Optimal Human Experience with Dr Joseph Diruzzo

Ep. 9 - Nutrition and the Mind: Unraveling the Links Between Diet, Inflammation and Personality Development with Dr. Joseph DiRuzzo

• Dr. Joseph Diruzzo (aka "Dr. Joe") • Season 1 • Episode 9

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Ready to unravel the profound link between what you eat and how you think and feel? Renowned expert, Dr. Joseph DiRuzzo, unravels this intricate correlation. We peel away layers of conventional wisdom, tackling the consequences of micronutrient-deficient diet on our overall health. Together, we expose the dangers lurking behind long-term consumption of adulterated foods. Not only that, we delve into the repercussions of inflammation, and how it can lead to cerebral edema impacting emotions and behaviors. We also uncover the dark side of SSRIs, and share the insightful teachings of Michio Kushi on the long-term effects of altered diets. 

We then shift gears to the intriguing world of prenatal re-imprinting. Ever wondered how experiences from as far back as the womb could influence your personality structure? We navigate through this fascinating terrain, uncovering how imprints during our formative years can shape our lives. We look back at the Great Depression, and how its legacy of malnutrition extends to impact health. We also explore the kaleidoscope analogy to explain this concept further. Additionally, Dr. DiRuzzo imparts his wisdom on prenatal memory and the potential of prenatal re-imprinting to alter personality structures. This podcast episode promises to transform your understanding of health, nutrition, and personality development.

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Speaker 1:

This is the Optimal Human Experience Podcast with Dr Joseph DiRuzzo. To learn more, visit OptimalHumanExperiencecom. And now. Dr Joseph DiRuzzo and the Optimal Human Experience Podcast.

Speaker 2:

Welcome to Episode 9 of the Optimal Human Experience Podcast with Dr Joseph DiRuzzo. Please visit OptimalHumanExperiencecom. Dr Joe, what do you want to talk about Buenos dias?

Speaker 3:

Buenos dias. We can talk about health, a little bit Health.

Speaker 2:

Health. What's that I thought we were going to talk about? Oh, wait a minute. It ties together, doesn't it?

Speaker 3:

Oddly enough. Oddly enough, all this stuff ties together. You know, one of the big deals these days is inflammation People are inflamed and you know a little bit about that.

Speaker 3:

There's certain inflammatory markers and so on and so forth. What happens when people are inflamed? Well, they're not too happy. No, they're not too happy. One of the things that in most people the skull is inflexible. Mostly it has a certain flex to it, the cranial sacral movement, but it's nonelastic. It doesn't expand characteristically. So if you're eating food that is deficient in, we'll say, vitamin D or B5, panathenic acid, which is characteristically associated with adrenal function and the anti-inflammatory hormones, when you don't secrete enough anti-inflammatory hormones, the natural process of inflammation gets a little bit out of control. And if the brain expands slightly because it's inflamed right, you get a little cerebral edema. If you reach over and pinch most people's ankles, what do they?

Speaker 2:

do Smack me right in the face. Every time I do that, I get smacked right in the face.

Speaker 3:

They howl with pain why they're swollen why their kidneys don't work right and they're inflamed and they're eating all kinds of food that tend to retain fluids, so they will have a certain amount of cerebral edema. It is subclinical. You don't really notice it unless you sit and talk with them, and then you find out just how crazy they are. People are deluded and they are hallucinating and they're ill.

Speaker 2:

So you're saying, by talking with someone, their inner inflammation will manifest in their speech patterns. Is that what you're saying?

Speaker 3:

Sure it will manifest in their emotions how many cases of road rage are there every day.

Speaker 3:

People are driving down the street and I watch some of the videos and they all go out of their way to get in each other's face and yell and shout. If you go on YouTube and look at some of these shows between men and women, they basically are a situation where the men are telling the women that men, like women, are pure and chaste and stay home and change stinky diapers, while the guys go out to the club and hang out with their friends and the women they're not really buying that. Somewhere, when you get a body count above 20 or 30,000, like, the bloom is off the rose and relationships take on a whole new dynamic. So, anyways, what is the long term effect of removing the micron nutrients from the food? Have white bread. Before it was white, it was wheat and it had all these micronutrients in it. They refine the flour, they take the micronutrients out. And what is the long term effect? Of course you can eat a piece of white toast and it's not going to kill you right then and there.

