Join us on this episode of Rush to Reason as we dive deep into the complexities of managing digital distractions while maintaining mental and physical well-being. Host John Rush, along with experts Jeremy Sova and Regina Nabrit, discusses the importance of establishing boundaries with technology to prevent the overwhelming effects of constant connectivity. Discover practical tips and thoughtful insights on how to rekindle human connections in an age where screens dominate our daily interactions.
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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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Welcome listeners to this beautiful, gorgeous Wednesday afternoon in Denver, Colorado. The sun is shining, the snow is melted, the little bit of snow that we got. But we will take anything that the good Lord provides because we need a lot of it. And in the studio today, we have Jeremy Sova, expert biohacker. Hey, it’s great to be back. Thanks for having me, Dr. Faulkner. You’re welcome. And then we have Regina Nabrit. A lot of you guys remember Regina.
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Hi.
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She’s our expert mind shrinker, mental health expert.
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Find yourself loving yourself person.
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That’s right.
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Help us understand how the female takes into the equation because us men don’t always get it. So it’s great to have both sides of it.
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And I’m going to throw out the phone number. Again, we’re happy to take calls throughout the entire three hours. The number is 303-477-5600. 303-477-5600. Appreciate all of you listening. So we wanted to start the show off with reminding people to stay strong in Christ. I almost say this every month that I’m on because there’s something else in the world going on. Last month we had Venezuela and we had the Epstein files. We talked about that and how you can lose credibility. And now we’re bombing Iran and which I’m not a big fan of the mullahs. And I understand why President Trump felt that we needed to do that because, I mean, we don’t want a nuclear Iran. But at the same time, You’re like, you know what? We’ve got so many other problems in America to deal with. Again, the Epstein files, the deep state, you know, Pam Bondi is still worthless. Cash Patel is still worthless. Todd Blanche is still worthless. Susie Wiles is still worthless. You’ve got an FBI that’s targeting American citizens. You’ve got a CIA that’s just running rampant behind the scenes. It’s like, but it’s easy to get caught up in all of that. So Regina is going to give us some great insight on how we can, not get stressed out. Because remember, folks, God is in control. Be anxious for nothing the Bible says. And part of that is limiting screen time and things like that. And you’ll give us more tips. But at this point in time, I wanted to take just 10 seconds because we have lost service members. That war, yeah, we’re up to six now. War is hell. And yes, we’re kicking butt and taking names, which is really cool that we can do this with the kinetic weapons that we have stand off from 30,000 feet or whatever. But the fact of the matter is we have lost six human beings. And I know when I took the oath that I was willing to lay it down for my country. But when it strikes home, when you’re there and the bullets are flying, it’s not call of duty on a video game. No, it’s real life. It’s real life. It’s for all the marbles. And now those families are going to be missing their loved ones. Now, throughout history, we’ve always had to fight for what is ours. We have to stand our ground. The Revolutionary War, it wasn’t a one and done. We must continue to fight to keep liberty and justice for all. And then we’re going to turn our attention to the deep state. But we need to get behind our president. We need to get behind our troops, be united in our goal, and just take 10 seconds to pray for those families of our troops that are serving overseas and elsewhere and never forget that we are humans made in the image of God and that families are hurting right now. So if you guys would just give me 10 seconds just to honor those who have fallen in the line of duty, I’d appreciate it. All right, I want to thank you for that. In the Lord’s name, amen. So today we have a fantastic show, all three hours. It’s going to get kind of deep. I’m going to warn you right now. Jeremy and I and Regina are going to take you on a path. And we’re going to have Josh Gardner, our peptide expert, in a little bit later. This is the show you don’t want to miss. And if you’re driving, if you’re listening and you don’t have pen and paper, that’s fine. You must go back tonight and listen to it on the Rush to Reason website.
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Yeah, you can listen to it on the KLZ 560 Rush to Reason website. You can listen to it on Apple Podcast as well as iHeartRadio.
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Because the information we are going to give you over the next three hours is going to blow your mind. I promise you, you will not hear your regular doc ever talk about what we’re about to talk about, how we can actually reverse aging. And the data is clear. The simple things that you can do for yourself It’s amazing. So people with Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Lou Gehrig’s, multiple sclerosis, these are some simple things. There are some groundbreaking things that we’re going to touch on as well.
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Even mental health conditions, schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, lowering those symptoms.
