how the body
Meredith Oke:works. We're talking about interbody
Meredith Oke:communication and how our body communicates
Meredith Oke:externally to the environment. And it doesn't do
Meredith Oke:that through biochemistry. It does that through
Meredith Oke:biophysics. It does that through the fascia
Meredith Oke:system in our body is conducting information and
Meredith Oke:electrons and protons all throughout our body.
Meredith Oke:And the mitochondria are communicating
Meredith Oke:electromagnetically as well as through light
Meredith Oke:signaling and reactive oxygen species signaling
Meredith Oke:and quantum entanglement. When two molecules get
Meredith Oke:entangled and they separate and they're still
Meredith Oke:communicating from a distance, all those things.
Meredith Oke:And then the heart's electromagnetic field is
Meredith Oke:kind of like sensing all that or monitoring all
Meredith Oke:that and picking up your level of interbody
Meredith Oke:coherence, interbody communication that's
Meredith Oke:happening and it's sensing that, and it's
Meredith Oke:conveying that information to the brain. And we
Meredith Oke:have evidence that it conveys that
Meredith Oke:electromagnetically as well as neurologically
Meredith Oke:through nerves. And there's more signals from the
Meredith Oke:heart to the brain. And then the brain is picking
Meredith Oke:up the messages. The brain is always just an
Meredith Oke:interpretation center, sensing our. Or like
Meredith Oke:picking up all the information that we're sensing
Meredith Oke:from our environment, interpreting it, and then
Meredith Oke:relaying it to the body so that it can have the
Meredith Oke:appropriate response. But the sensory information
Meredith Oke:or the emotional sensory information is coming
Meredith Oke:from the heart to the brain. And so then the
Meredith Oke:brain responds accordingly. And so it's. It's a
Meredith Oke:very important role because if you think about
Meredith Oke:senses and what the senses allow us to do, they
Meredith Oke:allow us to interact and respond to our
Meredith Oke:environment. And a species or an individual that
Meredith Oke:cannot interact or respond to his environment
Meredith Oke:doesn't last very long. And so because it can't
Meredith Oke:change, it can't react to it, get out of harm's
Meredith Oke:way or whatever. And so that's a very, very
Meredith Oke:important role for the heart and it's especially
Meredith Oke:important for humans because we have this unique
Meredith Oke:ability to worry and think about things in a way
Meredith Oke:that other species can't because of how large our
Meredith Oke:prefrontal cortex is. I'm not saying that other
Meredith Oke:species don't, but we have a cognitive ability
Meredith Oke:that's much higher. We're, as far as I know, the
Meredith Oke:only species that can think our way into a stress
Meredith Oke:response just by overthinking something or seeing
Meredith Oke:something happen to somebody else and then
Meredith Oke:feeling like, fearing it's going to happen to us,
Meredith Oke:you know, or seeing something happen halfway
Meredith Oke:across the world that doesn't affect our life at
Meredith Oke:all, but stress being stressed about it, you
Meredith Oke:know, and that's one of the issues with, with
Meredith Oke:Media and being able to, you know, information
Meredith Oke:being pumped all over the world, is that our
Meredith Oke:physiology is not necessarily designed to handle
Meredith Oke:all that. But yeah, it's, it's, it's fascinating
Meredith Oke:when you, when you dig into that and you also
Meredith Oke:realize that this organ is what allows us to
Meredith Oke:connect to others. And heart coherence, like
Meredith Oke:someone who's incoherent is able to. Is able to
Meredith Oke:relate and connect to others in a more healthy
Meredith Oke:way. And someone who's incoherent feels like
Meredith Oke:they're on their own, they're isolated. You know,
Meredith Oke:if you can't reach out and touch and feel the
Meredith Oke:things around you and the people and the living
Meredith Oke:things around you, you feel isolated. It's like
Meredith Oke:alone in a crowded room sort of thing. And it's
Meredith Oke:what we describe with people who have depression.
Meredith Oke:They kind of become isolated, they feel isolated.
Meredith Oke:Even if they have people around them, they can't
Meredith Oke:reach out and feel them. And it's because they
Meredith Oke:have this incoherence. And that could be from a
Meredith Oke:lot of different things, from past traumas that
Meredith Oke:people have, or physical or emotional traumas or
Meredith Oke:just poor mitochondrial health. I mean, we think
Meredith Oke:about what Chris Palmer's doing with low carb
Meredith Oke:diets and fixing people's mental health by
Meredith Oke:changing their mitochondrial health. And there's
Meredith Oke:probably way more they could do as well as diet.
Meredith Oke:But we're seeing the impact that they're having
Meredith Oke:because we're changing their mitochondria,
Meredith Oke:increasing their body communication. Their
Meredith Oke:heart's picking up on that. It's conveying to the
Meredith Oke:brain. We're getting more coherent signals, and
Meredith Oke:the person is now interacting with the
Meredith Oke:environment more. And then maybe I've said a lot
Meredith Oke:of things, but the most fascinating thing I
Meredith Oke:think, is that it appears that this very large
Meredith Oke:electromagnetic field that is being created by
Meredith Oke:the heart is a result of the fact that a, there's
Meredith Oke:a lot of mitochondria concentrated in the heart.
Meredith Oke:It's one of the tissues with the highest density.
