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Join Dr. Scott Faulkner and biohacking expert Jeremy Sova on this episode of Rush to Reason. Together they explore the importance of accountability and credibility in the health industry. Delve into discussions that unravel the truths about modern wellness challenges, biohacking, and the choices we make for our health. Whether you’re starting your wellness journey or seeking advanced insights, this episode serves as a powerful resource for inspiration and actionable advice.
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Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, sir.
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I have what doctors call a little bit of a weight problem. I used to grab bear claws as a kid, two at a time, and I’d get them lodged right in this region here.
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Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people just don’t shoot their husbands.
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Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place, and I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.
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I’m sorry that I’m fat. Welcome listeners. It’s Dr. Scott Faulkner on this Health and Wellness Wednesday. It’s a beautiful day with sunshine in Denver, Colorado. The little dusting of snow we got overnight has melted. I can’t believe this. I talked to my sister the other day and it was 29 degrees in Daytona Beach, Florida.
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Yeah, definitely. I have family in Myrtle Beach, and they’ve gotten more snow there than Breckenridge has had in the last two weeks.
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That’s crazy. And that voice that you’re hearing is my guest, Jeremy Sova. A lot of you appreciate Jeremy’s expertise. He is an expert biohacker, friend, all-around good guy, and comes at this space with a lot of knowledge, and so that’s why… I trust Jeremy because he’s walked the walk. A lot of you folks who are a little trepid, you’re like, do I trust this Dr. Faulkner guy or don’t I? Or I don’t, I don’t like the sounds of being a biohacker. Um, What is that? What is a biohacker? He’s just going to throw a lot of pills at me. He’s going to tell me to spend a gazillion dollars and for what? So because you’ve walked the walk, you’ve talked the talk, you understand this space, you can meet people where they’re at because me as the physician, I can give advice. And yes, I take my own advice. I do a lot of these things. But That credibility that you bring to the table because you were the messed up wreck. You were the guy who smoked. You were overweight.
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Sorry, Jeremy. No, truth is what it is. I mean, working hard, not sleeping, doing all the things, the sedentary lifestyle that I would say probably the majority of people – And in business and in this stage of their life, you know, do fairly regularly. You know, they think, you know, live your life, do things in moderation. And before you know it, you know, things get worse and worse and worse. But I kind of stumbled into it with low back issues. But, you know, come COVID, I kind of woke up because it was a pretty scary situation. situation for a while and you know dove in and realized well while we can improve some of these things and here we are five years later and I do feel like I know enough you know to say thank you for the expert moniker but it’s you know like practicing medicine practicing biohacking it’s about finding out what’s going on in your body testing for it and then adding the things that it needs to thrive and And over time, it becomes like a normal lifestyle. And people talk about diet and exercise and lifestyle changes that are necessary. And that stuff’s true, but there’s so much more to it. And now with the groundbreaking toys and meds and molecules and different parts of the body that you can focus on. You know, it’s pretty much endless where you can go. And I continue, you know, kind of practicing this biohacking space in a way that it’s so incredible for me that I love sharing the story with friends, family, loved ones, listeners here. And, you know, let them, you know, try it for themselves and realize how good you really can feel if you put a little bit of work in.
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Yeah, and people don’t realize it’s a continuum, right? So when you’re in your 20s, 30s, you cheat the sandman. You do things to your body. You’re like, okay, well, when I make X amount or when I get this next job, then I’ll be able to back off and I’ll be able to take care of myself or I’ll be able to exercise or I’ll stop drinking. I’ll do this, that, or the other thing. And then one day you have to pay the piper.
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That’s right. You keep pushing it and pushing it and pushing it. And especially we’ve seen the data now, it’s around age 40 to 45, things really start to go haywire if you don’t pay attention. So those of you in your teens, 20s and 30s, enjoy it because it changes very quickly once the body starts to kind of deteriorate in all the ways that we talk about on the show.
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Yeah, and it’s accumulation of factors. It’s radiation. It’s microplastics. It’s screen time. It’s all these things that are bombarding your body and things that we didn’t really have when we were younger because I grew up – I was born in 66. So we didn’t have smartphones anymore.
SPEAKER 10 :
up to the side of our head that’s right um screen time was limited the parents were like get your butt outside and go play that’s exactly right i would say it’s even kind of worse for the you know the gen x millennials because you guys at least were eating real food you didn’t have you know all the you know the processed stuff and fast foods and all the toxins being thrown at you and the plastic water bottles and the hot coffee cups with the microplastics So I think it’s gotten much worse over the previous 40 years. And now we’re starting to turn the page and educate people on what to do, what not to do, and all the good things that can help you.
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Yeah, exactly. And we’ll talk about some of that, some of the food things. And those of you who are going to stick with us for the three hours, we’re going to give you a lot of new content, give you practical rubber meets road things to do. I don’t want to sit on my high horse and talk to you like a doctor and use these technical terms. that make no sense to people. I actually want you to get a grasp and a feel for why do I recommend the things that I do? What are the things that you can do that are simple, that don’t cost any money at home? What are the things that you’re going to have to pony up a few bucks, but maybe for go that coffee at Starbucks or something like that? But it’s a lifestyle choice. You need to get to that point where you look at yourself in the mirror, wherever you’re at, whether you’re 30 or 89, and say, I need to make a change for myself.
