Join us as we explore the complexities of modern medicine on Health and Wellness Wednesdays. Dr. Scott Faulkner discusses the challenges young patients face in mainstream medicine with anecdotes from his practice, offering a fresh perspective on why regenerative approaches, such as hormone and peptide therapies, might be the solution. This episode bridges generational health practices, illustrating how innovative treatment strategies are transforming lives today.
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I’m sorry that I’m fat. Welcome, listeners. You’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush on this Health and Wellness Wednesday. Thank you, John. Enjoy that time with Tara wherever it is you’re at. I don’t even know where John’s at, but he’s been gracious enough to give me three hours to fill in and update everybody on what’s been going on in the regenerative space. And today we have Jeremy Sova back in the studio. Great to be back. It’s an honor. Yep. So those of you who may or may not know, Jeremy is a baby biohacker. Friend, patient, expert in this space. What else?
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I would say the journey continues. Since we started back in May, I’ve made some pretty impressive strides even since then. So it’s an ever evolving journey.
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that’s right.
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Anti and intelligent aging journey, if you will. So it’s, it’s good to be back and, you know, yeah.
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You’re a great sounding board, especially in the office. You’re like, Hey man, did you see this article on this or that? Cause I can’t keep up with everything. I mean, it’s just coming at us so fast, but the Brian Johnson’s of the world, you’re staying up to date on the latest and greatest and, and it’s really been beneficial to me, then I can take that to all my patients, which they’re gaining huge strides in their health and their performance. It’s actually really exciting to see.
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Definitely. Part of the excitement for me is to take the really technical stuff and kind of break it into lay person’s terms like myself, because you got to sift through a lot of technical jargon and it’s nice to be able to just tell people what to do and watch them get the benefit from it.
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Yeah, that’s exactly right. And we have two other special guests in studio with us. So ladies first, this is Maddie. Won’t give out your last name. So Maddie and Josh are brother and sister. and they are experts in peptides. So I can’t tell you how many people lately have been coming up to me saying, Doc, I’ve heard of this BPC thing, this Wolverine blend, and even the weight loss medicines, right, the semglutide, triseptide, those are peptides as well. So I wanted to take most of all three hours and really take this deep dive into what are peptides, How do they work? Which ones are best for neurocognitive? Which are best for weight loss? Which are best for wound healing, muscle repair, muscle growth, fertility, sexuality, things like that? And so because these two are experts, they call on me in my office, I thought, who better than to bring Josh and Maddie in to the studio? And I especially wanted you, Maddie, because… I wanted that female perspective because I can talk to these guys all day long, but I’m not a girl. You clearly are. You look like a supermodel. Sorry, Josh, but your sister does. So you’re going to bring an interesting perspective that we can’t, the three of us guys, talk to our patients. You can help with that. We also have, I believe, three generations represented here. Because if I’m not incorrect, and I’ll not ask your age, but you guys are Gen Zs, right? Yeah.
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You know, I’m not really sure. What is a Gen Z? Oh, crap. When were you born? Yeah.
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99.
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I think that’s Gen Z. I think that’s Z. End of millennial, beginning of Gen Z. Okay.
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So then you’re a millennial.
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Yeah.
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So we have a Gen Z-er. We have a millennial.
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And I’m a Gen Xer, but close to millennial as far as the dates go and the way we’re reversing the biological clock. I’ll be a millennial soon enough.
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Oh, okay. I love that. Well done. And I’m actually closer to the beginning of that Gen X, right? We were the latchkey kids. Grew up in the 70s and early 80s and back when life was fun and you could go out and play and your mom didn’t worry about you getting kidnapped or something like that.
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They didn’t have an Apple tracer in your shoe.
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No, that’s exactly right. So this should help our listeners really get a – we don’t have the greatest generation here represented. Represented. Represented. Yeah, you know what I mean. But I think this conversation really spans all generations. So I’m going to start off with a story of a dad who came to see me just a couple of days ago. So that people get the mental picture, and then we’re going to take it from there. So this dad, who’s actually closer to your age, right, Jeremy, he came in to me a few days ago and said, Doc, I need your help. I’m like, okay, what can I help you with? He says, well, it’s my son. So my son is now 16 years of age. When he was 14, he was 5 feet 7 inches, 124 pounds. and was not gaining mass. He was playing sports, but his performance is lagging. Went off to the family doctor who then referred this young man to the endocrinologist, pediatric endocrinologist, who they did some basic blood tests. Everything was fine. Checked a thyroid panel and told this young man, not sure what you have, but you should outgrow this. That was two years ago. They have been to multiple doctors since then. The kid is sick and tired of seeing doctors.
