Dana White was warned that he had just ten years to live before turning his life around with the help of biologist Gary Brecka.

The UFC CEO is just under six-foot tall, but had managed to balloon to over 300lb while battling with high blood pressure and a host of other symptoms. Within the BMI scale, this marked him as particularly unhealthy, but he now looks like a different man.

He attributes his drastic lifestyle change to Brecka and his ‘Superhuman Protocol’, which involves cold plunging, PEMF pads, red light therapy and oxygen therapy. Now, Brecka has spoken out with his side of the story in a rare interview with Fox Nation.

Gary Brecka opens up about Dana White’s ’10 years to live’ diagnosis

Dana White has never been shy to credit Gary Brecka for the drastic turnaround in his health which he says has saved his life. However, it’s rare that we get to hear from the biologist himself in a long-form conversation.

He spoke with Sean Hannity on Fox Nation’s Sean, and explained how exactly he came to his ’10 years to live’ diagnosis. “This is the first time that I get to explain it in real detail, so I wanted to take a little bit of a deep dive,” he said.

“You basically take several years of medical records, 10 years, if you can get them – and you feed these into a model, and you also look at lifestyle factors. Then you try to assign the probability that somebody will actually change their habits.

“The majority of the impact on their longevity has to do with whether or not they keep their same habits or change their habits… After the medical team looked at his labs and I had a chance to meet with him.

“I didn’t even go through his labs. I just sat down and I told him every symptom that he was experiencing, some of which I knew he hadn’t even shared with the outside world.

“Then I told him how it started, how it was now, and where it was going to be in six months to a year, so that he would believe that the data that I was looking at in the labs was his destiny, which was very truthful.

“So we did a model and it wasn’t as accurate as the models that I did in the past because I didn’t have access to the same software. But I – as accurately as possible – reconstructed his probabilistic model and told him, it’s 10.4 years.”

When Brecka was asked by Hannity how White reacted to that news, he told the veteran TV host that it “Really rattled his cage.”

Dana White has turned his life around with major diet change

White managed to drop 40lb with his new lifestyle, and Brecka noted that he did not use any drugs like ozempic to make it happen. He instead insists that a keto diet was better suited to the UFC boss, who took his advice fully on board.

“We put him on a ketogenic diet,” he explained. “I looked at what his body could convert into the usable form and what it couldn’t. So, for example, he had this rampantly high blood pressure and the doctors really couldn’t figure it out because he had normal EKGs and EEGs, heart sounds and lung sounds.

“There wasn’t anything wrong with his heart or his cardiovascular system, per se, but he had high blood pressure. So they just assumed that he inherited high blood pressure, which is another form of nonsense, in my opinion.

“There aren’t genes that we pass from generation to generation for hypertension. There are few, but they’re rare. Most of the time, we’re passing lifestyle in generations, which can be changed. That’s why your genes are not your destiny. Your environment and your lifestyle choices are your destiny.

“He had one of the highest levels of homocysteine that I’d ever seen. So we put him on a simple amino acid so his body could start to metabolize it called trimethylglycine and I’m not saying, if you have hypertension right now, just go take trimethylglycine. That’s not what I’m saying at all.

“I’m not licensed to practice medicine, for the record. So, when he started taking this amino acid trimethylglycine, he started metabolizing homocysteine. As his homocysteine levels started to drop, his blood pressure started to follow.

“And I will never forget the day that he called me and he’s like: ‘Dude, something’s kind of up.’ He’s like: ‘Every day, I’m going in the gym. The last few days, soon as I step on the treadmill or pick up a weight, I’m getting lightheaded and dizzy.’ I was like: ‘Dude, this is awesome’.”