Gary Brecka SHOCKS Steven Bartlett With His Own Health Test Results...

I did a genetic test with 10x. You did? I did, and like you said, you're not able to give me the results of my test, but I wanted to invite in Dr. Kari Sada, who's going to give me those results now, and she's going to explain a little bit to me about my results, and also what the test is, and what it means for me. So, I'm very excited to see the results. I'm excited for you to see them. Let's get her in. A couple of days ago, I had someone come to my studio, and they did a swab inside of my mouth for something called the 10x genetic methylation test, I believe. What was that test, and why did I do it? You did it to look at the five major genes of methylation. So, remember that if we pulled your entire genetic code, we would get a lot of non-actionable information. I could see that you have dark hollow skin, you have dark eyes, you have detached earlobes, but there's nothing you can do with that genetic information. We want genetic information that's actionable. So, while you can't go in and fix the gene, you can very often supplement for its function. And the genes of methylation are very special because they code for the process of converting one raw material into the usable form. So, in other words, we take in folic acid or its derivatives, but we convert it into a usable form called methylfolate. And so, this process is called methylation. It's one of the most important process that human beings go through. We do it 300 billion times a day. And when you have breaks in certain genes, this means that your body is not converting one raw material into the usable form. And this causes a deficiency. And very often, it's this deficiency that leads to some of the most common ailments that we suffer from. Dr. Kari Sada. Hello, thanks for having me. Could you give us a little bit of your bio and your background? Sure. My original training was surgical. It was obstetrical and gynecology. And I just found that more chronic disease was happening and people weren't really getting better. And so, my specialized training has been in functional medicine, kind of a more holistic approach. I have two master's degrees in this and met up with Mr. Brekka. Eight years ago now. It's been a while. And in a small room. And we started up looking at these genetic tests and reasons that people are not getting better. So, I've got my test results here, which, full disclosure, I'm yet to see. So, Jack over here has put them on my iPad and told me that I can swipe up and look at them. So, what am I looking at here? And what does it tell me? Okay, so with your permission that we can share that, of course, because that's important. Only if it's good. Well, I do want to tell you, your parents did you a solid. Yeah, they did. You won the genetic lottery. So, remember that in genetics, I think people get confused. Genes are like blueprints. So, your mother writes half of that blueprint and your father writes the other half. And you're born with that. You'll take that to your grave. So, when you do have something that isn't quite exactly what you want it to be, variant is the term that we tend to use. When that does happen, we want to find out ways to work around that. How we color code this to make it understandable is if you have a kind of a normal copy and a normal copy from each parent, that's green. And if you have one copy from a parent that is normal, but one copy that is not, we're gonna color that yellow. And you have one of those. And if you have both copies are not normal, that's red. And you don't have any of those, which is great. And the significance to that is the green genes will code 100%. You're good to go. Yellow genes, about 40%. Red genes, 10 or less. And kind of think of it like putting spokes in a wheel. It just kind of clogging it up because these genes do follow a pathway. It's the methylation pathway. I like to think of methylation as activation. Like we talked about taking something raw, bring it in and allowing your cells to convert it to what it can use. So, if you have any glitches in the pathway, you're not gonna be as efficient. So, you would want to correct for your one variant gene there. So, you come in nicely with that first gene. That's probably the most common one. And that's the real popular one. We kind of take it next level. We follow the pathway all the way up. And the reason why this even matters is because it affects everything on you. It affects how you sleep. It affects ultimately down the road at a deeper level, how you sleep, how your thyroid functions, how your gut functions, your moods, how you detox, especially heavy metals, how you detox, it affects your inflammation in your body, how well you can fight for your radicals. Those are all important things. And that's why this is more than just data. It's real data. So, if you do not correct your one yellow, you're not gonna be as good at doing all those things, detoxing, fighting inflammation, your gut movement, all those kinds of things. And it's a pretty simple fix for you. If you don't activate those nutrients, then let's give you activated nutrients. For example, you most likely have trouble