Toxins are found almost everywhere: in the food that we eat, in the water that we drink, and in the most common household items we use every single day. To avoid toxic buildup and maintain a healthy body, you must know how to detoxify your system the right way. Zach Gurick chats with Life Enthusiast Dr. Martin Pytela about how toxins damage your body, how food affects your metabolism and genetics, and the small daily changes you can make to achieve real and lasting transformation. They also discuss how superfoods can elevate your diet, the right way to purify water resources, and the experiments you can try to determine your metabolic typing.
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Detoxify Your Body The Right Way With Expert Dr. Martin Pytela
I’m joined by someone with a truly powerful story and an even more powerful mission. Dr. Martin Pytela is the Founder of Life Enthusiast, a company focused on restoring health naturally by getting to the root causes of illness and not just treating symptoms. After facing his own serious health challenges, Dr. Pytela became a leading voice in detox, metabolic healing, and something you may not have heard of, which is vibrational medicine.
In this conversation, we will talk about how toxins impact your energy and aging. We’ll talk a little bit about enzymes and their help with cellular repair, and how small changes to your daily routine can lead to real, lasting transformation. If you’re feeling stuck, tired, or curious about how you can feel better as you age, then this episode is packed with wisdom you can use right away. Let’s get into it with my conversation with Dr. Martin Pytela of the Life Enthusiast.
Dr. Pytela, thank you so much for being with us. After learning about you, I’ve been looking forward to this conversation. I’m excited to learn from you myself, and also for our audience to learn from you. You bring a huge wealth of knowledge and expertise to the subjects that you’re an expert in, so I’m excited to have this conversation. Thanks for taking the time.
I would love to do that. I love educating people. I’m more like an engineer because I’m educated in computer science and business administration. I’m doing health, not because I went to university, but because I had to do it myself first.
Introducing Life Enthusiast Dr. Martin Pytela
You’ve had an interesting journey. I’m curious. You call yourself a metabolic typing advisor or a health engineer. You had your own reasons for getting into this. Maybe you could start off by sharing a little bit about your own journey. What led you to dive into this field?
I grew up believing in science, professionalism, and all of that. My dad was a veterinarian. I had many conversations with him about vaccinations, the Robert Koch principles, and stuff like that. They’re called postulates. When I landed after I escaped from the communist paradise called Czechoslovakia, I was a 24-year-old when I left, and the first thing that I attained was a job with health insurance.
I went to a dentist for a checkup, and they said, “Do you have health insurance?” I said, “Yes,” so enthusiastically. I didn’t understand. I grew up in a system with different values and different organizations. I didn’t know that in declaring that I had insurance, they understood that I couldn’t care less what things cost. It’s exactly what they did. They sold me a whole bunch of stuff I didn’t need.
I came back with an estimate for twelve fillings. They said, “Do you want the white ones or the silver ones?” To which I said, “Is there a difference?” They said, “The silver ones will last twice as long, and the white ones cost extra.” I thought, “I’m not vain. I don’t care what the fillings look like at the back of my mouth.” I went for the silver ones, but they neglected to tell me that it’s a silver mercury amalgam. Mercury comes to the office in a hazardous material container. It’s the most toxic thing you can put in the human body.
That’s what led to your mercury poisoning.
Hence, my health. I was a strapping, strong 25-year-old lad, and I was miserable 4 or 5 years later. It was a bad kind of miserable. I had carpal tunnel, plantar fasciitis, my back going to hell, periodontal disease, and allergies. You name it. I was falling apart because of the toxic burden.
It was the filling. It wasn’t overeating fish. It was silver mercury amalgam fillings, twelve of them. What did you do? How did you escape that, or how did you learn about that, first of all, and then escape it?
For the first ten years, I was puzzling. I kept going to professionals. I went to multiple orthopedic surgeons, chiropractors, and naturopaths. They were all chasing symptoms. They would say, “Your back is out. Let me adjust it.” The naturopath said, “You have an allergy. Let me test for what you are allergic to, and let’s have you not eat that.” I was trained as a business analyst. In business, you always ask, “Can we measure this? What is the cause of it?” That’s not what I was getting.
