The Biology of High Performance

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0:58 Here's your host, doctor Eldred Tables. Hello everybody, Good morning. This is a cold Wednesday in Atlanta. We're actually expecting some snow this weekend. And you may notice that I don't have my usual white coat on with my spiritual MD and I'm the harmone doctor because this was going to be a little bit different. You know, I've been doing Aceless Blueprint here for about a year now, and I came up with that name, and I really didn't know why or what, but it just felt right at the time. So I've been doing podcast and doing the school and doing all kinds of things, and I finally realized what I was trying to do is I was trying to show how people could be ageless at any age and the ageless Blueprint. And I'll just give you what I figured out as a key to life is are you able to adapt to the ever changing environment? Okay?

1:59 That is is what longevity is all about. Can you adapt? So the dinosaurs, did they become extinct because they were lazy or because they weren't powerful enough, they weren't big enough. No, they just couldn't adapt to the changing environment. And that's the thing that all animals have to do, and we're animals or mammals or whatever. You have to be able to adapt to the environment. And your body, if it is allowed, can adapt to almost any situation. But it has to be a stress and then it has to be a recovery because whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Okay, So stress is not the enemy, it's just the prolonged stress is the problem. So let's go to the slide.

2:49 So we're going to talk about the biology of high performance. So you know, I feel like I been Can can we make these bigger? Yeah? All right? Sology of high performance? So you know, I feel like I've been a high performer. You know, I've tried to be you know, my parents, you know, hey, you can do anything and others. So you know, I wanted to be a doctor. That's high performance. I have to do well in school, I have to do all this stuff, all right. So then also I you know, be at my residence. I'm gonna do a objuyn. I had to be a high performer. So then I had to be in my practice. I had to be higher performance, high performance, high performance. And then what you realize is that I couldn't do obgyn anymore. I couldn't do it anymore. It took me too long to recover.

3:35 So I had to adapt. So I did functional medicine. Then I became a speaker, and then I had to adapt because traveling was too much. And then I had to adapt to see how can I still be a high performer at sixty five? And so I'm just going to take you through all of those steps and how you have to be aware that you if you want to maintain your high performance, you have to understand and the biology of high performance. So I wanted you to understand why resilience fails and why standard labs miss it, because people are going to the doctor trying to figure out, why can't I perform like I used to, Why can't I lose weight like I used to? Why can't I handle my job like I used to? And so they get all these tests and it gets missed. And so I want to show you how you can restore your adaptive capacity. And at sixty five, I'm trying to learn it and I'm trying to live it. I'm trying to maintain my high performance at sixty five and past because I've seen patients who have been high performance all their life and they can't wait till they're sixty or sixty five they're going to retire, and then they find out they don't have the energy that they thought they were going to have to enjoy their retirement. Right. So that's what ages's blueprint is all about. Okay, And I'm gonna tell you now. I'm gonna tell you at the end, the key to longevity is your ability to adapt to an ever changing environment. And with AI and all of this stuff, everything is changing so fast. Can you adapt?

5:07 And I'm going to show you the biology that will help you adapt? Right, So let's go to the next one. So a lot of people, you know, they get to this point and it's like, is this just how I'm going to feel for the rest of my life? You know, maybe I'm successful, but I'm less resilient. That's what happened to me when I was doing ob It is that if I got up at two or three o'clock in the morning and did a surgery, Oh wow, I did a C section. Oh it was so exhilarating. But after a while, after I got into my forties, I could still do it, but I couldn't recover, okay, And even when I started speaking, as that started to wear on me. I was responsible, I would go, but I was less sharp.

5:48 I couldn't come up with the with the interesting you know, little stories and stuff. And then I was still performing, but I was totally exhausted. I'm going to show you this whole life cycle here, and it all started in my forties or fifty fifties. My output remained high, but the effort required to sustain. It has doubled. Recovery takes longer, and the emotional fuse is shorter. That's why I saying, when you haven't recovered, now everything irritates you. Your job that used to you enjoy, now you hate it, okay, because you have not been able to adapt and your biology hasn't kept up with the environment yet. So let's go to the next labe. So you know, I've been to Africa and you see these animals and the first book I read about stress was why Zebras don't get ulcers?

