Join Dr. Scott Faulconer and his guests as they explore the often-overlooked influence of hormone health on our daily lives. From nuanced conversations between proactive healthcare methods to striking a balance between professional aspirations and family commitments, this episode navigates the importance of going beyond textbook health metrics and paying attention to what genuinely makes you thrive. Discover how hormone health intertwines with personal success and well-being in this must-listen session.
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It’s hour three on Health and Wellness Wednesdays, 560 KLZ. You’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulconer filling in for John Rush. My two guests here in the studio, Jeremy Sova, one of my patients slash client, has been talking to me the last two hours about his medical epiphany and journey, the things that you’ve found important, without my help to start with things that are making you better anti-aging. And then we have John Flouting, my good friend who, uh, he and his brothers own revitalize there in Littleton. And he does a lot of the same things that I do. But, um, Charlie had a good point. I am not most of your primary care providers. I’m not your doctor. So the things that we’re talking about are generalities. If, um, You can talk to your doctor, then please do it. If you can get your blood work or your biomarkers from your doctor, please do it. But if you’re not satisfied, there are alternatives. There’s not many of us out there, but there are a few of us. Just take that with a grain of salt that we’re not giving legal advice and true medical advice for each and every one of you. You’re all different. And with that disclaimer, in this last hour, we’re going to be talking a little more about stem cells. And so if you hear that, what I do is the umbilical cord stem cells. That is an off label use. It’s not that it’s not been approved by the FDA. It has. But what we’re going to be talking is off label use. So I don’t need anybody’s lawyer calling me. So with that, I want to start this third hour off Jeremy talking about hormone hormone replacement hormone health. You had your journey. So let’s continue with your journey on hormone health.
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Great. Yeah, so I think it was about four years ago, I started to get some mirror pattern baldness in the crown area. And as vain as I am, I was looking at hair plugs and all kinds of different options. And Doc prescribed me on Propecia or Finasteride, and it kills the DHT hormone, keeps the hair from falling out. It doesn’t grow back, but keeps more from falling out. So I started it and I realized that it absolutely destroyed my libido, my sex life. I went to the doc, told him, he’s like, well, sorry, that’s what happens. Nothing I can do. Like get used to the new normal if you want to keep your hair. But if you stop taking the Propecia, your hair is going to fall out even faster. So now I feel like I’m between a rock and a hard place. So as I do, I got into my research mode and did a lot of digging and found out that testosterone replacement therapy is a potential solution for libido issues. So I found a clinic similar to you, John, and started on, I think it was 200 milligrams per liter a week or 200 milliliters. I always get those measurements wrong. But essentially, you know, taking… You know, 0.3 units of testosterone cyprinate in the muscle every three and a half days to keep my levels normal. And after about a year, well, let me back up. After a couple of weeks, I noticed improvements in my male sexual health and libido. To a point that I was like, wow, let’s continue this. And, you know, fast forward, I got my testosterone levels up. My free testosterone is somewhere around 30, 31. My total is around 1,200. And went past about 1,500. You know, I started, I think it was 470, which the endocrinologist said was normal and wouldn’t start testosterone replacement therapy. So I went elsewhere. But long story short, now I’ve been on it for about four years regularly. It’s been the single most effective game-changing protocol that I’ve done out of everything we’ve talked about so far. Hormone health is extremely important. Don’t listen to somebody that says you’re in the normal ranges. Go to somebody that wants you to feel better, not what’s on the paper and how you feel. So long story short, it absolutely destroyed any issues I had with the finasteride. Here I am with a full head of hair. My sex life is great. It does come with issues of monitoring your red blood cells over time. And a lot of people out there on these websites and these message boards talk about donating blood if your hematocrit gets over 55 or your hemoglobin gets over 18 or 20. 18. Um, so what I did was I’m like, I’ll be proactive, right? I’ll just donate blood every, you know, three to six months and stay within those ranges and everything’s great. And I can help donate, feel good. I cured some guys sickle cell anemia because I have a rare blood type. Well, what I didn’t know until it was too late was that as I was doing those blood dumps, I was crashing my ferritin levels. which is an iron-based marker, which can lead to anemia if it gets too low. And to bring the ferritin levels back up to normal was a slog. It took about a year and a half taking ferrous sulfate, making sure you don’t go past the hemoglobin and hematocrit numbers and get the ferritin up. So my disclaimer out there is I think testosterone placement therapy is amazing, especially if you’re, you know, 30s, 40s, 50s plus. It will change your life and make you feel like you were in your teens and your 20s. But be cognizant about the need for phlebotomy or a blood dump or donation. And really make sure you’re checking those ferritin markers ongoing. And as long as they’re north of 40, you know, you’re in a good spot. But that was one of the mistakes I made through learning on the fly. But outside of the ferritin, and John, you can talk more about it, but, you know, HRT, they call it hormone replacement therapy, is a game changer.