Speaker 3:

But what is the long term effect of feeding people foods that have had the micronutrients vitamins, enzymes, minerals, co enzymes and micronutrients? What happens? You all, you're undernourished, you'd think, in a bizarre way, yeah, in a bizarre way, and they go to the hospital and the doctor will come in who's bloated, almost beyond recognition as human, and pronounce that all the diagnostic tests have revealed nothing and they're fine. They should go home. And it's really just not quite like that, yeah, so here you have. An entire civilian population Then are deprived of the synergistic micronutrients that make human metabolism smooth. And by the numbers, I have a sister. She was depressed. I said let's go to the store. I bought her a pound of grass fed beef hamburger.

Speaker 3:

What's in grass fed beef and what's the difference between that and the other regular beef?

Speaker 2:

well, I didn't have all of the hormones and added and antibiotics and and Last I heard and when I lived out in the country, what I saw cows eating. When they were left to their own devices and out in a field they would eat grass and that's all they would eat by and large.

Speaker 3:

And the difference is. In grass there is an amino acid known as tryptophan. Define is a precursor of serotonin. Serotonin is one of those Little things in your nervous system that keeps you well balanced. People get antidepressants in there, called what SSRI's selective serotonin Reoptic inhibitors and they mess with the inner synaptic cleft and they keep a certain level of serotonin in the inside of the neurons and until you run out of it. And then people, people, characteristically pick up a baseball bat and go to town on whoever happens to be handy. Well, and those don't.

Speaker 2:

Don't those also His? I lost my older brother to suicide right and they had put him on, if I'm not mistaken, ssri. Yeah, and one of the side effects was Suicidal thoughts.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, suicidal and homicidal. I mean you get the best of both worlds, you know. So I cooked. I cooked lightly a little of this Grass-fed beef, fed it to her. 15 minutes later she was fine.

Speaker 3:

What is the long-term effect of having an entire civilian population of 200 million plus people who have had the tryptophan and all the other micro nutrients Remove for altered or adulterated? You know, my acupuncture teacher, michio Kushi, used to laugh at the idea of five-year controlled studies. He'd say we have controlled studies and go back a thousand years. Your five-year controlled study really doesn't mean all that much by comparison. So what is the optimal human experience?

Speaker 3:

Well, there's a book called the China study and in it the Chinese have kept records of who did what in terms of their health and longevity etc. And they basically say plant-based, for the most part whole food. And If you try it, your life intellectually will begin once you get into a plant-based whole food, a little meat, little fish here and there. But the reason why is, if you have a standard American diet SAD, sad, with most of its micronutrients removed, your adrenal system will be operating, but it will be operating Suboptimally. There will be a certain degree of inflammation.

Speaker 3:

It's in all the medical literature these days, there'll be a certain amount of edema and the micro Arterials in your brain, the little, tiny, tiny, tiny ones where the rubber meets the road, where Oxygen is released from the bloodstream and gets into the nerve cells, it's impaired and so people are. Just they're kind of dull, you know, and and they will go invite for a vote for somebody who doesn't obviously doesn't have their best interests in our art and they won't notice that there's a problem. I used to say, you know, people have problems with observation. They don't notice that their spouse is having an affair with the next-door neighbor and their kids are upstairs in the bedroom snorting cocaine and shooting heroin. How they don't notice these things is beyond me. But nonetheless, when you reduce the oxygenation, even a little tiny bit, and you get suboptimal Optimal oxygenation in the brain, then there is a problem. There's accidents, there's arguments, there's fighting, killing, you know just all this problematic behavior.

Speaker 1:

Now go ahead.

Speaker 3:

Let this be a lesson to you. Yes, sir, you know, I I was. I practiced nutritional therapy for I don't know 40, some odd years, 50 years, and it wasn't until I decided that I wanted to increase the functionality of my joints that I went to and I started consuming large amounts of Wheat germ oil. People will say plant oils are not good for you. All right, whatever. I started consuming three to four tablespoons three times a day and After about six weeks of that, all of a sudden, my body felt dramatically better and my thinking was better and the Spring came back into my steps. So the point is the end result of Removing all of the nutrients from our food and giving the white bread and white flour and white sugar I mean the end results over a long period of time is Less than, then, the optimal human experience. People get dull and they don't think well and they're not curious.

Speaker 2:

Now tell me, before we, before before we hit record, we were discussing and I'm kind of in the back of my mind seeing how this must fit together we were discussing another layer of rapport deprivation sickness, which you see everywhere. Once you, once it's you had the distinction of okay, what, what's really going on there? And it's that. How did you describe it? Antagonistic?

Speaker 3:

Antagonistic argumentative syndrome.