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Even if they’re small changes, you’ve got to start someplace. But eventually, they really start to build and build and build. then you want to track things and then you want to take the stuff that makes you feel better and avoid the stuff that doesn’t. But it definitely has to start with that self-realization that I know this stuff is out there. I hear them talking about it. I can see the proof. AI tells me that it’s legit. It’s time to step up and kind of be accountable for yourself.
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Well, that’s exactly right. And I like that word accountability. We’re going to talk about the what’s been going on with this Epstein file dump a little bit because it is so disturbing and really what’s behind all this nasty. No, no, we’re not going to take a deep dive on, on all this stuff. You can listen to the other podcasts and other commentators. This is health and wellness Wednesday, but we have to address it because it is a real thing. A lot of people are listening to this. They’re taking it into their ears and they’re ruminating on it and thinking, well, You know, when’s Christ going to crack the sky again? Because this has got to be end times. This is exactly what Revelation is talking about because it’s getting really bad.
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That’s right.
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Here’s the bad news. It’s going to get even worse.
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It’s got to get worse before it gets better.
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Correct. But there is hope. There’s things that you can do for yourself. You’re not President Trump. You’re not a Trendyaragua gangbanger. You are you. And for you and yourself and your family, there’s things that have to be done. And I say start today. Look yourself in the mirror and say, you know what? He’s right. I have to make a commitment today to start to improve myself.
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That’s right. Don’t give up hope. You can live that life beyond the dream.
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Yeah. And you’re the classic example of somebody who went from overweight, smoker, drinker, all these bad things, and you made a big difference.
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That’s right.
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And look at you now.
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Yeah. And I had some scares along the way, which pushed it. And I think it’s important to the accountability piece that you definitely need to start looking in order to find something or it’s going to find you and it’s too late. That’s part of it. I do want to say something, you know, because it’s kind of weighed on my heart since the news came out regarding the Epstein files in a, what I would consider a longevity mentor of mine going back to 2021. In Dr. Peter Attia out of Austin, Texas, you know, there was some emails that came out a couple of days ago. And I’m not going to go into the content if folks want to look it up on their phone and find out, you know, and read it for themselves. But he was a real leader and front runner in the longevity space and anti-aging medicine and helping understand the data. And we talk about the horsemen and the literature that’s out there. But when I reviewed those emails myself, there’s a couple of them that were so beyond not okay that I’m no longer going to give oxygen to what he puts out into the universe because there’s so many good, A4M type doctors like yourself that really do live to that oath of ethics and moral compass. And so I encourage folks, if you’re confused about what I’m talking about, you can look it up for yourselves. But It was bad enough that I did cancel my membership. I did toss the book after I’d read it a couple of times. And I’m going to take everything that I learned and hopefully help other people and other docs like yourself kind of carry that baton forward and know that. to all the patients out there and all the members that if you’re not sure where to turn, I’m sure there’s tons of choices. We just spent days in Vegas with 9,000 practitioners, you know, so do your due diligence, you know, find out who you’re, you’re dealing with and get yourself a good, you know, doctor mentor and help hold you back to the accountability thing. Help hold yourself accountable. You know, make sure the doctor has your, gets your, you get your biomarkers done with the doc and, Review them, sit down, put a plan in place with the pharmas that you need and the different life interventions. Have your family help hold you accountable for making sure you’re getting all the sleep that you need. Get yourself an exercise buddy or a trainer so you’re putting in the VO2 max stuff, the zone two, the weight training, all the things that we talk about here. But I do think credibility in the industry is extremely important because we’ve seen some negative stuff come out about, you know, Dr. Huberman and Gary Brekka and all these guys have been studying for years. And you start to peel back the onion and you realize while they’re human and they can, you know, kind of do human things that should be out of the public’s eye. What I saw with Dr. Atiyah was unacceptable. And I’m not a doctor, nor am I a lawyer. But I do think that there was a given duty definitely to not protect it and certainly probably to report it, even though he was never really board certified at a residency. But to celebrate it the way that he did and the excitement that he had to be involved really hurt. Yeah. So, you know, that’s kind of my first and last breath, you know, in that realm. But just know that we’re going to take all that good that came out of the last 10 years of his work and, you know, and hand it off to those that can really do it, you know, kind of while following Christ.
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Yeah, well said. I think this is a great time to take a break. When we come back, I’ve told my story briefly on previous episodes. But I think it would be good for the audience to understand where I come from, what is my background, and not – be a Peter Attia, right? Lay all the skeletons out. Is there something in the closet that I can’t, that I’m hiding or you can’t believe Dr. Faulkner is credible or he has this, you know, pedophilia fetish over here or something crazy. So when we come back, I will tell you my story. I wasn’t planning on doing this, but I think it’s important for the audience to understand that. And thank you for listening and bearing with us.
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That’s great. Transparency is very important.
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That’s exactly right. And so if you want to call in, if you have a comment, the number is 303-477-5600. 303-477-5600. You’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner with Jeremy Sova. 560-KLZ. We’ll be right back.