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Yeah, I mean, I think that, I mean, that was a great story. Well said. And, I mean, there’s many things to kind of break down there. I mean, first with the Propecia it is common. It’s, it’s a well-known potential side effect of it that, you know, your libido could crash. But when you look at those studies, I mean, the men weren’t on testosterone and they were, you know, I mean, they could have been two, 300, 400 and, you know, they’re started on this, this DHT blocker. And then all of a sudden this well-known side effect happens, which it’s not permanent. And we know it’s not permanent, but, The underlying reason wasn’t the… Because DHT… Blocking DHT for your scalp can be a good thing. DHT is also present down below. And so when you block DHT and it blocks it from the male genitalia, you will experience erection issues. And so… You know, the fix for that is, I mean, check in what their testosterone level is, you know, outside of that. So you can still get the benefits of the hair growth with it, but it’s optimizing that T level. Now to, you know, comment on your story. I mean, that’s very common. You know, the… The amount of guys that we actually see in our clinic, and I’m sure, you know, Dr. Scott’s probably the same way, that are actually below, well, and every year it keeps getting lower. Oh, yeah. Right? Like it was 350, and then the low end went to 300, and some labs are 260 now. Yes. You know, and then I even saw one that the upper end was 700 as the top end range. And I’m like, really? Yeah. It’s ridiculous. It is ridiculous. And that’s just my personal opinions on an insurance thing. But the amount of people that you see that fall into that lower range, they’re not the majority. And so most guys are like your situation to where they’re in those mid-300s, 400s, 500s, maybe even mid-600s. But yet the key is are they symptomatic or not? Do they present with symptomatics that are linked to low testosterone? You know, aside from whatever the number is, that’s just a number on a piece of paper. How does that compare to how you feel in your quality of life, right?
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And what’s interesting is you don’t know how bad you feel until you try the testosterone replacement therapy.
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Until you get optimized, yes.
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And you feel a lot better. Yep. You think, oh, I’m getting older, so this brain fog and this harder to get up in the morning.
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Because your body just acclimates every day over the years. Yeah, and you assume it’s just aging, right?
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You’re like, oh, this must be normal. I’m just getting older. And then you ignore the endocrinologist that tells you that you don’t need it when you certainly do. Well, because they’re the professionals.
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Right. Yeah.
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If you can see the air quotes here on radio professionals. And then you actually embark on the journey and you realize that you can feel incredible every day. You can have the mental acuity and clarity of, you know, the best athlete or the best business person.
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Absolutely.
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And again, you can overdo it. Right. But you find that sweet spot over time. And my advice is. Like, don’t just, you know, try it for a week or a month or three, and maybe you get a little bit of back acne or, you know, something pops up. The body’s adjusting to this new hormone profile and give it the time to do so. Because it took me about a year and a half to realize I’m all in, right? This is a life decision for the rest of my life. And it’s one I’m very, very happy to stay on. So, yeah, to your point, like… you may not even know you’re feeling that bad until you try what turns into a feeling amazing every day.
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And like we’re saying, like find a clinic that actually specializes in it and maybe not these big box T clinics. Right. You know, I mean, we know what they’re about, but ones that, that like yours and mine, that we’re, We definitely look more into the overall health, the cardiovascular health, the brain health, because again, low T is a part of the puzzle, but it’s not the whole puzzle, right? You can optimize, you can get their testosterone to 900, 1100. you know their free tea comes up and they’re feeling great but things might still fell off and i mean we’re talking about stressors in life work marriage kids um you know you may still have brain fog and oh it didn’t fix this well it’s not it’s not magic but it helps and so you want to find somewhere that’s all-encompassing and focuses on your overall health that being said i wanted to like you know kind of comment on on your phlebotomizing the blood donations and Because I do think there might be a lot of listeners right now that are on TRT that it’s just part of their protocol because a lot of these clinics, they just have you donate as part of this is protocol. And then they don’t ever have to deal with it. You’re absolutely right on the whole ferritin. And, I mean, how many clinics actually check the iron studies and look at the ferritin from both ways? Are they getting iron deposition disease, which can lead to a whole slew of things? Or are they tanking their ferritin and all of a sudden they’re tired now? And what’s that clinic’s response? Let’s up the tea.