6:39 And it's very simple. You guys, you know you're here to try and survive, to try and have experiences and survive. So here's what zebras do. Okay, So they sit around and all these animals do. All they do is is eat and they sleep. They eat and they sleep, they go get water, they eat and sleep until a predator shows up. All right now, So they're doing parasympathetic is rest and digest, and I'll talk about that later. But anyway, so what they do is they sit around and if they see a predator, what happens They have to go into the sympathetic mode. They either have to fight or flight. So here's what happens. So they see a predator, they make a decision. Am I going to run and try and avoid the predator or am I going to fight it?

7:27 So what happens is is a five or ten minute race. It's a five or ten minute fight. And one of two things will happen. Either the zebra will win the race and they will win the fight, and either way, the sympathetic driver is over with. They go back to eating and sleeping. All right, r it will lose the fight or lose the race. And now that sympathetic tone or that stress has killed the zebra and the stress response is over. So either way, the stress response is short lived. All right. The problem in humans, see we initiate that stress response twenty four to seven, we don't have a stress, and then recover and then we adapt.

8:10 You know what those zebras do. They get sharper, they get stronger because they've avoided or they went through a fight. Now, so whatever kills you will make you stronger. Okay, whatever doesn't kill you, you will make you stronger. But it can't also kill you. So the stress can kill you if it's a prolonged stress. Right, So humans act like the predators around twenty four to seven. Because your body sees stress, whether it's emotional, environmental, any type of disruption in homeostasis, your body sees it as a stress. So if you're worried about something, if you had an injury that you hadn't recovered from, if you are in a toxic environment that's mold in your house or whatever, your body sees that as a stress. And if you don't identify that, and if you don't try to adapt to it and recover from it, it will kill you. Stress will kill you, all right. So now what I want you to understand is burnout is not a weakness. Okay, burnout is. So the myth is that burnout is a failure of manset.

9:12 It is a lack of discipline or mental toughness. And see, and that's what happens. You become depressed and you become down on yourself because you can't do what you used to do. You can't lose weight like you used to, you can't perform your job like you used to. You can't you don't feel like you can be a parent like you used to. But the reality is that burnout is a broken adaptive switch. It is a physiological recovery debt. So I'm going to show you this in more detail. But cordis all should look like this. So remember this rhythm right here. So this is a daily quarter as our rhythm. This is you go to sleep, you recover, you build up your energy supply. Now you wake up in the morning, you have all of this energy. You go through your day, you work, you do what you need to do. Around lunchtime, you eat, you get a little bit more energy. Now you're tired, you go to sleep, you recover. You all of the energy from what you aid and what you did, it's all incorporated. And now it's a new day, and here you go. You're ready to go again. That's what's supposed to happen. And this is a cortisol curve. Your cortisol is your stress hormone.

10:25 So every day there are some stressors, so you should have this flow of energy, all right, But when you run twenty four to seven, when you think there's a predator, when there's stressed all the time, initially cortosol goes up here. You can only do that for so long then it starts to flatten out. And now this is your energy supply for the day. You cannot be a high performer when your cortisol is like this. So I want to show you this is how it works. Now, this is probably how I was as an when I was going through medical school. You go, you know, this is what happens when you're young. You can go to school, you can work, you can party, you can do drug you can do all these things. Misuse your body because you've got all of this quarters on, you're pushing yourself. But I want to show you. This is a fifty four year old woman. She doesn't want to be like this, all right, but this is how it starts. And this is corporate America. Hey, push, push, push. You need to work, you need to stay late, you need to work hard, and you can do this for a certain amount of time, all right, But then this is what happens. And I want to show you. These are all These are patients that I've seen in the last month. This is this year.

11:43 So most of the time people come to my office after they've had all of these tests, all of these different tests to see where their gut doesn't work while their brain doesn't work. They've been to all of these specialists. Then they finally come to me and I look at what's up the stream? What caused it? That stress connection that I told you. We wrote that book because seventy five to ninety percent of all visits to primary care physicians are for stress related complaints or disorders. So this is ninety five percent of my patients. More or less, they all have these disrupted curves. Now, all I want you to see is that green is normal, and you see what's going on here. All of these curves are disrupted.

12:25 They're low, they're irregular. So you don't have this normal supply of energy during the day to get up, get your kids ready, you know, go to work, per format work, come home, make dinner. You just don't have it. And you fill in this gap with eating with carbohydrates because you're trying to fill up this energy gap. So you have all these cravings to get through the day. Coffee, chocolate, donuts, Dunkin Donuts, Starbucks. Starbucks is a billion dollar company, I believe because of this. So this is not rare. And if you don't intervene somewhere during this, this is the end result. This is a flatland, this is burnout. She has no quarters off, she has no ability to adapt to anything in her life. All right, So this is and the key is you need to be aware. You need to be aware that this is not something for you to get depressed about, for you to get anxious about.

