Join Dr. Scott Faulkner and Jeremy as they dive into a captivating discussion about health, wellness, and leadership. This episode begins with a heartfelt tribute to Charlie Kirk, reflecting on the impact of remarkable individuals. As they transition into Health and Wellness Wednesdays, the discussion shifts to preventative health strategies, including the importance of understanding health savings accounts in-depth. Dr. Faulkner’s proactive approach emphasizes personalized health roadmaps, encouraging listeners to explore the many facets of their well-being, recognize potential health risks, and efficiently navigate the modern healthcare system.
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I’m sorry that I’m fat. Welcome listeners, it’s actually Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush on this Health and Wellness Wednesdays. And in the studio I have my good friend Jeremy Sova. Jeremy, say hi to everybody. Hey everybody, it’s great to be back. Fantastic. Glad that the clouds have broke, the rain has stopped. It’s a gorgeous day here in Denver, Colorado. It’s a great day to be alive. It sure is. I saw the golf course is full on the way here. I was a little jealous. That makes two of us. So thank you for listening. I really appreciate it. Jeremy and I, because he comes into my office quite frequently, and we both have the same thought of what happened to Charlie Kirk. So, guys, if you could bear with us, I would like to take, you know, 10 seconds as a moment of silence in honor of Charlie and what he stood for and what he did for this nation, okay? So 10 seconds if you don’t mind. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you for that. I really do appreciate it. And lately we’ve been losing a lot of giants. I mean, we lost Charlie Kirk. We’ve lost Hulk Hogan. Guys like that. It makes you think of your mortality. When you start looking at it.
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Absolutely. It’s interesting that we know now that we can do certain things to help prevent those from happening for the younger generation. So I’m so honored to be able to do this over and over again. So thank you, Dr. Faulkner. Yes, my pleasure.
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So in the third hour, we promised that we’re going to get a little more serious on that topic. Um, and as men and women, but primarily men, cause we’re guys, uh, we’re actually going to call you guys out and, um, and no more of this pussy footing around, no more sitting on the sidelines, no more just being a neutral observer. You need to steel your spine. You need to stand up and be a man. Lead your family in a strong way, not slapping people around. But you had better open your eyes to what’s going on. Your government hates you, and there are a bunch of people out there running around in black pajamas that will put a bullet in your head just as soon as they look at you. So it’s a wake up call to all of us. Some of us have been prepared a little longer. It’s been a journey. And I would like to give folks some tools and maybe start thinking a little differently in the world that we live in right now. What do you think, Jeremy?
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I think that’s great. As a matter of fact, myself, it’s been about 30 years or so, and I’ve started to go back into Scripture, and I’m reading the St. James Bible front to cover. And so far, I’ve had some pretty interesting reminders that are making me do exactly what you just said, kind of step up, be a better man, be a better husband, be a better father, be a better human, be a better neighbor. So I think that’s great that this is on the agenda.
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Yeah, and so that’ll be the third hour. First couple hours, what Jeremy and I would like to do is basically paint an overview. A lot of you guys have been listening to us, and I know sometimes you’re in your car or you’re at work, and you don’t get all of what we’re saying. So you hear us say, wow, you can live a really incredible life. We can reverse aging forever. We can make you feel well. We can help you lose weight. But we would like to give the gestalt or the overview of what we’ve been talking about. Today is not going to be a deep dive day on each and every topic. So as you guys continue to listen over the next several months, hopefully to the next year or so, we will take those deep dives. And become very specific. And if you guys want to call in and ask questions, you can. The number is 303-477-5600. But, Jeremy, I would like to start with that gestalt or that overview. And why are we telling people first and foremost to look at their insurance plans? Because we have open enrollment coming up.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yep. It’s usually in November, especially if you’re on a government-based program. And I agree. I’ve had a lot of people come to me and they go, like, I’ve seen what you’ve been able to accomplish, and I’m blown away by it. I want to get involved, but it seems like a lot. Like, how do we do this? So I think that’s why we kind of came up with today is kind of what we call the cookbook. You know, how do we give a big overview of kind of the steps to take to get this done? And like Dr. Faulkner said, in the months to come, we’ll drill down into more specificity on, you know, the how-to, but it needs to be a phased approach. It’s really a system, right, from start to finish. On the health insurance note, a little quick recap for those that may not have been listening a few months back or not listened to the Rush to Reason podcast on Apple Podcast, iHeartRadio, and KLZ Radio’s website. So there’s an FSA HSA. I’m sure you guys have heard of those before. It stands for Flex Spending Account or Health Savings Account. Most employers have some sort of a flex spending option for you, and you can allocate, excuse me, You can allocate certain funds that go to your… Yeah, you better take a drink.
