HOUR 1 Hour 1 of Rush to Reason ignites Health & Wellness Wednesday with Dr. Scott Faulkner, owner of Castle Rock Regenerative Healthcare (https://castlerockregenerativehealth.com), stepping in for John Rush. He’s joined by biohacker and high-performance health strategist Jeremy Sova, whose dramatic personal transformation has placed him just one degree from today’s top longevity pioneers. But can the cutting edge of biohacking really help you reverse aging, sharpen performance, and even conquer brutal long-haul jet lag? Together, Dr. Scott and Jeremy unpack the radical experiments of tech mogul Brian Johnson—the Braintree/Venmo creator turned full-time anti-aging test case. What happens when
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I’m sorry that I’m fat. Welcome listeners. It’s actually Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush on this beautiful Wednesday here in Denver, Colorado. Health and Wellness Wednesdays. We’re always looking forward to this. We had to push it back a week because Judy and I were in the Philippines. We have our clinic in Manila as well. And so one of the topics that my friend Jeremy and I are talking about is going to be jet lag and the things that we can do to help not prevent it because you can’t do anything to prevent it other than don’t travel, but to really help lessen the impact on your body. So many of you have listened to me speaking with my friend Jeremy. I want to really give you his bio because it’s actually really incredible. And a lot of you are going, okay, who is Jeremy Sova? What’s his story? Why is he even on the radio with you? Is this just some guy you found off the street? I didn’t find him off the street. I found him in my clinic. But Jeremy is a fellow biohacker, but he’s an expert in this. So a lot of you may or may not know Brian Johnson, very famous guy. And if you’ve ever watched Netflix, there is a gentleman, Brian Johnson, and they did a special on him called Don’t Die. And what makes Brian Johnson very interesting is that he created Venmo, a Braintree Venmo, sold it for about $900 million. He then took that money, and he came out of the Mormon church, was married for I think 14 years, had a couple of kids, ended up getting divorced, left the Mormon church, and was kind of empty inside. He didn’t have a whole lot going on. So he decided to take a small portion of his massive fortune and say, can I reverse aging? Now, those of us who practice medicine, we look at that and go, you know what? That’s absolutely incredible. But when you watch this Don’t Die Netflix special, you’ll see the expert from Harvard, and there was another professor, and I can’t remember if he was from Columbia or what, and they were poo-pooing everything that Brian was doing. They said, oh, well, you should just take that $2 million and give it to me, and I’ll do proper research. It’s like, you pricks, right? But that’s who I go to the doctor’s lounge with and hang out with is guys like that who think they know it all. They’re the end-all, be-all. Their nose is up in the air and they look down on everybody else. But I look at this and say, OK, Brian Johnson is taking $2 million a year. And I’m not asking everybody in the audience to spend $2 million. But what he’s doing is he’s actually buying with that money the best equipment to measure things in his body. So he’ll buy the best lab machine, right, for biomarkers. He will buy the best ultrasound machine. He will buy the best CT scanner, whatever.
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Well, he controls the process, which is great, right? So the doctors work for him. He’s not just a patient working for them.
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That’s exactly right.
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And he’s putting all the best third-party tested, best equipment in the world in front of him. It’s incredible to watch.
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It really is. And so when I saw this – and those who have not seen the Netflix special, I encourage you to go ahead and watch it. You will find that Brian is a little bit of a troubled person. It comes through fairly obviously. But what he’s doing to advance science – I find absolutely incredible. He is the tip of the spear. So doctors like myself say, what else can we do to prevent disease? Novel concept, right? But we don’t do that in America. We manage your disease.
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Even if he wanted to, the limits to be pushed that far and to be proven and then approved by the bureaucracy and the FDA, he’s laying the groundwork decades before this is actually going to come out. And we’ll talk about an example of something that just happened as well. But yeah, so he’s, like you said, the tip of the sphere, the guinea pig. But it’s amazing that he can push those limits with the proof and the literature and all the testing and basically show, hey, everybody else, here’s what you should, shouldn’t do, what’s safe, not safe. And you can follow the results, which is great.
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Well, that’s exactly it, is this is the scientific method. So let’s go back to high school biology, right? And the teacher taught us the scientific method. Something has to be observable, measurable, testable, and repeatable. That is the scientific method. Regardless of what your hypothesis or the null hypothesis is, you have to have those components. And then you say, well, did the results concur with my hypothesis or did they not? So what Brian’s doing is he’s starting the conversation of what can we do with the human body. He understands that, okay, he’s an N of one. N in statistics means the number. He’s one person. But that lays that foundation for us to come behind. So the reason why I tell this story is because you, Jeremy, you’re like one step, maybe two, removed from Brian Johnson. You’ve been in this space for many years now. You were that unhealthy guy. You had bad habits. Your body sucked. You were heading for a heart attack. But Without my help, because you started this before we met, you started this journey. And so you’re almost a Brian Johnson. Our platform isn’t as big as Netflix. But that’s why I have you on time after time is to share that firsthand experience with the listening audience and say, you know what? I can do what he’s doing.