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I think I know where you’re going with this. A simple pediatrician giving him seromorlin to wake up the pituitary gland and get the growth hormone going would catch him up to his peers.
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But here’s the crazy thing. Is it really the pituitary? Because now he’s 5’11”. 128 pounds. Can’t put the weight on him with the growth. He only put four pounds on, but he got the height. Interesting. So I don’t think it’s totally an empty cell syndrome where he doesn’t have a pituitary. I did a cortisol on him, which the endocrinologist should have done. I think he’s hypogonad. I don’t think this young man has testosterone. And so he’s not putting on the muscle mass.
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So went through puberty and didn’t get this testosterone.
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That’s exactly right. So dad’s like, you’re the first person to actually stop and listen to this. My son, he doesn’t think any doctor can help him, but I think you can. And the crazy thing is the dad went through chat GPT, and I said, okay, well, we need to check his testosterone. We need to check cortisol to make sure that axis is working. I said, I don’t think this is a mitochondrial dysfunction, but it’s on my list. We’ll hold off on that testing. So the young man came in yesterday, just had his blood work. And so the story is to be continued. We don’t know the full answer.
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You don’t have the results of the… Not yet.
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No. But what pissed me off is that I’m an internist, right? I specialize in adults 18 and above. And I’m now treating or taking care of 16-year-olds because there’s not a flipping doctor out there that uses their brain. You went through the same medical training that I went through. You studied under the same professors that I studied under. Why is it that God gave me an extra heaping of common sense… But you’ve got thousands of doctors out here that can’t make that simple connection.
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I tried to get my 15-year-old a blood panel at his annual physical for sports, and they were reluctant to do it until he was 18. I said, I’ll pay more. I want to know. And we found a couple of things that can be tweaked and improved upon. But they were like, oh, you’re not 18 yet. You’re fine. Like, no, you’re not fine.
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Catch it. If there’s something, catch it early. That’s exactly right. And fix it. So I wanted to start off with that story. We’re going to take a quick break. When we come back, we’re going to get Maddie and Josh’s take on, let’s say this young man is hypogonad. And I put him on testosterone replacement. We need to talk what is causing this epidemic of hypogonadism. What else can he do to bulk up because he’s only 128 pounds, right? His fertility. Now, he’s not thinking of getting married at 16, but in my brain, that’s where I’m going for this young man here in maybe 10 years if he finds a cute girl. So I want to entertain that thought. If any of the audience wants to call in, you can be part of the show. It’s 303-477-5600. 303-477-5600. You’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner, field manager for John Rush, 560 KLZ on Health and Wellness Wednesday. We’ll be right back.
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Welcome back, listeners. It is a gorgeous day in Denver, Colorado. For those of you listening in other parts of the country, including my sister in Daytona Beach, Florida. You’re missing out on a picture-perfect day, sister. She’ll get back at you in February. Oh, she did when I was a little kid. She tormented me. But the crazy thing is she could pick on me, but nobody else could. She’s like, only I can pick on my little brother, right, Maddie?
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It’s the same.
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Are you able to pick on Josh, but nobody else can?
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I don’t know that I take that much of an overprotective sister role, but there is a special place for Maddie input versus others.
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Fantastic. I’m glad I’m not the only one. So having heard that story, and let’s just jump out there and say, let’s assume this young man who’s 16 years old has hypogonadism. The testosterone is the easy part, right? Sure. What other things might this young man benefit from, Maddie?
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I think a huge one could be gonadarellin. When they’re doing testosterone replacement therapy in adults, that’s a common pairing just to keep fertility up should they want to revisit that down the line. So like you mentioned, if he’s looking for that in the future, he’s pretty young. You don’t want to have that decision made for you at that age. So making sure that the possibility of… Having kids down the line is still there. I think, I don’t know if you’re already doing this, but possibly testing his growth hormone levels and seeing where those are at because it sounds like there could be something really wonky with that going on. Depending on what the answer to that is.
