Join us in this episode as we explore the intriguing world of Omega-3 fatty acids and their crucial role in safeguarding your heart health. Our hosts, along with special guests, delve into cutting-edge research and personal experiences to reveal the complexities of biohacking and personalized health management. Discover why men from diverse cultural backgrounds, like Japan, have a different approach to Omega-3 intake and how this knowledge can lead to better brain and heart health.
SPEAKER 08 :
This is Rush to Reason. You are going to shut your damn yapper and listen for a change because I got you pegged, sweetheart. You want to take the easy way out because you’re scared. And you’re scared because if you try and fail, there’s only you to blame. Let me break this down for you. Life is scary. Get used to it. There are no magical fixes. With your host, John Rush. My advice to you is to do what your parents did. Get a job, sir. You haven’t made everybody equal. You’ve made them the same, and there’s a big difference.
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Let me tell you why you’re here. You’re here because you know something. What you know, you can’t explain. But you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life. That there’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there. It is this feeling that has brought you to me.
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Are you crazy? Am I? Or am I so sane that you just blew your mind?
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It’s Rush to Reason with your host, John Rush. Presented by Cub Creek Heating and Air Conditioning.
SPEAKER 16 :
Welcome back, listeners. You have Jeremy Soba here, the biohacker, waiting on Dr. Faulkner to join. We ended the last hour talking about the mitochondrial cell, and we’re going to spend a lot of time now talking about stem cells and all that they can do. But there’s one thing that we overlooked that I wanted to cover. So we were talking about measuring the things within the mitochondrial cell. But I’d also just gotten my test back for omega-3 fatty acids in the omega range, omega-3, omega-6, omega-9, because we’re learning with the Mediterranean diet, eat lots of salmon, make sure that you’re getting the right amount of EPA, DLA, and DHA. And what I found out, similar to vitamin D3, is everybody’s different, right? So you’ve got to take the amount that your body needs to get to normal or optimized. And I was taking the recommended amount of, I think, about 1,800 milligrams combined of EPA and DHA. And I do eat a lot of salmon, a lot of fatty fish. And I’m like, all right, well, I’m going to go get it tested. And I found a company called Omega Quant, and they were able to do it. And it was a blood test, and I sent it in. And I got a full report back of all things. And wouldn’t you know it, I’m eating half as much as I needed. So for some reason, the Japanese culture and people have a really high tolerance range of these omega-3 fatty acids, and they’re very healthy, especially for brain health. And there’s been some debate over the years of whether it can contribute to atrial fibrillation if you take too much. And I would ignore the noise and talk to your doctor about what’s right for you. But I’m now taking, and they’re those larger gel capsule, you know, kind of the bigger horse pills, but I’m taking four a day now. and driving the fatty acids in the omega-3 numbers up into the optimal Japanese range, which, again, going back to mitochondria, will help power the brain and all things brain health too. So I want to make sure we covered that before we dove into stem cells.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, and when you burp, do you taste like a tuna fish sandwich?
SPEAKER 16 :
No, but I love tuna fish, so maybe I just don’t know any better because I’ve been eating it for my entire life.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah. Once again, we’re back to if you don’t measure it, you can’t manage it. And so you measured it. Part of the 110 biomarkers that I do. Gives you actually that breakdown. Excellent. And so we can tell you if you’re deficient. And if you’re deficient on the omega-3s, then we look at your LDL cholesterol and we do something called an NMR, nuclear magnetic resonance. So it’s not just, oh, you have too much LDL cholesterol. That’s what your regular doctor does. And as soon as he sees it’s above 100, you’re going to get a statin. Right. Right. Knee-jerk reaction. Oh, you need a statin. It’s like, well, wait a second. Is this actually causing disease or not? And I think your analogy before you said, is it big beach balls or are they small golf balls? That’s right. Because LDL, just like your HDL, the good cholesterol, can be big and fluffy, which is actually protective. Or is it the small, dense, nasty stuff? And the dense, nasty stuff, even if it’s the good cholesterol, you don’t get the best bang for your buck even if your HDL is, quote, unquote, above normal or at normal ranges.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, those small LDL particles, the golf ball size, they’re dangerous because they basically break the arterial wall. And the plaque can break off and cause a cardiac event where the beach balls just kind of gently bounce around. And there’s not a lot of traffic in there where there’s a lot of traffic with the dangerous golf balls. So LDL pattern size is something I’ve been working on as a heart disease person. And it takes a while, but I’ve seen the numbers get better and better and better. And hopefully I can get into pattern size A like you’re talking about at some point.