Meredith Oke:The brain, the eyes, the heart have very high
Meredith Oke:amounts of mitochondria. And like I briefly
Meredith Oke:mentioned before, the mitochondria are creating
Meredith Oke:electromagnetic field. And you concentrate a lot
Meredith Oke:of mitochondria in an area that get a bigger
Meredith Oke:electromagnetic field. But the brains are similar
Meredith Oke:mitochondrial content to the heart. So why is the
Meredith Oke:heart so much bigger? It's because the heart is
Meredith Oke:spinning like this. And when you vortex or spiral
Meredith Oke:electromagnetic field, it amplifies the field
Meredith Oke:significantly. And so it's the only organ in the
Meredith Oke:body, aside from the lungs, that is moving. And
Meredith Oke:it's moving in a way that spins. So it's creating
Meredith Oke:a toroidal force. This is just amplifying this
Meredith Oke:field and that's why. And so if you get someone
Meredith Oke:with heart failure and the heart is not
Meredith Oke:contracting like this and the spinning nature, it
Meredith Oke:starts to become like a basketball and it's doing
Meredith Oke:this, their field significantly drops and that's
Meredith Oke:a problem. Right. Also the poor mitochondrial
Meredith Oke:function in people with heart failure too, that's
Meredith Oke:one of the causes. So we're starting to
Meredith Oke:understand the symptoms these people are having.
Meredith Oke:They're getting lack of blood flow. There's more
Meredith Oke:likely to be depressed when you get heart
Meredith Oke:failure. And there's debate about whether that's
Meredith Oke:because they have heart failure that's not
Meredith Oke:improving or because I would say that the
Meredith Oke:coherence is interfered with because
Meredith Oke:electromagnetic field is smaller. But the
Meredith Oke:electromagnetic field and the torsion seem to be
Meredith Oke:coupled together. So we don't know which one's
Meredith Oke:creating which because there's evidence that a
Meredith Oke:torsional field will create an electromagnetic
Meredith Oke:field, an electromagnetic field will create
Meredith Oke:torsion. So I don't know which one it is. They're
Meredith Oke:very coupled together. If you mess with one, the
Meredith Oke:other's probably going to be off. But it's a very
Meredith Oke:kind of delicate system that's put together and
Meredith Oke:lots of things about our modern day environment
Meredith Oke:are affecting that. Like my go tos for people
Meredith Oke:with arrhythmias and heart failure are EMF
Meredith Oke:environment. Past trauma could be as simple as
Meredith Oke:just low electrolytes and then oh gosh, what's
Meredith Oke:the fourth one? Circadian rhythm. So like all
Meredith Oke:those different things, those four things, like
Meredith Oke:you have to set those things and create coherence
Meredith Oke:for the heart to get back online, whether it's
Meredith Oke:arrhythmia or heart failure.
Meredith Oke:So much to think about and so interesting too
Meredith Oke:about the magnetic field of the heart because we
Meredith Oke:hear about that a lot, but it's because of the
Meredith Oke:motion. And for example, I know in my work as a
Meredith Oke:coach, if I'm supporting someone to start a new
Meredith Oke:business or create a new offer, if their heart's
Meredith Oke:not in it, if it's like a purely mental
Meredith Oke:construct, I know it's not going to work. And
Meredith Oke:I've. And it's interesting because you're now
Meredith Oke:giving me the scientific reason why. Right.
Meredith Oke:Because the, what we put out in the world is
Meredith Oke:coming emanating from us. And if our heart's not
Meredith Oke:in it, it's not. There's no field like the, the
Meredith Oke:possibility to entangle is reduced, would you say?
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Yeah, the ability to Reach out into your
Meredith Oke:environment and sense things is reduced. And if
Meredith Oke:you can't sense your environment, how can you
Meredith Oke:make educated decisions? But I just thought of
Meredith Oke:this when you were talking. Think about it. If we
Meredith Oke:see something stressful or we see something that
Meredith Oke:may be a threat, our heart rate increases. And
Meredith Oke:the traditional, I guess, thinking about that is
Meredith Oke:that you're trying to deliver nutrients to
Meredith Oke:tissues in case you need to run away. You know,
Meredith Oke:you need to supply those tissues with nutrients,
Meredith Oke:oxygen, whatever. And that, that's interesting.
Meredith Oke:That could be. But it could also serve us in that
Meredith Oke:if we increase the heart rate, we're increasing
Meredith Oke:the, you know, contraction of the heart in this
Meredith Oke:spiral nature, which may be amplifying the field
Meredith Oke:more, which means we're becoming hyper aware of
Meredith Oke:our environment, we're reaching out further and
Meredith Oke:we're like, hey, let's sense the environment,
Meredith Oke:let's keep ourselves safe. So there's more than
Meredith Oke:just this biochemical reason why we would have a
Meredith Oke:stress response. Right. It's putting us on high
Meredith Oke:alert in many different ways.
Meredith Oke:Absolutely. And then similar to that, but a
Meredith Oke:different situation would be if, like, I just
Meredith Oke:started a new type of meditation and I noticed
Meredith Oke:that I have a much higher alertness after, like
Meredith Oke:that. The way you just described it, when we
Meredith Oke:sense danger, all of a sudden it's heightened.
Meredith Oke:But we can also get there other ways which would
Meredith Oke:make sense if the meditation is creating
Meredith Oke:coherence.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Yeah, you're coming back into your heart space.
Meredith Oke:People would say, right, and if you're coming
Meredith Oke:back into your heart space, you become more aware
Meredith Oke:of things that you were distracted from by your
Meredith Oke:mind. Because there was this even like in ancient
Meredith Oke:Roman or ancient Greek philosophers, there was
Meredith Oke:kind of this divide. Like some of them thought
Meredith Oke:that, you know, the heart was the seed of the
Meredith Oke:soul. And then they were starting to say, maybe
Meredith Oke:it's the mind. Because they were, I think they
Meredith Oke:were probably becoming a bit arrogant about
Meredith Oke:knowledge they were gaining because it was a time
Meredith Oke:when lots of knowledge was gained potentially. I
Meredith Oke:don't know, but they were coming toward the mind.