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That’s right. So I thought, okay, if the testosterone level is low, I’ve got my answer. because that doesn’t come from the pituitary. But if it is T levels normal, then you’re right. I’m going to MRI his brain. I’m going to look at that pituitary stock. we’re going to do other testing for all the other, um, adrenal, um, pituitary axis hormones and growth hormone is one of those. That’s exactly right. But again, the kids five 11, usually if you have low growth hormone, you have short stature.
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Yeah.
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So it wasn’t top on my list, but it’s on there. Yeah. What about you, Josh?
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Yeah. Um, you know, testosterone support, anything from gonadaline to, um, hcg hcg very common for you know men especially who are on testosterone replacement therapy or bioidentical hormone replacement um just so those natural hormone levels um can be brought to like a homeostasis point um but then there begs the question of the size right um and you know we won’t know without blood work but those secretogogs the growth hormone secretogogs waking up the pituitary gland But you could also go a different route and do the insulin growth factor. So there’s, there’s multiple ways you can play it. You just, you know, the blood work is going to speak to kind of the best way to go about that.
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Yep. So since we’re on the subject of insulin growth factor, explain to the audience, okay, they’ve heard maybe what it is. What is it? How does it work? The whole nine yards.
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Yeah. So pretty much it is a, you know, All peptides are proteins, essentially, and this one specifically targets your body’s ability to be sensitive to insulin. We know insulin is also a peptide now. That was actually discovered in the early 1920s. Um, so, uh, with your body’s ability to kind of use insulin properly, properly, or be insulin resistant, um, you’re going to have then the ability to one, um, have protein synthesis, but to, um, put on muscle mass, keep lean muscle, um, especially if you’re trying to lose weight while you’re on it. But yeah, it’s pretty much your body’s ability to use insulin properly.
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Yeah. And have you seen, because you guys call on a lot of other providers, a lot of us in the regenerative space, we will check an insulin level. Do you see that commonly tested in other offices? First, do you guys even call on, quote unquote, regular doc, what I call the doc in the box? Do you even call on these guys?
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We do. We have – I think there’s a place for peptides in basically any practice if people are open to them. So we do have doctors here and there that are your traditional general practitioner – who you’d be going to from the time you were a baby to well into your 80s, 90s. Every doctor is different, like you said. So it just depends on the physician and what their thoughts are and how open they are to alternative forms of medicine, whether or not peptides is something they’re going to explore. But we do have general practitioners who will prescribe peptides here and there.
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Okay. Is that a big number, Josh?
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I would say no. Thank you. You have standard medicine. What – people refer to as medicine 2.0. And then you have medicine 3.0, which is trying to find the root cause of an illness before it’s too late. And that’s really where peptides kind of play a role in modern regenerative medicine. So if, you know, chances are 90% of the time, if you’re going to a dock in the box, peptides aren’t going to be on their radar.
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Correct. That’s what I suspected was the case.
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I’ll take it a step further. I just had my annual with my primary care physician that I do once a year, mostly for comedy these days. And she was enthralled at the idea that I was on peptides and hormone replacement therapy. And her only solution was she found out that I smoked cigarettes for 16 years but quit 14 years and nine months earlier. And since it was before the 15-year mark, she wanted to rush me for a chest CT and hit me with radiation, which they’ve called me 17 times since and left me four voicemails from the imaging place that I’ve been ignoring. So that’s my doc in the box, and she’s supposed to be a VIP option. And I basically dismissed the conversation and moved on from peptides and hormones. She’s like, you’re going to stroke out. I’ve had three people that have had blood clots. I’m like, yeah, let me guess. Their blood pressure was like 140 over 110. Well, yeah, they had high blood pressure. Well, mine’s perfect. I’ve been doing it for five years. She’s like, still, though, you need to get off that stuff immediately.
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Yeah, and all those people probably have the clot shot too. Right. Right?