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Welcome back, listeners. Dr. Scott Faulkner here for John Rush on this Health and Wellness Wednesday with special guest Jeremy Sova. So in the first segment, we were talking about accountability, credibility, and how important that is. Because let’s face it, that’s all you have in this world. That’s right. You can’t take your money with you. Your word has to be your bond. And we see it breaking down. We see it with the politicians. There’s not an honest politician out there. I’m sorry. It’s almost like you can’t be an honest politician or else you won’t win. Right. And then we see the people in the FBI. It’s like, can Antifa really do what they’re doing if FBI wasn’t complicit in them running around? Because if they can find 2,000 January 6thers within a week and lock them up for two years without due process, you can’t tell me they can’t round up the heads of Antifa. So the whole thing is just rotten from top to bottom.
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Yep. Follow the money is what I always say. There’s a huge funding mechanism that I hope they uncover here.
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Yeah. And then you go back to the Epstein files and you see all these billionaires and foreign heads of state and kings and princes and you name it. And they’re using their power to just run roughshod over us. And they’re laughing all the way to the bank. And what they’re doing to these poor kids is absolutely disgusting.
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Yeah, definitely. I’m very surprised it took six years for this stuff to come out. I’m very happy that it finally is. Yeah.
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So our hope is in Christ, folks. Really, that’s where it begins and ends is if you don’t have that peace because otherwise you will drive yourself batty thinking, what can I do? It’s all hopeless, the whole nine yards. The answer is no. That’s where your hope lies. But right now I want to take a little bit of time and give you basically my bona fides. What? Who is Dr. Faulkner? Where does he come from? How can we trust this guy? Because, you know, there’s a lot of doctors out there and we just learned that one of them is crooked or at least disgusting. And then we see all the Medicare, Medicaid fraud out of Minneapolis and Let’s face it, we’re in Denver, so with our government, you know the system was set up to be fraudulent as well. And a lot of people, they fall into that trap. It’s like, I’ll take that easy money, the great whore of Babylon.
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Yep, definitely.
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So who is Dr. Scott Faulkner? So I was born in Southern California in 66. My parents got us out of there in 68. So I was a year and a half old when we moved to Fort Collins, Colorado. So really, Colorado was my home.
SPEAKER 10 :
I’ll let you be called a native with that. Thank you.
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I appreciate that. So, you know, went to public school. My parents both worked for the phone company. Didn’t have a ton of money. A couple of pairs of pants. And, you know, for Christmas you were happy because you got underwear and new clothes. Right.
SPEAKER 10 :
Which now we’re really happy at our age when we get those.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes. But I loved growing up because Fort Collins back in the 70s and early 80s was just idyllic. It wasn’t big. You had Colorado State University, but there was land. You could go hunt. My brothers would pick me up because they’re five and seven years older than me. So they would drive over to the elementary, pick me up, especially this time of year when it’s goose season. We would head out to Rocky Ridge and to our blind and we’d goose and duck hunt. We could hunt for deer and elk. We lived in the mountains. It was a fabulous time. And people still saluted the flag. Boy Scouts was still for boys. There weren’t girls in the Boy Scouts. And there were girls in the Girl Scouts. And so that’s where I learned my values. And I’ve never put on airs because we didn’t have any money. I mean, I wasn’t better than anybody else. So I carried that forward, and I like to say that I went to Poudre High, and we were the rednecks in Fort Collins. So if you looked at the parking lot, it was full of pickup trucks. But if you went over to Fort Collins High or Rocky Mountain, they had the BMWs and the nice cars that mommy and daddy bought the kids. Sure, sure. And we didn’t care. We were just a bunch of rednecks.
SPEAKER 10 :
I’m going to guess you probably slaughtered them in football and hockey just based on that stat alone.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, in football we did, but Fort Collins did beat us by one touchdown. So, yeah, that’s a sore spot. But we did beat Rocky Mountain, and we weren’t supposed to. That was the best game I ever played in my career. But then fast forward, went to UNC there in Greeley for undergrad, because even though I lived three blocks from CSU, I thought, if I’m going to spend this much money on my education, I want the instructor, one, to teach the class and two, to know my name. I do not want to be a social security number. So I went to UNC and UNC is not known for doctors. So I remember going to the chemistry department because my minor was in chemistry, but I majored in business because even at 18, I understood the whole world is a business. That’s right. So I better understand this. So what am I going to do with a biochemistry or a chemistry degree? But business, that will help me. And with a minor in chemistry, it gave me every prerequisite for medical school. So that’s how I took my classes because my advisor, he said, I think there’s an old syllabus from one of the medical schools from Florida in the chemistry library. He had no clue. He says, you might want to take your classes that way. So sure enough, there was an old one from the University of Florida. And that’s how I took my classes for five years.
SPEAKER 10 :
That’s great. I mean, self-teaching is so important anyway, because you’re taking in the actual data to yourself at an age when you’re learning about going to medical school. I can’t think of a better way to go.