13:23 This is something for you to intervene into so that you can continue to be a high performer and you don't have to do all the I'm not talking about being a high performer going to medical school and do all this stuff. I'm just saying to be able to perform the things that you want to do, your personal desires, what you want in your life. That's high performance. That's the ageless blueprint. Can I recover? Can I take these stressors and help it to make me stronger and don't let it destroy me? And if she hasn't hadn't come to me, she would continue this ongoing search. That's why people are going to Facebook groups and they're going to anywhere, they're going to TikTok to listen to me because they can't understand why they can't perform like they used to.

14:20 Does this make sense to you, rebel? I always kind of have to double check to make sure I'm making some type of sense. Can you hear me, rebel, I do, Okay, I want to make sure I wasn't talking to myself here. I'm sorry I heard you, but like totally I was reading the cortisol in the thing. I remember, I told you I was taking notes here like everybody. Oh, okay, all right, we'll good, We'll good, all right. So so I just wanted to make sure. So it's a biology problem, and the problem is we haven't exposed people to the test that can show them where they are. And then at the end of this, I'm gonna show you that it's a way to correct it. And it's not complicated, and it makes sense. Your body is so logical, you know, it really is, and so it's logic. If it's logical, you can understand it. So this is what we're gonna talk about. Cortisol is not the villain. Cortisol is capacity. So you need that normal flow. Now. When it was when I was in medical school and all that stuff, it was it was probably really high. I didn't know how to that's my quartasol then. But it gave me focus and drive and adaptability anymore. Oh man, I could do all of that stuff. I could recover from getting up in the middle of the night. It was great when I needed it, okay, and I can.

15:37 You can do that for a certain amount of time. It's just like football players. I don't care what goes on. Eventually, these football players cannot perform at the highest level, and they do all kinds of things to make sure that they can perform at the highest level. They train twenty four to seven, they do all of these things, they eat right. They do it to maintain that higher performance. So cortisol is not the problem. It's cortisol without recovery and maintenance that's the problem. So you don't want cortisol. You want your cortisol to be responsive. You want it to be able to adapt to what the situation is. And I could do it for a while. So health is a rhythm, is not a number, okay, And that's why we do cortisols. We do a four point cortisol so that we can pick up this rhythm. So we want to see how much morning drive do you have.

16:32 I have patience all the time and say it's hard for me to get out of bed. This is why Starbucks is a billion dollar company, because a lot of people have a flatten out morning drive. And this is why people who don't have a normal curve drink five or six cups of coffee during the day while they're always in the snack room to break room getting the donuts and the coffee, and then they get depressed. Why am I doing this? And then you have this evening shut down where a lot of people they come home from work and they're useless. And I used to be like that. Okay, so we get this evening shut down. But here's the key. Do you get the night time repair?

17:12 And that's the problem is that a lot of times push the people push themselves and push themselves. And you can actually alter that curve yourself. If you stay up late all the time, your body will change that curve and say, okay, you want to stay up at night. This is how people who work the midnight shift stay up. You can change that curve. Now, the problem is sometimes you can change that curve and then when you want to change your back, it won't change back. And that's why I tell all people who work the night shift that they should get off the night shift because your body works in rhythms based on day and night, and at night time is when your body repairs itself and recovers, and you have to be able to go through that so that you can make it through the next day.

17:59 That's when your body looking for cancer sales. That's when it incorporates all these nutrients so that you can get stronger. So if you don't sleep, you're not going to get stronger from the stress. You are going to break down from the stress. All right, next light. So that's what I'm showing you is that high stress. But too long breaks the rhythm. Okay, when the curve flattens, you lose your capacity to adapt. Ress hits you harder because you can't you can't continue that rhythm. All right, So that's what happens. You get this high stress. And I'll show you those two extremes, the high one and the low one. Those two cases came in this week. Was that guest this week. So this is not something that I had to search for in my archives to make sure that I showed you some examples. This comes into my office every day and people are so surprised that you could actually do a test like that and it really can map out their day. I can look at that curve and I can tell them exactly how they feel it during the day. I can tell them when they have the low points, when they have their high points. This governs your daily routine. Need to have a normal amount of cortisol. And when it's like this and not like this, it you eventually will have to pay the price. Okay.

