This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in health and longevity. Dr. Scott Faulkner uncovers the intricate details of mitochondrial health and its connection to overall well-being. With expert insights from Jeremy Sova, the discussion highlights the importance of genetic testing and the role of essential nutrients. Learn how to optimize your health with cutting-edge strategies and why informed decision-making is key to living your best life.
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Welcome back to Hour 2, listeners. 560 KLZ, Health and Wellness Wednesday. Dr. Scott Faulkner with Jeremy Sova. So in the first hour, Jeremy and I were talking about first, accountability and how you want your provider to be of the utmost importance. ethical, great moral compass.
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And yeah, thank you. Credible. Yep. Right. Credibility is everything in life. And like, you know, you guys as doctors, like you’re at the very top of that list.
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Well, we used to be, we used to be number one.
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Yeah, I’m not sure what would replace it, but health and wellness is so important that if you can’t… You don’t even really get the opportunity in this current healthcare climate and the way the system’s built, but if you can’t be… underneath the care of somebody that has a good, straight moral compass, like everything else is going to go badly.
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Yes. And during the COVID years, you see how doctors didn’t push back. This one did. That’s why It kind of ended badly at this hospital in Douglas County where I was working because I would not be bullied. I wanted to help my patients. I would talk about ivermectin. I would talk about hydroxychloroquine, other things.
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You were living up to the oath.
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Well, that’s exactly right. And so the powers that be did not like that because then they couldn’t use the emergency authorization because if there’s another treatment – then they couldn’t push the remdesivirs and all these toxic stuff that they push down everybody’s throats. So that was what we talked about in the first hour, as well as the foundation to great health. Mitochondria. Optimizing health is mitochondria, mitochondria, mitochondria. And so we gave the listeners some foundational things to do to help your mitochondria really in that Krebs cycle, making ADP to ATP. And some of the things that we listed are CoQ10, which statins deplete, L-carnitine, alpha lipoic acid, and resveratrol.
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And I would add B vitamins, magnesium, and methylene blue to that list as well.
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Well, that’s where we’re going. So B vitamins are very crucial. Let’s talk about magnesium first. So if you want to take magnesium, go right ahead.
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So I just knew that mine was low when I tested the Krebs cycle. And when I got the magnesium levels up to what the normal optimal range was, it helped primarily noticeably with my sleep. First and foremost, but then to your point, it helped complete that Krebs cycle and help drive the energy. And then I layered daily methylene blue in as well. And I really think that pushed things over the limit. of my expectations anyway. And I take about 20 to 25 milligrams daily, whether it’s a gummy or, you know, in my coffee with my amino acid mix for muscle growth. But I do think that the magnesium and the methylene blue, both being optimal, you know, help keep that mitochondrial cycle in the green for me.
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Yeah. And there’s a lot of different forms of magnesium. Okay. It’s not just magnesium. There’s mag sulfate, like what we use in the hospital or Ladies who have preeclampsia, we’ll give them a loading dose of a mag if they’re seizing and things like that. Then there’s magnesium citrate. So if somebody comes into the hospital and they’re obstipated, horrible constipation, then we’ll use mag citrate. And then like my wife, she uses some calm for helping her sleep. Right. So you have to know which form of magnesium because if you go out and buy a big –
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thing of magnesium citrate and you’re like oh jeremy told me to take this and the next day you’re going like a goose um it’s jeremy’s fault yeah so let’s let’s go all the way back to what i’m actually ashamed that i haven’t mentioned yet because we do it every single month is get the biomarkers done you know so when i did the test it said what type of magnesium i needed and i showed that you know to your emt and they put that type into the bag But you can’t expect the patient to be able to break things down into that level of specificity. But if you got the information and the data to show your doctor, they’ll say, okay, this is the type that you need. So I’m not an expert when it comes to all the different breakdowns of the different molecules and micronutrients. But I can use AI. I can use my lab work, my biomarker results, and then ask somebody like yourself to help me break it down. So as a layperson, don’t take anything unless you know it’s exactly what your results say that you need.
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Yeah. And for the listening audience, Jeremy is not a doctor. He plays one on TV, but he is not a doctor.
SPEAKER 18 :
No, and I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night either. But I would put, to your point, you put your medical testing numbers up against anybody. Other than Brian Johnson, I would love to go toe-to-toe with someone that was as unhealthy as I am to what I’ve been able to do in five years and go toe-to-toe, side-by-side in each of the categories because that’s how excited I am that this journey of practicing biohacking is yielding results that I could never imagine possible.
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And isn’t it fun when you feel well, when you wake up and you’re like, Oh my gosh, I feel great.
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That’s so it’s even geekier than that for me. Now I’ll wake up and like, look at my aura ring app and my ring. And if I got to bed 15 minutes earlier or later than my optimum circadian circadian rhythm requires, I feel a little disappointed and I work to try to get it exactly perfect and And that sounds weird, but it is that important that you do get that sleep cycle dialed in exactly. So if I’m off 15 minutes, like that’s not really a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but I know how important it is. So I strive to try to get that down to 10 minutes, five minutes. And there’s like a few days a week where boom, you know, it’s absolutely perfect. And I’m like, yes, let’s just tackle the day. Let’s go.
