Listeners are in for insightful discussions as Dr. Scott Faulkner leads the conversation with a dynamic lineup of guests. From Jack’s weight loss transformation and insights into peptide treatments to Lisa’s inspiring story of managing Parkinson’s through ozone therapy, each tale is a testament to the power of determination and unconventional thinking. This episode sheds light on the intersection of traditional and modern medicine as guests navigate their health journeys.
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Welcome back, listeners. It’s actually Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush on this hybrid Thursday. It’s a hybrid because it’s not exactly Health and Wellness Wednesday. It’s Thursday. But as a doctor, I like talking about medical things. And we can talk politics like we did in the first hour. And a lot of you are just getting off work and you’re driving home. Please be cautious as you’re driving west because that sun is pretty brutal. It’s gorgeous. But it’s setting now and Just make sure you give yourself plenty of room between you and the car in front of you. So we have three guests in the studio with me today. Jack is one of my employees. He’s 17 years old. He is a world champion. Can I say world champion?
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I’m a North American champion. So Canada, Mexico, and U.S., I’m champion.
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So we’re American. So we only care about America. So we’re going to call you a world champion.
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All right.
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uh, power lifter and, um, my resident experts on peptides and everything peptides. We’re going to talk more about peptides in the last hour, the third hour. Um, but you’ve had some great insight and we’re going to get back to you in your journey, um, in just a little bit. And then we have Tam John. Tam, you are a nutritionist. What was that full long name of what you do?
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Thank you for asking. I’m a functional nutritional therapy practitioner.
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Yeah, what you said. So what I realized is that I was kind of doing my patients a disservice, the patients who are on semaglutide and terzeptide, and when they’d ask nutritional advice, that’s not fully my lane. So now we’re bringing Tam into the office on Wednesdays afternoon so that she can answer those questions and help people like Jack did on his own. You found this out on your own. You didn’t have to. Hire a nutritionist. You just did it on your own.
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Yeah. To lose that, what was it, 40 pounds?
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50.
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So I went from 185 to 135. Wow, that’s insane.
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And then we have Brian, who is my resident expert in everything stem cell, who started off selling PRP machines to doctors.
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Correct.
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And then you guys transitioned into stem cells.
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Yes, we went from PRP to stem cells derived from adipose tissue, basically through centrifugation, as well as from bone marrow, which had its own hurdles in terms of acquiring the marrow to be able to centrifuge it and sequester those particular cells. Now there’s a much, much simpler method, and that would be umbilical cord stem cells. And there’s at least one… one source for those in the U.S. at this point, which I’m completely confident in.
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Yeah. And we’re going to get into that again into the third hour. For those who missed the first hour, I am offering a special in my clinic because I don’t normally discount stem cells. But because I have other clinics that are popping up around the globe, one in Los Angeles, one in Sacramento, I have the one in the Philippines. We’re about to bring on five or six more Um, I am offering 25% off November 25th, 26th and 27th or December 13th and 14th. So if you want to take advantage of that special call the office at 303-663-6990. And that’s a perfect segue because we have a listener who’s on the phone right now, uh, on hold. Her name is Lisa and Lisa’s in Southern California. Lisa, welcome to the John Rush show.
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Hi.
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How are you today? How are things in Southern California?
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Good. Thank you for having me.
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Of course.
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I’m actually from Colorado.
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Oh, that’s right. Yes. I’m sorry, Lisa.
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That’s okay.
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So go ahead and tell your story because it comes better out of your mouth than mine.