Speaker 2:

So you're saying. I think that this lack of nutrition in the body certainly doesn't help that get, but it predisposes.

Speaker 3:

if people are inflamed, I mean you say hello to them they go off like a bomb, right?

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I've had that happen right and and in I see a lot of people who are be arguing over something that no one in their right mind would would care about at all, and they will argue with the desperation of a drowning man. You know those guys who are trying to get the girls to stay home and change stinky diapers. Well, they went out to the, to the club and hung out with their friends. Their argument was delivered with a degree of desperation that was really just shocking.

Speaker 2:

Passionate desperation. Yeah, really.

Speaker 3:

And the girls. I mean they were not buying it, you know they had. How are you going to keep them down on the farm after they've seen pay re?

Speaker 2:

pay re, pay re. France and France.

Speaker 3:

So we have reported deprivation sickness as a format and we have the antagonistic argumentative phenomena. And this is a very dangerous thing in the sense that if you read the book the stress of life by Dr Han Selie, he did the original work on stress and he would take rats and inject them with foreign substance and stuff and all of his colleagues said to him you're studying the pharmacology of dirt. And they were in sense that you know he was studying what happens when you stress these experimental animals by injecting weird things underneath their skin and he eventually came up with they call you know, the generalized adaptation syndrome. First you respond in alarm and then after a while you get used to it, or you try to get used to it and you go into the resistance stage and then after a while you get into the exhaustion stage and then, after the exhaustion stage is the organism just rolls over and is dead. Right, and it will go through, it will get developed.

Speaker 3:

Do you want no ulceration? How many times have you heard people say well, I gotta go to the doctor, I got an ulcer.

Speaker 3:

Oh yeah, how many people have ulcers? Yeah, how you can't get an ulcer unless you're under too much stress or you are. Your micronutrients have been removed. The duonal ulceration, adrenal cortical hypertrophy and lymphatic atrophy. The immune system is down. How many people get cancer? How does that happen?

Speaker 2:

One out of three, one out of four, now, something like that, just a horrendous numbers of people, just under horrendous numbers of people.

Speaker 3:

And the thing where physiologic healthcare fits in with um rapport deprivation sickness fits in with um prenatal reimpering, which fits in with the creativity technology. All this material fits together and it gives you the opportunity to experience the optimal human experience. That's what this is all about. It's a lot of fun.

Speaker 2:

Well, that's about half. We're about halfway through. Just want to mention real quickly, if you enjoy what you're listening to, what you're hearing now, if you want to hear more, if you want to learn more, there's a website, optimalhumanexperiencecom. That's optimalhumanexperiencecom. You can find all the previous podcasts there, uh, and links to your favorite podcast delivery platform. There's some videos, uh, courses, that sort of thing, optimalhumanexperiencecom. I rudely interrupted you. What were you about to?

Speaker 3:

say, dr, you know, for our, for our listening audience, if you're not really enjoying your life and being productive and having fun and having nice relationships and making you know a good income with prosperity, and if you don't have a rapport with allies, if you don't have the experience of making contribution and having personal freedom and self-expression, you're. What you're looking for is the, the optimal human experience, and the material we're presenting is designed to slowly push you in that direction. This is this is not an overnight cure. However, as soon as you start eating food that's got some nutrition in it, miracle upon miracles, you'll notice that your health improves and you start to emotionally, mentally, emotionally feel a lot better.

Speaker 2:

So you can actually feel better quickly.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, you can feel you can start. You can start today. You can start today. And as far as physical health goes, that really is the last thing to break down and it's the first thing to get fixed. As soon as you start eating a nutrient dense diet, your health will inevitably improve, without question.

Speaker 2:

Well, and and combine that with I'm right now I'm thinking about. I don't think we've gone over this story from your practice on the podcast. I think there's a video out there about it, but there was a couple that came to you, came to one of your presentations, I think down in Houston or something, and they had been raised during the depression, as I recall. Tell us that story, joe. Let me, let me pull up a chair here around the fire, if you remember it.

Speaker 1:

Do you remember it?

Speaker 2:

For me. I'd like to try some of this prenatal re-imprinting stuff there, joe.

Speaker 3:

For me it had particular significance. I had an aunt named Doris and an uncle who was married to Doris and they were, you know, in their sixties or seventies, just a few years ago, and they had a tone of voice that made fingernails screeching on a chalkboard Sound good. So Sandy would go, doris, what did you do with so and so? And Doris would go, sandy, I put it right in front of you and they, of course, would be out of rapport. And they would be in a rapport, being what?