SPEAKER 15 :
That’s the goal. Yeah, exactly. And so we’ve got to measure it. And so as you can see, folks, it’s a mosaic. It’s a picture. And I’ve said this before, and I’m going to keep harping on this, is that when you come to me, I look at you as a whole person. I don’t just look like a cardiologist. Oh, here’s your cholesterol. Therefore, you need a statin. It’s like, okay, but do I really need that? If you’re somebody going through menopause or perimenopause and you’re having hot flashes or some symptoms, you go to the men’s clinic or the hormone center. All they’re doing is looking at your hormones. They’re not thinking of your thyroid. They’re not thinking of your heart. They’re not thinking of your bone mineral density. Oh yeah, by the way, ladies, your bone mineral density is at its strongest when you’re 24 years of age. After 24, it is downhill. So it drives me batty, these societies that say, oh, well, we don’t need to check a DEXA scan. That’s where we look at your hip, your spine, and your non-dominant forearm to see do you have osteopenia or osteoporosis until when? You’ve either had a fracture or you’re past menopause. well isn’t that kind of counterintuitive shouldn’t we be checking if we know that you hit your peak at 24 if you’re having issues in your 40s even 30s i’m doing dexa scans on girls and their ladies in their 30s because if they went through early menopause you are at huge risk for an osteoporotic fracture and the only way to know is to measure it. That’s right. And if you find out there is risk, there’s a way to strengthen the bones. Correct. And oftentimes it’s giving you estrogen and testosterone. Those are your best bone builders. But what does the medical industry want you to take? They want you on Fosamax. They want you on Prolia. They want you on something called a CIRM, a selective estrogen receptor modulator like Evista. It’s like, whoa, those are potentially toxic medicines? I mean, Fosamax can give you osteonecrosis of your jaw, a hole in your jaw that doesn’t heal. It’s like whack-a-mole.
SPEAKER 16 :
They throw one drug at you, and it causes two or three other things. That’s right. I would even suffice to say that hyperbaric oxygen is good for bone health because I’ve seen it cure a fracture, so why wouldn’t it be able to? Bones love oxygen is what I’m learning.
SPEAKER 15 :
And if your body had estrogen and testosterone to begin with, why not give you back what was natural, what God gave you in spades when you were 18, 20 years old? Why give you something artificial made by big pharma? And cause more problems. That’s right. So you’ve got to look at somebody as a whole person and not just cherry pick one problem and say, oh, well, here, let me fix your whatever. You’re good. But now that we are talking about hearts, we’re talking about omega-3s, we’re talking about LDL cholesterol, apoprotein B. Let’s go on and talk about the CT angiogram with CLEARLY. That’s right. AI-generated artery camera. Yes. So actually, why don’t we hold that thought? We’re a couple, about 45 seconds early. We’ll take a break so that way we have plenty of time to talk about this before later we jump into stem cells.
SPEAKER 16 :
Perfect.
SPEAKER 15 :
So we’re going to take a quick break. Again, be safe out there. If you want to call us, 303-477-5600, 303-477-5600. Dr. Scott Faulkner with Jeremy Sova, expert biohacker filling in for John Rush, Health and Wellness Wednesday. We’ll be right back.
SPEAKER 03 :
This is TJ with KLZ Radio. And once again, we have Al Smith with us from Golden Eagle Financial. And Al, we’re coming up on the end of the year, and I figure there’s probably quite a few things that a retirement planner has to do to prepare for the new year, yes?
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, there are a couple of things that have a 31st deadline that we talk to some of our clients about. If people are thinking about converting part of their traditional IRA to Roth, That needs to be done before December 31st. And we don’t usually wait until the last week in December because the financial companies get really busy. So it’s a good idea to address that in November. And usually by then people have a pretty good idea how much money they have earned and we can guesstimate their tax bracket.
SPEAKER 03 :
So you’re just basically helping them reach out to figure out what sort of distribution they should get from an investment.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, not so much distribution, but if they’re younger people, they may have a longer term strategy to convert traditional IRA to Roth. And that will add income to their income tax they pay each year. And we usually wait till near the end of the year because by then people know what tax bracket they will be in. But it has to be done before December 31st.
SPEAKER 03 :
Excellent. And that’s why we trust you, Al. How can people get in touch with you if they want to start their retirement planning adventure with you?
SPEAKER 11 :
That’s a good way to describe it as an adventure. You can reach me at 303-744-1128. And if you’re driving when you hear this, contact KLZ and they’ll put me in contact with you. All right. Thanks for joining us today, Al. Thank you for having me.
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Putting reason into your afternoon drive, this is John Rush.