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Okay. So I’m 54 years old and I was diagnosed at 52 with young onset Parkinson’s. And I had a lot of signs, but I really didn’t know that those were signs of Parkinson’s. A lot of stiffness, muscles that were really tight. So I started doing massage, physical therapy. That’s how my journey started. And then I noticed a slight tremor, but it would go on and off. It would go on more when I was more emotional. And then… Eventually, I remember driving and wanting to stop at a stop sign and trying to get my right leg to step on the brake. It did, but it was a very slow movement. And I’m like, something’s not right. So I did go in to see my neurologist. They diagnosed me then at 52 and a week before Christmas. and it was devastating because I’ve always taken care of myself and been physically active my whole life. So right away, they want to put you on levodopa carbidopa as soon as possible because they say it treats the symptoms, but, you know, Parkinson’s is an uncurable disease right now. Right. So they want to treat the symptoms. So basically when you have these symptoms, and they’re treated, you kind of start overlapping with other medications because one medication gives you another side effect, and pretty soon you’re taking a lot. So I denied doing that, and I’m still not on any medication right now. But I did some research about ozone therapy and how the oxygen runs through your blood and how it can help with the cells in your body, rejuvenate. including your brain, and I was like, this sounds really good. And I also heard that it’s part some therapy for Parkinson’s as far as ozone therapy with the stem cell therapy too, but I’ve only done ozone. So I’ve been doing, I have done three treatments so far, and I have seen a difference. And I still have a little bit of the tremors here and there. I work as an esthetician, so I physically am with my clients, touching them, massaging them. So it’s been, my mobility is much easier. I don’t have many aches and pains like I did. I’m sleeping better. I just, I feel really almost fine. At least 50% or more better than I have, and I’m just so elated right now. I’m so happy.
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Yeah, and we’re so happy that you found us and that we were able to offer this to you. How long does the treatment take?
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About 35 minutes. Mm-hmm. Yeah, about 30 to 35 minutes.
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Yeah.
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It’s very easy. Yeah.
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Yeah. And there is no downside to ozone. So this is one of those things that I, as a physician, if you don’t know or the listeners don’t know my background, I’m internal medicine, classic allopathic trained. January 1 will be 29 years. It’s crazy where time flies. But I like to do things. I’ve always been that person that thinks outside of the box. It’s like, well, why are we throwing Sinemet, which is that carbidopa levodopa at people, when maybe we should be addressing the root cause? Or is there something else? We know stem cells help. I’ve treated numerous patients with Parkinson’s. But in your case, we found that the ozone – was a potential game changer for you. So what we do is called MAH, right? And Katie, who is my expert in ozone in the office, she will phlebotomize you, take out 250 cc’s of blood into a bag. We heparinize it so it doesn’t clot, put some calcium in it. Then we ozonate it. So people remember oxygen is O2, ozone is O3. So this machine actually shoves a third oxygen atom onto the O2 And that’s how we get ozone. Ozone has been around for 150 years. Like during World War I, they didn’t have antibiotics, right? So the doctors would use ozone to treat the troops who had gunshot wounds and other illnesses. So I didn’t learn about ozone in my residency in medical school. I mean I was trained in Massachusetts right up the street from Harvard. So you think of all places they would have taught us about something as miraculous as ozone that doesn’t hurt you but can – help treat numerous diseases. But of course not. So I had to find this out on my own. So then I sent Katie to Frank Schellenberger, who is the foremost expert in the United States in ozone. He’s out in Reno, Nevada, or Carson City. He had a class in Reno. I tasked Katie to go be the hands-on person. And that’s who you’ve entrusted your life to. And listen to your story. Without pills, without chemicals, you’re significantly improved.
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Yep. I don’t take anything. I just go get my ozone therapy. I take a multivitamin. I do get sometimes shots, vitamin D, vitamin B12. But this has really impacted my life so much.
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Yeah. Well, Lisa, thank you for the call. We are so happy that you found us and that you’re coming into the clinic and you’re one of our patients. And God bless you, and I look forward to seeing you for a long, long time. Enjoying good health.
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Thank you. Thank you for having me.
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You’re welcome. So in the first hour, we were talking about ultra-processed foods. Jack, you told us your journey, how you were now 50 pounds overweight. Well, you weren’t even 17 then. I was 14. 14 years old. Yes, sir. Wow. Eating all this junk, that big ag is throwing down our throats. You know, parents don’t know. They go to the grocery store and they think, okay, well, here’s your Pop-Tarts, like you said. Here’s some processed food because – In my day, we were called the latchkey kids, right, because I’m Gen X. So they coined the term latchkey kids because our parents were off to work, and you get home, it’s like, oh, what am I going to have? So you heat up a hot dog or you eat a Pop-Tart or a microwavable burrito or something like that. Our food quality just went to heck in a handbasket. So I’m so proud of you, what you and your mom did together on this journey. Is there any advice that you would give to parents out there that are driving home who have teenagers? that may be in the same boat, what advice would you offer those parents?
