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I'm just getting home I agreed to be
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filmed today
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and
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I just had a laser treatment on my face
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it looks like my face
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has a really bad sunburn so just so you
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know if my face looks all messed up
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that's why my body has a whole bunch of
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stuff too looks like
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skill I got fish scaled today it's all
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from my back too but what they did today
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actually is they they had this laser
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she was basically just like shaving off
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imperfections and scars so we did it for
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the face she also had a hair application
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a laser for hair growth and then we did
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the body as well so today I we're gonna
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film my my nightly routine a lot of
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people have asked about this and
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specifically in the context of recently
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I shared on social media that I had an
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entire month of perfect sleep a 100
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score using the wearable whoop and I
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didn't really have any context on this
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but people were were blown away that
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I was able to achieve not only 100 once
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but for an entire month every single day
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a lot of people said that in years of
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wearing moved they'd never achieved 100
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and so people are curious what I'm doing
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for sleep and the nightly routine is
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really about prep for sleep so I'm
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hoping I can share with you what I've
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been learning for the past couple years
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through a bunch of trial and error what
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I have found is sleep is my number one
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priority in life it's more important
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than anything else because when I sleep
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well life feels amazing and possible and
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when I don't sleep well it feels
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challenging and miserable I'm going to
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walk you through the entirety of what I
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do on a on a nightly basis some of it is
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blueprint protocol stuff but a lot of it
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is really sleep preparation when I get
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home the first thing I do is I change my
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shoes I have outdoor shoes and I have
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indoor shoes this is a Brian thing it's
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not really a blueprint thing this is
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like the hygiene standards of the world
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these are the hygiene standards of this
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house and we like to separate those too
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I have my lunch bag with me I have two
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meals that I took with me and so when I
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get home the first thing I do is I'm
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going to put this on the ground not on
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the countertop
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I eat everything by about noon 11 A.M to
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noon and that gives my body about eight
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hours to digest food before I go to
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sleep and when I do that my resting
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heart rate is between 45 and 50
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somewhere down there and when I do that
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I'm highly likely to have a good night's
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sleep so today was for the third meal of
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the day was asparagus white beans
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sweet potato
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and some tomatoes so I'm going to clean
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up these dishes
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talms and I try to maintain
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an Immaculate house where everything is
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orderly that's nice that we both agree
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on that we uh we agreed on this protocol
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that we'd have a proper labeling
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mechanism for the dishwasher
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clean workspace allows me to have a
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clean mind when things are cluttered I'm
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I'm a bit bothered by it it's a pretty
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small effort to try to maintain a really
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organized environment after we get
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things cleaned up I'll take a few pills
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so I got diagnosed with hypothyroidism
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when I was 21 years old so I take
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levothyroxine and armor thyroid daily
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they also take 81 milligrams of aspirin
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three times a week there was some good
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evidence on that and then right before
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bed I'll take my melatonin I take pills
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right when I wake up and then I take it
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with my morning drink and then I do a
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lunch and then again tonight so I guess
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I take pills like four times a day five
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times a day so we're about an hour
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earlier than what I normally start the
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routine because we're shooting here but
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I'll show you a couple things I'll start
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with some HRV therapy yeah heart rate
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variability HRV it is a representation
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of your nervous system and so when
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you're stressed out and you're in fight
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or flight mode you're in a heightened
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state of stress and when you're chilled
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out and relaxed you're trying to get
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your body to be in a more relaxed State
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we've tried a lot of devices over the
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years probably
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15 or so this one is from parisim and it
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attaches right here to
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this part of the year I've been doing 30
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minutes in the morning and 30 minutes in
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the evening so this device is emitting
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electrical current and so we have a
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vagus nerve
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that is through the side of our head in
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the air is a connection point then down
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through our chest is an entry point for
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a lot of things people use the Vegas
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nerve for all kinds of treatments and
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disorders and so by putting this thing
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here it just electrically stimulates so
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I can feel a really light source of
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electricity HRV is a a pretty
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significant
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biomarker for health and wellness it
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also has very clear association with age
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so as you're younger you have a higher
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HIV as you get older your HIV goes down
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and so over the past couple years I've
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been able to almost double my HRV I
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started in the low 30s range and now
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lately I've been hovering in the low 60s
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which is a remarkable Improvement I
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think my low 30s probably represents
