180. Danica Patrick: Shares Her Health Transformation After Removing Breast Implants

Authenticity vibrates at a frequency 4,000 times stronger than love — and Danica Patrick’s health transformation proves it. When she finally listened to her body’s authentic signals and removed her breast implants after seven years of illness, her oil production, scalp health, and energy returned within hours. At 43, she’s in the best shape of her life following two simple protocols: eat your protein and lift weights. Your body tells the truth when you stop overcomplicating and start listening to its authentic frequencies. Join the Ultimate Human VIP community and gain exclusive access to Gary Brecka's proven wellness protocols today!: https://bit.ly/4ai0Xwg Connect with Danica Patrick: Get Danica Patrick’s book, “Pretty Intense” here: https://bit.ly/45Nc7Jp Listen to "Danica Patrick Pretty Intense Podcast" on all your favorite platforms! YouTube: https://bit.ly/45MKYpX Spotify: https://bit.ly/44AFNHt Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/44z2DPK Connect with Danica Patrick: Website: https://bit.ly/3GgvaBv YouTube: https://bit.ly/4ko12lH Instagram: https://bit.ly/44d7Bmk TikTok: https://bit.ly/3TnwmpI Facebook: https://bit.ly/4lFJG4R X.com: https://bit.ly/4laoZ0V LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3TUsH2G Thank you to our partners: H2TABS - USE CODE “ULTIMATE10” FOR 10% OFF: https://bit.ly/4hMNdgg BODYHEALTH - USE CODE “ULTIMATE20” FOR 20% OFF: http://bit.ly/4e5IjsV BAJA GOLD - USE CODE "ULTIMATE10" FOR 10% OFF: https://bit.ly/3WSBqUa EIGHT SLEEP - SAVE $350 ON THE POD 4 ULTRA WITH CODE “GARY”: https://bit.ly/3WkLd6E COLD LIFE - THE ULTIMATE HUMAN PLUNGE: https://bit.ly/4eULUKp WHOOP - GET 1 FREE MONTH WHEN YOU JOIN!: https://bit.ly/3VQ0nzW MASA CHIPS - GET 20% OFF YOUR FIRST ORDER: https://bit.ly/40LVY4y VANDY - USE CODE “ULTIMATE20” FOR 20% OFF: https://bit.ly/49Qr7WE AION - USE CODE “ULTIMATE10” FOR 10% OFF: https://bit.ly/4h6KHAD A GAME - USE CODE “ULTIMATE15” FOR 15% OFF: http://bit.ly/4kek1ij HAPBEE - FEEL BETTER & PERFORM AT YOUR BEST: https://bit.ly/4a6glfo CARAWAY - USE CODE “ULTIMATE” FOR 10% OFF: https://bit.ly/3Q1VmkC HEALF - GET 10% OFF YOUR ORDER: https://bit.ly/41HJg6S BIOPTIMIZERS - USE CODE “ULTIMATE” FOR 10% OFF: https://bit.ly/4inFfd7 RHO NUTRITION - USE CODE “ULTIMATE15” FOR 15% OFF: https://bit.ly/44fFza0 GENETIC TEST: ⁠https://bit.ly/3Yg1Uk9 Watch the “Ultimate Human Podcast” every Tuesday & Thursday at 9AM EST: YouTube: https://bit.ly/3RPQYX8 Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3RQftU0 Connect with Gary Brecka: Instagram: https://bit.ly/3RPpnFs TikTok: https://bit.ly/4coJ8foX.com: https://bit.ly/3Opc8tf Facebook: https://bit.ly/464VA1H LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/4hH7Ri2 Website: https://bit.ly/4eLDbdU Merch: https://bit.ly/4aBpOM1 Newsletter: https://bit.ly/47ejrws Ask Gary: https://bit.ly/3PEAJuG Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 04:37 270% Increase in US Obesity Rates since the ‘70s 10:03 Healthy Foundation 11:57 Benefits of Simplicity in Food 13:49 Nutritional and Healthcare Guidelines 17:27 Non-Negotiable Habits as a Professional Athlete 21:03 Biohacking Practices 24:13 Breast Implant Illnesses29:45 Advice for Women & BII Awareness Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational purposes only and does not provide medical advice. It is not intended for diagnosing or treating any health condition. Always consult a licensed healthcare professional before making health or wellness decisions. Gary Brecka is the owner of Ultimate Human, LLC which operates The Ultimate Human podcast and promotes certain third-party products used by Gary Brecka in his personal health and wellness protocols and daily life and for which Ultimate Human LLC and / or Gary Brecka directly or indirectly holds an economic interest or receives compensation. Accordingly, statements made by Gary Brecka and others (including on The Ultimate Human podcast) may be considered promotional in nature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:00Speaker 00

  Our bodies are miraculous. It's amazing what they can overcome and how it can heal itself. But that will run out. You will end up sick. You will end up miserable.

• 0:11Gary Brecka?