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Yeah, for sure. So my mom actually texted me while we were on break and she reminded me of a bulletin board or we have like these notepads that we’re able to stick on a wall and we’re able to draw on. And it was a 12-week transformation challenge that me and my mom started between us. And it was who could lose the most amount of weight and look the best in those 12 weeks. And I think it was like I had to take her out to dinner or something if, like, she won. So I think if you have a kid that is struggling with weight loss or some sort of condition – step in their shoes and help them by you doing it along with them. So I think that the biggest thing that made me want to have change is having an end goal in mind. So if I didn’t have that 12-week marker, then I would have just stopped. I would have been like, oh, this is not good. This is not good. Like, I’ll just… I’ll just leave it here. But if I had that journey and I had that end goal in mind, then I could work towards that. And I think that my mom being with me and having those 12 weeks really progressed me.
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That’s fabulous. Great advice. So any of your listeners, if you want to pick Jack’s brain, you can call him at my office at 303-663-6990. We’re going to take a quick break and then we’ll come back. And Brian, I’m going to ask you about RFK Jr. and what it looks like for America. So hang tight. We’ll be back. 560 KLZ with Dr. Scott Faulkner.
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Putting reason into your afternoon drive, this is John Rush.
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Welcome back, listeners. This is Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush on this beautiful Thursday afternoon as the sun’s getting ready to set here in Colorado. Thank God we live in Colorado. So we have a caller from Cheyenne Ryder. You had a question about a personal trainer?
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Yes, sir. Hey, I just wanted to call in. Personally, I just lost 60 pounds over the past year. I did not do semi-glute tight or any injections. I did intermittent fasting. But leading up to that, I had both of my hips replaced as soon as I turned 40 last year. I was a bull rider in my younger days. And, yeah, you know, there was just no saving the hips. I looked at injections. Yeah, there was just no saving them. So I had that, but I was having a hard time keeping weight off. So I did the intermittent fasting route. There’s an outfit in town that advertises on a competitive station, and I did a plan similar to theirs. So I lost the 60 pounds. But leading up to that, for years, I had done like an hour of Stairmaster a day. I would do the elliptical. I would walk. I would run. I would do everything I could tolerate. Until the hips became unbearable, but I always got to the gym. But I got to the point where I was like, how far am I away from my bed? I couldn’t go down to Denver to the chiropractor from Cheyenne without thinking, God, I need to be home because I need to lay down again. You know, so, and I was eating some processed foods, but, you know, I was eating maybe once a day. I thought maybe just eating once a day would be the best thing. But the personal trainers, like you get at a big box gym, say at like a Lifetime or a 24, they always assume that somebody wants to be big and bulky. I never wanted to be big and bulky because, you know, I was a bull rider and you’re not, you know, I just wanted to be my 175, 180 self again. Can you kind of talk about… why these registered dietitians always want to pair a fat with a protein, and you need to eat every three hours a fat with a protein. And they’re just insisting upon that. And I was doing that, and I just couldn’t keep weight off. I was gaining weight. Even with a healthy fat, even with a healthy protein, it was just too much. And also, what about this, is it just across the board, or what do you think about how everybody says, well, you need 2,000 calories a day. You need X amount of calories per day. Is that just kind of a number that’s in the sand that they just came up with or threw a dart at the wall and said, well, let’s do 2,000 calories a day? Because if I ate 2,000 calories or 3,000 calories a day, I’d be 400 pounds. You’re going to balloon up, yeah.
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So, Tam, this is a question for you. What do you have to say to the writer?
