Autobiology with Jennifer Little-Fleck
Autobiology with Jennifer Little-Fleck
Hack Your Brain for Peak Potential -- Dr Patrick Porter & Jennifer Little-Fleck Rewire Consciousness
Dr. Patrick K. Porter—founder of BrainTap—joins Jennifer Little-Fleck for a fascinating exploration into how we can rewire the brain for success. From ancient firelight rituals to cutting-edge neurotech, this conversation bridges the gap between biology and personal transformation.
Discover how light, sound, and frequency entrainment can reduce stress, boost performance, and unlock your full cognitive potential. Dr. Porter shares surprising stories from EEG labs, explains why the best sleep happens before 10 p.m., and reveals how even non-meditators can achieve the brain profile of a guru—in minutes.
If you’ve ever wondered how to train your brain like a high performer, disrupt outdated corporate training models, or simply feel better faster—this is the episode for you.
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• Neuroplasticity, AVE, and achieving deep states of calm
• Real-world applications for corporate wellness and sales teams
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If you remember back when the tsunami hit, if you go back and watch those videos, you won't see any animals. The animals all left because that tsunami was a frequency response far greater than the ocean. There was danger there. Those animals could feel it. They left.
Speaker 2:Dr Patrick Porter, founder and CEO of BrainTap, sits down with Jennifer Littlefleck for one epic podcast episode. This is Brain Selling.
Speaker 3:Hello everyone and welcome. Today's guest is Dr Patrick Porter, who is the inventor of BrainTap, but he is so much more than that. In fact, he has been operating in that space of self-help for over 20 years and has literally become the largest self-help franchise in the world, and because of that he is highly sought after by people that would be very familiar to you. He's been mentioned on the Joe Rogan podcast and pretty much anybody who's anybody in the self-help space uses his products and knows who he is. His personal mission is to better a billion brains. Welcome to the show, patrick. Lovely to have you today.
Speaker 1:Thanks for having me, Jennifer. It's great to be here.
Speaker 3:So the purpose of today is I would like to have people who are not familiar with the fact that you can alter brainwaves to achieve different states of consciousness and well-being kind of give people an introduction to that. Um, and what you call this and what you really help develop and pioneer is audio visual brain entrainment and you've done many, many studies on. Can you explain what that is?
Speaker 1:yeah, well it's. It's natural to our body and to our biology actually to do this. So what we've done is we've taken what nature is already doing Most people wait for, like when we wake up in the morning, for instance. We get up, we have a dopamine reaction, we have cortisol, we have norepinephrine. This is all being triggered because of the frequency of the sun and getting up in the morning. And now some people synthesize that by doing coffee or something. But you can do this naturally. So our body, at different times during the day, triggered by the light of the sun, basically the frequency of the earth, everything that's going on, these are all things now that we know actually trigger something called epigenetics.
Speaker 1:But when we started, we were actually doing this to prove that we could change brainwave activity because of pain. Pain only happens in one brainwave state. It's called beta. Beta is our awakened state, and if we alter that brainwave state by doing a relaxation technique or taking our mind off it, whatever we're doing, then the pain lessens. Now what we showed was that, through flashing light, or what they call retinal flashing, certain tones and signals to the brain that we might consciously just think as randomized sounds, the brain actually organizes those because the brain is organizing every piece of information they say a teraflop of information every second. Our brain is processing, organizing and utilizing. Now, most of it it just writes off, as you know, useless information. But when a unique signal is presented, the brain is very curious. So what it does, it will follow that it will match that frequency of that signal. And this happens because every cell of our body has a mirror neuron, in it, or mirror neurons, however you want to think about that. So what that means is when.
Speaker 1:The best example I can give you is when I was at Ames, beauport, dr Varun, when we did a little study. We took a guru, we measured their brainwave activity with the EEG technology and we said here's a brain map of a guru who's meditated for over 30 years. We took somebody from the audience that had never meditated. We used light, sound and vibration with them in the form of the brain tap headset. We put that on because I looked at the profile. I said, okay, I can get this profile. So this person never meditated. We did this session. We put the EEG on them and they had almost the exact brain profile. And Dr Bruin said you're cheating. And I said what do you mean I'm cheating? He goes that guru's meditated for 30 years. Why would? And I said what do you mean I'm cheating? He goes that guru's meditated for 30 years, why would you know what's going on here? And I said well, I said technology has been used ever since the beginning of time.
Speaker 1:If you were to sit in front of a candle and meditate, which a lot of people do like, they'll take a bath, they'll light a candle. Well, that candle flickers at 10 hertz frequency. That happens to be alpha. Your brain, every cell of your body is matching the frequency of that candle, just like if you were to go out on a romantic getaway and you had started a fire. And you're on the fire and you get a little frisky because you set the mood, but it really it's because the brain and the body are matching the frequency of that fire. Now, there's two features to a fire. One is when a fire burns, it emits infrared light. Two features to a fire. One is when a fire burns, it emits infrared light. Our body absorbs infrared light. Every cell, every mitochondria, its whole job is to absorb light and transmit light. Now, if it's at a certain frequency, that cell will match that frequency, in this case the alpha.
Speaker 1:Now the problem with candles and fires is we can't change or manipulate their frequency. But when LEDs came out in the 80s, we found out that we could manipulate those frequencies. And that's what we're doing. And the sun does this every day. You know, when they say the circadian rhythm, it's really because we have a pulsing star that's transmitting information to our cells. And just to give it another little taste, so the listeners understand, if you don't get to sleep before 10 o'clock at night, between 10 and 12, you make twice as much melatonin as you do after 12. So that's why it's so important to get to bed before 10 o'clock. Now, if you don't get to bed before 11 o'clock, you don't clean your liver, because your liver gets clean between 11 and 12 and now you will try to clean it at other times.