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where I was at in my life as as an
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entrepreneur accustomed to running
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myself into the ground ragged willing to
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work all night with kids and trying to
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do all that stuff and so now I've
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shifted my identity that I'm not that
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way anymore I really prioritize other
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things and my nervous system is really
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important to monitor because it really
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is a it's a representation of how I'm
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doing internally of how stressed I am
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versus how relaxed and
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stable I am in life while we're here
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I'll show you a few other things we've
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been experimenting with 10 minutes
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before bed I'll use this is pulsetto
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and it goes around the neck and that's
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for 10 minutes I'll be doing that for
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the past week and it's been really
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effective
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this is a itier 100. I have a dry eye
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condition which we found in our routine
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visits so my tear ducts weren't
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producing the right amount of fluid for
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my eyes so my eyes get dry which is not
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good for Eye Health does FDA approve you
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put this on the side of your nose right
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here on this nerve and then you press
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this button and it vibrates
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it's for 30 seconds and so in in a
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clinical study they showed that it
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dramatically improved tear production of
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the eyes before I was using eye drops
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five times a day for my eyes to be
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sufficiently moisturized and now I do
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this twice a day and I have a similar
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effect and it avoids having to put these
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drops in my eyes it is pretty funny the
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first time you do this it's like the
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most intense
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anticipatory sneezed you could ever
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imagine these are Skull Candy headphones
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they they don't have noise cancellation
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because it gives me a headache and I use
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this for audio cardio so I've been
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trying to rebuild my hearing I have
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hearing loss from shooting guns as a
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child and also having music too loud so
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this ear is aged 64. between the ranges
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of I think it's 4 000 Hertz and 12 000
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Hertz I'm basically deaf so I use these
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every day and do 60 Minutes of
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stimulation in those frequencies and so
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it's stimulating the hair follicles and
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there's some evidence that this is uh
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helpful to people we have yet to see a
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benefit we're still early on but I do
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this a couple other goodies this is a
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spirometry device
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we have been measuring lung health for
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quite some time my lungs were in
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fantastic condition when we first
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started measuring this and then when I
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got covered in November I had some
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pretty discouraging lung damage which
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was an eye-opener for me because I'd
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seen a lot of reports I didn't know what
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it'd have and what effect it'd have on
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me if I got it and so we've been trying
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to rebuild my lungs from that this is a
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sense8 this you'd swear over the neck it
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hangs here on your chest because you can
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get the vagus nerve
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here or or here there's quite a few
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places you can interact with it with
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blueprint we probably trial
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five to ten new things in any given week
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it's the identification of the thing the
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evidence that supports it whether it's
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strong or emergent one thing we've been
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trialing lately which was kind of funny
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was using theta waves for
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improved sleep at HRV it's all I'll play
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this for you
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just something you can find on YouTube
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this is what it sounds like can you get
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that
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okay the first time that
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I listen to this
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we we found some evidence this might be
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interesting
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and so I turned it on it was like 5 30
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in the evening I turned on the speaker
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so it was broadcasting there's a few of
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us here hanging out
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I didn't think anything of it and I was
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on the couch talking to my mom and I got
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so tired I just became paralyzed like I
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needed to lay down I was like Mom I'm so
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sorry I need to stop this conversation
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right now because I need to lay down it
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just had this immediate and dramatic
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effect on how tired I was and it
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increased my sleep quality and my HRV
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for 10 solid days
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so we're still trialing this out we need
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to see if this is sustained or if it's
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going to break up but it's an example of
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we're always trialling new things and
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we're trying to find stability and
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permanence of this stacked process
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because this nightly routine is the
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accumulation of you know a few dozen
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things that we've trialled that have
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worked and we keep the one the things
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that have worked and just stack it up so
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that we get better every single week but
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I guess the reason why I focus on this
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HRV therapy and the nighttime routine so
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much is I find that like the things I'm
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working on in life have such a small
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tolerance for error on emotions and if
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I've had a bad night's sleep and I'm
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working on a problem the next day and
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trying to think through something like
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my obsession is that the future of Being
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Human the future of intelligent
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existence and if I'm thinking through a
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question or a contemplation or
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imagination or a problem I noticed that
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even one night of a mediocre sleep
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changes dramatically how I feel about
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the problem and the solutions that come
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up for that vary dramatically and so
