86. Aging Is a Choice: Peptides, Longevity, and the 5 Elements of Vitality with Carlos Cintron

You might be doing a lot of things right, eating well, moving your body, taking your supplements. And still feel like something's missing. Like you're following all the rules, but not quite getting the results you hoped for. This conversation might be exactly what you needed to hear.

Dr. Carver sat down with Carlos Cintron, author, founder of Reversible Beauty and Wellness, and someone who has walked the talk on longevity from the inside out. Carlos built his entire philosophy on one core idea: aging is inevitable, but getting old is a choice. And in this episode, the two dig deep into what that actually means in practice.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• Why spirituality and mindset come before nutrition and movement in any real longevity framework, and what happens to our health when we skip those foundational layers.
• How peptides work as cellular signalers, what they actually do in the body, and why working with a knowledgeable practitioner matters more than following social media trends.
• What genetic testing and mitochondrial function testing can reveal about your individual health blueprint, and why one-size-fits-all health advice often misses the mark.
• Why liposomal supplements outperform standard pill forms in bioavailability, and what to do when liposomal versions aren't available.
• How Carlos recovered from a traumatic brain injury using regenerative medicine and nutrition, and what that experience taught him about the body's capacity to heal.

About Carlos Cintron:

Carlos Cintron is an author, speaker, and the founder of Reversible Beauty and Wellness, a platform dedicated to helping people take control of their health through genetic testing, mitochondrial function testing, peptides, and personalized nutrition. His book, "Aging Is Inevitable, Getting Old Is a Choice," blends memoir with a practical five-element framework for building a life of vitality and purpose. Carlos is 63, looks decades younger, and is living proof of his own philosophy.

Key Insights:

The five elements Carlos outlines in his book, spirituality, mindset, movement, nutrition, and functional medicine, aren't random. There's an intentional order to them. He starts with spirituality because, without making peace with mortality, so much of what we do for our health becomes anxiety-driven rather than life-affirming. Mindset comes second because our thoughts genuinely shape our biology. That's not woo. There's solid research behind it, and both Dr. Carver and Carlos have seen it play out in their own bodies.

On peptides, Carlos is clear: this is not a wild west, grab-whatever-looks-good-on-Instagram space. Peptides are amino acid chains that signal the body to repair and regenerate, and they can be genuinely powerful for cognitive health, hormones, gut repair, skin, weight, and mitochondrial function. But the key is personalization. Starting with a genetic test and a mitochondrial function test, the MiScreen, gives you an actual blueprint so you know which peptides your body may actually need, and which ones you can skip.

One of the most practical takeaways from this episode is the supplement conversation. Most people are absorbing only 10 to 20 percent of what's in a standard pill-form vitamin. Liposomal delivery, where the nutrients are wrapped in a fatty encapsulation, can bring that absorption rate up to 70 to 80 percent. If liposomal isn't available, Dr. Carver shares her own approach using fulvic and humic acid, like Beam Minerals and Cellcore, to help nutrients cross the cell membrane more efficiently.

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Transcript

Welcome And What Aging Means Now

Dr. Rachaele Carver 0:00

Hello, everybody. Welcome to another episode of The Root of the Matter. I am your host, Dr. Rachel Carver, and today I'm really pleased to introduce you to Carlos Sintrown, who is an author and founder of Reversible Beauty and Wellness. So he's going to talk to us all about his story, how he got into this. He's going to talk to us that we don't have to define aging as it was, as decline, you know, that there's so much hope. We're going to talk about peptides and, you know, all these new technologies that we can employ right away just to, you know, enhance our vitality for as long as possible. So, Carlos, thank you for coming on. Welcome. And again, yeah, tell us a little bit about your story, how you got into all this.

SPEAKER_01 0:44

Well, Rachel, thank you for having me. I'm looking forward to inspire your audience. Yeah, so how did I get involved in the whole regenerative space? I'll tell you slightly a little bit, a little bit of a story. First of all, the name of my book is called Aging is Inevitable, Getting Old is a Choice. I wrote that book. It's part memoir, part framework. And the whole idea was that I saw that one, we're in the aging population. I'll give you a quick stat. By the year 2030, one in six people walking this planet will be 60 years and over. So this is global. And, you know, a lot of us individuals we've given into society's narrative of aging, right? Once we get to 50, we're gonna decline. You're gonna need knee replacement. All of this narrative that, you know, unfortunately, people have bought into, and it has really uh given us a uh but the wrong sense of like what longevity and quality of life is all about. Because we have control of all over all of that. And for me, it was all about okay, sharing my story. I'd be transparent, I'm 63 years old, I actually turned 63 back in March, and I feel so youth not only from internally, but you know, just the way I carry myself, because I think it's all about attitude, mindset. You know, I created a framework on my book that really um gives individuals basically a formula uh of how to really, you know, age gracefully, right? And and and be someone with uh with a great attitude, a great spirit. Um, because look, we're all like I said, the book is called Aging is Inevitable. Getting old is a choice. So it's all about choices that we make that that really age us

Aging Narratives And A New Choice

SPEAKER_01 2:35

and define us. And a lot of that has to do with just not giving into society's narrative of aging.

Dr. Rachaele Carver 2:42

Anybody who's listening, if you check out the YouTube, you can see he could pass for 30, and he's got beautiful, beautiful teeth, too. So um, so right, this book is is you know really exciting. I really like why don't you kind of um lay it out for us? The now were your story, were you, you know, when in earlier times, were you feeling really sick and tired? And you know, did you pull yourself out of that?

