And so I would love for you just to give the backstory of how you got into this line of work, and then we will dive into where it is taking us at this cutting edge right now today.

Okay.

I'll make the long story short here because I've been doing this actually since I was 12 years old.

My dad was a Silva instructor.

He got help.

The Catholic Church came over and said, hey, Michael, we think we can help you stop drinking.

You need to come to this meeting.

But

Yeah.

Sold that, and then I just continued to advance what I think is the science.

And we use HRV as our base because it's easy to collect data, and you can get it anywhere.

You know, it's not, I- We do love EEG, but it, it's a big hassle, so we don't use it as much as, um, a lot of people wish we would.

But it, until they make it as easy as, uh, is, uh, HRV, you know, where we get it through galvanic skin response or something like that, I'm not gonna mess with it.

But in, um, actually about 11 years ago, maybe more than that now, maybe like 15 years ago, I was in Mexico, and there was a gentleman beside me that had an HRV system, and he was testing people and how some health applications changed their heart rate.

And I had heard about heart rate for sports, but I didn't hear about it for, like, medical reasons.

Okay.

Doctor, can you describe, 25 years later, some of the symptoms, the smallest to the biggest, that these people may have?

have?Well, the smallest would be the inability to wake up feeling safe.

Every one of us, when we wake up in the morning, our brain's asking one question, "Am I safe?" And if they're not able to wake up safe, then that starts the whole day.

If you don't win the morning, you don't win the day.

So there needs to be an intentional thing to change the morning rich- ritual, and it's not drinking a cup of coffee, as, as good as that sounds.

It's about doing something physically active to get your body out of that, that fight or flight mode right away, maybe even getting outside and grounding, as they call it.

Get out and see some sunshine, some br- some fresh air.

How prevalent is PTSD to our first responders that live in each one of our cities that run into fires, arrest bad guys, do that sort of work?

Doctor, can you describe 25 years later some of the symptoms, the smallest to the biggest, that these people may have?

Well, the smallest would be the inability to wake up feeling safe.

Every one of us, when we wake up in the morning, our brain's asking one question, am I safe? And if they're not able to wake up safe, then that starts the whole day.

If you don't win the morning, you don't win the day.

So there needs to be an intentional thing to change the morning ritual.

And it's not drinking a cup of coffee, as good as that sounds.

It's about doing something physically active to get your body out of that fight or flight mode right away.

one of them had

Doctor, can you describe 25 years later some of the symptoms, the smallest to the biggest, that these people may have?

Well, the smallest would be the inability to wake up feeling safe.

Every one of us, when we wake up in the morning, our brain's asking one question, am I safe? And if they're not able to wake up safe, then that starts the whole day.

If you don't win the morning, you don't win the day.

So there needs to be an intentional thing to change the morning ritual.

And it's not drinking a cup of coffee, as good as that sounds.

It's about doing something physically active to get your body out of that fight or flight mode right away, maybe even getting outside and grounding, as they call it, get out and see some sunshine, some fresh air, Now, what could happen then is they're going to have bouts of anger and frustration because their energy level is going to be low.

How prevalent is PTSD to our first responders that live in each one of our cities that run into fires or arrest bad guys, do that sort of work?

Doctor, can you describe 25 years later some of the symptoms, the smallest to the biggest, that these people may have?

Well, the smallest would be the inability to wake up feeling safe.

Every one of us, when we wake up in the morning, our brain's asking one question, am I safe? And if they're not able to wake up safe, then that starts the whole day.

If you don't win the morning, you don't win the day.

So there needs to be an intentional thing to change the morning ritual.

And it's not drinking a cup of coffee, as good as that sounds.

It's about doing something physically active to get your body out of that fight or flight mode right away, maybe even getting outside and grounding, as they call it, get out and see some sunshine, some fresh air, Now, what could happen then is they're going to have bouts of anger and frustration because their energy level is going to be low.

How prevalent is PTSD to our first responders that live in each one of our cities that run into fires or arrest bad guys, do that sort of work?

