South Pole to Kilimanjaro: Valerie Orsoni’s Peak Performance Playbook | Ep. 7 Pathway to Peak Performance

In this inspiring episode of The Pathway to Peak Performance, host Jock Putney sits down with Valerie Orsoni, celebrity wellness coach, entrepreneur, and founder of LeBootCamp.

Valerie has spent decades coaching thousands worldwide—including top executives and celebrities—on how to achieve health, energy, and balance without fads or extremes. She blends science-backed wellness strategies with her signature French touch on mindful living.

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The philosophy behind her world-renowned program LeBootCamp
Daily rituals for longevity, balance, and sustainable health
Why mindset, food, movement, and joy are all pillars of peak performance
Her perspective on biohacking vs. holistic wellness

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In this conversation with Valerie Orsoni, founder of LeBootCamp, we explore holistic wellness, sustainable weight loss, daily rituals for energy, stress management techniques, and mindset strategies for resilience, longevity, and peak performance—making this episode of the Pathway to Peak Performance Podcast a must-listen for anyone seeking mindful living, balance, and health optimization.

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Transcript

Let's talk about peak performance. Literally, she's been a biohacker since 1998 and oh my gosh, what a vast amount of information. I learned so much from her in sitting down in this episode. We'll dig into all of it. Welcome to the show, Valerie ny uh, biohacker extraordinaire. Thank you. Been doing this since 1998.

55 books, written multiple platforms, created speaker at conferences all over the world, mountain Climber. Um. I mean, holy mackerel. What don't you do? I don't host a show like you. Yes, yes. Maybe tomorrow. Yeah. I think that's definitely on, on the, um, on the list for you. Maybe. Maybe. I don't know if that's something I could be good at.

I should cry. Uh, I think you'd be fantastic at it. You'll coach me. We'll spend some time together. Let's do that. Fantastic. I think one of things is very interesting about you is that you do all sorts of different types of training. Yeah. I don't like going to the gym, to be honest. Same thing. The concept of having to exit my house to go in an enclosed square space.

To move weights, it just doesn't register. I go sometimes to use crazy machines for mountaineering training, like they have crazy things. I'm like, oh wow, this is, it replicates the mountains, but I have my mini gym at home, you know, my weights and everything. So the concept of either driving, which to me, since it is crazy, you drive to the gym, you move, you go on a treadmill and then you go in your car, in your car.

I actually ride the bike in San Francisco. It's 45 minutes bike ride, beautiful on UN card to the gym. Then I get my cardio in. Then I can use machines. But very often you're like, oh, I'm gonna be late chopping the car. And it's like, it's so much time wasted in the car. And I know some places you have to have a car, but very often you can actually ride your bike or walk or jog or do something.

Yeah. I, I think in San Francisco having a car is almost like, yeah. Almost ridiculous. I know. Unless you, you know, you want to take advantage of the things that are out there, but then there know all, all sorts of other ways to do that. Right, exactly. So you will, you live part-time San Francisco. Tell us about all the different places that you go, because it's pretty amazing.

Did you see my story last week on Instagram? Yes, I did. That's why you asking the question. Yeah. Well first I have a lot of energy and I can't really stay in one spot for long. I don't get bored 'cause I like, but I just, I like exploring. So, um, I spend about two to three months a year in Tahiti, in Bora Bora.

And then until this year I went twice a year to Nepal. Now I'm suffering from a very high level of mycotoxins that are linked to the wood fire we're doing over there. We use old moldy wood post monsoon, and this is really bad for my lungs and everything. So this year I'm going to Nepal, fixing that. Um, next in February I'm going to scuba dive for a month, pretty much in Papua New Guinea.

Ooh, I was dreamed of it. Wow. Um. Next week I'm going to Europe, we're gonna go to Corsica and Germany. So I like to really move around. Yeah. I might actually go to Saudi Arabia for a conference. I'm still waiting. Interesting. Yeah. I really love traveling and I know people sometimes travel shame me and say, you shouldn't do that.

It's a lot pollution. I know. I'm not perfect. I own it. Well, you're probably not flying your own personal private jet, right? If I am, maybe you are not kidding. Maybe you are. Um, you know, it's, but you're right. The thing is, if you are very wealthy, you owe it to yourself and to the planet, to not, to not waste so much energy just for your own players.

Sometimes you have to bend a little bit. Yeah. I think that's important. Um, so it's funny actually the best egg I ever had was in Germany, egg, egg. I think the food in Europe is just so much better. You know, we're blessed here with, in northern it's different here. It's almost like Europe. Yeah. Yeah. Um, the food in Europe is just so I know even people will have some sort of, uh, gluten intolerance.

I'm not cooking Celia disease, but like gluten and the, they're they bloated in the states. Tell me, oh, when I'm in Europe, I eat bread and I don't bloat No. GMO. Wow. Yeah. Right. The weed hasn't been adulterated by the GMO hair goes the, you know, the saying, uh, GMOs don't do anything bad to you. Yeah. I mean, it's crazy to think that, right?

Yeah. Um, so, okay, so you have this origin story of growing up in, in Provence. Provence, and you have. This sort of notion that alcohol is not good, you have a constitution, you're very sort of like set you, you have a, a way of thinking that is like definite and it's, it's showing up in everything that you're doing in your life now.

Right. I haven't changed that much. You know, you probably have, but you, but you have a definite, like, there's a, there's a foundation to who you are and what you do, which is exciting. It's interesting. So what, what is the, for you, the pathway to peak performance? So obviously the name of this podcast, what is your pathway to peak performance?

What, what's the passion? Where does it come from? How, tell us, tell us about more about you. You know, peak performance. It, I like it because I started climbing mountains eight and a half years ago. I was diagnosed at the time with multiple sclerosis, an aggressive form of it. I went somewhere to take care of myself.

As I was there, and I'm not gonna say anything. I don't wanna give false hope to people, but my symptoms started to disappear. When I came back, we did an MRI. It was all clean. So either the first diagnostic was wrong or it was okay, and I fixed it. I don't really care. I'm here, got like a second license at life.

But when I was there, we're doing a lot of meditation and stuff. And one day I remember the meditation leader, for lack of a better word, a guru asked a question, if you were to die now, what would be your biggest regret? And what's so funny, quote unquote, was all the Americans had the same regret or thought, my wife, my husband, my kids, and I'm not judging, I'm just saying it was interesting.

All of them were like, oh my God, my wife, my husband, my, and I was not thinking about my family. I was very selfish. I was thinking should, I always wanted to climb all these mountains. That's my regret right there, the mountains. And when I came back. As I was coming back, I decided I would climb my first super high mountain in Russia three months later, which is the highest in Europe, Mount El Bruce in beaters.

It's 5 6 4 2, which is pretty high, and I went and I did it and it was the beginning of a long series of mountains. I'm at number 43 now, over 14,000 feet in less than eight years. And the path of peak performance is I don't listen to naysayers. They are all over the place. You're too old to climb, you don't have experience.

I did a record. I climbed to 20 peaks over 14,000 feet in nine days, and I was told, you can't do it because you're not a professional athlete. Professional, I don't care. I set my eye on some my eyes, my eyes on a prize, and I keep my eyes there, you know, I'm going there. I don't care if you think I can't do it, and I also don't care if I think I can't do it sometimes.

I kind of, you know, shut up this some dark voice I call it that tells me, are you sure you can do it? I'm like, shut up. You know I'm gonna do it. I also never question my path, and I never read self-help books. I don't believe in them. I think if you need one, you'll never achieve what you need to achieve.

And I have yet to meet someone who goes to all these magnificent conferences around the world and how to become successful. I have yet to meet one of these people who has become super successful. I think you have it or you don't. And if you surround yourself with people who are like-minded, they might help you go higher.