19:25 We have a question. Yeah, you know, how do you know when when you're stabilizing. I don't know a proper way to say what they're saying. How do you know when you're stabilize in that cortisol and are on the right track? Okay, I'm going to get to that at the end. How do you restore this? Okay? And it's very simple. You have to provide your body what you consumed. Okay. You consumed a lot of energy over a long period of time, so you have to give your body back. It needs to restore the energy. I'll just give you example. I tell you I've been to Africa and all this stuff.

20:06 So what they do all day long is eat and sleep. Okay, they eat and they sleep, and whether they doing they are storing up energy. All right, And when it's time for the sympathetic drive to come and when this trying time to run a fight did you know that elephants and hippopotami and all of these huge animals, they're faster than humans. Okay, because they all they do is store up energy. They're pair of sympathetic rest and digest. They store up energy, and when it's time to move, they move. And that's what we don't understand is that we don't eat right, we don't sleep right, and then we wonder why we don't have any energy the next day. So we need to look at an example of how do these animals survive. They primarily are in a rest and digest, a pair of sympathetic mode, so that they can handle whatever stress and adapt to whatever stress comes their way.

21:05 But we think of eating and sleeping as being lazy, But eating and sleeping is how you store up energy so that you can handle the stress of having to adapt to a changing environment. Does that make sense? Yes? I think I think that makes sense. Yeah. So yeah, we have to be able to store up in it. So if you don't eat right and if you don't rest, I know you've heard this a thousand times. Okay, you need to eat and that's how you get that's how you restore what your body used up to you know to go through those stressors. Okay, then the only way you can incorporate that is if you sleep. And if you don't sleep, you're just wasting your time taking a bunch of supplements and even eating right.

21:51 And the reason why you go to the gym and all this stuff is that you know that you know that if you can build up your resilience through physical stress, it will also help you build up your resilience to emotional stress. Because remember, your body sees all stress, all disruption of homeostasis as the same. So that's why you go to the gym. You want to build up you know of physical stress. But that's why HIT the high intensity training is quick stress, quick recovery, Quick stress, quick recovery. They're trying to show you this. You are not overwhelmed because cortisol is high. You have anxiety because you have insufficient adaptive capacity, because you are anxious because you don't know why you feel like you do. You don't know why you're performing like you do. So you have anxiety because you are You know that you are having trouble adapting, So I feel anxious. My cortosol must be spiking. In reality, you are overwhelmed because your cortisol is no longer resilient enough to handle this load that you were handling before.

23:00 So that's the issue, is that. And a lot of times what happens is this is why you are on these anti antidepressants and the anti anxiety drugs. It's not because that you are. It's not because your codasult is too high. You're anxious because you don't have that ability to respond to your environment. And so if you can fix that, that is you know, everybody is suffering from anxiety and depression now because there's so much stress, there's so many things going on. Our whole environment is changing so fast. Ai, You've got all of the political unrest, all of the global unrest and all of that. We are having trouble adapting to that. And so if you can build up your adaptive capacity, it can change your life.

23:50 It can help you to become ageless. So even though all of this stuff is going on, for the last year, year and a half, I have tried to build a my adaptive capacity so I can handle all of this stuff all right. So that's what I'm trying to get across to you guys. But see, you cannot manage what you cannot measure correctly. So people are going around and they're getting the blood test, and they're going to the Mayo Clinic and getting the executive executive of physicals, and they're doing all of the peptides and this and that and anti aging. And I've been in that world. I've been. I've spoken at a four m I've spoken at all of these places, and it's all of these trends and all of these things. And I've lived long enough to see that all of those things change. They come in style and out of style. And what I've learned that these two books are your hormones making you sick and The Stress Connection. They still have good information in it because it is an ageless blueprint. Okay, stress is stress is life, and the ageless blueprint is can't I adapt?

25:00 All civilizations they've had to adapt and if they don't adapt, they become extinct. So anyway, so standard blood test they measure total hormone. We've been talking about that. This is why I do saliva testing. It's a static it's not going to show you that rhythm. It often says normal when you feel terrible because you're looking at the wrong numbers. You're looking at the wrong place, the saliva panel. That everything you saw was saliva, all right, it's you're not going to see that in a single quartisol blood draw first thing in the morning, because one that blood draw is done under stress, you had to get to the doctor's office. You see somebody with a big needle, your cortisol spikes, so you think your morning quartosol is okay. No, it just adapted to that one situation. But if you don't have that, then your cortisol could be flat. So that's why it's so important to do it. You want to know your normal quarts all curve when you're not stressed.