Speaker 1:But but this is our body is biologically designed to, you know, thrive when the light's out and recover and restore when the lights are not. Because we have all this synthetic light, we're not getting that what we need. So, with light, sound and vibration now we've used drum circles through history to offset stress and nervousness. You know today what people do is they come home from work, they turn on the television, they zone out. They might pass out because they're so tired, but we used to, as a tribe, we would come to the tribal village, we'd start a fire, we'd dance, we'd do everything. When that fire burned out, we'd go to bed. We didn't change the channel and watch another fire burning. You know so what's happening now? So, so what's happening is that we're not getting the sleep that we need, and it's that amount of time that we sleep and we might be able to talk about that too.
Speaker 1:A lot of people think I sleep eight hours a day, but it's not about that. It's really about one hour of deep sleep and two hours of REM sleep. That's the minimum that we need. Because we also found now that that delta, that deep sleep they call it delta sleep that in 2015, actually, american Scientific came out with an article that talked about the glial lymphomic system. They didn't know what that was before. So if you look at the physiology books before 2015, you won't find any lymph system above the neck. Now we know anywhere there's a blood vessel. There has to be a lymph vessel. That's just the way the body's designed, but for some reason, they never considered one in the brain because it only activates. It's like a dormant system until you go to sleep. And when you hit that deep delta sleep, it opens up and you detox the brain. Because two-thirds of the world isn't sleeping, they're not detoxing their brain. So there could be a lot of brain fog, headaches, discomfort and cognitive decline because they're not detoxing the brain.
Speaker 1:There's only three reasons the brain wouldn't function at its highest function. Number one is thoughts. If you have negative thoughts, we downregulate, basically, our genetics. We've proven that 200, 2,300 or plus genetic markers are changed just by the thoughts we think. And then, number two it could be a trauma. You know you could have an accident, traumatic brain injury, something going on that's going to hurt. But the third that most people never consider is toxins. We have just in regular metabolism we have a lot of toxins. So just like the brain won't let nutrition in because of the blood and brain barrier, they got to figure out a way to trick the brain to get the nutritions into the brain. The same thing's true with getting stuff out of the brain. The body's designed to do this, the body's designed to heal, the brain's designed to heal, but we've got to put it in the right conditions to do those things.
Speaker 3:So, when you talked about going to bed and being asleep from 10 to 12 specifically, is that why, when people travel large distances and we get thrown off of the time chain, is that why jet lag is so bad, or one of the reasons potentially?
Speaker 1:Right, I like to call jet lag light lag, because the light from the sun. Just a couple of other examples. So people understand that they've all experienced this problem. At two o'clock in the afternoon, when you get hungry, your temperature drops two degrees. Every person, wherever you're at in the world, at two o'clock your temperature drops. This is a resetting of the biological clock.
Speaker 1:Now, most people, if we, these bodies were designed to live in the Serengeti. So what happens in the Serengeti? At two o'clock we go to sleep. Nobody's running around. At two o'clock in the Serengeti, you know the lions, the, everything, so. But our bodies are designed for that and they really haven't changed in the last 200,000 years. So we have the same biological system, but we put them in cities. Now we gave them you know the circadian rhythm's all off, all of these things.
Speaker 1:Now, at two o'clock at night, you might've woke up in the middle of the night sweating, because in the middle of the night, about two o'clock at night, your temperature increases two degrees. Now, if you have a dysregulated brain, either one of those ways like in the daytime, if you have a dysregulated brain, you're going to get super hungry. If you're at night and you have a dysregulated brain. You're at night and you have a dysregulated brain. You're going to get super hot. You're going to throw the covers off, you're going to start sweating. Even three degrees is going to cause this, but it's natural. Once you regulate your brain, you will sleep through the night. So the whole thing is also in that deep rhythm of sleep.
Speaker 1:A lot of people think oh, I'm getting older, I should have to get up and go to the bathroom. The reality is that that's not true at all. We have a circulating pump with our kidneys. We should be able to drink a gallon of water, go to sleep and wake up at our predetermined time in the morning without waking up. But if we come out of that sleep cycle, which is really tied to the light of the sun, so it's a light cycle. So let's say we're flying across. We did a study once with pilots who flew from San Francisco to China across seven light zones. People call them time zones. But as you fly across those light zones, what happens is the body keeps trying to reset. Now think about it. These bodies don't know the difference between real or imagined. They don't know timed. So you have take a body that's meant to 200,000 years ago. It doesn't know that we can pick up from one place seven hours later, be across the country. So it's going. What just happened to me? Now our conscious mind knows hey, I got an airplane, I flew across the country. These are things that happen, but our body doesn't know.
Speaker 1:And on a cellular level, those cells are trying to do what they're supposed to do because they're designed to work with the light of the sun. You know, I tell people that Superman wasn't the only person that got power or influence from our sun. Every cell does. And people are becoming more and more aware of the cellular activity. And the brain, in my opinion, is not just located between the ears, because we have a heart brain, we have a gut brain, but now they're finding out that every cell really has a brain. You know, it has an intelligence that has to do something. So we have this community of cells, these 75 trillion plus cells, that are all having to work together and there has to be a synchronizing principle, and that happens to be light, and so that light and the sound, the vibration.
Speaker 1:Now how vibration and sound works in this whole scenario is when you're on Earth, the Earth has a grounding effect and we are so disconnected that most people are running around with three to four volts of energy moving through their system. So if you've ever seen a sci-fi movie where energy moves through the body and it disrupts things, well, we have that going on and it shows. Sometimes we're at a trade show and we'll have a volt-ohm meter this is the way an electrician would look at a circuit and so we have people hold that and they go wow, how come I have three to four volts of electricity Go, that must be normal. I said no, well, if we're outside we'll have them take their shoes off and then there'll be zero. We should be zero point energy, not three volts, not negative volts, zero point because we create, we have PCO effect with every cell. The cells are actually pulsing and as they pulse they're producing energy. That's the energy that sustains our biological system. But if we, if we had, the more stress we're under, those cells restrict, just like blood vessels would restrict, and we're not getting the right amount of electrical activity that we need. So we're not getting the energy. That's why I tell people we live in an energy economy.
