The intricacies of optimizing health, fitness, and recovery. The significance of ATP (adenosine triphosphate) as the body's primary energy molecule and highlights the importance of transitioning into a fat-burning state to enhance ATP production. The critical role of recovery, asserting that rebuilding tissue demands more resources and effort than breaking it down, hence emphasizing the need for quality sleep, proper nutrition, and supplementation. Additionally, the benefits of hyperbaric oxygen therapy and advocates for exploring alternative treatments like ketamine and psychedelics for mental health issues. Overall, Dr. Chalmers offers valuable insights into holistic wellness, emphasizing the importance of maximizing the body's healing potential for optimal health and performance.
Highlights of the Podcast
00:11 - Energy or the body is not a calorie
00:50 - The fat oxidizing state
01:36 - Fat burning state to create all this ATP
03:02 - Going to be as healthy as you possibly can
06:13 - The negative effects of estrogen
07:07 - The heart's in good shape
07:29 - A phenomenal fuel source
08:41 - The oxygenation in your body
10:00 -The way it works
11:41 - Careful with some of the other stuff
12:30 - People like ending their addictions
13:25 - The stuff about getting involved
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:04] So today we talked a little about, the fat oxidizing state, we talked a little bit about how the real unit of energy or the body is not a calorie, it's ATP. We talked about how it is, you know, silly. The idea of the calories in, calories out model was, to begin with. And so today, I kind of want to get into what the actual function is. So if you look at this from a chemical standpoint, which is the way that I look at the whole thing, what you really want to look at as far as generating muscle tissue, losing fat, getting healthy, it's all entirely about utilization of ATP. ATP being the molecule of energy everybody uses for fuel and for power for everything.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:46] So, the big thing is that, yeah, you know, getting to the fat oxidizing state will move your body into position where it's using fat as your fuel source to create ATP. And so in that case, we can now use the facets on our body to fuel everything we're doing. This is how fasting becomes very, very healthy. This is how fasting helps us lose the body fat, but also how it helps us tremendously create new muscle tissue and new healthy organs. So one of the big things when we talk about ATP creation, ATP creation happens a much higher amount per unit of fat than it does from glucose or from proteins. So it's like 100 per fat, 80 ish carbohydrates, or for glucose and like 40 or 50 from proteins, the per unit equal unit of energy, I'm sorry, unit of mass.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:35] So you definitely want to be in that fat burning state to create all this ATP. And the thing is that people go, well, how do I maximize that? Well, it's easy. You maximize it in the recovery. So yeah, if you look at the calorie system, they always talk about working out. No, you got to work out to burn calories. You gonna walk to burn calories okay. Whatever. Yes, it requires ATP. It requires energy to work out there, requires energy to go walk. It requires energy to do all those things. However, rebuilding your tissue takes a giant amount more. Think of it this way what takes more resources costs more money and is harder to do. Destroy a building or build a building. Massive difference. Destroying a building, super easy building the building. Tons of resources, tons of money, tons of stuff. Same exact thing happens. Realize that what you really want to do it? Go to the gym, tear down that muscle tissue, but then really focus on how your body's going to repair, regenerate, and rebuild that tissue. So now that gets into all of the chemistry of how the body works.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:36] And here's the cool thing. If you decide you want to do that, the very best way to recover, the very best way to build tissue is also the exact same thing you do to get as healthy as possible, because again, when we talk about the body, health is good chemicals and bad chemicals out. And if we're giving the body the best possible chemicals we can to ensure healthy new growth, and we're keeping all the waste out because we don't want to hinder that new healthy growth, you're going to be as healthy as you possibly can. So the way that if you look at it from the standpoint, the way you're doing it, the way you're building your body off, the way you're getting into, you know, not all of you, you're going to get in a contest shape. But if you want to get the contest shape, there's a way to do it where you're maximizing your body's full potential of being as healthy as possible. And so that's really where all the things that I've done and I've put together for me and for all the patients I work with, everything else, that's where the secret sauce is.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:28] So when I start going through all the supplementation I'm taking, and there's a lot of stuff you guys have to take, I take it because I'm around sick people all day long and I take extra stuff, but as I go through it, you guys kind of understand why we're doing things. One of the big ones on this is, your body doesn't want protein. It wants amino acids. Quit giving it really hard to digest proteins with no digestive enzymes, and then wonder why you're not getting the gains you're getting. Your body takes a protein, digests it, breaks it into its individual amino acids, absorbs those amino acids, then uses those amino acids to build the body. Lysine helps fight viruses, which is phenomenal that it we're gonna go into that later. Leucine and isoleucine are the two biggest for muscle creation. So this is a funny thing. This is why everybody uses whey protein and pea protein in their protein powders. Because whey and P have the highest concentration of leucine. Out of the vast majority of the proteins you have access to, however, you can't look at it that way. You have to look at it as what yields the best amount of amino acids. The answer to that is actually collagen. So people ask me all the time, how much protein do you take? I'm like, I have no idea. I'm like, what am I?
