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In this insightful episode, health enthusiasts are treated to a wealth of knowledge shared by Dr. Scott Faulkner and special guest Jeremy Sova. Jeremy, who found his calling in the world of intelligent aging, shares his remarkable transition from the bustling corporate world to becoming a health advocate. The discussion unfolds around the importance of understanding biomarkers and tailoring health strategies to individual needs, offering listeners new perspectives on maintaining vitality and wellness throughout the aging process.
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I’m sorry that I’m fat. Welcome, listeners. You’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush. He had a thing with grandkids, asked me to fill in sort of last minute, and I said, absolutely. What are we going to talk about today? So first and foremost, May 21st, the year of our Lord, 2025. I want to thank all of you Gold Star parents out there, anybody who has given the ultimate sacrifice for our country on this memorial weekend coming up. As many of you remember, I served in the Air Force. Fortunately, the only live fire I ever saw was when I went to an Army post out in San Antonio, Texas, and they were shooting at us. I can’t imagine the horrors of combat, but for those of you who have Served, thank you. But for those who’ve paid the ultimate sacrifice, really, we owe everything to you at this point in time, as well as our Lord Jesus Christ. If you want to be part of the program, 303-477-5600. Give us a call. I have a very special guest here in the studio with me, Jeremy Sova. And Jeremy is a patient slash client. Jeremy’s in his mid-50s. And your journey is absolutely fascinating. So there’s thousands of probably 47. Okay, he just corrected me. He said 47. Sorry about that. I made you older than you were. But I wanted Jeremy on because Jeremy is the epitome of most of you folks who are driving and listening at work or at home on one, why I do what I do. Two, why I’ve left basically traditional medicine. So if there’s a way that you can listen for the three hours or go back and listen to this, you’re going to hear it from somebody who has started this journey of better health, got sick and tired of the medical establishment, looking at a few biomarkers. In my day we called them labs, but biomarkers now I guess is the new term. And patting you on the head and saying, oh, you’re fine. Well, you’re not fine. So we’re going to dive in. I’ve got 18 bullet points here. And we’ve got three hours to cover a lot of ground. And then later I’m going to have John Flouting. Many of you remember last time I was on a couple of weeks ago, he and his brother run Revitalize there in Littleton. And they do a lot of similar things that I do. So we’re going to jump in both feet and we’re going to talk about your journey, Jeremy. And I think pretty much everybody in the audience will be able to relate. So the first thing that you had said was you got to know what your lab work is, right? You guys call them biomarkers.
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Yep, absolutely. First off, thank you so much for having me. It’s an honor to be here.
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My pleasure.
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Thank you for your service heading into Memorial Day weekend. And one big shout out to my baby girl, 19 years old today is her 19th birthday. So happy birthday, Maddie. Happy birthday, Maddie. Um, but yeah, so I have a lot of folks that have kind of been in my circle and even outside watching my journey over the last three or four years is I’ve entered into what I call the intelligent aging space. Everyone uses the term anti-aging. Well, you’re going to age, but you can do it in a way where you’re focused more on your health span and not stressing about your lifespan. So you can be as healthy as you can be as long as you do live. And luckily those both go hand in hand, you know, better the health span, better the lifespan. So when somebody comes to me and says, hey, I hear you’re taking this or I hear you’re taking that, should I be taking it? And the first thing I do is kind of stop them right there and say, well, a lot of people are taking this vitamin or that supplement or they’re trying this diet. And my first response is, if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it, which is something I learned in business. So the first thing I do is recommend that they get their blood work done. And then sometimes we’ll come back.
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Well, let’s back up. Tell your background first before we jump in full up to your eyeballs. Sure. Give people a sense of who is Jeremy Sova.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yep. Great question. So going all the way back, I was the number three golfer in the state of Michigan for my age group back as a senior in high school. So I was on the path, at least I thought, to potentially play D1 college golf, play professional golf. And unfortunately, as a recruited walk-on at Michigan State University, I had broken my right femur in half in a wakeboarding accident the summer before my first season. So surgery, metal in, screws in, long rehab, was told on the table that I was going to have back issues in my 40s. medal out two years later, and then moved to South Florida to pursue my golf career again. Having missed the four years of college golf, I was close, played in a tournament, played my best golf that I ever played in my life, lost by five shots, retired the next day, basically told the wife we’re going to move up north and join the family business. So fast forward to 2004, I was brought in to the family business at the time, Battery Solutions, which was one of the top three largest recycling companies in North America. Onboarded pretty quickly in the first year. We grew it very quickly. The founder, my father, moved out to Arizona to run the small West Coast branch. And I had basically run the Michigan operation up to a point that we were very successful and exited the business at the end of 2012. And now it’s since been merged again and it’s the largest in the world. So learning about business, you know, after the professional golf career was very important and kind of who I am today. Then I moved out to Colorado after we sold it and got involved in the cannabis industry. One of the early founders, early adopters, grew the biggest grow in the state and had the most plants and the best awards and the best grower and all those things. But what I learned in the battery business was you really got to be intimate in knowing the marketplace and being able to accurately predict, I call it a crystal ball, of what’s coming next. And what I learned in the metals industry was, helped me at an accelerated rate in the cannabis industry. So luckily, got in, got out, and then got into the transportation sector, got in, got out, merged that. A couple of years ago, I exited the industry in 2022, and it’s since basically imploded on itself, at least in the state of Colorado and Oregon and some of the other high volume licensed states. So once I kind of got out, I’m like, well, what’s next? And I started to focus on my health and I kind of got some bad news along the way.