Speaker 1:Most people are dead, you know. Their energy is so low. They get home from work, they pass out in front of the TV, they get up to eat dinner, they pass out again, then they wake up and they rinse and repeat, you know, and then, before they know it, they go. Life's not really worth living anymore.
Speaker 1:No-transcript, when we're sitting on a plane for four hours, we now know statistically or through science that two hours of sitting you lose 10% of the oxygen in the brain.
Speaker 1:But we also, because we're sitting, we're losing 10% of the oxygen in the brain and so we're not able to do that. We're not utilizing the oxygen that we need. That's why I tell people, if you're flying you know every hour at least just get up, even if you don't have to go to the bathroom, just walk the plane. That little bit of walking will make a big difference when you land, because as you're walking your cells are again producing that physio effect of producing electrical energy which is rebalancing the system. And you know what I do. I actually have a talk where I show people what happens to my brain and I have a pretty high functioning brain and we measure it all the time because that's what we do in the lab, and I actually lose 60% of the energy of my brain just flying across the country. But I can get all that energy back with one 20-minute session of light, sound and vibration.
Speaker 3:Pretty phenomenal when you are resetting, though it's not just about the brainwaves and stuff. It also has a hormonal component and other things that you take a look at as well.
Speaker 1:Right. Everything in your body is like beads on a string. If you change one thing, you change many things and there's a cascade effect to all of that. So the basis of it all is energy. So your body is always trying to stay in homeostasis or balanced. And so, of course, if you're eating healthy, you're moving, you're breathing, you're positive thinking, it's easier for your body to stay in balance. So it doesn't take a lot of energy to do it.
Speaker 1:But when you start to stress out with your environment, you're like I'll use the example. Let's say you live in a mold home that's filled with mold and you don't even know it. Because what happens is the brain is really good about treating things that are maybe a threat but then saying, oh, it must not be a threat because they keep living here Like. The best example is somebody living near a paper mill. Odor has mass, so that means that when they're breathing in that paper mill smell, they're breathing in whatever that paper mill. So if you're living next to a dump or whatever, you're smelling it. But eventually what will happen is your brain will go that's they must not think it's harmful. So I'm gonna I'm just gonna whitewash that it's not, it's not really there. And then your family comes over and goes. How can you stand living here here? I smell that paper mill and you go. What do you mean? I don't even smell it. Or it also happens with people live near airports because they get the stress of the airplanes coming over and friends come over and go. How can you think, with all those airplanes flying, your brain will omit those? Because our brain has the capacity to process a lot of information, but we can't, on a conscious level, handle all of that. So it has to pick. What are we going to focus on or not focus on? And then, even though it's still recording, documenting and installing it in the subconscious, it's not recalling it for conscious memory or it's not influencing our conscious behavior, although our subconscious, which runs 95% of the biological function of the body, is still having to bear the stress of that experience. It's just an underlying stress that you know.
Speaker 1:The old thing is that you might be doing fine until that one thing breaks the camel's back right. What's the one thing? So there's a lot more to it than just this one thing, you know. That's why I say, even in brain fitness, you have to eat well, that's number one. You can't outthink a bad diet. Number two you got to move and breathe like Tai Chi, yoga, whatever, 60 up, whatever is the process you use. And then, number three, you got to do some kind of brain fitness. But you can't do one of those without the other two because they all work together. But if you were going to do one of those things, you need to really start to regulate the nervous system, because the nervous system runs the whole show.
Speaker 3:So people are starting to be concerned about this. I know a couple of years ago I was asked to create a workshop for a company that had a sales team. Then they actually asked me to put a workshop together to teach them how to maintain memory. What I thought was really interesting was they were surprised at how easy it could be to just take a few minutes a day what I like to call a brain break. And what got me was, you know, back in the day you know 60s, 70s, 80s some people used to take smoke breaks or other little things like this, and that was kind of a way for those people to have some sort of stress relief or reset themselves. And I kind of view things like brain tap as a healthy way to take a brain break to reduce some of that stress. So I'm curious have you looked at or studied people who are experiencing maybe acute stress due to something happening?
Speaker 1:Yeah, we have a really unique study that we did with Julia Arndt, who's a peak performance expert, and after COVID there was that great mass exodus out of tech companies. You know people were leaving. So she works with the 1% of the 1% the top people and they were losing them because of burnout and they didn't know they were burned out because they left the when COVID happened they went home and they were relaxed and then they would work when they wanted to and then they got back into the pressure cooker of the office and so they want to know what happened and I said, if we can get them to do 20 minutes a day around two o'clock in the afternoon, we're going to see a significant change. Well, we got a little bit of pushback because these were the overachievers.
Speaker 1:I can't just sit there and I said you're not doing nothing. When you're doing some kind of mindfulness exercise, brain tap, whatever it is, you have a lot of neurological activity. You're retraining the brain, you're sorting and organizing memories, you're becoming more efficient, you're energizing the cells. So whatever you do, you're going to do better. I said just give us a week, let's see what happens. Well, after a week nobody stopped doing it.
