Fighters Are Still Falling Through the Cracks After Concussion - With Jordan Jay Adams (Part 1) | E62

Combat sports make brain injury impossible to ignore, but the most dangerous part might be what happens after everyone goes home. We’re joined by Jordan J. Adams, founder and CEO of United Fight Alliance and an Emmy Award-winning combat sports commentator, to talk about concussions, post-concussion syndrome and the real gaps he still sees in concussion protocols across athletics. 

We dig into the difference between “knowing” head trauma is serious and actually acting fast with coordinated care. Jordan shares what he has witnessed behind the scenes with athletic commissions, how referees have improved some in-fight checks and why follow-up care often collapses into guesswork. We also talk about the heartbreaking long arc of repeated hits, including short-term memory issues, working memory problems and speech changes that can show up years later. 

Jordan opens up about his own concussion history from a motorcycle crash, a severe shallow-pool diving accident and military artillery exposure, plus the added pressure of a family Alzheimer’s history. From there, we get into hopeful science and practical habits: neuroplasticity, neurogenesis, strength training and BDNF, and Jordan’s top “needle movers” like transcranial photobiomodulation, intermittent fasting, cold plunges and methylene blue, along with why tracking tiny functional changes matters. Subscribe, share this with someone navigating concussion recovery and leave a review, then tell us what topic you want us to tackle next?

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Welcome And Mental Health Openness

Dr. Ayla Wolf 0:01

Welcome to Life After Impact, the Concussion Recovery Podcast. I'm Dr. Ayla Wolfe, and I will be hosting today's episode where we help you navigate the often confusing, frustrating, and overwhelming journey of concussion and brain injury recovery. This podcast is your go-to resource for actionable information. Whether you're dealing with a recent concussion, struggling with post-concussion syndrome, or just feeling stuck in your healing process, know that you are not alone. This podcast can be your guide and partner in recovery, helping you build a better life after impact.

Jordan Jay Adams 0:36

And it has it is amazing, is it not? Just how quickly mental health is not like taboo anymore. Like it's just like, you know, I never, ever, ever felt pressure not to talk about it. Like I never had that, oh, I don't want people to know that I have this stuff. I'm like, hey man, I got this stuff. You know anything? I'm like, I was detective. From the minute I got diagnosed, I was the detective, you know, because when you start losing faculty, you you lose that bullshit ego, that silly ego that doesn't serve, right? Like I need to be the student, right? Like I got it really clearly. Like, oh shit, my I'm getting brain fail, and I know nothing about my brain. So I need to become a freaking doctor, even though I won't have the sheepskin, you know.

Dr. Ayla Wolf 1:25

Um well, and honestly, that's the best approach is to not hide it and not pretend it's not there, but to just start asking as many people and to get those those little clues here and there. What can I do next? Who can I talk to? Who can help me? And so that's I think the right approach.

Jordan Jay Adams 1:42

Yeah, I agree. I agree. Because, you know, this person might know ten people who can, and maybe three out of those ten will really help you and point you over here. And it's funny, just like we're talking about with the you never you forget who introduced who to who, all of these long threads can say, Oh, now how did I learn about methylene blue? How did I learn about the cold plunging? And that was, you know, maybe someone else who was talking about infrared at the time, and then the cold plunging came up. It's just um the beauty of it, brain shit sucks. Sorry, two swears in one sentence there. I apologize. Brain stuff is horrible, but you do meet tribe, right? You meet family, and we all become family, and we all we all, hey, what do you got? What's the latest? You know? Um, there's some really cool stuff out there, man. Fascinating stuff.

Dr. Ayla Wolf 2:36

It is, and honestly, that's why I've absolutely loved doing my podcast because it allows me to talk to people who are doing cutting edge research and on the front lines of treating concussions, and everybody has their own piece of the pie, their own angle, their own perspective, their own knowledge base. And so to be able to talk to people around the world uh and and get more information about what they're doing has just been such a gift.