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Mm-hmm.
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Now we up the T, and the hemoglobin hematocrit, red blood cell count go through the roof again. Well, now we have to donate again. Instead of every 12 weeks, we’re every eight weeks now, which is the quote-unquote safe minimum. Great if you want to drop your ferritin down to nothing. Yeah, mine hit nine. Well, yeah, and that is not great at all. And so it’s like there’s other ways to donate. combat that as i’m not saying blood donations are bad by any means i’ve done them throughout the years sometimes they’re needed if you’re getting them i typically like to think if you’re getting more than twice a year maybe we should readjust something right something else may be going on yep and on that note we have to take a quick break but we’ll be right back and ladies we haven’t forgotten about you so we’ll talk about your hormones next you’re listening to dr scott filling in 560 klz
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You’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush with two guests, Jeremy Sovo, my patient-slash-friend-slash-client there at the clinic, and John Flouting, who he and his brothers own Revitalize there in Littleton. And I promised you ladies that we would talk about you because we talked a lot about the men. But during the break, John, you were saying something, and I think a lot of ladies want their husbands to hear this. It was a come-to-Jesus meeting.
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with you and your wife and what you’re doing you’re working hard trying to earn a living and you missed something for your kids so yeah um it was a come to jesus moment in a sense and you know i think a lot of us no matter what you know we do for work no matter what our life’s goals are you know, we can get wound up in this evolution of just, just drive for success. And again, that success is different for everybody, but, but this just goal of, you know, whether it be financial or, um, you know, what, again, whatever your goals might be, but you get caught up in it and, and it just keeps going and going and going because you may reach a milestone, but yet you feel the next one is, is just within reach and you keep going and you keep going and And then you look back and, you know, my boys are 12 and 14. And, you know, sometimes I need, you know, good old social media reminders or Google reminders to come up and tell me, oh, look back way back then. Your kids were much younger. And, you know, you just keep growing. And then you look back and you’ve missed out on a lot of these life events from them. Mom takes them to these things at school. Mom does this. Mom takes them to the dentist. My kid just had a dentist appointment today. And I’m sure they would want me to be there, but I’m just so hyper-focused that… and I’m not doing it on purpose, but I forget about these things. So my wife, you know, a couple of days ago, she was like, look, you know, the, the, the boys are only going to be young once. And every day that passes, that’s another day gone that they’re not going to be at home anymore. And you know, they, they don’t realize what, what now, what dad, what I’m trying to do for our future, their future, that they don’t understand that they only understand the value of dad’s time with them.
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Right.
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And, and that one was a, that one was a tough one to, to grasp and to look myself in the eyes and be like, you’re not wrong. So, you know, it was, it was, it was a tough moment.
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Yeah, so ladies, if you have to have that conversation with your husbands, it’s not just the physical. Yes, we can fix a testosterone issue, things like that, but there is that emotional side to it. So guys, make sure you’re taking time for your families because they are precious. God gave you that gift of your spouse and your children. And so, yes, optimize the things that we’ve been talking about, but don’t forget and lose sight why you’re doing the things that you should be doing.
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Great advice.
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Yeah, and you were talking, Jeremy, about Peter Attia’s book.
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Yeah, the book I mentioned earlier, which was kind of the holy grail to Medicine 3.0 that really kick-started a lot of the stuff that I’m doing now. And emotional health and stressors is a big portion. And I think the final chapter, he tells his own story about emotional health, and it’s very heavy. I was actually on an airplane. I remember tearing up and people around me wondering what I was listening to. But apparently, there was one instance where he had three or four boys. And one of the younger ones, I think, was age one or two. I’m paraphrasing. It’s been a while. But the child had gotten into distress and went into cardiac arrest back home when he was on a work conference, burning the midnight oil, getting four hours of sleep a night, saving lives, doing all the things that a doc would do. Um, and turned out that he was so entrenched in his work that he basically, you know, connected the wife with the local doctor and, you know, the boy was blue and they turned him back breathing and he was surviving. And in his mind, he’s like, okay, well my son lived, right? Well, he stayed in New York another 10 days before going home to his family. Um, it’s like, and again, like everything he was doing is extremely important, you know, but at the end of the day, like you can’t lose sight of what’s really important. And it’s, it’s those that support you every day, you know, and to your point, like my kids are, I got support you. Happy birthday, Maddie. You know, she’s 19 today off to college in Arizona. And, you know, my son’s, you know, he’s a, you know, be a sophomore in high school off to college soon. And like, I already miss like her bedroom having somebody in it and soon it’s going to be another bedroom.