25:58 So in the saliva you can measure your free bioavailable. Harmony captures the four point curve and it reveals the pattern of adaptation. You want to see what is my ability to adapt? And what I want to tell you is that this is correctible. It is correctable. And when we come back, I'm just going to try and give you a little bit of the story of my life and show you how I have gone through all of these stages, and through all of these stages I have had to adapt, and I'm going to tell you The adaptation process is not easy. It's going to cause you to make some significant decisions about your life and which way your life is going. So at all of these inflection points, a decision has to be made. Am I just going to continue and let this and let this destroy me? Or am I going to make a change and let this enhance my life? Let this stress make me stronger, and don't let it defeat me. And it's not about fighting nature of fighting your biology. It's about understanding it and then trying to enhance it. And that's what we're going to talk about when we come back.

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27:55 Less pills, better health Doctor Approved. Shop now at MD formulations dot com and discover smarter supplements for smarter health, let's tailor MD formulations dot com. We are back for more of Ageless Blueprint once again. Let's join doctor Taylor for more insights and research on the ancient secret to better health and a better life in modern times. Here's your host, doctor Aldred Taylor. All right, I'm back, and today we're talking about the real ageless Blueprint, and the real Ageless Blueprint in one sentence is can you adapt to your changing environment? And that's how you become ageless, and that's how you become productive throughout your lifetime? Can you adapt? And I'm at an adaptive point in my life, and I'm just gonna let's just keep going, all right. I want to make sure we get through all of this, all right, all right.

28:52 So see, when survival is prioritized, when when your quote is all is down, all you can do is survive, You just have sympathy tone. And what happens is is that all non essential processes gets shut down. Okay, So that's what happened when we wrote the book all Your Hormones Making You Sick. We wrote that book. We talked about estrogen, progesterone and all of that, and then we realized that, hey, wait a minute, sometimes this doesn't work. And what we found out is that, hey, look, when stress is involved, it shuts down everything else that could use up energy. Now, your reproductive system is probably the and maybe that's why we noticed it first. It shuts down because you know how much energy is used in your reproductive area, so you just think a man and a woman has enough energy there that in the right situation, it can produce a human. So that takes a lot of energy. So your body shuts down reproduction. It says, we don't need to ovulate men, you don't need to make sperm, so we need to shut this down, so fertility rates go down. Now. Also, men don't have testosterone, so they don't have the motivation and dry out that they usually have. Women don't have estrogen, progesterone and balance like they should have because they didn't ovulate. So now emotions are irregular, their periods are irregular. They start to have all of these issues with their reproductive organs, firebroids, and deometrusses, all of that. Then it takes a lot of energy for you to digest your food. That's why you get sleepy after you eat, because all the blood

30:24 flow goes there in order to pick up nutrition. All right, so that shuts down. So now you're not getting the nutrients that you need because your gut's not working correctly. Now, also, let me tell you this is that what happens is your blood goes there to pick up nutrients, but also the blood has to take nutrients back to the gut because the gut, it's the cells turn over every five to seven days. So if you don't have enough nutrients going back to the gut so it can repair itself, now you have leaky gut. Where did this all start? It started from stress. Now, also, your immune system takes up a huge amount of energy twenty four to seven. It's trying to protect you against cancer, against against bacteria, against environmental toxins. So all of this, their immune system is working twenty four to seven. It takes up a lot of energy. Turn it off, so now you're more susceptible to cancers, you're more susceptible to illnesses. And now your brain takes up twenty percent of all of your energy, and so now that's going to get shut off. Now I'm talking about not the reflex, not the instinct, not the reactive. I'm talking about the deep, contemplative, deep thinking that you need to be a high performer. It gets shut down. All right, So now all of this so now you've got physical problems, got reproductive problems, you've got immune system problems, you've got cognitive problems. And this is what drives people to multiple doctors and multiple specialists and multiple procedures. It all started from stress. Okay, seventy five

31:59 to n ninety percent of all visits to primary care physicians of a stress related complaints of disorders. That is the study that got me wanting to be an expert on stress. All right, this is the key, This is the key to the aceless blueprint is not about more peptides. It's not more So what I want to do in an ageless blueprint is help people identify this and then we go through and we try to correct the upstream cause and not the downstream cause, because this is what makes people be on multiple drugs and all of this. And if we just went upstream a couple of levels, we could eliminate a lot of these things. All right, Yeah, does that make sense.