  Is it amazing how myopic and out of touch we've gotten with our own bodies? Because it signals to you. We often think that the things that we're allergic to are the ones that immediately flare up our nose or make our eyes water. But the truth is, you know, a lot of these things, after we eat them, you get the bloating, the weight gain, the water retention. Those are signs that your body doesn't like what you're eating.

• 0:29Speaker 00

  And there's a reason why so many countries out there don't accept our food, because it doesn't fit their criteria.

• 0:34Gary Brecka?

  You know, what's interesting is the simplicity in food is where the magic is. And I think we overcomplicate food.

• 0:40Speaker 00

  But I do believe that there's an energy to knowing and loving your food. I love cooking and I use good ingredients and I put love into it. And I do think that makes a difference.

• 0:50Gary Brecka?

  And I think fundamentally, most Americans want to be healthy, but truly just don't know where to start.

• 0:57Speaker 00

  It starts with caring about your food. Know what's in food as well. Learn how to garden. Learn how to love your food.

• 1:03Gary Brecka?

  What are some of the fundamental changes that you would love to see in our nutritional and healthcare guidance?

• 1:09Speaker 00

  I'm so grateful for modern medicine. I'm grateful for acute medicine. But I really think that health in general should be.

• 1:29Gary Brecka?

  Hey, guys. Welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm your host, human biologist Gary Brecka, where we go down the road of everything anti-aging, biohacking, longevity, and everything in between. And today, here from the White House, we have a very special guest on. I'm really excited to run this with you. It is Danica Patrick, former race car driver turned health advocate and part of this Maha movement. Blessed to be on board with you during this movement. I'm really excited to get into this interview.

• 1:57Speaker 00

  You're doing such great things. We were just rambling for 15 minutes.

• 2:01Gary Brecka?

  Yeah, we had an off podcast.

• 2:02Speaker 00

  The most interesting stuff before we started.

• 2:05Gary Brecka?

  Talking about authenticity and the power of authenticity.

• 2:07Speaker 00

  I mean, I told you, I've used the, you know, the statistic or study that you've shared that authenticity is 4,000 times stronger than, than love as a frequency. That is incredible. Like, that's just, this is, um, you know, what you're doing is making a big difference and those kinds of scientific things. Cause that's the thing, like, we were also talking about the ineffable in a way and the feelings and intuition.

• 2:29Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 2:30Speaker 00

  Um, you know, you're starting to put science to the things that are, you know, a little more mysterious.

• 2:35Gary Brecka?

  Yeah. You know, I think we've always had sort of a, a fear of the unknown or how we dissuade the things that we can't prove. Things like faith and intuition and frequency. And, and if you don't believe in the universal law of attraction, for example, which I didn't for years, right? I thought it was just a bunch of like woo woo nonsense, you know? It's like, yeah, go smoke some more weed, dude. But when you start to really break down the science of it, I actually was reading, this is way off topic, but a scientific journal on, on frequency. And it's a physics journal and there's, there's a law in physics, physics called constructive interference. And it says, if two frequencies of equal wavelength meet, the size of the frequency

• 3:20Gary Brecka?

  doubles.

• 3:21Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 3:21Gary Brecka?

  And what it means is you can get energy from conversation.

• 3:24Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 3:25Gary Brecka?

  You can get energy from other people.

• 3:26Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 3:26Gary Brecka?

  They can also suck energy.

• 3:28Speaker 00

  Oh, this is welcome, what guides my life.

• 3:31Gary Brecka?

  The sucky bus, if you will.

• 3:35Speaker 00

  There are so many people here and so I was making some jokes before about, um, I'm, uh, I work very closely with Gabrielle Lyon and she's my doctor.

• 3:43Gary Brecka?

  Oh, I love Gabrielle Lyon.

• 3:44Speaker 00

  And she's also a very good friend of mine.

• 3:45Gary Brecka?

  Big shout out.

• 3:45Speaker 00

  And so she couldn't make it, so she's sending Don Lehman here in her place. And she's like, look after Don, introduce him to everybody, you know, help him like get in there to be able to make a difference and, and help out with some of the guidelines and whatnot. And, and, and Don said, well, I'm an introvert. And I was like, well, good, me too. And I said, we can just, we can just camp out in the corner and talk about wine and good restaurants in Chicago.

• 4:06Gary Brecka?

  But now you have like 10 podcasts.

• 4:08Speaker 00

  I know. But I was like, and, uh, anyway, the point is, is that, um, the wrong conversation drains. Very quickly and I have so much less tolerance for it now. But the right ones do energize me. So I would call myself an introvert because I always get energy alone as a defining factor. But I absolutely, I have no doubt that these interviews that I have lined up here before we do this beautiful signing this afternoon. Will give me energy because it's all stuff that's like so. Passion for such a passion for me and I've lived it, right? Like you have to, that's kind of what leads you down these beautiful, passionate routes is that they're part of your life and you've. Needed them at times.

• 4:46Gary Brecka?