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Yeah. And then it’s time to apply for medical school. I didn’t have two nickels to rub together. And back then you had to pay for each application. Now there’s a universal application. You can send it out to multiple schools, but then you had to pay each one. And because I was broke, I had enough to send to CU. Now, a lot of people don’t realize this, but the medical school is in downtown Denver. It used to be off of Colorado Boulevard, right across from the old Rose Medical Center and the old VA. So I got an interview and I showed up and the dean shows me around that whole day. And at the end, he looks at me and says, okay, I like what I see, so I’ll hold the slot for you in the fall if you do research with one of our professors over the summer, because they’re happy that it’s an MD-PhD program. Well, you’ve learned my personality. I don’t like lab rats. Research is not my forte. I would rather sit and talk to patients and help folks, but to sit there in a lab and play with rats is not my idea of a good time. But Jeremy, one thing kept going through my brain the entire day as I’m following this man around. You are the most pompous pricks I’ve ever met in my life.
SPEAKER 10 :
These were the lab folks?
SPEAKER 12 :
No, these are the medical students, the professors, everybody there. They just look down on everybody. We’re CU Medical School. Now, yes, it’s a great program, and I’ll give them that, their dues. But when you treat other people that way, you know it.
SPEAKER 10 :
They’re very arrogant. It’s like the airline pilots of the 70s and 80s, right? Yeah. They walked around with their nose in the air like they were the best of all things.
SPEAKER 12 :
So I knew it just didn’t – it wasn’t for me. And so I said, thank you very much, but I don’t think so. And he looked at me and he says, you’re turning down a chance at CU Med School? And I said, yeah, I guess I am. He’s like, wow. Wow. So now I gotta scramble and say, what’s plan B? So my sister had a couple of friends who had just graduated from their family practice residency in Guadalajara, Mexico. And they gave me some advice. They said, you’re only young once. If you ever get a chance to do something exotic, something out of the ordinary, do it because you’ll never get that chance again. Take it. That’s right. And so I’d already been accepted to the school down in the Caribbean. And it’s like, well, do I go through the application process? And Rocky Ridge wasn’t even built yet here in Colorado. So there’s only one medical school. So I have to go out of state. Or I could go down there and I thought, you know what? Dude, you’re in your early 20s. You’ve been in Colorado your whole life. This is a chance to do something exotic. And I fully researched it because we all use the same medical textbooks on basic sciences. Right? Chemistry is chemistry. Biochemistry is biochemistry. Anatomy and physiology is anatomy and physiology. Right. It’s black and white. It’s black and white. And I’m like, well, if it’s all the same, then why not? So that’s why I went down to the West Indies. But what that did is it gave me the opportunity because it’s a British colony to go to London. So I went with my buddies to London for my entire third year. Oh, nice. And that’s where I learned, one, the art of the physical exam. But there it was in Romford, Essex, which is about 12 miles up the Thames River from London proper and a poor part of London. And so you’re not putting on airs. You’re just helping people and they’re happy to have students. So here I am as a third year medical student doing like appendectomies, right? In the United States, you’re a third year medical student. You’re sitting in the corner hoping to get a glance at a surgery or something like that. Yeah. Sitting up in the chairs, looking up from above. Correct. And there they’re like, dude, get over here and help us out. And I’m like, this is fabulous. And I was just dumb enough to do it. I’m like, you name it. Cause I love procedures.
SPEAKER 10 :
Trial by fire.
SPEAKER 12 :
So it taught me to listen because there the physical exam and the listening, the history is key. So you have to hear what your patient is telling you. And here, you know, you’ve got five minutes. You don’t listen to anything. It’s like, okay, what pill am I going to give this person or what scan am I going to do? It kind of goes in one ear and out the other.
SPEAKER 10 :
And you need to discern whether or not the patient’s being honest because oftentimes patients lie, even though it’s not best for them. The less time you have, the less time you have to discern whether there’s anything there. So that relationship is very important.
SPEAKER 12 :
Correct. And so then I came back to the United States for my fourth year. And your great equalizer in medicine is your board scores. So I will put my board scores against anybody. That’s awesome. Yes. So I know I’m as smart as anybody who went to see you. Yes, Stanford and Harvard back then were the cream of the crop. That’s that top 5%. But I’ll put my scores against anybody else in the United States. But the other thing is my connection with patients, right?
SPEAKER 10 :
I would say that’s more important than the scores.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, exactly, because you can look stuff up. That’s right. Or you can refer to your buddy who may be smarter at you at X, Y, or Z. But it’s really having that knowledge, that common sense that we are missing today.
SPEAKER 10 :
That’s right. And AI can’t get in between the doctor and patient to the biological levels that we’re talking about here. Like I do, I get a lot of generalities and find out what works, what doesn’t. But that one-two punch of doctor-patient, in my opinion, is not replaceable.