SPEAKER_01 3:09

Yeah, so you know, in my book, and I'll and I'll just kind of tap a little bit into the the beginning of the book and why I created this book. First of all, both of my parents um lived a long, long life. My father was 91 when he passed, and my mother, unfortunately, she passed six months after, um, mainly from heartbreak, which she died at age six eighty, eighty-three. And, you know, I looked at their them, and yes, they they lived a long life, but the quality of life wasn't really there the last probably 10, 15 years of their life. Um, and look, it's I look back and I say, I'm not trying to play God and say, look, I have all the answers. But in that era, health and wellness really wasn't, you know, something that that was people looked at, right? Um today, there's no excuse. You know, we we live in an era where there's so much out there for us to just live quality of life and and make the right choices from nutrition to fitness to mindset. You know, when I was young, um, I actually had a uh traumatic brain injury. Um at the age of four, I was crossing the street with my mom, and my mom had a sister that's she's uh 13 months old uh younger than me, and my mother had her in a stroller, had me in her arm, I broke away, I ran into a bus that was taking off from its stand, and I got hit by a bus. Luckily, it was taking off and it wasn't you know going at a full rate of speed. Either way, I had a fractured skull, um traumatic brain injury, and um at that time, you know, this happen this we're talking 1968. Um, so you know, back then, you know, my parents, you know, they they really probably and I look, I don't know the whole story, uh, because got diluted here and there, but I'm sure they really kind of probably got a little payoff from the from the from the um city, the state, you know, and I I actually walked away with a traumatic brain injury, which later in life really took its toll because I I started to really under not really realize why I was having a hard time focusing, I was having a hard time, you know, just like um just managing life, uh, even as I as and going through high school. And as I got older and I started to kind of reflect on my life, that traumatic brain injury, I started to notice that there was some issues going on. And um, I had needed to address it. And uh fast forward, I I actually got into regenerative medicine and I started to treat myself from utilizing a lot of the stem cells, exosomes, started really looking at nutrition also, and um I cured myself. Uh, you know, and that's something that I I basically take pride in because, you know, we have two choices, right? We can let it define us or we can do something about it. And I chose the latter. I chose to really do something about it and um and

A Childhood Injury That Changed Everything

SPEAKER_01 6:15

help me to have a better quality of life to today. And uh I wanted to also just kind of share in the book, I talk about the five elements of life. So I created this framework that I believe everyone should look into because we go into life and and and and you know sometimes blindly we we we deal with circumstances, we tend to like just give in the status quo. And those five elements, I believe, when we talk about them, will ring a bell, and and there's a reason why I got them in that order as well. So if you don't mind, I I would love to chat about that. Yes, please. Yeah. So I start off with the five elements,

The Five Elements Of Life

SPEAKER_01 7:03

right? So element number one is spirituality. And why do I start off with spirituality? I feel that look there's religion and there's spirituality. I'm more spiritual than I am religious. Um, I I'm a Kabbalist. I've been studying Kabbalah over almost two years now, and you know, it's it's changed my life in a lot of ways. It's spiritual wisdom. But the reason that is, is as we age, uh there's a lot of things that happen when you get to like let's say age 50, 55, and that is called we haven't made peace with mortality, right? And unfortunately, when we don't make peace with mortality, there's a lot of anxiety, there's a lot of depression, there's a lot of you know, loss of hope, loss of faith. And I find when you are spiritual, even if you have religion, okay, but I call it spirituality, that gives you a connection to a higher source, right? It gives you faith, it gives you hope. Um, you'll make peace with mortality. Uh, you know, you're not falling into that depression where you know you don't know. Obviously, a diagnosis comes along and you know you're you're automatically thinking the worse when you have spirituality and you have faith, you have a little better of a of a mindset. So that's why I start off with spirituality. Number two is mindset. And I believe mindset is also a biggie. And why do I say that is because our thoughts create our reality, right? And I I I I'm a big meditator. I I actually discovered Dr. Joe Dispenza back in, gosh, about about eight years ago, and I meditate every single day. It is for me been the most beautiful way to start my day. And you know, we all have this reactive behavior, right? We wake up in the morning, we're going through our routines, check our phone, we we you know, let those things define our day. Um, but when you are in the right mindset, you start your day off with even breath work or meditation, just to tune in with your body and and really take charge of your day rather than let the day take charge of you. So, mindset for me is really important because you know there is proof out there that your thoughts not only can make you sick, but your thoughts can make you healthy and well. Um, and there's a lot of great studies out there on this, and I I just am fascinated by the mind and really what it can do to the human body and when we're all aligned with our thoughts. So that's mindset, is number two. Number three is movement, which I call it movement. I didn't really want to say exercise because there's different types of movement. Um some people like to do Pilates, some people like to do Tai Chi, some people like to go to the gym, jog. The bottom line is as you're you're getting your heart rate up and you're doing some form of exercise. Um as we get older, we know that you know you lose body mass, sarcopenia, your joints, and all of that has to do living a sedentary life of not moving and not being active. Um, and there's a big study out there because you know, unfortunately, we are dealing with an obesity problem in our world. You know, United States is being such a great country, we deal with the highest rate of obesity. And a lot of it is because people aren't exercising, they're not, they're not moving, they're not doing things that are keeping them active. So I do believe that that is a very important part as you get older, because falling is the number one thing that happens for breaking a hip, you know, getting fractures as you get older. Um, so maintaining balance, all of that has to do with uh exercise, movement. Whether you're taking a nice long walk, as I said, Tai Chi, salsa dancing, whatever it is that you do. Um, just move and and those things will you'll you'll notice will will take care of your body as you get older. The fourth element is nutrition because we all know nutrition is everything. Um unfortunately, you know, as we get older, sometimes we'll need to deal with certain things like being pre-diabetic or diabetic, and and it all has to do with choices of food. And I believe that look, any any everybody can really maintain a good body mass index just by following your normal routine as far as the daily allowance of you know vegetables, fruits, meats, proteins, fats. I like to, and I and I share this in my book, Dr. Carver, is I call it the uh somatabody types. I don't know if you heard of the somato body types before. So we're three body types, right? Endomorph, ectomorph, and mesomorph. And those three body types, and something that I use when I was younger is I was actually obese when I was a kid, and I discovered my body type, which is an endomorph. And I read it, I found it out in the because I became a bodybuilder later in life, was the Arnold Schwarzenegger Encyclopedia to Modern Bodybuilding. And I learned that I was an endomorph. And as soon as I started exercising, eating for my body type, I lost all the weight, my body composition changed, and to this day, I still follow that regimen. So look into those body types. If you pick up the book, you'll learn a little bit more about that. But yeah, uh nutrition is is definitely one of the key areas of uh longevity and quality of life. And number five is functional medicine, um, which is my favorite subject. Uh I've actually been involved in functional medicine, I should say regenerative medicine, over the last eight years. Um that's how my company started. And I'm just fascinated by, you know, modern medicine is obviously we're dealing with different pharmaceutical companies that all they do is push pills. I would say, you know, a pain for a pill, right? A pill for a pain. And um, if we look at a holistic approach, because there's some great, and I'm not saying that pharmaceuticals are bad, there's always a reason to use them, but it shouldn't be the first cause. So functional medicine is getting to the root cause of whatever your issue is and dealing with it on a holistic level. And that goes from lifestyle to you know using peptides, nutraceuticals, um, and really looking at your body, not just from yeah, the symptom is always there, but the root cause of what is it from that that is giving you that migraine, or what is it that's giving you those gut health issues. So that's uh that's the five elements of life. And you know, I think some most people are following one or two of them. And I do believe, and look, I'm I'm not perfect. I I have those in there to hold myself accountable as well. Uh, but I do believe those five elements of life are a great formula to really give you quality of life, health span, and lifespan.