Obviously they will if you have the right surrounding, but if you don't, which happens, you might have no one around you to help you. You need to find it within and show the world that nothing will stop you. You know, in last October, that's a very interesting thing. I used to be called the snail. I was the slowest on all the mountains.

I would always make it, but slow, steady, never stopping. Last October, I climbed a, I don't know, maybe 22,000 foot, I think 22, 20 something, uh, 6,500 meters. And between high camp and and and summit, the average is six to seven hours, right? Because I'm slow. I was like, okay, at least seven hours. The day before climbing, I meet two young, 25 years old French Alpinist from Shamon, the mecca of climbing.

And I said to them, Hey, how long did it take you? And they said, three and a half hours. And I'm like, wow, I'm impressed. Then I'm starting to climb at night with my partner, prem and Prem says, Valerie, on fire these days, let's start two hours after everyone. I'm like, sure. And I'm doubting and I'm telling my dark voice, shut up.

If he says, you can, you can just shut up. We start two hours after everyone, we passed every single person on the mountain. And at 4:45 AM 'cause you, you climb at night. I don't see any light in front of me. So I turn, I I say Prem. Are we the first on the mountain? And he turns around. I can't see him really?

Because he has his light in my face. He says, yeah. Did Didi, Didi means, uh, big Sister? Yeah. Didi we're the first ones. And I was like, I can't even fathom how I did it. I was in another. Okay. How long did it take me to get to the top? No, I wanna ask you a different question, but tell us that too. Three hours.

Wow. I was So You beat the guys from Shaman? I was like, we got to the top. I was pissed. It was too dark to take photos. I'm like, we have to wait. Sorry. We're waiting. How did you feel? I felt you. First, I couldn't believe it. That shows you that sometimes you need to have more faith in yourself. It actually brings a tears to my eyes right now of joy because I was like, oh my God, oh my God.

I was like, I kept on saying, oh my God, in the first videos of me, I'm literally saying, oh my God. Oh my God, we made it in three hours. I can't exactly. 2 21, 5, 21. Exactly. To the, and it felt super empowering. Like I've never been drunk in my life, or I have never taken any drugs. But the feeling I had at that time, feeling high and like my heart was exploding in joy was also a confirmation that everything I had been doing, like adding creatine to my sudden attack, helped me beat super fast, and it was a confirmation of everything.

A validation, you know? I was like, wow. Even prem with whom I've climbed a few very high mountains. Was even surprised. Like to a point where he knew we were fast. But to that point, he was like, wow, himself. And he's a high altitude mountain climber. He was impressed. It's kind of like, it's like an external force.

I don't wanna say it's not thanks to me, but something was pushing me. It was a crazy situation. I, I felt a bit outside of my body. Okay. Lack of oxygen. I can't explain it, but I really felt on top of the world. Euphoric. Yeah, exactly. Euphoric two. I think it's one of the two or three times in my life where it's was that high.

I didn't wanna go down. I was like so good. I was like, I'm staying here. You just wanted, yeah. Stay in it. Yeah. But then you have to, because you know, you only have one way up and down. So that must have been an incredible, you're in a flow state, ex. Oh, and yes. And to that point, the last part is pretty vertical and you're supposed to hook yourself on a rope.

Pull yourself, you know, and help yourself with the rope. We didn't even do that. We use our ice accent. We just went straight up. I think he knew we quit. We had it in us. I might have doubted if I had been alone, you know, like, oh, let's use the rope. Which also added to our like, amazing time because we, like, we were fast.

You know? It's, it's um, it's like, don't look down right. Don't look down. It's not a high technical mountain. I don't wanna say, you know, it's not K two or Una, so it's okay. I didn't put my life at risk either. It's just way more comfortable to be using the rope. Um, because yeah, you can still follow me. It's, it's pretty steep, but yeah.

Amazing. Yeah. So that passion for climbing mountains, you did it. Mm-hmm. And you continue to do it, huh? And I take clients with me now, like next month actually. Exactly. Next month I'm taking 10 clients on the, to the top of Kilimanjaro. Wow. Yeah. They have never done anything in the mountains before, so very exciting.

That's a good place to start, right? Yeah. For people. Yeah. That's a good one. Um, so you take 10 clients and they go have that experience and then you like, sort of like the, the bug is in them and then Exactly. I wanna show them that their performance, since that's the title, the peak performance, their performance is way higher than they think.

And you know, when people say write a business plan or, you know, and I'm like, why? This is gonna put so many limits to what I wanna do. So I don't wanna write a business plan. And I think very often our life is a business plan. Like where do you see yourself in five years, in 10 years? I don't know. I'll go with the flow, but I'm gonna just like row faster.

So the flow is faster, but I don't like having limits. And I think by seeing my first mountain is gonna be gyro for these women, it's huge. It's the roof of Africa, the highest mountain in that continent. Right? So it's really pushing the limits sometimes where it's still safe to. But you're not starting small, you're going straight for the high.

Yeah. I remember I have a friend who did that and was just on such a high afterwards, it was like sort of so empowering and then you don't come back the way you went. Yeah. You come from different, it changes you, you forever. Yeah. It's addictive as well. I must admit. It's highly addictive. When you come down, you have this, uh, I have read it also for drug addicts this time where you feel almost depressed.

Uh, it's like, oh, wow. And you, you cry and it's okay. You acknowledge the sadness of the end of an experience, but it's very addictive. Yeah. It's interesting because you have sort of the, the high Yeah. And then the local in the physical sense of the term as well. Right, right. And then trying to establish, um, establish, um, sort of back to homeostasis, right?

Mm-hmm. Sort of like, it is interesting. That's why I never, I also do not like when people take a helicopter from base camp back to civilization. I think you need to respect the mountains by not only going up on your feet, but also down. It also helps you absorb this downtime as opposed to, oh, I made it to base camp.

Now I'm flying to Kathmandu in a helicopter. No, it takes me five or six more days or whatever, but I'm, I'm walking down my way back to civilization and I think it's kind of a slowest way to readapt, to civilization and be less sad. Interesting. Yeah. Very interesting. It's just my perspective. I don't think there's any studies that prove that what I say is working, but mentally it makes sense, I think.

But it does make sense. Yeah. It's sort of like a, a decompression. Exactly. So biohacking. Yeah. Um, when you have someone like you who has been before the term really even existed, I mean, it became so trendy with thousands. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, and all of a sudden you see all these people who really commercialized it.

Yeah. Um, but biohacking means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Um, ultimately I get the sense from you that you are just trying to live the very best version of yourself in every moment that you have. Exactly. Which I hope will be very long. It looks like it. Um, yeah. To me, biohacking is pushing the limits of your physical and mental, uh, boundaries.

Um, that's also a reason why I don't really listen to young biohackers. If you are 30 years old and you tell me do like me and it's gonna be amazing, I'm not so sure you are young. You're not aging that fast yet. So whatever you do, if you're eating super good and you're moving super good and you do the right peptide and everything, oh, it's amazing.

So I really look up to people like Dave Pasco. I don't know if you know him, right? He's a dear friend of mine. The guy is 62, his biomarkers are 38. Wow. You know, I admire his journey because he's proving that you can truly turn back the aging clock. For me, it's also fighting medical conditions like the ones I was born with, with something else that a tablet or an injection or something, you know, like the regular medical system wants you to take.

And if they don't have a solution, usually it's like super powerful Advil type, you know, medicine. And for me, biohacking started in 98, precisely when after 28 of being years of being told there's nothing we can do against juvenile arthritis, which was extremely painful. I had the crooked fingers to prove it.