Finally, after years of first believing, trusting, doubting, and then being quite upset, I decided to take things into my own hands, which was to go into the library and start reading. That was 1986 to 1989, thereabouts. That was before the Internet. I read a lot of books and studies, and I eventually figured it out. A) The medical world doesn’t practice root cause analysis. They only mess around with symptoms. B) They don’t understand physiology, even though they profess to study it. C) I did a hair trace mineral analysis. There it was, toxic in mercury. I was wondering, “Where did that come from?”
Somehow, I read a book, and it’s the mercury silver amalgam. The light comes on and I say, “Now I understand.” That’s the story. Ten years later, I understood what made me sick. I understood how to get out of it, but it took another ten years to dig out. First, the back pain got resolved, and then the allergies went away. I’m now stronger than I was at 29.
You’re 73?
Yeah, just about.
You had the fillings removed, I’m assuming.
At some point, but at first, I was using zeolite. It’s a mineral that’s good at binding electropositive things. It’s a binder that gets these toxic things out of your body. It binds all kinds of things, not just heavy metals like lead, mercury, and cadmium. It’ll also bind volatile organic compounds and PFOAs. They’re known as the forever chemicals. Those can be taken out of the human body, but you don’t get that advice in the mainstream system. Not at all.
What’s the binding agent?
Zeolite.
That’s something that anyone can take and find?
Yeah. It’s readily available, except not by prescription from a doctor.
I hear a lot about the PFAS, the forever chemicals, and how they’re in your body because we eat processed foods and things that are in aluminum bags. We can remove that.
They’re nasty. They cause a horrendous amount of trouble. I don’t know how science-y you want to get, but this thing called C8, which is the precursor for making Teflon, looks exactly like an essential fatty acid with eight carbons, but instead of hydrogen, it has fluorine in that molecule. It’s nasty because to the body, it looks natural, but then once it’s in, it replaces and causes trouble.
I did have a few years of organic chemistry in my college days, but it’s been a while since I’ve been drawing the molecules, shapes, and things like that. I still understand the basics, so that’s interesting. Since it looks like the C8 chemical structure, it gets absorbed into our bodies.
MCT or Medium Chain Triglycerides that you get out of coconut will have either eight, ten, or twelve carbons strung together. The C8 is the precursor molecule that they use in manufacturing and the polymerization of making Teflon. Teflon itself is a long string, but the precursor, that’s the stuff that you’ll find in the environment. I hope there will be many lawsuits that will cause the chemical producers a lot of pain because they have passed it to us.
You were able to detox your own system through understanding what was going on and then using zeolite.
Also, many other things. It’s not one thing.
Most Common Toxins You Can Detoxify
What are some of the most common toxins that you see causing issues in many people? How can we safely detoxify over time?
They come in the air, the water, the food, the cosmetics that you put on your skin, the furnishings, and your clothing. Fumigation is an issue. When you import stuff in cardboard boxes from tropical countries, they fumigate all that. Those are all things that are the vectors that arrive in your body. It could be lead in the water pipe. It could be mercury in the fillings, or I don’t know what other pathways.
Fish is a classic because mercury gets pushed from the factories into the rivers and the oceans. That’s where the shrimp will eat it. The small fish that eat the shrimp will get eaten by the larger fish, which will get eaten by the big fish. You finally arrive at the top of the food chain in tuna, which is the most favorite fish meat. There you are. The most mercury-toxic fish is tuna because it concentrates mercury.
It bioaccumulates over time. Living in this modern, industrialized world with these toxins that are coming at us through air, food, water, fumigation, cardboard, and all these things, even our food, what do we do about it?
You need to think, “What’s already in me should come out, so I will need cleaner air. I need to surround myself with plants, air filters, and better water. I need to be filtering the water. I need to be possibly structuring the water, too,” to get it the energetic print that you would get in a creek, which you don’t get in a pipe.
People don’t think much of it. For example, the linear pipes create linear friction, one molecule rubbing against the other, which builds up this static charge in water. Water is a polar molecule. It will bind to one another. Hydration at the cellular level goes only with water molecules that are not attached to one another. The higher the charge, the fewer the molecules that will hydrate. You may be irrigating yourself with lots of water, but if you’re not drinking water that’s loose or discharged, then you will possibly suffer cellular dehydration regardless of how much you drink.