Meredith Oke:And so coming back into your heart space, you,
Meredith Oke:you learn to interact with the environment. You
Meredith Oke:notice more things about your environment than
Meredith Oke:you would if you were just in your mind. You were
Meredith Oke:only thinking about what your mind and what your,
Meredith Oke:what your senses. You know, like you're seeing in
Meredith Oke:front of you right then and there. Rather than
Meredith Oke:coming back into a more reflective state and
Meredith Oke:noticing things and what that means and that kind
Meredith Oke:of stuff.
Meredith Oke:It'S having intuitions and.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Yeah, because then, like, if you think about it,
Meredith Oke:if you're stuck in your mind, you're stuck in the
Meredith Oke:present, you know, but if we talk about, if we
Meredith Oke:talk about the heart being what accesses, you
Meredith Oke:know, you know, your, the ether around you. And
Meredith Oke:if everything, all consciousness is stored in the
Meredith Oke:ether, then of course you're reflecting about,
Meredith Oke:you know, past, present, intuition. You're
Meredith Oke:getting all these different information from
Meredith Oke:time. That's not right now like being distracted
Meredith Oke:by right now, you know, because it's the organ
Meredith Oke:that allows us to connect to that. So. Or if
Meredith Oke:you're reaching out to someone else with your
Meredith Oke:heart rather than with your mind and trying to
Meredith Oke:force them to do something, but you're reaching
Meredith Oke:out with your heart, you're probably going to
Meredith Oke:learn a lot more about them and understand them a
Meredith Oke:lot better because you're reaching with that
Meredith Oke:heart which allows you to see not just what
Meredith Oke:you're seeing, the behavior you're seeing in them
Meredith Oke:right now, but probably a lot more information
Meredith Oke:about them from their past or whatever. It opens
Meredith Oke:you up to seeing those types of things.
Meredith Oke:So cool. I love these conversations and it's, you
Meredith Oke:know what I love too is that like I've been
Meredith Oke:contemplating these ideas for a while and I
Meredith Oke:always was like, okay, I have to go to the woo
Meredith Oke:Woo people and everything that most of the things
Meredith Oke:they say make sense and feel true. But it didn't.
Meredith Oke:But then the science people would be.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Like, no, no, no.
Meredith Oke:And now it's just like open season everything.
Meredith Oke:Like the looking at life through the idea of
Meredith Oke:physics is just like a whole new, we're in a
Meredith Oke:whole new paradigm, a whole new world. Like all
Meredith Oke:of these things just make sense.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Yeah. And that's the thing is that like, and you
Meredith Oke:stuck, you're stuck in the science world, the
Meredith Oke:biochemical science world. Everybody's just
Meredith Oke:trying to prove that different biochemical
Meredith Oke:equations are more, more important or prove this
Meredith Oke:or prove that. Whereas when you get into this
Meredith Oke:space, there's a lot of science, right? And we
Meredith Oke:see a lot of science and we're saying but they
Meredith Oke:were also like, but we know that's true, you
Meredith Oke:know, because we feel that, you know, we, that
Meredith Oke:science just explained that we're like, yeah,
Meredith Oke:that makes total sense because I felt that before.
Meredith Oke:It's funny when I talk to people like from the,
Meredith Oke:from, from the woo world or the energy space and
Meredith Oke:I give them like the, you know, two, two line
Meredith Oke:explanation of quantum biology and say, you know,
Meredith Oke:like it's showing or proving that there are
Meredith Oke:quantum effects happening inside living systems.
Meredith Oke:They, oh, the, the woo woo people are always
Meredith Oke:like, people didn't know that.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: They lost touch with it because they're living in
Meredith Oke:this is news.
Meredith Oke:Like, they just, like they're just looking at me
Meredith Oke:like, well, of course that's how it works. Like,
Meredith Oke:who doubted that? Like, well, yeah, everybody
Meredith Oke:else. Okay, so I want to wrap up on a topic
Meredith Oke:that's a little bit tricky, but I think really
Meredith Oke:worth talking about and helpful to talk about.
Meredith Oke:You sort of framed your, your take on biology for
Meredith Oke:us at the beginning has, has a lot to do with the
Meredith Oke:structured water in our bodies and interbody
Meredith Oke:communication and how, you know what, obviously
Meredith Oke:what we put in our body is having an effect from.
Meredith Oke:Through this paradigm is having an effect beyond
Meredith Oke:what you would anticipate through a biochemical
Meredith Oke:model. Okay, now we are talking. It's 20, 25. A
Meredith Oke:few years ago there was a mass rollout of a new
Meredith Oke:pharmaceutical product that was injected into
Meredith Oke:many, many millions of people's bodies. And as
Meredith Oke:we've been learning over the last few years, of
Meredith Oke:course had a cascade effect that was
Meredith Oke:unanticipated because they're working out of a
Meredith Oke:old fashioned model of biology. However, that the
Meredith Oke:effects of those injections are still, you know,
Meredith Oke:we're still grappling with them. Some of the
Meredith Oke:effects were immediate, some of them were a
Meredith Oke:little longer term. So we're a few years out from
Meredith Oke:the major rollout now. And I know that you're
Meredith Oke:very well versed and very well researched on this
Meredith Oke:topic. So I just wanted to hear where you think
Meredith Oke:we're at, what you think is going on with those
Meredith Oke:products and for people who took them, if there's
Meredith Oke:anything that they can do.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Yeah, well, I have kind of been like, I had been
Meredith Oke:kind of loosely aware of these things and just
Meredith Oke:like kind of paying attention to them and keeping
Meredith Oke:up with, you know, the, the news and stuff was
Meredith Oke:coming out and. But I was reading a book by
Meredith Oke:Gilbert Ling, I don't remember which one of his
Meredith Oke:books I was reading, but he was talking about an
Meredith Oke:experiment that he did and he was using ethylene
Meredith Oke:glycol to inject into cells. For some reason, and
Meredith Oke:I can't remember the reason because I was so
Meredith Oke:blown away. I was like, ethylene glycol. I was
Meredith Oke:like, I know that substance. And then I was like,
Meredith Oke:I think that's in these injections. So I went and
Meredith Oke:looked it up and in fact, in two of the brands,
Meredith Oke:polyethylene glycol was in them. And polyethylene
Meredith Oke:glycol is by definition just a string of ethylene
Meredith Oke:glycols. They've Put.