Morning Routines And Training The Mind

Dr. Rachaele Carver 14:21

And I I would absolutely agree 110% with this because you know, I think a lot of us in this space of you know, holistic or gender, wellness, whatever you want to, you know, title it, that we all have these kind of pillars of health, right, that we talk about. And what I love about yours, it puts that spirituality mindset at the forefront, which I can't, I we've talked about that a lot on the podcast. Um, you know, and right, you know, I'm a dentist. We're talking about like oral health, but again, all of this relates to every part of your health, you know. So, you know, may think, oh, it's not relevant. I want to hear more about, you know, how these things impact my oral health. Everything impacts oral health, right? Everything impacts your health overall. Maybe you're, you know, your symptom is coming out in your mouth, right? Whereas my symptom came out as eczema in my hands. But until I really understood this spirituality and mindset part, I would, I would make progress, but never, I couldn't quite get over the finish line, right? I couldn't get rid of the eczema for more than you know, a few weeks at a time. Um, so again, I was making progress with the nutrition and then the movement and the functional medicine, but until I embraced the idea that we are all energy, right? There is this greater source out there that my mindset was preventing me because I got to the point where I was like, I just need to find the right person or the right technology or the right supplement that's gonna fix me, right? When we all, what I really want to drive home, which we've talked about a lot, is that you have the capability to heal yourself. But you have to be open and you have to appreciate the power of the thoughts, the power of frequency in this world because it's invisible. You can't feel it, touch it, taste it, smell it, right? So it's some people, you know, they're like, that's just so woo-woo. You know, I do a lot of that neurofeedback, biofeedback kind of stuff because I always am trying to tap into what is your frequency, right? What frequencies are your body giving off that may be inhibiting your body to fully heal itself? And and the mindset, I love what you said because I say that all the time on the podcast too, right? Thoughts become beliefs, beliefs become reality. I try to drill that into my teenager daughter's heads like every single day. Like, you know, I wish that that high schools would teach, you know, this kind of mindset, and you know, and they they're starting to, um, you know, but like if they could get every teenager to create a mind movie, right? You know, hey, if you want to be a great athlete, well, you know, create a movie. Create, you know, we've talked about vision boards, but when you have that actually, you know, kids with technology today, make a little movie that you watch. And I think that was the other thing that's really important that I am this is kind of new for me to really working towards is when you wake up in the morning, having that little daily routine because we wake up and then we're immediately on our phones or we're, you know, getting breakfast ring in, we're going to work. But and for me, meditation is always hard because it's hard for me to quiet my mind. But I love qigong, right? Because it's I'm moving. So it it's it's you know, and it helps quiet my mind a little bit as I move. But um, some of my good friends have just there, I'm doing a beta testing for their new um app, and there's a million apps out there, but I love theirs because it's combining all of these pillars into one, and it's creating like I'm putting in my own values and what I want to achieve, and blah, blah, blah. And then AI just creates for me, here's the affirmation, right? That you need to say, here's the perfect meditation, right, for this. And, you know, sometimes I'm not good at following these structured things, but I'm I'm really loving it and I'm feeling like this is really gonna take me to the next level, right? Because I say, yeah, I want to do this and I never really do it. You know, I love to read, but sometimes that reading is an escape, right? It's an escape from reality, so I don't have to deal with my thoughts and my feelings and the stresses. I just escape to another world, right? And I see this in my teenage shows. They just want to, you know, watch a mindless show because it just shuts off the craziness. And not to say there's anything wrong, you know, like, hey, if I want to go binge Bridgerton for an afternoon, you know what? Maybe that's what my body needs right now, right? To just slow down. But that the intentional affirmations, the intention, and then and we're not talking about that positive, yeah, you know, the toxic positivity, right? Where you always have to be happy, and you know, because we really need to feel our feelings, right? And that's part of that mindset. Like, okay, I feel tired, I feel stressed today. Okay, you know, and like in and when you're doing meditation stuff, you're sitting in that feeling, right? Because there's nothing wrong. We don't have wrong feelings, we have feelings, and it I think we need to acknowledge them not as bad or good, right? We we there's too much judgment, I think, you know, in this world, where like I'm not exercising enough, so so I'm bad, you know, I'm not doing this, and I'm that's wrong. And and we need to get rid of that judgment and just meet us where we're at and live in the present moment, right? I think too often we're like worried about the past or we're worried about the future. And and I mean, I'm totally guilty of this. So when I that's why I really like that morning, the the time that you take five minutes. I'm gonna set the intention for my day. And I know if I skip that qigong, my office staff, they know like not as calm today, you know, things are spinning her a little bit easily. You know, especially all of our nervous systems are such a wreck these days, you know. There's so many invisible, you know, man-made, you know, toxins that's in the air and the water, the Wi-Fi, nah da la. Well, having that, I mean, and it doesn't have to be a lot, right? 10 minutes, 15 minutes, whatever it may be, that we set our day with the right, and you will notice in a massive difference. And suddenly life just seems easier because everything that you want just starts magically happening for you. But it's not magic, it's because you're putting the energy at the beginning of your day what you want.