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Well, hey, Ryder. So I’m just very curious about the idea of a registered dietitian recommending a fat and a protein every three hours. I think it just has to be a very personalized approach as to how you’re feeling. And there are a lot of things about your signs and symptoms as far as like how far your energy is taking you. And then making sure that you’re getting a lot of complex carbohydrates because that can be a really magical piece of to give you a very full feeling and yeah, with a healthy fat or excuse me, a healthy protein and, and yeah, some healthy fat, but making sure that you’re digesting and assimilating that well. So that can be a symptomatic thing too, that you can understand how your digestion feels and how you’re eliminating and so on and so forth. So, um,
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I just found that no matter what dietitian I work with, they weren’t very specific. And I just wanted to warn other listeners about that or kind of get your take on that. The other thing that I’ve completely cut out is I haven’t had a Diet Coke in a year. Now, I still drink a sugar-free Red Bull once in a while. And I really watch what I eat. But the Diet Coke, you know, cutting that out, that was kind of a game changer for me as well.
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Good for you. That’s a big piece. There’s so much in that soda and diet soda that is depleting your bones and keeping you on that addict cycle of consumption. So good for you.
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And hard on your kidneys, too. So what about this magical number of 2,000 calories that Ryder asked earlier?
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I think that’s a one-size-fits-all approach, and I don’t agree with that.
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Yeah, that’s what I wanted to kind of touch on because nobody touched on that when you were talking about your employee who lost all the weight as well. And I think having lost 60 pounds, I also wanted to touch on this. For anybody losing weight, it’s hard to step on the scale the first time and seeing what that number is. I think, you know, I was so afraid to step on that scale and say, oh, my God, I’m like at 238. And now I’m down to 174. And I still step on that scale first thing in the morning. I have an in-body machine in my basement that I paid way too much money for, but I still step on it every morning to see where I’m at. And it’s still, you know, kind of a daily thing. And maybe I take it a little too far, but I just kind of wanted to say, you know, to give anybody else hope who are like, oh, my gosh, you know, I am, you know – overwhelmed. So take it one day at a time, one pound at a time, half a pound at a time, because in stepping on the scale every morning, it was just so critical and still is to me. It’s just a part of me. Even when I travel now, I get like a portable scale or I make sure I go to a lifetime if I’m traveling to weigh in every morning when I’m gone. Yeah, great advice.
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Thank you, Ryder. Jackie?
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The one last question I have for you is what do you think about another thing I’m seeing a lot about, and my employees do this, they’ve quit tobacco use. But now they use Zen pouches. So you can answer that. I’ll listen to you off the air. But, you know, eventually I want to talk to you, Dr. Scott, because I want to, you know, go to your practice in Castle Rock versus a family practice. So I’ll call your office sometime. But that’s just something I’m seeing a lot still in the rodeo circuit. Nobody uses… you know, tobacco as much as they do the Zen pouches because they’re billed as a healthier alternative. And I’ve actually heard that from a medical provider that those are better for you. They’re not, you know, without risk and addiction, but they’re better for you. And I just wanted to hear your take on that as well.
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Fantastic. Thank you for the call, Ryder. Appreciate it. Jack, you wanted to actually take this.
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Yeah, so Ryder, I just have a few questions for you. When your dietician, did he find your maintenance? We dropped Ryder, so you’re going to have to. All right. Well, I was going to ask him if the dietician did find his maintenance calories because that’s very crucial. If you don’t find your maintenance calories, you can’t understand where your calorie deficit lays. Yeah. Not a magical 2000 for everybody. Yeah. I mean, my maintenance calories when I was 14, I think it was like 1.7, which is pretty low. But that was also because I wasn’t doing any exercise at that point. So I had to drop the calories in order to compensate for the lack of cardio and training outside.
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Yep. And then what about the Zen pouches?