Meredith Oke:Which is what for us?
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Well, ethylene glycol, I think actually
Meredith Oke:polyethylene glycol is like antifreeze. Oh, yeah.
Meredith Oke:So if you sprayed it on your frozen car window,
Meredith Oke:it would melt it. Or you. You put it to something
Meredith Oke:if you don't want it to freeze.
Meredith Oke:Yeah, but isn't that the stuff. They're like,
Meredith Oke:careful while you put this. So your dog doesn't
Meredith Oke:get it because it's toxic.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Yeah, definitely.
Meredith Oke:Okay.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Yeah. And, you know, there's polyethylene glycol
Meredith Oke:in a lot of different products that we. That
Meredith Oke:people, maybe not you and I, I don't know,
Meredith Oke:consume on, on a regular basis. It can be in,
Meredith Oke:like, toothpaste, it can be in a lot of different
Meredith Oke:things. But however, when you ingest it, it
Meredith Oke:doesn't seem to be that much of an issue. Your
Meredith Oke:body seems to get rid of it pretty easily. It has
Meredith Oke:the mechanisms that just get rid of it. Even if
Meredith Oke:you absorb some of it in your liver, gets rid of
Meredith Oke:it pretty easily in those small amounts anyways.
Meredith Oke:However, if you inject it and go past those
Meredith Oke:barriers that use to eliminate it, that can cause
Meredith Oke:a problem. So anyways, what Dr. Ling found was
Meredith Oke:that he was injecting it. And again, I don't
Meredith Oke:remember why he was doing this in his experiment,
Meredith Oke:but he would inject it into a cell, the ethylene
Meredith Oke:glycol. And at first he saw the cell would start
Meredith Oke:to shrink a little bit. Just like very briefly,
Meredith Oke:it would shrink, and then it would just all of a
Meredith Oke:sudden start to expand. Like, the CE would get
Meredith Oke:huge. So if we think about what's in the cell, a
Meredith Oke:cell is largely. What largely fills the cell is
Meredith Oke:structured water. And so structured water is. So,
Meredith Oke:like, when you take water and you freeze it, it
Meredith Oke:becomes less dense, or so it just expands. Ice
Meredith Oke:expands. That's why if you put. If you freeze
Meredith Oke:water in a glass bottle, it'll break the bottle.
Meredith Oke:Right. However, structured water is actually more
Meredith Oke:dense. So it kind of shrinks. So if we get liquid
Meredith Oke:water, the space that the water is becomes more
Meredith Oke:dense. Right. And so that's what a cell is. Is
Meredith Oke:this. This more dense structure water or a large
Meredith Oke:portion of the cell is this more dense,
Meredith Oke:structured water? And then he injected
Meredith Oke:polyethylene glycol into it, and he saw at first,
Meredith Oke:like this, very momentarily shrinking and then
Meredith Oke:just expanding. Right. So what was happening is
Meredith Oke:that the structured water was being destroyed and
Meredith Oke:it was going back to liquid water, which means no
Meredith Oke:more area. Like, it creates bigger. So basically,
Meredith Oke:ethylene glycol was destroying structured water.
Meredith Oke:And that's what he found, that it interfered with
Meredith Oke:structured water's ability to form. So you take
Meredith Oke:that and you realize that here it is in these
Meredith Oke:injections.
Meredith Oke:And then, okay, sorry, I just want to make sure I
Meredith Oke:have it. So the cell is made of structured water.
Meredith Oke:Gilbert Ling did experiments for unknown reasons
Meredith Oke:that don't matter, but he put this ingredient
Meredith Oke:into the cell and it damaged the structured water.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Yes, like it broke it up and it turned, it went
Meredith Oke:back to liquid water because there's liquid water
Meredith Oke:in the cell.
Meredith Oke:So it like pulled it out of the fourth phase and
Meredith Oke:put it back into regular water, right?
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Yeah, it caused a phase transition. Right. You
Meredith Oke:know.
Meredith Oke:Okay.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Away from fourth phase back to liquid water. And
Meredith Oke:that created this swelling of the cells, which is
Meredith Oke:exactly what happens when we get swelling in our
Meredith Oke:tissue. Right. If you, if your tissue swells,
Meredith Oke:it's because there's a damage. The status quo is
Meredith Oke:damaged. It can't maintain structured water. And
Meredith Oke:we start to get the swelling of the tissue while
Meredith Oke:this healing response happens. And there's also
Meredith Oke:blood flow increases to the area and lots of
Meredith Oke:things happen to try and heal it. But that's one
Meredith Oke:reason that we get swelling. So anyways, so then
Meredith Oke:I was like, oh, well, that's interesting. So now
Meredith Oke:we can understand that there's a certain
Meredith Oke:ingredient. And then there's also Polysorbate 80,
Meredith Oke:which is in the other two brands that we of the
Meredith Oke:injection that were out there. And it's been
Meredith Oke:shown to have similar like effects to
Meredith Oke:polyethylene glycol or ethylene glycol. So
Meredith Oke:anyways, so we're injecting this past. We're not
Meredith Oke:ingesting it so we can get rid of it pretty
Meredith Oke:easily. We're injecting it right into the
Meredith Oke:tissues, which is surpassing that natural
Meredith Oke:mechanism. We're not supposed to have things
Meredith Oke:injected necessarily.