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Yeah, what’s even crazier is, and I’ve looked into his past, he was a pretty healthy guy. Obviously the stress killed him in business like me, but he didn’t have a lot of the bad habits that I had in my 20s and 30s. So that’s why advances we’re seeing him make are incredible in their own right. But if you look at it to scale, my turnaround has been nothing short of absolutely phenomenal.
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It’s a miracle, yeah. It really is. Now, you understand the science. With my help, we’ve been able to look out on the landscape because you never want to be stagnant in medicine, right? There was a day we used leeches on people. We’d bleed you to death thinking that was going to cure you. Fortunately, we’ve moved beyond that. But my job as somebody’s provider or clinician with a brain is is to keep the scales off my eyes and scan the horizon. What else is out there that will help advance the health and well-being of my patients? Because no longer are we saying, oh, well, you’re going to die a miserable death in your 80s or your 70s with Alzheimer’s, with a broken hip, with organ failure, blind, you can’t hear. No, with this… with technology, with biohacking is really the term, we can actually reverse aging and you can do really, really well until you’re a centenarian and then you get run over by a bus.
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Yeah, I mean, it’s about that marginal decade, right? Whether it’s your 80s, your 90s, your 100, your 110, 120, depending on the person. But it was about improving health span in the beginning, right? Like staying healthy, whether you drop at 70, 80, 90. But now we’re seeing, like you just said, you can actually turn back that clock biologically, therefore chronologically, and live a longer health span instead of just say health span versus lifespan. They’re coming more and more together in harmony where I wouldn’t be surprised if my children’s generation is full of centenarians and super centenarians.
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Because remember when we were kids, you thought, oh, grandpa is 65. He’s old. Well, I’m 59 now, and I’m telling you, I’m not that old. I’m not 65, but I’ll be there pretty soon. But I’m crushing it. My workouts, I’m setting records now. Same. Because we’re following the blueprint from the guys, the pioneers in front of us, the Peter Attias, the Dr. Mark Hyman’s of the world, even the Brian Johnson’s. And that’s the other thing is you’ve got to be really cautious of who you listen to. That’s right. There’s so much bad information out there.
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I get more bad than I do good. I have to sort through it and focus on the good, of course.
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Yeah. And so it’s also part of my job is to tell the patients, the listeners, who is a reliable source. Who gives good information? There’s a lot that I just don’t have time to listen to every single podcast out there. I’ve listened to a couple of them, and it’s like, okay, that’s really bad advice. Steer away from that. But the ones that I find and I gravitate to and I listen to, and I’ve already said Peter Attia is a wonder. The guy is brilliant. He is a secular humanist. He is not a Christian. So he comes at his thought process through that lens. Oh, we evolved from worms or whatever. That is absolutely incorrect. And it boggles my mind how somebody so smart can be so stupid. But, you know, the Bible says he has scales on his eyes. But what he’s talking about on the biohacking. reversing aging, the biologic age. And we can measure this with a glycan age, the biologic calculator. You can get that on your phone.
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Oh, definitely.
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We can actually measure this stuff doing the scientific measure. And then people come back into the office and they’re like, dude, you are right. I feel so good now.
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Yep. And it doesn’t take long. No, it really doesn’t. You could say six weeks, but in 12, you were feeling like you thought was impossible. And ironically, week 12 is just the beginning. I call it starting at the finish line. But yeah, definitely. And for those that don’t know out there, he mentioned Dr. Peter Atiyah. We’ve talked about him a few times. He actually was just on 60 Minutes last Sunday, and he put the news anchor through kind of the robust exercise and the VO2 max stuff. And and talked about it. It was interesting because I had a lot of people that know my story and have been following it, but it really clicked when they saw that. And I was like, well, yeah, that’s the book I’ve been talking about for a couple of years now. And it really piqued more interest than I anticipated because I already knew every word that was going to come out of his mouth during the interview. But it was good to see there’s another reference point out there for those that are looking for good information versus bad.
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You know, the credibility is helpful for all of us.
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Yeah. And I don’t think we’ll ever recommend somebody go watch a 60 Minutes, but this is one that actually is worth your time. If you haven’t watched it, it was about two weeks ago, I think now.
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Yeah. And you can clip just his part of it because there’s like a mentalist afterwards and stuff. So instead of watching the whole thing, the commercials, just watch, you know, that. That one segment, if you’re interested in the longevity piece.
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Okay. So let’s take a break right now. And then when we come back, let’s start to dive into some specifics of what people can do. We’ve got a great show. I mean, I’ve got a piece of paper here with probably 20 topics. We’re probably not going to get to all of them. But hang tight, folks. If you have a question or a comment, give us a call, 303-477-5600, 303-477-5600. I don’t take texts like John does through his show. I’m not that good. Charlie discourages that because it screws me up, screws him up. So if you want to be part of the show, just give us a call. Otherwise, we’ll see you on the backside of this break. Dr. Scotty Faulkner filling in for John Rush.