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That’s exactly right. So we’re hoping that we can get to everything. I’ve got a stack here, and like we said, every month we’ve come in with a stack, and we touch maybe a quarter of it. We have great intentions, but we don’t want to shortcut this. But make sure you guys listen to this with a pen and paper. Write this stuff down because we’re going to move fast. Now, if I say something or Jeremy or Regina says something or even Josh says, that maybe we gloss over really fast. I’m going to try my hardest to slow us down to explain what these acronyms mean I’m going to do my best. OK, so give me some grace. But Regina, you wanted to talk about what I said earlier about how you can get so anxious and so caught up on your phone and everything about, oh, my gosh, we’re at war with Iraq and Bambani is doing nothing. And it seems like President Trump, he loves foreign policy. But, dude, why don’t you turn your attention home? You can get just overwhelmed. Thank you. That’s the word I’m looking for. So how do people not do that?
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So I like to look at the word temptation. It really surrounds the word temptation, wanting to know, needing to have, and not having certain boundaries with yourself. And I believe it’s good to know certain things going on in the world. And I think it’s good to, you know, look for things and how you can connect with people. But I think there’s a sense of boundary you must have. So when we talk about temptation… We look at not trying to fulfill the unhealthy part of our dopamine. What is dopamine? Well, the feel-good chemical in our brain, in our body. And there’s natural ways to have dopamine. You go for a nice walk, have a nice conversation with a friend, exercise, take a nice shower. Those are healthy ways of achieving dopamine. But when we talk about unhealthy ways… With temptation and social media, it is that addictive nature, that ability to have instant gratification. And what is that? I need it now. I’m having it now. I’m having a flood of it now. So it’s giving you this false sense of dopamine. And people are getting hooked on this, this addictive quality of dopamine just flooding in their brain.
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That’s why kids are addicted to video games, right? Correct. Because they get a big hit of dopamine.
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Right. And then talking to a friend is not as uplifting as social media or playing a video game. And we’re seeing a lot of what we call behaviors that are more robotic. more distance. And it’s really sad because we talk about being in each other’s lives more, creating more compassion and awareness for each other. But you can’t really do all of that behind a screen when you’re flooding yourself with constant information and you do not have any breaks, any boundaries.
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Well, that’s one of the big problems right now in society is there’s no relationship. Nobody sits down. I mean, you watch people go into a restaurant, and everybody’s got their phone out, and they’re just engrossed in their stuff. Kids don’t have friends. Like, I could name my friends. We could go play outside until the sun went down, and then the rule was get your butt inside the house.
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Before the sun goes down.
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Before the sun goes down. That’s right. But those connections now, I’m looking at the kids, and Jeremy, you have a son who’s in high school now. Yeah.
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Well, I can give an example where, so he plays hockey and it’s great, right? He’s getting the exercise. He’s got the camaraderie with the teammates. You know, they’re a band of brothers, but we go on the road to a tournament and you’ll book like a group dinner after the game. And all 20 of these kids are on their phones. Sometimes over each other’s shoulders and they’re kind of sharing in whatever it is. But thank goodness that they have the non-phone time because many kids just do that. But even kids with very strict guidelines and coaching and some of the highest levels of USA Hockey. All 20 phones are out for the hour that they’re at dinner at their player table. So this is a real thing.
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Yeah. It is. And it is. And it’s something that we need to come together and first be honest with ourselves. Really check in and be honest and call our own selves out of how much time are we spending, whether it’s educational social media or it’s I’m connecting with people’s social media or I’m informing myself of news. There is too much of everything. And you need to find your own limitation first. where you don’t get distracted from real life. You miss out on opportunity on real life experiences that create healthy levels of dopamine. And this is where addiction falls into. Slowly but surely, you start feeding your brain these unhealthy patterns, and it’s going to want more, and it’s going to keep wanting more. And then you have this false sense of feeling happy. Nothing really drives your happiness anymore because you’re so used to this instant gratification.
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Yeah, we talk about kind of the four things that you can do to get healthier. You know, sleep, exercise, stress management, emotional health.
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Human connection.
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And nutrition, nutritional biochemistry. Well, two of those four we’re talking about right now because sleep is affected by these phones. Yes. So stress is affected by these phones. You’re not sleeping because you’re worried about, you know, potentially some issues with some sleeper cells and you’re being more vigilant. There’s so much going on that two of those four things are getting compromised right out the gate, right? So you’ve got to get the phone away from you, you know, an hour before bedtime in addition to consistently limiting the time with intention. Yes. But the stressed emotional health part, I think, is why we’re spending this opening segment so carefully. It’s because it really is hurting children. It’s hurting adults. It’s hurting relationships.
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Hurting relationships.
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And I’m not entirely certain I have the answers on how to break out of it. But we’re going to talk about the important ways to access the different things in your life that can help control those two things and everything else.