SPEAKER 12 :
That’s correct. And so I’ve always carried that with me. Then I volunteered for the Air Force, or I did my residency in Massachusetts. That’s where I met Judy. And then volunteered for the Air Force. Thought I was going to do 20 years. I don’t take orders well. So after the end of my contract, I’m like, I’m moving back to Colorado with my wife. And now we’re starting to have kids and raise them. And I’ve just brought that with me. And at one time, I thought of running for the governorship in Colorado. And my wife looked at me and she said, you’re too honest of a person. They will eat you up. You have no skeleton in your closet. I don’t have any kids by other women. I don’t fool around on my wife. I don’t do drugs. I don’t do all the crazy stuff. So I thought I would have been the perfect candidate for that.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, it turns out you need some level of corruption to qualify.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, that’s exactly right. And she’s like, you’re not bringing that show into our family. No way. They’ll make stuff up. They’ll crucify you. That’s right. And so I listened to my wife and said, okay, well, that’s not for me. I’ll just continue on the path that God set me on. So that’s where being a physician and giving people my best is. And being brutally honest with people, I don’t have a frontal lobe. So if you have cancer, I’m just going to tell you you have cancer if you have something bad. Or if you’re not doing what you’re supposed to do, I’m like, well, you kind of brought this on yourself.
SPEAKER 10 :
That’s the accountability piece that we just talked about.
SPEAKER 12 :
That’s right. So that’s a little background on myself. And yes, I’ve done 28 years in hospitals and critical care medicine. I’m board certified. And I tell you all this because I had a patient call me today. I’d met with him a few weeks ago, had him do that CT angiogram with clearly to check the arteries of his heart because he was having chest pain. I think he heard me on the radio and I said, we need to get this done stat. So we do, and I was expecting to see his arteries just clog. And I was pleasantly surprised. He’s like, you’ve only got a couple of minimal lesions here, nothing severe or moderate. So the angina was from something else? Well, he could have, if it’s an angina at all, but he could have a little distal branch that you would never pick up on any scan. There’s really not a lot that you can do about it. I gave him the analogy of imagine a tree. Here’s a trunk. Here’s the branches. And you go way out to the tip of one of those itty-bitty little branches with maybe 10 or 15 leaves on it. Now, if that little sucker clogs up or falls off, the tree is like, oh, so big deal.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right, right, right.
SPEAKER 12 :
So that may be what’s going on. But I told him, yeah, go see your cardiologist and just let them know what we’re doing. So he goes to this lady. Very arrogant, and he tries to kindly tell her, look, I had these symptoms. Dr. Faulkner was kind enough to order this test for me. I had a CT calcium score that showed I had some calcium. Well, as we’ve learned, calcium does not rupture. That’s right. That’s the hard stuff. It’s the staph atherosclerotic plaque that is going to kill you.
SPEAKER 10 :
That’s right. The calcium shows that you have atherosclerosis and you’re depleting the veins around the heart. The arteries. The soft stuff is what can cause the heart attack.
SPEAKER 12 :
It can rupture because it’s soft. So that’s where we could never see it before unless we took you to the cath lab and did a cardiac catheterization. Well, now with technology and AI, we can actually see the soft stuff before it kills you. So he had the scan, and I was pleasantly surprised. So he goes to this very egotistical cardiologist, and he tells her what I’m doing. And the first words are out of her mouth is, oh, these naturopaths and chiropractors, they don’t know.
SPEAKER 10 :
Naturopaths and chiropractors are like, no, he’s a cutting-edge MD at the very top of A4M.
SPEAKER 12 :
Lady, I have 30 years of experience. I have seen more patients in my career than you will ever hope to.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, even if that wasn’t the case, just dismiss it without taking it in for me turns her into a bad cardiologist in my opinion.
SPEAKER 12 :
And then the next thing was the patient said, did you even look at my scan? Well, I read the report. He’s like, did you look at the – well, no. So she had already made up her mind, and the first thing that she wanted to throw him at was a? Statin. Correct. So not looking to see if this guy has disease or whatever, that’s her knee-jerk reaction. And so I feel badly for the patients out there because this is what they face all day, every day. They go to these experts or their doctor, and either they don’t have a clue, about regenerative medicine, longevity medicine, that there’s actually science behind it. She didn’t even know about a CT angiogram clearly. And she’s a cardiologist.
SPEAKER 10 :
That’s right. And I’m not even a doctor. And I would know before throwing, you know, just a blind statin after reading that report that I would at least discuss. There’s other options here, right? You got PCSK9 inhibitors. You got a Zetabibe that’s cheap. Maybe you want to do a hit and run with a statin so often. Have you talked about lifestyle changes? Have you talked about what’s your ApoB, getting these labs done? Nope. She just, you know, reared back, fired the statin, and off he went. On to the next.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right. But she’s the expert, and that’s what she’s trained to do. Oh, yeah. Your cholesterol is this. I don’t want to care about that scan. I’m not going to even believe that. I’m not even going to look at that because my training said you need a statin.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah. And when they say experts in cardiology, it’s who did the most stints, who did the most balloons, the most bypasses. To me, an expert in cardiology is how do you avoid any incidents from ever taking place and ever needing to do heart surgery? Right. Because atherosclerosis starts at a very young age, but now we know how to manage it, prevent it, and die with heart disease instead of from it. So I think cardiology should move more into the preventative space personally, but… What do I know? I’m just a biohacker.