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Right.
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I started to look organically at certain what we call now biomarkers and blood pressure, pressure and cholesterol and, you know, heart health and. I realized that all those years in the cockpit did some damage, mostly stress, lack of sleep, lack of exercise, drinking too much, stuff that most, I think, humans tend to take for granted and do a lot. As I started to look at certain things, I’m like, well, I think we can improve some of these things. And I didn’t really have an anti-aging doctor. You know, I had the typical primary care physician that the insurance covers, and they take your blood, you know, once a year, and they look at a very small fraction of what I consider to be important stuff. And I really took it upon myself to look inward and do a lot of research, even before AI. And I learned so much that I decided I wanted to continue to ramp it up. And, you know, folks like Brian Johnson and Gary Brekka and Some of the early adopters, you see what happened with Dana White and him reversing his health. He had 10.4 years to live, and now he’s as healthy as he was in his late 20s, early 30s. So there’s a lot to it. I find out it’s ever-evolving. At one point, I was eating 91 different supplements a day, whether liquid, powder. Or oral. And now I’ve got it down to about 42 because I’m focused on the right ones. And I thought my 20 was bad. So I studied the blood work, right? And then I studied the results over time. And really now I’m tracking it. It’s a life decision. So some stuff I look at 90 days. Some stuff I look at six months. Some stuff I look at annually. Some imaging I get done every four to five years depending on what I found. So, yeah, it’s all about knowing what’s going on. And then you can appropriately attack it because every human body is different.
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Yeah. So that’s the problem that I have is a lot of folks who are driving home right now in this beautiful Colorado afternoon is they’re in your shoes where you were several years ago. You kind of beat up your life, your body, thinking, oh, I’ll be young forever. You take it for granted because we have resilience. We’re able to suck it up for a while. And you don’t really go to the doctor, but if you go to the doctor because your health insurance plan says, oh, if you go once a year, we’ll give you bonus points or whatever. And your doctor draws a CBC and a basic metabolic panel, which gives you a few biomarkers, your sodium, potassium, kidney function. They look at you. They pat you on the head and say, oh, you’re fine. Yeah, see you next year. But you’re not fine. The clock is ticking, and things are starting to wear down. I had the epiphany. Most of the listeners know my journey of getting out of internal medicine critical care, the hospital base, because I got sick and tired of putting people back together because their doctors neglected them for 10, 15, 20 years, and then they expected me to be a medical worker. It’s like, yeah, I can save your life, but – You did a lot of damage here. And in the ICU, I didn’t have time to talk to people about what we’re going to spend the next two hours and 45 minutes talking about. So we’re going to take a quick break because I want to give you ample time to continue talking about this journey that you started down that path. Great. Looking forward to it. Okay. So you’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner, 560 KLZ, Health and Wellness Wednesday. We’ll be right back.
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Welcome back, listeners. You’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner with special guest Jeremy Sova here on 560 KLZ Health and Wellness Wednesdays. I need to throw out my little disclaimer that I normally do in case we start to talk about stem cells sometime in the next two hours and 45 minutes, that when I do talk about umbilical cord-derived stem cells, these are an off-label use. The FDA indications are for the blood cancers, leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma. What I do on the regenerative side is considered an off-label use, but we use things off-label all the time. So again, if somebody from the FDA is listening, there’s my disclaimer. And oh yeah, by the way, I just helped get legislation passed in the state of Florida where stem cells doctors can actually use them now. And DeSantis will be signing that any day, and it will become into effect July 1st. So that’s the first domino to fall, and I’m working on the U.S. Congress to get it passed nationwide. So hopefully, pray for me, please, and this bill, that we can get stem cells approved to be used for regenerative purposes across the United States, and doctors don’t have to be in the shadows like myself anymore. Great news. Yep. So, Jeremy, we’re talking about your journey. We’ve established the fact that you’re 47, not in your 50s. Sorry about that. And what you did for background, very successful in business. You have that vision. You can see trends coming. You and I talked in my office that you see that regenerative, I call it regenerative medicine. It goes by several names, functional medicine. It can be integrative medicine. We kind of are all doing very similar stuff. We’re trying to turn back the hands of time and slow the clock. But you were talking about biomarkers, and then you wanted to continue on your journey. So go ahead.