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So there is a simple way. It’s called the four D’s. And long story, but it’s a way that therapists and psychologists looked into this on how people can reframe their way of looking at social media. So one would be the first D is distract. basically turning your attention to something positive a positive activity i’m gonna go play with my dog i’m gonna go walk my dog i’m gonna go outside with my son for five minutes and throw a football it could turn into ten but work with five the other is disguise make it less accessible sometimes as humans we need something to say i can’t look at my phone i’m putting it in the other room just for 10 minutes allowing myself that space the other d is distance physically removing yourself from the area of distraction. And the last one would be delay. When you get to a point where you feel that you need to have the phone, just say, you know what? I’m going to tie myself 15 minutes and allow this space for me just to be with my own thoughts in silence. Start with five minutes, start with 10, work up to 15. But basically these four D’s help you form healthy boundaries with the connection with technology because it’s necessary.
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Yeah, it’s baby steps, too, because I remember even 10 years ago, I had a mentor that had taught us about email, right? Because you get these emails flying in, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, before you know it, you’ve got 100 or 200 emails. And someone that’s pretty assertive wants to address those on a case-by-case basis in real time. But what we learned was, no, you check your email 15 minutes before lunch or 15 minutes before departure. and focus on the things that you need to focus on to grow your position, your business, your health. This is like that times a thousand with these smartphones now. So you got to take that same premise of kind of structuring your life in a way that keeps you from getting sucked into the addiction.
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Yeah, that’s great advice, guys. So we need to take a quick break. When we come back, we’re going to give you kind of the outline over the next three hours other than this because there’s a lot of stuff we’ve got to get into. So you’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush, 560 KLZ, Health and Wellness Wednesday.
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Welcome back, listeners. Thank you for sticking with us on 560 KLZ, Rush to Reason, Health and Wellness Wednesdays. You’re listening to Dr. Scott. With Jeremy Sova and Regina Nabrit, we were in the first monologue talking about first our troops and praying for them, their safety. Next we were talking about just how you can just get pent up and wrapped up in knots. with everything that’s going on with phones and emails and things like that. But I want to tie that in. Jeremy, during the break, you were talking about your daughter, and I like what you said, and I think this is going to resonate with the audience. So I’m going to allow you to go first, retell that story to the audience of what your daughter is going through, and then we’re going to segue into the biomarkers.
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Sure. Yeah, so my daughter’s a sophomore in college at the University of Arizona in Tucson, which is near the southern border, too. So there’s always been kind of fears around what’s going on between border crossings and some cartel stuff. But in the last couple of days, as we know, there’s been this call for jihad, this kind of uprising for those on the evil side of the Koran to do harm to Americans. And her and her roommate come from a different political persuasion, but they kind of got into a debate, and they’re sharing stuff on their phones back and forth. And she kind of reached out for my help, and I realized right away that they’re worrying about the wrong things. She definitely needs to put the phone down. They need to be roommates. They need to get outside, hike, go to class, do all the fun things.
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Be a young girl.
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Yeah, be young girls. Let everything that’s taking place take place. But at the same time, be smart. Be extra vigilant. Carry your pepper spray. Make sure that you’re doing all the things to keep yourself out of it. Well, she’s not allowed to get a firearm until she’s 21 in Colorado. But yeah, so it basically got us to a point that I kind of had to talk her off the ledge to a certain degree and just unplug, unplug from that stuff. It’s all going to take care of itself. you know, we have more, you know, guns here under the second amendment than every military in the world combined, you know? So if there’s a threat here, all those that know, especially the listeners here, like we are going to take care of this country, you know, so there’s no issues. Don’t worry about it. Just go ahead and live your life, but be smart about it. You know, be vigilant, you know, avoid the big crowds, you know, certain events or protests that, you know, you might be inclined to go to as a young person. But use some common sense, I think, is the most important part. And kind of segueing from this mental health, social media addiction thing, the central nervous system, we always talk about upregulating the parasympathetic nervous system to calm the vagus nerve, which is very important in your health and wellness. Right. So there’s another reason for me to throw out every month that it’s very, very important to know what’s going on in your body. In order to do that, you got to get your biomarkers done, which means, you know, see a doc, you know, like yourself, Dr. Faulkner. you know, get your initial hundred plus biomarkers, figure out what’s going on, find out what your hormone levels are. And then you can start to put together a plan that includes that emotional health management, which is going to aid in your sleep, which is extremely important. Then you can layer in, you know, some of these other exercise regimens and what type of nutrition you’re putting in your body. But last month we talked about a handful of the hallmarks of aging and And this month, we’re going to talk about the rest of them, but we’re going to kind of wrap it up or wrap it around the idea of a holistic approach and also including peptides. So the ones we’re going to talk about this month are basically preventing cell damage, essentially eliminating the zombie cells in your body. Telomere length, which is the length of the telomeres on the tips of your chromosomes. The longer those are, the better life you have, health span and lifespan. Metabolic dysfunction and stem cell exhaustion. So that’s kind of the top matrix of what we’re going to talk about going forward. And some of this stuff is going to seem pretty in-depth. So, Doc, I hope you can help simplify it, even for myself and Regina, as well as the listeners. but that’s where I think we should go and knock out the rest of the hallmarks and then talk about, you know, some other stuff in peptides as we move into hours two and three.