SPEAKER 12 :
Exactly. But you’ve listened well. So that’s a little bit about my background. I understand where you guys are at. And I wanted to give you that little piece of myself so that if you’re like, I like this guy, you know what you get. I mean, I’m an open book. Ask me any question. I’ll tell you.
SPEAKER 10 :
And I can testify, I sit in your clinic two, three days a week for like the last year. And it’s not that I’m eavesdropping, but there’s a lobby and people talk. And you’re definitely more patient-focused than I think any doc I’ve seen. And that means a lot because these people need to know how to navigate this particular aspect of improving their health and optimizing it. And there’s so much out there that, you know, be able to talk to a professional and having the time to do so is invaluable. And it’s not even expensive to figure stuff out. It’s whether or not you want to, you know, deploy certain things to take it to the level I have. But, you know, that listening aspect is very important. Yeah, it really is.
SPEAKER 12 :
So we went a little bit long, but I wanted you guys to get that background. So if you want to be a participant, if you have comments, 303-477-5600. If you say, I like this guy, I want to sit down. It’s a free consult. 30 minutes. I mean, where else are you going to get that? The office number is 303-663-6990, 303-663-6990, or Castle Rock Regenerative Healthcare in Castle Rock. You can reach us. So we’re going to take a quick break, and we’ll be right back.
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SPEAKER 03 :
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SPEAKER 12 :
Back to Rush to Reason. Welcome back, listeners, on this beautiful Wednesday here in Denver, Colorado, Health and Wellness Wednesdays with Dr. Scott Faulkner and Jeremy Sova. So in the second and third hours, Regina Nabrit should be joining us. Oh, great. Yeah. I know we get great feedback. She gets that female perspective and she’s an expert in mental health stuff that I don’t try to touch because it’s not really my area of expertise. So I really appreciate it when she can answer a lot of those questions. I learned too. So we told the listeners when we first started that we’re going to give them practical where rubber meets road information. And so we’re going to start again from the foundation. You guys have heard Jeremy and I talk about mitochondria, mitochondria, mitochondria. That’s right. That is the building block. It’s the cornerstone pretty much of everything in the human body. So let’s go back and help people understand what is the mitochondria. So I’ll take that part if you don’t mind.
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, please.
SPEAKER 12 :
So what I tell my patients is you guys have heard mitochondria. You’re like, yeah, I heard that in high school biology. So those of you who are driving, use this mental picture. Go back to high school biology. When the instructor drew a big circle on the board, Do they still have boards? In my day, they used chalk. That’s probably a whiteboard these days.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 12 :
So just picture this big cell that the instructor drew on the board, and then kind of a quarter of that cell, another one, and they say that’s the nucleus. Okay. And then over here, they draw a rectangle, and then they do some squiggly lines and say that’s a mitochondria. That’s the powerhouse of the cell. That’s where ATP is generated. Energy production. Energy production. Think of it as a nuclear power plant. Or those of you out in Brush, Colorado, it’s a coal-fired power plant. But that’s where your power comes from. Clean coal. Clean coal. And if you don’t have your mitochondria functioning well… then you don’t get ATP, adenosine triphosphate. That is the fuel of the cell. And oh yeah, by the way, your cells cannot save or store ATP. So all day, every day, your body is cranking out ATP. Now, as we age and things happen, and we’ll talk about what those things are here in a second, but mitochondria could get damaged or come offline. And the instructor was partially correct. When they drew that cell in the nucleus and over here is a mitochondria, there’s not one mitochondria in a cell. In a basic cell, there’s 1,100 mitochondria. In one cell. In one cell. In a neuron, because neurons are the most energy-intensive cells to the human body. Brain cells. Brain cells. There’s 2,500 mitochondria in one cell, all making ATP. So think about 2,500 nuclear power plants or clean coal fire plants in that one cell. Now, your brain is composed of about 84 to 86 billion cells. So if the mitochondria start coming offline, you don’t have the ATP, you don’t have the power, you start getting what?
SPEAKER 10 :
Brain fog. Yep, things go haywire.
SPEAKER 12 :
Haywire. You don’t remember like you did. And then you start throwing junk into your brain like microplastics and forever chemicals and things like that, and your brain is not going to work very well. Yeah, and you think, oh, I’m just getting older. Things are normal. Correct. Until you turn it around. Yeah. Well, that’s the kicker is to turn it around because if you go anywhere else, they’re like, oh, well, welcome to getting older. Or here’s an Aricept or here’s a Namenda, right? Those are the two classic drugs that neurologists throw at people to really they don’t do a whole lot. They just slow, quote, unquote, the advancing of the cognitive impairment and decline.
SPEAKER 10 :
Slow down the decline instead of reverse it.
SPEAKER 12 :
That’s exactly right. And so guys like me and now a biohacker like you say, well, wait a second. If we repair the mitochondria, not only is it helping my brain but it helps the rest of my body. That’s right. And now suddenly I have the power like I did when I was in my 20s.