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Yeah, definitely. And I encompass all those into one big layman’s bucket called intelligent aging because they all work together hand in hand with the regenerative stuff being, you know, the next huge thing that’s going to change the game. So a little bit of plug for Mark Hyman. He put out function health, which is a very easy way for I think it’s $4.99 a year to get 100 plus of your biomarkers done. You go to a quest lab nearby your house. They draw, you know, three vials of blood over a week period of time. They ship it in, and then over time they populate your report with all your results. So that’s probably the easiest thing to do. I used to do it the hard way. Doc, check me for these things. Go to a different doc, check me for those things. So you can pretty much look at the entire body and the blood work very easily. You can also do add-ons, and you can do cancer tests and different types of imaging. But I would say for a beginner, that’s a good way to start. It’s very easy. It’s app-based. You give the blood, and then they’ll give you clinicians’ notes that kind of give you recommendations. And I would say at that point, that’s where you really want to find somebody that you can talk to like yourself to say, okay, well, I kind of know what this means, but, you know, can you help me? And you find out, you know, you’re digging deeper into the mitochondrial health and, you know, maybe some deficiencies in your Krebs cycle, which is kind of the driving engine behind, you know, the mitochondrial cell.
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So I have to ask the question, did you, one, get your labs from Mark Hyman? And by the way, he has a huge waiting list. My daughter and son-in-law are doing this. Nice. And they said that he has something like a 250,000-person waiting list right now.
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So luckily I’m already in, but I haven’t given my blood yet. It’s a few weeks out because I had to adjust my ferritin levels upwards before I could give that much blood to not compromise my ferritin, which we can get into when we talk about hormones later. So I did it all organically, right? Like I’ve gone to several doctors, different labs.
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Okay, so that was the question. Did you take these labs to various, I call them dock-in-the-boxes. Did you take these results to these dock-in-the-boxes?
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Again, this is over a three-and-a-half-year period. So I would learn something. Like, for instance, I learned that my vitamin D3 hydroxy levels were compromised.
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Mm-hmm.
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That’s all I knew, so I started taking 1,000 IUs a day. It didn’t do much. The primary care physician’s like, don’t go over 2,000. The other doc says, you should be on 5,000. Well, it turns out everybody’s a little different. My sweet spot is 6,000 a day to stay right in that 55 to 70 nanograms per milliliter of blood.
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Yeah, 65. Our nephrologists have taught us 65 to really 100. You don’t want to go over that because then you start having problems with your calcium, but you’re exactly right.
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Right. So I’m like, oh, I fixed my vitamin D. You know, what’s next?
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But your journey, I know I got you off track talking about the biomarkers and getting your blood drawn and all that. But you wanted to talk about Peter at T, I believe.
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Yeah, so when I finally realized that I was doing good for myself and getting these biomarkers in check and lowering my biological age and supplementing for the right things, my physical trainer, who’s a great guy, he focuses in his lane specifically on correctional training, stability, grip strength, mostly for middle-aged to older folks because when you lose your muscle, things get really bad as you get older. So he sent me a link to Spotify, which was Peter Atiyah’s book. I think it came out in October of 23 called Outlive, the longevity of health, I believe. And he’s co-written by somebody else. So I listened to it once on some plane trips to my kids’ hockey tournaments across the world. And it was a little thick the first time I listened to it. There’s certain things I picked up on as a layman, certain things I had to dig deeper on. But on the second pass, like light bulbs were going off everywhere. I’m like, well, for instance, you know, we’ll talk about heart disease since it’s the number one killer in the world. And I’ve never, ever had my apolipoprotein B or my lipoprotein little A checked. I’ve had all these lipid panels over the years. You know, they’re looking at HDL, LDL, triglycerides, and total cholesterol. And those are important markers, but 75% of all heart attacks happen with people in normal ranges. So all of a sudden I’m like, well, I need to get my APOB checked. So I take it to the doc, and he’s like, oh, well, you know, you have to pay more for that. Well, sure, fine. And I get it back, and I find out it’s high, like I suspected. So I started with a Zetabibe, which is a block in the cholesterol in the stomach. Over time, got it down a little bit, and then paired it with a low-dose statin, got it down even further. Then started to look at inflammatory markers and realized I had some inflammation going on. Mom’s got rheumatoid arthritis. Grandparents have it. I’m probably destined to have it at some point around my age. So we’re thinking maybe it’s that. So we check our eye factor. That seems to be normal. And long story short, we find out that there’s some heart stuff going on. So I look, and I get a calcium score and find out that it’s 44.1.