Doctor, can you describe 25 years later some of the symptoms, the smallest to the biggest, that these people may have?

Well, the smallest would be the inability to wake up feeling safe.

Every one of us, when we wake up in the morning, our brain's asking one question, am I safe? And if they're not able to wake up safe, then that starts the whole day.

If you don't win the morning, you don't win the day.

So there needs to be an intentional thing to change the morning ritual.

And it's not drinking a cup of coffee, as good as that sounds.

It's about doing something physically active to get your body out of that fight or flight mode right away.

PTSD.

Right.

All the sessions do have an embedded Therapeutic value to them.

It-- You might not know it's happening, but, like, the first ones are always about disassociation.

You wanna distance yourself from the conversations, the images of what the past did for you that you no longer want.

I want you to...

I want people to think about the past as a proving ground.

And just like Superman has kryptonite, once you realize kryptonite hurts you, you need to put it into a lead box.

Mm.

So

whether you're using brain tap or whatever, you're always doing this.

So first of all, this is not something unnatural, something we're introducing to the body that's not doing.

Right now, as we're sitting here, Our body, our biological system, is actually evaluating our environment.

And our DNA, they've now proven this at MIT, that our DNA is actually up-regulating or down-regulating every 40 seconds every DNA pair based on our environment.

And this is all done through light, sound, and vibration.

This is the way our body communicates.

and

I'm curious, what are you seeing, something that people pay attention to that matters, but they're not giving enough credit for it?

Well, I think the biggest thing we're seeing is actually people in their 30s are getting dementia, which you didn't never get that before.

And that's a function of brain energy.

So when you were born, I'm sorry to tell you, you're the smartest you're ever going to be.

Your brain was operating at 18.1 volts.

And as we age, we do something called neural pruning.

so this means that we just do the same thing every day so the brain starts to basically prune itself saying these are the only habits i need these are the only things so i think what we're finding is that the brain needs a variety of different activities in the morning we need to stimulate through cognitive some kind of cognitive workout physical workouts really good so we're seeing a lot more that people are seeing that the the physical body does play a role in creating bdnf which is brain-derived neurotropic factor I call it miracle growth for the brain.

What are you seeing that people still misunderstand about brain training?

Number one thing you notice when you get a heart attack is you're dead.

[instrumental music] You and I have something in common.

We were both thought to be dumbasses in second grade.

I tell people it's the Microsoft fix.

Your computer isn't working, what do you do? Your tech person's gonna say, "Did you restart it?" Because when you restart it, you have a base operating system.

Where we measured the brains of autistic children, most of them are missing alpha.

Yeah.

So we're measuring that.

It's just a different paradigm.

Yeah, and I think that a lot of them are basically not in health care.

They're in sick care.

So, you know, you're looking to make people well, and that's a different type of medicine, if you will, than trying to get somebody out.

I mean, I wouldn't want to be in any other country than America here, U.S., when I'm sick.

If I have a broken leg or need a surgery or something, I've been all over the world, and I think we have some great sick care interventions.

But when you ask them about wellness care, they're like, well, Well, we're going to send you home.

And I have no doubt that you'll be successful.

Yeah

... you can kind of think of it like a Wi-Fi network through the system, that there are these tubulars in the, the fibromyalgia that actually pump the water system or the interstitial fluid in the body, which a lot of people will say, "Yeah, I have a loose cellular structure." They eat so- maybe they eat chicken, they blow up, or they eat some kind of, uh, like Indian food or Chinese food and their, their body blows up.

Well, that's, that's that part of the body getting a dysfunction.

So I mean, I don't know, some people might just be predisposed to that.

But this system, especially under stress, gets compromised because the fascia, which is a big part now when, when people are doing, like, PT and things like that, getting the fascia working for the nervous system, because we're not just firing nerves, we're firing light.

Every cell of your body is transmitting infrared light to the other cells, and it goes outside the body.

So this is kind of frightening for people, but NIH proved it in 1994.