activating B12. That's probably an issue that you are not as efficient at. Of course you do it, but you're not as efficient at it because it wasn't green. So, you would want to therefore take the activated B12 form, the methylated B12 form. So, by doing that every day, I kind of liken it to the road is broken, but you've built a bridge over it. So, that's how you can compensate for that gene variant or that gene break, we like to kind of lovingly call them. On my results, it says one parent passed on a gene mutation. Which one was it? He wants to know who to blame. So, that's the thing. Unless you tested your parents, you're not going to really know who gave you what. You do know that you had one that gave you a normal gene and one that gave you a variant and that's why it's yellow. What else does this mean for me on a practical level? Does this mean that I'm going to like, you know, I want to know if there's any sort of health implications that I should be aware of. So, anytime you have any kind of variant in your methylation, especially in the lower pathway, you have to understand that it is going to affect it all the way up. So, effects can be all the way from simple sleep issues to all the way to not being able to sleep at all. Can be mood, gut issues. Okay. But you can take it out of the loop with the supplement. Are you able to tell me about the worst sort of profile you've seen and the sort of real world consequences of that when all five markers of there are interrupted? Yeah, we've seen them where there's a heavy mix of red and green. Okay. And this is where you see significant personality alteration, significant what we would refer to as mental illness, severe ADD, ADHD, OCD, manic depression, bipolar. You see very high propensities for addiction because of the depleted level of dopamine. You see significant sleep disorders, very severe gut issues, gas, bloating, diarrhea, constipation, irritability, cramping that don't seem to be fixable with conventional therapies or dietary changes. Those are amazing cases to watch the clinical team work with because by getting methylation right, I have seen those cases solved by our clinical team and many of those symptoms become fully remissive. And we get a lot of chances to make good people great, but when you can materially change somebody's life by fixing those gene mutations, that's when you're really making an impact. There's these five acronyms here, COMPT, and then it says mind, AHCY, then it says mind, MTRR, then it says upper gut, MTR, that says lower gut. That's the one that I have this yellow one on. And then there's the motherfucker one. I shouldn't say that. The MTHFR, which is mind and gut. These are the five sort of factors for methylation, which is really about how I process the ingredients I put in my body. Yes. And I'm guessing that these are at different stages in my body. So the ones that say mind are in my head. The one that says upper gut is sort of higher up in my gut. The one that says lower up is in my lower gut. And then this MTHFR that says mind and gut. Yes. And the reason is that remember, these are sequential, right? So I always use the analogy that think of it like a sandbag pass, right? So you have a bunch of guys lined up and you have one guy is taking the sandbags off the truck and passing it to the next guy and he passes it to the next guy and so on. Well, if early in that chain, he was supposed to take 10 sandbags off the truck, but he dropped four. The best the rest of the line could do is six. So in other words, if an early gene like MTHFR, which is early in the methylation cycle is impaired, it impairs the entire downstream. And if several gene snips later, you have another major gene snip, it will impair things further downstream. And so the reason why MTHFR is one of the worst to have, but the easiest to fix is because it's the earliest in the methylation cycle. Okay. It's first. Right? It's first. So if that's red, meaning both parents gave you that gene mutation, you could have consequences through the entire methylation cycle. So is that what you tend to see if someone has the... Yes. This is why if you Google consequences of MTHFR or MTHFR and miscarriages, MTHFR and ADD, MTHFR and ADHD, MTHFR and anxiety, you're going to see hordes of articles and clinical studies linking that gene mutation to what seems like a vast myriad of consequences. Well, that vast myriad of consequences is actually related to the gene snips that are further downstream, but they're affected because they're not getting the raw material they need to do their job. And in my opinion, it's one of the most overlooked things in all of modern medicine. As simple as this test is and as easily and widely available as it is, I'm surprised that more frontline clinics do not do this because people do it once in their lifetime and they supplement for deficiency. And sometimes you see miraculous changes in their life. Gary, thank you. I'm going to put these results, my results, in the description of this episode below exactly as it is here in front of me so everyone can see and the details of how I got the test done, etc, will all be available there for you guys to check out.