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You’re going to lose it. So that’s right. You can set aside monies from your paycheck pre-taxed into an FSA. Now, the FSA, your employer actually owns that plan, and it does not roll over to the next year. So that’s why a lot of people this time of year, they’re buying things like Band-Aids, eyeglasses, and things like that, right? Yeah.
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That’s right. And the most important way to go is a health savings account. So this is something that you can do on your own. If you’re getting on the Obamacare plan, you look. There’s a certain PPO and HMO options that may or may not have it, but look for it. Look for a health savings account, HSA. Go to your local credit union. Ask your banker. And if you get one of these accounts, I think you can contribute up to around $7,700 a year currently. And Congress is looking at increasing that. So that’s money that you can spend on your health care over the course of your lifetime. And the stuff we’re going to talk about is probably going to get pretty close to that annual amount at a minimum if you want to do all the things. But even if you do some of it and there’s money left over at the end, you can pull it out tax free like an IRA when you’re 59 and a half years old. So it’s a really good way to at least break off some of the disposable income, you know, to address how to, you know, better your health care. We mentioned before it’s We’re seeing now that this literature, this data, Brian Johnson’s proof, the proof of me now as an expert biohacker, my case study, my lab work, my progress. This is absolutely happening. It’s possible. And I would spend twice as what the amount of money that I’m spending now, if I knew now, or if I knew then what I know now. So that’s a good way to put your toe in the water. And then if you do, you know, want to talk about more of a, you know, kind of a Cadillac or Lamborghini type membership, offline, reach out, you know, to Dr. Faulkner. And there’s programs that we can put together that’s similar to mine as well.
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Yeah. And you can reach us at our clinic, the Castle Rock Regenerative Health Care. Our number is 303-663-6990, 303-699-6990. And myself, the staff, we’re very flexible, very happy to help. answer any questions that we can now I have patients all the way from near Yellowstone up near Steamboat Springs out on the plains it’s crazy how everybody who’s listening they love this they’re like I can’t find a doctor who thinks like you first and foremost, who actually listens to me and will give me 30 minutes of free consultation just to hear what I have to say, that’s unheard of. Like, well, yeah, that’s why I do what I do. I’m rare as hen’s teeth. But you need to find somebody like myself. Because let’s face it, you’re, and I’ll say it again, your doc in the box has no clue. He’s under the thumb or she’s under the thumb of that CEO of that corporate center, whether it be HCA, whether it be United Healthcare or UC Health here in Colorado, whether it’s Common Spirit or Advent Health and or even Health One. And they’re telling these doctors, you’ve got five minutes to talk to that patient. Well, you can’t do anything in five minutes. And I hear this every single day. Yes, my doc in the box gave me five minutes for my annual exam. I went in there. He’s like, OK, let’s order a couple of labs. You don’t even get to review it because it’s being done once you’re done with your visit. Then they send you an email, nice job, see you in a year, keep up the good work. And the biomarkers or the lab tests that they do is so minimal, they’re not going to find anything.