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it's why I take this routine so
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seriously and so I hope that what I'm
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going to show you tonight really does
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help you establish whatever routine you
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do to stabilize yourself because once
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you get there it's such a a beautiful
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and valued place to be and you may
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experience what I did where before I had
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this huge roller coaster of emotions
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it had dramatic effects of whether I was
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cheerful or snippy or annoyed getting
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these Basics right made life much more
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enjoyable I think it made me a better
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person to be around and I think it
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dramatically improved what I'm able to
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try to contribute to the world it really
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is worth the effort there's probably
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like nothing else you can do in your
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life that's going to have a better yield
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for your conscious existence so dishes
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are put away HIV therapy is commenced
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I've taken my pills and so next thing I
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would uh get ready for bed so I'd wash
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my face brush my teeth and get ready to
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hang out with Talmadge we have an hour
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every night before bed we spend it with
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each other it's our favorite time of the
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day we read hang out we talk
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we do whatever but we're both ready so
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then when bedtime arrives we can just
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both walk upstairs and go and get into
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bed we don't have anything to do because
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at that point we're tired and just want
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to get to sleep
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now we're in the bathroom we're going to
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get ready for bed seeing my face in the
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mirror in this light it's really red the
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practitioner I work with she's been
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doing this for 10 years and she said
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she's never had someone who has a pain
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tolerance as high as me and so now that
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she has some comfort with me she just
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she went all out for skin care we've
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been able to measure my skin age we use
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a multi-spectral Imaging device so we're
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able to look at like 10 different
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biomarkers from the multi-special
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Imaging we try to measure the bioage of
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my skin with all these different
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measurement approaches and so and then
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compare that against the interventions
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we do the more powerful things we do are
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really lasers the lotions and the creams
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I use they're okay but they're not
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really the things that make a big
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difference but I use a survey wash I use
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both survey pm
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which has the hyaluronic acid
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and then I also use the CeraVe sunscreen
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which also has the AMS as well and
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because I've done several videos around
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my face there's been a lot of Patrick
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Bateman comments from the American
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Psycho so for those of you
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who know that connection
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you should see my business cards new
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card
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what do you think
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and then are you put on a peptide
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serum
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and then Oral Care so this is important
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there's been a lot of connection to Oral
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Care with the rest of the body it's not
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just having clean teeth or the avoidance
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of cavities
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there's also it's interconnected with
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brain health and microbiome health and
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so I do three things floss I'll do a
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water pick for gum cleanliness then tea
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tree oil the evidence supporting this is
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my dentist is I think in her late 20s
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and I recently saw her in my plaque
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index was lower than hers
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it's also lower that lower than
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challenges she tried very hard to get my
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gums to bleed and she couldn't do it we
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also have been successful we've worked
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on oral health and I've reversed my oral
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health age by over 20 years as indicated
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by the gum recession and the Detachment
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and so we've had significant repair a
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lot of that had to do I think one with
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diet where eating bad foods is just bad
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for oral health number two is I had
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bruxism for over 20 years so I think my
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life was so stressful that I would go to
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bed with that stress and I would just
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grind away and it was really bad I had
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dentists who would tell me this was the
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case and they would recommend a mouth
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guard so I would do something like I
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would buy a sports mouth guard that was
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soft and chewy I think it just
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encouraged me to do it more we use this
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device
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I'll post this in the show notes
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but it basically arrests your entire
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mouth you put it in and it has this band
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that keeps it together so just a
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straight jackets your mouth and for the
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first time it actually arrested my
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bruxism
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sometimes I like we we're doing these
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filmings and I have these really mixed
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emotions where like am I really on
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camera
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explaining how I'm brushing my teeth
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what the hell's going on like how did
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this happen and why am I doing this but
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then I remember
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it for so long I suffered
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and I didn't have any of these things
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right in my life I didn't have sleep
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right I didn't have oral care right my
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teeth were rotting my gums were receding
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I was grumpy I hated life I was
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depressed out of my mind and so yeah I
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mean like so I have these mixed emotions
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where I'm doing this on camera
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but then I remember like how much would
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I appreciate it if someone who cared
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about me
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would have said like let me just help
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you with a few of these Basics like
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let's just get you in a nice place where