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So you’re talking CT calcium score for those who don’t understand what that is.
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Yeah, an MRI that basically checks all the hard calcium in your arteries.
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Usually it’s a CAT scan, actually. Most of the time, a CT calcium score is a CT. That’s why it says CT.
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Okay, gotcha. It’s a CT scan. And I’m hoping it comes back as zero.
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Right? It’s mine, yay.
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And Peter Ortiz came back at like 30 or 40, you know, at age 50. And just like him, I was like, well, wait a minute, you know, I have heart disease? Like, what’s going on? I’m only, you know, in my mid-40s. Um, you know, so then I really take a deep, deep dive and all things, you know, heart health and I’m eating, you know, all kinds of different supplements and, you know, that are, that are good for it. Um, so, you know, in a nutshell, I’m like, all right, well now I need to get my, my APOB down below 40 and my LP little a down below like 45 or 50. Uh, so I increased the stat into 20 milligrams paired with these out of vibe. And now I got the lipid panel of a healthy 25 year old. You know, my blood pressure is normalized. It’s, it’s perfect. You know, my resting heart rate is perfect. Uh, my VO two max has been increasing. So that was just, I started there cause the heart’s really important, you know, but you know, a T really talks about the four horsemen, right? You know, the heart, uh, cancer, metabolic syndrome, and brain health. And you start to look at all these different areas and you can drill down in each and every one of them, starting with blood work and if it turns into imaging, you know, so on and so forth. But you can, you know, really stave off disease early on. The earlier you start, the better. But I kind of think for most people in their lives and their careers, age 40 is probably a good starting point. You know, if you can afford it, you know, maybe in your 20s since, you know, atherosclerosis starts, you know, in your teens.
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Mm-hmm.
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But it’s all the foods we’re eating, right? It’s the ultra-processed foods, and it’s the cigarettes, and it’s the alcohol, and it’s the refined sugars. And it’s what we grew up on, right? Like I was a product of the fast food generation. So I didn’t know that these dangerous SFAs were breaking down my arteries.
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Okay, you’ve got to define what an SFA is then.
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So it’s basically bad saturated fats. Correct. Like you’ve got polyunsaturated, monounsaturated, which I consider to be good saturated fats. Mm-hmm. But it’s all the stuff that’s in the donuts and the cookies and all the ultra-processed foods or UPFs, if you will. So you really find out, well, I can change my diet. And then you think back to the book, and I’m like, well, nutritional biochemistry is only one of the things. And arguably, it’s towards the bottom of the list, right? Like exercise and sleep are probably more important. And then, of course, stress management. So those four things together kind of lead to staving off the horsemen.
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I would throw weight loss in there. We have a new person at our front desk. We just hired him yesterday. Reagan is his name. And he looked at me and he says, what would you say is the one thing that somebody could do And I had to stop and think, what? If I can only tell people to do one thing, I said, well, it depends on their age, where they’re at. I said, you, you’re 19 years old. So get away from ultra-processed foods. Eat as clean as you can. That’s probably number one. But somebody who’s in their 30s, 40s, 50s, if they’re overweight by 30, 40, 50 pounds, get on a GLP-1. The GLPs are the glucagon-like peptide medicines, right? The semaglutides, the terazeptides, the retatrutides of the world. and drop that 20 30 40 pounds and you’re going to do so much for your body if i had to choose one that would be my one that i told him yeah absolutely and for for several reasons one like obviously caloric restriction is good but if you’re losing the weight that’s going to help with a lot of other things
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but all of a sudden you’re fixing potential hyperglycemia, right? Like I started GLP-1s about three years ago and nobody knew what they were. You know, to me it was semaglutide and I was paying an arm and a leg for it and I was getting sick, right, from all the side effects. But what I found out is it drove my hemoglobin A1C from pre-diabetic to normal. And now they’re finding out that these GLP-1s, due to the way they talk to the metabolic side of things, is they’re really good for brain health. So you have people saying, oh, well, I’m not going to take that skinny shot. I’m going to do it the right way and just diet and exercise. Well, they don’t realize that they’re missing out on some of the other aspects of the GLP-1 too. And for instance, alcohol cessation. People that tend to drink too much alcohol or they’re trying to wean themselves down And it’s probably an off-label conversation, but I’ve found with several people, myself included, that after a second drink on a GLP-1 shot week, I have no desire for a third. I don’t know if it’s the brain or the stomach or what, but it absolutely shuts down the craving. I don’t want any alcohol.
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Yeah, it’s the brain. And, yes, we’re using that in addiction medicine, and it’s not just alcohol. And so they’re doing ongoing studies, and that’s exactly what we’re seeing. But we have to go to a break. We’re at 3.30. So we’re going to break right now, and then we’ll come right back and pick this up. So you’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner for John Rush Health and Wellness Wednesdays. We’ll be right back.