Speaker 2:

Out of rapport. Yeah, and there was their marriage.

Speaker 3:

They were out of rapport and in rapport by being out of rapport. Well, anyway, I was in Houston and a gal put together a group for me and there were. We did prenatal re-imprinting and there's a physiologic component to prenatal re-imprinting. It has to do with set points of the promising sequence of firing of the neurons in the central nerve axis and it's amazing. Set points it's amazing. Set points are just that something gets set and it stays there and if it's in a developmental time, it'll stay there throughout the entire lifetime of the individual involved. So I had to these two people and they were about the same age as my aunt Doris and my uncle Sandy. And after I gave the seminar, they came up to me and they said, jay, that's not it Interesting, we'd like to have a private session with you. And the guy said, yeah, we really want to do that. Yeah, we really want we. We thought that sounds interesting and we'd like to have. So I said, okay, let's.

Speaker 3:

So what was absent from most people's diets during the depression? Well, besides food. Besides food. People don't know it, but 25% of the American population died prematurely of diseases related to malnutrition During the depression. I mean, it was a problem so my mother used to talk about during the depression. They lived on bread and peanut butter and coffee, and there was white bread with everything milled out of it and peanut butter and coffee Three of the main food groups you can't think of anything more irritating and melanin. Anyways, I had these folks at just just as a. You know, as an afterthought, I had him sit down. I said close your eyes, put yourself in a prenatal position, take a deep breath, imagine yourself floating calmly in the amniotic fluid and imagine your mother is sitting outside in the gentle sunlight with fresh air, eating a large bowl of blueberries and heavy cream. What's in heavy cream?

Speaker 2:

Decentral fatty acids.

Speaker 3:

So and this was one of my first experiences with doing altering physiology they sat there and they twitched and they shook and they and I didn't know what was going on.

Speaker 2:

You were like, oh, maybe, maybe you should forget those blueberries for a second.

Speaker 3:

After about 15 or 20 minutes of you know, there, the woman put her head up and said why, dear, I feel differently, different, and I seem to feel better and I'm calmer inside. What is your experience? And he goes why, dear, I feel the same way, I'm, I'm, but what? That was remarkable. I, I'm and I'm going like what's going on here, and that was the doorway that led into all of the physiologic patterns of prenatal re-imprinting. And there's a, there's a whole bunch of them.

Speaker 3:

People will say to me I sabotaged myself. I get ready to do something, and then I'm almost ready to do it, and then I pull back. I feel like I shouldn't do it and I'll, I'll think about doing something and I'll get ready to do it, and then I won't do it because I'll pull back and I won't do it. So I'll say to them put your head down, imagine yourself floating in the amniotic fluid. And this is common, it's not always, but it's common.

Speaker 3:

I'll say tell me about the condition of your umbilical cord, and they'll go. And they'll go, well, it's kind of kinked. And I'll say that feeling of holding back does what? What feeling does that kinked umbilical cord give you? And they'll say well, yeah, it makes me feel like I should hold back. I'll say is it a parallel feeling, is it a completely different feeling, or is it a neutral feeling? Or is it similar? And they'll go. I mean, 90 times out of a hundred they'll go and it's the same feeling. And I'll say the feeling is what you can't move, you can't. You can't move, or your umbilical cord will kink and you'll die.

Speaker 2:

You better hold back, you better just just slow down, cowboy.

Speaker 3:

Same feeling over and over again. So this feeling that I should hold back is just one of a plethora all kinds of things, um that we found our physiologic patterns that influence personality structure and influence who you are, and the prenatal technology is. It's an astonishingly robust technology and the and it is core is that it makes absolutely perfect sense, but only in retrospect.

Speaker 3:

Right, that's you know many people say to me boy, that certainly makes sense, I've had that all my life. I'll say does it make sense? That go yeah, but only in retrospect. So the interface between physiology and psychology is in in many ways identified by the prenatal technique, pre and perinatal psychology and the concept of the initial imprinting experience.

Speaker 2:

Well, which ties back to um, in a recent episode we talked about that, that analogy of um, of the kaleidoscope. Well, there are only so many little beads or bits of um, whatever they put in there in the kaleidoscope, but it magnifies them and multiplies them into this, this ever-changing image, but it's all the same little stuff, it's the same stuff.