SPEAKER 10 :
That’s right. Yeah, so I learned in Vegas there’s 12 hallmarks of aging. And we’re not going to list them all, but you’re going to hear us talking about them over the months. And these two in particular we’re talking about is mitochondrial dysfunction and inflammation. And I like starting with those two because my mantra for the last couple of years has been get rid of the inflammation and power the mitochondria. I didn’t even know they were hallmarks. I just knew that was important. And we got to the point that we tested my mitochondria intracellular with a spectra cell laboratories test. And it was really bad. There was a lot of yellow and red and I was missing all kinds of key minerals and nutrients and micronutrients and started supplementing for those in your clinic in high doses. And then when I retested, the mitochondrial cell was near perfection and It was cool to see, you know, from the yellow and red over to the green. But the way that I feel is almost indescribable from a cognitive perspective and just having that energy in the gym, having that energy, you know, on this particular radio show or wherever it is, like helping, you know, my kid with his hockey career. And it’s a feeling I don’t think I’ve ever had, even though I’ve always been fairly intelligent over the last four decades. It’s a completely different level, and it’s like a clean, alert attention to detail. It’s really exciting stuff. And then to be able to see the results of it. And how we get there is something I’d like to talk about.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, I love that tease. So because we went long in the last segment when I was talking about myself, we’re going to take a break. And when we come back, we’re going to tell the audience, what are those things that you can do to help your mitochondria? Because if you came in to see me, I promise you this is the first thing that we are going to talk about. Well, I’m going to give you a free consult, folks. I’m going to give you these hallmarks, these things that you can implement today. And you don’t even have to see me. And by the way, your doctor will never, ever, ever talk to you about this.
SPEAKER 10 :
I would say 100% of the people that walk in the door, myself included, can improve their mitochondria. It’s at what level? How bad is it? How good can it get? But that’s a perfect starting point.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yep. So we’ll talk about the how when we come back. Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush, 560 KLZ on Health and Wellness Wednesday.
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SPEAKER 12 :
Suck it up, buttercup.
SPEAKER 03 :
Back to Rush to Reason.
SPEAKER 12 :
Welcome back, listeners. It’s Dr. Scott with Jeremy Sova on this Health and Wellness Wednesday. So before the break, we were talking about mitochondria and how that is the foundation. That is the key. So these are simple things that you guys can do to start in your own homes feeling better without doing a ton of things. Now, it is true. We always say that we love that ultra panel. You just heard my commercial that if we don’t measure it, we can’t manage it. And we sure as hell can’t optimize it. That’s exactly right. So let’s start to break down the mitochondria because there’s something called the Krebs cycle. When we take ADP to make ATP, you have several levels. It’s like building a car on a factory floor, right? As that robot’s bringing it by, you have the chassis and then, I don’t know, they put on tires and they put an engine in and then the leather seats and… And there’s a process to it. Well, your mitochondria is the same way. You don’t just go from ADP to ATP. There’s actually steps along the way and you need certain parts. So if Ford doesn’t have an engine, the car is going to come out on the other side with no engine. It’s not a car, a functional car.
SPEAKER 10 :
That’s right. In the case of the mitochondria, the micronutrients that are needed in certain levels to strengthen and make up that healthy mitochondrial cell is what I found what I needed to address.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes. And so you can do like what Jeremy did and do a spectra cell test, which goes intracellular. So this is not measuring the things that are in your blood or the plasma. This is actually going inside the cellular level and measuring these.
SPEAKER 10 :
And they give you a whole multi-page breakdown of the Krebs cycle and the whole thing. So it’s really cool.
SPEAKER 12 :
So you could spend that money or you can just say, well, I know I’m getting older, so my mitochondria must suck. I don’t have the energy like I used to. I have brain fog. So what are some of those tips, Dr. Faulkner, that I can do for myself?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yep, and you’ll feel the difference. Whether you test it or not, you’ll know, like, oh, my goodness, this is making a considerable difference.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. So some of those simple things that you must have are things like CoQ10. Yep. And, oh, yeah, by the way, statins deplete the CoQ10 in the body. Yes, they do. Okay. L-carnitine. alpha lipoic acid, resveratrol. And later in the next two or three hours, if I have time, I’m going to tell you why resveratrol is also important for other things in the human body. That’s what is in purple grapes, right? So that’s why the Mediterranean’s we feel lived healthier and you get some of the blue zones over there, it’s because of the resveratrol in the purple grapes.
SPEAKER 10 :
That’s right. Just don’t let it think that you can go drink a bottle of red wine and get that benefit because the alcohol offsets it. The grapes are good, the white wine not so much.
SPEAKER 12 :
That’s exactly right. Or you just pop a resveratrol and say, this is good. So those are simple things that will start to help your ADP convert to ATP. Now, one of the most important coenzymes is something called NAD+. NAD stands for nicotinamide adenide dinucleotide. Say that fast three times. So we just call it NAD+. Now, everybody out there that is a med spa or a peptide guy on your YouTube or whatever, your Instagram. I don’t know. I don’t do the phone stuff. But everybody’s touting NAD. Well, here’s part of the problem with NAD is the oral does not work and the precursors do not work. So you can waste a lot of money buying supplements NAD and going, yeah, well, I’m not really feeling anything. Well, there’s a reason why.
SPEAKER 10 :
You’ve got to back up when you say oral doesn’t work. It depends on the type of oral. You’re talking about going through the digestive tract.