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Welcome back, listeners. You’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush, along with biohacking expert Jeremy Sova. So, first hour, I was giving your bona fides, letting people know that this is real. To you, you live this, breathe this, the whole nine yards. But I… They teased jet lag. And as I explained, Judy and I just got back from the Philippines because I have my clinic in Manila as well. Folks, that is 15 time zones away. That’s crazy. It is all the way around the other side of the earth if you go across the Pacific. So we flew out of DIA to LAX. Thank goodness their traffic controllers were still working in LA at that day. We then flew across the Pacific Ocean 14 hours, landed in Manila, and they were having a typhoon there or just south because the Philippines is actually an archipelago. There’s about 7,400 islands that make up the Philippines. The big one is Luzon where Manila is down in the south. Then you have other fairly decent-sized islands like Mindanao, Cebu, Palawan. But Cebu took a direct hit from this Cat 5 typhoon. So a typhoon and a hurricane are the same. It’s just what hemisphere or what ocean? What ocean? Because they’re still in the northern hemisphere, but they call it a typhoon over there in the Pacific Rim.
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Yeah, whatever that divide is east to west of the world. It’s been a while.
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Yeah, so you cross the international date line.
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But basically it’s a Cat 5 hurricanes.
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Cat 5 hurricanes. That just wiped them out because they’re used to hurricanes, let’s face it. But a Cat 5, a direct hit, I don’t care how prepared you are, it’s going to rock your world. Yeah, I just saw Jamaica. It was pretty rough. Yeah, same thing. And so about 120 people lost their lives in Cebu because of the flooding. Ouch. So say a prayer for those folks. It’s a Catholic nation. A little history on the Philippines is the Spaniards conquered the islands in the 1600s, hence King Philip, hence the Philippines. And then right at the late 1800s, the Filipinos kicked the Spaniards out and then befriended the Americans. And so that’s why they use all English textbooks. They’re really Americanized. But they also speak Tagalog, which is their native language. on most of the islands. Oh, very interesting. But they all speak, you know, the Queen’s English and very friendly people. But from the Spaniards, they kept that Catholic heritage. Gotcha. So now there is a small enclave of Muslims down on Mindanao. And every once in a while, they’ll cause trouble for the government. So they kind of try and keep that at bay. But it’s primarily a Catholic nation. Wow. Congratulations on, you know, healing in Eastern room. Well, thank you very much. So that was an exciting trip. Uh, but the jet lag, you know, when you’re going 15 time zones, this is not like traveling to New York for Thanksgiving to see the family. Okay. That’s two time zones and that’s rough. Or are you going back to LA where that’s one time zone away from us from the mountain standard time? Um, But I wanted you, because you’re a world traveler, you have great science of some things that actually work and help minimize the effects of jet lag. So what say you?
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Yep. So when I started tracking everything, then I realized I wanted to track when maybe I’m going to Las Vegas for a weekend or jet lag, something that’s going to stress the body, inflame the body, and how to reduce that and put things in place. And I think the science now shows, and I think Brian Johnson also follows this same protocol, which is a good sign. But there’s kind of a before and during the flight, and there’s a once you get to your destination, whether you’re going east or west. But the short of it is – and I hate this, right, because I love that first big meal that they give you on a flight – is fasting completely. you know, no food, no caffeine, no alcohol, nothing for like six hours before the flight or during the flight at all. So really like an intermittent fast while you’re traveling. Um, so that’s kind of the first one and, you know, overeating anyway, it’s going to affect your sleep quality and that fasting is going to help your body’s metabolism. And what we call now this, this natural circadian rhythm, you know, your sleep cycle kind of in sync with the new time zone as close as you can get, you know, it’s obviously not gonna be perfect. Um, So you really want to prioritize sleep. You know, tell the flight attendant, you know, hey, I’m going to skip the in-flight meal and then try to fall asleep as soon as possible after takeoff. So there’s really no disruptions. You know, use the restroom first. You can kind of set yourself up for a good sleep. And then the sensory control, you want to block out pretty much any distractions that you can, which is difficult. in the cabin, but wear an over-ear eye mask and earplugs so you can pull the sight and the sound out. And then this is really important. Get yourself a set of blue light blocking glasses. Shield your eyes from the bright cabin lights from the screens that are on the backs of the seats. And then use some time maybe to read a book instead and don’t use any screens to prepare your body for sleep. Really hydrate because you get dehydrated on these flights, even the short ones. So increase your water intake.
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Even come into our clinic for an IV infusion ahead of time.