Speaker 1:By the end of the study we improved their dimension, basically their scores of the mood disorder. That's one of the things we studied 70% improvement of their mood disorder, which means that they were depressed. They were highly depressed. All of them would have been on SSRIs so successful that they they're the kind of person that retires and expires. You know they, they. You know that's reason only most people, when they retire, only live four to five years because they don't have any drive or motivation. So I said you've got to have that quality of life. The other was we improved their sleep 43%. Now they didn't do anything before sleep. They didn't change anything but that 20 minutes a day. That was the brain break that we told them to take. Their happiness score went up 54%. They had better quality of life all down the road like that and it was just 20 minutes a day.
Speaker 1:And what we really are telling them is you've got to fill up your cup. When you wake up in the morning, you've got this full cup of energy and then in the morning it goes down, and that's why so many times people go. There's a lot of books written about the four-hour workday because you get so much more done in the morning than you do in the afternoon. I said well, why don't you have two mornings? Because all you have to do is reboot the brain and that really has to do with your neurotransmitters.
Speaker 1:When you go through these different brainwave states. Most people don't realize that that's when your brain, your brain between your ears, instructs the brain in your gut to make those neurotransmitters. So when you're going through alpha, you're going to create acetylcholine. When you go through theta, you're going to create GABA. When you get into delta, you're going to create serotonin. But all these brainwaves are going on, by the way, all the time. It's just what is the percentage, the perfect percentage for optimum? When you're awake, the optimum percentage is 45% beta, 30% alpha. The rest can be whatever it is. But if you have those two brainwave states now, you have cognitive recall, you have creative thinking, you can problem solve, you have high energy. But as the day goes on, what we see is that beta brainwave will either increase and this will create agitation, irritability, and if the alpha goes up too high then you have disassociation, daydreaming, attention deficit disorders.
Speaker 1:So there's always got to be that balance and it's normal, just like exercising. If you've ever done heart rate variability after exercise, you'll see it went down, but four hours later it regulates to be better. So we've got to stress out the system a little bit every once in a while just to bring it back to normal. And most people don't like the idea of being uncomfortable, even though this is doing mindfulness exercises or brain tap. You know, using these technologies is comfortable, but at first they're not used to doing that because they're used to doing, doing, doing.
Speaker 1:So many people are doing, doing, doing instead of being, being, being. You know they say we're human beings, not human doings, you know. So we have to take some time to just be, settle everything down, refocus. Now we have the energy that we need. In fact, stephen Covey talked about it years ago in his book Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. He just didn't have a solution. He told the story of the people cutting down the tree and a guy comes up and says you know, if you sharpen that saw, you can cut down more trees. And he's like no, no, I'm too busy cutting down the tree. That's kind of that's the metaphor for the brain.
Speaker 3:We have to shut it down reboot it just like the old Microsoft systems. You know, when the computer ran out of memory, yes, and then it functions better. That's interesting that we have all the brainwaves all the time, but it's really an optimal mixture of all these waves. Are there specific applications that you can use to achieve different optimal states? Because obviously, if we're trying to wind down for sleep, the mixture of the brainwaves is going to be different than if we're optimizing for work performance.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're going to minimize beta at that point.
Speaker 3:So can you talk a little bit about how you can achieve those different optimal states, depending on what you're doing?
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, remember, every cell has these mirror neurons. So we now know that, for instance, if we go down to the ocean and we're sitting near the ocean, we're going to start to relax and most people get uncomfortable when they're relaxed, if they've never relaxed, so they go oh, they got to get back to doing. They can't just be and it's important that we just be but our mirror neurons are registering that, so we're imitating nature. The ocean is 10 hertz frequency, so that means that we're going to make alpha. When we go to the mountains, we're going to create theta, which is 7.8 hertz frequency. So what we're going to do just to explain to people how binaurals work and isochronic tones and frequency responses, we can present a signal that you can't consciously hear. We can hear more than we consciously hear, even though we can't hear dog whistles. On a conscious level it does have a cortical response in the brain. We're hearing it. We just don't acknowledge it because it's not in our realm of conscious awareness, but what our brain does. If we want to have a 10 hertz frequency, which is the number 10, that's the cycles per second, like 60 hertz, what happens is we're going to present a 310 Hertz frequency in one ear and a 300 Hertz frequency in the other. What blows people's minds and scientists still don't really understand it is that our brain only hears the 10. It cancels out the things that are the same.
Speaker 1:Now, the bizarre part about all this is we're doing this all the time. That's why, if you've ever recorded yourself, you probably have heard it. But when you first started doing podcasts, you probably said is that what my voice sounds like? Because that's not the way our internal voice is. But once you do it enough times, you start to match those two. They become okay. A lot of people go that's not the way my voice sounds, because they're hearing it differently, because we're always hearing the difference between those two. Now we've done the same thing with light. We call it biocular, so we have binaural and biocular. So whatever's going on with the sound, we're doing the opposite with the light.
Speaker 1:And the reason we're doing the opposite is we're trying to build neuroplasticity, which means we're trying to challenge the brain, but in a fun way, just like every sport would do. You know, every sport is a challenge to the body or the brain. And then, but if we like it and we're having fun, we don't mind that stress, you know. But if we're not any good at it, like, that's why only like 5% of people continue to play golf, because the juice isn't worth the squeeze. They don't want the stress and the frustration of that. But the old saying is anything worth doing well is worth doing terrible at first. But we've got to get through that terribleness to get to the good stuff.
Speaker 1:Because that stress parameter so what binaural beats and isochronic tones, frequency response and light does is it fills the senses with appropriate information that we're used to. Our body is used to these Earth frequencies. If you and I were on a spaceship heading to Earth, the Earth itself has a frequency response of 0.5 to 100. Our brain has a frequency response of 0.5 to 100, which means it matches those frequencies and it does this like people wonder how birds can fly, you know, north and south during the winter and spring months. But we kind of have that same kind of homing device inside of our brain.