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:04:38] During a normal day, like of a fasting day, I will only consume collagen. That's it. But that collagen helps my body to create sugars, to run my brain and my blood. So I know I'm not in ketosis. My breath and sink. But it also gives me all the building blocks I need to repair the tissue I'm damaging while I'm in the gym. Then I also take a lot of branched chain amino acids again, I so leucine and loosing. So I taken right after workout and as soon as I go to bed right before I go to bed. So I have all the tools I need to regenerate, recover and heal. So that's where a lot of this gets into. It's it's how are we regenerating? How are we healing? So in order to do that you have to maximize your sleep. You've got to maximize your hormone functionality. We're going to get into a lot of that here in a minute. You got to maximize all of the micronutrients. You know that the iodide, the copper, the molybdenum, like all those little, little micronutrients that your body definitely selenium as your body desperately needs.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:05:33] So there's two ways of getting them. You can either eat really high grade, nutritious, you know, nutrient-dense foods, or you can take supplementation. Good news, bad news. A supplementation thing is super easy. It makes things really, really easy. Bad news if you're wanting to eat super high end, super nutritious, you know, nutrient dense foods, if you live in America, you're not going to get it. Our foods are full of poison. They're full of glyphosate, which is why everybody thinks gluten. The problem, full of atrazine, which is a massive estrogen dominant function. It's going to lean real hard on this atrazine receptor, suppressing testosterone and increasing the negative effects of, estrogen. And here's the fun thing. You pull, the blood will show up in the blood, but your body says, oh, no, we have we have estrogen levels of 40, but you have this giant activation of the estrogen receptor site. So it's like you have 200, levels of estrogen. So there's a little bit of chemistry in that as well. We can go through that as we get there. But that's really the big thing. It's what are we doing to maximize the healing.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:06:38] And guys, the time that you heal repair is when you're asleep. So if your sleep is crap, your gains are gonna be crap. And so we've got to maximize sleep. So there's a couple different things that we do for this. The first thing I do is I always make sure whenever somebody comes in the office, I recommend you guys do this to make sure you get to me, who's going to read these labs and read these tests and understand what's going on. But but anyway, so I do echocardiograms with you calcium case. So the number one thing we want to make sure is your body is producing enough oxygen to make everything work. So we gotta make sure the heart's in good shape. And we have to make sure there's no slacking in the arteries. Cholesterol. Blood labs have zero bearing on this. And. UCLA study not too long ago.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:07:17] This show that 75% of people who are in their research study who died from heart attacks and strokes had good or normal cholesterol levels. Because cholesterol in and of itself is the major fuel source for your heart. It's a phenomenal fuel source. LDL cholesterol is fantastic for you. What happens is that it oxidizes to you. You allow the metabolic chemistry your body to go sideways. You produce a lot of reactive oxidative stress, also known as free radicals, that damages the LDL, makes it oxidize. LDL also damages the blood vessels when those two things meet damaged blood vessel and oxidized LDL. That's when we have a problem. Again, the only way to fix that is with nutrition, because you have to denature those free radicals with chemistry. That and again, as we go through this, we're gonna get into that. But that's kind of how that works. So you got to make sure that to your heart's good. So echocardiograms a video of your heart beating, making sure there's no leaks, making sure there's the pressures, right? The amount of blood that's actually kicked out of the heart is the right amount for the ejection fraction. So we gotta make sure that's good. And then the calcium CT is an X-ray of the chest shows if you have any plaque. There's a really cool one that uses dye and AI technology to map the inside of blood vessels. It's a great test. Most likely not. Make it so. Do the calcium CT to the echocardiogram, make sure your heart's good, and then do a sleep study.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:08:34] And then people tell me all the time, oh, I sleep great. I feel awesome when I wake up in the morning, I don't care. I want objective measurements. Is the oxygenation in your body as high as possible during your sleep? If you're at 95 or above, you're fine. If you're at 8889, medically, they'll tell you you're fine. You're out of apnea. I'm gonna disagree with that because again, this isn't what's what's available to survive. What we're talking about is what is the best function to thrive. And so I want your oxygen, you know, 95 or above at night. So when I did my first place that it was abysmal. And what I end up having to do is I got a CPAp that help. But it didn't get me where I wanted to go. So I have it. I have an oxygen concentrator hooked to my CPAp from pure oxygen to my face all night long, so my oxygenation is as high as possible. So that's going to help tremendously with not only burning fat, but rebuilding everything in the body. Remember, when we oxidize the fat we're adding oxygen to it. So without oxygen you're not going to get where you want to go.