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Yeah, which I do before and after I leave. So that’s kind of a routine that I have, even if I’m getting IVs on the road, just to make sure that I stay hydrated. And then probably the most disappointing one is no alcohol. Completely abstain from alcohol because it’s going to really wreck not only your sleep patterns, but it’s going to aid in that dehydration. So that’s kind of getting to your destination. Now, after you get there, it’s going to be tough, but get to the hotel, go to the fitness center, and get in a good exercise pretty much immediately, as soon as you get your bags into the room. Complete workout, in my case, it’s 45 minutes of zone two, zone five, and about 30 minutes of resistance training. And that’s going to help, again, the circadian rhythm kind of enter that new time zone that you’re in. And then a good meal, right? Have that post-meal breakfast after the workout. It’ll kind of set you up as good as you’re going to be able to get. And then if you have access to it, find a cryotherapy or a cold plunge is what I use. And get in that cold water, 45, 50 degrees for about six minutes. And that’s going to kind of give you that endorphin dump and kind of shock the body and set you up in a way that a morning cup of coffee would in your normal time zone. So that’s kind of the way that I go about it. And it’s not perfect, but it’s by far better than before I tried all that stuff.
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That’s exactly right. Unfortunately, I can’t sleep on airplanes. I never have been able to. So there’s strike one against me, especially when you’re going to 15 time zones and you’re sitting in an economy as opposed to, say, business class where you can lay horizontal. That’s tough. But everything else that you said, I mean, most people can do this, skip the meals, skip the alcohol when you get there. And light, first light is critical. And so when we got to the Philippines, the typhoon was hitting just south. So we had nothing but cloud cover. So I’ve been up for 28 hours now trying to force my body to get to the new time zone quicker. But now there’s no sunshine. It’s just rain and gray. And I’ve never been formally diagnosed, but I think I have a touch of seasonal affective disorder. That’s why I can never live in Seattle. I have to be in Colorado where the sun shines. And that dark gray gloom is like being in London.
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I grew up in Michigan.
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I know exactly what’s miserable for a month. Exactly. And so my body was absolutely just wrecked. And everything that I was trying, I would go to meetings, business meetings, and I would just say, when can I go to my room? Because I need to sleep. And it was a seven-day trip. We finally, on the last two days, we finally had the sun coming out. My mood lifted. I started getting just adjusted to the new time frame so that we could fly back and do it all over again.
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Layperson question, would there be something that you could have or should have or next time would take like a volume or something as you board the plane to kind of help knock you out?
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Maybe, but I don’t like putting those because I’m such a control freak. I don’t like any drugs in my body. Yeah, I guess you’re in the Air Force, so in the sky you want to be able to have control. Even before that, even as a little kid, that’s my personality. That’s why I became a physician. In the ICU, I love walking in there and being the guy, and I would just cross my arms. It’s like, okay, chaos is reigning, and you’re that calm, cool, collected. And you’re just thinking and you’re pointing, do this, do this, do this. And that calmness takes over everybody. But when you have a substance in your body, whether it be alcohol or what, that alters that, I don’t do well at all.
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Makes sense because you were in life or death for three decades in every decision. Right. But not to say that it might not help some folks that really need to try to get that sleep.
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Well, especially people who have some anxiety, especially around flying. If you took a little Xanax, you know, a 0.25, maybe a 0.5, because it’s the shortest of all the Benzos, quick on, fairly quick off. There you go. That’s what I was getting at. That would be okay. But it’s just my personal preference of I don’t like even the hungover feeling from Benadryl, right? Diphonitamine, Tylenol, PM.
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Right, right, right.
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So I just avoid it like the plague.
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But that’s me. I’m the opposite. I fall asleep immediately in every flight. If I have something to do, I have to set an alarm to wake me up.
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Oh, my gosh. I’m kind of gifted in that regard. Right. Okay. So that’s jet lag. And, folks, if you’re driving, I understand you can’t keep a list. We’ve got a lot of great information. Go back tonight when this broadcast is posted on 560KLZ, Rush to Reason, and you can write down all the things that Jeremy and I are talking about. But if you are at home listening, get a piece of paper and a pen and just start writing down notes because we’re going to be talking fast. We’re going to be going over a lot of things. And as you’ve learned, I don’t go back and repeat a lot of stuff. I might give you some bullet points when we go in and out of commercials, but we’re not going to rehash old stuff. So best thing you could do is keep a list.
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Yeah, and if you look up, if you go to the Apple podcast site for all you iPhone users, and you put in Rush to Reason, and then you can search Dr. Scott, you’ll get the entire list. I think this is going to be 13, 14, and 15 of our time together. But it’s so nice that you can go back, you can sit down, you can fast forward through the commercials, and you can write down bullet points versus listening live or driving. So we highly recommend that if there’s something of interest, go back to the KLZ website or Apple Podcast, or iHeartRadio, and rehash those and be able to get the information that way.