32:46 Yeah, Okay, they're wondering if you're going to different doctors and they're giving you different medications, can't that cause issue and make things worse. Yes, it's going to make it worse. And everybody knows that. You get on the drug and then it causes problems they have get another drug. Hey, I'll just tell you. One of my friends that I knew, I just his daughter came back to tell me how he was doing. So he was seventy eight years old. He's a pharmacist that I know. And what they said, well, he was in the hospital. They had him on all these drugs. I'd forgotten what, but anyway, they thought he was going to die, and the final decision was, let's take him off all these drugs. They took him off all the drugs. Now he's back home. He was near death and they took him off all the drugs. And so, yes, getting on multiple drugs will cause a problem because your body doesn't know how to handle it because it's foreign to the body. All right, So yes, so you want to avoid going to doctor. Doctor. That's why I'm saying, if you have an issue, you need to and if this makes sense to you, you need to look at your quarters are curve. That is the key to longevity. Now this is what I will show you. Remember I told you that this can be corrected, so I want to show you. I hope you can see this. But this right here, and I'm not trying to get you to be a biochemistrys but this is the key. You want more energy to be able to adapt. It's right down here.

34:08 It's energy at the bottom. I don't know if you can see my cursor, but atp at the bottom right is the goal. You're trying to make energy. Now, how do you get energy? It's up here, you see at the top. This is you get it from food. Now, let me show you the difference between us and because and the animals. I told you that the animals all they do is they eat and they sleep. And so all they're doing is taking in these roll you know things, you know, the leaves and whatever grows out there, the fruits, and they're taking this. And because they are in the jungle and everything is not processed and there's no agricultural companies over there stripping the land, all of these nutrients needed for energy are in that food we eat. All of this processed food and it doesn't have the basic ingredient that you need to make energy. And that's why you have to eat all these carbohydrates, you know, chips, and because you are not eating the proper nutrients to provide energy. It's as simple as it's as simple as that, And that's why we talk about eating right and resting and exercise. It's really feeding this system. You're giving yourself a little bit of a stress. You're eating. You're refilling this tank every day with the foods that you eat, and then you sleep so that you can incorporate all of this. So when the time comes for you to run away from the for the tiger, or to make that big decision or decide on some really life changing decision.

35:43 Am I going to get divorced? Am I going to take this job? Am I going to pursue this line of work? Am I going to start the ageless bootprint? You've got to have a clear mind in order to be able to do that. All right, So this is what I'm going to talk about here, all right, So your biological balancing sleep sheet, and that's what I was telling you initially mean eventually you will pay the bill, So you have to see what are my deposits and what are my liabilities, and you need to make sure that this is in balance. But most people have a lot of liabilities. They with withdraw, but they don't put in the deposits. And this is the deposit is. You have to eat right. You have to eat the foods that actually have good fats, good carbohydrates, good proteins. The only way you can refeel that system is through eating right.

36:39 And I also going to talk about breathing right. That's about meditation. That's another whole That's another whole one, another whole podcast, another whole video. All right, So how did this show up as leadership decline? So this is what I really really want everyone to be a high performer. And being a high performer doesn't mean you have to be a CEO of a billion dollar company, being a high performance being a high performance dad, a high performance mom, a high performance friend, a high performance employee, a high a high performance entrepreneur, a high performance speaker. All of this is high performance. Is how can you live your life to the highest level of performance for as long as possible. But what happens is you start to make bad decisions. Okay, because your frontal lobe. But your brain that requires twenty percent of your energy doesn't have a lot to draw from, so you make bad decisions your emotions.

37:43 It's very hard for you to control your emotions because your frontal cortex is what inhibits your activity. So people find that they get addictions and they get cravings because they can't handle their emotions because their frontal lobe has gone offline. You have poor recovery because you don't allow yourself to recover. We think that resting is a sign of laziness and not a sign of preparation. Okay, when you rest your mind through meditation, when you calm yourself down before a big decision, that is allowing your brain to recover. I use this muse band here because it tells me when my brain has recharged. Okay, I have something on here that tells me what my recovery is.