Speaker 3:

Your life is made up of of possibly millions of imprints, uh, that you received during a very formative time and you just simply run that thing over and over again. You know, I was having problems in my life and I would work hard at something and I would not make any progress. And once I got to the point where I realized that everything was influenced by the prenatal experience, as I was saying, I would have a problem in my life. I'd work on it, hammering tongs, diligent. I'd read all the success gurus who said you know, you just got to keep working. And da, da, da and nothing changed. And I would have a problem in my life and I would use prenatal re-imprinting to change the neurological format in my brain that produced that in my life experience and bingo, it would be gone in an instant, in a heartbeat, and I really started making wonderful progress in my life when I just did more and more prenatal re-imprinting.

Speaker 3:

It has been, for me personally and for many people, just an absolute godsend. Now here's one for you. I have a client who's a salesman. Salesmen have to meet people. When they meet people, they have to shake hands right.

Speaker 2:

Right.

Speaker 3:

I said to him shake, reach your hand out and shake hands with me as if you're meeting me as a new client. He reached out and, as he did, I reached over and I anchored his shoulder. I said put your head down, enter the prenatal trance. I fired off that anchor and I said what's going on? He said my mother is upset with my father. He's going away and she doesn't want to be bothered with anybody. She doesn't want to meet any new people, she doesn't want anything in her life, she's just concentrating and preoccupied with her own personal worries. I said well, what does that do for you? He said it makes me reluctant to go and meet people. We changed the pattern and guess what?

Speaker 3:

reluctance to go and meet people, just went away and vaporized, and that's a characteristic of the prenatal re-imprinting technology. It'll be something very subtle, it'll be with you all your life. You'll barely notice it. And then, when you get strong to your attention, you go oh yeah, of course that makes perfect sense. And then we change the pattern and bingo, that person in that category is free to be more of the optimal human experience or have more of the optimal human experience. Is this making more and more sense as we do these patterns?

Speaker 2:

Well, and I've, since I've known you for such a good while, I've seen in other people and experience personally so many of these unbelievable transformations. I remember now I wasn't in the room for the session but one of my clients sent her son for a session with you. She thought I told her about you and she said oh, I want to send my son. And he came in and he had tattoos everywhere and it was big hulking guy and one of those spike, you know, like dog collar necklaces on and leather.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, remember that, did you remember it? Yeah, I remember. Yeah, well, talk about that real quick, we've got a couple months left.

Speaker 3:

Well, I mean, he came in and he was, you know, just right out of you know Hell's Angels, and he was all tatted up and bearded and I went okay, what's your problem?

Speaker 2:

And he said so and so, and the end result was the part to me that was mind blowing, because this guy he was, you know, I didn't mean him, I didn't really know him, but he, if he was going for a look of being a terrifying human being, he had succeeded.

Speaker 3:

He had it. He had it in spades. In the end he came up and gave me a big hug and I just I didn't know what he was like.

Speaker 2:

He said okay, if I hug you, you know like, okay, okay, I guess.

Speaker 3:

Well, our tools for the optimal human experience are just, I mean, they're just wonderful. I enjoy, I've enjoyed them for years and years and now we're sharing them on a larger basis, a larger format. So you are, people are, you're welcome to experience this technology and for me, the happiest thing I can do professionally is help someone begin to experience this. I mean, I'm doing something better. Let's just go to work. What is your view on sex organization? Do you usually want to work on it? I'm just going to to work on it. How do you do it?

Speaker 2:

the optimal human experience, and it's for all and that's it for episode 9 of the optimal human experience podcast with Dr Joseph DiRuzzo. Come back and listen next time. In the meantime, go visit OptimalHumanExperiencecom. That's OptimalHumanExperiencecom. See you next time.

Speaker 1:

This has been the Optimal Human Experience Podcast with Dr Joseph DiRuzzo. For the latest videos and courses, visit OptimalHumanExperiencecom. Join us next time for the Optimal Human Experience Podcast with Dr Joseph DiRuzzo.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I remember you telling me about that. You're like the end of the session and the guys like is it okay and you know what With him. Also, his mother was one of my clients and so I had a meeting with her afterwards and she confirmed whatever you guys, I don't remember what it was. What I remember was oh, here's another one. She confirmed what came up in his session Happened while she was pregnant with him.

Speaker 2:

The prenatal memory Exactly and you got a hug out of the deal from the scariest guy I've seen in a while.

Speaker 3:

Yeah from Charles Manson, his brother-in-law.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, his bodyguard.

Speaker 3:

So I mean, have you ever seen any of this material fail when it consistently applied?

Speaker 2:

No no.

Speaker 3:

That's amazing.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I keep looking for it.

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