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Welcome back, listeners. Dr. Scott filling in for John Rush on this Health and Wellness Wednesdays coming into Memorial Weekend. Again, thank you for all who have served. We were talking about intelligent aging with one of my patients, Jeremy Sova. And I thought Jeremy would be a perfect person because he has lived this journey that many of you are on currently. And so we were talking about the GLP-1s. And for the lay people or if you came from Mars and you don’t know what the GLP-1s are, that stands for glucagon-like peptide. And to the layperson, it doesn’t mean a whole lot. To we physicians, it means something. But you’ll recognize those as the semaglutide, ozempic wegovi, terzepetide, which is manjarozep bound, and then the latest and greatest is called retatrutide. That’s the GLP-3. Now, because Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk won their lawsuits last month, The entire industry has gone away from using the names Semiglutide, Turzepatide, Ozempic, Wegovy, Monjaro, Zepbound, because you will get a cease and desist letter. I know I got one of those from the lawyers. And these are billion-dollar companies, so I can’t fight a billion-dollar company and their lawyers. So what do we do? We sort of bent the knee in that we scrubbed our website from saying semaglutide, turazeptide, all those names. We now call them GLP-1, which is semaglutide. GLP-2 is turazeptide. GLP-3 is the retatrutide. And, yes, we have ample supply, even though most of your med spas can no longer get it. I have a secret source, and I know I’m not going to say it on the radio to get myself in trouble. Any of you who want to know more about it, if you were doing well and your doctor can’t give it to you anymore, please give the office a call, 303-663-6990, Castle Rock Regenerative Health Care. You can find us online. But give us a call. Or later, after the show, this will be posted on RushToReason.com, and you can go and listen to it. And then John has a link to my office, and you can either give us a call or reach out by email. So, Jeremy, we were talking about the GLP-1s, or all the GLPs, and you had a good point during the break about the muscle wasting issue.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, definitely. So I started it, again, about two and a half years ago, and I had no data. Nobody knew what to tell me what to do or what not to do. And I lost about 40 pounds prior to my wedding. Looked great, felt great. And I do do resistance training and stuff over at Lifetime Fitness. So I got on one of those in-body machines and realized that my muscle mass – had gone down, my body fat percentage had gone up, even though I’d lost the weight as far as the ratio goes. So long story short, I’ve learned that you want to definitely eat about one gram of protein for every pound of body weight. For instance, I weigh 172 pounds. I try to get at least 170 grams of protein a day. And I’m doing resistance training at least three days a week, sometimes four days a week. So now what I’ve found is I use the GLP-1s for maintenance. I do it about once a month. Unless I’m on vacation and I’m kind of binge eating, I’ll go to twice a month. back to once a month, and then I will measure every month. And now I’m back up 12% body fat, a lot of muscle, right? So I found the sweet spot. But I do have a lot of friends, colleagues, family members that just lost all the weight on the GLP-1s but weren’t mindful about their muscle loss. And it’s so much harder to gain that muscle once you’ve lost it. The fat part’s easy.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, and that’s what I try to preach to people. Protein is your friend, and you must do some weight training. You can’t just sit back and expect this shot to do everything because you will lose it. So pump a little iron, get your protein in, especially first thing in the morning because it does curb your appetite. That’s how this medicine works is it’s an incretin mimetic. What is incretin? Incretin is that molecule that gets released, usually leptin, From the stomach, after you eat a meal, it gets stretched out, goes through the bloodstream, hits the receptor on your brain and your hypothalamus, says, hey, stop eating, you’re full. Well, normal leptin has a half-life of about an hour, hour and a half in the human body. Well, what they’ve done is they’ve added an amino acid to this to last seven days. That’s why for a whole week you look at food and go, I’m not hungry. So you have to force yourself, especially first thing in the morning when you’re not hungry, is to, and after your intermittent fast, because you can still intermittent fast with this, but get a protein shake. And if it takes you an hour, hour and a half to suck on that thing, okay, that’s fine.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yep. You can even take it further. There’s certain amino acid combinations and flavors that you can add. For instance, I take a spoonful of, um, of an amino acid powder in my coffee, vanilla flavored. I like vanilla coffee. So those are the building blocks for protein, you know, so I’m actually building it. And then in the afternoon I’ll have a protein shake. And I also recommend getting different sources of protein, right? Some animal based proteins, some plant based proteins, um, Some people are sensitive to whey because they have some skin issues. I’m one of those people, so I limit the whey intake. And you’ll find out what your right protein mix is, and eventually it just becomes like breathing.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, and one of the best is casein protein, which is in cottage cheese. It’s a slow-burning fuel. So in the evening time, you want to stop eating around 6, 7 o’clock. That’ll give you that intermittent fast if you’re getting your shake around 8, 30, 9 o’clock in the morning. But a bowl of cottage cheese with maybe some blueberries before 7 o’clock or so as a snack, and that fuel will burn through the night, and you’ll feel well the next day. You’re not hungry and wanting to eat toast or a Pop-Tart or something crazy like that.
