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Roger Drummer joins the Optimal Performance Podcast

In this episode we cover:

• Brain injuries and the need for certain nutrients.

• Roger's mystical experience drinking reishi mushroom tea.

• Roger's bladder cancer diagnosis and how he disappeared his tumors naturally. Now he's cancer free for 3+ years.

• How we just flat out do not and cannot consume the right nutrients for optimal performance without herbs and adaptogens.

• What is an adaptogen?

• How adaptogens are often mislabeled.

• How the HPA axis - hypothalamus, pituitary, adrenal - effects your stress and everything in your body is regulated by the HPA.

• How to think about how you react to adaptogens. If you get tired, that may be important to pay attention to.

• The whole point of herbs and adaptogens is to empower the body.

Chinese herbalism is an ancient form of biohacking and the use of these herbs continues to offer great benefits to your health.

In part two of this episode, Adrian Baker and Roger Drummer discuss the proper way to reduce stress and improve your health with the use of adaptogens.

You can learn more about Adrian Baker at https://hackingtheself.org

According to modern science, the average IQ has been tumbling down on an average of 7 points per generation. It's not surprising, considering the trend of poor nutrition, exposure to fluoride, pesticides, and other neurotoxins.

Learn how to reverse this growing trend in your own family through awareness, food choices, and proper nutrition.

SHOW NOTES

• 00:00  Toxins interrupt brain function
• 00:30  Every generation is getting dumber
• 03:45  Harming unborn babies' nervous systems
• 11:45  Detoxify your system within a couple of months
• 17:30  How government subsidy lowers the quality of our food
• 19:00  Flavor enhancers lower your IQ
• 22:25  Essential nutrients that are required to produce new neurons

Did you know that antibiotics could be in the food that you eat every day?

The introduction of antibiotics transformed Western medicine and could easily be described as the most important medical discovery of the last 100 years.

Roger discusses the wonders and dangers of antibiotics, as well as how their success has crippled the industry - as it cannot let go of this idea of a single chemical cure.

Are herbicides, pesticides, and environmental toxins in the food that you eat? 

Probably. 

Monsanto recently lost a $289 million dollar lawsuit due to the relationship of Roundup causing cancer in humans, and were also hit with a study by the Environmental Working Group, alleging unsafe levels of Roundup in foods that you eat everyday.

Roger discusses how to protect yourself from pesticides and set up your body to get rid of the toxins in your system from foods you've eaten and why switching to eating organic is so important.

Environmental Working Group Links

Dirty Dozen
Clean 15
App for iPhone
Breakfast with a Dose of Roundup

You know something is wrong with the medical system when you're diagnosed with indigestion and sent home, but you die from heart disease. Learn all about the 3rd leading cause of death in America, Iatrogenic Death—better known as "Death by Medicine"

The daily news is filled with traumatic events that occur within our medical system - the combination of drug reactions, needless surgeries, and other medical mistakes that claim hundreds of thousands of lives each year.

Roger also discusses his "Miracle Child" and how his 18 month old daughter avoided complications when doctors made the proper decisions for her treatment.

Are you properly feeding your brain ?

Roger Drummer discusses the "speed molecule" acetylcholine - one of the most important neurotransmitters in your brain, and why high quality herbs & nutrients are essential to keep your brain healthy.

SHOW NOTES

03:30  Complex mental tasks require a well fed brain

04:40  Reducing inflammation in your brain    

07:00  Why your brain needs choline

10:10  High quality B vitamins can make a difference

13:05  Protecting your blood-brain barrier

21:00  Rebuilding your brain

24:10  Depression and overmedicating  

27:15  Supporting dopamine to power up your brain

If you take herbs or are thinking about taking herbs, you MUST listen to this podcast!

Roger Drummer discusses true anti-aging, from the perspective of tonic herbalism, and explains why putting energy back into a worn out system is much more profound than simply taking antioxidants.

While both are good for you, only tonic herbalism will change a worn out person back into a functional human being.

Exploring the world of antibiotics, Roger Drummer discusses the best way to avoid overuse and exposure.

You'll even learn how to build your own medicine chest at home and avoid being dependent on antibiotics in the first place.

SHOW NOTES

01:50  Antibiotics weaken your immune system

04:30  How your diet plays an important role

07:10  Your body can become resistant to antibiotics

09:15  Avoiding drug free foods by buying organic

17:15  Overprescribing antibiotics

21:00  What you can do to survive antibiotics

22:30  How a probiotic enema can help

26:00  Building general immunity to stay healthy

Is eating meat right for you?

Roger Drummer discusses eating meat, from the perspective of being a long time vegetarian. This isn't about eating a Vegan diet, but rather eating animals that are Vegans, and how that may affect your health.

Learn all about the effects on Roger's physical and mental well-being after adding bison and lamb meat to his diet.