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Yeah.
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And fortunately for me, I’ve been able to go on a hockey journey with my son across four countries and 12 different states. And it’s been incredible. So I’ve had that road time with him since I decided to kind of step away from the cannabis thing. But I can’t say it enough. Like that should be at the top of this protocol list of intelligent aging should be age with your children. Yeah. Yeah.
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And do that journey with your spouse. So we also want to talk about cortisol because cortisol is both men and women. And women are under a lot of stress as well. Cortisol is a big killer. Jeremy, talk about cortisol.
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I didn’t even know what it was. I thought it was like an ointment or something, you know, years ago. But I got on the hormone therapy and it was very successful. Hormone levels were coming up. Libido was great. But I just wasn’t quite, something wasn’t quite right. I was under a lot of stress at work. Major grind, you know, lawsuits and lawyers and P&Ls and investors and And, um, I, I’d read about cortisol being quote unquote, the stress hormone. So I looked into it and it’s a real thing. So I, you know, at the time went to my primary care doc and asked them to put it on my next panel and it was through the roof. Right. And I was like, Oh, well, this makes a lot of sense. Right. So then I’m like, well, you know, the, you know, the type a nonstop, no off button guy that I am like, it took some work, right. To figure out how to, to manage stress and, you know, sleep is a big part of it. Right. Like you want to make sure, you know, you’re getting your, your eight hours in your REM sleep, but being able to step away, right. Whether it’s yoga or meditation or gym work, or, you know, I enjoy comedy shows or concerts and, Um, and it really, you know, people take emotional health for granted, right? We just assume we’re supposed to do all these other things and we’ll focus on ourselves later. Um, well, everything else falls into place once you get your emotional health and stressors in check. Um, so, you know, ladies definitely know what your cortisol levels are and, you know, and talk to the professionals to figure out how to get those in line. But, um, it’s a lot easier than you think. It
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Yeah. So that’s a high cortisol. John, talk to us about low cortisol.
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I mean, you know, in general, you know, you can present with many symptoms from depression to weight gain to, you know, obesity. being hyper-focused and sleeping too much. So whether it’s low cortisol or high cortisol, I think the overall kind of feeling here is that just knowing in general what your levels are with anything, whether it’s your hormones and cortisol levels, you know, it allows us to at least know what kind of paths to go down. And I mean, you know, but again, talk to a professional, get those labs checked. I mean, there’s plenty of places if they won’t check your labs or won’t check your cortisol levels. I mean, there’s online ones that you can purchase these things yourselves.
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Yeah. So like I use ITC compounding pharmacy there in Castle Rock and they have kits because really saliva is the best. And you want to, if you’re truly checking somebody’s cortisol, you want to do it four times during the day.
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Like a 24 hour.
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Yes. As opposed to just one blood test. Blood’s okay, but really saliva is the best. It does take quite a bit to fill a little tube with saliva. Do that four times. You’re going to, Wish I hadn’t recommended it, but it’s the best to get an accurate picture of if you have adrenal fatigue. The adrenal glands are the glands that sit on top of your kidneys. They’re also known as the suprarenal glands. They make a lot of the glucocorticoids and other steroid hormones. But one of the big things is cortisol, the stress hormone. And if it’s too low, exactly like John said, you have problems. If it’s too high, you have problems like Jeremy said. So you don’t always need your doctor. You can go and get one of these kits. They’ll mail it off. You’ll get your results. And then you’re going to have to have a provider tell you what it means. But you’re intelligent people. You can look it up like Jeremy’s done with a lot of his biomarkers and then say, hey, I think I’ve got a problem, doc. Yeah, with chat GPT and AI and Ask AI, like –
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You can get your answers. You can get beyond your answers. Like there’s stuff that then takes you down another wormhole. And then all of a sudden your doctor’s eyes are bouncing and his head’s spinning. He’s like, where’d you find that out? Right. Turns out to be right.