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you're steady and you're happy you're
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not dealing with receding gums and
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having to go to the dentist because you
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have these problems and I don't know
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um it's weird I never thought that
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future contemplations of human would be
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me in the bathroom talking about
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brushing my teeth
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foreign
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last step is two minutes
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of teeth
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one minute 37 seconds later
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this is the tea tree oil
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and then so that's all wrapped up and
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then I have a tongue cleaner
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another thing in life that I wish I
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would have learned before and then I
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have everything ready for the morning so
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when I wake up it's all situated so the
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first thing I'll do in the morning is
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I'll take my body temperature with this
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inner ear device
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I'll take these three pills I'm trying
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to improve my ferritin levels right now
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so I'll take these three pills water
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from here I'll start my HRV therapy with
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this device I'll turn this light on
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and I will get a few minutes of exposure
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it mimics sunlight so again the goal is
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to not think about anything ever because
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if we're trying to push the frontiers of
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anti-aging saying what is possible with
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a perfect protocol like what what can
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someone imagine their body being like if
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they're to implement a perfect protocol
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I need to have an infrastructure in life
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that allows me to implement these things
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so we can just stack a hundred things in
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a given day and so it's really important
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that everything's organized and
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structured so there's no thought is
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required ever
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I'll change out of my clothes I'll get
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some shorts on we're going to film this
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for my only fans account
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so make sure you sign up there
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the last things we'll do I have a hair
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concoction I don't want to put it in
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right now it's going to make my hair all
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wet we've been playing with this gray
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hair reversal stuff we've been building
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I think I've reduced my gray hair by
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about 30 to 50 percent I equally hate
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dyeing my hair and gray hair so it's
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kind of which one do I want and I've
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chosen to dye my hair which I know is
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not good because they're toxins I
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equally dislike seeing the gray and so
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I'm really working hard to get rid of
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the gray hair and this concoction we
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have if it works we might make it
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available for others okay so face is
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washed mouth is clean I've got my
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testosterone patch on this is two
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milligrams this is to offset my 20
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caloric restriction I only need 2 000
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calories a day which is less than the
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recommended daily allowance for my body
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activity level and age and so to offset
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my testosterone to keep it at the normal
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level level
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two milligrams a day so normally I would
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go downstairs we do our nightly routine
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uh Thomas and I would hang out but let
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me stop and show you my my bedroom
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quickly
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I imagined trying to utilize everything
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I'm good at in life and building a
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really valuable technology product in
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the case of my former company was
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Braintree venmo building software for
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payments and it was easy for me to lose
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myself in that relationship where
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I wanted the product to be perfect and
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thrill our customers but I was willing
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to basically give everything I had to
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build that technology but doing that it
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came at a cost where I didn't sleep very
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well I was stressed out I was basically
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willing eagerly willing to sacrifice
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everything about my personal health in
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order to build
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a great technology product I think
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that's kind of backwards in that I was
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basically sacrificing myself
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for technology instead of the other way
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around and I've shifted that frame in my
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life where my health and wellness is now
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the number one priority
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and I want technology to be in service
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of that the Sleep score is not just
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about getting perfect sleep every night
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it really is about getting everything in
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my life in a proper state so that I can
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achieve this that means of my nervous
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system to Be steady and stable for me
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not to be stressed out to not be
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accelerating aging disease and decline
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so it really is an entire system
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overhaul of my health and wellness and
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for life so the Sleep score is
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representative of this much bigger
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phenomena of what I think is important
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of a resetting in our society where we
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are no longer willing to be martyrs for
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the Improvement of Technology we want to
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have technology be the service of us
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being our very best selves with that
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said
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I'll walk you through a few things I
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have in the room so first you'll see
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it's blacked out the the windows this is
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a permanent situation where I have a
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temperature controlled bed this is eight
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sleep so it modulates the temperature
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throughout the night hot and cold the
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sheets I have are grounded
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we found some good some evidence on that
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I have two air filters in the room that
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we're playing with but trying to
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maintain optimal air quality and then
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for my my pillow
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setup when we did a full body MRI we
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found a time bomb where I have a
