176: Why Calorie Counting Fails, The Science of Saunas, and Mouth-Taping for Better Sleep | Mike Mutzel, MS

If you could encapsulate the benefits of a sauna into a pill... it would be the best-selling drug there is.

When that advice falls on the ears of somebody who's consuming the standard American diet... that it's all just about calories in, calories out and to just moderate your portions... they're going to moderate what they're already eating. They're going to eat smaller portions of what they're already eating—and what they're already eating is 60% ultra-processed food ... So, what that is, to me, is just a recipe for hunger and misery.

When you're breathing through your mouth while you're sleeping, you go through many periods of paralysis as your body is repairing. So, neurologically, you're not sending signals to your tongue, and then your tongue will collapse on your airway, and you'll have hypoxic events, and those are called apneas.

The glutathione tripeptide is glutamine, glycine, and cysteine ... And the rate-limiting step in making glutathione is the cysteine moiety, so that's why sulfur containing foods—if you think garlic, onions, things like that—they can help facilitate glutathione production.

Anything that gets your body temperature up is going to improve cardiovascular fitness [and] will help to excrete heavy metals, particularly lead, cadmium, mercury—things like that.

I do think it's funny to note that the International Sauna Association I believe it is, it's a Finnish organization, they don't actually consider infrared saunas to be saunas. They think it's an aberration of the term sauna—a misuse of the word sauna.

We know that ketones... help prevent mild cognitive impairment and age-related cognitive decline from the energetic standpoint and I think from a longevity standpoint, too.