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Oh, the Zin pouches. I’ve definitely seen from kids at my school and all these places that they’re replacing tobacco like chew or cigarettes. They’re taking vapes or Zins because it’s quote unquote a healthier option, but you’re still inhaling tobacco. chemicals that are made from china and all that sort of stuff nicotine in itself isn’t a bad thing necessarily it is a nootropic it’s a dopaminergic effect that doubles the dopamine in your bloodstream and that can have great results if you use it for um properly and you like microdose it for studying and all that sort of stuff it increases your um your brainwaves and all that sort of stuff, but people overdo it and then they become addicted and then they rely on it over and over and over. And then they, we see these kids in high school hitting these vapes in the bathroom and it’s like, bro, go to class. It’s a, why are you vaping on these Chinese chemicals that are just destroying your lungs? I mean, we’ve seen kids in all those news stories of kids going to the hospital because they’re
SPEAKER 09 :
hitting vapes yeah so the short answer is no it’s not actually healthier for you oh no so no good that they’re trying to cut tobacco bad that they’re substituting one addictive thing for another addictive thing yes um and it is addictive medicine it’s like these hyper processed foods they’re highly addictive they the tobacco industry knows what they’re doing It’s not a great, easy answer. I was hoping that Regina would be here today. She is our mental health expert and can help with addictive issues in properties. So we’re going to take a break right now. And Donovan, I know you’re on hold. We’ll get you after this break. You’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner and friends at 560 KLZ. We’ll be right back.
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Welcome back, listeners. It’s Dr. Scott filling in for John Rush on this Thursday. Sun is set, so those of you driving west here in the Mile High City, a little reprieve for you. So we have a caller, Donovan from Colorado Springs. Donovan, what’s your question?
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Well, to start off with, I’ve lost… About 90-some pounds, but I bounced back up and put about 20 back on. One, I had to do prednisone for a while for a sinus infection that wouldn’t go away and things like that. So anyways, and I’ve done some ego good. How I started it off was I started off, I did the HCG program. You familiar with that at all?
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Oh, yeah, yeah.
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And I lost almost 60 pounds right off the bat with that. Stayed on that real hard and heavy. And then just kept dieting, and I hit a plateau, got stuck. Tried Sigma, some Inca Glutide, and it got me down about 10 more pounds. Stayed on that for a while, and I went off it. Instantly bounced back up to 10 pounds, it seemed like. You must be an engineer. Oh, okay. Yeah. So keep on with your journey. Yeah, well, I am, but I’m looking to do a cryo-sin with my chiropractor that I visit. Have you ever heard anything about that? I have not. Okay. Well, and my question would be, why did the weight bounce all the time back after going off the smegaglutide?
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Yeah, great question. So one of the things I always tell your patients, and that’s why I urge people, if you’re thinking of semaglutide or terazeptide, these GLP-1s, or if you’re on it, that’s why I give patients free consultations because we address these issues. So it sounds like you went to someplace that they didn’t forewarn you that the weight can come back on. Now, I could have put you on… keto I could have put you on South Beach I could have put you on carnivore diet and the vast majority of people the weight will bounce back on So unfortunately, you’re that 60% that you’re going to gain the weight. So if your provider had told you, by the way, Donovan, there’s a 60% chance when you stop this stuff, the weight’s going to come back on in spades, then you would have known, and this is how I handle it in my practice. So once we get somebody to their weight loss goal, and I’m up front with them, I let them know, you may be that person that needs maintenance. And that’s not always a bad thing. Sure. So long as you’re an informed consumer, then you’re like, okay, I’m going in with my eyes wide open. And especially women. Believe it or not, women are really doomed with all the hormones after they’ve had kids. Their bodies just revolt. So I tell the patients. 40-60 in my clinic. 40% of the patients, when they stop the medication, the weight does not come back on. But those are typically people who did well at the low end of the scale. So if we’re talking semaglutide, it’s 0.25, maybe a 0.5. We’re talking triseptide, it’s like 2.5. But 60% of patients, when they try to come off… It starts coming back on. So those folks, what we normally do is we go out to 10 days instead of every seven days. Then we try to get you to 14 days. And then if we can get you to 21 days, and believe it or not, I have about three ladies in my clinic that can do it once a month. That’s all they need for maintenance. So, Tam, you wanted to chime in on this as well.