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Yeah, because you’re a competitive person like myself, and so you’re always looking at your aura ring in the morning. It’s like, okay, what’s my score? It’s like me on my Carol bike. Okay, did I set another record? And then you’re pushing it. You want to see how good you can get.
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Yep, and you compare it against yourself, right? Because you have all the data, you have all the biomarkers, and you can say – I don’t need to be better than my friend, but I need to be better than who I was yesterday and keep pushing that agency and getting all the nasty stuff out of your life and driving towards stuff that’s going to make you happier and healthier every single day of your health span. And to your point, live to 105 and then get hit by a truck.
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Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So Regina, Nay, Britt, you are here in the studio with us. Hello. You snuck in. Hello.
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Hi.
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How are you doing?
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I’m doing great.
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Excellent. So we’re going to finish this segment up. We’ll go to a commercial break here in a couple of minutes, and then we’ll see what’s been going on with you. Okay. If you don’t mind. So you mentioned the B vitamins. So, folks, here’s another thing is you can take – so a lot of you are going to Costco or Sam’s Club or wherever you get your vitamins – And you’re walking down the aisle and you’re like, oh, I think I need that vitamin. Oh, I think I need that C. Oh, I need that zinc. Oh, I need this or that, right? And so the B vitamins are no different. Well, talking about mitochondrial function, yes, the B vitamins are absolutely critical. But here’s the caveat. 40% of the population, 30% to 40%, have a genetic mutation called MTHFR mutation.
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They call it the MRFR gene.
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That’s right. I’m glad you said it, not me. Charlie, are we okay saying that on the air? Okay, Charlie’s nodding his head. We can do that. So what is the MTHR gene really responsible for? So it affects the body’s ability to process folate, which is vitamin B9, and converts it to homocysteine and methionine.
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And folate is basically sprayed on all the food supply that we eat in folic acid.
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Right. So you can eat a lot of green leafy vegetables and you think, hey, I’m doing great for myself because I’m getting the folic acid. Or you can take in, drink milk and get riboflavin. You can eat a steak and say, okay, I’ve got B12.
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But if you have a mutated MTHFR gene.
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Then you cannot methylate those B vitamins, especially the folate. Okay.
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The number one thing you’ll see in the biomarkers that all the audience is going to come have done is elevated homocysteine.
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Correct. And so this gene mutation is linked to cardiovascular issues, blood clots, and cognitive decline. There’s your brain fog. So here’s some of the symptoms and health risks that people experience. Depression. And Regina, you’re going to talk about that. Anxiety, ADHD, bipolar disorder, fatigue, which everybody has, migraines, autoimmune diseases, heart disease, increased risk for miscarriages in ladies, neural tube defects, gestational diabetes. And hormonal imbalances and digestive issues. Did I leave anybody in the audience out?
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I was going to say it’s a pretty exhaustive list. I have a 19, soon to be 20-year-old daughter that had been having several of those issues take place. And you can’t really get the biomarkers done in a… comprehensive way until you’re 18 so the pediatricians won’t take that deep of a dive and i had hers done last july and guess what she has a mutated mthfr gene started giving her methylated b12 and all of a sudden the homocysteine levels are down to normal and she is a much happier human being over that one change.
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And the fact that you caught it early in her, because most people go along and then they’re 50 years old when they come to me and like, doc, I just don’t have it. Now, here’s the problem is most people is if you go find a doctor online and say, oh, it must be my thyroid. So you go to somebody who specializes in it and they’re like, oh, it’s clearly your thyroid, right? There are one trick pony is what I call them. So if you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail. So you go to a thyroid specialist, oh, it’s got to be a thyroid issue. If you go to a hormone expert, oh, it’s got to be your hormones or your low testosterone or something like that. Or ladies, your hormones are all screwed up, so it’s got to be that. So you need really somebody because how many things have we talked about now that have similar symptoms? Because the human body can only react so many different ways. So fatigue, is it because you have sleep apnea and you’re not sleeping well? Is it because you have this gene mutation? Is it because you drink alcohol before you go to bed and it wrecks your sleep? There’s so many different things.
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And combinations. It could be all of the above.
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That’s exactly right.
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These new tests, they call them epigenetic DNA methylation tests, and that’s probably the number one thing to look at is the MTHFR gene. But when you look through DNA methylation, which you’ve done the testing, you have the testing as well, you really can learn a whole lot in one test about how your body
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biologically is set up and really find out a lot of stuff that you wouldn’t necessarily get in a normal blood panel that’s exactly right and that’s why I do it so I’ve stopped doing these people will come to me and say well can you just check my hormones like yeah I can just check your hormones but I’m missing so many other things what I prefer to do is let’s take that deep dive let’s do the 110 biomarkers let’s check you for heavy metal toxicity let’s check your insulin let’s check your cortisol I don’t know if you have these things that are off or not. I can’t tell you. I can’t look because the symptoms overlap.