Speaker 1:Now we're kind of disconnected now because we have so much technology. But if you remember back when the tsunami hit, if you go back and watch those videos, you won't see any animals. The animals all left because that tsunami was a frequency response far greater than the ocean. There was danger there. Those animals could feel it. They left People were disassociated from their emotional state and their physiological being. They went running out after the wave and, of course, got killed. Because we're not tuned in anymore to our earth frequencies when we're near that water, our body resonates that water. It seems like a metaphysical concept, but science is now proving that these are the reasons we do different things.
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Speaker 1:You know that we would go to the mountains, maybe during the springtime and summer, to get out of the heat from the lower levels. So these are all things that our bodies are designed to do, and we've been doing them for hundreds of thousands of years. But as we get technology like, let's say, 5g because a lot of people have a response to electromagnetic smog- Just going to ask you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. So let's say that we're near a cell tower and it's broadcasting a 5G frequency. That's 500 million pulses per second. Our body has never experienced anything like that in the history of time. So it's creating a stress response. They call it the cell danger response. So, just like somebody who's in a great deal of stress and anxiety might ball up into the fetal position, our cells are doing that. Now what we've showed was, if you're grounded like we've taken people out there, we put them under that they're having a response. Their stress level's going up. They're collecting energy.
Speaker 1:Every cell of your body has something called a chromoform. Every cell. That chromoform is a little battery. It absorbs energy from light, sound and vibration. So when they're broadcasting that frequency for our cell phones nobody's going to get rid of cell phones right, they're so convenient, but we have to figure out a way to manage those. If we ground ourselves, like if you were to see the shoes I have on, they have grounding straps on them. So that means that even though I'm walking in shoes that are touching the earth, I have a magnetic strip that actually is touching the earth and touching my skin so that I'm grounding. Now, not all the time do we do this because if we're in a building or something like that, but if we can just do that a few times a day and they sell technology you know Clint Oprah does that I have every one of my people that work for me have a grounding mat underneath their computer so that every once in a while they just touch it, because we're also collecting energy from our computer screens and that's more to do with what the problem we have and the stress that we're under. That happens and we can talk about that a little bit if we, if we want to, later.
Speaker 1:But what happens with this frequency is our body is trying to adjust. It's trying to figure out what is that frequency telling me to do? Your body doesn't know. It's for a cell tower. It thinks the sun is broadcasting that frequency to the cell, telling it what to do, because we're symbiotic with our environment. We're not disconnected from our environment. The more we learn about our environment, the more we realize that we're not just on the earth. We're part of the frequency and the patterns of what's going on in the earth and the more we're in balance with our nature.
Speaker 1:In Chinese they would do something called feng shui, the ancient art of placement. But what they found out was when things are in order and rhythm in your home. It actually affects your physiology. It affects the way your cells function. If everything's in disarray and not organized, our body actually feels that and we have a visceral experience to that. So that's true with everything. Like I said earlier, everything's like beads on a string. There's nothing that's not, nothing's disconnected.
Speaker 1:So you know, and a lot of people think, well, this is happening to me, I'm not sleeping, so they go to change something 20 minutes before they go to sleep. But that sleeping problem started first thing in the morning Because if you woke up drinking coffee first thing, you dysregulated your brain right away. You shouldn't drink coffee for two hours in the morning because you need to get your natural norepinephrine, your natural dopamine, your natural cortisol. You want to train your brain to wake you up. And the same thing's true at night. We shouldn't do stimulating things at night because we want to downregulate. You know, turn off the lights, turn on some red lights, whatever you want to do, just to get the body needs to know hey, it's time to calm down and go to sleep. If not, it doesn't know when the day ends and the night begins and if you have bright lights going, you're watching Freddy Krueger movies and you know things like that, you're not going to get to sleep.
Speaker 3:Well, that's really. That's really interesting. I'm sure like 98 percent of the people in the world would just gasp when you said you shouldn't have coffee first thing in the morning of the people in the world would just gasp when you said you shouldn't have coffee first thing in the morning.
Speaker 3:So so far I need to reinstitute candlelight dinners and I need to hold my coffee off. So I'm learning a lot here, patrick. One of the things that I had read about binaural bees which I found so interesting was that it's one of the few ways that we've found to get into theta state. But yet theta state is where we're really susceptible to suggestion, to learning. It's like it's actually a place where we can introduce new information to our brain most easily. I'm guessing that's one of the reasons why we use bar neural beats, especially when we listen to programs within brain tap that are meant to help us kind of readjust our thinking, you know, towards positive mental states.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's a saying that I have you get what you rehearse, not what you intend. But learning happens at a happens at not just a cognitive level, but a biological level. Our body stores that information. So they know that when you're in a state of alpha and theta, which are the two brainwave states between being awake and being in deep sleep, those two brainwave states are called hypernesia, super memory. So most people don't remember when they learn their language, whatever language they speak. But we know that if you learn two languages or more, that circuit of the brain does not shut down.
Speaker 1:My science officer who's a super genius really, he went to India with me. We were on a tour of the universities there telling them about light, sound and vibration. And the third week I hear him talking Hindi and I said Francisco, when did you learn Hindi? He said we've been here for three weeks. You know it's like are you kidding me? Because the way we learn is not the way we think we learn. Somebody who, if you've only learned one language, that circuit shuts down because the brain is an energy hog, uses 25% of all the resources of the body and only weighs, you know, less than 5% of the body. So here you got this energy hog robbing all the energy and resources, and so if it can shut down a circuit, it will, and they call this in neuroscience neural pruning. Right, and that's what happened to your salespeople that you're working with when you said they were a little bit older. They have neural pruning, so they start to think they know how to do it. The worst thing that you can do in learning is think you already know. You know. That's why they say that you know. The brain or the mind, however you want to think about it, works like a parachute best when open, but when you have all this neural pruning going on, because maybe you were successful, you know. That's why the whole book I always have people read the book who Moved my Cheese, because people start thinking that their cheese is always going to be there, but somebody moves it. What do you do? And that's why behavioral flexibility is so important, and so is neurological flexibility.