Meredith Oke:Was the thinking, oh, this is non toxic because
Meredith Oke:when people ingest it, they're able to get rid of
Meredith Oke:it. Or was there just not any thinking was, who
Meredith Oke:knows?
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: It could have just been that, you know, for these
Meredith Oke:types of things to quote unquote, work, there has
Meredith Oke:to be something to aggravate the immune system.
Meredith Oke:Maybe that was it. I don't know. I'm not sure
Meredith Oke:exactly why they use them. I didn't go too far
Meredith Oke:into that, but they're in there.
Meredith Oke:Okay.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: And so if we look at that and we recognize that
Meredith Oke:now we've injected this, you know, large amount
Meredith Oke:of stuff that can destroy structured water. Well,
Meredith Oke:you know, look at some of the side effects of
Meredith Oke:these injections. And it's not just these
Meredith Oke:injections, it's other injections too. It's just
Meredith Oke:likely that other toxins do the same thing. But
Meredith Oke:when you look at the side effects, one of them
Meredith Oke:you just have a local reaction, right? A red
Meredith Oke:response, kind of a histamine reaction to that.
Meredith Oke:And so if you look at what the way, the way we
Meredith Oke:get a histamine response or one way we get a
Meredith Oke:histamine response is if the voltage of a cell
Meredith Oke:drops too much and that makes mass cells which
Meredith Oke:make histamine unstable. And if they become
Meredith Oke:unstable, they start releasing histamine like
Meredith Oke:crazy. And so what holds the charge?
Meredith Oke:Say that again. Can you say that one more time?
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: So the charge of a cell, the voltage of a cell,
Meredith Oke:which if you learn, study the physiology, you all
Meredith Oke:know there's this net negative voltage of a cell.
Meredith Oke:And that net negative voltage is what makes the
Meredith Oke:cell stable. And if we get a drop in voltage,
Meredith Oke:then that can make mast cells unstable. And the
Meredith Oke:mast cells are the cells in the body that release
Meredith Oke:the things in the body that release the mast cell
Meredith Oke:or the histamine. And the histamine response is
Meredith Oke:what makes you itchy and have this red response,
Meredith Oke:you know. And so if you look at structured water
Meredith Oke:is what holds the negative voltage in a cell.
Meredith Oke:It's what gets the cell, it's net negative
Meredith Oke:charge. So if you inject something locally there
Meredith Oke:that interferes with structured water formation,
Meredith Oke:now there's no net negative charge being held,
Meredith Oke:and it's more likely to drop that voltage. You
Meredith Oke:drop the voltage. Mast cells, when you drop the
Meredith Oke:voltage, makes them unstable, they start spewing
Meredith Oke:out histamine and you get this red response,
Meredith Oke:right? So that can happen locally if the person
Meredith Oke:is in a compromised state already, which is why
Meredith Oke:we see more issues with type 2 diabetics and
Meredith Oke:things like that, then this can be a systemic
Meredith Oke:response, and that's anaphylaxis and that's life
Meredith Oke:threatening.
Meredith Oke:So that's like I get stung by a bee, I get, I get
Meredith Oke:a red welt. But someone else goes into
Meredith Oke:anaphylactic shock, right?
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: So it just depends, same stimulant or what
Meredith Oke:they've learned to be reactive to in the past,
Meredith Oke:right? What their body's learned to be reactive
Meredith Oke:to. So that's one thing. That's one thing that
Meredith Oke:happened with them that we can explain. Another
Meredith Oke:thing that happened was clotting, Excessive
Meredith Oke:clotting happened. And so I've spoken a lot
Meredith Oke:about, I'm sure on the last or the first podcast
Meredith Oke:we did that we talked about how heart disease is
Meredith Oke:caused by clotting. And the way you prevent
Meredith Oke:clotting biophysically is you build structured
Meredith Oke:water in the arteries. Because when you build
Meredith Oke:structured water in the arteries, it keeps blood
Meredith Oke:moving, it protects the lining of the artery, and
Meredith Oke:it keeps blood thin or all the elements above,
Meredith Oke:even in space. And that prevents clotting. If you
Meredith Oke:inject something that breaks down structured
Meredith Oke:water, you're highly predisposing someone to
Meredith Oke:clotting because you're getting thick, stagnant
Meredith Oke:blood. You're. You're taking away the protection
Meredith Oke:lining the artery, which now it can be damaged.
Meredith Oke:And you're interfering with blood flow when you
Meredith Oke:tear down structured water. So stagnant, thick
Meredith Oke:blood is going to clot. And so that's exactly
Meredith Oke:what we saw with these things. We saw excessive
Meredith Oke:clotting in people. Another thing we saw was high
Meredith Oke:blood pressure. A lot of people had high blood
Meredith Oke:pressure. And so again, if you destroy the
Meredith Oke:structured water on the lining of the artery or
Meredith Oke:you make it less likely to form, and the
Meredith Oke:structured water is what's moving the blood
Meredith Oke:through a tube. Well, if the, if the blood in the
Meredith Oke:tube is not moving fast enough, how does the body
Meredith Oke:get it? One way the body gets it to move faster
Meredith Oke:is you constrict, right? Just like if you put
Meredith Oke:your thumb over the end of a hose and water comes
Meredith Oke:out faster because you're decreasing the area to
Meredith Oke:which it can travel. The same thing, you
Meredith Oke:constrict the blood vessel and it moves faster,
Meredith Oke:but it also creates more pressure. And so you're
Meredith Oke:increasing blood pressure. So again, that could
Meredith Oke:be a pitomechanism there. Another thing that we
Meredith Oke:saw was myocarditis or pericarditis, inflammation
Meredith Oke:of the heart. And the kind of the sacs, I guess,
Meredith Oke:that contain the heart, the connective tissue
Meredith Oke:sacs that hold it where it is. And so myocarditis
Meredith Oke:is inflammation of the heart muscles themselves,
Meredith Oke:the muscle cells. And then pericarditis is the
Meredith Oke:pericardium around the heart was getting
Meredith Oke:inflamed. And, you know, itis means inflammation.