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Check the inflammation. We’re going to talk about that soon. But there’s two markers that no doctor looks at that can tell you a whole host of stuff about chronic low-grade inflammation in your body that when you start to fix that and power the mitochondria, it will absolutely change your life, just those two things alone. And these things aren’t being looked at.
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Right. And it’s so easy now with the NAD strips, things like that. And, oh, yeah, by the way, the multivitamin that I tell people to take – Remember we said CoQ10. We said L-phallopoic acid, L-carnitine, resveratrol. Now the NAD plus strips. That’s not in the multivitamin that I recommend people to take. But all the B vitamins are methylated. That’s right. So whether you have the gene mutation or not, and you’re taking a multivitamin, because who wants to take an individual one of everything? That’s what I used to do. And I would finish with my coffee in the morning. I’d still have a mountain of pills left over. I’m like, this sucks.
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Yeah. There’s gotta be a better, there’s no harm that can be taken of using the methylated versions, even if you don’t have the mutation. So it’s just start taking those types of methylated.
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Right. And especially those of you with neuropathy out there, um, Because you need those B vitamins for your neurons. And so sometimes your neuropathy is because you have this and you think, oh, I’ve got plenty of B12. Or let’s say you could get a shot of B12. If you can’t methylate it, I can check your level and say, hey, look, your level is perfectly fine. But if you can’t methylate it, you’ve wasted your time. That’s right.
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You’re looking in the plasma, not in the cell. And as a biohacker, I’ve moved pretty much beyond the oral vitamins because of the first pass effect that we talked about in the liver. So I build these into custom IV micronutrient and molecule bags. And I actually bring in exactly how much I need of each of these things to make sure that the mitochondrial cell is as healthy as it can be. I was in your clinic this morning, built a custom bag out that had the things that I need based on my last lab results. And if I’m traveling or something, yeah, I’ll have the, you know, the methylated stuff, but I’m bypassing everything and going right into the blood plasma and into the cells, which is next level. But people need to know that that option is out there.
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Correct. Thank you for staying that. So you can start the simple things and then call the office 303-663-6990. We’ll sit down, we’ll do a 30-minute consultation, and then we’ll get you on the road to the things that you actually need, find out what’s deficient, and I’ll pat you on the head if things are good. It’s like, okay, we don’t have to address that. But these are the things that are off. Let’s start fixing those.
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Yeah, you mentioned CoQ10 a couple of times. For instance, you go buy it on Amazon, you’re going to see 100 milligram all the way up to 500 milligram. Which one should I take for me? It turns out I need 300 milligrams daily on average to keep my CoQ10 levels up because I do a hit and run with a statin for reasons we’ll talk about for clotho in months to come. But you really got to get back to measuring and managing this stuff through knowing what’s going on inside your body.
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Yeah, and stop walking down the aisle in Walgreens or Costco and just picking stuff off the shelf saying, oh, this sounds good. I think I need this. I think I need that. No, use some common sense. And what you just spent on all those vitamins, you could easily come to see me, and we could get you on the road to recovery.
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We’re in a season where we’re starting to get out of the sicknesses finally. But high doses of vitamin C are now proven through the data and the literature to be so much more effective on immunity than we realized. But you’re not going to find those doses on the counter at Walgreens.
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No.
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Like I got like 30,000 milligrams last week at the tail end of my son’s sickness. But you’re going to see like 500 milligram gummies. You’re not going to eat 30 of those in the morning. So you got to know this stuff. And the only way to do that is sit down with an expert like yourself or somebody else that’s in the longevity space that understands it to a certain degree, which I don’t think there’s a whole lot. in southern Colorado yet, but this space is growing, which is good to see.
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Yep. So we went way long on this segment. So we’re going to take a break. We’ll come right back. And Regina, you’ll be joining us. So we’re looking forward to that. Dr. Scott Faulkner, 560 KLZ. We’ll be right back.
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TJ here with KLZ Radio, and once again I’m with Al Smith of Golden Eagle Financial. Al, do you do taxes for folks?
SPEAKER 12 :
Actually, I don’t. A lot of what I do involves tax planning, but I don’t sit down with people to prepare their taxes. But I think the tax planning is probably more important because that way, once they do sit down with their CPA or their tax preparer, they will have a better outcome, especially as we do some planning over time.
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Are there any mistakes or common things that people come to you in retirement for taxes, specific to retirement?
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Not so much specific mistakes, because depending on what someone’s age is, the mistakes may have already been made. But if someone has a reasonable window of Before they have to start taking required minimum distributions, for example, they can convert all or part of their traditional IRA to Roth. And by the time someone’s 73, if they have Roth income and Social Security income only, they will be paying zero in taxes.