SPEAKER_01 20:28

That's right.

Dr. Rachaele Carver 20:28

And the universe has no uh alternative but to allow that to come to fruition, right? So I appreciate that.

SPEAKER_01 20:36

Yeah, and listen, I mean, I think we we all have analytical minds, right? And and at the beginning, when I start first started meditating, I had a hard time just calming my brain down. But you know, I started off one minute and then ended up five minutes, and then now I could do up to an hour of meditation. But the whole idea is to start your day off in stillness and silence. You know, keep that device away from you for the first hour. You know, you don't have to check your emails and your text messages as soon as you wake up because sometimes that just sets you off if it's the wrong message or you don't, you don't, you're not happy with what you see, just like you know, it just takes you in a whole different direction. And you know, I do believe that it's important for us to really just tune into our bodies um because we have a tendency to react, right? That's just human nature. We react. And by calming that reactive behavior and understanding that life is gonna happen, and it's not what happens to you, it's how you react to what happens to you, right? And how long do you allow that reaction to happen? Um, so it's just that I believe that that really um being aware, having that awareness and that clarity is everything. Um, but everything that you just said, um I'm so aligned with that. And look, I I I know that everybody that's gonna be listening to this will get one nugget. Get out of there. But if there's something that I feel would can change your life, it's that morning routine.

Dr. Rachaele Carver 22:07

Yeah, I totally agree. And then you made me think of something you said earlier, too, about that choice, right? We, and that is so important. And this is what I'm really trying to teach my kids, right? You know, you have the choice to be the victim or to, you know, be the leader of your own life because you you completely have a choice of of how you want to live, right? And right now it's a little, it's challenging for me, right? Because the teenagers are butting against everything that I, you know, that I want to say, that telling them, you know, what to eat, how to be, you know. Um, and I and for me, that's hard. I have to just, I've had to learn how to just let it be for now and know that they're gonna come back. I was very excited the other day. I was my daughter was out and she sent me uh a photo of herself. It was her bare feet on the ground, and she said, I'm grounding. I just thought, oh, okay, it's getting in there. Okay, okay, you know, and I was like, oh, see, you know, because when I get so frustrated, like, they're not doing what I say. And then you're like, okay, so I'm laying the groundwork. And if I take the stress that everything needs to be perfect at this moment in time, it's never gonna get there, right? Because that stress that I'm holding is preventing the free flow of energy, right? So this is that's the work in progress for me as a mom to just, you know, let it go, just have that faith and the belief that everything is gonna work out, that they are going to control, right?

SPEAKER_01 23:27

But it's you're not alone. I have a 16-year-old daughter, so I I follow your your your what you're exactly what you're saying. It's uh it's definitely there.

Peptides Explained Without The Hype

SPEAKER_01 23:36

Um what I'd love to do, Doctor, is talk about since we we're we're on the subject right now of you know quality of life and how to live a life that that is fulfilled. And you know, one of the things that I've I believe as we start to age, um, and even if you're like I I don't want to make this all about just getting older, because I'm into preventative and regenerative, right? So even if you're in your 40s, uh late 30s, I think it's a perfect time to start. Because with my company Reversible, one of the things that we do, because right now we're in this peptide craze, right? Everything's about peptides and nutraceuticals and regenerative medicine. And I love it. Um, and it's a it's a great opportunity to really understand what what peptides are. So, you know, we peptides are signalers, right? They signal your cells and they they're basically a chain of amino acids. And you know, they obviously are made synthesized in a lab and they are taken either orally or sub Q. Um, but there's a lot of great benefits to peptides because as we get older, they diminish dramatically in our body. And these are great to signal to the cells to repair, regenerate. Um, you know, they're great for all kinds of applications, whether it's cognitive, hormones, weight loss, um you know, sexual wellness. I mean, there's so much to do with peptides.

Dr. Rachaele Carver 25:10

But because just to interrupt for one second. So, those of you who may not be familiar, like insulin, right, is a peptide. Oh, Zempic, everybody's heard that. That is a peptide.

SPEAKER_01 25:20

Yeah, okay.

Dr. Rachaele Carver 25:22

Yeah, so just for context.