SPEAKER 15 :
Welcome back, listeners. Dr. Scott filling in for John Rush on this Health and Wellness Wednesdays with Jeremy Sova, my expert friend in biohacking and all things like that. So we were talking about cholesterol, heart disease. We’ve touched on mitochondria, why it was so important. But I wanted to segue into talking about this CT angiogram. with AI. Very cool. And through the commercial break, I was just telling Jeremy that most docs have no clue. In fact, today I was talking to a friend of mine who’s a nephrologist, a kidney expert there at Porter Hospital, and they’re still doing CT calcium scores on patients. Well, a lot of you have heard of a CT calcium score. Those of you who have not, let me explain to it. It’s a CAT scan, hence CT. So it’s a CAT scan of your chest, specifically looking at the arteries of your heart. Now, if you think about it, if there is atherosclerosis, atherosclerosis is the quote-unquote hardening of your arteries. But that’s not the whole story because there is hard plaque, which usually doesn’t rupture. Calcified. Calcified. Or there’s the soft, fluffy stuff. That’s right, which can break off and cause a cardiac event. Which is what happened to my dad at 45, right? Massive one in the Widowmaker. So before, recently, we had no way of looking at the soft stuff. So oftentimes you would do a CT calcium score as a surrogate. I’ve had one. Yep. And so the radiologist will read it and say, okay, well, your calcium score in your artery is, if it’s zero… that’s the best you can do. If it’s one to 300, that’s moderate. And if it’s higher than that, then you’re probably in trouble. Well, here’s the crazy thing is 30% of those of us that have a zero CT calcium score, because I had two. go on to have a cardiac event.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, because the calcified plaque isn’t what causes the problem, unless it gets calcified up to like 99% over the lifetime, which is probably where I was headed had I not looked at it and then decided to fix it and then look at the soft plaque.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, and so if you have a soft plaque in your chest, and let’s say it’s 60%, you’ll still pass my stress test. but you’re at risk for that thing rupturing in the middle of the night or whenever, and it’s curtains, or you’ve had a major heart attack. So now recently with AI technology, we have the CT angiogram with what we call an AI overread. So no longer are we relying on a radiologist in the human eye, the computer screen actually can look and measure the soft plaque.
SPEAKER 16 :
Right. It’s basically nodules in your arterial walls that can break off. And your pulse wave velocity and the arterial stiffness, as you get older, it breaks down. But this little AI machine can look at those nodules and see where the risks are. And I think we’ve told a story before, but, I mean, you saved a guy’s life up near a steamboat here recently. Yeah.
SPEAKER 15 :
And, in fact, I think Rick – I’m looking at the board. Charlie’s telling me, I think, Rick, one of your patients is on the line – So perfect timing. Rick, are you there? Yes, sir. How are you today, Dr. Faulkner? You know what? I’m better than I deserve to be. I think isn’t it Dave Ramsey that always says that?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes, it is. I’m truly blessed. I heard you guys talking about the CT scan with Clearly, and I wanted to let everybody know that it works and it saved my life. Okay. Well, you’ve got the floor.
SPEAKER 15 :
Tell your story, please.
SPEAKER 05 :
So I went to see Dr. Faulkner in the fall. I just kind of felt, and pardon me, I’ll get out of the window real quick. You know, just kind of tired and just wanted to get feeling better. I had listened to you guys for a bunch.
SPEAKER 15 :
Now, can we stop and tell everybody that you live up near Steamboat Springs? So this is not you in my backyard in Castle Rock, right?
SPEAKER 05 :
No, no. But, you know, I thought it was worth worth coming to, uh, to see somebody like you that would take the time to listen and, and get me, get me where I needed to be. So anyways, uh, I did some stuff with Dr. Faulkner, uh, some weight loss stuff and just general physical exam. And he suggested that I do the, the CT scan with the clearly. So I went and did that, uh, got the results back and Dr. Faulkner called me and said, you know, you have 98% blockage in one, uh, 88 in another and 80 something. So, uh, I was definitely scared after that.
SPEAKER 15 :
Good. That was my intention to scare you.
SPEAKER 05 :
And it did. So it took a minute. Actually, it’s really hard to, uh, to get to see a cardiologist if you have not had a heart attack. And I was Super lucky that I did not have that. Ended up doing the angiogram where they did confirm the blockage.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, because the cardiologist didn’t believe the results of the scan, did he?
SPEAKER 05 :
No, sir.