Jordan Jay Adams 3:04

Absolutely.

Dr. Ayla Wolf 3:06

Yeah. All right. Well, should we kick this off?

Jordan Jay Adams 3:09

Yep. You're the pro.

Meet Jordan J Adams

Dr. Ayla Wolf 3:11

All right. Jordan J. Adams, welcome to Life After Impact. Thank you, Dr. Ayla. Yes. You are the founder and CEO of United Fight Alliance and an Emmy Award-winning commentator and recognized voice in combat sports. And you yourself have had a number of concussions. And so I would love to talk to you about your own personal story and then also how you've seen combat sports evolve over the years in terms of being more aware of concussions, brain health, and long-term consequences.

Combat Sports Knowledge Gap

Jordan Jay Adams 3:45

Well, thank you for that. Thank you. You know, it's it's interesting how has combat sports evolved around head trauma. I, you know, my initial hit on that one is the knowledge has definitely evolved, the knowledge of it. But the protocols, I'm not sure I'm seeing any kind of immediate attention. Um, you know, the fight when a fighter, you know, God forbid, does pick up some trauma in a fight and even worse, gets knocked out. Yeah, they get the, you know, they get the flashlights and the eyes, they put them on the on the stretcher, I guess, when they take them out of the cage, um you know, for to protect the neck and any kind of spinal injuries. But are they doing some of the protocols that you and I know about that are so important to do really quickly after a brain trauma? I'm not sure they are. I'm not sure they are because from what I've seen behind the scenes, it's still it's still pretty allopathic and it's still pretty 15 or 20 years ago in terms of the science. Um, I know how much you're on the cutting edge for neurology, and I'm just, you know, I'm just a hobbyist because I'm trying to save my own brain. Um, I have absolutely no medical background, but I've been doing a lot of research. And, you know, when you and I were talking before we went on, I was saying, you know, I feel like I'm pretty close to, you know, like if if all of the things I was doing were tests and were, you know, had college accreditation, I might be pretty close to, you know, having a degree in medicine. Just because it's been 10, 15 years of, you know, you get really serious when you get a diagnosis, you you start working hard. Um and you realize, wow, I have a brain injury and I don't know anything about my brain. And and it it just like it really brings things into focus when it's you. When when a neurologist looks you in the eyes and says, it's not good. That like, you know, you hate hearing that. Um and but what it does do is it brings things into focus and it shortens time. You realize, oh wow, I have a limited amount of time and I've and I need to get my stuff together here. So the long the long-winded answer to your very short and simple question, the only evolution I've seen is in the knowledge of how dangerous combat sports are for the brain. But I haven't seen a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes. I have not seen it. Um I work pretty close with state athletic regulatory bodies and um with their medical teams, because you know, we're setting up the shows together. And so, you know, I see what they do before and I see what they do after. It needs a lot of, we need a lot of work in our protocols in combat sports.

Dr. Ayla Wolf 6:45

Yeah, and I think that's true for many sports, is that the awareness is there, the knowledge is there, but then when it does happen, maybe people are now more likely to at least go to urgent care and get a brain scan or at least talk to somebody to figure out if they need a brain scan. But then after that, it does all fall apart. Uh, and some of the literature is saying too that 50, I think it's like 55% of people that are told, hey, you need to follow up with your doctor after this ER visit, they actually don't. And so I think that things break down, people just expect that their brain will hopefully get better. And then when it doesn't, now they're already one, two, three months down the road, and then they have to figure out, well, now what do I do or who do I see? And it's just it's very disjointed. It's very disjointed.