Before we started recording here, you were drinking water with a structuring device in it. Can you tell us about that?
Here’s an example of it. There’s a crystal ceramic thingy in here that when you contact that with water, it will prick these little clusters of water molecules and discharge them so that you will have a greater percentage of the discharged unattached water molecules available, so you hydrate better.
You said those are $20 to buy?
Yeah. This is a fairly inexpensive thing. We sell it in packs of four, six, or eight to people who want to put them in their water bottles. It works well.
Does it have to be in a glass water bottle, or can it be in any water bottle?
It can be in any, but here goes the story of plastic. Phthalates and BPA are hormonal disruptors. Why would you want to put that in your body?
We’re disrupting our hormones by drinking out of a plastic water bottle. How about a metal water bottle?
That’s better. Metal is fine. Glass is fine. Plastic, not so much.
What are these little ceramic devices called on your website, then?
We call it the Crystal Pearl. We represent about 60 different manufacturers at the Life Enthusiast website. Over the years, it has evolved to us representing small companies, the ones that are focusing on outcomes and quality rather than on bottom line and mass scale production. This is an interesting thing in health. The greater the scale of production, the greater the focus on the bottom line, but the lower the quality of the produce itself.
If you raise a chicken on a small farm that’s picking grass and eating bugs, it’s going to be a much different animal compared to the one that has been force-fed in a caged barn, living on antibiotic-loaded food. It’s a different quality. You extrapolate that through everything, whether it’s the meat you eat, the grains that you purchase, or whatever.
For example, it has become popular to use glyphosate on wheat because it makes the wheat nice and uniform, ready to harvest. The yield is up. The farmer is happy because the cost of spraying the glyphosate is gained back in the quality of the wheat, if you’re only measuring the quality by the size of the kernels and how many bushels of wheat per acre you’re getting out. What about health?
The Process Of Genetics And Food Inputs
More poisoning the people with glyphosate. You look at genetics and then food inputs. Can you tell us a little bit about how that process works? If someone comes to Life Enthusiast or you start working with someone, what’s the process?
This process started many years ago. One of the more popular people in that field was Weston A. Price in the 1930s, who went around the world. He visited twelve different locations, and he found that. As long as the person ate their aboriginal diet, they were healthy, without degradation in their genetics, without cavities, and all kinds of health. When they switched to the industrial diet, that’s where problems started. He went to Switzerland and evaluated the Swiss people, and then he went to Tonga, the Maasai, and whatever. There are twelve different locations. He described all of them. That was the first hint.
The other hint was that people get either alkaline or acidic in response to the mix of foods on their plates. The macronutrients are what control it. That would be carbohydrate, fat, and protein. For some people, carbohydrates are alkalizing and fats are acidifying, but for other people, it’s the other way around. You could be left-handed and right-handed. You could be what we call an autonomic and an oxidizer. The oxidizer gets alkalized by fats, and the autonomic by carbs.
The reason it matters is this. As you drift toward alkalinity, you first procrastinate, get over emotional, despondent, and then finally depressed. It’s dark, like the unwilling-to-get-out-of-bed kind of dark. Drifting to acidity starts with, first, excitement, but then overstimulation, impatience, loss of social graces, interrupting people, cutting in, and road rage. If it’s externally expressed, then it would be anger and rage. If it’s internally expressed, then it is self-recrimination, anxiety, catastrophizing your future, or reliving your past with regrets.
Interestingly, I found out that 75% of prescriptions that are filled are for mood change products. It’s like, “I either want to be less depressed or less anxious.” It is 75%, says the pharmacist, which is huge. What we don’t know is that it’s largely controllable to a good degree through what you put on your plate. If you’re an autonomic and you’re feeling nervous, you’re probably overloading yourself on fats. If you’re the oxidizer and you’re nervous, you’re probably overloading yourself on carbs. You need to figure out which you are, and then adjust your diet such that you can get your moods into the sweet spot rather than being anxious or depressed.