Meredith Oke:And so what's happening there is that structured
Meredith Oke:water is in the cells. And it's also not just in
Meredith Oke:the cells, but it lay. It lines our tissues,
Meredith Oke:right? And structured water also is. Creates a
Meredith Oke:frictionless barrier. So if, like, it's what
Meredith Oke:forms when you ice skate on ice, there's
Meredith Oke:structured water forming on the ice as it slowly,
Meredith Oke:like, instantaneously melts. And then your. Your
Meredith Oke:ice skate is sliding across it. And so this is
Meredith Oke:frictionless barrier. So you grab the ice out of
Meredith Oke:the freezer and it sticks to you, and then it
Meredith Oke:melts and it slips right out of your hand. Right.
Meredith Oke:Because the melting of it, you're forming this
Meredith Oke:layer of structured water there. And so it
Meredith Oke:creates this frictionless barrier. And so if you
Meredith Oke:look at heart cells the way they are, they're
Meredith Oke:heart muscle cells. They're lined up like they're
Meredith Oke:connected by these intercalated discs like this,
Meredith Oke:and the one after the other. And so they create
Meredith Oke:these tubes of muscle. So when it contracts, the
Meredith Oke:muscle kind of slides back and forth as it
Meredith Oke:contracts as one. Right. So you get two of them,
Meredith Oke:they're sliding past each other like this.
Meredith Oke:However, if there's no structured water between
Meredith Oke:them, creating a frictionless barrier, guess what
Meredith Oke:you get inflammation. Myocarditis. Right. The
Meredith Oke:other thing is that the. The pericardium and
Meredith Oke:between the heart and the pericardium, there's
Meredith Oke:also structured water that lines that. Those
Meredith Oke:spaces between it. This is everywhere. It's
Meredith Oke:between cells, it's everywhere. That gives it
Meredith Oke:this frictionless barrier. So let's say you
Meredith Oke:inject something that destroys structured water,
Meredith Oke:and you have two of these barriers next to each
Meredith Oke:other, and that frictionless effect is not there.
Meredith Oke:It's going to create inflammation. So why didn't
Meredith Oke:we see inflammation of the liver, inflammation of
Meredith Oke:the kidneys? Why not? Why did it happen in the
Meredith Oke:heart and the lungs? Pleuritis. Because those are
Meredith Oke:the organs that are moving in the body.
Meredith Oke:So they rely on that.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Right.
Meredith Oke:That friction on that structured water for that
Meredith Oke:frictionless movement.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Yeah. And so when you get. Especially the heart,
Meredith Oke:we saw that more because again, the heart is
Meredith Oke:moving more frequently and faster than the lungs.
Meredith Oke:So we saw it in there. And then lastly, we saw
Meredith Oke:increases in cancer. Right. And so what cancer
Meredith Oke:is, is everybody says cancer is a metabolic
Meredith Oke:disease. And there is definitely a metabolic
Meredith Oke:component, and mitochondrial health is key. But
Meredith Oke:it's not that. It's not that the mitochondria are
Meredith Oke:like, not making enough energy or not making
Meredith Oke:enough ATP. It's. I mean, it is kind of that, but
Meredith Oke:it's really that what's. When the mitochondria
Meredith Oke:don't function, the cell can't hold its voltage.
Meredith Oke:And so there's plenty of studies that show that
Meredith Oke:when cancer cells are. They don't use oxygen,
Meredith Oke:meaning the mitochondria aren't functioning well,
Meredith Oke:and that they. They have a pH, a higher pH or
Meredith Oke:lower pH mean, meaning they're more acidic. And
Meredith Oke:so more acidity means less negative charge. And
Meredith Oke:so they've lost their voltage. Right. And so the
Meredith Oke:reason that happens is because, I mean, the more
Meredith Oke:traditional way that it happens is that you get
Meredith Oke:poor mitochondrial function, mitochondrial damage
Meredith Oke:from toxin exposures, poor metabolic health, poor
Meredith Oke:mitophagy, that kind of stuff. All that stuff
Meredith Oke:doesn't happen. And then the mitochondria aren't
Meredith Oke:producing enough ATP. ATP is not unfolding
Meredith Oke:cellular proteins giving water surface area to
Meredith Oke:structure itself on. So if you don't get that,
Meredith Oke:which is what the purpose of ATP is, is to unfold
Meredith Oke:proteins. It's not to power the whole cell or the
Meredith Oke:whole body. It's to unfold proteins so that
Meredith Oke:there's surface area to hold charge, to hold
Meredith Oke:energy, which is structured water. If you don't
Meredith Oke:get that, then you can get into a cancerous state
Meredith Oke:or a cell can lose its voltage. And when a cell
Meredith Oke:loses its voltage, it loses its ability to
Meredith Oke:communicate and function properly. And then it
Meredith Oke:goes into survival mode and it starts rapidly
Meredith Oke:dividing because it doesn't see itself as part of
Meredith Oke:a whole. It sees itself as one individual cell
Meredith Oke:that has to survive. So it starts rapidly
Meredith Oke:dividing, and its progeny do the same thing. And
Meredith Oke:so that's what cancer is. And so that's kind of
Meredith Oke:the more traditional route of coming to cancer.