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They don’t even scratch the surface. They look at kind of the basic bare minimum of what they were taught over the last 50 years of medicine 2.0. But half of them don’t even realize that – The perfect cholesterol still results in 75% of all the heart attacks out there. So you need to find a clinic like your clinic, Dr. Faulkner, or a doctor like yourself that you can have these discussions with. Because even if you’re at the opposite side of the country, you can give them what they need based on them going to a local Quest Labs that you write for them. You can get the biomarkers. You don’t even need to see them in person. You can get on Zoom. You can tell them how to get what they need, whether it’s a prescription that you write or if it’s something that they can get or go to locally in their own market. But you’re going to help them implement this intelligent reverse aging system. And you’re going to give them the pieces to do so from start to finish with the biomarkers being stepped
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one that’s right and that is that first part of the puzzle so when we come back from this break we will start to fill in the puzzle pieces for you guys again not so much a deep dive but give you that we’re going to be painting with a broad strokes to give you kind of that picture the outline and then we’ll fill it in over other broadcasts so we’re going to take a quick break we’ll be right back you’re listening to dr scott faulkner and jeremy on 560 klz rush to reason
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Welcome back, listeners. Dr. Scott Faulkner and Jeremy filling in for John Rush. John is up in Fort Collins. His son is graduating from the Sheriff’s Academy, so he’s enjoying this beautiful day. And we really appreciate him giving us this three hours that we can help educate you guys along this journey to better health. So, Jeremy, we were talking about that foundation and kind of that roadmap. So when somebody comes to me for the first time, whether they’ve been to another doctor or they have a little knowledge or whatever, the first thing that I tell them, and some of them will come in with a couple of labs, right? They say, oh, well, I just saw my doctor and I had annual labs. And it’s exactly what we just talked about in the first segment. It might be a CBC, which is a complete medical… Complete blood count. So it checks your white blood cells, see if there’s infection, leukemia, lymphoma. Red blood cells, make sure you’re not anemic or polycythemic where you have too many. And your platelet count. And it gives you the differential. Then maybe the doctor checked what we call a CMP or a complete metabolic panel. Salt, potassium, kidney, liver, sugar. If you’re lucky, they may have thrown a TSH in there if you said, oh, I’m feeling tired or I’m having a hard time losing weight. But they haven’t taken a deep dive and checked all the thyroid panels. I can promise you they haven’t checked things like insulin or cortisol, things like that. They’re not checking to see if you have the MTFR gene mutation. They don’t check any of this stuff. That’s correct. So what – I did is I followed Mark Hyman’s lead. So Mark Hyman, for those of you who do not know, he is a very well-known physician in basically the longevity, regenerative, functional medicine, integrative medicine. We all call ourselves slightly different things. We’re all pretty much doing the same thing.
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Yeah, I think it’s all kind of morphing into one specific targeted longevity reverse aging play. But each facet of it is a little bit different, and we’re trying to pull it all together.
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Exactly. And I like calling myself more of a regenerative doctor. I used to say, yeah, I’m internal medicine and critical care. Well, those days are gone. I haven’t been in an ICU since April of last year, and I’ll never go back. In fact, Aspen was asking me to come up and cover. And Aspen is beautiful this time of year. And I said, not on your life. I’m doing too much good in my clinic.
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Now your job is to keep people from needing critical care.
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Well, that’s exactly it. And I love it. And so when I sit down with somebody and in that 30-minute consultation, it’s like, okay, this is my issue with doing just piecemeal. Let’s say you came in and said, okay, Dr. Faulkner, I would like to get on a GLP-1 to help me lose 20 or 50 or 100 pounds. And places like Hers or Hims or AgelessRx, they’re happy to just mail you something. They don’t know you. They didn’t talk to you. They don’t care about you. They just want your money. Okay? Well, hopefully you guys have learned that I’m not that person. I actually care about you, and I want you to be healthy. But I look at you and say, okay, yes, putting you on a GLP-1, I can do that with my eyes closed. I can get you to drop 20 pounds in the blink of an eye. But what if there’s something else going on that’s underlying? What if your thyroid is off? What if your insulin is off? You have insulin resistance. What if your cortisol is amiss?
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I would go as far as to say, based on my own experience, there most likely is several things off that they don’t know about. And I was riddled with… A lot of stuff that I couldn’t believe because I felt air quotes healthy, you know, for my age until I felt a way, way better over time. But yeah, if they’re not looking deep and getting with someone like you to discuss it and just pulling the trigger online. Not to mention, there’s a lot of bad product out there. Oh, yeah. I was guilty myself a couple of years ago. I ended up getting some semi-glutide salts for cheaper. Out of China, yeah. And it didn’t work as well. I got the same side effects, but I wasn’t losing the weight. The A1C wasn’t coming down. So it was just a cheaper knockoff version that was diluted.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, and you’re lucky you didn’t hose your kidneys.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right, right, exactly. And maybe I did. Maybe I fixed them. I don’t know, you know, because now I’m under, you know, the correct type of care. But there’s a lot of great product out there because when there’s a growth space like this and longevity, here come the bad actors that are getting your algorithms on your phone and saying, hey, buy this for me. It’s better. It’s cheaper.
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Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
You know, we have, you know, a doctor on staff, but there’s no doctor on staff. Right. You know, so it’s important to do your due diligence.