SPEAKER 16 :
I’m not sure he’s allowed to believe them.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right. He tells me, he goes, you know, do you have symptoms? I said, no, I feel okay. And he goes, well, I can’t believe that it’s this much. went to a local cardiologist and he goes, well, the only way we’re going to know this is to do this angiogram. And, and he did it, uh, and you’re awake for that. Uh, I’m kind of laying there and, and, uh, the doctor that did that, I, he just said, oh, and, uh, that kind of confirmed, you know, that everything that you found in the scan was in fact there.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah. You’d had a 97% lesion in that right coronary 88% on the left side, uh, Um, you, you were, uh, almost curtains.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right. Walk a walking heart attack or waiting to happen. Yes. Anyways, uh, we did that, uh, on a Tuesday, Thursday, they did, uh, uh, the open heart surgery and I ended up with a triple bypass. Uh, I feel great now. I’m pretty much recovered from, from the surgery. Uh, And I guess now that I’ve done that, I could tell that maybe I did have symptoms, and the fatigue was perhaps one of them that just built up over years and years that I didn’t really pay a lot of attention to, but I can sure tell now.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, it wasn’t classic chest pain or what we call angina. Your biggest complaint was, I just lost a pep in my step. I just don’t have the oomph like I used to.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes. Yep, exactly. And just, you know, was kind of overweight and just, you know, I’m pretty active. I liked outdoor stuff and hunting and fishing and all that. And I just wanted to be able to keep doing that. And, you know, I have a new one-year-old grandson. I want to watch him grow up. So I’m Super blessed and thankful that we got it taken care of.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, you’re exactly that person. This is why I treat you as an individual, right? I don’t care about everybody else and statistics and who gets this and who doesn’t. When you come to me and I give you that time, I’m listening. And I do for you what I would want to do for myself and what I never got to do for my dad because I was 18 when he passed away. But just taking that extra time and caring about you as a person, as a human being and made in the image of God. And when I saw that scan, the reality is my first call was to my friend, the cardiologist. My second call was to you. And I was so scared for you because I know being in the hospital for 28 and a half years, what that normally leads to. Now, you’re a bit unusual because you had to have bypass surgery. Most of the time, the cardiologist can actually put a wire in there and balloon it open called angioplasty, put in a stent. And it’s a lot less invasive where we don’t have to crack your chest and give you vessels that are bypassing the blockage. But yours was so bad.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, it was. When we looked at the scan when I was in your office a little while ago, I mean, it was – crazy how much blockage and how it was like the soft plaque that you guys were talking about earlier that doesn’t show up on a normal CT scan.
SPEAKER 15 :
I remember looking at your cholesterol panel and it was kind of a mixed bag. Your good was a little eh, your bad was a little eh. What I typically see is well, is it good or is it bad? I don’t know. Let’s do the test and find out. Yep, exactly.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, Rick, this is Jeremy. I was invited to this studio to do this several months ago because I thought it’d be cool to share my story. now I’m doing it because of your story. I was really, really, really, really touched to find out what happened here and to be a part of this process of saving lives. I can’t even put into words. So God bless you, my friend.
SPEAKER 05 :
Awesome. Thank you very much. I, I said with, you know, I just feel, I think they say you kind of get a, a second golden ring and I totally, totally feel that, that, that’s the place I’m at so I’m doubling down on you know trying to do all the exercise, the diet, and all the right stuff, so I never have to see a hospital again.
SPEAKER 16 :
Amen. Spread the good news and pay it forward.
SPEAKER 15 :
That’s right. Well, Rick, God bless you. Have a Merry Christmas, and I’ll probably see you in the springtime or talk to you sooner, but thank you for calling and sharing your story with others. I hope that this really gets a lot of folks who are on the fence to say, you know what, I just need to get this done, or you do it for a loved one. If you’re a lady and you’re like, What do I give my husband for Christmas? You know what? This is it.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes, you guys are right. And thank you again, Dr. Faulkner and Jeremy, and you guys have a great holiday. Take care. God bless. You too, sir. Bye-bye.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay, now we have the Grinchette who stole Christmas on line two. I don’t have a name. It’s just the Grinchette who stole Christmas. So, Grinchette, who is this?
SPEAKER 09 :
Hello. Hi. Hi. I went into… say, and by the way, we’re starting a movement out here to start referring to holidays as holy days as they are.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yes, absolutely.
SPEAKER 09 :
As we all seem to have forgotten in this country.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 09 :
And then we’ll have fewer of the battles we’re having to have. So anyway, to my important points, I’m going to leave you with a, I don’t know, imploration, I guess, to help stop the problems with AI. But first of all, I wanted to say some of us out here are just so disillusioned with, I don’t know how to say it other than bluntly, just the status of men not standing and running to, you know, fleeing from Colorado to Texas to Wyoming to South Dakota to Florida to wherever. So thanks to the two of you for standing. I don’t know if you’re natives, um, standing and doing something to change the so many things we need to change. I can tell you that you are talking truth to your audience, and I wouldn’t bet that, you know, I think one of you said preaching to the choir.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, that was me.
SPEAKER 09 :
I’m so glad that you’re speaking the truth that should have been spoken decades ago so that we didn’t get here. You know, it could have been prevented. Yeah. And the last thing, there’s more I could say, like, you know, do the a la carte labs. You younger kids are calling them biohacking. It’s a la carte labs. And I bet you, the doc, could do, like, the vitamin Bs, the vitamin D, and the heart, you know, the fish oils. a la carte test just for people who can’t afford to do your 100 and however many. Yeah, that’s true. There are a lot of people out here who would like to do a functional med doc and checked into the concierge crap years ago, and a lot of people just can’t do that. So let’s move to getting that affordable to just everyday average people that are average below you. And lastly, I’d like to ask the doc if he is old enough to recall the Colorado – It was like COH something, Colorado Health Information Exchange, where you could opt out of the electronic medical record. And no pressure here with all. How long have you guys been on the radio?