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I think that there, let’s clarify this. There are general practitioners who use peptides. Whether or not they are using them in the way they should be and which few they decide to use is a different story. But let’s, I mean, a lot of GPs do prescribe GLP-1s.
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Okay. There’s the exception. Right.
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They may be prescribed sermorelin. There is a small number of things. The FDA approved version of PT141, you know, they’re dosing that out. So there are a number of peptides that they are familiar with. It’s just they like to pick and choose and… don’t open themselves up to the whole sphere of it.
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We think that’s more of a liability protection perspective. Is that what they’re, or is it just, they’re just blind to the science?
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Well, I think that’s a huge part of it because you’re not taught this, right? So I had to go out and learn this for myself. There wasn’t a class that I could take in peptides. So because I started biohacking and looking for an alternative, once I left the ICU and hospital medicine, I’m like, there’s gotta be a better way. And then I run into guys like you and I start to listen to Peter Attia and the Mark Hyman’s of the world. And suddenly my eyes are open. The scales are dropped from my eyes. I’m like, holy cow. And then you start to see as you like you, right? Your transformation is remarkable.
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Yeah, the last – I’ve gone back 10 years now. I looked at it, and I’m a completely different human being than I was 10 years ago.
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Yeah, and just this short time, I had another guy come in today. He says, oh, you guys are going to love this. It was your dad who sent him to me today. So this is a person known to you guys. Your dad said, you need to go to this doctor because he’s totally outside of the box. He will dial you in like nobody’s business. This gentleman, he works hard. He’s put on about 14 pounds. Because of that, he’s starting to snore again, right, which is driving his wife nuts. So now she’s not getting quality sleep. High-pressure industry that he’s in, dealing with Summit County and all their stuff. So after sitting down with this man, I normally give 30 minutes. I actually went long, 45 minutes. He’s like, holy cow, nobody’s ever talked to me like this. It’s basically everything that you and I talk about. Getting him on, he tried semaglutide once, but he got blurred vision. And there is some literature that rarely people can get a little blurred vision from it. I’ve seen that, yeah. So he stopped it and was like, okay. And it had worked for him. But I said, have you tried turazeptide or retatrutide? He’s like, well, I don’t know. I said, I’ll tell you what. Try the retatrutide. It’s the best. It’s the cleanest. The third generation. The third generation GLP. I said try it for two weeks because all your blood work will be back or your biomarkers will be back in two weeks because Quest is a little slow. Come on back. Let’s look at everything. But I’ll bet you you will start to notice that, oh, the weight is coming off, which is going to make your wife happier. You’re going to have more energy. Oh, by the way, your mitochondria is dysfunctional. Because you don’t have the CoQ10. You don’t have the alpha lipoic acid. You don’t have the L-carnitine. You don’t have the resveratrol. And mostly you don’t have the NAD plus because you can’t absorb it when you take it orally. And we’ll talk about that a little later on why that is. And I said, that’s just part of the puzzle. I haven’t even checked your thyroid. I haven’t checked to see if you’re anemic. Homocysteine. I haven’t checked your homocysteine. I haven’t checked your insulin level. He’s like, nobody’s ever talked to me like this before. I said, that’s because I see the entire picture. You as a person. With all these systems interplaying, it’s the way God made it. And if your mitochondria is not good, then you’re not going to feel like doing your mountain biking. You’re not going to have the energy and the oomph. If your testosterone is low, he says, oh, I was diagnosed with hypogonadism years ago. They had put me on a cream. I was doing fairly well. Then something happened, and my doctor, she said, oh, you should do the injectables. He’s like, I hated the injectables, so I just stopped. I’m like, so we already know for a fact you’re hypogonad, right? And who knows what else? We know you’re overweight. We know your mitochondria is dysfunctional. So let’s just start with the low hanging fruit. Let’s get your biomarkers and start to tick these things off one at a time. And oh, by the way, there’s peptides that we can talk about, but let’s do that in two weeks when you come back. The guy was happy as a pig in slop.