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s right. Yep. And the nice thing is you get me or we’re going to bring on a couple of nurse practitioners. So you’re going to get somebody who’s trained in my style because I’m getting so busy. It’s hard for me to to really give great care to everybody that’s wanting us. So but that’s that first building block or piece of the puzzle is where are you?
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Right. And these biomarkers, we talk about it. I mean, there’s there’s really five different there’s five horsemen. Yeah. A couple of months ago, so there was four. Now there’s five. And you’re going to learn through those biomarkers and talking with you about the heart, metabolic system, brain, cancer. And the fifth one is the immune system. We did not know that we can prevent autoimmune disease, reverse autoimmune disease and bolster the immune system. I no longer have rheumatoid arthritis as a result of this. So you don’t just look at your blood work and say, oh, you need some thyroid meds or maybe we can lose some weight. You’re looking at basically all 11 organ systems and all the different ways that they can work. you know, be compromised or you can get attacked by the horsemen in total. Yes. And it’s important to have, you know, that medical history and that dialogue with you.
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s exactly right. It starts there. And, right, I was trained, fortunately, in the old style where you listen to the patient. So just coming in and saying, oh, I need a GLP-1, if that’s what somebody wants, then I’m happy to do that and get them to lose weight because I know the benefits that come from that. Right. But it’s so much more than that. If you’re going to start this journey of well-being mentally, physically, the whole nine yards, then we really need to know where we started from. And that’s that biomarkers. And so I’ve started advertising on John’s show that I have recreated Mark Hyman’s biomarker panel.
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s great for the price, too.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah. So Mark Hyman, again, he’s that very famous longevity doctor, started off in Canyon Ranch there in Lenox, Massachusetts, about a mile from where my wife grew up. So back in the Gilded Age, the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers and Melons and Kearneys, they had these, well, they called them cottages. The small cottages were 17,000 square feet. It’s like being in Newport, Rhode Island. Oh, nice. Yes. And then the income tax came along, and then it killed a lot of wealth in America. Yeah. But those mansions still stand. So a group of investors bought one called Belle Fontaine and turned it into Canyon Ranch. It’s a very swanky spa.
SPEAKER 08 :
I’ve been to the one in Las Vegas. It’s the largest I’ve ever been to. There’s like 100 treatment rooms and salt rooms and all kinds of cool stuff.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, well, this isn’t that large. I mean, it is big. Don’t get me wrong. But it’s not to that size. But it was the original Canyon Ranch.
SPEAKER 08 :
That this grew from.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yes, and that’s where Mark Hyman came out of. And so he started doing that as longevity for these wealthy New Yorkers that were coming up into the Berkshires of Massachusetts and wanting to get well and healthy. And so then Cleveland Clinic – headhunted Mark Hyman. So now he’s over in Cleveland Clinic. But he came up and he beat up Quest Labs, right? Because you got really LabCorp and Quest are the two big lab centers.
SPEAKER 08 :
That have coverage all over the country.
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s exactly right. So he went to Quest and said, you see all these biomarkers, this 110, I want the lowest price I can possibly get. So that’s why online he advertises this for 110 biomarkers for around $500, which is fantastic.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, you’d pay $15,000 out of pocket if you walked into a Quest just off the street and said, hey, I want these 106 biomarkers. Yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
The downside is you don’t get Mark Hyman afterwards.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right.
SPEAKER 16 :
So now you have all these biomarkers, and you’re like, okay, now what do I do with these? Well, the beautiful thing about with us is not only do we get you the biomarkers, but then you get us afterwards to formulate that plan. One, what’s wrong? Two, what do we do about it? Three, is there anything else that we can keep from the other biomarkers from going wonky in the future?
SPEAKER 08 :
Building a roadmap, if you will. Approaching the most important stuff first. Mine was the heart, for instance. And then you go further and further down. And before you know it, you’re adding on stuff that’s going to optimize you once you get everything perfect. Yes. But it’s a process. And I think I’ve redone it in my head. If I knew everything then that I know now, I think from start to finish, it would take about nine to 12 months. And it took me four years.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
But I did it the hard way. Right. Without anybody like yourself to help me. So that’s, you know, it’s very possible to pretty much have everything that you can imagine and that you can afford within a year. Yes.