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Yeah. So thank you for that. And this is for John’s listeners or Dr. Scott listeners. As you guys know, I’m an expert in stem cells. I’ve been doing it for years. And Jeremy and I, He was with me in Las Vegas with Judy and I when we went to the A4M conference where I taught basically 8,000 doctors the tools of the trade, how to do what I do with stem cells. Because I’m one man. I can’t treat everybody. Some people say, well, that’s a bad business model. You just created your own competition. And I kind of did. But that’s where my heart is. I want you to have easy access to stem cells. Well, with that, some practitioners are not taking what they learned and how to be the best and do it right, and they’re using cheap cells. They’re not following good practices. So I don’t normally give a discount on stem cells. I just have priced them so low. But for John’s listeners, this week only on Friday and Saturday. I’m offering 30% off the stem cells. And remember, these are umbilical cord stem cells. So if anybody, again, is listening from the FDA, this is my little disclaimer. These stem cells have not been approved by the FDA to treat any disease. They’re for research purposes, and I never promised a cure. So with that caveat, I am using cells that have been approved on the leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, blood cancer side for over 30 years. They’re They come out of an FDA-accredited lab. There’s no hanky-panky stuff. This is the best of the best. So to get 30% off is unheard of. So to give the audience a clue, let’s say you came and you had a bad shoulder or a bad knee, and you’re like, I thought of doing stem cells because I don’t want surgery. I’m young. I like what you guys are saying, but it’s hard for me to get out there and move. What’s normally $4,300 is $3,010? Wow. You can afford that.
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Yeah, I paid a lot more to fix my lower back with stem cells, I can assure you.
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Yes. So it’s only Friday and Saturday. If it’s another day, it’s full price. But for John’s listeners, because I want you guys to be the best of the best. So give the office a call at Castle Rock Regenerative Health Care. The number is 303-663-6990, 303-663-6990, or look us up online, Castle Rock Regenerative Health Care, and take advantage of that special. So we will be talking more about stem cells throughout this webinar. segment. But I’m going to take a break right now so we can have a little extra time in this next segment because we’re going to go on that deep dive on cellular senescence. And as Jeremy said, a senescent cell is a zombie cell. And why don’t you want zombies in your body? So we’ll be talking about that when we come back. 560 KLZ, Dr. Scott and friends.
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Welcome back, listeners. Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush on this Health and Wellness Wednesday. We are now joined by Josh Gardner, who is our friendly peptide expert. So say hi, everybody. Josh.
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Dr. Scott, thanks for having me on tonight.
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You’re welcome. My pleasure. And we still have Regina Nae Britt, who is going to be with us most of the time. Yes. And then we have Jeremy Silva, who will be here for all three hours. He’s an expert biohacker. And if you guys have any questions for Jeremy, Josh, or Regina, myself, give us a call at 303-477-5600. Again, 303-477-5600. So right before the break, we were talking about cellular senescence. And I started to explain how a senescent cell is a zombie cell. And like on the movies, you don’t want zombies around because they’re actually toxic to the body. And as they start to build up, they cause inflammation. They can lead to cancers, other horrible conditions. And these senescent cells secrete inflammatory factors called SASP, S-A-S-P. That stands for senescent associated secretory phenotype. So we just say SASP. Yep, that’s how I use it. You don’t want these inflammatory factors or SASP in your body. And initially, they actually prevent cancer, but the accumulation, like anything else in life, too much of a good thing, like dark chocolate, can be a bad thing. And so as you get more of the SASP, their accumulation promotes chronic inflammation, tissue damage, things like that. So we’re going to talk further about these senescent cells and then the senolytics, which are drugs or things that will clear the cells and improve health in animal models. so jeremy because you have known about senescent cells i’m going to give you the floor so you can talk about your journey and some of those things that are senolytic and so folks again remember i told you to keep a piece of paper and pencil because you don’t want the zombie cells and i can promise you you have them in your body And people who have Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Lou Gehrig’s, MS, mood disorders have them in spades. So the things that we can do that are simple to get rid of the senescent cells, you’ll want to do. So Jeremy, what have you done on your personal journey?