38:31 That's why people use the or rings and all that stuff. That's important. You want to know did I recover so that I can handle the next day's stress much better? You get reduced creativity. You can't think. I meditate, So after I meditate, my creative juices started to come in. I'm meditated before I started this podcast, so that my creative uses. Yes, go ahead, I have a question here, and this is a good question. Okay, great. The level of performance, your idea of high performance and someone else's idea of high performance are different. So who's exactly so whose level of high performance should they go by?

39:12 The you should go by your No, That's the problem you don't see a lot of times, and this is what social media. We judge our high performance based on somebody else's high performance. That's one of the problems we're comparing and competing. My high performance is totally different from their high performance, and I can't perform at a high level like that person is. So suppose I judge my high performance based on Tom Brady throwing the football, and I can't throw a football as accurate as he can. I'm going to be depressed and anxious and all this because I am trying to match. I'm trying to do his high performance. Now, I believe everybody has a talent and they have certain things that they can do better than anybody else. And the key is to be able to identify that and to and to maximize it. And when your quotasol is down. You can't do it. You can't decide what is your higher performance. You know, you haven't recovered. You don't have any create a creativity to think about what is my talent and how can I maximize it? You don't have enough energy to even think like that. So that's why I'm saying, you have to have a normal amount of quotasol and energy for all of this stuff to work. And if you don't, if you're not eating or bringing that energy in. Also, you know, in our office, if because it's so hard to get good food in a big city like this, we do IV therapy where everything in this I'll show you everything in here we can put in an IV and we

40:44 can do it the easy way, okay, just to help people to recover. Okay, So these are the things that all these ivy clinics are popping up. But most of these ivy clinics don't have all of these ingredients. But that is another way to it up. So this is correctable, and if we do it through IVS and a few little supplements, you can recover. So I want to tell you what happened. So okay, so let me just tell you all of the I'll tell you kind of my life cycle and where I am now. All right, so first ob all of this stuff. I'm at my high performance. I'm doing C sections, I'm building a practice, I became chief resident at in my residency, all of this stuff happened, so now I'm at this high level. So then what happened is that it was hard for me to recover from getting up in the middle of the night. So that was probably when I had that middle of the road thing, and so you know, I'm like, hey, I gotta I have to stop. I stopped delivering babies in two thousand and six and started doing functional medicine. And then I got so interested in functional medicine. I wanted to be a high performance. So I started speaking. I started flying all around, and I was going to Australia and all these places. And after about five or six years, it wore me out. And I'll tell you when I hit that flat line. I was in Las Vegas. I had just left my office. I flew out there. That next morning. I was supposed to do a presentation I've done a thousand times, and I looked at those slides and it looked like they had changed my slides my total frontal cortecs had gone off land. I didn't know that,

42:17 but that's what had happened. The people who had heard me speak in the past, they knew something was wrong. They thought I had a stroke. They called my wife. I went back home and I stayed there for six months, and I'm telling you, my mind was a blank. I was still going to the office, but I'm telling you, I was listening to patients and I didn't understand what they were saying. It took me six months to recover, okay. And so then I recovered and I said, okay, I'm going to start doing these conferences in Atlanta where I don't have to I don't have to speak, I don't have to travel. So I did that, and that became very stressful because it's very hard to put together those conferences. Then in twenty sixteen, my sister passed away and I said, okay, I can't do it anymore. And then year ago, year and a half ago, I said, I don't like not being a high performer. How can I be a high performer again? So I did that. Reality Creator, I totally changed my life. I started meditating, I started living life differently.

43:19 My relationship to had to come to an inflection point and decide what am I going to do? So this is what I'm saying. So this is a decision you have to make. Do I spend the next thirty years declining or do I take control now? And that's what you have to decide. Okay, Am I going to just let my life fade away? That? That's what I had to do. Last year, people were asking me, are you going to retire? Are you going to do this? I'm like, why would I retire? What I have to do is take all of this information that I've learned over the last twenty five thirty years. I want to share it, but I have to become a new person and able to do it. I have to adapt. I have to adapt podcast and to TikTok and to using chat, GPT and doing doing all of these things. If I'm going to continue to be a high performer, I am going to have to adapt because people aren't flying around to conferences anymore. They're not doing the things that I was doing in the past. But here's what I will tell you.