SPEAKER 16 :
And very quickly, within a few months, we can have you feeling so much better. It puts a pep in your step. That brain fog can start to go away. You’re starting to lose weight. You’re feeling better. Your relationships are getting better. So that is the first step. Now, there’s another add-on to that whole biomarker panel called a glycan age. That’s right.
SPEAKER 08 :
So you’ll hear people out there talking about these chronological versus biological ages and these epigenetic biological age tests, and you’re going to get bombarded with them as soon as you say it in front of your phone from all kinds of different places. And I’ve taken several of them and I’ve compared them to each other. And the one that really tells sometimes the harshest story, but the most accurate story that I’ve found is the glycan age test, because it specifically tests inflammatory markers called glycans in different categories and tells you. Let me back up. We now know that inflammation is pretty much the driver of most dangerous diseases. Correct. So you want to limit the inflammation. We’ve talked about it before. We’ll talk about it some more. But this particular test really kind of shoots you right between the eyes with what’s going on inflammatory-wise in your body. And my first one wasn’t very good a couple, three years ago. It said I was 20-some years older than I am now. The most recent one, 16.4 years younger. So we’ve shown that if we attack the inflammation, it helps. But that glycan age test, I put ahead of the other epigenetic biological clock tests that are out there. I’m not saying that the other ones are bad and they do different things, but I would start with the glycan age.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, the glycan age. And if we do the 110 biomarkers, there is a calculator that you can get. I have the app on my phone for your biologic age. So now you have the glycan age and you have the calculation based on your biomarkers. You have two data points. It will start to dial you in and open your eyes just how good or bad you are. That’s right. And most people are actually pretty bad. But you need to know where you’re going by where you’re starting from.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. So what I’ve seen, I’ve listened to a lot of podcasts and roundtables of the experts. It’s right around age 35. You know, it’s things start to really go wonky and kind of your I mean, some I’m talking about the large most. There’s always outliers. Yeah. For the most part. you know, kind of that age 35 to 40 is where like you really need, you know, to get your stuff together. And for me it was around 42, I think now I’m 47. But, um, yeah, for all you that are still in your twenties, enjoy it. But it’s, um, the next 10 years is going to come faster than you know it. And that’s when, you know, these tests will really start to accelerate your age. If you’re, you know, your sleep, your exercise, um, your nutritional biochemistry and your stress is off the rails like most of us are in the working world and how I was too.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yep. So we’ve got to take a quick break. So we’ve given you piece of the puzzle one, which is you need to get your biomarkers done. It’s a really good idea to get the glycan H2, but you definitely have to get that 110 biomarker. So that’s piece number one. When we come back, we’ll give you piece number two. You’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner and Jeremy, filling in for John Rush, 560 KLC, Health and Wellness Wednesdays.
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SPEAKER 16 :
Welcome back, listeners. So Dr. Scott Faulconer filling in for John. In hour one, we are talking about that roadmap of… What does it look like to get better health? Again, we’re not doing a deep dive. Jeremy and I have given you the first piece of the puzzle, which is biomarkers. Now, I’m old enough to know that when we called these things labs, but nowadays it’s called biomarkers. And we have a panel similar to Mark Hyman’s where we do 110, and we will look under the hood. If there’s something wrong, I will find it.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, definitely. And as a reminder, too, to the listeners, and oftentimes we forget that there’s different listeners, different days, different times. If you go to the KLZ 560 AM website, you go to iHeartRadio, or you go to Apple Podcasts and search Rush to Reason, and you narrow it down, type in Health and Wellness Wednesdays or Dr. Scott Faulkner, You’ll find the history, and there’s a lot more detail in previous podcasts, and there will be in future too. But if you’re like, I don’t want to wait until next month on what you guys are talking about today and some of the specifics, go back and listen. And if you’re an iPhone user, which I’m not, but most people are, if you go to the Apple podcast versions, you can fast forward through the commercials and kind of take it all in 45 minutes versus an hour for each segment. So that information is out there if you guys want to go there.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, because a lot of things we did a lot deeper dive. Correct. Like when Reagan was on, we talked about Rehit and VO2 Max. So things that we’re not going to get to today, but that information is out there. We’ll probably recover it several months down the road. But right now, if you need to, go back and listen to that. But let’s keep moving forward. The next step is that body composition. So there’s a couple of different ways we can get body composition, right?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, probably the best way is a DEXA scan if you really want to, you know, really get exactly what’s going on. I haven’t done that yet, but I use the InBody, which is pretty darn close. And the reason I like the InBody is even though it’s not perfect, as long as you use it consistently, like I go in every Thursday morning at 8 o’clock, coffee but no breakfast yet, still fasting, you know, after I, you know, use the bathroom. So it’s the same exact thing every single time. And I’ve been tracking my body composition now for the better part of a year. And it’s trending perfectly as far as I trust the system. And it’s a part of my lifetime fitness membership, so it’s included. I don’t go pay to use this thing separately. But a DEXA scan, if you have a means to get them into one, is the best way to go. And you can look at bone health at the same time.