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Yeah, great advice. So I see we’re at 3.30, so I’m going to take a quick break. When we come back, I want to give everybody an update on the oral or sublingual peptides that we’ve been touting, some interesting news on that front. So let’s take a quick break, and then we’ll talk about that when we come back. Dr. Scott Faulkner and Jeremy Sova filling in for John Rush 560 KLZ.
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Welcome back, listeners. Dr. Scott, filling in for John Rush on this beautiful Wednesday here in Denver, Colorado. So before the break, we teased the fact that we were going to talk and give you guys an update on oral peptides. So they are out. They have been manufactured. They’re going through quality control as we speak. So we were hoping to be able to order those on November 3rd. They said we need to make sure that this is the best without any contamination or anything like that. Sounds like it’s worth the wait. Oh, it is worth the wait. So imagine this, folks. Right now you’re giving yourself injections, right? Whether it’s your peptide, your Wolverine blend, your BPC-157, thymus and beta-4, or your CJC Ipamorelin, or your Semorelin, or Ipamorelin, or… Epithelon. Epithelon. Pick your favorite ones. What if I told you here very, very soon you don’t have to give yourself a shot? So what they’ve done is they’ve perfected the technology where they’ve put several of these peptides. There’s a few of them to begin with, more coming out all the time. But it’s like a Listerine fresh breath strip where you have this foil wrapper, you peel it apart, you take the little strip out, you put it on your tongue, and you shove it to the roof of your mouth. Now, the reason why that’s so important is that it’s called a venous plexus. There’s so many blood vessels and capillaries in that space. But it bypasses your liver because if you swallow something, it has to, one, be absorbed. goes across the gut lining into the bloodstream. The first place it goes is through your hepatic portal vein to your liver. What was the liver designed to do? Yeah, metabolize things to break it down. So a lot of the stuff that you’re taking, you’re getting 20, 30% of what you swallowed. Ladies, when you take your progesterone, only 10% of your progesterone tablet
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gets out to where it needs to be especially if you’re on a proton pump inhibitor which many many many people take for heartburn because that really hurts the the bioavailability when you go through the gi track that’s exactly right and then if you have other problems with your gut biome you’re just stacking the deck against yourself so now we’ll have the technology
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You just put a strip on your tongue, shove it to the roof of your mouth. I know for a fact the semaglutide tastes like strawberries because I’ve sampled this well over a month ago. So I’m one of the first ones in the United States to have this available because I’m on the cutting edge. It’s going to be a game changer. So they have semaglutide. They’ll have retatrutide. What struck me as odd is they opted not to do terzepatide because they said, okay, well, semaglutide, since it’s the pure GLP-1, it doesn’t have other mechanisms. Tereseptide is that intermediate, but retatrutide has the three mechanisms. That’s right. So you have the low end and the high end, but why have the middle? Why have the middle? That’s exactly right. So if you don’t do well with semaglutide, jump to the retatrutide, which is a GLP-1. It’s GIP, like tereseptide, and then it’s thermogenic, increases your metabolism. And that combination is crazy. Can’t wait. Yep. And so on the biohacking side, so like I do this with TERS Epidide currently, but I do it for the biohacking. Yeah, same. I microdose it every couple of days. So you do it slightly different, microdose every couple of days. I do the starting dose, the 2.5, which is kind of the normal starting dose, especially for weight loss. Now, I don’t have any fat on my body, but I do it because my dad died at 45 of a massive heart attack. My grandmother died of Alzheimer’s, and I don’t want any part of that. And it helps in both. And it helps in both. So those of you who don’t know this, I mean, this is maybe new to a lot of John’s listeners. You guys are very, very smart, but you can’t know everything. But, yes, doing the GLP-1s decreases your risk of heart attacks, strokes, and Alzheimer’s dementia. That’s why we’re calling Alzheimer’s type 3 diabetes now.
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It’s actually, from a layman’s perspective, the largest medical breakthrough of my lifetime are these GLP glucagon-like peptide drugs so far.
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So far. And there’s more coming down the pike. It’s incredible. So that’s why I say, as your provider or your voice on the radio, I’ve got my eyes out there. And every once in a while, Jeremy will come up and say, hey, man, have you thought of this or did you see that? I mean, I can’t know at all. So I appreciate that input, but I’m always looking for something that has been tried true with science. It may be fairly new, like these strips, but it will help you in your journey to be the best you.
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I’ll even give an example. RFK Jr., in an interview a couple of days ago, was asked about this because they played a clip previously where he was anti-GLP-1s. He’s like, no, diet, exercise, none of that other voodoo. And of course, now he becomes part of the Trump administration and he’s got all these advisors and all these people around him. And he’s done a 180 completely and now says it’s a tool in the belt, an arrow in the quiver. And he only touched upon a few of the items because I think he’s still evolving himself and kind of taking that slow ride into I was way wrong into I totally get it. But the data that they even shared in that press conference basically covers three of the four horsemen right out the gate. That’s exactly right.