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Yeah. So my focus in the last couple of months has really been on the immune system. So I tackled the heart. I tackled the cancer, the metabolic dysfunction. And the immune system is so inherently important to prevent all these things. So getting rid of these zombie cells really helps bolster that immune system. So what I’ve done, and it started when we were in Vegas and looking at some of the papers and the studies and the presentations, we’re starting to see these synolytics come out where there’s both emerging drugs that are pharmaceutical drugs that you’d have to get from a doctor like yourself. And there’s also natural compounds that you can get kind of off the shelf. Do your due diligence. Make sure that it’s a reputable company. The dosages are correct. Everything is third-party lab tested, so you’re taking the right stuff. So on the natural side of things, I want to start very simple. Vitamin D, we’ve hit it many, many times over the months, but it’s something that’s very important to know what your vitamin D levels are. And you can only do that by getting your biomarkers done. We see so many people that spend a ton of time in the sun and they think they’re getting plenty of vitamin D that really have low levels from 8 to 10 to 20 to 30. And you want to get these levels up between, I say, 70 and 90. You don’t want to go over 100 for calcium reasons. So I think give yourself a little bit of a window there.
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Yeah, 65 to 100 is really my target range, right?
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Yep. And in order to do that, as you’ve got to find out what they are, then you have to supplement for it.
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Well, here’s the caveat, too. I don’t mean to interrupt you. Please. But, folks, when you go to your regular doc, and they may or may not check a vitamin D, but let’s say they do. And they pat you on the head and say, congratulations, your vitamin D level is 30. You’re normal. You are not.
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I will take it a step further. They will most likely give you a regimen of taking like 600 international units a day. I take 10 times that to maintain the levels that I needed to get to. I take 6,000 international units a day.
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Most people, 4,000, 5,000, 6,000 IUs a day are what the average person needs.
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And you won’t know exactly how much you need until you get your biomarkers done and until you go 90 days down the road and you retest. And then you get into this. I test quarterly. Some people test biannually. But once you hit that sweet spot, you know exactly what it takes. And then you can maintain those levels. Yeah. Vitamin D supports the cell differentiation and DNA stability, powers your T cells in your immune system. It is very, very cheap to get. That’s why most docs and pharma companies don’t talk about it. But it’s extremely important. So I’m going to start very simple with vitamin D. And then kind of move up to omega-3s, omega-3s that are in the fatty fish. You can get them in omega-3 supplements. You know, I take pretty much 3,600 milligrams a day. I track my omega-3s via a test called OmegaQuant. And I’m now moving into what I call the Japanese range, where it’s very healthy to have the omega-3s levels of the Japanese people. And then essential vitamins like B9, B12, vitamin E, antioxidants like curcumin, which you get from food with turmeric, rosveritrol, these all support and reduce the cellular damage, which is crucial for repair. So these are simple things that once you test for, you can drive to the levels in the sweet spot that you need to thrive. Now, as we get into a little bit more.
SPEAKER 03 :
Now, let’s just back up a little bit. So why are we recommending people take these supplements? I guess I’m, you know, it’s kind of guess what I’m thinking. I’ll tell you what I’m thinking is because the nutritional value. Our food supply sucks. Thank you very much. That’s exactly the word that I was going to use. The soil that they’re growing our produce in. is horrible. It’s loaded with glyphosate. They GMO’d everything if you’re going to get fruits and vegetables. I mean, when you go to Costco or Sam’s Club and you look at their fruits and vegetables, the skin is hard as a rock. It looks good pleasing to the eye, but there’s no flavor to it. There’s no nutritional value to it.
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And what about the other side of like mothers and fathers who are working all these hours a day and they’re being marketed constantly on that TV, on different shows. This is what you feed your kids. This is what you eat. It’s fast. It’s nutritious. And the definition of nutrition has become this false sense. It’s not real nutrition.
SPEAKER 02 :
No, it’s been a flat out lie for my entire life.
SPEAKER 10 :
It is. And it’s been like, what’s the fastest and easiest I could get And then there’s these chemicals in the food that you get slightly addicted to. The tastes become altered. Your taste buds start shifting. It’s a whole montage of just going downhill.
SPEAKER 02 :
Then your brain gets addicted to those processed foods and those sugars, and then it wants more and more and more of it. And before you know it, they’re eating whole boxes of cereal and all the nasty stuff.
SPEAKER 10 :
And you start children in their 20s and 30s, and then you have all these…
SPEAKER 02 :
But even when you’re eating well, I mean I could eat 20 ounces of the finest salmon that I import from Alaska every day. I still would not be able to get to the omega-3 numbers that I’ve tracked and I need to get to without supplementation from another third-party source. So you can get a lot of nutritional value from the right foods chosen locally, farm to table. But what I’m seeing in my five-year journey, and now I’m tracking it meticulously, is there’s really no way to get to the optimum levels unless you have some sort of oral IV intramuscular injection type supplementation to maximize what’s needed to optimize your body.