Speaker 1:When Mike Tyson tells people everybody has a plan until they get hit, you know and that's what we're talking about here is now we're getting hit all the time. When what happened in 2020 was we all got hit, how did people respond? Now, if you had behavioral flexibility, you kept your head about you and you did the right things. If you didn't, you had a reactionary mindset. And they know that there's something called psychoimmunology, which means our cells are thinking. You know, it's not just they don't just react, they're are thinking. You know it's not just they don't just react, they're actually thinking. We have a thinking immune system. So as we think about things, they know they did studies that show people that look at life as a series of threats, their immune system actually down-regulates. To prove them right, if you have optimistic thinking, your immune system actually gets better because you look at life as a series of challenges, not as a series of threats. So that's why it's so important that we start to look at we are far greater than what we've been told about these biological systems that we have.
Speaker 1:I mean, look at somebody like Wim Hof. If nobody's heard of Wim Hof, go to YouTube. Look at Wim Hof. There's a video where they inject him with poison. To YouTube. Look at Wim Hof. There's a video where they inject him with poison. He does his breathing technique and it doesn't affect him because he knows that when he upregulates his nervous system, we have these killer cells in our body that are far greater than any pharmaceutical company can give us. And they go out and they get it because our body knows what we are.
Speaker 1:The whole thing about our immune system is trying to figure out who are we and who aren't we, and whoever we are it tries to get rid of. You know, but the problem is that we're 54%, something else. That's the whole problem with our immune system. So you know, we're this biology. Our biology isn't just when somebody says I'm human, I go well, that's not really true. You know, you're 50, you're what? 46% human, you're 54% something else. You know bacteria and all the other things, all the little critters that are inside of us, and so we have to live symbiotically with them and we don't want to upset them too much.
Speaker 1:You know, and that's why, you know, some people feel like something else or someone else is controlling them. No, it's because there's not this symbiotic relationship that we need. We have that. We have it with light, we have it with sound, we have it with the earth. It seems like metaphysical concepts. So people get, you know, they get stuck in their dogma, and that's where the neuropruning comes in. You know, we've got to get that neuroplasticity. And if people don't understand what neuroplasticity is. It's basically energy in the brain, so the more energy you have.
Speaker 1:Think about it this way If we're out and we're having a great time you know, talking, communicating, having fun and something bad happens, we might laugh it off no big deal, we get through it, no problem. But if we're having a down day and everything seems to be going bad, we hit all the red lights they're not playing our songs on the radio or whatever and something bad happens. There's another. That's a negative cascade effect that happens. So we want to keep as much. We want to keep that positive mental attitude in, not just as a positive, not just as a thought, but as a physical being.
Speaker 1:That's why we have to do things like get our body moving and breathing. It's a whole process, it's not just one thing. We got to eat well, because most people don't realize when you, whatever you eat, you become. You know, unless you're St Germain and you can use alchemy and you can take junk food and make it into health food, you know which? I have not met anybody yet in the history of my experience that does that.
Speaker 1:So it's just everything you can do that that relieves stress to the body biologically, psychologically, spiritually, whatever it is, you're going to be better off body, biologically, psychologically, spiritually, whatever it is you're going to be better off. So that includes your friends. We have people in our lives that we call gainers, and this is because if we were together personally, on a one-on-one basis, we'd be sharing photons. They now know this. Our cells, our mitochondria's job is to absorb light energy and transmit light energy, and they actually did a study during COVID that showed that people who were optimistic actually produced 200 times more light they were emitting. When somebody says, wow, you really glowing, we are really glowing. Every person on earth.
Speaker 3:Everything is real, you're telling me.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes. Well, the national Institute of health just said we have a biosphere around us and I was blown away when they announced that, because they now that we now now in India I would believe that would be possible, but here. So we have this energy field and they now know that people who are optimistic have a more vibrant, dynamic energy field than people who are negative. People who are have a propensity to think that life is a series of threats. And so when you think about that, and what that means is that we're not transmitting and receiving information biologically, in Japan, they've known this forever. In China, they call it forest bathing, because they know when you walk out in nature, you're actually upgrading your nervous system and your biological system and your neurotransmitters everything just by walking out in nature, because you're sharing information with living things. You know, if you stay in your house all day, then there's not a lot of. Unless you have a lot of plants around you and natural light, you're not feeding your cells. I think there's going to be a big shift to cellular nutrition, more than there is all this talk about. You know we need to have the gut health and all the things that are going on, but a lot of people. It comes right down to mitochondrial health. I mean, I was just at the A4M in Vegas, which is longevity, and for longevity, the more dynamic, the more powerful, the more robust your mitochondria is. The youthful, the more vibrant you are, the better your life you're going to have. And it goes right back to the brain has the most mitochondria. Your eyes have the most mitochondria per square centimeter.
Speaker 1:So when somebody says why do we use the retinal flashing, it's because we want to get light into the brain. The best way to do that is through our eyes. That's how we do it anyway. We transmit, and we transmit and receive information through our eyes, through light, and this is not. There's a lot of studies done on retinal flashing. So we researched how could we use retinal flashing to change brainwave activity. So it's a little different than just bringing up energy. You know we need the energy too to make the change.
Speaker 1:So you probably heard the expression with children they're too tired to sleep. Well, most people are too tired to sleep. They don't have energy in their brain and you can't just eat something right before bed. It takes four to six hours to convert that food into energy. Now psychologically they can think they did it? Or what if they eat junk food? It's the wrong kind of energy. You know, basically sugar is probably the worst thing for the brain that we can consume. And I'm not saying I don't think very many people are going to stop eating sugar because it's in everything and almost every food we consume turns to sugar. But when we overdo it or eat synthetic sugar too much, it really has a down regulation on our brain function.