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And for our listeners, go over the horsemen because most people are like, horse what? How do we get the horses?
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Yeah, so the five horsemen are the ways that we can die. You know, the first one is heart disease, the most important, the one that kills the most people. Then you have cancer. Then you have metabolic disease or insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome. Brain disease, you know, the early onset dementias, the Alzheimer’s, the Parkinson’s. And then the fifth horseman, and the one that I’ve been really working on successfully lately, is the immune system. So you can basically biohack the innate and active immune system in a way to get along, so to speak, versus attack each other causing autoimmune disease. And you were just telling me over coffee that you got something else pretty cool down the pike that I can’t wait to try that’s also helping in that regard. So those are the horsemen. And the GLP-1s… attack at least three of those five and possibly more as we learn as we go along.
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Yeah. And if you’ve been hiding under a rock and you don’t know what GLP-1s are, that’s the glucagon-like peptide. So the most famous ones, as Jeremy hits his microphone, sorry, folks, is semaglutide, which you’ll recognize as Ozempic and Wegovi. The second one that hit the market was terzeptide, which is Monjaro-zeptaone. And now the latest and greatest is retatrutide. We have all three of them. Currently, they are injectable. I know the companies are coming out with orals. They already did with the semaglutide. It’s called Rebelsis. And what we found is the GI upset is really bad on those. And again, that first pass effect, when you swallow this stuff, very little gets past your liver to work in your body. So it’s really not worth your time and effort to do that. You’ll still want to do the injections until we get those strips out, but once they come out here in a week or two, it’s going to be a game changer. Why in the world would you want to poke yourself?
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And talk about travel, right? Because I travel a ton, and I’m sick of giving the cold packs to the TSA agents and the paperwork. I’ve got to keep everything cold. Like these strips, you just throw them in your dop kit, and you’re done with it. It’s a big headache.
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It’s a royal pain. And then I have a lot of people that travel internationally, so then I have to write out a prescription for them to get through TSA and customs. That’s exactly right. So… So if you want to learn more, give the office a call, 303-663-6990. That’s Castle Rock Regenerative Health Care. And we can give you the information. The girls at the front desk are very smart and well-versed in all of this. 303-663-6990. Again, if you wanted to chime in, you had a comment for Jeremy or myself, or you had a story that you wanted to tell, 303-477-5600. So there was a breakthrough moment, speaking of RFK Jr., just, what was it, two days ago? Yeah. I think it was two days ago.
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It might have been yesterday. Yeah, a day or two ago.
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Yeah. So for those of you who don’t know, RFK Jr. removed hormone replacement therapy, that scare, that we as providers have been living under for the last 25 years. So let me give you the background story. In 1999, there was two major studies that were undertaken in the United States. The first one was called the Women’s Health Initiative. And the second one in the UK was called the Million Women UK Study. So they ran concurrently. And in the United States, we had hundreds of thousands of women in the study. In the UK, they had literally a million women in the study. And they were looking at what happens to females with hormone replacement therapy. Well, those studies were supposed to run for five years apiece. At the three-year mark, the researchers freaked out and said, oh my gosh, the risk of breast cancer is so high, take every woman off of her hormone replacement therapy. I remember that because I was in practice for about five years at this point in time. and ladies with imagine the hot flashes coming back the joint aches the brain fog every symptom because every doctor was afraid to put somebody on hormone replacement therapy because if you were that one in eight who got breast cancer we couldn’t prove it was or wasn’t the hormones and then we would be sued and what doctor wants to get sued right so women were miserable Well, at that same time, there was a very famous doctor in our circles, and he was an expert in bioidentical hormones. He had started doing this in the 80s. He was trained in Harvard. And so what he did, John Lee, is he took that study and looked at it and dissected it and found that, lo and behold, the ladies who were on bioidentical hormones actually had a lower risk. Wow. So we threw the baby out with the bathwater. Now, those of us in the know— Had it completely backwards. They had it completely backwards. That’s exactly right. Shocker. But what that showed us is that the synthetic stuff that Pfizer tries to put on doctors to give to their patients, if it’s not bioidentical, what your body makes naturally, then yes, you get more side effects, blood clots, heart attacks, breast cancers, things like that. When you use bioidentical, it actually lowers your risk. Well, fast forward 25 years now, two days ago, RFK Jr. looked at the study, or his scientist did, and said, you know what? We got it wrong.
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So now it’s BHRT, bioidentical hormone replacement therapy.
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Right. So not the synthetic stuff. So Pfizer can’t make any money if it’s bioidentical, right? They discovered this in wild yams, that wild yams have these hormones that are identical to what the human body makes. That’s where we get them from.
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It’s like vitamin D and frankincense. The stuff’s cheap and it works wonders, but… No one talks about it because you can’t make much money.