SPEAKER 03 :
Thank you. You just nailed it. So I wanted the audience, if you’re driving home, And you’re hearing this, moms especially, because you’re usually the ones that are going to the grocery store, toting the kids around, Costco, Sam’s Club, Safeway, Kings, whatever. You’ve got to be more mindful of what you are buying for the family. And I get it. It’s expensive to eat well. to go to Whole Foods or Sprouts or a natural grocer versus just diving into Costco and buying a huge cart of stuff. You think you’re doing your family a favor. You are not.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, the simplest thing to say is, to make it really simple, shop on the outside of the store. Don’t go in the middle. All the stuff that is healthy is on the outer perimeter of the store. If you’re going to a normal grocery store like a King Soopers, all those middle aisles are full of stuff that is poison. Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Now, I will say King Soopers does a fairly decent job of getting as locally sourced produce out of Greeley, Rocky Ford, places like that. They do. That’s where I shop. Yep. But still, a lot of them have sprayed with chemicals.
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Right. Well, the other thing I was going to say is it could be overwhelming. So a lot of my clients, when I go into the health and nutrition relating to anxiety and depression and changing things, we talked about that in the first segment of baby steps. So maybe choosing a breakfast, saying for my children, I’m going to just make sure that they’re having something wholesome. And starting from there, starting with just breakfast, and then implement that for several weeks, and then move on to lunch, and then move on to dinner. Because for a mom and dad that this is a lot of information, I have seen them almost like look at me like I’m giving them a disease. Like, oh, my God. I’m like, no, no, no, no. We’re going to start small with one supplement and one change, which is maybe better eggs. Yeah.
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Yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
That’s huge. It’s a big change.
SPEAKER 08 :
Or A2 milk.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right. Or changing the milk. And just those two things alone, at least you’re doing that. And then your child’s getting used to real food taste, real nutrition. And you do little by little.
SPEAKER 02 :
And what you find is when you start eating the good stuff, and I’m guilty as hell, is you start to really crave it. Yes. Like now I’m looking forward to that really good salad with all the good stuff in it versus wanting a double bacon cheeseburger like I used to back in the day. And on this natural compound side of the senolytics thing, like fisetin is a very good supplement for senolytics. It’s found in strawberries. So I eat strawberries every morning. Quercetin. I never pronounced that word correctly. Caseratin. It’s in apples and onions. Very, very good for the body.
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Apple a day.
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Theoflabins in tea. Apigenin, I take it every morning, and parsley. So all of these foods are being studied for their synolytic properties. But we’re at the point now, in addition to the food, that we can supplement these synolytics in different combinations. And even, I’m at the level now where you can pair them with pharmaceutical drugs that my concierge doc would prescribe me. Like, for instance, there’s an emerging one. It’s a cancer drug called dasatinib. Dasatinib?
SPEAKER 03 :
Dasatinib.
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And then you pair it with the quercetin, which is a flavonoid. And these two things together, they call it the D plus Q, not only upregulates something very important that we’re going to talk about next month, but it gives you this ability to eliminate these senescent zombie cells. So senolytics is emerging, but it’s something that I’ve really, really gotten involved in. And I’m taking them daily and seeing great results. So it gets rid of all the harmful stuff in your body. Just fill it with… With good, and you’ll get good out the other side.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. So we have about three minutes before I’m going to take another break. So let’s give you the good and the bad. So what you were talking about is the natural compounds, the fisetin, which are found, as you said, in strawberries, apples, cucumbers, and the quercetin or quercetin or however you pronounce it.
SPEAKER 02 :
I’m glad it’s not just me.
SPEAKER 03 :
I’m glad it’s not just me either. Right. And then the theoflavones are in specifically black tea. So these are natural, and the apigenin in parsley, okay? So those are your natural compounds, and then you have your omega-3s, yes, from greasy fish like salmon, mackerel, sardines, things like that. So I take an omega-3, and yes, it makes you belch a tuna fish sandwich, but… It is absolutely critical because in the biomarkers, one of the things that I do is I show people their omega-3s. And I don’t think I’ve had but one person who had a decent omega-3 level.