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What about people who have regular brokerage accounts or other investments?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, investments that aren’t part of a retirement plan are subject to taxes, but only capital gains and dividends. And the tax rate for those, if a couple is under $66,000 a year of taxable income, the tax rate for those is zero. So depending on other tax planning that people have done, they can have a brokerage account and have those stocks pay dividends and capital gains and not have to pay any tax on them.
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Al, tell us how to get in touch with you if somebody wants to do that. It’s a new year. People are doing their taxes, so it’s on their mind. Yeah, it’s coming up.
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You can reach me at 303-744-1128.
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And as always, you can find Al Smith and Golden Eagle Financial at klzradio.com slash money. Al, thanks for joining us today.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, you’re welcome. Thanks for having me, TJ.
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Putting reason into your afternoon drive, this is John Rush.
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So obviously we’re talking about mitochondria. I want to make sure we hit eight spot. Oh, this is Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush on 560 KLC. Sorry, I didn’t see the red light. I’m busy talking to Regina. So we were talking about mitochondria. We’re going to continue talking about mitochondria because it’s that important, folks. And I don’t mean to beat a dead horse, but this is the foundation. You guys have to understand this for yourselves. So we’ve given you a lot of tips so far. The supplements, right, you can get this in a multivitamin. And so if you see me for the free consultation, I’ll tell you the one that I take. Because nutraceuticals, here’s a little tidbit, nutraceuticals, vitamins, are not regulated by the FDA. So we all have seen the nine news reporter that went to Walgreens and bought five bottles of vitamin D. And it says 1,000 international units on each bottle. She then sends it to a third-party independent lab. Report comes back. Bottle A says 1,000 international units, and there’s 200. Bottle B says 1,000, and it comes back 500. Because nutraceuticals are not regulated by the FDA, there’s nobody to catch them.
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Bingo.
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So there’s a company that I use that says, okay, Mr. Vitamin Manufacturer, if you’re going to get to the doctors through us, you must send your product to a third-party independent lab that is registered CGMP. That stands for Current Good Manufacturing Practices. That is the FDA’s gold standard. Not that I like the FDA. It’s better now with RFK Jr., but still, they’re a bunch of snakes. Okay. But they make sure that the lab is up to the best standard of testing.
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That’s right. And you get what they call a COA, a certificate of analysis that breaks down exactly what is in it. And then it gives you that feeling that, okay, this is a legitimate company. This is a credible source. And you’re not wasting your money on something that’s not moving the needle.
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s right. In fact, I had a patient today who was taking vitamin D with K2. Wow. Actually, it was yesterday. And her level was 20 on her vitamin D. Now, normal should be 65 to 100. She’s taking two of these a day and is at 20.
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So my first question would be, is she taking the vitamin D K2 that is equivalent to 5,000 international units of vitamin D? And if the answer is yes… Is she taking it while fasting? Which I made the mistake. You need to take vitamin D with food because it’s fat soluble. And my vitamin D went down when I started 14 hours of fasting because I ate it in the morning with my other vitamins. I’m like, what the heck is going on? And then that light bulb went off and now I take it with a meal. That’s extremely important. It shot back up. Yeah. So vitamin D, do not take it on an empty stomach or fasting. It’ll just pass right through you.
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Yeah. So, or the other thing is it’s garbage what she’s taking, right? There’s nothing in that pill. So I told her about the multivitamin that I take, which has 4,000 international units and it has the K2 in it, as well as your methylated B vitamins and your CoQ10 and your alpha lipoic acid in that one. And so I’m interested to see, is she going to get that vitamin D level up? Because 80% of the population in Colorado is vitamin D deficient. And when a normal doctor does your labs and gets the report back, they’ll say that you’re normal all the way down to 30 or 35. Folks, that is so deficient. No, no, no. Really, the sweet spot is a lab value about 65 to 100.
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Yeah, my over-under is I always try to stay right around 75. Don’t move into calcium, but don’t go below 70.
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Yeah, because if you get too much vitamin D, it’s like too much of anything, then you can start having problems with calcium metabolism, and you absolutely don’t want to have problems with calcium metabolism in your body. It can jack you fast.
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Definitely. It’s a good place to say that what I’ve really focused on over the course of the last few months is what I’m calling the sweet spot. And that’s with all kinds of things. It’s with different modalities, different meds, different nutrients. But you can definitely overdo it and you can definitely easily underdo it. But that’s where the testing is so important. Because I overshot the mark with B12 to a point that It was a concern, and then I had to chelate it down over time. But yeah, if it’s good for you, too much of it’s bad for you. So you’ve got to find that sweet spot, measure it, and adjust as necessary.
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That’s right. And then let’s talk a little bit about a glutathione. So one of the best antioxidants known to man. Yep. Take it every morning. You take it every morning. And we now have the oral strips. Now, a lot of people will do NAC, N-A-C, N-acetylcysteine, which is the precursor to glutathione. It’s so important because it is the best antioxidant known to man. It’s that powerful. Yep. Well, I look at it and say, well, by the way, my multivitamin that I take has NAC in it. But if I’m going to get glutathione, why don’t I just do glutathione? That’s right. So now we have the same strips that we have the NAD plus in. We have the glutathione in those strips as well.