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Yeah. And ladies, if you think your hormones are off, you’re probably right. I can’t tell you in a day how many ladies I talk to and you’re telling your primary care. Hey, I think there’s something wrong. And, oh, you’re too young. Or, no, it can’t be. And they pat you on the head. And we check labs. Or they do check labs, the biomarkers. And they’re like, oh, look, it says normal. Well, normal is not actually normal. Those labs, most of them are wrong, especially on hormones.
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100%.
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I think we’ve already beat that horse to death. Those values are so wrong. And thyroid is another one. Yeah. Um, if you don’t like the answer, seek somebody else who, who does this for a living and, um, can really give you some good guidance.
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Well, yeah. And if you don’t like the answer and you feel like there is an issue and, you know, and it’s not just like, Oh, it’s me. I’m going crazy. But you, you are tired and fatigued all the time. You are doing the right thing and you’re, you know, you, you’ve changed your, your diet and you’re watching your, your calories and macros and, uh, you know, you, you, kicked up the exercise but yet the body composition isn’t changing um or if you’ve ever been told you know this is one of my red flags if you’ve ever been told that you know you you know you’re diagnosed with depression or anxiety i mean sure maybe but but why don’t we do an in-depth hormone evaluation first yes 100 because that there’s so many people that at least i have started on hormones whether it be you know optimizing thyroid and estrogens progesterone, testosterone. And all of a sudden they start talking to me about how to, well, how do I titrate off of my antidepressant? Right. And I know you’ve accounted that probably a million times, a million times. And, and, and it’s like, well, it’s because you were prematurely put on that antidepressant there. It’s a knee jerk. Yes. It’s a knee jerk reaction because it’s so common that the symptoms are, well, we can’t tell if It’s a neurotransmitter issue, which are dopamine, serotonin levels. Or is it because your testosterone is low, and low testosterone can mimic the same thing. But it never gets checked, and especially in women. Yes. So of anything, of any people out there, the listeners, if you’re a female, And, again, it doesn’t matter what your age is. If you are constantly presenting with these symptoms, then find somewhere and get your hormones and, in particular, your testosterone level checked. Great segue.
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So we’re going to take a quick break. When we come back, we’re going to talk about Jeremy’s experience with his back pain and stem cells. So you’re listening to Dr. Scott filling in for John Rush, 560-KLZ.
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You’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner with two guests who have a lot of common sense, actually. Jeremy Sobo, my patient slash client, who’s talking about his personal journey. And we’ll get into the stem cells in your back. And then I have John Flouting, owner of Revitalize there in Littleton, who is like-minded and thinks outside of the box. So, Jeremy, we want to talk about your journey, your back and stem cells.
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Sure. So 1997, excuse me, in a wakeboarding accident back before you could come out of the boards, early technology. I broke my right femur in half in the middle of a lake up in Michigan. Disastrous injury. Held it from compounding. Ended up getting the metal rod in, bolted at the knee and at the hip. Had surgery to take it out a couple years later. Set me out of college golf. Moved to South Florida, got my game back. I was told that I would have back issues in my 40s. And I figured, well, it’s 25 years down the road. Like, nah, we’ll get there when we get there. Right on track, I think 39-ish, I blew out disc L5-S1, and I’ve had several herniations and a couple of microdiscectomy surgeries, and I was looking at a fusion, which I didn’t want to do because it would have ruined my ability to do the things I love like ski and golf, etc., So I did a search. This is back in 2014, so 11 years ago. And I came across stem cells. Knew just enough to be dangerous, but ended up finding a guy, Dr. Scott Brandt out of ThriveMD in Edwards, Colorado. And I had the wife drive me out there, and I stayed in a hotel room. And he took stem cells out of my adipose fat with liposuction and then centrifuged them with platelet-rich plasma and took some stem cells out of the iliac crest of my bone marrow and mixed all that together. And he injected them under x-ray guidance into my L4, L5, and L5-S1 discs, which didn’t have much disc tissue left under MRI at the time. Well, thank God I did that. because over the next 11 years, I kept growing more disc tissue, more hydration, more disc tissue, to the point that my discs in 2018, so three years later, were at the original height they were before any of the degeneration took place in the spine. Then I, you know, did something really crazy and went off a jump at Copper Mountain, went airborne, landed on the left side, blew out L4, L5 real bad. Paralysis, couldn’t feel my left leg. The whole nerve was impinged. 