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bilateral jugular vein stenosis which
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have these we have these two pipes
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on the side of our necks and they drain
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blood from the brain and if there's
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block if there's a stenosis in there
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then you have pluggage and it keeps it
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stays up in the brain and so we found
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that I had stenosis of my jugular veins
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which means I wasn't getting proper flow
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out of my brain and so as a result I had
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white matter hypertensities I had some
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pressure in in my brain it was a very
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scary situation then we tested various
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pillows and pillow Heights and
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configurations
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to the one that proved to have the
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greatest flow is this really skinny
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pillow at the base it was the thinnest
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pillow I could find and then this guy
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which has an indentation for my neck and
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we found that when I laid on my right
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side I had the best flow on my left side
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I had the second best flow to summarize
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for people who are wanting to improve
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your sleep make sure you have a routine
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every night that you stick to that you
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you're going into your evening knowing
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you're going to prioritize sleep so you
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have a wind down period you have
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specific things you want to get done in
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a certain course go to bed at the same
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time every night so just know that's
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what you do and treat sleep as a
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non-negotiable it's not something that
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can be wished away negotiated away or
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just ignored it just exists and you have
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to
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work with it as it exists but you can't
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negotiate with it and then your
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management of stress levels in life is
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really important because if you go to
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bed and you're ruminating on things of
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the day and you're upset you're going to
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have a very a terrible night's sleep
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tossing and turning and these things
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will just be cycling through your mind
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you won't be able to get it out other
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basic things like getting the room to be
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blocked out those are some of the basics
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that should get you off to a good start
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and uh yeah hopefully they're helpful
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let's go downstairs
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this is our brand new laser that arrived
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we're getting some FDA clearance on this
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so we can't open it yet but hopefully in
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the next couple days so we can
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get it to work
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it'll be our third laser here at the
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clinic
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show your food
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so Thomas and I eat the exact same thing
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every day
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this is the delicious dish we had today
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asparagus
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sweet potato what do you think about
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this sandwich this is exciting for you I
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actually opened it up yeah I I because I
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expected a soup and not that I don't
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like I know I expected a soup too yeah
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and I saw it and I got like I saw sweet
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potato yeah I know that's the same
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reaction so yeah so I guess it kind of
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changes but this is like sacred time for
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talmud and I every day talmudge and I've
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been in this routine we're together
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every night and we missed the night
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together and we both felt like there was
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a violation of the sacredness of our
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nighttime routine talmudge will finish
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up his food we will watch something talk
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we'll do something his mother and I got
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a divorce like eight years ago and we we
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had uh split custody and wasn't seeing
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talmudge as much as I really wanted and
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so this last year Tom was decided to
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complete his senior year and live with
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me it's been a really cool experience
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because Talmadge left his born into
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religion just like me when you're born
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into a religion it's it's hard if you
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haven't experienced have that experience
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it's hard to articulate to someone else
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you're given a singular reality you
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basically say like this is the only
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reality that exists we are the good
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people people who are not part of this
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are the bad people and you kind of have
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this this tribal game and it's hard to
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understand how much that defines your
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relationship with reality and everyone
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who you interact with and so when I left
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the religion I had to go through this
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process it basically relearning life
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from A New Perspective and so talmudge
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has been doing that for the past year so
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every night talms and I talk about the
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days events
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what happened to school
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friends
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who said what who did what
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all the social complexities of
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interactions that happened in high
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school in the evening here Thomas and I
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get to talk about all the different
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ideas we have in life a few things that
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are on my mind recently I guess I think
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that the whole world is talking about
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right now is
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uh chat GPT and the progress that's been
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made in artificial intelligence and this
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kind of goes back to the three
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observations which I think are relevant
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on planet Earth if we go out and we zoom
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in on planet Earth and come up with the
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clearest possible assessment we can of
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reality I'd say there's three things
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going on one is that artificial
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intelligence is improving incredibly
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fast in ways which we cannot predict
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number two is the biosphere of our
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planet is in question and three is we
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humans are dangerously at each other's
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throats a couple years ago I wrote a
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plan for Humanity and it was kind of a