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That’s exactly right. So Pfizer is in the business of making billions of dollars. So what do they do? They take, say, an estrogen or an estradiol, and then they tweak it ever so slightly in the lab. So now your body doesn’t have natural stuff. It has something that has been altered. And when your body recognizes that as foreign, then you get all sorts of problems. It may not happen at first, but 5, 10, 15, 20 years down the road, suddenly now we’re managing your disease for something that we created 10, 15, 20 years earlier. God, I hope that wasn’t an accident. Well, come on.
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It’s so evil.
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It is. It’s pure evil. But that’s the model of big pharma.
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It’s like cholesterol, right? Cholesterol in the food versus the cholesterol in the blood. They’re saying don’t eat eggs my whole life. Turns out they’re a superfood and eat four every morning. That’s exactly right. It actually makes me angry.
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As it should. But after you get over your five stages of grieving, after you get over your anger, then you’re like, okay, I’ll accept it. But I’m going to do something about it. Yeah, I’m going to help share. I’m going to help share the truth with my family, with my friends, anybody who will listen. Here’s the data, the real data. And, oh, yeah, by the way. And a few people will continue to drink the Kool-Aid and say, oh, no way. But every once in a while you get somebody like, I didn’t know that. And you’ll start to change the culture. Happens all the time.
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Slowly but surely. Yeah, there’s not a month that goes by that I don’t have a discussion with somebody that had no idea. And they were blown back, and I had to use, like, AI on their phone to show them. And they were like, oh, my goodness. Everything I’ve ever been told was the opposite.
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Yeah.
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Like, yeah, where are you getting your messaging?
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Well, I’m glad you talked about this, and I didn’t have this in my notes, but I just found an AI engine called Enoch, E-N-O-C-H, right? Enoch from the Bible? Yep, yep. And the beautiful thing about Enoch AI is it’s not this leftist biased stuff from like chat GPT. Because let’s face it, the guys who wrote the algorithms, they’re all flaming lefties out of probably Southern California.
SPEAKER 12 :
They wrote the code as such. Is Enoch the one that Elon Musk was talking about on Joe Rogan or is that a different one that he has?
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This is different than Elon. So the fella who – Brytheon. Okay. This comes out of Brytheon. Okay. And the health ranger. He calls himself the health ranger.
SPEAKER 12 :
Gotcha.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. Okay. I forget. I’m drawing a blank on his name. But – That’s where I learned about this. And so you start putting in things like, was COVID real or did the shot hurt you? And it’ll actually tell you the truth. Yeah, the COVID shot is mRNA and it’ll destroy your immune system. You’re like, what? An AI machine? search engine that actually tells the truth.
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Wow, that’s great.
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I’m going to freak into it. Yeah, so Enoch AI. Sorry for that digression, folks. So I think I went a little bit long in this segment. Charlie’s looking at me saying we have to take a break. When we come back, we’re going to now segue into something called plasmapheresis. You guys are going to want to listen to this one. This is groundbreaking. So when we come back, we’ll talk about plasmapheresis with Dr. Scott and Jeremy Sova. Filling in for John Rush. We’ll be right back.
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Back to Rush to Reason.
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Welcome back, listeners. Dr. Scott on this beautiful Wednesday afternoon in Denver, Colorado, Health and Wellness Wednesdays. So we were talking and I teased this new technology coming out called plasma freezes. But before we do that, during the break, I actually heard my commercial run and I wanted to expand a little bit on that. We’ll get to the plasma freezes, but what are biomarkers so in my day we called them lab tests right so then mark hyman made it fairly famous where he started this program where you could get 110 biomarkers for a little over 500 bucks and it took the united states by storm because here’s what typically happens and everybody out there can relate to this you go to your primary care doctor right i call them the doc in the box And they’re normally 45 minutes late at least. You’re stewing. You finally get called back to a room. The little nurse checks your blood pressure and all that stuff. And you’re like, okay. And then you sit there for about another 10, 15 minutes. Doctor comes in, says, what are we doing today? And you’re like, well, okay, I told your staff that I’m here because I want to have a discussion because let’s say I’m feeling tired or fatigued or I’m having a difficult time losing weight. Doctor is half listening to you, says, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Okay, well, you need to exercise more and eat less. All right? And that’s usually the end of that first conversation. And then you come back because you’re frustrated. Well, he has five other patients to tell the same thing to. Well, exactly. And he only has five minutes or she only has five minutes to see you. But if you have an attentive doctor that’s going to give you six minutes and they actually don’t look at their computer screen, they actually look you in the eye and you tell them, I think my hormones might be off or maybe it’s a thyroid issue. And you start rattling some of these things off because remember, you only get like one problem to talk to them about.
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Right. And they already think you’re nuts because you went down a wormhole on the internet that you possibly have no idea what you’re talking about, at least pre-AI.