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s exactly it. So DEXA is, and a lot of ladies know what a DEXA scan is, dual energy x-ray absorption scan. And it was designed to look to see if somebody has osteoporosis or osteopenia. So we look at your hip, we look at your forearm, and your lumbar spine. And there’s a calculation, something called a T-score. A T-score is you at your age compared to 18, 19-year-olds when bones are their strongest. And it gives you your risk of fracture. So back when I was out in Fort Morgan on the planes, I was the osteoporosis guru because there was nobody else out there. I had a DEXA scanner in my office.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, no kidding.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yep. But back then it didn’t do body composition. So they’re actually two different scans on the same machine.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, so they added the body comp stuff years later.
SPEAKER 16 :
Correct. Gotcha. So now this technology is ever-changing. It’s super expensive. So I contacted the folks from Health Images there in Castle Rock. And Health Images are all over the place. And you can get it from Simon Med and you can get it from Touchstone, places like that. But, yes, you do need a doctor’s prescription, and I’m happy to give it. But – The body composition, the beautiful thing is if you guys have ever seen like a scout x-ray where it shows the outline of your body and when you see how much visceral fat is inside your abdomen. It will change what you’re doing. You will put down that donut or that pastry and you’re like, oh, really? Is that what I look like inside? So that’s the beauty of a body composition on a DEXA scanner as well as telling us through the DEXA, are you at risk for osteoporosis? Because here’s the other problem with the medical industrial complex is if you’re a lady, remember what I said, your bones were strongest back up to age 23. After 23, it is all downhill. And then once a lady hits menopause and she loses estrogen and that little bit of testosterone that she had, that’s when fractures go through the roof. Well, if you didn’t build your bones when you were 18, 20, 22, you’re screwed.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right, which is where muscle is important, too, to protect muscles.
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s right. And that’s why we’re such big proponents on doing weight-bearing exercise to help prevent that. Because the only disease that being obese protects against, the only one, is osteoporosis. Oh, that’s interesting.
SPEAKER 08 :
You mentioned visceral fat. And for those that don’t know the difference, because I didn’t a couple years ago, visceral fat is the bad stuff. It’s the stuff that’s packed around your organs. Subcutaneous fat is that you kind of grab your love handle and jiggle it. The visceral fat, you know, you need to track and you need to lower it. I was just on the InBody two days ago and there was a trainer bringing a new member in that was interested and her visceral fat was 16. Mine’s three.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
And I think I have a ways to go still. So, you know, know what your visceral fat is via the DEXA scan and listen to us on how to get rid of it because it’s very dangerous.
SPEAKER 16 :
It’s very dangerous. And it’s one of those other pieces to the puzzle that we start with. Um, and the two of them together from health images is not even a hundred bucks. It’s like, why wouldn’t you do that? And especially as a female, because I’m that proponents, like I’ll do a DEXA scan on a 40 year old female. Why? Because I want to know, are you already behind the eight ball? Do you have osteopenia already? Cause it happens. I’ve seen it. Well, if we see that you have a problem, then we can start to do things to correct it so that you don’t have that hip fracture when you’re 60.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right, exactly. You can build out a game plan, right? And every single human being should be resistance training. We know now that adding muscle is so important for longevity and health span. So in addition to protecting the bones, we could talk for days just about resistance training. but like you need the wake up call, right? Like a lot of people, you know, for whatever reason, you know, kind of fall off and you know, they, they gain some weight and they’re going through a tough time in their life, you know, but you need to build in the habits that there’s not a week that goes by that you don’t resistance train at least twice, if not four times. And it can be very simple stuff that you do in the privacy of your own home. And we’ll talk a little bit later too, of how that actually affects impacts and improves your metabolic health also.