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One thing I notice more and more is people don’t know how bad they feel because they’re used to living that way. I was one of them. And then all of a sudden you start to change one or two things and you start to feel better. And it opens this new door. You’re like, I want more of this feeling better stuff. And then you realize that you still feel like crap. And then as you go along, you start to add, look at what’s going on and start to fix it. then you’re hooked for life. You’re like, I don’t want to deal with traditional medicine and this give me pills for disease. I want to prevent chronic disease, power the mitochondria, eliminate the inflammation, and be the best version of myself that I can possibly be.
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That’s exactly right. So I think I’m going to open this gentleman’s eyes to what can – how good he could be, right? And keep him productive for his wife and his kids. The other thing I said is you need to get a whole body MRI scan. He’s like, what? I’m like, dude, you’ve got young kids. You’ve got a wife. You’ve got a business. You need to know if you’ve got something in your chest or in your brain or in your belly that’s going to take you out of the game. Let’s find it. If it’s tiny MRI, there’s no radiation whatsoever. 650 bucks through Simon Med there in Parker. Get scanned like I did. Head, throat, chest, abdomen, pelvis. I want to know because I’m working my backside off to be as healthy as possible. Then I showed him the scan that I had your dad do. which was that CTA, so it’s a CAT scan, it’s an angiogram, but with AI overread. Because for the longest time, we couldn’t tell if you had soft plaque. Now I see from the clock that I’m going a little long. When we come back, I’m gonna finish explaining that and how it is a game changer Um, and then we’ll go back and start from the beginning with what is a peptide? Where did they come from? Because I kind of neglected that. I jumped into the story of the young man. So I think the listeners want to know, okay, you guys keep throwing peptides and there’s so many of them. What is it? How can it help me? So we’ll talk about that when we come back. You’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner and friends, 560 KLZ health and wellness Wednesdays. We’ll see you on the backside.
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Back to Rush to Reason. Welcome back, listeners. You’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush with my friends Jeremy Sova and Josh and Maddie, brother and sister, who are experts in peptides. So I was telling the story that I said I would finish, and it was the scan on your heart. So a lot of us have heard of something called a CT calcium score. So let me back up a little further. Many of you listeners, you go to your doc in the box, and for your annual physical exam, they will draw a few labs. They will check a CMP, a complete metabolic panel, which gives you sodium, potassium, chloride, bicarb, BUN carotene, which is the kidney function, glucose. sometimes a calcium on it if it’s a Chem 13. Well, that’s not a Chem 13. Then they do a CBC, which is your white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets. And then they will often throw on a lipid panel, checking your total cholesterol, your LDL, the quote-unquote bad cholesterol, the HDL, the good cholesterol, and triglycerides. What they don’t tell you is that’s a really crappy marker for heart disease.
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75% of all heart attacks happen with people with perfect cholesterol numbers.
SPEAKER 04 :
Bingo. And so what they don’t tell you is there’s a couple other tests that they could have done, like an apoprotein little b and a lipoprotein little a, which are more predictive of heart disease. And pattern sizes. Bingo. So most docs in the box don’t even know about that, so they don’t test it. So they can’t talk to you about it. So the way they’re trained is these societies, like the cardiology society, they have quote-unquote guidelines, and they come down from on high every couple of years. They say, okay, you little doctors, if your patient’s LDL cholesterol is 130, they’re a ticking time bomb. So therefore, you must throw a statin at this person. It’s like, okay, is that it? Yep, that’s it because we, the great Oz, have spoken. It’s like, all right, but how do I know my patient has coronary arteries because every cell in the human body has cholesterol? Well, we said so. All right. Well, are there other tests that maybe we could do to see if this person needs this toxic drug that might give them Alzheimer’s and jack their CoQ10 and mitochondria and muscle pain and myalgias and stuff? No, we said so. Okay, so guys like me opened up their eyes and said, well, why not check a myeloperoxidase and an LPPLA-2? If those are high, then we’re on more solid ground that this person probably has disease going on in their chest because those two tests are only specific for the coronaries. Well, because it will cost the industry more money. But this is my patient. If I save my patient a heart attack… Isn’t it worth it? And what about the 18 other people that I just gave a statin to, number needed to treat, right? Because back when I trained, the number needed to treat was 19. We never tell our patients this. So when you take millions of people who have an LDL cholesterol of 130 or greater and you throw a little white pill at them, there’s a cost to that. And, oh, yeah, by the way, we treated 18 people unnecessarily to save that one person from having a heart attack or stroke. Oh, we didn’t tell you those poor 18 people just had an expense and the myalgias and the wreck to their mitochondria and everything else. But that’s not how the great Oz from on high thinks.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, especially since heart disease can start in the womb. They used to say mid-teens. Now they’re finding out in the womb. So my 19-year-old daughter, I just had her biomarkers done. She’s got the same bad heart numbers that I do. So I can start her on red yeast rice, maybe an azetabi at a young age so it won’t progress like mine did because nobody ever looked at mine.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. And so ezetimibe, which is Zetia is the trade name, it actually blocks the absorption of cholesterol from the foods that we eat. In the stomach, yeah. And it doesn’t affect your muscles. It doesn’t affect your CoQ10. It doesn’t have all the other bad side effects. So there’s another option. But then we said, well, there’s other tests that we can do. There’s something called a CT calcium score. All right, so let’s do a CAT scan. Yes, you’re exposed to a little radiation, but we’re looking to see those coronary arteries, what’s going on there. But we’re only looking at calcium. Calcium is like concrete. Calcium doesn’t rupture and cause a heart attack.