SPEAKER 15 :
John had me on starting as a guest on Health and Wellness Wednesdays about two years ago.
SPEAKER 09 :
Two years. Yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
My first was my daughter’s birthday, May 21. I’ll never forget it. Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
Two years ago, May 21.
SPEAKER 16 :
No, this last, I’ve only been here since May 21 of this year. Dr. Faulkner’s been on for a few years. Jeremy’s fairly new.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, I am late to the game. It’s never too late. I wanted to know on the doctor, if you are old enough to recall when you could, it was before COVID. The Affordable Care Act here in Colorado is called the Colorado Health Information something exchange where you could fill out a form and opt out of the electronic medical record. Do you remember that?
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, yeah. I’ve been practicing since 1999. So, yes.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay. So, do you recall that? And do we still have it?
SPEAKER 15 :
Pretty much no, because every doctor now is owned by a large corporation. Right.
SPEAKER 09 :
So there’s I know. And had we been talking about this decades ago, you know, and when the doctors were getting out of the business, you know, all our small doctors getting out of the business, maybe one day you could do a show on that to explain how to the younger kids that happened and how now we’ve got a real big problem to back ourselves out of and how you two rock stars are. helping us to back out of that. One of the things I would ask you to do on top of the many things you’re rock-starring already is to get us back to that where we have an option to opt out of the electronic medical record because that’s the data collection that’s contributing to the AI, which is contributing to our water problems. So I’ll listen offline and I just say, thanks for standing instead of moving to, you know, whatever other state where you’re going to lose that state too.
SPEAKER 15 :
You’re welcome. And I appreciate you listening. So I’ll tell you what, we’re going to take a quick break. And when we come back, I will, uh, give you a quick synopsis of how I got to where I’m at now. And maybe that’ll answer some of your questions and maybe it’ll help steal the spine of some of the men out there and say, you know what? I want to be like this guy. So I will do my best, and please, during the break, be praying for Jeremy and I to give us wisdom and make our words come back not void. Okay?
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SPEAKER 05 :
Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 15 :
Welcome back listeners. Dr. Scott on this snowy health and wellness Wednesday. Glad my friend Jeremy Silva can join me here in the studio. We’re having a lot of fun. It’s like an igloo today. Yes, it is. And it’s actually cold here in the studio too. I’m about to go get my jacket on. Charlie, if you could turn up the heat, I would really appreciate it. So we just had a caller. First off was Rick telling his story about the CT angiogram. We had a caller asking, how do I get this? So the CT angiogram, so it’s CTA, those three initials, with clearly C-L-E-E-R-L-Y. That’s the AI overread. And there’s three places in the Denver metro area that I know of. There could be more, but what I know of. So the first one is SimonMed, their independent standalone imaging center.
SPEAKER 16 :
They have multiple locations.
SPEAKER 15 :
They have multiple locations in the Denver metro area. Their cost, and this is cash, insurance, unless you’ve had a heart attack, which, again, is kind of counterintuitive. you want to avoid that. So like Rick did, he paid the $1,500. That’s the lowest price that I found, and he was able to get the scan done fairly quickly. The second place is Boone Cardiology. They’re kind of in that Greenwood Village area. They are very pricey. I think they’re $2,600. And then the last one is National Jewish. Now National Jewish will charge your insurance for If you have symptoms like angina or something like that, most people that come to me don’t. They’re like, I just need to know. So a National Jewish is also very expensive. So I’ve had one person, actually two, try to get their insurance to cover it. So they went to National Jewish. Everybody else pretty much goes through Simon Med. If you’re a listener and you’re like, oh, I know of a place in Fort Collins, maybe a touchstone or health images or someplace, I’d be happy to know and I’ll gladly refer people. But you do need a doctor’s order for it. It’s just CTA with clearly. And then a diagnosis like coronary artery disease, which most everybody has a little. So you’re not lying if you’re a doctor. You just put down that code or atherosclerosis and it’ll be covered. Well, it’s not covered. I take that back. I got to be careful with my verbiage. It’ll fly for the imaging center to go ahead and do the study. Now the other caveat is your heart rate has to be below 60 beats per minute when you do this. So like in Rick’s case, I gave him a prescription for metoprolol. Metoprolol is a blood pressure and heart rate medicine. Beta blocker. It’s a beta blocker, right. So I gave him three tablets of 50 milligrams. You take one 24 hours before the test, one 12 hours before the test, and if your heart rate is still high, one two hours before the test. And that combination seems to work very nicely to get your resting heart rate down below 60 Then you get your test and you’re fine. The biggest caveat is if you have chronic kidney disease, if your kidneys are not healthy, which is a small subset of folks, the contrast can be tough on kidneys. But if you have a normal kidney function, then you should do just fine. So that’s the CT angiogram with clearly. Now back to our Grinchette who stole Christmas. She wanted to kind of know how I got here. So I was always that kid that wanted to help people. And so seventh grade, Blevins Junior High, Fort Collins, Colorado, I took a health class. And in that health class, we’re talking in the 1970s now, We learned basic first aid, how to splint a broken bone, how to put pressure on a wound, a bleeder, things like that. And I remember looking at the instructor and I said, you mean with this knowledge I could save a life? And she said, yes. And I looked her in the eye and I said, that’s what I want to