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s great. So I’m going to pick up some cottage cheese on the way home.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes. Okay. So we were talking about avoiding the four horsemen, the heart, metabolic disorders, cancers, brain diseases. And then we started talking about exercise and sleep is a huge one. So dive in on sleep.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah. So I’ve never been a horrible sleeper, but in the grind of business over the last 28 years, I found that I wasn’t getting enough. Right. You know, the American dream. Most people are getting four to six hours of sleep. There’s so much to do. I look at, you know, look at President Trump. The guy sleeps, you know, three, three and a half hours a night. Um, but it’s not healthy, right? So sleep is extremely important and to reach a good amount of REM sleep, rapid eye movement where you’re actually, you know, dreaming is even more important. And I’ve tried everything, right? Like I went, you know, I did the melatonin and I did the, um, the CBN, which is a cannabinoid derived from, you know, the hemp plant. I tried magnesium. And what I’ve really found has helped tremendously, and it seems like a new fad, and even my wife can attest now that we got them on the bed, are grounding sheets. So they’re like 10% silver. It’s woven through. It’s a good thread count. You plug it into the grounding outlet, which is the one hole below the two prongs. And it takes the body into a grounding state for the duration that you’re sleeping. And now we’ve found that we’re getting a good solid eight hours a night with a good three to four hours of REM sleep. Wake up energized, refreshed. We remember our dreams like through half the day. We kind of lose them in the shower previously. So I found that that’s a great solution. And then, of course, we’ve been about grounding in general for a long time. You know, get out in the sand and the ocean, put your feet in the grass, connect to the Earth’s magnetic field. Well, now I’m sleeping in that condition, and I think it’s phenomenal.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, you’re singing my sister’s song. She’s in Florida listening to us right now, and she takes her shoes off and runs around in the grass. She’s like, I’m telling you, it’ll change your life. You need to do grounding.
SPEAKER 16 :
The only other thing, you’ve got to get used to sleeping with your clothes off because you have to have contact with the sheets, which my wife had to adapt to. But it works.
SPEAKER 04 :
Is that what you told her? Is that what you convinced her, that this is how we have to sleep? We’re going to cut this part out. Okay, fair enough. Yeah, this is PG, folks, radio. So this is fabulous. And you were talking, really, you called this, I like this, intelligent aging. Because we call it something different. Like I just got back from the A4M. So those who are driving, please don’t write this down. But A as in apple, 4, the number 4, and M as in Mary. That stands for American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. And it’s probably one of the newest societies, even though it’s been around for 33 years. And down in West Palm Beach, there was 2,000 of us in this big conference center. And I was really excited. 2,000 of us. But then you look at how vast America is and how many doctors are across the fruited plains, and you’re like, oh, there’s only 2,000 of us. So we’re a needle in a haystack, but our numbers are growing. A lot of physicians are starting to become disgruntled. A lot of the younger generation, they – haven’t drank the Kool-Aid because, let’s face it, Big Pharma came into being because of Obamacare and George W. Bush passing the Part D, right, for pharmaceuticals. And we got away from a fee-for-service model. Now, you’re a little younger than I am. I’m about 10 years older than you, 12 years older than you. I remember as a kid, you got sick, and you’d go to the family practitioner, and we had a grumpy one, Dr. Heights. My sister was deathly afraid of him because of horse injuries. Your parents would have to take a half a day off because they hated it. If it was a kid, you got sick, but they would take time off from work, drag you to the family practitioner. They would do whatever. I mean, you’re a kid. You don’t care, right? And then your parents would juggle finances, or at least my parents would. How am I going to pay this bill? Because it’s another bill that we weren’t expecting. So they juggle finances, find a way to pay the doctor. That was the fee-for-service model. And then suddenly you’ve got Kaiser Permanente out in California saying, hey, we have an efficiency model. And that’s when you started seeing HMOs and PPOs cropping up. And the efficiency model is what we’re living under today. That’s where they’ll take one—now they’re not even physicians, they’re providers— And they’ll say, okay, here’s four exam rooms, and you have five minutes to bounce between each one. Good luck. And if you fall behind, we’re going to ding you. So your doctor no longer has the ability to sit and listen to you as a human being. They’re just trying to get through you as quickly as possible and on to the next person. They’re not interested in your 100 biomarkers. Not that they’re bad people. It’s just the system is grinding us down as providers. There’s a few of us that have said, screw this. I’m not doing this anymore. There’s a better way. And so, like I said, where’s hen’s teeth? But you found the one hen with a tooth down in Castle Rock. Right.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yep. For instance, a couple of years ago, as I learned more and more, I would bring debate to my annual with my primary care physician.