Determining Your Metabolic Typing
Break that down for us. How can we determine if we’re autonomic or oxidizer? Is there a test we can do, or is it watching what we eat and seeing how our mood is?
Experimental is probably the most reliable. Give yourself a carb test, like a push. Pick something. It could be a bowl of oatmeal with a banana on top. Carb with carb, and then we’ll observe how that affects you. If it calms you down or puts you to sleep, you’re the person who’s alkalized by starch. If it, on the other hand, makes you anxious, nervous, and argumentative, then you’re the oxidizer.
I thought of an experiment. Go to a cocktail party, somewhere where they serve carb-y snacks and alcohol, and watch. Alcohol is a carb. As you serve the first drink, the autonomics are becoming a little looser, more jovial. On the second drink, they will be oversharing. On the third drink, they might be crying about something. On the fourth drink, they’ll be falling asleep. The oxidizers are behaving differently. First, they get louder, and then they get more ornery and more argumentative, and then they pick a fight.
It’s like the happy drunks versus the fighting drunks.
It could be verbal and could be physical. What’s interesting about the oxidizers is that they cannot shut them down. They can’t sleep. They’re more awake. The oxidizer will go on a multi-day bender if he continues to drink. The autonomic cannot do that. He’ll fall asleep.
If we determine which of those we are, then do we cut those foods out altogether?
No. It’s the balance. It’s the goalposts. Genetically, some people are in the middle. They will always combine some of each. You will have a potato, which is a carb, with some butter, sour cream, and bacon bits on top. That’s the fat, fat, and protein. That will neutralize one another. Some people need to push the goalpost in this direction and others in that direction. If you’re out of balance, you’re not doing it right. We have some people who will have a manic morning and a depressed afternoon because of what they had for breakfast and lunch.
That’s coming through our genes, right?
Yes. It’s genetically predetermined.
It is getting that root cause analysis of understanding our genetic makeup and what affects us.
It’s similar to being left-handed or right-handed. There’s some kind of genetic predisposition to it. You will be either an oxidizer or an autonomic. Take a pick. You’ll be one or the other.
That sounds like an interesting experience for us all to try out on ourselves.
Once you know, you know. Some people will say, “I like to take a glass of wine after dinner. It calms me down.” Good for you. Enjoy. For others, that’s a complete opposite effect. If they have a glass of wine after dinner, they’ll never get a decent sleep. You have people who are insomniacs. They can’t go to sleep. Part of it could be the food that they bring to dinner or after dinner into their body.
We see that a lot. Does that change with our age a little bit as well, our ability to process?
It’s somewhat changeable, but usually not. You always watch your responses to it. If you had steak and salad with olive oil, that’s fat, protein, and very few carbs, and it affected you in one way, let’s say it alkalized you, then you know.
Exploring The Benefits Of Superfoods
We can maybe shift gears. I’d love to hear a little bit about your superfood and some of the work that you’ve done around that.
We also own a business called Exsula, where we manufacture superfood blends. What we do is we try to combat the nutrient density deficit that is the result of the industrial food processing methods. We have become so efficient. As you scale the manufacturing, they put NPK, which is Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium, on the field, and then they grow stuff quickly. These are large amounts of food for inexpensive prices, but unfortunately, it’s also very low in nutrient density. We need to compensate for that somehow.
In this superfood manufacturing, what we do is we go around looking for high-density foods, high pigment, and chlorophyll. These would be things like algae, chlorella, spirulina, barley, grass, seeds, and all kinds of things. We mix it, process it, and turn it into superfood blends that you can add a spoonful or two into a drink with water, juice, or smoothie. That alone will be enough to compensate for the gap that’s left in regular groceries between what you should have and what you are getting.
We can supplement and make sure we’re getting all the nutrients that we need.
It’s pretty much impossible to get the nutrient density that you require by buying foods that are in grocery stores or fast food restaurants. It’s not there.
I’m curious. Tell us about some of the outcomes that you’ve seen and some of the people that you’ve connected with or that have used your products.