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That’s because they’re telling us to take 1,800 milligrams daily. It turns out I needed to double it. So I take 3,600 milligrams daily. But do it under doctor’s guidance because if somebody has a heart condition or let’s say you have atrial fibrillation, there’s a chance that that could have a reaction there if you go too high like the amounts I’m taking. So it’s very important to have this back and forth with your doctor about what your specific body needs based on all the information the doctor has about your health.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. And so when we look at these natural versus pharmaceutical-grade senolytic compounds, You’ve got to be careful. So the D plus Q combination appears safe in short-term clinical trials. And for older patients with age-related conditions like mild cognitive impairment, so that’s the stage before Alzheimer’s and people with mild Alzheimer’s disease, there was a 2025 pilot study involving older adults at risk for Alzheimer’s that found that intermittent treatment over 12 weeks was feasible and well-tolerated with no serious adverse events. But these people were receiving 100 milligrams of the dasatinib and 1,250 milligrams of quercetin for two consecutive days every two weeks. So this didn’t go out and buy it and take it every single day. It’s a hit and run is what we call it. Hit and run. Why? Because there is a black box warning around that cancer drug. And so it can cause GI disturbance, fatigue, kidney stress, and also low blood cell count, liver toxicity, and increased infection risk. So be cautious what you do. So I like the natural ones, right? So, yes, you can get the fisetin. And I like full scripts. Why full scripts? Because you know for a fact, if it says that there’s 200 milligrams in a capsule, that there’s actually 200 milligrams. Because nutraceuticals, vitamins are not regulated by the FDA folks. And we’ve all seen the nine news special where the girl goes out to Walgreens, buys five different brands of say vitamin D. They all say a thousand international units. She then sends it to a third party independent lab Gets the report back. Bottle A says 1,000, but there’s 200 international units. Bottle B says 1,000, and there’s 500. So there’s no oversight or regulation to nutraceuticals. So a company like Fullscripts, they say, okay, if you want to get to the doctors through us, then you, Mr. Pharmaceutical or Nutraceutical Manufacturer, must send your product to a third-party independent lab that is registered CGMP, Current Good Manufacturing Practices. That’s the FDA’s gold standard. And when we get the report back, it had better match exactly what’s on your bottle. And, oh, yeah, by the way, you don’t do it once and call it good. You must do it every single year. So that’s why I like the Now brand or the Pure Genomics and Pure Essentials. Thorne is great, but the cost is out of this world. So you don’t need to pay three times for your nutraceuticals.
SPEAKER 02 :
No, just do your due diligence. That’s exactly right. I take the fisetin at night before bed, and I take the quercetin in the morning. So my research has shown that that’s the best way to kind of clean out the senolytics when using those two in combination. Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Do you do a hit and run with those, or do you just take them every day?
SPEAKER 02 :
I take them every day. Correct. What I want to go to next is the rapalogs. You’ve heard us talk about rapamycin. You’ve heard us talk about metformin. Those are other pharmaceutical options you can talk to your doctor about. And I’m on the full dose of rapamycin now, and it’s doing amazing things for my longevity that I’m tracking, along with Brian Johnson’s Metformin protocol and regimen. So those are things you need to get from your doctor if you’re interested in having that conversation.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, so let’s take a deeper dive on the rapamycin. A lot of people have heard it and like, okay, because we haven’t talked about this in like four or five months. So when we come back from the break, we’ll give the audience a little bit more information on what is rapamycin and And, Josh, if you have anything in this world for senolytics, chime in, okay? So we’re going to take a quick break. You’re listening to Dr. Scott filling in for John Rush, 560-KLZ. We’ll be right back.
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SPEAKER 03 :
Back to Rush to Reason. Welcome back to Health and Wellness Wednesday. Dr. Scott, who is your host, with Jeremy Sova, Regina Nabrit, and Josh Gardner, our peptide expert. So before the break, we were talking about cellular senescence and some of those easy things that you guys can do, not only for yourself but for your loved ones, to really get rid of those zombie cells. So, Jeremy, you had the floor. You were talking about the things that you were doing.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, so rapamycin. I know there’s still some debate amongst the medical community. Obviously, they see that it works across all kinds of different organisms, all kinds of different cells. But there’s not been enough trials done with humans yet for them to really stick their necks out. So kind of somebody like me that’s kind of taken the arrows, I very slowly titrated up. About two years ago now, I started with one milligram once a week for 12 weeks, and then I stopped for four weeks. Then I went to two milligrams for 12 weeks, stopped for a month. worked my way all the way up to the current dose, which is 6.6 milligrams weekly. And when I got to week 11 on the dose that’s required for longevity, I did get immunoreaction with a pimple on my nose and a sore in my mouth, which is a telltale sign that you’ve gone from what they call mTORC1, which is great, into mTORC2, which is not so great. So back to the biomarkers, everybody’s different. And what I’ve done is now I’m 10 weeks on at 6.6 milligrams and five weeks off. And it’s perfect. I’ve been doing it for four and a half, five months now. But just because someone writes you a script for something doesn’t mean that your body is going to react to it the same as somebody else’s. So you really got to find what we call the sweet spot in this stuff and make sure that you’re getting the best of the best out of the experience. And another rapalog is Matt Foreman, which has been studied for decades. on its uses for metabolic dysfunction and helping with A1C. But we’re finding the pairing of rapamycin with metformin in a good combination is something that can really help with the psilocinesis too. And then kind of my last point, which to me is the, you know, it’s the answer. It’s not affordable for everybody. And we’ve been talking about it for the last couple of months, but it’s exciting that you’re rolling it out soon. It’s therapeutic plasma exchange. So you take the plasma out of your body that’s been collecting all this nasty stuff, these inflammatory cytokines and zombie cells and microplastics and forever chemicals and all the stuff that compromises your immune system, which is the most important tool you have is to bolster your immune system. then replace that plasma with albumin, immunoglobulin, and kind of what I call fresh topsoil. And that is the hammer for making all of this stuff take off like a rocket ship. But start with the strawberries and start with the flavonoids. But if you have the ability to go for what they call TPE, the therapeutic plasma exchange, that is groundbreaking in this particular space. And with that, I’d like to kind of kick it over to Josh to talk about how peptides can help since he’s the expert in peptides.