What Happens After The Fight

Jordan Jay Adams 7:35

Yeah, you know what? I might back up a little bit on what I said earlier. Um, there there has there are some protocols now during the fight. The referees are much more aware of certain questions to ask and certain mobility issues to test with the fighters. So you see them grab the wrists to sort of pull them and see if they pull off balance and their balance isn't there. Or they'll or they'll step back and say, walk to me, and they'll watch their gait. So there there have been some evolutions in the space during the event itself. Um, and then, you know, with with the types of questions the referees uh ask the fighter are definitely more educated than they were even five years ago. So there has been some evolution in the space during the event. I think what I was referring to uh uh with no evolution is afterwards, right? There I've heard there are some protocols that you can't even tell the next day that that fighter suffered a concussion the day before. It's that type of a difference in in outcomes if you get to them quickly. Um but I hope we touch upon that because I want to get educated about if there's not if there's things I'm not doing at the end of our fights that really need to be

Long-Term Signs In Fighters

Jordan Jay Adams 8:55

done.

Dr. Ayla Wolf 8:56

And are you seeing, I mean, you follow fighters throughout their careers, and are you able to sit back and just see changes in people in terms of their reaction time as a fighter, their personality, how they interact with you post-fight? I mean, I I used to be the team acupuncturist for a lot of the UFC and legacy fighters. And so when I would talk to them, nicest guys on the planet, right? Uh, but during a conversation, they might ask me the exact same question, like, hey, how is your trip? You know, three times in a in a three-minute conversation. And so as somebody, you know, who's already looking at, you know, I'm paying attention to brain function, you know, I just in my day-to-day interactions, I would see these signs of short-term memory problems and working memory problems.

Jordan Jay Adams 9:45

Yeah, there's there's a lot of famous fighters, actually. Um, and we won't mention names because some of them are public and some of them aren't, who are in real trouble and and they know it, and they're asking for help. Um it wasn't even that long ago that the number one MMA promotion in the world wasn't even giving insurance. Um that they almost had to be shamed into that. Um they they're fully insured now, I'm happy to say, and so they can get the help they want if they need it. Even, you know, there was a also a class action suit that the fighters won, and they they had they got a lot of their money back. So they do a lot of these fighters who are having neurological issues now have some money to hopefully utilize in their struggle to to recover. And um yeah, I do see that. I had a conversation with an ultra famous boxer from the eighties and nineties recently. It was on the phone, and I I could we could not, it was I could not tell what he was saying. And it was so slurred. I don't know what part of the brain that damages when it the when the verbal skills become slurred.

Dr. Ayla Wolf 11:08

Uh well the the tongue is a muscle and the cerebellum controls the tongue and coordinates tongue movements just like it does with our arms and legs.

Jordan Jay Adams 11:17

Wow. Wow. Yeah, and that's and and it was it was heartbreaking because he was one of those it was very similar to Ali, you know. It's extra heartbreaking when someone was so amazingly articulate in their prime. And this this fighter was it was a heavyweight uh fighter, very similar to Ali, and he was a great trash talker and really knew how to help the promoter promote the fight. And uh and now you can't understand him. And that's got to be amazingly frustrating for him trying to communicate with people. You're trying to say something, and you think you're saying it, and it's not coming out the way you think it's you know it's supposed to. You're hearing it in your head, but what's coming out is not that you can see the confusion on people's faces. It's real serious. Like it's I I'm not taking it lightly. You know, I'm in the early stages, and I've already, I, with some of my biohacks, I have I feel like I've slowed it down to almost zero and maybe even making it going go in the other direction, going going backwards, which is really great. But yeah, as Dale Bredison said, you know, that famous doctor from UCLA said, you have 52 holes in your roof, right? When you have neurological issues, it's not just one thing. It's not one thing that's gonna fix it. You have to do everything, and you have to do it in conjunction. And it's the good news is it's synergistic. So that's why it's so important to do all the different, all of these different protocols. Anything you can do.