Meredith Oke:However, you could also introduce something that
Meredith Oke:destroys structured water directly. And you turn
Meredith Oke:these cells, who may or may not have functioning
Meredith Oke:mitochondria, maybe that stuff damages
Meredith Oke:mitochondria too, but it also interferes with the
Meredith Oke:body's ability to structure water in the cell.
Meredith Oke:And then the cell is more likely to lose its
Meredith Oke:voltage and become cancerous. And so they're
Meredith Oke:calling them like these turbo cancers because the
Meredith Oke:body can't get rid of these things. Because you
Meredith Oke:look at most people, their detox pathways are
Meredith Oke:shut down. They're completely shut down. They
Meredith Oke:have stagnant fluid in the body. The blood flow
Meredith Oke:is not moving well, the lymph is not moving well.
Meredith Oke:They're not sweating on a daily know I've met so
Meredith Oke:many people who can't sweat. They just. They try
Meredith Oke:to and they can't because there's just detox
Meredith Oke:mechanisms are shut down. Their liver is backed
Meredith Oke:up and not supported properly. They may have
Meredith Oke:constipation, like their detox mechanisms are
Meredith Oke:shut down. And that's a lot of people in this
Meredith Oke:world.
Meredith Oke:And detox mechanisms being sweating, pooping,
Meredith Oke:what else?
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Just the liver itself functioning properly. But
Meredith Oke:if the liver is always dealing with all the
Meredith Oke:toxins you're supposed to every single day, it
Meredith Oke:can't do that as well. Plus it's not supported
Meredith Oke:well enough because it doesn't have the right
Meredith Oke:nutrients, collagen, B vitamins, things like that
Meredith Oke:that we largely get from animal foods. Like those
Meredith Oke:things are important for the liver to do the
Meredith Oke:conjugation phases of its detoxification. So all
Meredith Oke:that stuff is. And then just static lymph, it's
Meredith Oke:just not getting out, you know, because we have
Meredith Oke:bound up fascia, because we're not in infrared
Meredith Oke:light, we have scar tissue in the body, things
Meredith Oke:like that. The lymph is just not moving. People
Meredith Oke:are just not moving in general where, you know,
Meredith Oke:people are living sedentary lives. And so all
Meredith Oke:that stuff is just, we're not getting rid of this
Meredith Oke:polyethylene glycol or polysorbate ab or whatever
Meredith Oke:else is in them. You know, we're just not getting
Meredith Oke:rid of them. And so with that, we get these
Meredith Oke:people that are just, you know, perpetually in
Meredith Oke:this state after this injection. And I'm, I'm of
Meredith Oke:the opinion that the process of getting sick from
Meredith Oke:any viral type illness is similar to this because
Meredith Oke:it's just a toxic response to the body. Like the
Meredith Oke:body has been introduced by a toxin and it could
Meredith Oke:be environmental stuff that triggers it, or it
Meredith Oke:could be directly introducing a toxin via an
Meredith Oke:injection or something. So it's just your body
Meredith Oke:having a detox response. But that's. So it's the
Meredith Oke:same thing. It's the same kind of response. So
Meredith Oke:you could be struggling from the vaccine or
Meredith Oke:illnesses. You know, they could go on
Meredith Oke:perpetually, which is an issue.
Meredith Oke:I've heard that a lot from people. Like they'll
Meredith Oke:get the flu and it'll last for like, they'll have
Meredith Oke:symptoms for like a month.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Yeah.
Meredith Oke:Or a cold that goes on for like weeks and weeks
Meredith Oke:and weeks and weeks. Like the body doesn't seem
Meredith Oke:able to resolve just a normal.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: It's in a seasonal state.
Meredith Oke:Detox properly.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Yeah. And that's what it is. I mean, I mean you
Meredith Oke:think about it like if you get it this type of
Meredith Oke:illness and it gets bad enough, your body mounts
Meredith Oke:a fever to force you to sweat and, and that's
Meredith Oke:what happens. And then that's the way it was in
Meredith Oke:the old days. Oh. And they, you know, they, they
Meredith Oke:broke their fever, you know, they sweated it out
Meredith Oke:and then they were better. Yeah, it's just like,
Meredith Oke:that's. Makes a lot more sense to me. So that's
Meredith Oke:what it is. And it's a similar reaction when you
Meredith Oke:inject something that your body can't get rid of
Meredith Oke:because your detox pathways are shut down. So the
Meredith Oke:first step is charge your body, give Your body
Meredith Oke:the energy it needs to then eventually get rid of
Meredith Oke:this stuff. So charge your body means sunlight,
Meredith Oke:grounding, avoiding toxins. It means metabolic
Meredith Oke:health. So good energy sources, food energy
Meredith Oke:sources, but also grounding and sunlight, like we
Meredith Oke:said. And it means avoiding emf, things that
Meredith Oke:steal the charge, avoiding artificial light that
Meredith Oke:steals the charge, all those different things. So
Meredith Oke:allow your body to actually charge up its battery
Meredith Oke:and then open up detox pathways, then start to
Meredith Oke:open things up. So fix constipation in whatever
Meredith Oke:way you need to. It could just be that you're not
Meredith Oke:drinking enough water or electrolytes. You know,
Meredith Oke:start sweating, whether that's. If you don't want
Meredith Oke:to exercise, get a sauna or sit in the sun. Like,
Meredith Oke:start sweating. Start getting lymph moving. Like,
Meredith Oke:lymphatic massages are great. You can do them on
Meredith Oke:yourself. You can have someone else do them.