SPEAKER_01 25:24

Absolutely. And you know, the social media right now is all about peptides. My God, you go to Instagram, but it's like this world that's gone to the wild west because now it's like one size fits all, everybody wants to use peptides. There's a reason you want to use peptides. Look, I love peptides. I'm a walking billboard. I still use I use peptides daily, um, but there's a reason I do it. And I start off, or we start off with doing a genetic test or mitochondrial test. Because when you take anything, you want to know why you're taking it. Your body is you're an individual. You shouldn't be doing things that somebody else is doing. That's another subject because conformity kills. Um if you take a what we call we have a genetic test that we we we have on our on our platform. And once you take that genetic test, it's based on nine different health categories, right? So mom, dad mutations, and you look at uh, you know, autophagy, vitamin minerals, cardiovascular, gut health, neurotransmitters. And we'll once you get your results back, it'll tell you where all your deficiencies are. And once you notice those deficiencies that are your deficiencies, then there's a protocol that's customized specifically for you, for peptides, for nutraceuticals, for nutrition, for fitness, for lifestyle. And that is the actual formula that'll give you that quality of life. You know, that'll give you those, you know, you'll live into your 90s and hundreds, hopefully. Um, because that's possible. And most people look at that's another thing. Look at the you know, the average lifespan. Oh, I'm only gonna live till 77. That's nonsense. You're gonna live as long as you wanna live, but live in a way where you're having great health span, because lifespan is how long you're gonna live, health span is how long you're gonna live well. And that's what you want. You want to have quality of life. So take a genetic test. I I believe, and and the lab that I'm affiliated with, you know, right now genetic testing is a market that's growing exponentially because it is the blueprint for your life, for you as an individual. Unfortunately, doctor, guess what? Most people just don't want to know, which is irresponsible because you know, it's irresponsible to your family, it's irresponsible to yourself. Um, you know, you want to know, you know, and I'll give you an example. My mom, um, before she passed, she had Alzheimer's. And, you know, towards the end, she couldn't even recognize who I was, my name, and it was very difficult to see that. And so for me, that was a red flag. I wanted to find out, I mean, if that gene existed in my in my DNA, and it did after the genetic test. I found that out, and I was able to take the right supplementation, the right, you know, um peptides to really mitigate that. And a lot of these, you know, chronic diseases are reversible, hence the name of my company. But uh, they are reversible, you know, and it's all about catching them early. That's why, you know, it's important. Even if you get them on a later stage, at least you can manage it, but don't neglect it. And I think that's really what most people are doing these days. They're just like doing what everybody else is doing. They're listening to social media, they're like one size fits all. No, do a do a genetic test, customized blueprint for your body, and you're gonna be amazed of the things that you will discover or might not discover. But if you do discover them, you could mitigate them early and and and live a beautiful quality of life.

Dr. Rachaele Carver 29:08

It is so, so important that it can't reiterate that enough. And that's what's exciting about you know the whole wellness world now is that we're moving more and more towards this personalized medicine. So, you know, you said one of the pillars or your framework, right, is nutrition. But that's so different for all of us, right? And sometimes it makes it hard. Now that I know this, you know, as a mom, I'm like, I can cook one meal for the four of us, but you know, our nutrient requirements are a little bit different. But um, I I find so much value in this genetic testing as well, because you know, I just I just had a blood test the other day, and my my I've been losing a lot of my hair and I was like, oh geez, am I doing the in this periomenopausit? I've been kind of tweaking my HRT regimen and trying to find the right balance, and my homocysteine was sky high. Never has never been high, and I do. I have I'm heterozygous for the MTHFR, the C one. And I was like, oh my gosh, I just for some reason maybe I I'm using up my B vitamins or I'm not getting enough. And so I was like, okay, I know I've got to, you know, got to get on that more B vitamins. Also, like my lipid levels were a little bit weird, but I have another defect where I don't absorb fats properly. So again, I was like, I need that supplement that's gonna help shuttle that in. I need extra bile salt, you know, supplementation because again, like just my genetics don't allow me. I could have the healthiest diet and eat all the cod liver I want. But if my body isn't able to break it down and bring it into the cells, then it's kind of a waste. So there's so much value. Again, like, you know, I did a biome test years and years ago, right? That was looking at RNA stuff and it showed for me, I shouldn't be eating any cruciferous vegetables. I didn't have the bacteria to break down the glucosinolates, which, right, broccoli and cabbage, those are supposed to be the healthiest vegetables on the planet. Well, not for me, right? And when I shifted my diet, that's again, which you know, I think is one of the reasons my eczema doesn't come back anymore. I don't eat a ton of those vegetables anymore, right? Um, so it's it's it's really, really, really vital. And it's it's so affordable. Yes. This is not, these are not crazy amounts of money. I mean, you can go to the doctor, you know, health insurance now is such a joke. It's so terrible. Every time I have a doctor order me blood work, I mean, I'm spending thousands of dollars where, you know, I'm fortunate that I'm a doctor, I can order my own for a fraction of the cost. But again, there are all these companies coming out now because consumers are like, I don't want to go that route. And so, and and it can be much more affordable. So it's really exciting that your company is offering that because again, that nutrition piece is, and I love what you said about the body types, right? And it's so important, different body to like, I'm not eating the same thing as my husband. My husband has high iron, I have low iron, right? So again, it it makes it a little more challenging at mealtime, but um, you know, for for most of the time it's it's really valuable. We want to, you know, increase that that health span, which I think most of us would want to do.