Speaker 3:Well, I think that, and going back to what you said before, between the food and the technology, we know that none of this stuff is going away, but what we do need are ways to deal with it, ways to offset it. And you know, I mean, I've worked with the folks over at Defender Shield. You know quite a bit and you know, and I like, I like their philosophy, which is, you know, we love our gadgets. They're not going away, but we need to learn how to work with them so they're not damaging us.
Speaker 3:And I, you know, I think that applies across the board we're not going to go back to a situation where we're not going to be in the office under high pressure. You know, yada, yada, yada. But what we can do is introduce things like brain tap or just understanding, just like even understanding, what happens if you just close your eyes for a few minutes. I know you have talked about that in many sessions about immediately, what happens to the brains if you just close your eyes. You know, because it it it's an immediate shift, and correct me if I'm wrong you know your, your beta goes down immediately well, think about a scary movie.
Speaker 1:What's the first thing you do? You close your eyes and you chair yourself. This isn't real, you know. They know that when you, when you close your eyes without retinal flashing, about 30 of your brain shuts down. And, by the way, I'm on the board of Defender Shield.
Speaker 1:So because they say the first thing you should do if you have radiation problems, like from 5G, and that one of their first lines of defense is brain tap, because we need the mitochondrial health, because mitochondria needs light, well, it needs ATT, but one of the best ways to deliver that energy is through light and the kind of light that we present, especially through the ears and the eyes. People wonder, gosh, why does BrainTip use lights in the ears? It's because all the blood in your body moves through your ears every three to four minutes and then it goes into the brain. So through the bio-phorteic effect, which literally means the photons are flowing through the hemoglobin, and when it finds a cell that's about to die, that cell will absorb that light energy and come back to life. And there's a lot of studies that show.
Speaker 1:There's one that they showed where they kept a chicken heart alive for over 30 years and they said they could have kept it alive indefinitely. I wrote a whole article about it because a lot of people didn't believe it, so I all the references in that it's on the internet and they, they, uh. What they showed was if you present the right light, you detoxify the cell and you give it nutrients in the form of light energy, then that cell has the potential to live. It doesn't age. It's the. It's the poor nutrition, the inactivity and poor light that causes our cells to age. So, if we can, I'm sure that somebody smarter than us is going to figure out how we basically have that in our homes and our bodies, or around our bodies, more, and we'll have more longevity at that point.
Speaker 3:Well, actually my favorite sleep mask is the Defender Shield one, but I'm actually on the board of Lightbody, which is their supplement arm, to try and promote taking care of the thinking about the nutrition of the eye, because it's so important to catch these light signals, and so on and so forth. So I was in a talk with you and you were discussing how, when we get very stressed, we can basically dump, you know, a Snickers bar worth of sugar out of our liver into the body.
Speaker 1:Yeah, most people don't understand how we produce our own sugar in our body. We don't really need to have any sugar. Nobody that I know of has a carbohydrate deficiency, you know. But what happens under stress? Our liver is basically housing that sugar because for emergencies it's like the emergency load. But unfortunately, they now say the average person looks at their phone over 150 times a day and most of those cortical responses when you look at your phone are not positive. You know what's the text message about what, what, what's the what do they want at work? You know what's the text message about what do they want at work. You know what's the weather like. You know whatever's going on, all those kinds of things.
Speaker 1:So each time that happens, the body dumps that 25 grams of sugar. Now, if you're sitting, where's that sugar going to go? Your body has to create. You know it has to buffer that sugar, right. It's going to release all the chemical reactions that have to happen. It's going to store that sugar in our adipose tissue. It's going to say, wow, this is great.
Speaker 1:Now we have emergency energy in the form of fat in our body because our body thinks there's going to be a famine very quickly, you know, because this is the way our bodies used to be. And all the genetic memory most people don't realize, all the genetic memory of all the history of your lineage from the very beginning of time, is within you right now and it can show up at any time. That's right, it all that. It's all there as information. So the body's the body storing that fat. It doesn't realize that you can walk to four different supermarkets you know with you know. So it's saying okay, we're going to store this Now if we're moving. That's why, even doing therapy, we use something like a vibration system. It's called a vibrational sonic machine where after you do therapy, you get on it. Because when you're doing these kinds of therapies, light, sound and vibration light will tell the cells of your body. It uses something called the glucagon response. So, like exercise, it tells the fat cells to open up and really cement the lymph system. Now if you're not doing anything, the body will just absorb them back in because we don't have more fat cells. What we do is those fat cells expand and they store more toxin to protect you, and sugar is a toxin. So what we can do when somebody says that I'm not able to lose weight and I don't eat sugar. I'll say, well, what's eating you?
Speaker 1:Because if you don't change your psychology about things again, the whole shift is it's just a challenge. You know whatever's going on for you. It's not a threat. Your body knows what to do. It's very intelligent and you know. You know what to do. Other people have done it before. You just relax and do it.
Speaker 1:But the problem is the pressure of doing what you've always done and changing to what you need to do. There's that bridge. We have to bridge that gap. That's where the visualization principles come in, because the brain doesn't know the difference between real or imagined. So you imagine eating the healthy foods, you imagine exercising, and then the brain starts to believe that's your lifestyle and then the next day it presents those to you as factual information.
Speaker 1:So now you start to eat healthy, you start to exercise, you start to treat people better, you start to drive and you're not telling everybody they're number one using your middle finger, whatever it is, whatever it is that you're doing, and you've basically become self-contained and you don't allow the external world to control your internal world. You know, I always tell people one exercise I give my clients when I was seeing them, as I say when I first start with them because I want to know are they a pessimist or an optimist? I'll say you're standing at a precipice and it's about 2000 feet down and you jump. And it's about 2,000 feet down and you jump, what happens? And most of them fall to the ground and they go wow, that's scary. I say, well, why didn't you just grow wings? It's a dream, there's no limits there. You could fly if you wanted to, because it's not real.