  You know what's amazing is the rooms of the people that. I'm in, but people like yourselves, some of the most, you know, I just sat and talked to Dr. Oz. Just some of the most passionate, purpose, mission driven people. And it is so palpable when you meet them, you see it in their eyes, you feel it in their energy. And there's an energy around here and around this Maha movement. That I can't really explain, it's, I don't, you know, I call it the Holy Spirit. I, I, I just call it a palpable energy from a unified vision. And you can absolutely sense it and it's.

• 5:26Speaker 00

  Well, it's a collective, I mean, so like, there's a lot of talk too about. The frequency of the planet elevating once it reaches like a critical point or there's like the hundredth monkey theory where it's like, once the hundredth monkey in a group believes the. Knows a certain thing, it sort of transmits to everyone.

• 5:41Gary Brecka?

  Wow, I never heard that theory.

• 5:42Speaker 00

  And, and when you look at it, like here we are in this amazing White House set here and.

• 5:47Gary Brecka?

  Right, we're in the White House.

• 5:49Speaker 00

  Maha has not been a sanctioned or it's not, this is not a White House or a government program. This has been an independent movement that is now sitting right here because it has that passion that you're talking about and authenticity.

• 6:04Gary Brecka?

  And what?

• 6:05Speaker 00

  And authenticity.

• 6:05Gary Brecka?

  Oh, thank you. So I want, I want to run a couple of things by you because the, these are sadly shocking. And about the state of, you know, American chronic disease in America, we know that we sadly are the sickest. Fattest, most disease ridden nation in the world. We also are the highest. On healthcare worldwide and some of the public policy powerhouses that that I've interviewed today and going to interview throughout the rest of the day are so mission driven at changing that. And I noticed that there's a narrative beginning to attack them, calling it pseudoscience, calling them chemophobes, you know, saying that there's a personal agenda. But this report, which is going to be released at three o'clock today, I want to just read some things to you

• 6:49Gary Brecka?

  and get your thoughts on it. And this this will be public in just a few hours. Over one in five children over six years old are obese. This is a 270% increase since the 1970s. The US obesity rate is more than double that of the other G7 nations. And 80% of obese teens remain obese through their adulthood. More than 1 in 14 have prediabetes with rates doubling in just the last two decades alone. What do you think? I mean, as someone who has shifted from being a professional athlete, and that's not to say that you're not still a professional athlete, to being in the health advocacy space, what are some things that we can do from a public policy position,

• 7:33Gary Brecka?

  from an educational position to lift the masses up and bring awareness to the masses and give them some tools that they can arm themselves with?

• 7:42Speaker 00

  It's a great question. And I think it really starts a little fundamental. It starts with caring about your food. It starts with maybe even growing some of your own food. Like, what stops schools from, look, I think there's a lot of problems with school and the curriculum that exists. I don't use much of it. I'm glad I can read and write and that kind of thing. But you know, so much of it, especially as it goes on, is kind of worthless, I feel like. But gardening wouldn't be, right? Understanding food and really understanding nutrition. And and that's some guidelines that are going to get redone. Let's hope. Let's hope that, you know, Surgeon General Casey Means, future future Surgeon General will come in and be able to, you know, push those things forward. And you guys will be able to all help organize what that looks like.

• 8:28Speaker 00

  But for there to be a true understanding. So plug that into the schools. Plug that information in. Learn how to garden. Learn how to love your food. Know what's in food as well. I mean, there's plenty of times that people I would think would know what's in food. They're like, oh, wait, there's no carbohydrates in chicken.

• 8:45Speaker 00

  What?

• 8:45Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 8:46Speaker 00

  So educating on that stuff would be incredible because you can't expect the mass of, you know, these companies to not try and still make money and not try and still sort of push their agendas of what they want. But you can change from the, like, at the core of humans' awareness and knowledge, what they're willing to buy.

• 9:08Gary Brecka?

  Right.

• 9:08Speaker 00

  And what they're willing to do. So, um, so I think that if you change that-

• 9:12Gary Brecka?

  Well, buying habits shift.

• 9:13Speaker 00

  That, that, that will help. I think that then when we get to sort of, I think maybe what some of that's going to be in that bill is just the quality of things too, like, you know, the soil and the, the quality of the seeds and all the different things and things that you add to it, whether it, there has chemicals in it or not, organic farming, no pesticides. I mean, that then becomes sort of the next phase of making it quality. But, uh, but I do believe that there's an energy to knowing and loving your food. Like, I love cooking and people would say that my food's good and I'm like, it's not all that int- it's not always that exciting or complicated. But I use good ingredients and I put love into it. And I do think that makes a difference.

• 9:54Gary Brecka?

  I absolutely think that makes a difference.

• 9:56Speaker 00

  If you love your food, you're gonna make good food and it's gonna be better for you. And then you're gonna energetically, you're putting that energy into it and you're putting that energy into your body. So, um, so I think that's, that's some of the stuff that could change from a culture standpoint.

• 10:08Gary Brecka?

  Right.

• 10:09Speaker 00

  And then the government can just take control of like, how it's all handled because let's face it, not everyone's gonna have a garden, not everyone's gonna do that. But the stuff that you get in stores, it should be better quality. There should be, uh, it should be a higher integrity to it all. I mean, there's a reason why so many countries out there don't accept our food, won't buy our food because it doesn't fit their criteria.