Um, one day, like, hold on a minute, I just read something about a vitamin called vitamin C. If you take one gram a day, it's gonna change your life. It's anti-inflammatory. Today, you can laugh because it's nothing compared to what we take, but in, in 98, people were like, whoa, it's too much. You are gonna ruin your kidneys.

It's bad for your liver. I was gonna die because of my vitamin C intake. But very quickly I felt a difference because of course it's anti-inflammatory and now I take two grams a day. Um, but that was the beginning of it. You know, I was already doing things without knowing, like exercising outside and going to bed early.

I think it really helped. And then of course, I, early in the two thousands, two thousands, when Professor Kason from Russia came up with the. Not the first ones because insulin was really the first medically used, uh, peptide, but the other ones Epi petal and all these BPC kind of peptides. I was already looking at it before it became this big thing that everyone wants to buy online on shady websites.

So I've never stopped doing it to first take care of the conditions. And then, um, I have so many other conditions to fix. Like I have a terrible case of sibo. I was apparently born with it. I've tried every single conventional medicine. Nothing works. The only thing I have found, which works, and if I'm a bit sippy now, maybe it's because of it, uh, it's fasting 30 hours every week once, uh, that works.

But no doctor will ever tell you that because people want a pill. They want, like, they want a one mega supplement multivitamin, which is bs. Never do that. They also want the magic pill to cure everything. And sometimes you have to. Like the matters in your own hands, you know? Yeah. Good luck with one pill.

Well you have Ozempic. I'm kidding. Yeah. Well, and I think you made a great point about Ozempic or any GLP one. Um, and now we go all the way past Tirzepatide into IDE and GLP three. I heard, did you hear that? Yeah. So I mean, I think that's, you know, yeah. It's a very interesting time. And at the end of the day, I think the, the core things are sleep, diet, exercise, doing things like, you know, the water, right.

Making sure that you're dream, you know? Yeah. Oh, and also cardiac coherence. Yeah. That's big. Yeah. We are so incoherent these days 'cause we're running around all the time and taking the time every day to recenter yourself. It's not selfish. It's as important as going to the gym or eating well, so. These are the fundamentals.

If you don't do all of that, you can take all the magic supplements that are, you know, promoted by the big biohackers, are there, or big pharmas or influencers. It's not gonna work. You cannot outs supplement a poor night of sleep. You can't out supplement at the herbal diet. You can't out supplement a stressful life.

So you have to first take care of that and then add the rest. I like what you said too earlier about so many people that have these and, and you've said this before. Uh, am I repeating myself? No, no, no. Um, I like it when you do though. Okay. Um, that you've said that there are people that are like, you know, on these protocols.

But one of the things I love that you said was like, that protocol that's working for this one person is, you know, we're all N of one. You, you, you have to figure out what works for you and, and really test and, and figure out how to make that work. So that's pretty interesting. I think one thing works for everyone, and these are the fundamentals, sleep, nutrition, like all of that.

This is one size fits all for sure. But then as far as like supplements, yes, vitamin C is good for everyone and like, I don't know, some telomere activator as well. But after that, ah, you really have to do your homework. And please, please do not rely on AI for everything because it's terrible. Oh yeah, for sure.

Like I, yeah, I use chat GPT, I use Claude and Perplexity and I have a project where I put all my labs and I ask no Claude or chat or Perplexity help me improve my protocol. And what's very interesting is you have free probiotics, which are known for having the ability to destroy the SIBO bacteria, right?

So I put them in my protocol and then all of them told me, you should not have this. It feeds sibo. And I was like, this is bizarre. Let me, and every time I said, are you sure? They would say, oh my bad, you are right. So you have to know your subject. Just don't you think that? An AI platform will spit out the perfect plan for you and it's gonna be correct.

Yeah. And it can start hallucinating too. Exactly. It, it's, you got to be very careful with, um, you know, believing. It's like, don't believe everything that you see on Exactly. Yeah. It's interesting you have so many years of experience, but I'm only 25. It's, you know, I, I was trying to figure out how you've actually done it in such a short period of time by, you know, uh, clearly you have some sort of, um, you know, way of doing it that no one else has figured out yet.

I secret. Yeah. I'll tell you. Don't share. Have inter don't share it. Don't share it. Keep it to yourself. Hold on a minute. Um, I can't share it for the right price. Okay. Um, so, we'll, I want, I want first, uh, write a refusal on that. Okay. Um, yeah, we'll talk, I'm not expensive. 1 billion, what? It seems like a bargain to me.

I'll get the checkbook is right over there. To be honest, uh, I do actually share a lot of things for free. I are sharing, uh, I do have a platform called Val Biohacker. Yeah. Where, um, it's a membership base, but I still give a lot of free content on it. 'cause I feel it's my duty to share on Instagram and platforms and that conferences what I've learned.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you've been a creator. Look at all these books. I'm 55 books before Chad g. Pt. I have to note them myself. That's the funniest part about it. Right. Today, like, anyone can just press a button pretty much. Well, yeah, I can write a prompt. Yeah. And I'm pretty good at prompt engineering, but I can write a prompt.

I can write a book. That is impressive. This is not easy work. This is really dedication and yeah. It's a lot of work. But, you know, it's interesting, this one, which is in French Strong, her as you can tell, is for women. Mm-hmm. It's the, the first time I have a co, uh, author, she was doing a lot of research for me.

Right. And the book. A little gem. It's massively well-written. She's an amazing co-writer and the research is crazily deep. I was told by the publisher, it was too smart. Everyone are not used to reading well-written books anymore. They're used to the kind of chat g pt Right. Pre-digested content. And I was like, but I love it.

It's my number 55. It's magic. That is it. Wow. To have somebody say that to you, it's too smart. I mean, I took it as a compliment. Yeah, of course. Thank you so much. But, but almost sad. Yeah. In a sense, right? That we live in this time when we're so distracted that people can't absorb something that smart.

Yeah. The length of a caption of Instagram is pretty much how much people can take. I mean, I know sometimes I try to write longer pieces and people are like, uh, do you have a summary? And I'm like, it only takes five minutes to read. Yeah. So, yeah. Okay. So we talk about exercise. You like to exercise outdoors.

Yeah. You train I the sun. The sun, yeah. And how much, I mean. How much sun are, do you feel like you, you want to get in a day? Yeah, so I'm not, um, you know, in the biohacking world you have two groups. One that says you should never go in the sun, you should be protected, or you're gonna get skin cancer and wrinkles.

And another group that says, no sunscreens are, you know, we cause cancer and you need the sun. And everyday in the sun, I'm kind of in the middle. And the first time in the morning when I'm going outside, no sunscreen, no sunglasses. I need my body to know, hey, sun is out. Let's protect, produce, you know, um, melanin and everything.

But then if I'm going, you know, at lunchtime between 10 and four, I wear my sunglasses unless I don't need them. And I wear sunscreen. So I'm kind of in between. If I am on a boat, sunscreen, if I'm swimming in Bora Bora, sunscreen is super harsh. Sun, uh, I don't know too many wrinkles. So. We know sun wrinkles.

I mean, if you tell me the con, I'm like, no, baby. It's proven. Its true. We know that. It's it is true. Yeah. Now, some sunscreens are not super healthy. They contain a lot of endocrine disruptors, so you have to do your homework on that. Speaking of endocrine disruptors, fragrances. Yeah. What are your thoughts on that?

So I don't wear, uh, I don't use deodorant. Don't tell me I stink because I showered for coming, but I don't use deodorant. I don't use perfume except if I go to a special event once in a while, I'm not an extremist. Mm-hmm. But on a daily basis, I've realized if you don't use deodorant at all for a few weeks or months, your microbiome and the, uh, armpit microbiome will rehabilitate, rehabilitate itself and you will not have body order.