SPEAKER 12 :
Through the digestive tract, correct.
SPEAKER 10 :
With the liver. But what we’re going to talk about that does work, does go orally, but it just works a completely different way.
SPEAKER 12 :
Correct. And so… We now, as of three weeks ago, we brought in NAD Plus in something called a strip. So imagine a Listerine fresh breath strip. So you open up the little foil package and it’s stable, right? So you don’t have to refrigerate it. You don’t have to worry about shots anymore. It’s crazy because I hate shots. I will be the first one to admit I’m a big sissy when it comes to poking myself with the needle.
SPEAKER 10 :
I can even take it further. I’ve been listening to certain podcasts and laboratories where if you take NAD+, intramuscular, you take a shot into the glute and the delt, the lab is showing that that NAD+, hangs in the blood plasma but does not get into the red blood cells where it’s needed. So you get that rush. You feel like you spent the money, it’s working.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, it’s like a niacin rush, yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
And all of a sudden you find out that you didn’t really get what you thought you got. And then the other option is to get them in the IV bags, which a lot of these athletes are doing. And it works, but you can’t get an IV bag every day. And the NAD plus levels over 40 drop off so quickly that you have to supplement it on a daily basis. So that’s where now the new technology is, is to get it, you know, in a mucosal or buccal delivery system into what you call the venous plexus of the mouth. And I’m actually blown away at myself and my son’s athletic ability since we’ve switched to these and they’re easy to travel with. So I’m so excited. I bought a big old box of them from you a few days ago.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. So what happens is you peel this thing open, the little aluminum foil, and then you put it on your tongue, you shove it to the roof of your mouth, and as Jeremy alluded to… that the veins up at the roof of your mouth, it’s a lot like the veins under your tongue. So if you came into the hospital, have an angina, chest pain, we put a nitroglycerin under your tongue. Why? Because it gets into the bloodstream instantly and bypasses the gut and the liver, that first pass effect. So, and remember what we said, what cells in the body have the most mitochondria? Neurons. And that venous plexus bypasses the blood-brain barrier. It goes right to the brain. So now you’re getting pure NAD straight to your brain, to your mitochondria. And I’m just going to give you a personal anecdote because we’ve had them in the office now for about three weeks. I told you guys we were going to get them. We now have them. And it’s fruity-flavored, so it’s not unpleasant. It’s actually not bad. I think it tastes great. Yeah. So on my workouts about four months ago, I had stagnated on my cardio workout, right? And I can show anybody who wants it on my Carol bike here. Here’s the graph and it graphs it out for you.
SPEAKER 10 :
You hit a plateau.
SPEAKER 12 :
I hit a plateau and I’m like, Oh, 59 and a half. I guess this is as good as it’s going to get. And then with my weightlifting as well, I’m like, Okay, I’m not seeing any improvement. I’m not losing ground, except for when I got COVID coming back from the Philippines. I had to work myself back up. But I had plateaued. When I did the NAD strips about two and a half weeks ago, every single day since then, I have set a new personal record. That’s awesome. On both my cardio workout. I mean, I’m crushing it. And I added a 10-pound plate to my weight stacks. 10 pounds, when you’ve stagnated, ask any guy who’s lifting, 10 pounds is huge. It’s a big jump. It’s a big jump. And so I’m just excited to see how far this will go. Now, I know for a fact that once my mitochondria get saturated, there’s going to be a plateau atop. But right now, I am so excited.
SPEAKER 10 :
But you can keep it at that top consistently, which is everyone’s probably a little bit different. But I’m a little ahead of you that I’ve been taking the oral NAD. I had to keep it cold and get it from Australia. So this is much easier. But I saw in my Zone 2 and Zone 3 training immediate results within a couple of days. And I pair it with something called a Sinaletic that we’ll talk to a little bit later and break that down. But the pairing of a hit and run with the Synalytic with the daily oral NAD+, that’s why my VO2 max is through the roof. That’s why my workouts are great. I can hold a conversation into zone three. This stuff is incredible. And I don’t want to brag about it, but of course I’m a father, so why not? But my son, in the last four hockey games, since he’s been taking these oral NAD Plus strips an hour before game time, has 15 points in four games, five goals, 14 points, sorry, five goals, nine assists in the last four games. And he had his first eight-point game of his life. And he hit the crossbar twice. He could have had two more. So he’s getting this energy production alertness and hockey IQ on the ice where he can see coming out of the neutral zone like he’s never been able to see before. And I just hope they don’t turn these things into performance enhancing. Athletes can’t use them because this stuff is incredible for what it does for energy workouts and stamina.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, and I don’t know how they could because it is natural to your body. So you need NAD+. And oh yeah, by the way, folks, every 20 years you age, you lose 50% of the NAD in your body for every 20 years you age. So we have that at the office. Call them 303-663-6990. We’re happy to help you out. But when we come back at the top of the next hour, we’re going to continue with this topic because there’s so many other things because it’s mitochondria, mitochondria, mitochondria. There’s other things on our list that we haven’t gotten to. That’s right. So we’ll talk about that after the break. You’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner. We’ll be right back.