• 10:28Gary Brecka?

  Or even allow our food. They don't even just don't buy it. They don't even allow it to be sold. I mean-

• 10:32Speaker 00

  Exactly.

• 10:32Gary Brecka?

  There are countries like Russia that, um, uh, where it's a felony to grow genetically modified food. So, you know, when you have principles like that around food, uh, that don't allow these things to creep into the food supply, or you educate the populace, or you don't allow slick marketing campaigns to sort of wordsmith their- Way around detrimental ingredients. I think you have the foundation for.

• 10:57Speaker 00

  I think that Secretary Rollins, Brooke Rollins, is going to do a great job. She was just over in the UK working on a deal with selling our, selling our meat to the United Kingdom, which they'll be happy about that because it's delicious. But also, I mean, I was, I had a conversation with her even about going out to my winery out in Napa because it's organically farmed and, you know, agriculture is very important and the quality of what it is is very important. So, you know, I think there's, there's definitely things that government can do, but I think from a culture standpoint, it's about understanding what you're eating and, and, and loving that food.

• 11:32Gary Brecka?

  I mean, outside of mastering your craft and your, your career, how, how foundational was nutrition, exercise, sleep? What were some of the things outside of just the, you know, intentional mastery of your craft were really impactful on, on, on your career? What would you say, what would you say were some of the non-negotiables?

• 11:53Speaker 00

  Non-negotiables, I mean, no drinking. I mean, that the, the, the, the, the lack of sharpness in the next day after that kind of thing is, look, I think it has some medicinal.

• 12:01Gary Brecka?

  And could risk your life too, behind the wheel at that speed.

• 12:04Speaker 00

  Drinking and driving is bad. Okay.

• 12:06Gary Brecka?

  And drinking and driving 200 miles an hour is even worse.

• 12:08Speaker 00

  But even the night before, you know, just, it can cloud your judgment, just make you a little foggy. I think hydration was super important. I wish I'd knew, known then what I know now about hydration. I mean, I.

• 12:21Gary Brecka?

  Sea salts.

• 12:22Speaker 00

  I mean, I didn't, I like avoided salt in my food, just like that being a propaganda that I bought into. And now I, I mean, I salt beyond belief and I drink it all day. I mean, I drink all day long. It's always, always in my water. So, um, hydrogen filling up.

• 12:40Gary Brecka?

  Yay, I got it. I put them in every, every single.

• 12:43Speaker 00

  I bought these filters to put at the house that you attach, you can put them under the sink or you can attach them to a faucet, but they give you hydrogen water as well as other kinds of water as well. So, um, so I think that being hydrated is like probably the most important thing. And as far as food goes, um, you know, eating clean and good, but you want to eat as close to the race as possible. I had a bus driver, so and he would be in charge of making food for me before only meal he'd make was before the race. And that's just because I was at a driver's meeting. I was busy doing meet and greets and different things. And then I need to basically eat, get changed and go to driver intros. So I didn't have time to make it. So, um, so he would, and it would always be just kind of something simple like sweet potatoes or rice and chicken and something like that.

• 13:27Gary Brecka?

  You know what's interesting is the simplicity in, in food is where the magic is. You know, I, I, I have a chef now too, and my, my wife loves to cook. And very often, like the fewer ingredients you put in, like you take a, a ribeye, um, put it in some grass fed butter, throw some Baja Gold sea salt on it. Maybe some rosemary, like the best thing you'll ever eat. And I think we over complicate food and, and, um, you know, the industry is like selling us all these sauces with seed oils. And we're, we're putting seed oils on top of saturated fat and combining that with high glycemic carbohydrates. And I think fundamentally, most Americans want to be healthy and would prefer to eat nutritious food, but truly just don't know where to start.

• 14:07Speaker 00

  Hundred percent agree.

• 14:08Gary Brecka?

  And, and I think that, um, you know, we didn't run our way here, but we sort of walked our way into this position. But when you start to look at the, um, the national security risk of having three quarters of our military aged men and women unable to serve in the military due to poor health. Or when you look at 74% of our nutritional research being funded by, by.

• 14:29Speaker 00

  Yeah, that's a problem. That's a problem.

• 14:31Gary Brecka?

  And I'm not immediately painting them as sinister. I'm just saying that you can't have private industry funding public policy initiatives. Because there's obviously an agenda. If I funded it, I would try to get my podcast to, you know, somehow. You know, it's, it's just, you have to take away.

• 14:48Speaker 00

  Conflict of interest is never gonna work out. It's never gonna work out, you know? And similarly, in Indy car, actually, there was a big controversy, um, with, uh, the team Penske. They were found to be illegal in qualifying. So they've been put to the back and now they've got huge penalties. Well, Roger Penske owns a team. He also owns a series and he owns the track. And so you like, look at this and you're like, and I'm not saying that's why, but look, conflict of interest and optics matter. They matter.