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So no more shots.
SPEAKER 05 :
So no more shots.
SPEAKER 15 :
I get shot every week.
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Uh-huh.
SPEAKER 18 :
Similar to NAD+, the glutathione amounts drop off precipitously, so you need to take this stuff every day. I take 100 milligrams of NAD+, and 100 milligrams of glutathione orally with these strips every morning, seven days a week. I’ve got to go pack in my travel bag. And they’re right on the counter. So those two things alone, no brainer for everybody out there for the cost to take these things.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. And when you see your markers of inflammation start coming down and there’s other things that we recommend. But those are a couple of simple things that you can do to start to decrease the inflammation in the body. And we’ll talk about inflammaging, right? So kind of a play on words instead of inflammation, inflammaging. And we’re going to do a deeper dive here in a little bit. But this is the cat’s meow. To get somebody started. Definitely. Remember, we first started in the first hour. We said, just look at yourself in the mirror and say, you know what? Today is the day that I’m going to start doing something for me. You don’t have to spend a thousand bucks, five, whatever. You can start with simple stuff. Baby steps. Where’s Bob? Bill Murray? Yeah, that’s right. What about Bob? Yeah. So baby steps, Bob. Baby steps. So for those of you in the audience, just give us a call, 303-663-6990 at Castle Rock Regenerative Health Care. The website is castlerockregenerativehealth.com. And I’ll be happy to sit down. and discuss this with you and get you on a plan and I’ll meet you where you’re at. If you have a little bit, it’s like, okay, this is what we can start with. If you have, you know, tons of funds, then I still start with the foundation.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah. I mean, on everybody, nobody should do anything except get their biomarkers done first and have the consult.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah.
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Then the conversation can take several different directions based on needs, what needs to be handled first, what the budget is, you know,
SPEAKER 16 :
When I think too, it’s, it’s a lot at first learning all of this as a person, a lay person. And this is what I’ve experienced with my patients. I’ve, they’re so overwhelmed with the idea of being healthy that they feel bombarded. And then they have these numbers they can’t even read. They leave it up to a person to say, Hey, by the way, this is what you need to start or don’t start. And it could be very exhausting. So I love that you say baby steps because they could start with like two things.
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Yeah.
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See how that works for four weeks. And then they get that good feeling and then they add more stuff because the anxiety starts lowering.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
You’re anxious. You’re not thinking straight.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. And you have to get the patient’s buy-in because you’re not going to go from horrible health to Superman in a week. This is a process. Now, here you are, Jeremy, five years later and you went from – I’ll say it again, awful to really good.
SPEAKER 18 :
Probably normal but awful. Yeah. To now abnormal but incredible. Right.
SPEAKER 16 :
That is amazing that you say that because people are walking around thinking they’re normal. But it is their normal, but it’s not, it’s not healthy. Like this is not healthy. And they’re like, oh, I don’t sleep well. That’s fine. Oh, I always, I’m always puffy in the face or, oh, that anxiety that I just get worried. I’m a worrier. I’m a worrier person. And I’m like, no, there’s something systemically happening to you. And it could be a lot of your health.
SPEAKER 18 :
It goes back to that buy-in and the accountability piece. You have to know that you’re ready to take that first step. And that’s with one eye closed, looking at the lab work and going, all right, well, how bad is it? You’re going to find out there’s stuff you don’t like in there. But the good news is, and I just spent two hours listening to Brian Johnson, the technology that they’re deploying, they can really take you from pretty much… I don’t want to say deathbed or stage four cancer, but pretty darn unhealthy to incredibly healthy in less than a year with the technology now. I tell people that I know, give me 12 weeks. And at like week nine, they’re like, oh my God. I’m like, I didn’t need the other three. I just threw it out there. But you can do it much faster than I did.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, no doubt. So great conversation. I want to touch on things that, are other modalities that aren’t medications or pills, shots, strips, things like hyperbaric, red light, sauna, cryotherapy, ozone sauna. So when we come back, these are other things that people can do for themselves that also help not just your mitochondria, but other processes that might be going on in the body. So when we come back, we’ll be talking about that. Dr. Scott Faulkner and friends, 560-KLZ.
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Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560. Welcome back, listeners. This is Dr. Scott Faulkner with Regina Nae Britt and Jeremy Sova joining me here in the studio talking to you about mitochondria health for this past hour. We’re going to stay on this topic because it is that important. Those of you who may have just hopped in your car, we’re giving you that foundation. This is the baby steps of things that you can do for yourself. Whether you see me or not, I encourage you to. Give us a call, 303-663-6990. But if you want to do something for yourself, we gave you the recipe. You can go back and listen. The things like CoQ10, L-carnitine, resveratrol, alpha lipoic acid, the B vitamins that are methylated. And so we wanted to move the conversation forward on some of the other modalities that can help not only with mitochondria but other disorders. And Regina, during the break, you were telling Jeremy and I of a story of a gentleman who was diagnosed with clinical depression. Why don’t you tell that story?