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s right, and probably one of the best guys I’ve heard talk about is Peter Attia. In fact, he did last week. He had three trainers on talking specifically about this. For those of you who don’t know, Peter Attia is another doctor well-known in this space. Now, Peter Attia has a team that helps do all of his research for him. When he says, oh, yeah, I used to see patients, like, dude, you saw one maybe the whole month, so don’t give me this garbage that you see patients.
SPEAKER 08 :
But he had to see him to get to this point earlier in his career.
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s right. But he walks the walk, right? He talks the talk and walks the walk.
SPEAKER 08 :
Definitely.
SPEAKER 16 :
My only downside and criticism to Peter Attia is that he is a secular humanist. He thinks that we came from worms and monkeys and apes and stuff like that. Oh, I didn’t know that. Yep. So he is – Clearly, his worldview is skewed, but when he’s talking to you about resistance training, you can take that to the bank. When we say resistance training, we’re talking pumping iron.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, lifting weights. Or even if it’s just body weight. Correct. I’d rather put those funds into some of the other stuff we’re going to talk about and do the resistance training, you know, for free. Yeah. If I had to pick and choose. Right. Right. But, yeah, you’ve got to lift weights or use your own body weight to build muscle.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yes. And that goes into the GLP-1s, right? The semaglutides, turseptides that I do quite a bit of because the muscle mass loss is a real thing. along with the protein. Very much so.
SPEAKER 08 :
I’ve actually witnessed it myself, some friends and family members. where they went all in on the semaglutide. This was GLP-1 before trisepatide came along, the one that had a lot of side effects and people would get sick from it, particularly females in general that I noticed. And they would lose the weight very quickly, but they would also lose their muscle mass, and they didn’t realize that they were just losing weight. Well, then they went off the medicine because they said, well, now that I’m fixed and I’m skinny, I can save the money. Well, then they found out that the weight came back much, much faster than we could have imagined, but the muscle didn’t, right?
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 08 :
So you lost both, and you only got the fat back. So keeping the protein up around 70% to 100% in grams to your body weight in pounds. Yeah, ideal body weight. Yeah. For instance, I’m 172 pounds. I take in between 160 and 175 grams of protein daily along with four days of resistance training. And, um, it’s been an incredible journey because now I never thought I could get rid of like that last 5% of body fat and I was stuck. And now I’m, you know, 172 pounds, 87 pounds of muscle and 10.2% body fat.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
And I’m starting to see some definition for the first time since I was 17 years old.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yep. It’s exciting stuff. It is. All right, guys, we’ve got to take another break. So now there’s a couple of more pieces to the puzzle on what does it look like to start this journey? Because I hate to say it, but we could overwhelm you with so much information. We’re giving you those baby steps to help do things a little at a time so that you don’t feel overwhelmed. But remember, the first one is now that open enrollment is coming up, look at your health insurance. Get one that has an FSA or HSA. Then get your biomarkers along with your body composition, whether it’s one of those scales that you can stand on. We have one in the office or a body composition and DEXA scan. And then start putting on muscle mass by lifting weights. So there are several pieces to the puzzle. When we come back, we’ll give you another piece. You can listen to Dr. Scott Faulkner for John Rush, 560 KLC.
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SPEAKER 16 :
Welcome back, listeners. Dr. Scott Faulkner and Jeremy filling in for John Rush on this Health and Wellness Wednesday. We’re giving you guys the pieces to the jigsaw puzzle. For those who just got in your car and you’re heading home, listen to us. We appreciate it. We’re trying to get you as healthy as possible, as humanly possible. It’s going to cost a little bit of money, so get yourself an FSA or HSA insurance plan. Open enrollment is coming up. And through the break, Charlie and I were talking about it. He said, hey, I heard you in the past talking about cortisol and how important that was. And I’m like, yeah, no doctor ever checks your cortisol. Well, part of this 110 biomarkers is a cortisol, first AM cortisol. And Jeremy, you had a story about your cortisol.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, so it was known as the stress hormone, never even thought to have it checked. But for those that don’t know, my story is, you know, successful in business, but really 10 years of, you know, pain, bedridden, you know, back pain, fatigue, just felt awful. And then eventually decided to see somebody like, like Dr. Faulkner here and figure out what was going on. And the cortisol levels were like through the roof, like on the chart at the time. And I had some adrenal blowout or adrenal fatigue and realized that I had to basically get those down because it was driving a lot of physiological stress in my body that was accelerating my aging. And there’s different types of stress, but knowing what your whole hormone panel, but cortisol in particular, is very important to know for both men and for women.