It started with me. It was my first experiment. In general, what happens is that as you progress. It seems that because of the rising toxicity levels, even the younger people are getting unwell. Let me describe it this way. It’s as if you were raising the level of toxicity in your body, and your capacity is somewhere to here. If I were standing in rising water and it’s up to here, I’m still breathing. Up to here, I’m no longer talking. I’m blowing bubbles. If it’s over my nose, I have to hop up to take every breath. If it’s higher than I can hop up, I’m drowning. That’s the general progression of things.
When you are raising the level of toxicity, similar to what we call the last straw that breaks the camel’s back, at some point, you will end up taking a thing that’s going to be enough of a stressor on the body that will break it. The breaking is a crisis of some sort. You’re going to come up with a diagnosis. It will come back with insomnia, high blood pressure, pre-diabetes, diabetes, cancer, or any one of these miserable things like arthritis, fibromyalgia, and chronic pain. It’s the breakdown of the metabolic functioning of the body. You would think that it’s aging.
The symptoms that I was experiencing in my 20s, if I were 65, I would be thinking, “I’m getting old,” but no. I was getting toxic. The question is, “What if I could maintain myself non-toxic well into my late life metabolically well?” That’s exactly what I’m doing. Here is a practical story. A professional woman in the financial field, an accountant or CPA, calls me up and she says, “My mom died of lupus, and I am sick with what they’re calling rheumatoid arthritis.” Rheumatoid arthritis is a nasty thing. Your joints start twisting, and there is disfiguration.
Autoimmune, right?
It’s an autoimmune label. We did her test, and she came out as one of the hunter types. She was supposed to be eating high protein and vegetables with lots of fat. She was trying to be a vegetarian on a macrobiotic diet. She emptied her cupboards and her fridge, gave them all away, and bought all new stuff. Things started to change.
She called me on the third month and said, “I didn’t want to say this, but I am again able to wear normal shoes. I was already having to wear running shoes because the toes on my feet were so distorted.” There were positive changes, less pain, and less inflammation. You have all these different symptoms that are breaking you down.
In the emotional world, it’s the dysregulation of mental equilibrium. In the physical, it’s going to be a variety of problems. We all break down in different ways. One of us will have heart disease or high blood pressure. Another person will end up with something like PCOS, which is a Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. Interestingly, that leads to terrible menstruation, lots of pain, inability to conceive, and inability to carry to term. More women or couples are having trouble conceiving and carrying to term. It’s inflammatory that’s blocking it.
That could be healed based on the foods that they’re eating and the toxins that are building up in their systems.
The goal here is to stop the inflammation. That stands on four pillars. One is toxicity, stuff that should not be in your world. Another is malnutrition. That’s stuff that you should be getting but aren’t. There’s stagnation, which is a lack of movement, lack of circulation, or lifestyle. The relentless pursuit of comfort is one of the biggest causes of health decline. Thank you, Gary Brecka, for coining that line. Trauma would be the fourth one. That would be emotional. We pick up all kinds of stuff, like PTSD-type reactions to life as we have it. Life used to be a lot less stimulating, exciting, and overwhelming when all you could get was one newspaper once a week.
There was a lot less to cause those.
The Wi-Fi is not helping either. That’s something we don’t talk about enough. There’s this thing called a voltage-gated calcium channel, which is when a certain frequency, typically the 4G and 5G frequencies, are in your environment, the cells react by triggering the release of calcium. The calcium is the signaling molecule for activation of the autonomic nervous system, fight or flight. That’s towards the anxiety. If you find yourself unsettled, not able to calm, not able to sleep, or whatever, you may have a problem with the Wi-Fi triggering you into being overstimulated.
You can use things like an EMF blocker, right?
Yeah. You can use one of the gadgets that will send a signal that will remind your body to stay calm and not react to this terrible signal. It’s available out there, but you need to become aware and you need to do something about it.
How To Navigate A World Full Of Toxins
We have this toxic buildup. Sometimes, it feels a bit overwhelming. We live in a world where we have Wi-Fi all around us. Even the organic food that we get is still sprayed with mosquito spray and gets chemicals on it, and it needs to be cleaned. There are toxins everywhere. There are toxins in bedsheets, clothes, water, and food. It seems a bit overwhelming. How do we live in this world and avoid these things? You seem to have answers to it, and there are things that we can do. How do we test those levels, first of all? What are the actual procedures, practices, or things that we can do to change that, and then can we retest?
