In a break from tradition, Jason Hartman hands off hosting duties for episode #67 of The Longevity & Biohacking Show to his friend and fellow healthy living expert, Fernando, who talks with Stephen Heuer, founder of Cocoon Nutrition. The topic of the day is a realistic assessment of how to reverse aging and improve your health.

Stephen’s Background

In 1990 Stephen Heuer earned a Bachelor of Science Degree as a Nutripath via a Nutritional Correspondence course. This is much like the Naturopathic Doctor correspondence courses, just under a slightly different name. He has done Live Cell Therapy, Ozone Therapy, Psychic Surgery, Magnetic Therapy, and even visited John of God In Brazil. Over these 20 years in practice, his clients have improved or recovered from many conditions including chronic fatigue, cancer, psoriasis, chronic constipation, kidney failure, adrenal fatigue, liver problems, gallstones, depression, reproductive health, dysbiosis of the intestines, acne, skin conditions, sleeping problems, arthritis, osteoporosis, herniated or thinned discs, reproductive deficiency, menstrual cramps, memory and focus problems, mercury poisoning, autism, hyper and hypothyroid issues, gray hair, poor vision and much more.

A Personal Cause

As with many healers, Heuer was catapulted down the road to his life’s work by the necessity to address his own health concerns. To understand his motivation, Fernando asked him to talk about his past. Before beginning, Stephen made the point that today’s world of information saturation allows one to learn as much in a 30 minute podcast as it took him 30 years to research on his own back in the 70’s and 80’s. Be glad you live in the Internet Age. Be very glad.

As a child growing up in the 60’s and 70’s, Heuer recalls his house being liberally stocked with junk food. His parents, like so many others of that time, knew little about proper nutrition and cared even less. They trusted the government would look after all that stuff. Heuer’s early diet was heavy on sugar.

Predictably, his teeth deteriorated and he required seven cavities at the age of 15. A few years later, in 1976, he received two more but something was different this time. The world market for silver was strong. To save costs, dentists cut way back on the amount of that precious metal and increased the proportion of mercury and copper in fillings. Stephen developed a sore throat that wouldn’t go away. Soon thereafter his bowels slowed to such a crawl that he became a vegetarian for four years to cope.

The problem? You guessed it. Mercury poisoning. Though he wouldn’t figure it out until years later, the chronic lethargy and illness were due to his fillings. It all culminated while working a construction job, after dropping out of college due to lack of energy, when he accidentally cut his thumb off. Though it was reattached, Heuer knew his lack of energy and focus was going to get him killed. He went on a drastic ten-day intestinal cleanse. During days 5-8 all the built up junk and toxins came flooding out. He felt like a new person.  

The Great Mercury Cleanse

At this point, Stephen had figured out that a radical diet change was helpful to his condition, but would he have to live his life by ascetic standards? A move to Hawaii was accompanied by trying to become a fruitarian. The effort demineralized his teeth so significantly that they began to fall out. Lesson learned: natural sugar is still sugar and should be eaten sparingly.

But then came a nine month mercury cleanse that restored his bowel function to 75% of normal. By that time Heuer’s lifelong dedication to study and research had led him to the conclusion that he had been suffering from mercury poisoning. Even after having his old dental work removed and replaced with a benign composite material, the deadly toxin had worked itself into the molecular nooks and crannies throughout his body.  

How to Reverse Aging – the First Step

To begin to learn how to reverse aging means you first must accept that most of us are polluted by a startling combination of toxins. As Heuer puts it, we live in toxic times. The body’s response to this onslaught is to kick start the inflammation response, which results – for many of us – in an chronically inflamed intestinal tract.

Attack this intestinal tract inflammation first! It does no good to address other health issues if your gut is out of whack and unable to deal with the continuing flow of incoming toxins. Heuer advises that you need to stimulate your body into producing more glutathione, which is the master antioxidant and detoxifier of every cell in your body. There are many different ways to prod your body into making glutathione but Heuer’s suggestion is that protein should be your choice. In particular, whey protein.

Why You Look Old

A second area of concern while you learn how to reverse aging is to understand growth factors. The brutal truth is that the human body begins to deteriorate in its ability to heal itself after the age of 28, losing approximately 20% efficiency each decade thereafter. This decline is what makes your skin grow wrinkled, libido to dwindle away, hair to turn grey, and energy to vanish. While we’re not in the habit of making blatant product recommendations, you might want to check out Mr. Heuer’s website at www.sgn80.com if you’re interested in returning your growth hormone levels to a youthful state.

The Bottom Line

Does all of this stuff work? Maybe. But if you suffer from chronic disease or simply feel less energetic and spry than you would like, there’s no harm in checking out Heuer’s website. You never know what “secrets” you might find. (Image: Flickr | Maurits Verbiest)

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