72-hour waiting for insurance later, microdissectomy in Parker, you know, cleared it out. And now my disc height was compromised yet again because I was stupid. So now fast forward, you know, into the COVID years, a new technology came out called ViaDisc, which is like a cadaver disc tissue mixed with like a glue component. So again, went through, took out all the stem cells. Didn’t know at the time I could bank them, but did the same thing over again and got back to the original disc height once again. And now I deal with a little herniation here and again, and maybe some injection intervention to help manage it. But I don’t need a fusion. I skied 3 million vertical feet since this last ski season. Just played 90 holes of golf at Pebble Beach a couple of weeks ago. And my spine looks great. So now we’re moving into umbilical cord type technology and the ability to bank those. So I can actually have my own little bank of hundreds of millions of stem cells that I can use to draw from and continue to put them in places like my elbow, my knee, my shoulder, my lower back. So I’m surprised by now that stem cells aren’t wider used or covered by insurance. Cause I was told after five years, you know, here we are 11 years later and we’re just scratching the surface. But I can tell you, there’s a lot of people that have had one, two, three level fusions that wish they knew what I knew and what I went through. Um, cause it would have saved their lives. Cause these fusions, these people are still in pain. They have no mobility, you know, it’s moving up the chain. It’s getting worse. Um, So the ability to regenerate tissue or regenerate parts of the body that are compromised, it seems to me now that the sky is the limit with stem cells. And you’re seeing some incredible stories too, Doc.
SPEAKER 10 :
That’s exactly right. And we now know that, God bless you, that he could use the bone marrow and adipose derived I showed you in my office earlier today that the studies are out. Umbilical cord is far superior, so there’s no reason to go through that painful procedure. If you want liposuction, do liposuction. But there’s no reason to do bone marrow adipose derived stem cells when we can get them from the umbilical cord of a baby. They’re more potent, the most potent, and the longest lasting. So exciting. And here’s a crazy thing. This is a little tidbit for the listeners. If you know somebody who is pregnant and going to have a baby… Contact Cord for Life, Cord, F-O-R for Life, L-I-F-E, out of Orlando, Florida. And you can basically pay the fee for those cells to be banked. Even though it’s not your baby, if the mom says, I’m just going to throw it in the trash can. Say, hey, do you mind if I pay the fee? So if you pay that fee, and it’s somewhere around $3,000, then… Court for life, when you have a bad knee, a bad shoulder, a bad whatever. Now, I don’t do spines. I do have my friends that do spines because I was never trained in spine. But I can do any other joint or I can do an IV infusion. You will get five chambers with five times the stem cells in them. And I only charge you 500 bucks. Whereas each time I give you, say, three vials, you’re looking at close to 12,000. One time. You get five doses, and I only charge you to put them in your body.
SPEAKER 11 :
I remember in 2006 when my daughter was born, in 2010 when my son was born, both instances somebody approached me and asked me if I wanted to pay like two grand to save the umbilical cord, and I had no idea. But you’re damn well sure my grandchildren are going to have them saved.
SPEAKER 10 :
It is liquid gold, folks. So even if you’re not having a baby, if you have a grandchild, a daughter, somebody you know, and they’re going to throw it in the trash can, Say, no, that is liquid gold. We’ll pay the price. And that’s a way to basically help your body because your body is going to be worn down. We’ve already talked about that. All the things that we’ve talked for the last two and a half hours, we can help repair or slow that process down. And stem cells is one of the best things.
SPEAKER 05 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah. A thousand percent.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, I mean, there’s going to be a point in time in your life when you will need them and you’re going to want to have them on hand. That’s exactly right. And, you know, versus the alternative of surgeries and more scar tissue and, you know, but so I, I’m, I’m a big believer.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah. So I know this was a short segment. We went a little long in the first couple of ones. When we come back for the last segment before we close out, a lot of you are saying, hey, this is great, but I’m not in Jeremy’s boat. I can’t afford to ski a million vertical feet and go to Pebble Beach and all this stuff. What are some of the things I can do for myself on a budget to be able to afford to start this journey? So when we come back, we’ll finish out talking about how we can make this affordable and then some of the other gadgets that we have that are not – expensive that people can use in my clinic. So we’ll be right back. Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush.