SPEAKER_01 32:08

Yeah, look, the the metabolic function of our bodies is different from each

Why Personal Testing Beats Trends

SPEAKER_01 32:12

individual. And that's why I say conformity kills. And that's one of the one of the things I talk about in my book is that unfortunately most are just following what everybody else is doing. And you know, that is not the way you want to go about life. You're an individual, your biology is completely different. Um, you know, the way that you're going to be able to customize something and have a blueprint for your own body type is to do a genetic test. The other one is a mitochondrial test. As we know, mitochondria is the energy of our cells, right? And but every organ in our body has mitochondria. And something that you kind of mentioned a minute ago, it's like the body is an unbelievable specimen. It'll show you and it'll tell you what's going on. We just got to listen, right? Most people ignore symptoms, they ignore things. Oh, I'm just having a little bit of a rash, or I'm just having a little bit of pain, it's okay, it'll go away. No, there's a reason. Your body's telling you something's wrong, something's going on. Listen to those early signs because that can save your life. Um, I don't mean to be dramatic, but in some cases it can, you know. But even like the little skin issue, I'll give you an example. I I deal with uh a skin issue as well. That in the summertime, I was getting like this fungus on my skin, and uh I was like, what is this? I'd never had this before. So I went to a dermatologist and they diagnosed it as tinnia versicolor, which is a fungus that grows on the skin. I was like, interesting. So what can I do about this? So it's like, oh, you gotta take this medicated shampoo and body wash, whatever, and going away. But then as I started to get older, I started to notice that my skin was starting to get like different tones, and I'm like, wait a minute, this is is this part of aging? Um did a little bit more research. We have a there's a peptide called melatanin, melatanin too, and melatinin two is that so it has um obviously our the skin uh melanin, right? So it it actually started I started to use it, and my skin completely changed. I mean, I have healthy skin now, my my skin tone is is a lot more balanced. So again, there's there's peptides, there's different ways to really analyze really what's going on with you. You just gotta listen to your body and and be aware of any visual symptom that you you might see or or feel because that's the body signaling to you that um hey, something is going on here.

Dr. Rachaele Carver 34:42

Yeah, you know, Inja, I was just listening to a podcast the other day, and they were talking about uh, you know, osteoporosis, which was really, really common. I deal with it, see it in my practice all the time, you know. And to me, I used to think it's like, you know, a mineral issue. I used to think, you know, that uh with women specifically, right, as we go through menopause, our estrogen levels drop. And estrogen is really protective of bone. So when we lose a little bit of estrogen, you know, our bone may start breaking down. The other thing is as our bone starts breaking down more, we're releasing decades-old toxins, right? Which then speeds up that mitochondrial problem. And this podcast was talking about, oh, osteoporosis, you got to look at the mitochondria. And makes complete sense, right? Mitochondria is worth anyway, but I never put it in that context before. So again, right, like after 40, we start losing a lot of our mitochondria, and they're not as efficient, right? And our digestion isn't, you know, everything isn't as efficient as it was. But knowing that, we're like, okay, how do we support it? How do we tell our body, hey, we're still 20, right? You know, we need to replete the body with those, with the nutrients, and um, and the mitochondria is where it's all at, right? I mean, I would always say I think the root of all disease, you know, except the very small subset that are purely genetic, comes down to toxins, right? Whether they're infection toxins or extraneous toxins, because that affects the mitochondria. And then mitochondrial dysfunction leads to disease. And and because we all have, you know, different ethnicities or genetics live, we may manifest disease differently, but at the cellular level, it's that mitochondria is not functioning, right? Because and that's why you're exhausted all the time. Most people they're tired. Well, because we can't make energy. So, what is the test that that you look at? Well, how does that reflect mitochondrial?

SPEAKER_01 36:31

So it is, it is is called a me screen.

Mitochondria Testing And Energy Repair

SPEAKER_01 36:33

Uh, me screen is uh is the name of the mitochondrial function test. We actually sell me screen on our on our platform. It's a blood blood drop. So you do a they send you a card, do a little blood drop on it. Very easy. It's nothing that you do that's gonna be uh um you know scary, taking a little bit of a lancet, they comes with it, little drop in the blood, goes out to the lab, they do a test, come back, and you do a complete, you know, you log on to the website and your actual report will be on there. And then there's uh an analysis that will go on there with you and run you through your um, you know, protocol of what you need to do to get your mitochondria back to to I should say balanced, right? So homeostasis. Um so yeah, no, that's a great point because I said every organ in the body has mitochondria. And if you're feeling tired, if you're feeling, you know, let's say cognitively, uh another thing that, you know, the aging brain is real, right? So you need to really take care of that. Um, most of that is hydration, uh, but you know, a lot of it is really looking at your mitochondria. Um, and we have some great peptides that will help with that as well. Um, SS31, MOTC are great mitochondria peptides. Uh, so there's there's a solution for everything. There's no need to go through life suffering. And I mean that, you know, there's obviously certain situations that happen that are medically, you know, they're just uh things that happen in life. Uh, but the majority of them can be reversed or can be, you know, mitigated and and and addressed. Um, but you need to know what it is. You know, don't wait to you to get sick, you know. Address it before you get there. And and then that is easily done by taking uh genetic tests and a mitochondrial test.

Dr. Rachaele Carver 38:30

Yeah, I mean, and it's we always say, right, it's so much easier to prevent than treat, but then it's hard when you're not necessarily feeling bad, you know, to actually do the work. So again, that's why the genetic screening, the me screen, I've had I've had that done as well. Um and it's it's so so so important. Um, because again, yeah, if you want to age well, if you want to avoid all of the really nasty diagnoses or labels, as I like to call them, um, you know, we need to be proactive, we need to know what's happening at that cellular level because you know, sometimes we can go, you know, my eczema was a was a huge, you know, wake up like, hey, you know, something's not right here. And I'm fortunate that it happened to me so young so I could learn all these things, um, you know, to to try to be, you know, proactive here.