It's, it's a myth. And the more you use these products. The more you wash, wash, wash, wash, the more you destroy your microbiome. And that's why we need all these things. So do you feel like you could go into the shower, um, and just use water and Yeah. No cell. You can use some like, like very light or skin protecting products out of coconut, coconut oil, for instance.

But one of my very dear friends, um, she was a, um, she was a microbiome specialist. She, she, she kept on telling me we should not shower more than three times a week. And I was like, but I'm more sweaty. I just ran or whatever. She's like, yeah, but wait for two hours. See how you feel. And I remember being kind of shocked by that.

I know French people have a reputation of not being clean. That's not true. We shower like you Americans. Right. Um. She explained to me and she showed me with microscopic images. You know what happens when you wash your skin with water? It takes four to six hours for your, uh, pH to go back to normal. It takes over eight hours for your microbiome to go back to normal.

So if you shower twice a day, which is what a lot of people do, your microbiome is always at war. It's always trying to fix itself, and it's very tiring. But also it means there are, uh, important bacteria that don't have the time to be here. They're always destroyed, and that's why you have body odors because you don't let your body defend itself.

Again, I'm not saying if you go on a 20 mile crazy hike in the sun, you know I'm talking regular life. If you go at the gym and you lift weight, you might not need a shower right away. Wait for an hour or two, and by doing this, after three to seven, eight weeks, depending, you'll be surprised. Also a lot of the brands out there, mainly for men, but also women do test on animals.

Some like, you know, not good. Um, well, I'm gonna give that a try. I'll tell you next week or next time, but when I come, yeah. Um, I'm actually, well, that's amazing. Yeah. The more you use these products, the more you, you create, you know? Yeah. We create the problem that we need solving, kind of like Bayer being, you know, the same group as Monto.

One creates a product that creates cancer and part of the group has the direct to fix the cancer. Same thing, you know, you share and everything and then of course you have a problem, so you need to deodorant. Guess what? All these products are part of the same conglomerates usually. Yeah. The soap and the deodorant.

Very interesting. Yeah. And I found times where, where I actually didn't need, uh, deodorant at all. Yeah. And I just kind of, that's when you're all balanced. Your microbiome is happy. Yeah. Yeah. There is, um, one of the first companies to, to actually analyze your skin microbiome and scope is in San Francisco.

The, the founder is French. Um, I did a test. I was like, oh, my microbiome is happy. But yeah, and I know it's hard because we have been taught to always shower and that's the thing you have to deprogram yourself from. Hmm. Yeah. It's crazy. It's like when you drink really filtered water that's got the right stuff.

Yeah. Back into it. Just how amazing that it tastes so different. It tastes like river water, which is the original water. Exactly. Yeah. There's a company going called, um, good for co uh, out of San Diego. CEO, Jane, Emma, amazing. She has this system you put in the house and that of course filters the water and everything.

But then there's this vortex shoot, if she listens to that, maybe I'm not precise, but that brings back the movement in the water as if it was coming from a river. And when you drink this water, it's not only filtered from like, you know, chemicals, pharmaceutical residues, heavy metals, fluoride, everything.

But also it has this movement in it. It's not stagnant water. And I wish I could install that system here, but in San Francisco it's harder. 'cause my kitchen is big, but they have a small, it's taste. So I don't have, it's not big. I think she told me it's kind of like this. So anyone pretty much, if you have a house, you can do it.

It's more like if you have a, my, my place is one of the oldest building in town, so the kitchen has a small sink. I underneath, I can't have the space, but if I had a house, I would install that thing right away. Yeah. Hmm. Interesting. Yeah, the Mission District is such an interesting, uh, it's a mix. It, it really is.

It's uh, it's, there's a lot of history there. I love it because I feel, to me, that's America, the American dream. You meet people who are immigrants starting at the bottom of the ladder, people who are in the middle, second generation billionaires, everyone and everything in between, you know? And I like that.

Yeah. I am a, a city guy. I've always loved the city. And, um, you know, as a kid we used to always go, you know, across, um, and spend. And then when my parents got divorced, um, my dad lived in the city, so I spent a lot of time in the city. My childhood best friend was from the city, so, yeah. Yeah. I love, uh, I'm not a city girl.

I'm more like a mountain and, and, and. In the wood type of girl. But I love San Francisco. Everything is kind of low. I live next to two parks, including Dores Park. I'm 20 minutes from the airport. I have this feeling of freedom, you know? Yeah. You can go where you want. Yeah. And do the things that you want to do.

And there's no pollution. So I can only train outside without thinking, oh, I'm gonna breathe so much. You know, pollution, it's great because you have the air that's just flowing straight off of the ocean. Exactly. There sometimes it's too me. A little too cold. Yeah. Yeah. A little too foggy. Um, so young people listening, you mean young like us?

Yeah. Young like us. Um, millennial, gen Z, right? Mm-hmm. Right. So the people that are wanting to reach a level of peak performance, we know that we have to do the very basics. Yeah. So that's sleep. Um, not enough emphasis on sleep. I think we should put more emphasis, and you have to know that your deep sleep will happen between nine and 2:00 AM no matter what you do in life.

Even if you tell me I'm late, what is it? Uh oh, yeah, yeah. Late, late hour, whatever. You cannot have deep sleep between three and 6:00 AM maybe tiny bit, but the vast majority will happen between 9, 9 30 and 2:00 AM like 17, five to 80%. So no matter what you tell me, if you go to bed every day at midnight, you are deficient in deep.

That is when your body repairs itself. Remember you're young and everything, but you start aging by age 20. As a matter of fact, you start aging as soon as you're born. But you know, like when it comes to hormone skeleton, um, everything else, it's when you start getting to 2025. So your sleep is your first barrier to aging.

And I was thinking about it when I was already 16. Not that it was an obsession, but I knew it was gonna impact me. So sleep. Yeah. Nutrition. One big thing today is we have a, a higher rate of death now in millennials and Gen Z by cancer. And we're like, why? And some special, I mean, some experts came out with a few solutions, but one of them is the takeouts and all these foods they buy buy in black plastic containers.

Yeah. Because where is the black plastic coming from? You know? Right. Electronics. Yeah. You know what's crazy is melted keyboards and you have your sushi on it, so you know, fat and heat. This is great for nanoplastics and microplastics. So if there was one thing they should do on top of the fundamentals is stop takeouts and stop buying food in blood plastic containers.

I remember back in the day, I used to see people, um, microwaving food in plastic. Yeah. And it's just like it, they still do it, you know? Some people still do it. Yeah. And they just don't, whatever. It's invisible. And that's the problem because it's invisible. People don't realize there's a potential problem.

You have to see it to be sick, to like realize, oh shoot, I should not have done it. Yeah. It doesn't say that of, I'm not saying that if you do everything by the book, you'll never get sick. Obviously. You're just, I was pushing back as much as you can, all the genes that you were dealt with, but the cards that were not good and that's called epigenetic.

It's transforming the expression of your genes by doing the right thing or the wrong thing. Yep. It's so true. Yeah. I mean this notion that, oh, if I do all of these things, nothing bad's ever gonna happen. I'm gonna be perfect. It's all gonna be Yeah. Not you're doing your best, which usually should do something, but you might be unlucky.

So I don't wanna tell people, oh, if you do everything you know by the book, you'll be always perfect. But one thing to be said is even if something nasty happens to you, your body will be healthier to start with. Mm-hmm. You'll have good habit, uh, good habits like sleep habits, you know, nutrition, habits, fitness.

It will help you face the vast majority of conditions that could hit you as well. So do you find that you always have this much energy? This is nothing I have been fasting for 20 feet is six hours now. So you're on the, you're on the low side. Yes. Oh. I am told by my, um, my people that I can be tiring at times.