SPEAKER 16 :
So I started seeing this young man, 32, and he came in with complaints of depression. He had been battling depression for probably now seven years. The doctor, his psychiatrist was quick to put him on an SSRI. And he’s like, I’m still not feeling good. You’re the second therapist. What are you going to do for me? Very just defeated. So I worked with him about three, four sessions, and I’m like, when’s the last time you did your blood work? And he’s like, oh, I did that about six months ago. Can you send me a copy? Well, it didn’t have his Ds, so I made him go do it again, go get that checked, and also his testosterone. Because, of course, being 32… Why are we going to check the testosterone? So I was like, why don’t we just look at that? And he’s like, why? And I’m like, listen, you’re going to work with me. You’re going to do things my way. And we’re going to do this because we need to look at you systematically.
SPEAKER 09 :
We’re not just going to look at the whole.
SPEAKER 16 :
Exactly. The mind, body, and soul. You got to look at all of it. Yep. He comes back, sends me the blood work, and his D markers were so low, and his testosterone was that of a person in their 60s, which even in your 60s, you shouldn’t even have low with the medicine that we have now. So I said, okay, we’re going to send you to a functional HRT specialist to help you get on this stuff. So he did it. He started on it, and about our fourth session in. And along with vitamin D. Yeah, vitamin D, vitamin D and testosterone. He was feeling great. He’s like, I want to get off my medicine. I’m like, right, let’s wean you off. Let’s wean you off the SSRI. Weaned him off. I didn’t see him about maybe three months after that. Saw him one more time just as a check-in. Never saw him again. Got a text message from about four or five months after that, saying, I have a girlfriend. I’m doing great. I’m sorry I haven’t seen you. I’m like, I don’t want to see you.
SPEAKER 09 :
You’re doing good. Yeah, exactly. That’s the whole point.
SPEAKER 16 :
But he has been just misdiagnosed and mistreated.
SPEAKER 09 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 16 :
And I’m like, this person could have been on an SSRI for the rest of his life battling something that he doesn’t even have because it’s a medical, something is medically going on with him. I’m like, what happened to this? And I’m just like, wow, how many people are walking around like this? popping an anti-anxiety pill, popping antidepressants, when in reality there’s a dysfunction in their metabolic system, their energy system, their ability to process certain nutrients that they’re not even probably taking in the right form. And they don’t have anxiety. They don’t have depression.
SPEAKER 18 :
Right.
SPEAKER 05 :
I see that all the time.
SPEAKER 16 :
All the time.
SPEAKER 18 :
The SSRI doc isn’t doing blood work and figuring out all the other things. They just, like you said, you’re a hammer. You see a nail. Here you go. Take the SSRI.
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 05 :
It’s the answer to everything.
SPEAKER 16 :
It’s terrible. And then women getting on SSRIs in their 20s. You know what that does to the female reproductive system? Well, and inflammation. If you don’t need something, your body’s going to start becoming inflamed. So by the time they’re ready to, let’s say, have babies in their 30s, well, guess what? You can’t.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
Because this is happening and this is happening. Your body was doing this and your body was doing that. And still the doctors are like, oh, yeah, it’s not the SSRI. You can stay on it while you’re pregnant, by the way.
SPEAKER 05 :
Or let’s mix it around because this is not the right one for you. So if we tried Prozac, that’s not it. Let’s go to Lexapro. Oh, that’s not it. Let’s try Zoloft. Oh, that’s not it. You know, let’s go to Celexa. I mean, they have a whole armamentarium and they just rotate around. It’s like, oh, this one didn’t work, but this one’s definitely going to be better for you.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, zombie three might work if zombie one and two didn’t, but you’re still going to be a zombie.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, then they’re coming to therapy, but they’re not even really there because they’re checked out. So here I am doing therapy and trying to do cognitive behavioral therapy or let’s do some meditation. They’re not even present enough to understand that part of therapy because they’re detached. Right.
SPEAKER 18 :
It’s a dangerous mask.
SPEAKER 16 :
It’s such a dangerous mask. They’re there, but not there. And I’m like, how can I get through that when it’s a chemical reaction?
SPEAKER 18 :
just what I’ve learned in the last six months, I could list four or five things outside of the SSR realm that are proven to work. There’s so many opportunities to try other things. And in what order, you know, should you, as I leave up to a clinician like yourself, but I’ve seen some pretty cool turnarounds with, you know, frequencies and, you know, psilocybin and meditation. There’s just so many other ways to go.