Dr. Ayla Wolf 12:53

And I think that is a really good analogy for people because in our kind of Western model, people are used to, I have one issue, I get prescribed one medication, or like, you know, people are used to this kind of like one-to-one ratio of things. And so we really, when it comes to the brain, it's the most complex part of our body. And yes, if you've got 50 holes in your roof and you only patch up five of them, you're you still have a leaky roof. And so I think for some people, obviously, when you have a brain injury, it becomes overwhelming to have to go after the 50 different holes and figure that out. And many people are trying to cobble together their own treatment plan based on going to what sometimes feels like 50 different doctors to try to get each of those pieces of the puzzle. And it can be so confusing for people to just navigate all of that with a brain injury.

Jordan Jay Adams 13:47

I know. I know that's the biggest irony is the time where you're most gonna need your brain is the time when your brain is failing you. And it's that's that's the irony. And I had that revelation when I was first diagnosed. I said, I realized, whoa, my brain is failing, and I don't know anything about my brain. I realized, oh, it's the irony is it's gonna be my brain that saves my brain. It's coming to its own rescue, right? And you gotta do the things, but you gotta give it everything it needs, and it does respond. That's the good news. I have like five or six biohacks that have really moved the needle for me. I have lots of stuff I did that I never noticed any difference. And whenever there was a non-noticing, because time is so important, and because you only have so much time to implement these. I mean, you have to work and you raise a family, and like you only have so much time to implement these protocols. So time is of the essence. So when I have a protocol that doesn't do anything for me, I drop it real fast and keep I keep narrowing down. Okay, if this works, that gets put into the rotation, and it's all daily rotation. If this works, it gets put in, and I'll figure out a way to do it to do it all. But I have to get up so early because I have so many different things I have to get done before I start working, you know? Yeah, yeah. It's worth

Jordan’s Accidents And Risk Factors

Jordan Jay Adams 15:06

it though.

Dr. Ayla Wolf 15:07

Well, tell me a little bit about your past and how you got your concussions.

Jordan Jay Adams 15:13

Yeah, so it, you know, it's funny being in the fight space. I was a martial artist, and you would think, okay, well, he was a martial artist. That's where he got his brain stuffed, but no, it it was a just a series of unfortunate accidents and coincidences. I had a motorcycle accident. Uh thank God I had a helmet on, but I still got banged around. I had a pool diving accident where I dove into a shallow pool. Um, and but I am not complaining about picking up a concussion on that one when you think of what uh could have happened diving into a shallow pool. So I was never saying, Oh, I can't believe it. Oh, this is so unfair. I'm like, no, no, no, no, this is fair. I'll take the concussion. Um so that pool one was really bad. That put me in the hospital for almost three weeks. I I was in chronic pain. Really, I I really damaged my my brain. I I was in really bad pain. I after I had that the pool diving accident, I was underwater, unconscious. And then when I came to, I started swimming toward the deep end, thinking I was going thinking I was going up, but I was going down. And I couldn't figure out why. I was going so fast. Why am I not getting to the surface? Why am I not getting to the surface? I was so disoriented. And when I finally figured it out, I was already out of air when I figured it out, but somehow I made it to the top. So that was that was an act, that accident. Then I was in artillery in the military, so lots allowed. Back when I was in, we didn't even wear hearing protection. And I'm probably gonna get yelled at by my drill sergeant for confessing that one, but we didn't in the 70s and 80s, we didn't wear hearing protection. So that I'm sure that that was, you know, the headaches I got from that and the ear-ringing and all that, I'm sure that wasn't good. So I think what it was, Dr. Ayla, it was a perfect storm. So lots of concussions. Um the military didn't didn't help, clearly. Um, and then also hereditary. Uh, my mom died of Alzheimer's. So I don't know if I have the ApoE4. I haven't not wanted to know that. I don't know if I do have that or not. Um, but there's you know lots of things in the brain fog space that make me not need to know that. Just I'm just acting as if, right? And I'm just acting as if and doing every possible thing I can do to slow slow it down into hopefully go the other direction. And I feel from what I've been reading and studying in the last two years, it is absolutely entirely possible to go the other direction. To to heal and and I guess through angiogenesis or BDNF, making more brain tissue. Neurogenesis, thank you. Neurogenesis. And and I don't know what that uh to give us the uh the definition of that, but as I understand it, it's great growing new brain tissue, more oxygen, more blood. But I love the growing new brain tissue. That sounds very promising to me.