I'm proud of it. So that's a good thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. So anybody, and you leave someone telling you, you're so boring at times. I was like, come on. No. Oh my gosh. That'd be the worst, right? Yeah. No, no. Worst. Yeah, I had a lot of energy and um, and I used to use adrenaline for that 'cause I, I claimed all my life that five hours of sleep was enough.

And then one day I got that thing, the URA ring and I was like, oh, oh, I'm so damn wrong. So now I'm sleeping better. So I, I have even more energy. It's funny, I've struggled with sleep my entire life and for years, you know, um, traveling millions of miles on airplanes and, um, in hotel rooms and never sleeping well in the first night of the hotel room.

Of course. And jet lag. Yeah. I mean, you know, and I also came from that generation of, um, Hey, we'll sleep when we're dead. I do say I rest in my coffin, but not like. Comparison in comparison to work more like, because I'm always active and people say Slow down. I'm like, I rest in my coffin 'cause I wanna enjoy life to the fullest.

You wanna maximize? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But also take time where I do nothing. Like the past two days I was feeling a bit under the weather. I dunno if I was mentally tired or physically it was a, a pre, pre, pre sign of pre, pre burnout. Like very much in advance. So the past two days I pretty much nothing except riding my bike in the city and breed and easy stuff.

It's okay to be able to pull, you know, back from life and just contemplate it a bit. It's nice to give yourself permission to do that. Exactly. It was interesting you, earlier you talked about that centering. Um, just this morning as I was getting ready, I was like, okay, I'm just gonna take, you know, just a few moments just to kind of get to that centered spot mm-hmm.

And kind of let go of everything, come to that place and that's important. Oh, it is so important, isn't it? Like the nap, you know, earlier you asked me to be here an hour and a half early, earlier than what we agreed today, and my nap is sacred. I just say, Hey, you know, guys, I need to have a nap. I'll come afterwards.

And that's also, you need to have boundaries in your life. So true. Sometimes you can't, I'm not saying if you had told me there is no other possibility, I would've made it work. But sometimes you just ask, you know, it doesn't hurt. You already have the no. You might get the yes by asking. If you don't ask, you don't get.

Exactly. And I think the boundaries are super important. It is important for you to establish what is, what is right for you. Um, lately I have compromised on some of my things that are my absolutes. Um, which ones, for instance? Well, the gym. That's also, you know, coming back from, but that's because you get hurt that different Yeah.

And I really, you know, but just showing up and doing a little bit Yeah. Helps me. Um, so tomorrow is the first day back after a long stretch without it, and it's, it's, I'm so looking forward to it, you know? It, it feels so good to me. I also love walking. Yeah. So walking to me and being outside and seeing, you know, nature is super important.

Um, I'm so impressed with the, the hiking and the, um, mountaineering, the mountain climbing with you. You were on a, b, c, like there was a whole big thing about you. Yeah. Yeah. They did a lot of things about, because I also skied to the South Pole. Whoa. 100 pound sled. Speaking of peak performance, that is peak performance.

Uh, and then. Did I do it before or after? No, no, before that I climbed the highest mountain in Antarctica and then I skied the softball. Just 'cause why? Just do Well these are, these are just little things, right? And like you're not breaking a sweat to do that. Actually, I did sweat the first day because I did not listen to my guide who told me, do not wear your park heights minus 40.

But trust me, we we're just a little tiny like rain jacket. And I'm like, but it's made us 40. He says, listen to me. I'm like, I'm too cold. So I put the park on and you ski, right? And people don't know. But the south pole is at 8,000 feet. It's not flat at zero, so you cannot go up a little bit, right? And you sweat.

So if you just have a little layer, you will be a bit cold, but not too much. So you're perfect with a park. I was sweating like a piglet. And so within 10 minutes I'm sweating and I feel good. And then. 15 minutes, I'm like, oh, this is not good. And then you never stop for 45 minutes. You have a very precise schedule.

When you are on the ice sheet, you have to, 'cause as soon as you stop because of the wind, you get super cold. So I was like, Ryan, I'm all sweaty. And I was like, well, I will teach you. And so when I removed the jacket after 45 minutes, I was drenched. And so the, the sweat actually was on my skin frozen. I listened to him after that.

Never wanted power cut anymore when I was skiing. Yeah, that's really, that's, it's interesting how people can give us information and then we choose not to listen to it. Yeah. And then we have to have her, because I was, I was wrong. I wanted Imit comfort, like I didn't wanna be called right away. There's something in that too, is that, that, uh, to not always have comfort.

So when you do these crazy things like skiing to the South Pole, which I think it's my achievement really. Uh. It's um, you are called constantly. There is no hotel at night whether there's a blizzard or not. You have to build your camp, well, not camp your tent. You have to dig six feet deep to make your makeshift, you know, toilet whatever the weather.

There's no one to do it for you. There's no she power or whatever. It's just you. No one carries your stuff. No one does your job for you. So it's very much, it's a different thing that a regular expedition when you have people doing everything cooking for you here, no one does it. You cook for yourself and you do everything right and yeah, some people say I'm a masochist because of why do I do that?

It's just, that's big performance for me. You don't necessarily love every minute of it, but you project yourself to the end. You're like, in that many days, have we reached the South Pole? It's like. You know, so every time it's 10 hours a day, you can't listen to music 'cause the battery's freeze. You can't talk to anyone.

It's too cold and you are like, like this in a line. So you are just with yourself 10 hours a day, sweating a little bit, but not too much. And you have to find the goal. You have to find something to pull you towards your goal. Because on the mountain, you see the mountain, you see trees, you see rocks, you see things there.

Sometimes you don't even see the person because it's a whiteout. So that's where you, I think to me that's the hardest thing when it comes to peak performance is to ski to the south wall. There is nothing to relate to. That's the most intense thing that you've done. Yeah. Mentally, physically, maybe. But mentally it's hard.

It's, it's, it's like you are alone and you can't really complain. You know? There's no one to say, oh, I'm so sorry, you called. Nobody cares. And it's only, it was only three girls and two guys were like a small group with two girlfriends. We ended up sleeping three of us in 10 for two because we're so cold.

We're like, we're gonna and we're gonna save some, you know, weight. 'cause no one pulls your sled. You pull your own sled. Wow. Yeah. That was something. Wow. That is really, yeah, that is really subtle. I think that's my craziest uh, performance. When did you do that? Right after COVID 22 I think. Yeah. And I reached the cell fall December 31st.

And do you know what happens at the South Pole? At midnight, on December 31st, what happens? They changed the mark. They changed the marker from one spot to the next spot because the magnetic self changes. So I was there when they did it. I was crazy. Wow. That is so cool. Yeah. So I have the two photos of the two markers.

That's so cool. Yeah. That's wild. You've helped a lot of people. I do my best. I have a passion for sharing. You do? Yeah. People tell me I have a problem. Like, oh, how can I help? What can I do for you? You derive immense satisfaction from that. Yeah. So I'm not a saint. I also do it because it makes me happy, you know?

Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, maybe I'm a saint. I don't know. You're a saint that actually, uh, enjoys what you do. Exactly. Right? Yeah. So this space is hot. Mm-hmm. And we know that we're operating especially, you know, in the United States in a sick care model. Yeah. Europe as well, to be honest. Yeah, well, coming the same.

And I think people are waking up. I think, you know, more every day. It seems like more and more people are sort of like, Hey, um, this is, this is not working. Um, you, you mentioned it before, more and more, um, people are, you know, getting cancer, et cetera. Where do you think the whole biohacking world is headed?