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Well, it’s important to have that proper diet first. So being sure that you’re getting your right balance of macronutrients. And again, I’ve been talking about this. Don’t want to sound like a broken record. But for me, a lot of it is about the symptom approach. So looking at your symptoms, your satiation level. And so that can help to make sure that you’re not over consuming calories, and then making sure that you’re getting a good fast in the evening. And so that can be a little intimidating. But in reality, it might just mean making sure that you have two to three hours from your last bite until you go to bed. So it gives your body that nice rest and your body can focus on a lot of detoxification and other healthy function rather than digestion while you’re sleeping. So all those things can just really build up your body’s capacity to keep you at a healthy, balanced weight and just living in the real world too, so that you’re not feeling like you have to be too restrictive with yourself.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. And Donovan is what Brian had said earlier. Sometimes you need help with your testosterone level. Right. We have a crisis in testosterone in men and young men and hormones. That’s why I do a full thyroid panel. It’s not just a TSH or a free T4. I want to know what your free T3 is. I want to know what your TPO, which is looking for antibodies if you have Hashimoto’s, and sometimes a reverse T3. So there’s a lot of things that can be looked at, but your regular doc isn’t going to take the time to educate you and hold your hand through this process.
SPEAKER 10 :
So I would say that I do.
SPEAKER 09 :
Go ahead.
SPEAKER 10 :
I was going to interject. I do fast minimum 12. I keep track of my last intake. I try to eat between 6 and 7 at night. And then I try for nothing after that. And then I don’t eat the next day until about 9 or 10 in the morning. So I give myself 12 hours plus of fasting overnight. That could be okay. I also did count my calories religiously and try to keep myself around, oh, under 2,000 every day. And it was just a fight to try to keep the weight off.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, we have to look at the nutrient value of those calories. So it’s all just a personal puzzle piece. And you would want to get your A1C if you don’t have that so you can really check in on is your blood sugar where it should be. Is it in a good range for you? So you can determine is that really the right fast for you. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, and if you do need something, you know, a medication, whether it’s semaglutide or terazeptide, it’s okay. You know, it’s not – don’t beat yourself down. It’s like, oh, I couldn’t do this on my own. It’s okay. Just be an informed consumer. So, Donovan, thank you for the call. We appreciate it.
SPEAKER 10 :
I listen to you guys a lot and really enjoy your show.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, thank you so much. You bet. Thank you. Bye-bye. Brian, you had a question for Tam.
SPEAKER 14 :
I did. When we think about, just take produce for example, and we go to the grocery store and it says organic. Is organic always organic? Is it better than something that’s, because you can have broccoli that’s organic and broccoli that’s not organic. You could have sprouts, for instance. And I’ve actually grown sprouts myself. It’s a little time consuming and a little tedious. But if I had access to sprouts, for instance, that were locally provided that may not be certified organic, is that a good thing?
SPEAKER 18 :
So as far as vegetables and being organic, I think they should be certainly USDA certified organic. If you’re paying a little bit more for that organic designation, because that’s a very credible designation, the USDA has maintained a lot of credibility around that. But you can also prioritize your vegetables and your organic vegetables by this. It’s called the Clean 15 and the Dirty Dozen. So there’s a group called the Environmental Working Group. I believe they’re EWG.org. And they will help you to say not by organic bananas because you’re peeling off that exterior or not by organic avocado because you’re peeling off that harder exterior. But knowing that you should prioritize things like strawberries or apples or so on for being organic. I really like to look at… So here in Colorado, that’s great if you can find a local sprouts grower.
SPEAKER 11 :
And…
SPEAKER 18 :
And you can also look at, so King Soopers does really well at a locally grown on the shelf. So they’re Colorado grown veggies that are in the organic section. And even recently I’ve seen that they’re still bringing in some greens and some Swiss chard and some things that are still locally grown. So that’s a go-to for me because I just think it’s worth it. But I have heard, and this was told to me by a produce clerk, I will not name the source, but they told me that if you buy organic from Mexico, everything that comes across the border is sprayed. So you’re really depleting the whole measure of paying more for organic.
SPEAKER 11 :
Sure, sure, sure.