Peptide Safety Cycling And Sourcing

Dr. Rachaele Carver 39:17

But let's talk a little bit uh more about the peptides. Do you see like peptide isn't natural? Usually they're natural, right? And do you see a lot of side effects or does it depend on the peptides?

SPEAKER_01 39:27

To be honest with you, there shouldn't be any adverse reactions, right? So it's a mean it's an amino acid. Now, overuse can definitely be one of the you know side effects that you'll get. When we talk about side effects, you know, maybe a rash on the injection site, maybe swelling on the injection site. Sometimes people are allergic to certain you know compounds like CJC. But for the most part, Doctor, I have not seen really much of an adverse reaction. And I I take probably a good eight different peptides.

Dr. Rachaele Carver 40:01

Yeah, that's great. You know, and I think the other thing that's important to notice about that, right, as we get older and if our digestion, you know, isn't as robust because we see a lot of you know dimensioning stomach acid and those problems. Also, we see as we age, especially in women, right, we need more protein, right? And protein amino acids is what builds protein, and that's why the peptides are so effective, because we're not absorbing our protein, we're not eating enough protein, and that's why it's one of the reasons I think we see that typical decline or the typical manifestations of aging, right? We're not getting those amino acids that we need. And that's why, you know, and again, the roots of administration of peptides are really, you know, unless you don't necessarily love giving yourself a shot, but there's certain ones, you know, like BPC, you know, KPV, they come in um oral sprays, you know, and and now some of them, if they're small enough, right, they can be um even taken orally sometimes. So there's just there's so many different ways now that we can get these these peptides. Um, and again, they're just so beneficial. It's just, you know, that missing, that missing link, right? Because those amino acids uh in the form that they are, you know, as Carlos said, they are signalers. So they're telling your body, hey, you know, we're we're we don't have enough of this in the tank here. Can we can let's make some more of this, right? That's right. Um and and that's what we need. And so, and again, understanding your genetics, you're like, okay, because there are so many peptides, that's get that's where it gets confusing. You know, if you list like all the things that hipful, everyone would be like, I need all of them. Yeah, they have all those symptoms, right? So um, so it's really important to because um, you know, some you can order by yourself, but I think it's really important that you work with somebody who really understands how peptides work, because even though they may be relatively safe, if you want to get the biggest bang for your buck, work with somebody who understands your genetics, your mitochondrial functioning, and then how each individual peptide um will benefit you personally, because the fastest way to improve is to personalize your treatment as much as possible.

SPEAKER_01 42:05

Well said. No, 100%. And look, there is definitely, and when you you asked the question about side effects, you know, every peptide has a cycle, right? So you use it for a cycle. You don't use peptides like forever, because what you want to do, for instance, you mentioned BPC 157, right? So you take BPC 157, um, you know, if you had any past injuries or even for gut health, and you'll do it for that one-month cycle. Um, if you're seeing great results, and you you will see results. Then you pause for, you know, two months, and then if you see any symptoms come back, then you start again. But you want to allow your body to make them on their own. That's why cycling off and cycling on is very important. Um, you don't want to just stay on them for forever. Uh so they are, I do cycle them, and and I've seen some amazing, amazing results when it comes to, you know, obviously the reasons that I'm using them. But yeah, I think there's look, there's peptides that are for the masses, 100%. You know, your GHK copper cu, obviously for skin, right? Everybody can use that. I don't I don't see an issue with doing that. But when you get more of in-depth, like you're talking about, you know, your hormonal, your cognitive, uh, you know, your your mitochondrial, uh, then you know, definitely you want to do a genetic test or a mitochondrial test to see, you know, really what which ones would be work best for you. And I always recommend functional medicine doctors really are the best when it comes to that because they like to work with more homeopathic approach. Um, yeah. So I I'd highly recommend to go that route. Don't ever go and buy peptides on your own and start injecting because one, it's the wild west out there. Uh sorry to say, but sometimes these are coming from you know, China. There's there's you know the FDA, they're not FDA approved a lot. You know, there's there's can be some adverse reactions if you don't have impurities in there that will um cause any type of adverse.

Dr. Rachaele Carver 44:10

Yeah, absolutely. Um so I I would definitely caution that too because you don't know where it's coming from. And that's you know, that's I caution people don't buy your vitamins off of Amazon, okay, unless it's coming directly from that manufacturer. They've done studies that show, you know, that they they can be tampered with. So, you know, when you're dealing with stuff for your body, especially if you're gonna make that investment, you know, you want to make sure you're using the proper band and working, you know, working with a doctor who's familiar, you know, with the the quality, right? You don't have to spend all your time, let the doctors, you know, do that groundwork for you.

Liposomal Supplements And Better Absorption

SPEAKER_01 44:44

You know, you talked about supplements, and I want to talk about it because I'm a big fan of nutraceuticals. And you know, obviously nutraceuticals are a combination of nutrients and pharmaceutical. Um, but you know, the one of the best ways of to really get the bang for the buck, if you will, from your supplements is make sure that they're liposomal. Liposomal is when they're encapsulated in a fatty encapsulation, right? So it's uh the the actual cell they actually will bypass the gastric acid because most of the vitamins that you're taking, if they're pills form, they're getting eat up. You're probably getting maybe 10 to 20 percent of the bioavailability. When they are uh liposomal, they allow it to pass the gastric acid, and you're getting you know 70 to 80 percent bioavailability and absorption rate. So I highly recommend if you are going to take any supplements, leutaceuticals, vitamins, liposomal is the route.