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Welcome back, listeners, for the final segment with my two friends, Jeremy Sova and John Flouting. This is Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John. If you need to reach me at my clinic, it’s 303-663-6990. John, how do they get a hold of you? Yeah, 720-361-2302. They’re revitalizing Littleton. So Jeremy, you love, I’m going to put words in your mouth. You love my clinic. You love the things that we do. What are some of those cool gadgets that you really find exciting? Sure.
SPEAKER 11 :
So I kind of started out, which I’ve done before, is with the IV hydration bags, right? And I found out, oh, you can get this Myers or this enhanced Myers. And then I learned you can drill down once you go all the way back to square one. Once you know your blood work and what you’re deficient in, you can actually customize the IV infusions. I do them every two weeks, give or take. So I’m always flush with the right nutrients and the right hydration. So that’s where I kind of found you. That’s where I started. And then I started to pay attention to this machinery that’s showing up in all the different rooms and these moving guys bringing stuff in. And as inquisitive as I am, I started asking your nurse practitioners and your EMTs about this stuff. So I found out that all the gadgets are really cool. You got hyperbaric oxygen therapy. They call it HBOT, which is great for generating tissue. It’s great for traumatic brain injuries, kids playing sports, contact sports, like my son playing hockey. Um, and one that I’ve really focused on now weekly is called, uh, the acronym is Hockett stands for hypothermic ozone, carbonic acid, transdermal therapy. Well, I can’t believe I got that right. Um, so essentially you go up to your neck in a sauna that kicks on with, um, some carbon dioxide and then it infuses with ozone. It gets you sweating. And there’s certain programs mine I do for back pain since I got the compromised lumbar spine, um, And this machine in 30 minutes is absolutely incredible. The detoxification, the immune strengthening response. Since I started coming to your clinic, I haven’t had so much as a sniffle. And I’m all these busy airplanes and everyone’s getting sick around me. So what it’s done for my immunity is unheard of. So I go into this Hockett sauna for 30 minutes once a week. And then I hop over to your cryo chamber, which helps kind of cool things down because the sonic can get pretty intense. And then I think you can explain it better, but the cryotherapy kind of helps things from bouncing around cellular-wise. And then I go into your red light therapy bed. These things are gaining popularity, and it’s like 10 spectrum LED bulbs with different settings for different ailments. But essentially what it’s doing is penetrating into the organs and helping your mitochondrial health. So the IV, the hocket, the cryo, and the red light bed has become routine for me. I’m in the red light bed four days a week with the cryo, the hocket once a week, or as needed, say, you go on vacation and you’re indulging in too much alcohol, you know, get home, get in the hocket sauna, detox. And you’re off to the races. And I’ve also done the PEMF therapy intermittently too, which I’m finding some advantages to. And even swapping the blood and adding some ozone to it. And I haven’t even scratched the surface in everything you’re doing over there. I’m learning each time that I show up that there’s another door to unlock or another box to check. And you just filter it down to stuff that works for you. And actually what I found out is it’s extremely affordable. You buy packages of the Cryo and the Red Light or the So Many Hockets or the So Many Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Treatments. Once you realize what it’s doing for you and how you feel, all of a sudden you’re like, well, this is just like a car payment. But you only have one car. It’s the most important car that you can drive. It’s your body. So before you know it, you’re like, oh, I can… I can budget $600 or $700 a month to make sure that I’m doing these things regularly that keep me on top of my health span game. And I just want to see how far I can drive it because I haven’t been sick in like nine months. Usually I get these every three or four months, this rhinovirus or this norovirus that knocks you down for a couple of days. The family’s all getting it. I’m not. Right? So is it chance? Is it coincidence? Stay tuned. Yeah.
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So, John, I’m sure you have a lot of patients who say, well, this is kind of expensive what you guys are doing. And then they wait. They have their regular insurance plan. They get patted on the head by their doc. And then they have a major event where they crash and burn. And now it’s really expensive. So… It’s like the old – I think it was Midas, right? You can pay me now or you can pay me later. Well, while your body is still doing okay, we can help optimize you, intelligent aging, keep you from having things that will crash and burn. Like one of the things that I recommend is a whole body MRI. Now, I don’t have any stock in the MRI company, but – You want to know if you have a tumor in your brain, in your chest, abdomen, or pelvis when it’s tiny. For $650 and no radiation, why wouldn’t you do that? Your health, your life is worth that. Unless you’re absolutely so claustrophobic that we have to knock you out, go get a scan for your family, for your kids, and make sure you don’t have something growing in your body that’s going to kill you in two years’ time.