• 15:12Gary Brecka?

  But what did they get put to the back for? There must've been something.

• 15:14Speaker 00

  Being illegal, having an illegal part, yeah.

• 15:16Gary Brecka?

  Oh, really?

• 15:17Speaker 00

  Illegal modification.

• 15:18Gary Brecka?

  Really? Illegal modification, okay, so. So, you know, I feel like this. There's a lot of of hope and inspiration around this Maha movement within the administration, because I certainly feel, and I wonder if you do too, that now our public policy leaders, these mission purpose driven policy leaders, really do have the best interests of

• 15:42Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 15:43Gary Brecka?

  the American people at heart. And what are some of the fundamental changes that you would love to see, that you would be a champion of in our nutritional and and and healthcare guidance?

• 15:54Speaker 00

  For guidelines wise?

• 15:55Gary Brecka?

  Guidelines.

• 15:56Speaker 00

  Well, I think the food pyramid is where you start.

• 15:58Gary Brecka?

  It needs to be flipped upside down.

• 16:00Speaker 00

  Yeah, exactly. I'd be happy to design it. I'd add some red wine in there, but.

• 16:04Gary Brecka?

  You mean, you don't believe that Lucky Charms is more nutritious than grass fed steak?

• 16:08Speaker 00

  Hmm, I mean, just that. I thought that was a joke.

• 16:11Gary Brecka?

  I mean, the, you know, marshmallows first?

• 16:13Speaker 00

  That was, there was like a scale of like, what's the most healthy and not. It wasn't a pyramid, but that, when that came out last year, was that last year?

• 16:20Gary Brecka?

  My numbing, yeah.

• 16:20Speaker 00

  I thought it was a joke.

• 16:22Gary Brecka?

  I thought it was a joke too, when Joe Rogan talked about it, and I was like, no, this is legit.

• 16:26Speaker 00

  You have to be kidding me. You have to be. You have to be an idiot to believe it.

• 16:31Gary Brecka?

  Yeah, but you know, sadly, I think very often, you know, it's, the consumer is not educated, not, I don't mean that they're poorly educated in general. We're not educated in school and grammar school, and we're not really taught how to eat. We're not taught about the fundamental basics of exercise. You know, you ever see the movies from the the 50s where they just show recess during like, Robert F. Kennedy, you know, his, his administration? It's like, play Find the Fat Person, you know, they were out on monkey bars and climbing walls, and recess was 90 minutes.

• 17:03Speaker 00

  Oh, man, well, now you've got phones. It's a big problem. And you've got video games and things like that, and so it's a it's, it's, it's a sedentary activity, which is not good.

• 17:13Gary Brecka?

  When, when you were a professional athlete, did you see that other, you know, athletes a- around you, did you see the ones that were hyper intentional about their nutrition?

• 17:25Speaker 00

  Of course.

• 17:26Gary Brecka?

  Their exercise, and then you see some that were sort of kind of took it for granted and just let youth and.

• 17:31Speaker 00

  Yeah, yeah, I did. Of course. Yeah, you saw the difference.

• 17:34Gary Brecka?

  And

• 17:34Speaker 00

  And I'm not saying that their performance was necessarily. I mean, there were some great drivers that did not care at all about they drank their cokes and did their thing. I just think that there will be a long-term payoff. Our bodies are miraculous. You know that better than anybody. It's

• 17:50Gary Brecka?

  I do.

• 17:50Speaker 00

  Amazing what they can overcome and how it can heal itself and correct and overcompensate. But that will run out. You will end up sick. You will end up miserable. And you can spend money on your health now, or you can do it all later. And so you can go for the quality of life and spend it now and enjoy your food, delicious food. Or you can be oblivious about it and go sit in a hospital because that's all you're gonna do. Because you're sick and you can't move, or you need a hip replacement, or whatever the consequences of your actions. And I think it's far wiser, obviously, to take care of yourself now. Health should really be, I'm so grateful for modern medicine. I'm grateful for

• 18:30Gary Brecka?

  Same.

• 18:30Speaker 00

  acute medicine. I hope that no one gives me like rosemary or lavender after I've been in an accident and have an arm hanging off. I hope they're not gonna try and fix me that way.

• 18:41Gary Brecka?

  Exactly.

• 18:41Speaker 00

  But I really think that health in general should be understood from a cultural shift standpoint. This is a daily discipline. It is a daily discipline to take care of yourself. And if you need modern medicine, God forbid, it's there for you, but this is not the solution.

• 18:56Gary Brecka?

  What are some of the non-negotiable habits that you've developed either as a professional athlete that carry over into your life now? Or that you've developed?

• 19:03Speaker 00

  Sure.

• 19:04Gary Brecka?

  You know, post, you know, professional career. That are sort of non-negotiable in your life.

• 19:09Speaker 00

  I mean, I'm just gonna be really simple. I could go down a long list of various different things I do. But I think from a simple standpoint, eat your protein and lift weights.

• 19:18Gary Brecka?