Dr. Rachaele Carver 45:42

Um, I would I would agree with that. And the idea behind is because it's fat, FAB, it's going to absorb through the fatty membranes more easily. The other thing I would say too is not everything comes liposomal. So what do you do then? Uh if you can find, you know, that's why I'm a big fan of the Cell Core brand, because their carbon technology is also highly um energized, right? So we talk about things, you know, getting in and out of cells with all these voltage-gated channels and everything. And again, everything in life is energy, everything is frequency. Cell core has, you know, they're they're charged, right? So they're gonna more easily the same idea like liposoma. And so if you take, or if you just get fulvic acid, humic acid things, those are um, those are becoming more and more popular too. Those are also charged particles. So you can take, like I will sometimes use my beam minerals. I'll take some of my supplements with the beam. As long as the fulvic and humic acid that are charged, you it helps to bring those again, because not not everything's liposomal. So that's one other way to um to help get more out of your supplements 100%.

SPEAKER_01 46:49

And again, that's part of the protocol as well. When you do uh a genetic test, you'll get your your vitamin and mineral deficiencies because unfortunately, we're not getting a lot of that source from our food because of the soil and so on and so forth. But yeah, you you definitely need to, you know, supplement your your nutrition. Um, and that'll be done through vitamins and minerals.

unknown 47:14

Right.

Dr. Rachaele Carver 47:15

Again, and again, it's important to understand where your deficiencies are so you're not wasting time and money, you know, buying just supplements that you may not need. Or maybe it's the wrong form, right? Maybe you've been taking magnesium for two years and yet it's not ticking that number up. Well, you maybe need another form. You maybe need a different brand or you know, something because every brand they may look the same on a label, but in the processing, in the manufacturing, and the shipping, who knows what happens to the energy, you know, within those bottles, right? So um, so it's it's important to to look at that because some people are like, well, it's okay. I'm taking my vitamin D and I'm taking this. And well, how do you know? Are you checking your vitamin D levels every, you know, that's another thing for me. I I have a defect in my vitamin D receptors, you know, genetically. So I have to take a lot of vitamin, and for years I was like, well, I'll just take my fish later, I'll just go out into the sun more. It just doesn't work for me. And you know, there's some studies saying, oh, too much synthetic vitamin D may not be a good thing, but you know, if I'm not getting any at all, right, most of the majority of the studies say, yeah, you want those levels, you know, over 40, maybe at 60, maybe at 80. Um, so again, knowing your genetics, your blood work, you know, that's how you really can can optimize your health. And sometimes it may see, like I said, daunting and expensive. But again, when you when you do these initial tests, see where you're at, right? Then you dial in the exact supplements you need. You don't, you don't maybe you were taking too many that you didn't need, right? So you were wasting money anyway, right? And then um, you know, working with certain doctors now again, and there are a lot of tests that you can do at home that are so much less expensive. So, you know, there are avenues because some people say, well, it's just too expensive. I can't do that. But again, what what's your priority? Do you want to feel good? Do you want to have your energy back? You know, that's where the mindset piece comes. Absolutely. Like, who do you want to be, right? Do you want to be the victim or do you want to be, you know, the proactive, you know, leader of your biology?

SPEAKER_01 49:11

So your health is an investment, not a lot of not a liability, you know, and and it's something that unfortunately, if you don't take care of it, eventually it's gonna come back to you know haunt you. And that's something that you don't want later in life. Um, you know, I know we talk about my book, obviously, aging is an edible, getting old is a choice. And as we start to age, my thing is that I want everybody to understand that you're in control of that. You are in control of that. Yeah, God, the universe, however you want to call it, obviously has plans for all of us. I'm not trying to play God, but we all can can take care of our own temple, our vessel, and really nourish it, make sure we exercise it, make sure we are, you know, inputting the right information, um, keeping our thoughts clean. And that is really what's going to give you quality of life because that's what it's all about. It's longevity is everybody wants to live long, but I want to live long well. I don't want to live long, you know, having a lot of ailments. Uh so hopefully this information has helped, you know, your viewers and and your audience to really look at your health and and take it seriously because you know we're only here one time. Uh and and you know, you want to make it as beautiful, you have you have kids, you have family. Be responsible for them. Don't be selfish. And you know, that's why I said it's it's it's it's irresponsible not to address your health issues or address your health because others will suffer.

Dr. Rachaele Carver 50:48

Yeah.

Where To Find Reversible

Dr. Rachaele Carver 50:49

Very well said. Well, tell us how we can learn more about your company. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 50:53

Yeah, so you know, my my company actually right now I'm actually moving it into uh uh uh starting my new website, which should be up in about three weeks, but it's www.reversible rvr sbl.com. Uh and you'll go there and have access to the mitochondrial test, the meat screen test, all the information. We educated. I'm all about education, not about selling. You know, I think people need consumers need to be educated these days. So we give you a complete education on those tests, as well as education on peptides, bioregulators, nutraceuticals, the three body types. Um, we educate on there as well. So we we have a health optimization quiz that you could take on there. A lot of great um resources. So highly recommend go on there. Love to help you. Uh, have a chief medical officer that does a lot of protocols and can guide you. And uh, we're just here to help humanity and to really help you have a great quality of life and and give you all of the tools necessary for you to just have a great uh health span and lifespan.

Dr. Rachaele Carver 52:01

That that's awesome. And we'll put that website in the uh in the show notes for everybody so you can uh reference that. Um, but this has been wonderful. It's always nice having like minds come together and you know share our passion for education and and helping others. Carlos, thank you so much for taking time today to enlighten all of us and energize all of us, and uh we look forward to talking to you again soon.

SPEAKER_01 52:27

My pleasure.

Dr. Rachaele Carver 52:28

So I hope everybody had um got at least a few nuggets out of this episode. Again, refer to the short show notes to learn more about Carlos's company, and we'll see you all on the next episode.