It’s a tough thing because it’s the opposite of the conveniences that we are getting here in society. I talked about how wonderful it is to have a phone and be able to use the Wi-Fi to do stuff. Protect yourself. It’s wonderful to buy fast food, but I’m assuring you that it’s nutrient-deficient and somewhat toxic. You have a choice to be made.
Here’s an interesting point. Every journey starts with the first step. What is the first step? Pick any one. Drink better water. Filter your water, remove the toxins, and then structure the water. Get more plants for your house, or get an air filter. They clean up the air. Start buying food that’s less toxic, or at minimum, start buying the supplement, the superfood, that will give you the missing pieces.
We are so good at producing high-calorie and low-nutrient-density food, which causes you to want more and end up with more calories than you need. You’re overconsuming calories or underconsuming nutrients. You need to find a way to fix the delta or fix the gap. There’s this false narrative about a one-a-day vitamin supplement. That is not nothing, but unfortunately, it’s too far reduced. Once you compress it into a single capsule or a single tablet, you have taken too much of the required things out. You’re giving yourself a bit of false comfort or false security. It’s not good enough.
Those are simple steps. We can buy a $20 crystal pearl from your website and structure our water. Filter and then structure. We can order the superfoods or find some version of that, so we get the nutrients. We can put plants in our homes or use air filters. There are some simple things, like wearing the EMF blocker technology that blocks the Wi-Fi radiation. There are some good practical tips.
The biggest one is to figure out your metabolic dominance so that you’re not surprised by whether you’re feeling nervous or whether you’re feeling sleepy. Don’t puzzle. It’s our genetics speaking.
I’m curious. Which are you? Are you the alkalizer or oxidizer?
I would have the label called sympathetic, which has me wake up early and quite ready to go, like in gear. If I don’t eat food, I progressively become less patient to the point of being a jerk. For me, I calm down with carbs. The easiest thing is to take some fruit in the morning to settle down. I always have to have some carbs with my meal.
There’s this other thing I didn’t mention. It’s called endocrine dominance, which determines how you gain weight or lose weight. Some of us are gaining weight from fat. Some of us are gaining weight from starch. I’m the model who gains weight with starch. If I overdo the starch, I feel nice and happy, but I’m gaining too much weight. I have this narrow band of not too miserable and not too fat. Other people get luckier with their genetic choices. Some are going to be in the sweet spot and skinny using a specific diet. Mine is quite narrow.
There’s a balance.
Some people have a broad range that they could do anything and still be fine. I’m quite a fragile type, so my box is narrow.
You know exactly what to eat. Are you measuring your macronutrients throughout the day?
No. I don’t control portions. I just control what comes in
You’re taking your superfood supplements, I’m assuming.
That I do. I drink structured water and breathe clean air. I spike my food heavily with concentrated nutrients, and I exercise. I have a rebounder, and I use that a bit every day. I do calisthenic-type things, like squats, pushups, and that sort of thing, to make sure that I maintain muscle mass. I didn’t get to mention that, but one of the most important markers for being healthy later in life is your muscle mass. The more of it you hang onto and the more of it you keep, the better health outcomes you can expect in the future.
I hear that the number one marker of your longevity is your muscle mass. You’re doing calisthenics. That’s a great picture for your week or your day. How often are you exercising?
I don’t do a whole lot. It’s a 25-minute routine.
Almost every day, though?
Yeah. I do something like fifteen minutes on the rebounder. I do about 10 to 12 minutes of physical activity. It’s called Interval training. Interval training is when you push your muscles with as much resistance as you can manage to near exhaustion. You want to do something in 10 reps to the point that the 11th would be hard to do. You don’t need to break your muscles, but you want to tire out to the point where you can’t do another repetition.
Going to failure.
You breathe it out, and that’s it. It’s not a huge time demand. It wants to be pushed to the limit. I do some walking. I hear from people about constipation, and I say, “Have you walked for 30 minutes?” That’s all it takes for most people. Enough walking.