Dr. Ayla Wolf 18:13

Yeah, I think that was such an important discovery because back in the day they used to think you just you have your brain cells and and that's it, and use it or lose it, and you can't teach an old dog new tricks, and then we learn that that's all wrong, and that there are very specific parts of the brain that can actually generate new neurons that can then migrate to other parts of the brain and become new nerve cells. And uh that part of the brain is with us until the day we die. So the ability to regenerate our brain, it is a you know a fact. We can do that.

Jordan Jay Adams 18:48

Wow. Well, I know you have questions you want to get to, but boy, I would love to know more about that. If there's anything you want to let us know about how we do that nutritionally or sleep-wise, or cold plunge-wise, or I don't know if some of the things I'm doing now are helping that, but you tell me what I need to do in order to make more brain cells and neurons, and that I think that's that's the big one that I would like

Building Neuroplasticity With Training

Jordan Jay Adams 19:16

to know about.

Dr. Ayla Wolf 19:17

Well, I think you're probably already doing the things because a lot of a lot of the things that move the needle the most are the things that require our participation, like exercise, for example. And I know that's something that you are super into, but there's um a lot of research on how important both weightlifting, strength building, squats, uh, things like that help to promote the BDNF that helps with neuroplasticity. And so I think you're probably already doing a lot of the things that help to keep the brain healthy. Totally.

Jordan Jay Adams 19:54

And I think I I think I talked your ear off one time on the phone when we were just meeting each other. I had just finished a workout. And there's something like you were bumped up, yeah. My gosh, I apologize. There's something about a heavy, like a heavy lift that that gets rid of all of my symptoms and brings real focus. I'm really articulate and I have a lot of all kinds of energy. It's just magic. It does so many good things, like heavy weights do do so many good things. It's it's shocking how amazing it is. It's so medicinal.

Dr. Ayla Wolf 20:32

Well, tell me about what is what is your diet like, what is your exercise routine like, what are the daily things that you're doing to protect your brain? Because you say that you actually feel like your brain health has improved rather than declining. It's actually gone the other direction.