Right

So, Dr. Patrick Porter, what is your favorite way that you're using AI?

Well, my biggest question on my app, because we have 3,000 different sessions on there, is what do I listen to? So we created Dr.

PAI.

And it took every book I've written.

I've written 11 books.

It took every lecture I've ever given, put it all into AI.

And that thing's smarter than me, really.

Dr. Porter, where are you putting yours?

So then what do you think a natural work rhythm should be? What time should we start work? What time should we end work? Is that why the siesta kind of is around that time?

Exactly.

Yeah.

And why the queen has tea time.

I mean, she got tired.

She says, let's, let's caffeine.

My, this is something most people don't like me about because I don't think you should drink coffee first thing in the morning.

So how does that impact mitochondrial health? How do you increase ATP from utilizing those? Right.

So I suppose if you were trying to put lipstick on a pig and say that there is some good that's come of this from the point of view of the United States, maybe the combination of Ukraine and now this will just compel people in the American foreign policy and military establishment to begin to think harder about, well, okay, once you're in a war, how, how do you change America's production systems so as to have good enough weaponry at sufficient scale to allow you to maintain a military campaign as opposed to this showroom level, elite, high-tech weaponry that is great while you have it, but that runs out super fast.

Well, indeed, and so there's, there's both the, the kind of the immediate sort of almost operational level of that question, which is how do you resource a war from within the war, and how do you optimize your own system of delivery and regeneration? But it's also invariably a grand strategic question about prioritizing theaters, that no matter how efficient you are, these things are expensive, they are scarce, and, yet misallocating them could be fatal.

Ironically, one of the appealing catch cries of the Trumpians was to rail against years of overcommitment and waste in the Middle East, that it was a waste of blood, waste of treasure, and waste of scarce resources.

Having ach- attained, attained power, they discover that resources are abundant and that the future is radiant and that the only real problem is getting other allies to do more.

Now, getting other allies to do more coercively is indeed part of a coherent grand strategic issue.

That's a legitimate thing.

I don't resent that.

What's your read on the Iranian side of this, uh, both l- in terms of how it's gone in and of itself, and also the, at times puzzling and hard to decipher American intention with regard to what they were expecting to happen?

Wow

... how can we use light, sound, and vibration to enhance wellness? And what we found was that the LEDs just came on the market.

So when you think about what happened with me at Consumer Electronic Show, we were like an alien invasion.

Nobody was doing what we were doing.

We created a whole new industry.

You know, we're all over the world now.

We're, we do a lot of research.

How do people get this? Do you sell this apparatus?

What was the one decision that changed the trajectory of your business?

The biggest thing that happened to me was I found out I was unemployable.

I always had these ideas, and I'd bring them to whoever my supervisor was, and they'd say, "That's not your job.

Just do this." And I found out that it was just basically I was trading time for money.

And so I figured out I had to go create something or invent something or do something that was going to allow me to have the type of life that I wanted.

And at first, I realized that, hey, I needed to do something.

I needed to do the things I needed to do, like put food on the table, do those kind of things until I could do what I wanna do.

What's the connection between the two?

What you're doing with the ears, there's one, one of the tones is a binaural beat.

So we're putting, this isn't the right frequency, but let's say we put 300 hertz in this ear, 310 in this ear.

Your brain actually hears a phantom sound of 10 hertz.

So then the mirror neurons that are in every cell of your body start to mimic that hertz frequency.

Just like if we were to sit next to the ocean or go to the mountains for 7.8 hertz frequency, our body is gonna resonate with it because it's doing it all the time anyway.

And now we know the science shows that it upregulates DNA function.

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That's why when, when Bannister broke the four-minute mile, the next year, high school students were breaking the four-minute mile.

Mm-hmm.

How did that happen? Because the barrier, our brain, that, that belief barrier was gone.

If I was to take you back in time right now to twenty fifteen, and you're in medical school, you're going through all your curriculum, and they're talking about your physiology.

There's a part of the physiology called the lymphatic system.

Wow.