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Right. And so you come in armed with some information, and you’re really using that doctor as a sounding board. It’s like, am I crazy? Am I on the right track here? the doctor says oh well let’s order some labs and see what happens so you’re thinking okay well they sort of listen to me and the labs or the biomarkers that the doctor orders is typically a cmp complete metabolic panel so that’ll give you salt potassium kidney liver sugar then they’ll add on a cbc right complete blood count so your white blood cell count make sure there’s no infection leukemia lymphoma he’ll check the hemoglobin hematocrit make sure you’re not anemic and then your platelet count If you’re lucky, they might throw in a TSH, a thyroid stimulating hormone, just to see if the thyroid is a little bit underactive. That happens thousands upon thousands of times all day across the United States. Doctor gets the lab results back. We’ll send you a text or through your portal saying, oh, all your labs are fine. Eat less, exercise more.
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I was so frustrated with that over the years that I sought out what was at the time MDVIP, which you pay, I think it was $1,500 back then. Now it’s like $2,500. But you basically get an hour instead of the six minutes. You’re paying once a year for that hour. And it gave me a whole year’s worth of stuff to try to come up with to cram into that hour. But without that VIP service, I don’t know where I would have gone until this new functional slash regenerative health segment opened up. So we’re talking five, six, seven, eight years ago. But that was how I got around it. And boy, was it an eye opener when I found out how much more stuff I could see in my blood, whether it was covered by insurance or not. I had to pay for add-ons. But that started the entire biohacking journey that I’m on. And I cannot believe that I paid all this thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars in health insurance premiums and had primary care physicians over the years for a decade at a time. And I never had the opportunity to find out what the hell was going on inside of me.
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Yeah, because the doctor had five minutes. That’s managed care. Yeah. Right. So I have taken the approach like Mark Hyman. It’s like that’s why I left the ICU, because I was just sick and tired of taking care of people that if their doctor had spent some time with them. listen to them, dug deeper, then these issues would not be a problem 5, 10, 15 years down the road. And I’m spending a million dollars in the ICU saving your life for something that could have been prevented. Should have been prevented. Should have been prevented. So I said, you know what, I’m going to follow what Mark Hyman does. So I went to Quest Labs. I beat them up on the price. They came back and said, okay, for all those 110 biomarkers, this is what we’re going to charge you, Dr. Falkner. And I just laughed in their face because I knew what they were going to do. And I said, not even close because I know what Mark Hyman’s prices are. So you better give me his prices so that I can pass the same savings on to my patients. So now it’s very similar. But what happens with Mark Hyman, and he has a waiting list of 200,000 patients, by the way.
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Oh, yeah. It’s a big, big back list.
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Yeah. But what you don’t get is you don’t get Mark Hyman.
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No, you get some AI clinicians notes that are what I consider to be somewhat gobbly, gooky and very ambiguous. Right. Right. So you don’t really have that next. And I got friends that have done it. They’re like, well, now I need to talk to somebody about what to do about it. So there’s the big, big difference.
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And there’s the rub. So then you go back to your primary care who gave you five minutes. He doesn’t have a clue what half of these tests are and why do we even check them? And they may look at it and go, I don’t know, or, oh, you wasted your time and your money. But that’s the key to what’s really underlying the problem.
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Well, isn’t there like a symptoms issue, too, where the coding, even if they see someone third-party blood work, that if you don’t have symptoms, they can’t get the insurance to go deeper anyway, right?
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Well, that’s on the front side. So your insurance isn’t going to pay for this, right? So if you come in fatigued, tired, lack of energy, you’ll get the CBC. You’ll get the CMP. You might get the TSH. Insurance isn’t going to cover a cortisol. They’re not going to cover an insulin. They’re not going to check your heavy metals. They’re not going to check a methylmalonic acid. They’re not going to cover – nuclear medic resonance on your lipid panel. They’re not going to check a lipoprotein A, an apoprotein B. They’re not going to take that deep dive, the homocysteine level, to see if you have the MTFR gene mutation. They don’t do that. And there’s no way you’re going to get that or even an A1C unless by chance you had a really high sugar. And they say, oh, well, maybe you’re a pre-diabetic. Let’s check it. So what I did.
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Vitamins and nutrients and supplement deficiencies.
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Right. 80% of our patients or people in Colorado are deficient on vitamin D. That is such a kicker. And that’s one of the keys to early Alzheimer’s disease.
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Inflammatory testing, right?
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C-reactive protein.
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The SED rate, the C-reactive protein, HSCRP.
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That’s right. I can’t tell you now how many cases of autoimmune disorder. We’re smoldering, but I’ve been picking up a ton of autoimmune disorders because now I do an ANA panel, the screen, and it’s like, holy cow, did you know you had autoimmune disorder? No, I had no idea. But then you start talking to somebody about their symptoms. They’re like, yeah, I got that, got that, got that. I just thought it was how I felt.
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And what’s interesting is you can actually get ahead of the autoimmune stuff if you haven’t gone too far.