Jordan Jay Adams 20:48

Yeah,

Biohacks That Moved The Needle

Jordan Jay Adams 20:49

yeah, it has. There's three or four protocols that were the big, big, big needle movers for me. Oh, uh, one is probably going to be the transcranial photobiomodulation. Um, and just the fact that I can say that and they can say it that quickly is already an indication that the brain is coming around. Maybe that's why they named it like that. They wanted to make it a test so you could see if you're getting good results. Anyway, I you know, I use the V Lite uh NeuroPro 2, and um that is you look like the Borg from Star Trek Next Generation. I remember the Borg, we will assimilate you. You look like the Borg when it's on, but you're doing it in the privacy of your own house. So it doesn't hurt at all. It's red therapy that they've proven goes through the skull. They've they've done this with cadavers and you know, mimicked brain tissue inside the skull in the cadaver, and it gets to it like very comprehensively. Um and you know, the most important thing, and I I took some notes. The most important thing on the transcranial is noticing the difference. Okay. So um, and I did this for Dr. Reza, who was their one of their scientific guys over there. It took me four hours to set it up, and the fact that I was able to concentrate for those four hours to set it up after just using it two times with Dr. Reza, that told me a lot right there. I got off social media. I realized that social media, I was actually addicted to the indignation that I was feeling when I was looking at the situation in my country. And that became like an angry adrenaline that just like any other adrenaline or dopamine or serotonin I was getting addicted to, I'm off social media. I thought of making a list of things that needed to get done. I hadn't made a list in a long time. Um, this is all in the first two weeks. My handwriting was getting faster and neater. And this one is a little crude, but we're talking about medicine here and we're all adults. So I can say this because I know that this is actually important and you might be able to speak to it. For the first time in 10 years, when I went to the bathroom, I could smell the results of the bathroom, my bathroom, which I hadn't smelled in 10 years. So I know that there's something about smelling and you know the in the brain. Um and then recently I picked up my guitar again. I'm playing guitar again, and I hadn't gone near my guitar since my diagnosis. So um these are all things that if I wasn't taking notes, I might not notice. I might just think, oh yeah, I play guitar, I've always played guitar. Uh oh yeah, I can smell again, I've always been able to smell. Oh yeah, my handwriting's fast. Like, unless you take the note when it comes to you, when you're doing it, like, oh my god, I haven't played guitar in ten years, and here I am playing chords again. I'm really glad I'm taking the notes because I'm seeing what the red is doing. So that's that's V Light. They've been absolutely that's been magic for me. The other one that's been magic is fasting. So I was listening to a podcast by a great guy, Tom DeLauer, and he was talking about intermittent fasting. And I was an early adopter of the intermittent fasting. And I remember walking, I can tell you exactly like it was yesterday, I was walking to Target. I was in the parking lot walking it, and my hips were like sacheting almost like in a feminine way, and I don't walk in a feminine way. It was just like strange to me. I'm like, why are my hips like doing this? And I realized they were opening up. My hips were opening up. And I've always had sciatica for like 20 years. I've had bad sciatica. So I did, I researched why I didn't have the sciatica anymore. Why, like I pain, that pain was gone. And it has to do with inflammation. So not eating seemed to have prevented my body from inflaming. And whenever it's so scientific, it works so 100% of the time that if I'm taking a test or if I'm doing a show that I really need to be up for, if I'm producing a show or if I'm going to go do a fight on the road, I just won't even eat. Sometimes if it's just a weekend show, I just go and I'm like, okay, it's a three-day fast. Because the risks of eating in brain fog, which that's when I get my brain fog is after I eat. I'm pretty sure I have leaky gut as well. When I I can't, like if it's a live television show, like if I'm doing a big fight and it's on one of the big television networks, I can't have brain fog. So I just don't eat. And it's amazing how well it works. It's amazing. And of course, I studied all about you know the autophagy and the mitophagy and and why not eating works so well, letting the body give it a chance to clean itself up. Um that was that's protocol two that has moved the needle. These are all things that are cold plunging is my other big needle mover. Uh as there's four needle movers, the cold plunge, and then the fourth needle mover is methylene blue. Methylene blue. And the joke on that one, and guys will probably relate to this. So I have a 15-year-old son, okay? And he's gonna love me sharing this story. His P stream, his urine stream, might as well be a laser. Might as well be a nuclear-guided laser. It's like, what? Like it's like it, you could hear the water.

Dr. Ayla Wolf 26:31

Electric blue one?

Jordan Jay Adams 26:33

Yeah, like yeah, yeah. You can hear the water from like on the other side of the house. It's his stream is so strong. And like if we're at a game or something, and for you know, he's at the urinal next to me, he finishes way before me. Right. And I was so envious, you know, of his stream, because I know that's a real sign of health. But the methylene blue made me competitive again. Now you pee blue, you pee blue, but the stream gets really strong. And I I researched why, and it's because it's a virus cleaner, it's a fungus cleaner, it's a yeast cleaner, bacteria cleaner, it's like a real antiseptic in the ureter in the urethra, in the bladder, uh, so all for guys, uh prostate, all that, everything, all the plumbing. It's like cleans it all out. It's wonderful. So the methylene blue, uh, but those are my big four that come to mind that have moved the needle. And there's probably 20 that were junk, absolute, you know, slop, nothing, just money makers, people trying to sell, sell you something online, you know.