You know, sometimes I wake up, I have a lot of hope, but then I realize that you need to be educated to be a, a, a biohacker, a true biohacker. Like not just fundamentals, but you know, peptides and exosome and ebu and plasma exchange and all these things. But you also need to have your basic needs satisfied.

The mass of pyramid, right? You need to have enough food on the table. Uh, college paid for the kids, a house, a roof, and everything. And so in America right now, considering the state of the economy, I wish we could say in 10 years everyone would do some sort of biohacking. But I think so many people just may do that.

And they're the ones who need it the most usually. 'cause they eat poorly, they work crazy hours. And it's kind of like a vicious circle. I, I have this dream that yes, everyone will do it, but you have to know that you and I, we are in this field. A lot of people around me either milk me, make fun of me because I'm like crazy with my biohacks, or don't even wanna believe it.

They believe the white coat all the time over whatever I say, except my dad. My dad is my best Guinea pig. He was given six months to live 18 years ago. He's still alive and he swims three to four KA day hikes 10 KA day, went crazy. But he does everything, all the petal on the BPC. Everything I give him, he does it right.

And he's 84 years old. But if you see him, you're like, wow. And then you have my mom, she loves me, she listens to me. But the white coat is always right. Even if I'm like, mom, don't do that. It's bad for your health. There is this sculpture where if it's a doctor who says it, it's always right. And I'm not saying it's always wrong, that's not what I'm saying, obviously.

And you have to be careful who you're listening to. But I wish I could say that, but I'm not sure the the market is there yet. There's too much money to be made by selling drugs. Look at Ozempic. Ozempic as a biohacker. If you take a micro dose of it, it's amazing. Now, if you take the real estate stuff, I know some of the people will argue you're not a doctor.

How could you say that? It saves people's lives, whatever. I don't agree with it. And I think that by doing this, we are even more in the sick care, vicious circle. 'cause now we need another product to actually gives you muscles, which is coming up very soon. And so in the future, I'm seeing people were eating poorly, injecting a GLP one, GLP two, GLP three, all these things to have an artificial way to get to where they should be.

And I'm not sure that's healthy. I wish I could evangelize more people about just the easy stuff like daylight, um, ex simple exercise, fitness snacking, which I do constantly. Like I'm talking to you, contracting my glutes, I'm, you know, talking in my tummy. Little things like this. I wish I could do that.

That's why also I, I give a lot of conferences and, and talks 'cause I wanna share, you know. So many people come to me and say, oh, you changed my life just by saying this. I, I relate, but I can't touch that many people. And thanks to you and shows like yours, I can reach more lives and maybe give the thing Right now I'm helping a guy and to, to be healthier.

And he really listens to everything and I'm like, oh my God, he's my great project. And maybe by touching his life, he told me someone else saw a story of his and now he's doing the same. So we can go into a virtuous circle, but you need to have people who wanna do it too. Your community becomes very important.

Yes. You need the community. Yeah. And it, your life is so enriched by that community. And it, I, one of the things I feel is so important is staying away from you also, you have to guard yourself. Yes. You need barriers and Yeah. You have, I have found that I have to be very selective about who I spend time with.

Mm-hmm. I agree a hundred percent. It can destroy you more than a bad night's sleep. All people say you are. Yeah. Uh, you know, I created a group on signal called the BPC Group for a PC 1 57, but it means the best performance crew. And we are meeting actually Saturday night, once a week, a a month, organize a biohacker dinner and everyone brings some food and we exchange.

And that's my crew. You know, that's my team, that's my people. Not all my friends are like this, but this Saturday is our Saturday and as good biohackers, our dinner starts at five and ends at eight 30. 'cause at night we're in bed at nine 30 we, we switch off the light, but you need to create your own crew so that you don't feel alone.

Uh, in San Francisco, I often feel alone in what I'm doing. A lot of my friends are scattered around the states. So kind of gathering once in a while, either at my house or at conferences around the world is really cool. Mm-hmm. It is interesting to feel sometimes alone. Yeah. In that, right? Yeah. And, and that's when you need to be super strong and never lose track of this big performance path.

Like, I wanna go there. Some people will say, don't do it. It's ridiculous. Some people will say, there's no way it can work. Just push them like insects on the windshield of your life. Push them on the side and just go straight. You know? Yeah. You're, you, you know, it's interesting. You're such a determined person.

You created so, so many things. Mm-hmm. You accomplished so much. You are really living a life at a, at a level that is so far beyond what many people, um, ever feel that they could achieve. If you're giving advice to anyone just that's just listening to us, they've never heard anything about peak performance or sustainability within the performance, what are the things that you could say, how do I start?

What are the things that I start with? Wow. Um, I like to say that when you're born, you have this ability to be a better version of yourself and usually. Parents, school, family, uh, environment will kind of put a lid on your power. And very often when people say, what should I do? They know the answer already.

They ask permission for doing what they know they should be doing because of the lead. So it's acknowledging that you've been, you know, smothered or whatever, and that you need to get this lead off to let yourself come out. Um, it starts with cardiac coherence. I would do five minutes of cardiac coherence every day.

I use HeartMath. I dunno if you know, you know this sensor that helps you connect your, uh, cardiac activity, of your brain activity. It's only five minutes a day, but it forces you to recenter yourself and understand how your body works at five minutes a day. That's nothing. If you are even more motivated twice a day.

And you realize when you do that, how much your thoughts impact your heart coherence. It's direct. You see your coherence goes to zero. If you think about something negative, and when you think about something, something positive or happy or a peak performance you wanna reach or whatever, your cardio coherence will go up.

Wow. This neurofeedback will help you stay on course. That's, I've never heard about this before. Oh, it's amazing. Wow. You should come to one of my dinners. Hi. And we talk about it. Oh my gosh. You are invited. Oh, thank you. I, that's ugly. So do you wanna start from the scratch? Cardiac coherence, and I'm not talking fundamentals.

We've talked about it, the sleep and everything. Right. But cardiac coherence would be number one. I don't believe in self-help books. I talked about it. I don't, I think you waste so much time reading while when you could do something else, but reach out to people who will take you out of your comfort zone.

I have a friend one day, she says, do, do you like dancing? And I love dancing, but she says, how about, what is it called? Ecstatic dancing in a. Decommissioned church. I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. And I went, and then for like two hours you dance and there's no cameras allowed and you kind of let yourself go.

And I was like, wow. I kind of pushed the boundaries a bit. Nothing crazy, but I did it. So if you are shy, it could be today, I'm gonna smile to five people on the street. Anything that you do every day, a little something that pushes. It doesn't have to be an interview with you, which is maybe too much for some people, but just smiling at someone, sending a message to someone you hurt or who hurt you.

Uh, writing on a piece of paper what you want to become, and putting all these stickies everywhere so that your brain has no doubts. 'cause your brain hears you. So if you say, oh, I'm so stupid. I made this. I'm guilty of doing it sometimes, right? As soon as I say it, I'm like, no, no, no. Your brain hears you.

Don't say that. If you keep on saying, I am smart, I can do it, I will do it. I will achieve it. No one can stop me. Stop me. You will do. Oh my gosh, it's so profound that inner dialogue. Yeah, it's amazing. Brings you down. There are things I'm saying to myself, I'm like, holy mackerel. The power of the mind and this is, has nothing to do even with spirituality at that point.

It's really just the words you hear. And if you do the cardiac coherence I talk to you about, you will see it with a number on your phone. Neurofeedback right away. Right away. You'll see how your thoughts impact how your heart feels and beats. So you can give us the information. We can put that in the show notes.