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:09:32] So speaking of oxygen, the other thing I do a lot is why I'm like researching and reading. I'll do it in my hyperbaric chamber. With hyperbaric oxygen, you can increase the oxygen to the tissues by up to 1,000%. We use this a lot during Covid. It was the number one thing that kept people alive. If you do any diabetic research, it'll show that people who have wounds, like cuts on their feet and their feet are not healing. What they can do is they can go through and put them in hyperbaric chamber, and it will oxygenate the blood. And all of a sudden the wounds start to heal. The way it works is it uses what's called Boyle's law, and actually forces oxygen in between the red blood cells into the plasma or into the water of the blood. So think about like if you're making soda with a CO2 cartridge in your cheek, and all of a sudden there's bubbles in the water. Same concept, except you're not going to bubbles. You're in your blood, you're going to have oxygen throughout.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:10:19] So it's a great way to do it. We all my pro athletes get these chambers in their house. Massive changes in the rehab, the recovery and everything else. It's also amazing for concoctions. I use I use there's all protocol I use with hyperbaric chamber for this. And we usually cut concussion times in half. So like the NFL, I'll be like, you're going to be out for six weeks, and 2 or 3 weeks later you're fine. Because again, it's chemistry. But that's kind of where we're going. So it's, it's the as we go through the supplementation, the thing about it is that we're trying to maximize the chemistry. And I'll tell you ahead of time, I run on 120% rule. If I think that if it's like if it's something that's not going to damage me, if I take twice as much as I'm supposed to, I figure out more or less what I think I need, and I take 120% of that because I don't know, like if I have a really stressful day or if I didn't sleep great or, you know, barometric pressures that but whatever. I just want to make sure that my body has more than it needs. Because when we start talking about recovery, we start talking about chemistry. There's something called a limiting reagent.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:11:19] So if you have ten of this unit, in ten of this unit and three of this unit and it's equal, these two are going to be fine. This third unit, you only have three. Once you're done with that you can no longer do any more chemical reactions. And so that's the thing we want to make sure we have more than enough of everything we need unless it's detrimental. So like some of the fat soluble stuff like vitamin E we're really careful with some of the other stuff. It doesn't matter. Like B vitamins. We're going to make sure we have as much as we can, because methylated B vitamins are super hyper critical to all function in the body. So, we're going to start tomorrow on some the supplementation stuff we're doing and why. There is no particular order. I'm literally just gonna grab it out of the cabinet next in line to video.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:11:59] A lot of this stuff we have on the website. And remember, anything that you guys get from either the cereal store or from Pillars of Wellness.com, all the products from the assortments that you buy is going to go to our charity helping veterans and first responders beat PTSD and addiction. Using ketamine and psychedelics. So the catch on that if you guys have depression, do you guys have issues with anxiety? If you guys are having issues mentally look into ketamine, look into the psychedelics. It is phenomenal. The research is unbelievable. We've been able to do things with people like ending their addictions, ending their, you know, their PTSD in like three weeks and it's 90% of it's gone. The research shows 85% of the time you can end PTSD in addiction with ketamine. So look at ketamine. Look at suicide. And your cannabis fits in this realm as well as well as well. But you know, these are the things that we need to start looking at these these things that help the body heal and help the body move into the direction they need to go. Because that's really where health and wellness is. You know, I always tell people wellness is good chemicals. In fact chemicals out, and it's defined as the highest quality of life for the longest quantity of time.
Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:13:07] And so, you know, that's kind of it. It's really kind of depends on how much, how strong your mind is and how much you want it and what you're willing to do. That's what that's where this all comes down. So on that, so to close, Steve Cooper, you and I are going to get together. Then at 330, we're gonna live stream that, we're going to talk about all the stuff about getting involved in signing up for and starting to do. Professional bodybuilding shows. So he's going to walk me through some of that. We're gonna talk about posing and all that sort of stuff. So we'll do that live today. Check that out. If you guys have any questions, questions at Chalmers wellness.com, or just toss them in the in the in the comments and we'll get to them. Talks to you soon. Thanks. Bye.
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