SPEAKER 09 :
Wow, great question. Yeah, thank you. So we’re going to take another break. We’ll be right back with my guests, Jack, Tam, John, and Brian. This is Dr. Scott Faulkner, 560 KLZ, filling in for John Rush.
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Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 09 :
Happy Thursday, Rush listeners. It’s Dr. Scott filling in for John Rush. Sun is now set. Tam is looking outside the window from the studio saying that our government is spraying chemtrails over the top of us. So everybody get inside quickly. Remember, Jack, for those of you who are just tuning in, he is my 17-year-old employee at the office who now has lost 50 pounds, is a world champion power lifter. So kudos to you, who is just an expert in peptides and endocrinology. So that’s why I brought you in here. I wanted you to give a shout-out to your mom because she’s texting you through all of this.
SPEAKER 01 :
Yes, sir. So she is texting me through all this. I just want to say to everybody out there, all the parents especially listening make sure you support your kids through every endeavor that they face I know that I would not be anywhere without my mom and my dad my mom and my dad have helped me through everything that I’ve dealt with and they’ve made me into the person I who I am today parenting is the key to success for your children and from a young age you mold them into who they will
SPEAKER 09 :
become and i have to say special thank you to my mom and my dad for making me who i am today good for you god bless you guys so brian i had given you and jack a task before we came on air and that was we’re going to segue into rfk junior because we’ve been talking a lot about processed foods, yellow dye, number five, the tyrosine. We didn’t really touch on seed oils like soy, canola, things like that. I mean, think about it. They make biodiesel out of soy.
SPEAKER 01 :
It’s crazy that people are ingesting something that can run a car. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 09 :
So we’re going to start with Brian first. I want to get your take, and then I’m going to go over to our Gen Z-er here and get your take on RFK Jr. Sure.
SPEAKER 14 :
Sure. Well, if anybody’s following the news, although it’s been somewhat quiet, RFK has been unflinching on his attacks on the FTA, what he wants to do. Certainly he’s the nominee to head that agency. And my personal opinion, I think it’s about time. He’s gone as far as to say he wants to fire some experts. probably time for that as well uh… change the tide of uh… ultra processed foods uh… he advocates several different things raw milk for instance uh… certainly no expert there but also uh… some of the alternative treatments uh… that have been available uh… certainly not the unscrupulous actors uh… that might be working with stem cell therapies but Some of the more legitimate, such as Dr. Faulkner’s regenerative medicine in Castle Rock. Some of the more legitimate practitioners who want to go beyond what has been deemed traditional medicine for years and years and years and start looking outside the box a bit.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, I think we share the similar values and we’re like-minded in that I would have never voted for a Kennedy in my life. I am very conservative. But this is the right man to destroy that model and that agency that has caused so much destruction and pain. And with the school lunch program, I mean, you just came up through the school system, and they’re trying to throw garbage down your throat, Jack.
SPEAKER 01 :
What’s your take? It’s terrible. I mean, I’ll go into the cafeteria, and I’ll get thrown a Bosco stick that you pull apart the thing, and it’s like it’s breading wrapped around cheese, and you’ll pull it apart, and it literally looks like plastic. And I’ve seen – in the marinara sauce, having a film over it that you can literally lift off. And it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s pretty alarming. I mean, the food that they’re giving us kids and in hospitals are the worst food that anybody can eat. I think that they should take from natural grocers and whole foods and supply us that food. But I mean, Whatever saves them money, I guess, it’s all up to them at that point.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, it’s not just saving money. It’s the agreements that our politicians have made with big ag, right? So RFK Jr., because I was watching one of his podcasts last night, was saying how the guys who make Lunchables are now getting into the school system. Tam, is there any nutritional value to a Lunchable?