  I love it. I love it. You know, I, I, I heard, you know, Dr. Gabrielle Lin is like, she's, I could hear her clapping in the background.

• 19:25Speaker 00

  You can hear her coming out of there right now.

• 19:26Gary Brecka?

  We hear you, Gabrielle.

• 19:28Speaker 00

  I mean, she's got me into the best shape I've ever been in my life.

• 19:31Gary Brecka?

  Really?

• 19:31Speaker 00

  I'm 43. Best body composition, best, best biology, best everything.

• 19:35Gary Brecka?

  You know what I think she's done is

• 19:36Speaker 00

  And I always knew that was possible.

• 19:37Gary Brecka?

  She's been a champion for women lifting weights, which I think was always a man thing and

• 19:43Speaker 00

  I lift so much weight. Like, I mean, I'm doing like weighted pull-ups and huge trap bar deadlifts yesterday. And, you know, I weigh 105 pounds.

• 19:52Gary Brecka?

  And you look amazing.

• 19:53Speaker 00

  Pretty hard to get real, real bulky.

• 19:56Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 19:57Speaker 00

  As a girl especially. We have a tenth of the testosterone of you guys, you know? Like, it's pretty hard to get like, super bulky. So, yeah, I'd say from a simple standpoint, those are the two most important things. If you prioritize protein, but on my way here today, I flew here. I left the house and I made five eggs for breakfast. That's what I have for breakfast.

• 20:14Gary Brecka?

  Wow.

• 20:14Speaker 00

  Which is 350 calories. It's 35 grams of protein, 35 grams of protein and 25 grams of fat. Done.

• 20:21Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 20:21Speaker 00

  Can you hear how much energy I have?

• 20:23Gary Brecka?

  And you feel amazing right now, right? And you actually don't, and, and you feel full, but you don't feel bloated and drained. You know, like a lot of times you put those high glycemic carbohydrates into your gut, and you actually feel your mood, your emotional state, and your energy goes, goes, goes right out the window.

• 20:37Speaker 00

  You always know what's good for you and what's not. For a long time, I've loved like figuring things out and learning about myself. And I did these blood tests that showed the eggs were highly reactive in my blood. So there was probably seven or eight years I didn't eat them really. But they never made me feel bad when I did. And I was like, huh, well, I'm following the science, I'm following the science.

• 20:55Gary Brecka?

  Right.

• 20:55Speaker 00

  Um, and now I eat three to five a day and I'm the best I've ever been. So, but yet on another note, let's say like I can eat broccoli and that's fine, but cauliflower seems to make me feel bloated. So like, you, you, your body tells you what it needs. And it's very hard to make a diet out of that, right? We're all individually unique. So, all I'm going to say is that the best way to know what's meant for you is that either, again, this is actually parallel to what we talked about before we started, which is what gives you energy, like people that give you energy versus depleted. Like if you eat a food and it gives you energy and helps you feel like your stomach does no discomfort, good for you.

• 21:30Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 21:31Speaker 00

  If you feel tired or bloated, not good for you. Just make it that simple.

• 21:35Gary Brecka?

  Isn't it amazing how myopic and out of touch we've gotten with our own bodies?

• 21:39Speaker 00

  Oh, yeah.

• 21:39Gary Brecka?

  You know, I find that the, the more intuitive people are more intuitive also about their own bodies. I mean, because it signals to you. We, we often think that the things that we're allergic to are the ones that immediately flare up our nose or make our eyes water, or make, give us the sniffles. But the truth is, you know, a lot of these things, after we eat them, you get the bloating, the, the weight gain, the water retention, the, the gas, the, you know, the cramping, the constipation, those are signs that your body doesn't like what you're, what you're eating. And I, Completely agree with you. There's no one dogmatic diet.

• 22:10Speaker 00

  That's right.

• 22:10Gary Brecka?

  That is good for everybody.

• 22:11Speaker 00

  That's right, because I've tried them all.

• 22:12Gary Brecka?

  The Blue Zones proved this too. No dogmatic diet. It wasn't like, hey, everybody that was on keto, or paleo, or pescatarian, or vegan, or vegetarian, they lived the longest. No, it was actually the people that ate whole foods that actually were genetically compatible with, with their, their, their biome.

• 22:27Speaker 00

  So simple. We love to complicate things, don't we?

• 22:29Gary Brecka?

  We, we sure do.

• 22:30Speaker 00

  We're meaning-making machines.

• 22:31Gary Brecka?

  Yeah. I want to move on to biohacking because, uh, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm called a biohacker. I call myself a biohacker. I don't even really truly know what it means, but.

• 22:41Speaker 00

  Well, it's Dave, I mean, Dave Asprey came up with the term.

• 22:43Gary Brecka?

  Yeah, Dave Asprey did coin the term, yeah.

• 22:45Speaker 00

  He was a.

• 22:46Gary Brecka?

  Hacking your biology.

• 22:47Speaker 00

  Love Dave. You, you must know Dave.

• 22:49Gary Brecka?

  I love Dave.

• 22:49Speaker 00

  I love Dave so much. He's my favorite weirdo.