do the rest of my life. Outstanding. So I had a sole focus, whereas these kids nowadays, they don’t know what they want to do. Most of them, I feel badly for them. But I had a sole focus from the time I was 13 years old. I was driven. And thank God he gave me common sense and enough knowledge that I could pass through college and MCATs and medical school, the whole nine yards. So I entered my residency there in Massachusetts. And halfway through, I wanted to serve my country. So I went and volunteered in the Air Force. So after my residency, I ended up going to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. So I was there for two and a half years. Those of you who are old enough, if you remember, Storm and Norman Schwarzkopf was the four-star general in charge of the troops when we went to Desert Storm in Baghdad. So he was actually one of my patients, which at the time was a big deal. He was one of the good old generals that wasn’t woke. So I thought I was going to do 20 years, put a star on my shoulder, retire as a brigadier general. I was in six months under Bill Clinton, and I’m like, get me the hell out of here because I question everything. It’s like, why are you asking me to do this? To give you a case in point, when I was in my element, I was the chief of the element, so internal medicine, cardiopulmonary. I had the number one patient satisfaction in every military treatment facility in the world. I had the number one enlisted satisfaction in every MTF in the world.
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s amazing.
SPEAKER 15 :
Do you think they would come to me and say, Faulkner, what are you doing? This is great. This is fantastic. No, they came to me and said, this is not how we do things in the Air Force. And I’m like, we’re in Tampa. Nobody’s shooting at us. What do you mean? My people are happy. The patients are happy. It’s not the Air Force way. We need you to cease and desist and go back to our cookie cutter way.
SPEAKER 16 :
Right. Follow their orders.
SPEAKER 15 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 16 :
The way that they’re forced to push it on because they have a hidden agenda.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, I’m not that guy. I will not salute an order like that. And I’m like, Mo Fangu. So thank you for your service and your service. You’re welcome. So needless to say, I just did my commitment because I had volunteered. So I did my contract and I’m like, I can’t stay here. My blood pressure is up because every day I walked in there, I thought I’m going to get hit with conduct. I’m becoming an officer. I’m going to go to Fort Leavenworth and I’m going to make big rocks into little rocks. And I’m like, I don’t need this stress. Literally, my hair was falling out. My blood pressure was through the roof. And when I told Judy, that’s it, I’m not going to do 20 years. We need to punch out. She’s like, OK. And then that stress instantly came off. who said, okay, what are we going to do? Because she’s from Massachusetts, right? She was that cute nurse, yeah, when I was training. But me being from Colorado, for full disclosure, I was born in Southern California in Loma Linda, but I was a year and a half old in 1968 when we moved to Fort Collins. So, yes, I’m sort of a native. I was a year and a half old when we moved. And started out in Fort Morgan because from Pooter High in Fort Collins, we used to play Fort Morgan in football, baseball, basketball. And they made me an offer as an internist because I don’t like big cities. I don’t like crowds. And it’s too much of that just managed medicine. And I like small. I like getting to know people. I like being able to talk to my ranchers and farmers and down salt of the earth people. And I always bartered for hunting ground, right? Goose hunting and stuff like that. So I had my own practice and got my student loans paid for, became chief of staff and And then Obamacare started coming down the pike. And I had one of the first versions of the electronic medical record because out of the Air Force, we were still handwriting charts.
SPEAKER 16 :
So this was like 2010? Yeah.
SPEAKER 15 :
So, yeah, in 2001, I punched out of the Air Force, Fourth of July, Independence Day. And so around 2008, 2009, if I recall the dates, they started the electronic medical record, started getting more robust. Hospitals started implementing them in the hospital. and telling providers, hey, you should look at this. But doctors were still independent at the time, right? You could still make a living. It wasn’t as good as the guys in front of me because they were all fee-for-service. So they did well. When I came along, it’s like, okay, I’ll pull call. I’ll see the patients to give the guys in front of you who earned their dues a break. And then we expected the group behind us to do the same thing. Well, the generation behind us, they didn’t want to pull call. They didn’t want to do weekends. They didn’t want to do midnight, right? So their generation said, no, we want nine to five. We don’t want weekends. We don’t want holidays. So my Gen X group, we got left holding the bag. Reimbursements started getting cut by insurance companies. And then Obamacare hit. And I was warning everybody. I was that voice out in the wilderness saying, you don’t want any part of this electronic medical record from Obamacare. It’s going to be the kiss of death. People didn’t listen. And sure enough, as soon as Obamacare hit, almost every single doctor in private practice went belly up because you couldn’t make any money now. And I would hear little old ladies talking at Denny’s because I listened. And I would hear them saying, oh, I went to my doctor and he charged me $120 for his visit and he spent 10 or 15 minutes with me. And I waited 40 minutes in the waiting room and then they ushered me to this cold room. I sat there and then they saw me for a few minutes and they charged me $120. And so I took that to heart to try to, one, be on time and respect people’s time and But the other thing is the educational part. Is that $120? That doesn’t go into the doctor’s pocket, right? So I have to pay my receptionist. I have to pay the nurse. I have to pay the mortgage. I have to pay the electric bill. I have to pay for my malpractice. I have to pay the water and sewage. I have to pay everything that comes out of that $120 for a 30-minute visit or whatever.