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ridiculous Endeavor but it was It was
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kind of tongue-in-cheek where we plan
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for everything we plan for marriage and
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kids in college and death and everything
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in between queer advancement but we
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really don't have a plan as a species we
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just kind of fly by the seat of our
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pants we do things individually but not
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really on a large scale in many ways it
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ties back to this what these core
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principles are at blueprint what we've
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been doing and at the core of it we
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humans have this propensity towards
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destruction and violence and it's not
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something that we can easily change this
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goes back to the situation where I had a
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personal problem of committing these
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acts of self-destruction to myself
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whether it be in the form of too much
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food or the wrong food or energetical
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sleep but these things were leading to
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me committing to self-destructive harm
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and I was helpless in stopping myself
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from doing these things there's just I
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could no matter how much I planned you
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know how no matter how much I desired it
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I just couldn't stop it I was helpless I
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think the human race has a similar
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problem we treat planet Earth and we're
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helplessly self-destructive we're
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ruining the only home we actually have
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in the universe and we just can't stop
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ourselves from doing this and now we're
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going to bring online this incredibly
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powerful form of intelligence in the
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form of AI into the hands of us that are
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helplessly hopelessly powerless in the
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face of these self-destructive
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tendencies
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I don't know what exactly we do other
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than we just need to fire the version of
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ourselves that we know our are helpless
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in the form of these self-destructure
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behaviors and that's kind of a wacky
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idea but blueprint kind of proves out
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this core concept where as an individual
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I do things that are not in my best
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interest and I can't stop them and so is
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there a part of me that would behave
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differently in a more peaceful and
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constructive way and the solution was to
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ask my organs to be in control and do
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that and so I found an alternative
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to my mind running the show and doing
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these things to my body run the show and
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been able to achieve this ideal Health
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the same system could be applied to
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planet earth the earth is equal to being
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a body where you basically take millions
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of measurements of planet Earth you're
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looking at the prop the evidence for
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proper biosphere and then you manage the
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Earth according to these constraints but
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I guess if we try to be as sober as we
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can in the situation our history is
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littered with violence and destruction
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and it's no different than how it is
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today I just don't see the thinking in
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the world in any encouraging way that
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suggests to me that we're somehow going
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to bring online this incredibly powerful
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form of intelligence nation states are
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going to compete with each other
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companies are going to compete with each
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other individuals are going to try to
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Arbitrage the situation I think we need
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a a proportional response in our
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thinking and planning
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to the situation I don't think that what
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we're doing now is in any way close to
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being proportional to where where it
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needs to be
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these routines we go through the
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protocols we do a blueprint to me it's
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all really part of this bigger structure
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of acknowledging that we need to evolve
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the species in significant ways and it
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feels uncomfortable it feels foreign it
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feels offensive it's like it just breaks
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all of our models it breaks everything
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which we hold sacred and I think
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anything short of that is is actually
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going to be inadequate as an appropriate
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response to the situation
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that wraps the the nightly routine I
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would say that for those of you who are
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wondering that blueprint is not an
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endeavor
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for me to try to live 200 years or
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indefinitely this is not a quest for
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immortality it's not a vanity project
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which I'm trying to do I'm trying to
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approach this in a systematic way and
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say if we're going to have a meaningful
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conversation about the future of Being
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Human we can talk about philosophical
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Concepts we can talk about regulation
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and all the stuff we know are going to
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come up but really it starts with the
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habits we have individually the
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expectations we have of society and of
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each other and you know when our minds
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are in a good spot when we are in a good
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spot it's just going to be a different
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dialogue we're going to treat each other
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differently less acrimony maybe less
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tribal Warfare and perhaps a change in
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disposition that we'd be more
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cooperative so normally I would at this
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time you know we'd head on up to our
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rooms we get at the base of the steps
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here talmudge we're challenging me to
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erase
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I would tell him no because he beat me
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and I don't want to get hurt so given we
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have a we have a few minutes before
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bedtime
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we're going to Don our blue light
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blocking glasses
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hang out for a bit and then we'll call
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it a night and hopefully log another
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perfect night's sleep
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foreign
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