• 22:51Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 22:52Speaker 00

  I'm a weirdo too.

• 22:53Gary Brecka?

  He's my favorite weirdo too.

• 22:54Speaker 00

  But, uh, he, you know, it's, he was in tech, he was in tech. He was in computers and he was like fat and out of shape and tried to work out all the time and eat vegan and he couldn't figure out why he couldn't lose weight. And he's like, I need to like hack the body. I need to biohack. That's it. I mean, that's all it means. You're just hacking the body with biology, biological, natural options.

• 23:13Gary Brecka?

  So are there any biohacks, um, that you use on a regular basis? Red light therapy, cold plunging, sauna?

• 23:19Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 23:19Gary Brecka?

  What do you, what do you like or love?

• 23:21Speaker 00

  I mean, for probably the most normal one I use is red light.

• 23:24Gary Brecka?

  Okay.

• 23:25Speaker 00

  And I like.

• 23:25Gary Brecka?

  I'm a huge fan.

• 23:26Speaker 00

  A huge fan. I did it this morning to a panel at my mom and dad's house, which was where I was. I've got everybody red light.

• 23:32Gary Brecka?

  They're here in DC?

• 23:33Speaker 00

  They live in Indianapolis, so I flew in this morning, but, um, uh, I, they have two panels, one in front and one in back that I gave them. So just stand there and while I'm doing it, because I love to, I love to stack, habit stack.

• 23:43Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 23:44Speaker 00

  Um, I, uh, atomic habits. I love to buy, I love to stack. Um, I gua sha while I'm doing it and do some lymphatic drainage. So I think those are the two, my, my two daily favorite things, red light and lymphatic stuff. So.

• 23:57Gary Brecka?

  And what is this like?

• 23:58Speaker 00

  Gua sha is like where you like, you know, uh, take like a. Like a crystal of some sort, or it could be stainless steel.

• 24:05Gary Brecka?

  Kind of like a face roller?

• 24:06Speaker 00

  It's like a face roller, but it's more of a plate and you drag it and it helps like with drainage of your face. But then I go all the way down the neck to basically to here because, I mean, it kind of started because when I said that I was not always so healthy, I had breast implants and they-

• 24:21Gary Brecka?

  You had them removed?

• 24:21Speaker 00

  Had them removed and that's when everything finally got better again. Well, it was at least the start of it, but I, so I go literally down below my boobs and then at the end of doing the gua shaing, then I hit the six points, the lymphatic points behind the ear, collarbone, under the armpit, stomach, groin and behind the knees.

• 24:39Gary Brecka?

  It's amazing.

• 24:39Speaker 00

  And so I just sort of rub and tap.

• 24:41Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 24:41Speaker 00

  And by the time that's over, 10 minutes is done in front of the red light and-

• 24:44Gary Brecka?

  Yeah. Some of these, some of these ancient Ayurvedic practices, you know, Ayurvedic medicine is the oldest form of medicine that we know of. It's even older than Chinese medicine, at least as far as we know. And it was based on observation and a lot of what these Indian practitioners recognized was you could diagnose illness and disease through the tongue, through the eyes, the skin.

• 25:05Speaker 00

  Sure.

• 25:06Gary Brecka?

  And what they, what they did was they, they really started to enhance lymphatic drainage, exactly what you're talking about, because the lymph system is static, right? There's no pressure behind it, like the heart, you know, like the veins and arteries. So I love the idea of habit stacking. Maybe you and I are gonna trademark the term bio stacking.

• 25:24Speaker 00

  Bio stacking. I love that. I love that too.

• 25:27Gary Brecka?

  Your term's already outdated, buddy.

• 25:29Speaker 00

  We're gonna build one. It'll be red light with a little, maybe we'll, we'll have a little jump, a little tramp on the bottom, because at the end I jump as well, just to like really do the full flush and yeah, well, yeah, we can come up with something, I'm sure. I love to dream up ideas and companies.

• 25:42Gary Brecka?

  I like that too. I want to take a quick one minute diversion and I want to go back to the breast implant, breast implant illness, because it is now being recognized as one of the underlying causes in so many forms of chronic disease and unknown etiologies that are causing autoimmune conditions. And I think what happens is a lot of young women especially get breast implants and because the symptoms of, you know, breast implant illness don't show up for months to years.

• 26:13Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 26:13Gary Brecka?

  They don't correlate it back to the breast implant. And I'm not saying by any means that they're all bad and they're all causing disease, but as, as somebody who has a fairly large female audience, it resonates very much with them because I've had-

• 26:30Gary Brecka?

  Hundreds and hundreds of clients that have seen autoimmune and this strange myriad of symptoms, everything from brain fog to hormone imbalance, to weight gain and water retention, to fatigue, to crushing joint pain, to a lot of these, what I would call blanket diagnoses, irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia.

• 26:54Speaker 00

  Anything.

• 26:55Gary Brecka?

  Chronic fatigue syndrome.

• 26:57Speaker 00

  Anxiety.

• 26:58Gary Brecka?