SPEAKER 14 :
The only thing it shows you is that you have coronary artery disease. Then you need to figure out what’s going on with the soft plaque.
SPEAKER 04 :
With the soft plaque. And so now, as of about two and a half months ago, they now have the ability to do a CT angiogram, right? So they start an IV. Like at Simon Med, they do this in Parkhurst. So they start an IV. They give you contrast. So you have to have good kidney function, and you can’t be allergic to the contrast dye. We also have to get your heart rate down to 60. So oftentimes I’ll give somebody metoprolol. Beta blocker. Beta blocker to get that heart rate down to 60 or less because it’s a gated study, and we need that slow wall motion so the scan will pick up the arteries themselves. You don’t want a heart beating at 100 beats a minute. It’s like looking at a hummingbird’s wings.
SPEAKER 14 :
Hold your breath, too, because that slows the heart rate down for that 10-second period.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. So they do a CT angiogram, but now with AI overread, we can actually look at the soft plaque. Because here’s another caveat I just learned. 30% of people with a CT calcium score of zero, like mine is, go on to have a cardiac event.
SPEAKER 14 :
That’s because you think zero, you have no heart disease.
SPEAKER 04 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 14 :
Or coronary artery disease.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s right. But that’s the calcium. We’re not looking at the soft plaque. So now we can actually use technology to our advantage. It’s like, all right, Mr. Your dad’s friend who just came into me, let’s scan you and see, do you need intervention? Do we need to get aggressive? To save you so that you don’t abandon your wife and your two kids, my dad died at 45 of a massive heart attack. He went to bed and thought he had the flu. Never woke up. At 45. In the left main. Yeah, left main. So the Widowmaker. Yep. So I take the approach that you’re my patient. I don’t care about the system and how much because we’re wasting millions and billions of dollars. Let’s face it. It’s a racket out there. what the lab companies are charging, what the hospitals charge for imaging. It’s sick. So you and I, Jeremy, had this conversation earlier where patients now need to start taking control of their own health care.
SPEAKER 14 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 04 :
Get an insurance policy with an HSA rider, a health savings account. Start squirreling money away and take care of yourself And spend a little money on a MRI scan, a whole body for $650, or this CT angiogram with Clearly. And I will tell you, at Simon Med, it’s $1,500. come to somebody like myself because i don’t take insurance i will not be part of that model because once you get those handcuffs on you they dictate what you can do that goes back to the original question i asked you maddie really are you sure that these primary carers are doing peptides it doesn’t make sense to me because i know they are the puppet and their puppet masters are the executives at uc health at Advent Health, at Health War HCA, and they tell these poor doctors that are trying to give the best care they can, well, you’re not going to talk about peptides. No, that’s not in our armamentarium. It’s like when I was working at the hospital and I was told I could not talk about ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine. I was told specifically that I couldn’t. So that’s the pressure that these doctors are under. So that goes back to your question, Jeremy. Is it lack of knowledge or are they being told not to? It’s actually both. One, they don’t know. They don’t know where to get this information unless Maddie walks into their office. And two, they have a puppet master above them saying, you don’t have time. You have five minutes to see a patient. You’re not going to talk to them about peptides. You need to follow the guidelines.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, connecting the dots here, you said the GLP-1s are okay. Well, yeah, because you’ve got big pharma that’s raking it in on the GLP-1s and even the Sarah Moreland. So the stuff that fits their medical industrial complex financial mold, they’re starting to leak out. But all this other stuff that you guys are offering… Is still somewhat behind the scenes unless you get someone like me that applies it and says, wait a minute, what is this sorcery? Why do I feel so much better being on the five or six peptides from you guys that I’m on now? And that we need more docs like you, Mr. Faulkner. Yeah. Let’s see how it’s going.