Yeah. If you want and we can. Yeah. Okay. I'm a big fan of this product. It was invented in 91. Now it's all over the hospital system to help people who are depressed. You know, it changed my life. It really is. And every morning in front of my red light panel, first side, I do my eye exercises, and when I turn my back to it, I do my cardiac coherence.

And if I have more time during the day, I'll do another session during which I read. Pronouncing my head. Uh, positive affirmations always positive. It can never be, no one will stop me from No, no, no. It's, everyone will help me. You know, it has to be all positive. Yeah. Yeah. The sub, it's just mine can't differentiate between positive and negative.

Say exact how you say these things to yourself really. It's pretty important. Yeah. Okay. So we have two things. Is there a third or should we talk a little bit about peptides? The third would be peptides. This is so easy. We're in a rhythm. Um, epi Allon is pretty powerful stuff. Putin is doing it. What do you like about it?

To me, it's the Fountain of Youth. As much as we found it today. I mean, if there is one today, because it promotes the production of telomere, you know, which helps with our telomeres rejection. Instead, they can even grow. Um, you have two protocols, a Russian and a Ukrainian one, which I find very ironic considering what's happening right now.

Um, I created my own protocol for myself and for older people like my dad. I created a brand new protocol. The usual protocol is 10 days, every six months, twice a year, pretty much intramuscular, I think it's the Russian and the other one is subcut, or whichever for my dad, because he's older. It's a very small microdosing unit.

Every single day I invented the protocol again. You know, as my dad said, test everything you want on me. I read enough books on this and I, this is gonna work for you. Um, I believe today, if you are a biohacker, you cannot not do epione, but a word of caution. Do not buy this on any website. You have to choose the right website.

You have to do your homework. That's why on Val Biohacker, I regularly update. Uh, bio hacker.com. I regularly update the links I share. 'cause I, I write to companies, I ask for their lab certificates. And not long ago I was approached by a company that says, Hey, we'd like to do white labeling peptides for you.

Like, yay. I say, can I see your facilities? And can I, and they were very vague to point. I'm like, I realized they were supplying some of my friends. And I asked my friends, but did you, did you, did you dig? Did you check where they are? Because I did some investigation and they have a, a mailbox somewhere in Florida and supposedly their manufacturing place or warehouse is closed because they're scared of.

I'm like, no. And so that's how I do my homework. I write, I harass people to get the, the, the certificate. And you have to be careful. A lot of bad stuff on the market, right? And if you find a peptide that's already in its liquid form for injection, don't use it. It's dead. As soon as you move a peppi like this, it's dead.

It's important You are injecting this in your body. I mean, it's not just a vitamin C. You put it in your skin, under your skin, in your fat. So you have to be careful and it's not because it's a big influencer who says, I created my brand that you should go. And actually, I would go further, do not go. It should not be someone who has a name that puts on it.

It should be like a specific manufacturing company that makes peptides in the states. Do not buy peptides from China. I insist. Oh, you find them all over now. Even in beauty products made in China, I don't trust it. I'm not saying they're gonna poison on me or whatever. I'm just saying they don't have the same protocols and standards, so I don't know what they're putting in their G-H-K-C-U in China, you know?

So I buy it's, it's more expensive, but American made peptides. Yeah. When you think about more expensive, like the difference between price. Yeah. Cost. And death. And death, right? Yeah. They're cost. So some peptides to be fair, have to be manufactured outside of the states for some patent reasons and stuff, but at least at the end they come here and everything is finalized in the states.

So I really look at the 99.98 G level as very important. But if you find BPC 1 57 as a stack, you know, with TB 500 under $70, don't go. Yeah. It's too cheap to be true. All good? Yeah. So BPC 1 57 Thymosin beta four or Thymosin Alpha one, um, that saved my shoulder from surgery. I dislocated the shoulder, which is extremely painful.

Um, and I was scheduled for surgery after nine months of pt, and at the time I was not using those peptides, but the front of mine came back from Antarctica, three fingers black. It was about to get amputated. I see him a few months later, his fingers are there except he's missing just a little tip. I said, what did you do?

He said, oh, I injected directly TB 500. Uh yeah. And B, B, C. So I started digging and like, okay, I'm injecting my shoulder. Within three weeks. The doctor cleared me, the surgeon and says, you don't need a surgery. Those surgery wild. Yeah. And so I use it in a very specific protocol. I do three months with a stack, one month off, three months, just BPC, one month off, three months, just tb.

And then I go back. Mm-hmm. And now I add G-H-K-C-U in it. Very diluted 'cause it's so painful at the injection site. I found a way now I found a way. Oh, you add extra bacteria, static water to it. So I, the vial is full. It's like four milliliters of except four syringes of back. Yeah. And I inject two or three times a day.

10 units, no one. Yeah. Yeah. I know. 'cause it's like, it hurts for, it woke me up at night the first time. I'm like, what did I do? What did I, because I inject a pure GHKC the first time. Yeah. Because there is not a lot that much literature on that. You have to kind of find your own path. Yeah. And so I was like, oh, this is so painful.

And then I found this glow, uh, this glow stack that has the three of them. Yep. But even so with two syringes and 20 units, it was painful. So now with four syringes, I can do it. Pretty powerful peptide. Yeah. I'm gonna see what it does to my skin conflict. I mean that I think from a collagen production standpoint, supposedly, yeah.

I mean it's, uh, pretty powerful. So I always wanna know from people that really know like you. What's another peptide people aren't really aware of or talking about that's out there that you love? So be careful of the ones that no one talks about because either they're amazing, no one knows yet, or there's a reason there is no study, or we haven't found anything really good about them.

There's a few of them. The one I really love is cerebral. Mm-hmm. Um, I, I, I think I'm gonna start now, but I, I used it on my dad when he had a fall on his head. Amazing. Wow. His cognitive skills were better after the fall than before, but I think now I'm gonna start using cerebral twice a year or three times a year.

As a short, like maybe three week treatment, four week treatment, uh, because of, I have, uh, ischemia in my brain because of the mountaineering and lack of oxygen to help with the brain structure. We'll, see, I haven't found amazing studies proving it works on that, but it's not, there's no terrible side effects that should make me not wanna do it.

Now, there are other, like s you know, like peptides for which I sometimes read amazing studies and then the literature is not so great. And so to me, if there are too many doubts, I will abstain. I I won't do it. Like I, I don't wanna do things sometimes because I don't believe, like gene therapy and things.

I'm like sometimes, oh, I'm gonna wait, you know? Yeah, for sure. On the gene therapy side of, but now I'm gonna, uh, I do, I don't do plasma exchange, I do plasma pheresis because I, I think it's, what's the difference? A plasma exchange is I take all your plasma out and I give you brand new plasma from a healthy individual.

Except what is in the plasma nanoplastics. So you get a healthy plasma that has plastic in it and you pay 10 grand for that. For me, I go to a place where I donate my plasma, not all of it, 600 milliliters, so that a fourth of what I have or a fifth. Um, they usually pay you for that. I don't take it 'cause I'm like, come on, I just wanna donate it.

But then my body only needs 36 hours to reproduce what I just gave. It's brand new, no microplastic in it and it's free. Wow. Yeah, because that's a really hot thing right now. Yeah. And, um, what's the thing that they're also, they're placing Okay. Ozone. Yeah. The plasma exchange is good if you do it in a good place, like the next health, you know, clinic, uh, chain that they had Dar and sha founded.

This is different. Their Kama, the source is amazing. It's done in a clinical situation and they can remove 80 to 85% of your plasma and replace it with something healthy. And that's again, like peptides. You have places are British shady and it's gonna be half the price. Nah, maybe you should abstain. So my technique is free, but it takes longer 'cause you cannot give away a hundred percent of your plasma.