SPEAKER 18 :
Definitely. Thank you, Jeremy. You know, at the end of the day, senescent cells are these zombie cells, dysfunctioning cells, cells that aren’t dividing. And really, peptides play a huge role into that from down-regulating the immune response that your body has to those to the ability to properly get those cells to die off and, you know, waste properly to the enhancement of tissue repair, um, all sorts of things. Um, we’re going to touch on a thymus and alpha one super popular peptide right now, um, in terms of immune modulating. And what it does is it activates your T cells. So T cells have a huge role in your body’s immune system and inflammation response. So those are these signaling cells that will kind of lower your inflammatory cytokines, which are caused by, you know, these senescent cells. We also have… GHKCU. It’s a copper peptide, but it’s been linked to tissue repair and regenerative signaling. So helping your body actually repair the aging cells or replaced damaged senescent cells. Um, all the way to things like BPC, which we’ve talked about on the show many, many times, probably one of the most popular peptides. You’ve heard it on Joe Rogan. Um, you’ve heard it from Gary Brekka. Um, but those just overall reduce inflammation, um, and the inflammatory pathways helping kind of restore natural tissue, um, natural signaling in your body and your body’s just overall environment to promote the growth of new healthy cells and the you know, dying of these degenerative senescent cells.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah. As the biohacker in the studio, I’ve used BPC one five seven and combined it with TB 500. They call it the Wolverine stack. And I’ve completely repaired a torn labrum in my right shoulder from a repetitive use injury of throwing a 60 pound hockey bag in and out of my car. Over the course of a decade, I was looking at surgery and, Three and a half months on taking BPC-157 and TB-500 completely healed that slap tear, anterior and posterior, without surgery. These peptides are phenomenal.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, absolutely. And then when you combine it with stem cells, a lot of these people that are facing surgery, let’s face it, if you go to the orthopedic surgeon, he’s going to tell you you need surgery for just about everything, right? Because if you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Folks, I’m telling you, there’s so many other things that we can do to help you along the way. I want to clarify one thing. Jeremy, you were talking about rapamycin, and you threw out this term mTOR. Yes. So people like M what? So mTOR, little m, capital T, capital O, capital R, stands for mechanistic target of rapamycin. So who wants to walk around saying mechanistic target of rapamycin? So we just say mTOR. mTOR. For the audience. And Josh, delivery systems. So people are thinking, okay, another peptide. I’ve got to give myself another shot. I’m already on a GLP-1 for weight loss. I’m doing all this stuff. And there for a while we were doing NAD plus as injections because who wants the IV? And oh, yeah, by the way, the oral stuff doesn’t work. So those of you who are taking NAD plus orally, stop. You’re wasting your money. So what new exciting things do you have that we have at the office?
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, so right now at Castle Rock Regenerative, there is a groundbreaking technology called ODF technology that stands for oral dissolving film. What that means is a company who Dr. Scott is now working with, Instamed Pharmaceuticals, they have created a way to wrap a peptide in an active and get it to cross the mucosal membrane. So that sounds like a lot of big words. Really what it is, is… a Listerine breath strip that has a peptide on it. It has a, um, sort of an adhesive property to it. So it sticks extremely well to the roof of the mouth. And from there, the actives take the molecule. That’s the peptide healing your body through the roof of your mouth or the palate straight into your blood. So like Dr. Scott mentioned, um, You have these oral delivery methods of peptides. While they do work with some products, 90% of the peptides on the market, you’re not going to have the bioavailability or the absorption needed to get the benefit. So we’ll come back to this sublingual strips or this ODF tech when we get back.
SPEAKER 03 :
All right, fantastic. I’m hearing the music. So we’re going to put our one in the can. I can’t believe we’re already past one hour. I told you, folks, we’re going to go through a lot of stuff. Listen hard. And in the next hour, we’re going to hit this even harder. So you’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner and friends. 560 KLZ. We’ll be right back.
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