SPEAKER 10 :
Or like here’s the brand name that’s FDA approved that is really just this product rebranded. And this is allowed because we’re making money off of it. Here’s the peptide that is not patented because your body just has it in itself. That’s not allowed because we aren’t making money off that.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s exactly right.
SPEAKER 10 :
That’s really what it is.
SPEAKER 04 :
So let’s go to a break really fast. And then when we come back, Maddie, I want you to tell us what are peptides, right? Because we keep throwing this word out there. I want the listeners to fully appreciate, one, what is a peptide? Two, where does it come from? And three, just how many are out there and which ones might be beneficial to our listeners. So we’ll talk about that when we come back. You’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner, filling in for John Rush, 560 KLZ.
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SPEAKER 04 :
Welcome back, listeners. Dr. Scott Faulkner and friends talking about peptides. A lot of people come in and say, hey, I’ve heard about these different things, this BP thing and TB, whatever. Can you tell me more about it? Is it for me? So, Maddie, let’s take a few minutes and explain to the audience what exactly are we talking about when we’re talking peptides.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, so going back to basics, peptides are just proteins made up of amino acid sequences. We already have them in our body. Our body makes about 7,000 different peptides every day. and they act as messengers telling cells what to do that can be anything from healing repair hormone balancing appetite regulation muscle growth you name it they bind to receptors on cells and trigger a response in your body
SPEAKER 04 :
OK. And right now, as adults, you say there’s about 7000 peptides. But don’t a lot of these come from like when you’re a fetus and a baby and then they there’s a signal to shut off of some of these peptides that were actually really beneficial. You guys work for researchers that are finding these things and saying, wait a second, if we can fire these things back up or recreate them in the lab, and because it’s just an amino acid sequence, it’s natural to your body. Correct. Right? So this doesn’t come from big pharma, so these aren’t Pfizer-made stuff that’s going to give you cancer or make your face fall off.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, this is just something that is already a naturally occurring substance, if you will, inside you. Yes, whether or not you had it at six months and it’s been turned off or we currently have them in us right now in different levels doing different things. They are trying to target all the full span of peptides on the full span of human life and synthesize them so that we can reap the benefits. of different levels of peptides in our body, let’s say.
SPEAKER 14 :
So on that natural biological process thought, I want to put something out there that a lot of people don’t understand. When you put something in your mouth, food, let’s say protein food, people think that it goes into the mouth and it ends up as a result of where they want it, like in the muscle. Yes. Yes. People think if you take collagen that your skin and nails are going to be better. That’s like thinking if you clip your nails and eat them that you’re going to have better nails. It doesn’t work that way. So that’s a major misconception out there, myself included, for a long time. So I just wanted to add that.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, and let’s simplify that even further. I mean, when you’re ingesting something, like – food, let’s say, going through your digestive system, things are processed very differently and broken down very differently than they are done through an IV, done through different mucosal membranes in your mouth, directed subcutaneously, directed or injected intermuscularly. So the way we put things in our body is also affects where they go and how they are utilized.