SPEAKER 09 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 16 :
And I could tell by the body language that I was onto something. All right. And they couldn’t necessarily tip their hand, but I’m paying $2,500 a year for this MD VIP service.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right.
SPEAKER 16 :
It wasn’t VIP at all, right? Just because they send, you know, six biomarkers to the Cleveland Clinic, I needed 104 others. Right. Most of which were actually more important. So God rest his soul, my primary care doc died of a heart attack last year. Really smart guy too. But like he was the old school model, right? So as I pushed and pushed, you know, about a year into it, he was kind of on my side. He’s like, yeah, you should keep doing that. You know, someone that said I shouldn’t be on hormone replacement therapy, you know, three years ago was applauding it, you know, but it took education from me sitting down with an hour and talking to them because I paid that VIP fee.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right.
SPEAKER 16 :
And that’s just, I don’t know how other people can break through that barrier other than, you know, the way we’re doing it here.
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s a, it’s a choice and everything in life is a choice, right? I choose to drive the car I drive. I choose to eat the foods I eat and shop where I shop. Um, and again, Is your health important to you? Especially you start getting 40, 50 and things are under the surface. Do you want to fix it now while it’s a small thing or find it when it is fixable? Or are you going to see me in the ICU because you crashed and burned and you had a major heart attack and now your ejection fraction is 20%? And oh, by the way, you’re screwed. Yeah, it’s too late.
SPEAKER 16 :
I won’t say his name, but we were talking the other day, my trainer, great guy, amazing guy. I mean, he’s the poster child for fit, right? You look at a picture and he looks amazing, right? Well, he did the function health, right? And he’s found a couple of biomarkers that are of concern, but he caught them so early that he can fix them very easily. That’s right. But if he went on what he looked like in the mirror for the next 10 years or so, based on what’s going on inside, inside the blood, he’d most likely regret it. So it’s, it’s really obviously back to square one, like get your blood work done.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s right. So we’re going to go to a break. And then we have the last segment before the top of the hour. So we’ll keep this up. You’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner with special guest, Jeremy Sova filling in for John Rush, 560 KLZ. We’ll be right back.
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SPEAKER 04 :
Welcome back listeners. Dr. Scott Faulkner for John Rush on this beautiful Wednesday afternoon here in Denver, Colorado. Special guest, Jeremy Sova, who’s one of my patients slash customer, I guess is what we call you as a doctor or your patient. Fair enough. And we are talking about your journey into this intelligent aging. And so many people are frustrated. They’re in the same boat. They don’t know where to turn. We’ve covered a lot of ground so far. We’ve talked about biomarkers, which is labs in my day. We’ve talked about avoiding the four horsemen, that Peter Attia book, right? Heart, metabolic disorder, cancer, brain diseases. We talked about the importance of exercise, especially weight-bearing exercise, getting enough protein, sleep. And I want to talk about pharmaceuticals right now. And especially the big one is rapamycin. So I try to bring new things to the listeners. And I can promise you 95% of the listening audience doesn’t know what rapamycin is. Sure. So let’s do a dive on rapamycin and other pharmaceuticals.