SPEAKER 18 :
I would have to look at what’s in it and, you know, just being fair, that’s always my thing, to read the label and understand, but I doubt it.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, to let you know, it’s nothing but processed food. There’s no real nutrients.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, there’s nothing in it. And you can so quickly put together something that looks like a Lunchable. You know, if you’re looking for that convenience of there is a better cracker and there is a piece of cheese that is good and there, you know, you can… even the lunch meat, there is something that’s better. There are so many different ways to create ease and convenience and do it with health and save money while we’re feeding ourselves and feeding our families.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Well, this is my plug for homeschooling your kids. One of the plugs, that’s what we did for our kids. And that’s how I became educated on the Constitution on so many broad topics is because my wife said, our kids are not going to attend public schools. Sorry to all you public school teachers out there. I know you’re doing a hard job. But if you really want your kids to not be indoctrinated, you need to homeschool them, right? So it was because I was a product of the public school system in Fort Collins and La Porte. And we did have civics back then in the 70s. We said the Pledge of Allegiance, but we never learned about the founding fathers. I mean, right now I could ask the question, how many of you know how many founding fathers approximately were there?
SPEAKER 01 :
I have no clue. In all honesty, I have taken some classes that I will never use, and I have no clue what I took because all that class was was a joke, and I’ve learned way more on my own.
SPEAKER 09 :
Do you know how many genders there are? There are two.
SPEAKER 01 :
Thank you. According to according to everybody else, there’s like a trillion.
SPEAKER 09 :
So it’s like, well, I got an A in biology and I learned there’s an X chromosome and a Y chromosome. So aside from like a Kleinfelders, there’s only two genders. You’re either a male or you’re a female. You could be a male thinking you’re a girl or want to be a girl, but the fact of the matter is you’re still a boy. And you should not be playing in girls’ sports or you should not be in girls’ locker rooms or anything else like that. That’s just creepy at that point. Yeah, that’s exactly right.
SPEAKER 01 :
It’s sad.
SPEAKER 09 :
So a plug for homeschooling. So those of you who are thinking about it, check out The Check, Christian Home Educators of Colorado. Every June there’s a big conference. That’s where my wife and I went. And that’s where I got wall builders from David Barton. And he has a great series on the Constitution, on the founding fathers. By the way, there’s about 250 founding fathers. Why did we fight the Revolutionary War? What is in the Declaration of Independence? It’s not just taxation without representation. So parents, you need to start educating yourself. There’s some great tools out there for you to learn this stuff because most of you are like me. You’re a product of the public education system. You didn’t learn this. And we’re kept in the dark for a reason by big media. So they don’t want us to know our history. They don’t want us to know what they’re doing to our food supply, what they’re doing to our water supply, what they’re doing to kids and saying secretly, oh, well, you’re actually not a boy. So we’re going to help you give you a girl’s name in school and don’t tell your parents. That crap’s going to stop or it has to stop. So that’s why I started off at the first hour saying we need to steal our spines. We are Christians. We need to be bold. Yes, in love, the Lord told us to be meek, but that doesn’t mean weak. We need to actually regain the territory. We need to put our stake in the ground and say, we are not going to fall for this garbage anymore. And collectively, we can make a change. What they’re doing to Cary Lake out in Arizona, stealing it, really, are you people cowards? I mean, I was ready to rise up and bear arms if this election if they had tried to steal this in colorado so that’s that’s my my rant again um so tam i need to cool myself down so is there a good oil i know i went off on a tangent but is there like a good oil that people can use to cook that’s not going to kill them
SPEAKER 18 :
There are several. So for cooking, I like walnut oil. It’s a good high heat oil.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 18 :
Avocado oil is a good high heat oil. Ghee is a good high heat oil.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 18 :
And keep your olive oil cool. Cool. Put the olive oil on top. Don’t cook with the olive oil.
SPEAKER 08 :
Why is that?
SPEAKER 18 :
It can break down the qualities and properties, so it can actually become rancid.
SPEAKER 09 :
I just learned something.
SPEAKER 08 :
Wow, look at you. You stumped Jack, too.
SPEAKER 09 :
Exactly. Well, thank you. All right, listeners. Well, that’s two hours in the can right now. This is Dr. Scott Faulkner. We’re going to be back after this short break for Hour 3.
SPEAKER 1 :
I’m a rich guy.