The Mission of A Life Enthusiast
Get moving a little bit. That’s fantastic. Your brand is called Life Enthusiast. What does that phrase mean to you? How can all of us become better stewards of our health and vitality? We’ve talked about a lot of that already, but what does that mean to you to be a life enthusiast?
For me, I get to enjoy my grandchildren. It’s so gratifying because I’m watching little people grow and being able to play with them. We went to the beach and I was playing soccer with the boys. Not everybody in my age group can do that. It’s that. It’s the pleasures of whatever make your world go. If it’s doing a round of golf, okay. That’s your thing. It’s whatever it is that you want to enjoy. Many people plan to go traveling, and when they get to the retirement age, they’re too tired to go do it.
They’ve missed their window. We need to increase our health span, right?
That’s the main point. The thing that I’m advocating for is that if you do the right foods, you put yourself automatically into a Blue Zone. You can have your own Blue Zone by exercising sufficiently. The four things I mentioned, stagnation, malnutrition, toxicity, plus trauma, are the biggest impediments to you enjoying your life in the future. Many times, it’s what you don’t do. Refined flour, refined sugar, refined plant seed oil, refined salt, commercialized dairy, and fried foods are things that will pile on the wrong side of the scale. What does it mean to be an enthusiast? Enjoy your lifespan together with your healthspan.
Get In Touch With Dr. Martin
It is keeping those two, healthspan and lifespan, as close as possible. It is being healthy for as long as possible and adding life to our years and years to our lives. How can someone get started with Life Enthusiast? I know you have your own podcast. I’d love for the audience to know that a little bit. What would be the first step that someone could take in learning more about your work?
People who know what they want can come to the website. It’s Life-Enthusiast.com. The products are explained, categories are outlined, and all of that. To those who would like a bit of assistance, we offer health coaching services. The first fifteen minutes are on the house. Anybody can come by, book an appointment, tell us their story, and get our feedback on that.
That’s fantastic. It’s nice that people can be anywhere in the world reading this, learn about your work, and then book a fifteen-minute call and get started. That’s fantastic. I feel like we’re just scratching the surface of some of your expertise, experiences, wisdom, and knowledge, so we’ll have to do this again. I’m excited to check out your superfood supplements and the crystal pearls. I’m immediately going to buy those as soon as we hang up here. I would love to start drinking some structured water as well. We could add some plants to our home. That’s a simple thing that is easy to do.
Clean your air. What’s interesting about them is that they are the lungs of your home. You have it fairly easy living in a tropical environment. All you have to do is go outside, pick up the plants that are naturally growing out there, and plunk them inside your house.
It’s not too hard. There are plenty of plants that can live indoors here fairly easily. This has been fantastic. Thank you so much for your time. Life-Enthusiast.com is where your website is. Your podcast can be found there as well. Thank you so much for your time. I appreciate you and all the amazing work you’re doing to transform people’s lives and help them live as healthily for as long as possible.
Thank you for having me.
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What a fascinating conversation with Dr. Pytela of the Life Enthusiast. We talked about toxicity, lack of nutrition in our foods, stagnation, and trauma. Those are four key factors that keep us from living our best lives, being fully alive, extending our health span, and matching our health span to our lifespan. Those are some of the triggers. How can we fight those things?
We talked about air purification, adding plants to our homes, and simple things like that. We can add superfoods. He even sells superfood supplements on his website that have all been curated for us and blended for us. There’s the purification and structuring of our water sources, and adding the crystal pearls. I’m going to check those out as well and have more pure, structured water that can hydrate my cells better. That’s simple. It’s $20. Those are some of the things we can try out.
We also talked about understanding how foods affect us in our metabolism and our genetics, whether we need more fats or more carbs, doing a little experimentation around that, and seeing how that affects our moods over time. I want to dive into that a little bit more. If you want more information, you can go to Life-Enthusiast.com. You can book a fifteen-minute consultation with Dr. Pytela’s team, get some health coaching, and dive into this process a little bit more as well. I hope that this episode helped you gain 1 or 2 things and insights that can make a difference for you as you continue to aim to live fully alive. Thanks so much for tuning in. We’ll see you next time.