SPEAKER 11 :
In my experience, if you’re not doing the annual, some people pronounce it gallery, some pronounce it glary, but a blood marker cancer screening test paired with a full-body MRI once a year for both, especially after age 35 you’re crazy right for a thousand dollars a year you can know it’s all about early detection i wasn’t saying detection before it’s too we got cancer in my family right we caught it at stage zero because of all this early detection intervention um most people don’t want to go to the doctor they want to know you catch it early it’s 2025 they can fix it oh yeah put you into remission so check the blood check the imaging no doubt yep yep agree so
SPEAKER 10 :
What more advice do you have, John, for your patients who are still going, I don’t know about that or anything to move them off of zero?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I mean, a lot of times I’ll just focus on, I mean, really the importance of it, you know, just try to drive home the importance of it and. You know, everything that you just said, you know, why wouldn’t you want to know versus, you know, before it’s too late? I mean, you can get down into the finances of it. You know, a lot of the things of yours, you know, like the cool toys you have. I don’t necessarily have all those cool toys, so I don’t really have anything to add there, but it would be nice. We’ve been looking into some things like that, but yeah. Um, not everybody has to buy a package, you know, starting small can be, you know, the best thing for them because at least without having to go and say, I have to drop three grand for this, this package. and do these five sessions or six sessions, start with one, see how you like it. And, you know, like you’re saying, detoxifying. And if you start noticing and seeing these benefits, I think it sells itself in the, in the long run. And, you know, people will, I mean, they know what their financial situation is, so they will take the time. And if it, If they perceive that it’s valuable to them, they will find a way to use those services from their own.
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It’s ironic. Oftentimes, they’ll be paying all this money for supplements they’re doing nothing for. They don’t get their blood work checked. They’re like, oh, I’m supposed to take vitamin D3 every day, which is good, right? But what if your vitamin D3 level is 77 and you’re spending money on supplements you don’t need? That’s a cheap one. There’s other examples. But once you know all the answers, focus the financial firepower on the stuff that makes a difference, stuff that makes you feel better, stuff that lets you age healthier.
SPEAKER 05 :
I mean, how many people waste hundreds of dollars a month just on coffee? Oh, yeah. Right. When, number one, if you can’t live without your coffee, make it at home.
SPEAKER 11 :
God forbid my friends are going to hate me for saying this, but alcohol. How much money do they spend on alcohol? And it’s the only thing that we haven’t talked about yet that basically negates everything that we have talked about.
SPEAKER 05 :
Going out to eat. I mean, all of these things, there’s many, many different ways that you can. But there’s a lot of ways where you can hone in on your spending and use it appropriately for your health.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, don’t end up Joe Biden magically have a stage four cancer where – Metastasize. Metastasize to your bone.
SPEAKER 11 :
His doctor, when he was 72 years old, deciding not to continue PSAs, should be stripped of his medical license. That’s the easiest thing to test for. All of us are going to have some form of it as we get older. To stop the PSA 10 years earlier, to me, doesn’t make any sense.
SPEAKER 10 :
It makes no sense unless you’re an insurance company and you don’t want to pay for it. Yes. Right? That’s the only way it makes sense.
SPEAKER 05 :
Or you don’t want the news to leak out that the PSA is elevated.
SPEAKER 10 :
But that’s the whole point behind doing these screening tests is you want to stay young and healthy as long as possible. Prostate cancer is very treatable. Yes. So why not invest in yourself and say, sorry, doc, I don’t buy that. I’m going to find somebody who will do it. Or I think there’s a company called Any Lab Test Now. Yeah. You can go to there and say, I want my PSA and have it checked. Yep. So, well, three hours we just burned through. Thank you, Jeremy, for being my guest. John, thanks for joining us. Again, folks, if you need to contact me, 303-663-6990 or 560-KLZ, Rush to Reason. You can listen to this in about an hour. Dr. Scott Faulkner signing off.