Detox, Kidneys, And Sweating

Dr. Ayla Wolf 27:48

Well, from a Chinese medicine background, we, you know, this this medicine is so old, and this was before there were any lab tests or scans, right? And so you would ask a ton of questions. And in Chinese medicine, they talk about the kidneys, uh, and obviously the adrenals sit on top of the kidneys. So in Chinese medicine, we talk about kind of the kidney function. They would include all the functions of the adrenals as well. But as like a standard intake for anybody, if you're a Chinese medicine practitioner, you are asking all kinds of questions about how powerful is your urine stream? Does your urine dribble? Do you have difficulty beginning? Like we would ask all of these detailed questions because the kidneys are our filters and they're so important. And in the main mainstream medicine, they don't ever pay attention to the kidneys until they're really, really shot. And now that we live in such a toxic environment where we are constantly exposed to air pollution and microplastics, and when we have inflammation in our brain, you know, these cytokines and these chemokines, we have to flush those out. And we're often needing to flush them out through the kidneys. And so the kidneys have to be able to filter all of these inflammatory molecules. And especially when I had people that were very sick with COVID and we were trying to get all this inflammation out of their body, if I didn't also support their kidneys, their kidneys would get so overburdened that people were actually getting kidney infections with COVID because their kidneys were overburdened by the amount of inflammatory molecules that were circulating and they were trying to flush them out. And if those filters were essentially getting mucked up and couldn't handle the load of inflammatory chemicals, then their kidneys would get infected. And so I had to, I had to continuously explain to people why I had to put them on kidney support while we were trying to flush all the inflammation out. And when you paired those together, the results were so much better.

Jordan Jay Adams 30:02

Wow. Yeah, you know, I think that's something that we in the West don't have a good grasp of yet. We get you hear about it now. I think it's it's in the it's in the zeitgeist, it's in the consciousness, but we don't have a good sense of it, the whole detox thing. Um, you know, because there's a bunch of shysters in that space, too. And so it's it's uh you have to find the good, you have to find the ones that are legit, you know, find uh, you know, like saunas, right? They they've done the studies on the saunas, and I don't I can't remember who it was, but it was a real reputable MD, had gone through some stats that they'd compiled. I believe it was Finland, their big sauna country. And they were they've done it that you know you've you're increasing your chances of making it to 90 by like 50% when you do the sauna. Like there's it's some crazy statistic. Um it just fixes it fixes a lot of things. There's that's the hormetic stressors, right? Isn't that kind of what we're talking about here? Hormetic stressors.

Dr. Ayla Wolf 31:10

For sure. And for some people, when they get concussions, they can have certain amounts of autonomic dysregulation that actually affect sweating. And so all of a sudden, you know, you might have people that don't have normal sweating behavior, and our skin is our largest organ. It's one of the main major detoxification organs of the body. So if we're not sweating and we're not releasing toxins through the skin, that's a real problem.

Jordan Jay Adams 31:38

Right. Right. Yeah, it just feels good. It just feels good. Well, I'm trying to think if there's any other um hacks that are in the move the needle space. And that would

Glucose Walks And Part Two Tease

Jordan Jay Adams 31:54

be working out. I'm doing my oh, my other big one now is after I eat. I tried doing the vinegar before you eat, and I I guess can't do that one. But I do the walk. I can't do the vinegar, but I can do the walk after I eat, right? Get the glucose out of the blood and dump it into the muscle. And like you were talking about the big muscle groups, the gluten, the quads, big glucose sponges. Pull that glucose right out of that blood. And so that's that's really double hacked there. I'm doing real heavy squats now. Um, and then walking out in the salmon, Florida, so I get I can get my infrared and get my D and all my walking barefoot too. Uh shout out to Gary Brecka for that one. Walking barefoot, you know, for the grounding and for the magnetic benefits. So what would you do? I gotta ask you a question, I can't help it. Um, what would you what what's your protocol, Doctor?

Dr. Ayla Wolf 32:58

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