SPEAKER 16 :
Laboratory too in there?
SPEAKER 15 :
Sometimes labs. Depends on what you’re doing. That’s exactly right. So there’s very little left. Well, once Obamacare hit, there was nothing left on the bone. So that’s why all the doctors in private practice, usually your surgeons and doctors, you know, family practice, internal medicine said, I can’t make any money. So I’m going to sell to the large corporations. That’s why today, if you look out on the landscape, you do not see any independent doctors. The only ones are the groups that can do procedures like orthopedic groups, right? Cause they have the, either the imaging center or the surgical center where they’re getting paid per case and surgeries pay fairly well.
SPEAKER 16 :
Usually co-located too now.
SPEAKER 15 :
Usually co-located. So that’s why you get these big groups like Panorama or the Stedman Hawkins group that can survive. But every other doctor is employed by Advent Health or Health One or UC Health. So once they signed off, they put handcuffs on themselves. And now the CEO of UC Health says, you’re not going to spend 30 minutes talking to this patient. You’ve got five minutes. And we’re going to burn you out. It’s like the Kaiser Permanente model. Take the Kaiser Permanente model. That’s where it came from, the efficiency model. And, oh, yeah, by the way, you’re going to use this electronic medical record that we’re providing to you, and usually it’s Epic or one of those. And so when you go in, you get this 18-year-old girl who’s checking you in, and they’re asking you intrusive questions like, do you have firearms? Are they loaded? How many do you have? When I saw that when it first rolled out, I’m like, I’m not asking any of my patients. I’m a big Second Amendment advocate. Are you kidding me? I don’t want them knowing that about me. So how do I get around it? Well, I do have an electronic medical record, but because I don’t bill insurance, they don’t have to see anything. So on my laptop, I have the electronic medical record, but it goes nowhere.
SPEAKER 16 :
Right, and bound by HIPAA, which is what it was designed to do in the first place.
SPEAKER 15 :
Correct. So it’s like the old charts or handwritten charts where it’s between you and your doctor. So that’s how I get around all this EMR stuff. It makes perfect sense. And there’s very, very few of us doing this. Hopefully, as this new generation, this new wave of nurse practitioners, PAs, and some doctors are starting to get into the functional medicine, lifestyle medicine, regenerative space, they’re going to follow suit. Because as far as I’m concerned, the government doesn’t need to know anything about my patients.
SPEAKER 1 :
100%.
SPEAKER 15 :
It’s amazing that…
SPEAKER 16 :
The premiums are getting so expensive and the deductibles for a family that you might as well put that money to good use versus just throwing it away. Emergency care is a separate conversation, right? You’re going to have car accidents and sports injuries. Right. As far as your primary care goes, if you own it yourself, you can actually drive your healthcare costs down while you get healthier.
SPEAKER 15 :
Imagine that. And that’s why you and I always harp on people, now that we’re in open enrollment, get a plan, a high deductible, so for that bus running you over and you have to go to the emergency room, but get one with an HSA. It’s your money, and then you can tell your dollars, I want to spend my dollars on a CT angiogram with Clearly. I want to spend it on the biomarkers with Dr. Faulkner. I want to do the mitochondrial test with the specter cell. So now you’ve taken control back over from the medical industrial complex. Yeah. How is it that I’m bold? I actually learned this from my oldest brother, Gary. I will give him credit. So my oldest brother, Gary, was the guy who found Osama bin Laden. He went to Pakistan seven times as a civilian. Wow. Had no formal military training. In fact, Nicolas Cage made a spoof movie about him called Army of One. I’m kind of ticked off that they didn’t actually make it a serious movie because it was truly serious. But my brother was that bold. And what drove him to it is when our stupid media, they played a clip of Osama bin Laden saying, Allah has delivered the infidel into my hands. Well, that pissed my brother off. He said, I’ll show you in your Allah, me and my God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, will go up against you and your Allah on the world stage, mano a mano, and let’s see who’s left standing. So he was over in Pakistan seven times. So when talking to my brother, Gary, I mean, that’s pretty gutsy. That’s pretty bold when you’re going into the heart of the Taliban and you’re a single person and all you have is a sword. Are you kidding me? That’s incredible.