  What really are those?

• 26:59Speaker 00

  Depression, exhaustion.

• 27:00Gary Brecka?

  What was the, what was the trigger for you when you said?

• 27:04Speaker 00

  Yeah, what, how did I kind of identify?

• 27:06Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 27:07Speaker 00

  Well, I would say that it probably took about three years for me to really start noticing anything and I, I had gained like five pounds out of nowhere.

• 27:13Gary Brecka?

  Were you highly athletic during this timeframe?

• 27:15Speaker 00

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is when I like just retired too and I'm like, hmm, that doesn't really make sense because I've kind of been doing all the same stuff. It's like one thing if you take away like a huge activity every weekend, 40 weeks a year and go, well, maybe that's it. My hair wasn't doing, it's so healthy. My face was starting to get more puffy and I'm like, this isn't how my face looks. And I thought to myself, maybe my hormones are off. That was like the first thing I thought. But instead, I dug deeper and I tried harder and I ate different, ate more vegan, ate less at times, worked out more, like, you know, all of the things that I would normally, the lever I'd pull, didn't work anymore. And then it was when I, it was the beginning of 2021 and I lost my cycle. And so, and then when I lost my cycle, I was like, all right, this isn't healthy. So I went to the doctor and they're like, low thyroid.

• 28:00Speaker 00

  And I was like, that answers everything.

• 28:01Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 28:02Speaker 00

  That was not the answer to it. It was the tip of the iceberg.

• 28:04Gary Brecka?

  Right.

• 28:05Speaker 00

  And so that kind of started the journey and I spent about a year and a half. And then I'd say it was probably when I watched enough videos on YouTube and caught these sort of people talking about breast implant illness and what happened, how they felt and then afterwards. And I was like, the things that they were saying just resonated, right?

• 28:23Gary Brecka?

  You were like, those are my symptoms.

• 28:25Speaker 00

  I sensed the authenticity coming off of them. And I was like, it resonated with mine and I was like, uh. It became like a knowing, I was like, okay, that's it, that's it. And so then I got then then then I got them out. But I'd say it three years I kinda knew and then it took about seven years before I really before I before I was like, okay, this is what I need to do. So I had them in for seven and a half.

• 28:46Gary Brecka?

  You got them in for seven and a half years. And how quickly after the removal did?

• 28:50Speaker 00

  Hours, like right as soon as I got home, as soon as I got home.

• 28:53Gary Brecka?

  Hours.

• 28:53Speaker 00

  I like I may maybe my face is shiny. I'm not sure, but like that never happened. I came home and the first thing like I remember once I finally came out of my my drug haze. Um, I, uh, I from being under anesthesia. I remember just watching TV and I like touched my face and I was like, oh, my God. I have oil on my face.

• 29:09Gary Brecka?

  Wow.

• 29:10Speaker 00

  And my scalp was another thing that had been so dry and my hair wasn't growing. So anyway, my body started to like function again, like within hours.

• 29:17Gary Brecka?

  Wow.

• 29:17Speaker 00

  So then two days later, I posted on Instagram about it, which obviously I never told anyone. I got them in. Uh, and I just knew my mom was with me and I was like, should I do it, Mom? And she was like, you're gonna probably do it anyway. I'm like, you're right, Mom.

• 29:31Gary Brecka?

  Yeah.

• 29:31Speaker 00

  And so I shared it and, um, uh, Good Morning America was at my house.

• 29:36Gary Brecka?

  Good for you.

• 29:36Speaker 00

  Six days after I got them out, Good Morning America was at the house with my doctor and I talking about it for morning television.

• 29:43Gary Brecka?

  Good for you for being vulnerable about that.

• 29:44Speaker 00

  Yeah, yeah.

• 29:45Gary Brecka?

  For for for women that are watching this, that, um, maybe are just starting to clue into this, that this might be, is there anywhere they can go to get guidance or information?

• 29:54Speaker 00

  I mean, there are. I mean, if you just look up breast implant illness, if you just sort of look, I mean, I have stuff that I've kept on my Instagram page about it. Um, but, uh, but there there's a lot of resources out there now, just I'd say start Googling and YouTube and you'll see a ton. I shared my story. Um, um, so you can find that YouTube video. Uh, but yeah, all I'd say is that, you know, you talked about the list of of symptoms. It's anything. It's basically your own body's personal expression of I'm not happy.

• 30:23Gary Brecka?

  Wow.

• 30:23Speaker 00

  Right? And everybody's different because we have different pathways, different detoxification pathways, different diets, different exercise. So like, not everyone's is the same. So my personal expression was just how my body expresses discomfort.

• 30:35Gary Brecka?

  Yeah. Danica Patrick, thank you so much for coming on The Ultimate Human. I can't believe we're here at the White House. Uh, you know, part of this Maha movement is amazing. It's such a blessing to be on the journey with great people and influencers like yourself. So thank you for giving us the time today.

• 30:49Speaker 00

  Let's talk about that business idea.

• 30:50Gary Brecka?

  Yeah. Until next time, that's your science.