SPEAKER 16 :
Good old walking in the sun.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah. Yeah. Pill for every ill though.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. But I want the audience to understand I am not a mental health professional, right? That is not my area of expertise. I’ve just seen so many people with that same story that yes, I can check your biomarkers. I can check your testosterone and I do, I check your vitamin D, these other things. If you truly have depression or PTSD or I’m not poo-pooing the entire industry. You need the good ones that can definitely help you. But this is a place that you should start.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, and the numbers that we’re seeing of people with diagnosed depression, diagnosed anxiety. I’ve been in the field now for 20 plus years. And I’m like, this is, it’s unfathomable. I don’t understand how many people have anxiety disorder.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah. And they’re quick to get diagnosed too. And I’m like, what if they’re not having anxiety disorder? What if they’re having disorder within their health? Disordered health, which causes a reaction to your mental health. I’m like, one comes before the other.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah. It’s safe to say too with all the technology now that, you know, there is a lot of anxiousness out there in society. Yeah. you know so getting the body as healthy as the lord designed it to be that’s the first step and if you still have some stuff to work through maybe there’s been some trauma you know then you can go to a mental health professional and talk about hopefully the ssri is at the bottom of that list but get the body optimal first and then see if you still need to go further Because there’s probably a fairly decent chance that if you get healthy in the mind and you’re sleeping and you’re exercising and you’re fueling your body with the right things and you’re managing your stress and your nervous system in a way that we can teach you. You might realize that you really don’t have what you thought you had when it comes to clinical depression or extreme anxiety, but don’t start with the SSRI and then work backwards. I’m not a mental health professional either, but I do have a lot of it. in my circle of influence. And I’ve seen stuff that works, but I haven’t yet to see somebody that is on the Lexapros and the other SSRIs that have gotten the solution that they were looking for, not a single one.
SPEAKER 16 :
And sometimes it is so severe, their anxiety, I could see where Lexapro could come in And cause them to detach from that nine or 10 anxiety. So then they have more logic and more reasoning. And that’s where I, I’m like, okay, well, I could see where it worked, where I could get them into a medical doctor to go look at blood work. And then when we look at markers and then I’m like, okay, well now we’re going to wean off the Lexapro and start this stuff.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
So sometimes it could be a good gateway for them to come from a cloud that’s so high of nervousness and constant rumination in the brain that they need that distance just for a little while to come back to reality for logical thinking and say, hey. It could be a simple thing here, but now we can speak on the same language. So sometimes medicine does help, and I do believe for that starting point. But then we go back to dysfunctions like the mitochondria, like having energy sources in your body that can help produce serotonin and dopamine naturally by supplementing with glutathione, supplementing with methylate B. These things really help depression and anxiety.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. And don’t forget the great healer, right? If you get dialed in with the Lord, then that is where you really need to be because without that, you’re just going to be spinning your wheels.
SPEAKER 16 :
Thankful and gratitude.
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s right. So we have to take a break now. Great conversation. We’ll pick it back up. We didn’t get to any of the other devices and things that might help. So when we come back, we’ll talk about those. Dr. Scott Faulkner and friends on 560 KLZ.
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We don’t yell at you. We inform you. Now, back to Rush to Reason. Welcome, listeners. Dr. Scott Faulkner on this Health and Wellness Wednesday. Sun’s getting ready to set, so those of you driving to the west, be very cautious, okay, and give yourself a little extra distance between the cars in front of you. Those of you who are listening at home or at work, we appreciate you listening. If you have a question, you can call us here in the studio at 303-477-5600. 303-477-5600. So let’s segue to some of the other things that can help people’s mitochondria. So Regina, you love red light. Why don’t you tell us about red light?
SPEAKER 16 :
So red light therapy, there’s different machines, different forms. There’s also different ways to access it, meaning you could get a face mask, get a full panel, go into a full body, which you, Dr. Fager, has a great device in your office. You just go in it, lay down, and it does its job. But what it does for mental health, there is an increase in that mitochondria, right? We talk about that energy. And it stimulates the neural, what we call neural mitochondria. So we have mitochondria everywhere. And then there’s ones that are called neural mitochondria. That helps the dopamine and serotonin.
SPEAKER 18 :
Earlier we talked about those are the ones in the brain.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yes. The blood-brain barrier. Yes, the blood-brain barrier. Exactly. So it penetrates right through the skin. And I’m going to use the word feed. Your mitochondria feed on this photomy, I always pronounce this, photomyblutiation, blutiation? No, what’s that word? There we go. There we go.
SPEAKER 05 :
That one.
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s good. Yes. So it increases your serotonin and dopamine. And what is that? What is serotonin and dopamine? Well, happy, sad, happy, sad. That’s what I like in layman’s terms. So when you increase your dopamine and serotonin, you’re less likely to experience lower effects of sadness, lower effects of frustration. It increases your ability to feel happier. It increases your feeling to have more energy to fight off these negative feelings. So it also reduces stress. Once you reduce stress, well, your mind is not going through that rumination, which people with higher relationships with anxiety, because we all have anxiety, but the higher the anxiety is, the more you ruminate, the more your mind just keeps going over and over and over again. But what this does is the red light is able to increase the mitochondria. So that way your brain is processing a bit better.