Meredith Oke:Like, let's start getting stuff moving. Address
Meredith Oke:the scar tissue in your body. Support the liver
Meredith Oke:with B vitamins and collagen and things like
Meredith Oke:that. Which, again, eating whole animal food
Meredith Oke:sources is best. But, yeah, all that stuff. Once
Meredith Oke:you start doing that, if you've charged up the
Meredith Oke:body, you get enough energy, and then you open up
Meredith Oke:the pathways, it'll get rid of stuff. It's really
Meredith Oke:good at doing that. We're just in environments
Meredith Oke:that are interfering with all that.
Meredith Oke:Amazing. And I love that it's relatively simple.
Meredith Oke:I find for people, the biggest barrier is, like,
Meredith Oke:realizing they should do that. Whenever I talk to
Meredith Oke:someone who has a lingering illness, which was a
Meredith Oke:lot this winter, I'm like, you know, there's an
Meredith Oke:infrared sauna place just in the next town over.
Meredith Oke:It's only 10 minutes away. That would really
Meredith Oke:help. And they're like, oh, yeah, okay. And I'm
Meredith Oke:like, all right, I'm not gonna.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Well, the other aspect of detoxing is circadian
Meredith Oke:rhythm, like, getting melatonin levels higher so
Meredith Oke:that you. When you do sleep, you're actually
Meredith Oke:detoxifying at night. If you don't get that
Meredith Oke:signal, you won't. So it's like I tell people,
Meredith Oke:it's like, you never took the trash out in your
Meredith Oke:house. If you're not doing that when you sleep.
Meredith Oke:If the. If you're not making enough melatonin.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Yeah.
Meredith Oke:In addition to other things, melatonin is a
Meredith Oke:detoxifier, is what you're saying.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Well, yeah, it stimulates the. Like, if you're
Meredith Oke:talking about mitophagy and autophagy, lymphatic
Meredith Oke:drainage and glymphatic drainage and gut lining
Meredith Oke:repair and artery repair, like all that stuff
Meredith Oke:like detox and repair happens at night if you
Meredith Oke:have adequate melatonin. So again, that means
Meredith Oke:mitochondrial function, but it also means getting
Meredith Oke:that pineal melatonin by blocking blue light
Meredith Oke:after sunset and optimizing that for sleep so
Meredith Oke:that you get into that deep, restorative, healing
Meredith Oke:sleep.
Meredith Oke:Amazing. Well, Steven, thank you so much for
Meredith Oke:coming back. This was really fun. We went to a
Meredith Oke:lot of places. I feel like this was like four
Meredith Oke:different episodes in one. It's good. It's great.
Meredith Oke:So tell me how people can find you. There is an
Meredith Oke:opportunity to see you speak live at the event in
Meredith Oke:June. The Wild Retreat. Did I say the name?
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: I said it.
Meredith Oke:Tell us about that.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Yeah. So, well, people can find me on my website
Meredith Oke:is resourceyourhealth.com and all the stuff.
Meredith Oke:So. Resourceyourhealth.com r e s o u r c e
Meredith Oke:yourhealth.com yes. All right. We will link to
Meredith Oke:that in the show notes, but I know most of you
Meredith Oke:are driving or whatever, so.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Resourceyourhealth.com yeah, and all the stuff
Meredith Oke:I'm doing is on there.
Meredith Oke:And you're on the socials.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Yeah, social media.
Meredith Oke:What's your IG Social?
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Dr. Stephen Hussey. Stephen with a pH.
Meredith Oke:Yeah, pH s t e P H E N H U S s e y. Dr. Stephen
Meredith Oke:Hussey.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Yeah. And then, yes, I will be at the Return to
Meredith Oke:Nature event, speaking. And that is in the June.
Meredith Oke:End of June.
Meredith Oke:End of June in beautiful Tennessee. We'll also
Meredith Oke:put a link to that in the show notes. Keep doing
Meredith Oke:the work you're doing. And that was. I just want
Meredith Oke:to wrap up like, that is an incredible take on,
Meredith Oke:on the shots. Have you. Is that like something
Meredith Oke:you pieced together because you happen to read
Meredith Oke:that Gilbert Ling research, or are people
Meredith Oke:understanding that that could be part of it?
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: That's something I just pieced together. And it's
Meredith Oke:one possible mechanism. There's obviously
Meredith Oke:probably other mechanisms by which they could be
Meredith Oke:causing harm. But that's one that I, when I
Meredith Oke:figured that out, I'm just like, oh, well, that
Meredith Oke:can explain, you know, the, the high blood
Meredith Oke:pressure can explain all the different things if
Meredith Oke:you know. But I also knew previous information
Meredith Oke:about structured water. So having that previous
Meredith Oke:information, I was like, oh, well, then I can
Meredith Oke:explain it all.
Meredith Oke:Yeah. And you are likely one of very few people
Meredith Oke:in the world who would have had a place to put
Meredith Oke:all.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Those things together or would be reading Gilbert
Meredith Oke:Ling.
Meredith Oke:Exactly. You've read Gilbert Ling. You understand
Meredith Oke:structured water and you're reading the
Meredith Oke:ingredient list on pharmaceutical products.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Yeah.
Meredith Oke:Yeah. Well, that's what we're here for. That is
Meredith Oke:why this podcast exists, because we love to hear
Meredith Oke:what you're all learning, and it's so important
Meredith Oke:and makes such a difference to our lives. So
Meredith Oke:thank you for all your amazing work, and thank
Meredith Oke:you for sharing it with us.
Meredith Oke:Dr. Stephen Hussey: Yeah, thanks for having me on.