44:18 The information is ageless. I just had to adapt to how I delivered this information. I've done it through being in my office. I've done it through books. I've done it through flying around speaking. I've done it through not flying around and speaking here. And now I'm adapting to this point here, and I'm hoping that I increase my longevity by understanding how to adapt. So I do not push myself anymore. When it's time to rest. If it's nine thirty and I'm sleepy, I go to bed. Okay, if it's in the middle of the day and I need a nap, I will take a nap. If it's before I'm about to do a podcast, I'm going to sit here and I'm going to med for ten or fifteen minutes to calm my brain down so that my frontal lobe can get back online so that I can be creative and say the things that I'm supposed to say here. So that's kind of my life story, you guys, it may be boring.

45:16 So I. Consider myself to be able to still perform high at age sixty five because I understand the biology of high performance. So, yes, you're exactly right. Do not try to live up to someone else's high performance standards. That's a lot of times what we do as parents. We have these high performance standards for our kids, but that's not what their real high performance is. Okay, we try and push them to be a doctor, lawyer, indian chief. And these kids now they don't want these traditional jobs. They're being creative. They're making up new jobs. And I'm telling you, if you don't adapt, you're going to be like the dinosaurs. You will become. So I'm trying to not become extinct on the medical information high performance pipeline. Okay, I've been to the mountain tops, I've been through the valleys. I've been to the mountain tops. I've been through the valleys. That's what life is. And in those valleys you have to either get stronger or you have to adapt. Those are your two decisions. You got to and if you want to get stronger, you got to build yourself up physically.

46:30 You have to build yourself up emotionally, and you have to make sure that that quarters all curve is going to allow you to adapt. All right, So it got like a minute and a half rebel, But you know, I really want to push this home. This is the key, you know, So longevity let me, yeah, let me do this. Long longevity is the capacity to adapt. And again, you know, over a year and a half ago, I said I'm going to take a longevity course, and as I went through the longevity course, that's like, wait a minute, they're talking about the stress connection. Hey, longevity is not the absence of stress. Is the preservation of the body's ability to resolve stress. So if you can get the data and you find out the rhythms, you can change that rhythm.

47:17 So this is it. This is longevity. Medicine is your ability to adapt. And it all starts from Quartersoft. So I would invite you to join my school group. You go in there, we can you can get the informations you need, you can get the testing you need, and you join Asis Blueprint and we can help you through longevity by making sure you can maintain your adaptive capabilities. All right, anything else, you guys. We have a piggyback on that last question about high performance. They want to be clear. If you think you're at high performance, but someone else, like a boss, thinks you're not at high performance, what level should you go with your own coreer? Like, if your boss thinks you're not performing as high.

48:05 Well, well you know what I would say, you self reflect you can. You can say to yourself, it's my boss, right, you know, maybe it is, and so maybe you do need to do the quarters on. Maybe my boss is right. Let me see what my quarters all curve is. Maybe that's why I don't like my boss anymore. It's not because he's demanding more from me. It's just that I can't meet the demand anymore. Okay, So so that's what I would tell you. Uh, if someone is noticing that you're not performing at the at the level that they're used to seeing you perform, then investigate it. I would say. It's just like if somebody said, hey, look, you know you got a rash. You know, you wouldn't say, oh, that's not you say, oh, well let me see you know, let me investigate the rash. So somebody else noticed something on you then that you didn't notice, then you need to investigate it. So maybe the boss is telling you, hey, you know, I'm not asking you to do more, it just seems to be harder for you to get it done.

49:03 And just to put it out there, ladies and gentlemen, if you're doing the job and you've been doing but the boss keeps piling more stuff on you. Yeah, that's just as well. Yeah, yeah, so you know, yeah, it's a yeah, it's adapting. You can either fight or flight. Okay. You can either fight it, build up your resilience and fight it, or you can leave. You just say no, he's being unfair. Okay, I'm just as good as I've always been, but he's being unfair. So that's the fight or flight. So when you're if you're arrested up, you can make that good decision. You can say no, hey, look I know I'm I'm as good as I ever been. This guy is just crazy okay, and so then you have to leave, so that that would be the difference.

49:48 I know we're over, so let me. I'll see you guys next week. But hey, join joined acis Blueprint School. This is what we're going to talk about is longevity, hormones, proges, test on quarters, all to get you performing at a high level. All right, So see you guys next week. Thanks for joining Doctor Taylor today. If you missed any part of this show, just check out the podcast wherever you listen to podcasts. Angel's Blueprint is every Wednesday at nine am Eastern Time on W four EC Radio at W FOURC dot com Together, we discovered ancient secrets to better health through science and spirituality, made for modern times.

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