SPEAKER 16 :
I had a chance to meet Rob O’Neill and shake his hand. Yeah. The one that put him down. That’s an incredible story.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah. But my brother was the one who told the FBI and CIA. But Obama never gave my brother credit, never gave him the reward. for finding him and giving him the intel. They came up with some stupid story that, oh, it was a doctor in Pakistan that ratted him out. No, it was my brother who found him. Wow, that’s incredible. Correct. And so my brother Gary, in talking to him, he said, God hates a coward. I’m like, really? He says, yeah, read Revelation. I think it’s Revelation 19. And the Lord starts listing all the things that he hates. But the number one thing on that list is a coward before everything else, before a fornicator, an adulterer, you name it. The number one thing God hates is a coward. Makes sense. And I said, I don’t ever want to be a coward. So that’s why I’m bold. That’s why I’m talking the way I talk is, you know what? God’s got my back.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah. If you’re doing the right thing, you should not be a coward.
SPEAKER 15 :
Correct. And I look at the first century Christians who knew for their faith, they were going to go into the Coliseum and their family was going to be eaten by a lion. I’m like, if they could do that for their faith, then I can sure as heck stand up or behind this microphone and spread the gospel.
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s right. It sounds like even from critical care to regenerative medicine, you had a similar experience.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah. And so I would always proselytize to my patients and And I had one hospital tell me, hey, you shouldn’t be doing this. And I’m like, so fire me. You’ll never shut me up. So fire me.
SPEAKER 16 :
It was after you saved a woman’s life.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
She wouldn’t have survived had you been following the orders.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yep, exactly. So long-winded story. But you called, and I wanted to give you that little bit of backstory. So we have to take a break now. We’ll have a short segment when we come back. But thank you for listening. If you want to be part of the program, 303-477-5600. Dr. Scott with Jeremy filling in for John Rush Health and Wellness Wednesdays. We’ll be right back.
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We don’t yell at you. We inform you. Now, back to Rush to Reason. Welcome back, listeners. So I was telling the story of how I got to where I’m at right before the break. And thank you for listening and staying tuned. Jeremy and Charlie both asked, well, you didn’t quite finish the story of how you got to where you’re at now. like okay well we got about four minutes so i’ll finish the story so fast forward i got out of the air force was in fort morgan uh was a big fish in a small little pond and i got very comfortable there and then god decided to move me and he literally took a crowbar because i was very comfortable where i was at and so another doctor accused me of doing things that i didn’t do but that was the crowbar that god used and looking back on it I see why he needed to get me out of there. But I was just too comfortable where I was at. He’s like, no, that’s not where I want you. But when you’re accused as a doctor of practicing bad medicine, I’ll tell you what, it rocks your world. Oh, it’s pretty serious. Really? Am I a bad doctor? And so through an entire investigation, the whole nine yards, it comes out that I’m not. But that bridge was burned. So now my wife and I were looking to move to the front range. She said, let’s go down south, Douglas County, more conservative, like-minded people, whole nine yards. Okay, because I didn’t want to go back to Fort Collins because it had gotten too big. So I was still working in various ICUs because I liked that independence, so I was traveling a lot. Unfortunately, my family was sacrificed a lot because, you know, I’d be gone 7, 10, 12 days in a row. And then she said, well, why don’t you work for one of the local hospitals? And reluctantly, I’m like, okay, well that puts handcuffs on me, but I’m close to my family every night. So I did. And then COVID hit and again, As you guys have learned, I’m not a bashful person. I will talk to anybody if I feel that I can help them. And so I was told through the COVID years, you will not even mention things like ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine. I’m like, wait a second, but we have lots of studies that show this can help along with stem cells. And they said, you will not. And I’m like, oh. So a patient comes to the emergency room, and she had low sodium hyponatremia. She was a little weak. I said, I’m going to admit you overnight, give you some salt water. Sodium should come up. You should feel better. And oh, yeah, by the way, you’ve just tested positive COVID. And she was like barely on a liter of oxygen. Not a big deal. And she asked me point blank, well, do you know of anybody that will prescribe ivermectin? And I said, well, not on the clock, but when I’m out of here, I can. So long story short, I wrote it when I was off on my own time. Her husband picked it up, brought it to the hospital, gave it to the nurse who gave it to the pharmacist who gave it to my boss, called me at home. Did you do this? I said, yes. And so long story short is I was initially suspended and then I was let go because I violated a policy and procedure. Well, the take home was there was no policy and procedure. So they ended up settling, which I could have made it a federal case, but I didn’t. And I said, I will never be owned by another hospital system or company. So that’s when my wife and I started Castle Rock Regenerative Health Care. And that’s why I’m an independent guy. And I bring that to guys like you, Jeremy, and other patients like Rick, who believe the same way. It was God’s plan the whole time. So that’s the music. We’ve got to take a break. We’ll be back at the top of the hour, and I promise you we’ll get to stem cells.