SPEAKER 16 :
Absolutely. So I learned about it in the Outleft book by Atiyah, and him and a group of doctors flew out to Easter Island, which is a remote island pretty far into the ocean southwest of Peru, Chile area. And they found out that there was a large number per person. per population of centenarians on that island and what was causing them to live over 100. And yada, yada, yada, they found out that there was a rapamycin in the volcanic water that the people were drinking. And they’d used rapamycin for, I don’t know, for decades for organ transplant, you know, making sure a healthy organ takes if, say, you get a liver from somebody. And what they found out is it’s really now known as the number one pharmaceutical option For healthspan and anti-aging. And I’m a layman, right? I’m not a doctor. I’m not a scientist. But based on what I’ve learned is it sounds like mTOR, mammalization of rapamycin. is something that happens when your cells are regenerating and growing.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. NAMTOR spelled little M capital T-O-R.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 16 :
And I’m going to say I’ve been on it for 19 months now. And I’m going to come back to that in a second. So it is a well-known now, at least in this sector, that everyone’s kind of focusing on. But what people don’t know is there’s a difference between mTOR C1 and mTOR C2. And you can take an AI dive on what those mean, but in layman’s terms. mTOR C1 is the thing that you want to focus on, but you don’t want to go into mTOR C2. So it’s really important. Rapamycin is a very powerful drug is that you start very small, right? Like, so I did one milligram per week. I took a one milligram pill once a week for a month. I took a month off. Then I went to two milligrams, same thing, took a month off, three, so on and so forth. I’m finally up to what science shows is the right dose, which is 6.6 milligrams. I take it once a week, then I take a month break, rinse and repeat. So you allow the body to kind of catch up. But Brian Johnson, if everybody knows him as the don’t die guy on Netflix, spends two million bucks a year on anti-aging. He’s very successful. He’s up to like, I think… eight months per 12 he ages. So he’s, he’s really the poster child for, for living forever. And he spends a lot of money and time and doctors doing it. And he did get on rapamycin early on a couple of years ago, but maybe they didn’t know it back then, but they started them at six milligrams out the gate and they drove them up to 13. They tried all kinds of different combinations and he started to get real bad side effects and mouth sores and skin issues. And when they did his biomarkers, he was actually accelerating his aging and What I’ve learned is that he was attacking mTOR C2. So I’ve had zero side effects. I’m finally at the right dose. We can check back in over time. But I think the key is to titrate up very slowly with this powerful drug and don’t exceed the amount that’s going to move the effects from mTOR C1 to mTOR C2. But so far, so good. I feel great.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, and it’s been studied in pretty much any animal under the sun. And the crazy thing was the dogs. It actually showed that if you have a middle-aged dog and give your dog rapamycin, you can actually reverse the dog’s aging because large dogs, they age fast, right? Your dog will die when they’re like 10 years old. If you have a dog who’s six, you can actually feed them rapamycin and actually turn back the clock.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, they’re saying all living cells, you know, whether it’s a fruit fly or, you know. A mouse or a human, there’s no, you know, it’s all living cells can have a benefit from the right amounts of rapamycin.
SPEAKER 04 :
And it’s not just rapamycin. So there’s other things like epithelon, right? The peptides. So let’s talk a little about peptides. We have a few minutes left. Do you know much about epithelon or zep?
SPEAKER 16 :
I don’t. My peptides are limited to CJC95, seromoralins, and the BPC157s and TB500s.
SPEAKER 04 :
So epithelon is a peptide that actually increases the length of your telomeres on the ends of your DNA. So the best analogy I can give people is a shoelace, right? So you have your shoelace in the middle, and then the little plasticky ends on the tips are what protect it from unraveling. Well, that’s what a telomere does on either side of your DNA strand. The shorter the telomeres, the more likely you are to damage your DNA. You get damaged DNA, you get cancers, things like that. So if you can lengthen your telomeres, you’re protecting your DNA. So epithelon is a peptide. It’s given as an injection. You’ll have to do it twice a year, and it will actually increase the length of your telomeres. That’s outstanding. Yeah. I knew I was going to learn something new today. There you go. So all these things in conjunction, it’s not just rapamycin, epithelium, but there’s so many other things. And unfortunately, we’ve only got a couple of minutes, but I wanted to talk about maybe some curcumin, the resveratrols. These are all things that we’ve proven for mitochondria health. These are things that we offer in the clinic. As a suggestion, I don’t have stock in any one of these companies. We do have an IV drip now that we offer for metabolic health and mitochondria repair because you’re right. It’s mitochondria, mitochondria, mitochondria.
SPEAKER 16 :
Amen.
SPEAKER 04 :
So if you want to take a couple, two minutes and talk about curcumin, resveratrol, NAD+,
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, definitely. So I did what was called a spectra cell test, which looks intercellular, which you don’t typically get in blood work. So I really got to drive down into some micronutrient deficiencies and efficiencies. And on that journey, I found out that some of this mitochondrial supplementation helped with my particular Krebs cycle in certain areas. Like, for instance, CoQ10, zinc, calcium, magnesium were important. But I’m doing the curcumin for inflammation. Same with the resveratrol. Glutathione I take daily, which seems to be a very good antioxidant.
SPEAKER 09 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 16 :
And I drink four tablespoons of really pure extra virgin olive oil, which is the fat I use for fat-soluble vitamins. But, yeah, every single day I take four tablespoons of olive oil.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, and do you do the – I don’t think you said NAD+.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, so actually I take a precursor called N as in Nancy, M as in Michael, N as in Nancy, and also an NAD plus together in a liquid form.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. Well, we like the injectable because your liver metabolizes a lot of that. So if you want NAD, in my estimation, just take the shot of the NAD. Gotcha.
SPEAKER 16 :
Next time I’m in for some vitamins and an IV, I’ll definitely take you on.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s right. So we have a hard break right now. We’re going to go to that. And then we’ll be back with Jeremy Sova talking about his journey on anti-aging, intelligent aging. And I think you’re going to learn something. So you’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush. We’ll be right back.
SPEAKER 05 :
I’m a rich guy.