SPEAKER 18 :
You get that dopamine hit instead of getting it from a piece of chocolate cake or a donut, which is bad for you, or a video game. You get it from the red light, and you get that same feeling of elation and the endorphin dump, but you’re getting it the healthy way. It’s empowering the mitochondria and reducing the inflammation. Same feeling, but healthy versus unhealthy.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, and I’m glad you said that we have a great red light bed because they’re not created equal. No. So if you go to a Planet Fitness or other tanning salons or whatever that have red light, the downside is those are cheap red light beds. If it’s a bed, usually it’s a panel. And usually there’s only about two wavelengths because everything in red light is about the spectrum or the wavelength that it emits. Well, because I’m a doctor, I want the best. I went out and found one called Spectra 10. It has 10 wavelengths. It’s a $75,000 bed, folks. But it hits all those wavelengths. So it’s not just good for your brain and mitochondria. It’s good for your skin, for muscle repair.
SPEAKER 16 :
Anti-aging.
SPEAKER 05 :
Anti-aging, all these things. So a lot of folks say, well, I do red light. And I’m like, oh, yeah? Where do you do it? Well, I go to the gym and I stand in front of this panel for five minutes. I’m like, first. Five doesn’t. Yeah, five doesn’t cut it. Mm-mm. Typically our protocols are about 15 minutes. And these are bulbs, the red light bulbs, are three watts a piece. The ones that you get at Planet Fitness are a quarter watt. They’re cheap, they’re coming out of China. So this is made in the United States. It’s the best of the best. So not all red light is created equal. Yeah, do your due diligence.
SPEAKER 18 :
Find out what wavelengths do you need? What are you looking to accomplish? Then how much power do those wavelengths have? Do you need green light? Do you need blue light in concert with the red light? Do you need near-infrared light, which goes deeper into the dermis layer of the skin?
SPEAKER 16 :
Which I think for mental health… Full 10 millimeters. Yeah.
SPEAKER 18 :
but just red light in general to me is like the skinny shot. There’s so much more to it, to it than, you know, yeah, I tried red light. Like, well, what wavelengths at what power, how many bulbs and what is it that you’re trying to accomplish? Um, And to your point, you have, I think, eight or ten different modalities within that red light bed based on what it is that you’re trying to do, which I rotate over time. But, yeah, the quality and due diligence into spending money on red light is extremely important. Without a doubt.
SPEAKER 05 :
So Charlie’s taking my attention to the board, and Mike from New Jersey called to encourage us to keep it up. Thank you very much, Mike, for listening to us. We really appreciate that. And then the question is, do we do vagus nerve stimulation? So it’s funny that you should mention that. The box is in the lobby. Yeah, that’s right. So first off, what is the vagus nerve? So vagus nerve is cranial nerve number 10. So those of you who didn’t go to medical school, you have 12 cranial nerves that come out of your brain. So you have the optic nerve, which controls your eyeballs. You have the olfactory, which is sense of smell, your trigeminal, the facial nerve. But number 10 is the vagus, and vagus means the wanderer. And so it’s the only cranial nerve that comes out of your skull, and it goes down and it innervates your GI tract and your heart. So when we talk about sympathetic and parasympathetic, the fight or flight versus – the polar opposite, it’s the vagus nerve that’s responsible for that. So when we stimulate the vagus nerve, you get increased parasympathetic tone. Yes. Which is calming. Which is calming. So think of you had a big meal and you’re like, oh, I want to take a nap. I want to undo my pants and just lay here in the lounger, right? So that’s parasympathetic. It’s down-regulating all the stress hormones, the cortisol, things like that. The converse is true because is that without vagal stimulation, you get more sympathetic tone, more fight and flight. Let me get out of this situation. And so that’s what the vagus nerve does in the human body. So what we found is if we stimulate the vagus nerve, we increase parasympathetic tone. So Judy and I, when we came back from Las Vegas, we said we need to bring in a modality for our patients. And you can actually go online and buy a vagus nerve stimulator for yourself.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, I have one.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yep. How did I not know that?
SPEAKER 18 :
And it’s the Pulsetto that Brian Johnson uses. Not that I’m buying into any particular brand, but I did my due diligence. The Pulsetto seems to be a good one.
SPEAKER 16 :
Can you? I mean, because I know I do yoga. I teach yoga. And I know you can stimulate your vagus nerve doing deep diaphragmatic breathing.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, or rub your carotid artery one side. You can cough deeply. You can bear down. You can put your face in a bucket of cold water. But we have a device that you lay in. It’s like a lawn chair. It’s called a StemWave. And it is… incredible for stimulating the vagus nerve. So thanks for the question. There’s a few things that you can do to stimulate that vagus nerve. And yes, we have that in the office.
SPEAKER 18 :
Actually, we have two and we’ll mention it in a few minutes.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay. So when we come back from the break, we’ll mention the second one. So Dr. Scott Faulkner, 560 KLZ. We’ll be right back.
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