SPEAKER 14 :
You’re bypassing the liver and the GI tract. Correct.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, the first pass effect. And we had talked, we broached this subject a little earlier, Jeremy, about NAD+. So that’s a big one. So before we came on air, you and I were having this discussion of NAD+, and how a lot of people, in fact, the fella who your dad sent to me today, He said, my wife is going to be very disappointed because he found out that you cannot take oral supplements of NAD+. It does absolutely nothing for you and the precursors. So we had this conversation.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yep. I listened to a very in-depth, geeky scientific roundtable on this exact topic. In the NMN and the NR precursors and the NAD+, not only can you not run it through the GI tract, they’re also finding that you’re not getting the full benefit into the red blood cells if you go intramuscular, subcutaneous fat, or even in IV fluid. For some reason, It gets into the blood serum plasma and it doesn’t transfer into the cells. However, we’re finding, and I’ve proven it myself too, that if you take it mucosally under the tongue or intranasally into the nose, and I think it has something to do with the blood-brain barrier, but as a layperson, all I know is that it’s working. And now a day or two after I take it under the tongue or into the nose, my workouts, particularly my zone three and four cardio, are noticeably more impactful. I can hold a conversation now at zone three or four before I was out of breath. And it’s only because I changed the way that I take NAD+. And I’ve since added glutathione in the exact same capacity daily now as well.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. So I don’t fully appreciate why that would be. I can just tell you that when I take the subcutaneous, the micro-dosed NAD. Um, as opposed to a full dose, because that, that rush that I get, I just, it is intense. And I’m like, you know, I don’t have to punish myself. I know better than this. So that’s why we started offering the micro dose, but I am setting, I’m crushing records now on my Carol bike, on my weights. Like this morning, I went up 10 pounds on my leg extension. Nothing else has changed, but doing that microdosing has given my mitochondria that extra power. So I notice a difference with the microdose.
SPEAKER 14 :
And to tell the lay folks out there, NAD+, essentially, it goes down as you get older, right? So we’re trying to kind of supplement for it as we get older to catch up with the mitochondrial power and ATP that we had when we were younger. So we’re finding, like, when my son takes it before he plays hockey, he gets a sudden burst of energy. His ATP on the ice, he can get that extra 10, 20 seconds of stride. Or we need it just to supplement because it’s gone down as we age.
SPEAKER 1 :
50%.
SPEAKER 04 :
Every 20 years we age, we lose 50% of our NAD. Yep. So at 40, you’re down more than 50%. If you’re 60, you’re down three-quarters. And you have to have NAD part of the Krebs cycle, which is converting ADP to ATP.
SPEAKER 14 :
That’s exactly right.
SPEAKER 04 :
So for those of you who are driving, remember back to high school biology, and the teacher drew a cell on the board. And then she drew an oval and some squiggly lines and said, okay, that’s a mitochondria. That is the powerhouse of the cell. And it takes ADP and converts it to ATP. That is the fuel of the cells. That’s what they use to burn for energy. Well, that’s partially correct. What that teacher didn’t do is show you that in each cell, a common cell has 1,100 mitochondria. A neuron has 2,500 mitochondria. So if you’re down 50%, At 2,500, you’re operating on 1,250 mitochondria in your brain. Multiply that by a billion cells. So you can see why people get brain fog. They get lack of energy. They just don’t have any gas in the tank anymore. Their workouts suck. That’s just one component.
SPEAKER 14 :
If you focus on powering your mitochondria and lowering your inflammation, just those two things alone, however you can get there, it will change your life and reverse the clock for your health span. You will absolutely be able to do all the things that you never thought you could do again. If you focus on those two things. Now we can talk about all the different ways to do that. But power the mitochondria and crush the inflammation.
SPEAKER 04 :
You nailed it. That’s exactly right. So, Josh, when we come back at the top of the next hour, first we’re going to listen to Jeremy’s story. And then I want you to take what Jeremy is saying and give us some more of the whys behind why he’s doing so well and why I’m feeling so well so that the audience can take that information and maybe glean something from it. Maybe they don’t remember all the names of the peptides or what is Jeremy doing. They can go back and listen to this later this evening on 560 KLZ Rush to Reason. But the why and if there’s any other subtle things that he or the listeners can do that would really help. Put yourself in the audience’s shoes that they’re driving home on this beautiful day in Denver, Colorado, and give us some tips. But when we come back, first Jeremy’s story, okay? So 560 KLZ, Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush on this Health and Wellness Wednesday. Wednesdays, we’ll be back at the top of the hour.
SPEAKER 06 :
Rich guys.