Speaker 1:But the problem is that we start putting all the restraints we have in our physical world to our mental world. So we're applying the stresses that we have in our physical world to our mental world. So we're applying the stressors that we have in our physical world to our mind, where we can liberate our mind. That's why things like psychedelic medicine are making this big approach, because we can't contain those restrictions in that environment, because biologically now then we know that it just creates this high level gamma activity when you do like a psilocybin or ketamine or all these other kind of things, and then the brain has to rewire around those new thoughts and it can't. Some of those old thoughts don't fit anymore, so it kicks them out. That's the, that's the neurofruiting that's.
Speaker 3:that's really interesting, all right, so so thinking back, you know you've had quite a long, illustrious career. I mean you've done some amazing things. What is one of the most surprising things that you've seen happen as a result of brain tap and people using this technology?
Speaker 1:I had a woman that came to me. Just this one story always sticks out for me, because she came to me and she said you know, I'm only going to be living for five more weeks. I have an autoimmune disorder, that I've been to the Mayo Clinic, I've been everywhere. They tell me that my body is basically it's attacking itself it's in that sometimes happen. And I said okay. So I said let's set up your nine weeks of treatment. She said no, I'm only going to be living for, you know, five weeks or whatever. And I said no, let's set up nine weeks of. And she says what do you mean? And when she came in, she was already ready for a funeral. She was wearing all black, everything. So I said number two. I said let's start celebrating every day, because whatever days you have left, let's celebrate them. So I want you to dress like it's Easter Sunday, not, you know, not going to a funeral.
Speaker 1:So in course, we changed her. She came in for sessions and she started changing her belief systems. And I still remember the sixth week when she came in. She says I'm still alive. And I said yeah, you look pretty good. I said when do you go see them? She said I contacted them and said okay, I want to come back and get a checkup. So about the eighth week she finally got back in to see them and they said they misdiagnosed her, that she doesn't have autoimmune disease and she's fine.
Speaker 1:And I said I was hoping that what would happen is they'd say, through this visualization, relaxation, using lights on a vibration, that they would. They said, oh no, it can't be that. It can't be that simple. But the reality is that spirit is simple. Man is complex. You know, we've got to create.
Speaker 1:There are simple solutions to these problems and most of them are based in ancient traditions, because that's why, if you were having a mental disorder and you were a Cherokee Indian, they might tell you to go on a vision quest. You're going to go fast. You're going to drink water fast. You're going to drink water. You're going to be out in nature, you're going to get outside yourself and realize that you're a part of the whole, you're not separate. And by being a part of that whole and not separate, you are necessary, you're needed, you're part of the solution, you're not part of the problem. And I think if more people thought of themselves as more part of the solution. That's why I'm on a mission to better a billion brains, because I figure it'd take about a billion brains to change something, and this was proved out by the Maharishi. He did something called the Maharishi effect.
Speaker 1:People can look up on the internet. They've actually in 42 different cases, brought down the crime rate in cities and prisons and around the world just by bringing a certain number. He calls it the. There's a square root of 1%. If you can get that many people praying for peace, you will create peace. In fact, in Washington DC it's a big documentary, it's on YouTube. People can watch it where the police chief said there's no way that can happen. It would have to be a snowstorm to get that kind of results. And while they were doing their meditations and visualizing and praying, time went down. As soon as they stopped, it went right back to the old race. So they proved this over and over again. So our consciousness plays a role in not just inside of ourselves but what's happening around ourselves.
Speaker 3:So my last question, you know, is kind of, I guess, kind of to tag onto, that is, knowing what you know. Now, where do you think that this is going to go in the next five, 10 years, like you know?
Speaker 1:just Well. I hope people start to realize that we find that even with younger kids that aren't sleeping. There's videos of people using BrainCamp on their babies. When they put it on, they stop crying from colic. There's videos of people using brain tape on their babies. When they put it on, they stop crying from colic.
Speaker 1:I think we're going to see more of this frequency-based medicine in the homes, in the offices, and not just for manipulating people to buy more products, but to create health and well-being, because we're going to start mimicking our external environment, like nature inside of our homes.
Speaker 1:I think that's one place it's going to be. We're already seeing that in the lighting industry. They're changing the way lights because lights affect our moods. You know, if we don't have full spectrum lights like John Ott, who's probably the first person to ever do this, when he started showing people how intelligent people are under full spectrum light rather than under fluorescent lights there's a big deal. So that's one step, but was 40 years ago. So now we have we have all this new information. I think we're going to see it's going to be affecting everything and we're going to start to look at how products affect our biological system on a cellular level, and I think that's going to happen within five to ten years and we're going to see a big ship because, just like our, the greed that's happening in our environment, with people just polluting our environment, that's a. That's a representation of what's happening internally for us and we're going to start to change those belief systems.
Speaker 3:Thank you so much, patrick. If people want to learn more about you and BrainTap, you know they can definitely click on the links below this, but what's what's the best way? Where would you like to point people to learn more?
Speaker 1:Well, probably, if they want to learn more, they can go to my YouTube channel at Dr Patrick Porter. There's a lot of videos. People like these kind of interviews. We've cut out kind of the best of the best and put them on there as reels, but there's, I think, over a thousand videos on there, different topics, different people talking. If they want to learn more, that's a good source. They can also go to amazon. I've written nine different books. They can. They can find those there and start listening to those or what they're on audible too, but they can read them if they want okay, great.
Speaker 3:Well, thank you so much for being here today. Take care.