So it takes five to six runs for your plasma to be renewed. If you go to a next health or equivalent and you do a tp, uh, a TPE, therapeutic plasma exchange, it costs something. But you get the entire plasma renewed within two hours. So very interesting. Yeah, I like your, yours better. It's cheap, it's free.

Well, and also it's, it's yours. Well, if you give red cells it takes four to six weeks to replenish your red cells, white cells, it's even longer. But plasma and platelets, no more than a day or two so you can give away. That is fantastic. Well my friend. Talked for a long time. We have covered a lot. We haven't even talked about exosome and stem cells.

We'll keep for next time. I know. You know what? Hey, when you're back, will you come back? Yeah, sure. And we'll talk about exosomes and stem cells. Obviously, you know, I'm very interested in this and Yeah. Yeah. I can tell. Yeah. Yeah. Um, it's been an absolute pleasure to have you and I'm here. I'm delighted. By the way, one of the things that we have decided to do with the show is make, um, every bit of the profit from the show donated to charity.

And the charity is the guest's choice. I'm a big activist for manal, uh, Manal rights. So Dolphins and orcas. Oh, I would love to give to Dolphin Project. Okay. It gives me, it makes me cry. There are two actually. International Animal Rescue and Dolphin Project, because when I see what we put these poor animals through.

So, yeah, I have to say it's so fascinating to me. I, I really think it is absolutely immoral. What? That we have things like SeaWorld, we have orca. Did you see what happened in Abu Dhabi? That's why I'm boycotting Abu Dhabi and Japan. They captured a beautiful oceanic mentee three weeks ago. Huge. And it's on tape.

Someone was swimming it to bring it in an aquarium in Abu Dhabi. And the biggest company in the world that does this is from Florida. It's an American company. I couldn't help it. I sent a very nasty email to these guys, like, maybe I'm gonna get a restraining order or something. But I was like, how can you do that?

And I went on the website, and you can buy a shark, you can buy a dolphin, you can buy whatever you want. They procure it for you. And dolphins and orcas are extremely smart mammals. They meet the community. Did you see there's a, a, a dolphin, an orca that died last week. Hearth. His name was Perth, sorry, earth in Japan.

He was born in a concrete tent tank, never had any social life. He died at age 16. What a terrible life. Right. 'cause they live to 80 and they are social. So social even more than us. Yeah. I mean that's their, it's they, they, they never separate. They're always together. No, they, the, the pods are like the, the basic of life.

So sometimes on my stories, once a day at least you will see something from international animal rescue, mainly for the bears in Armenia, but also others and the dolphins. And we won. I mean, this year Iceland will not go on a whale hunt for the first time ever. And Mexico passed a bill last month banning all concrete tanks in captivity, breeding, uh, dolphin shows and everything for in 16 months.

And that's crazy. So it's a huge victory. That is a huge victory. I think it's good to be a biohacker, but don't forget the fact that, you know, so many things happen on the planet. Sure. I mean, though, and your awareness of that is, is phenomenal. Yeah. I, yeah, I've, I, I think I, all zoos, I look at z and against zoos.

Like if you can't see a white bear in real life, it's fine. I've never seen one either. You know, it's, it's called video. Yeah. It's called, uh, you know, you can go on YouTube and find, or watch, watch a show like on the BBC. You don't have to see everything in a cage, you know? Yeah, no, I think it's absolutely, uh, un unbelievable that we still have it.

It's, it's 2025. I know, but mean you people still go to SeaWorld. I mean, now it's limited, but in Florida now, they have the sha or they have fake rehab centers. They just put eight, uh, what's it called? Roughed teeth, whatever, uh, dolphins. They were rescued from a bad place to a new sanctuary, and they looked at the sanctuary.

Literally the tanks are this side, this size. And I'm like, how can a dolphin live there? And I thought it was temporary before releasing. So I contacted them and I said, no, they're, they're not a avail. Uh, we can't, they're not eligible for rehab. They have been too long. I'm like, are you kidding me? You are using this to keep them in small tank and now you have two pain to see them.

So. There's a lot of fake also. So I'm working hard. Uh, there's one last orca in jail, what I call in jail in South America in Argentina. It's been captured when he was 18 months old. Now he's 25 alone in a tank. It must be crazy. And he grew in a circle, so his spine is not even straight. We can't put him in the wild completely, but I'm thinking it could be in the wild.

And we would feed him every day. Like in a rehab. They put the fish out. Why not? At least he has the freedom to go around, you know, I mean, the confinement. And think about that. I mean, these mammals are are social like just like we are. If you put people in solitary confinement, they go insane. They go crazy.

But look, during COVID in Europe, they were contained for 23 hours a day. We didn't feel it here, but over there it was very hard and people complained. So I kind of relate to what the dolphins go through. They don't even have one hour of freedom. But I said, look, imagine all your life like this. Taken from you of parents as well.

'cause that's what happens now with the, the Japanese hunt. The ji hunt. Imagine the grief. Yeah, the grief that they must have. There was the first case of dolphin suicide a few months ago. How did, how did that happen? Because they have these aquariums next to the ocean. So when the dolphin does a fleet, the dolphin sees the ocean and then goes back into the tank.

One of them became crazy and possibly you can see on purpose jumped into the wall. He's not dead. And that's, I'm very sad. I thought it could be better if he would be dead. Now he's completely handicapped or hurt, but that shows you how smart they are. Like, I wanna end my days. Not only humans do it, you know, so when these are next to the water, they can see where they were before they can see.

So it's just, this is torture. I'm like, we are monsters. Do you feel like as a species, as a, uh, uh, as human beings, that we're coming to some sort of point in time where, I mean, it's like, it's 2025, we're still fighting wars. Yeah. And you have kids dying in Gaza, in Ukraine of women wall in in Afghanistan.

People tell me, historians tell me, we're living better now than in the Middle Ages. I don't know. I'm not sure. I don't know. How do you mirror that? I don't know. I don't think we have reached any enlightenment whatsoever. I don't wanna be negative or anything, but I, uh, I think, but you have to question it, right?

I don't think we're doing great. I mean, the planet's getting warmer. We have less of a social life than before wars, uh, animal conditions. I'm not, I'm like, wow. Sometimes it's too much. And that's why it took my two days off. I was too, you know, too much in my whole dolphin thing that I was crying. I was like, hold on a minute.

I need to step back. You need to have this ability. Otherwise, it's very hard mentally. Yeah, because you can feel so powerless so quickly. Yes. But the fact that we saw Mexico and Iceland, you know, it was like, oh, things are happening. Like the, the, the hunt, the yearly hunt in Japan went down by 20% this year.

I mean, it still goes. So, uh, for instance now, oh, in the States, there's one thing you can do. Every single salmon that comes from the Pharaoh island, it's usually written from the Pharaoh islands do not buy. That's easy because why is this? Because the Pharaoh islands still do, I can't pronounce the word, but it's a dolphin hunt.

They kill, um, pilot whales by the hundreds and thousands. Every few months they slaughter them for this piece of meat, and the rest, they just throw, they, they kill mothers delivering the baby. It's just a nightmare what they do, and they have huge salmon farms, the only way we can put pressure on them is to stop buying their products.

Valerie, it's been an absolute pleasure to have you here. I, I've learned so much in, in such a short period of time, I, I imagine. So many people who actually interface with you. Feel that way. And I hope you'll come back. Oh, yes. We have so much to talk about. Yeah. Um, when you return, I'm excited. So let's do this.

I am in. Okay. Thank you for having me. It was my pleasure. Thank you for coming. Hey, thanks everyone for watching the show. Please remember to like, comment, and subscribe. It really helps us out here at the channel and share the video with someone who might be interested in supporting the charity that our guest, uh, mentioned in the episode.

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