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s right. So for those of you who don’t know, cortisol is a stress hormone. It comes from the adrenal glands that sit on top of your kidneys, and it regulates your blood pressure and your sodium primarily. And so if you get startled because you saw a snake or a spider or something like that, you feel that your heart rate goes up, the epinephrine goes up, cortisol goes up, but then it should settle back down. if your adrenals are functioning well. Now, there’s some people that have that adrenal fatigue where they’ve just been pumping it and pumping it, and now it’s like, dude, I’m giving up the ghost. I can’t mount a normal response, a cortisol level, so you feel tired. Your blood pressure is low. So a lot of people that are diagnosed with POTS, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, actually have adrenal fatigue is their actually underlying diagnosis, misdiagnosed a lot of times. But in your case, you were living on stress. Your cortisol was high. Right. A little squirt every once in a while when you see a snake, that’s God’s way of saying run away from the snake. Right, the fight or flight. That’s exactly right. But when it’s in your system all the time, the damage that it wreaks havoc on all your organ systems, it’s insane. And some of those markers that we measure with your stress, C-reactive protein, things like that, inflammation, We’ll tell the story. And that’s why we do that 110 biomarkers to see where are you at. If we see it, then we tell you how we fix it. That’s exactly right. Yeah. And so right now I wanted to segue into another modality that I offer to patients. Now, I don’t have this machine in my office. I send people to Simon Med. Again, that’s one of those freestanding imaging centers in the Denver metro area. But this particular patient, and hopefully, Rick, you’re listening on your way home from the hospital. I’m glad you’re doing well. But Rick is one of John’s listeners, long time, heard me, oh, I don’t know, a month or so ago, and called me up and said, Dr. Faulkner, I like what you say, and I like your style, and I want to come and be your patient. Well, he lives near Steamboat Springs, folks. So I said, love to have you. Come on down. So we sat down. I gave him that free 30-minute consultation. We started talking about everything that was going on. And I said, so what’s going on in your life? He says, I’m a business owner, done well for myself, but I’m losing the pep in my step. And that was really his major complaint. And he hadn’t been to the doctor in forever. And I said, OK, well, we need to do this, fill in the pieces to the puzzle. We need biomarkers and things like that. I said, you know, you’re in your early 60s and I can’t tell you if you have heart disease. However, there’s a brand new technology because up to a few months ago, I was telling people to get a CT calcium score on their heart. as well as a full-body MRI scan to make sure you don’t have cancer or something like that in your head, your neck, your chest, abdomen, pelvis.
SPEAKER 08 :
And a calcium score shows you all the hard calcified plaque that you’ve built up over the years through coronary artery disease, which all of us have to some degree. But it doesn’t show you what you’re about to explain, which is the buildup of soft plaque that can break off and cause a heart attack.
SPEAKER 16 :
Atherosclerosis, that’s right. And surprising to me when I did more research on the CT calcium score, 30% of people have a zero score. Like I have a zero score. Go on to actually have a cardiac event.
SPEAKER 1 :
30%.
SPEAKER 16 :
And I thought I was doing great with a zero score. Because as you know, my dad died at 45 of a massive heart attack. And I’m like, I don’t want any part of that. So I recommended this to Rick. And so he came back and we had all the biomarkers and we laid out a plan to get him to start losing some weight, start to exercise, start and fix all those things that he had kind of neglected. It’s like doing an overhaul on your car, right? If you neglect the shocks and you forget to change the oil and your transmission is getting a little loose. So we came up with a plan. And I asked him, okay, did you do this CT scan with Clearly? And Clearly is the AI program that actually can tell us if there’s this soft black where we could never tell before.
SPEAKER 08 :
They can look in the individual coronary arteries that branch out from the heart.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, and these pictures are gorgeous. So remember in the olden days, up three months ago, we used to have to have the cardiologist fish a wire in your wrist. It used to be your groin, but now your wrist. Fish this wire up to your heart, squirt some dye, where they could actually look at what is going on in the arteries. Is there blockage or not? That’s a CT angiogram. CT angiogram. So when your regular doc in the box does your cholesterol panel, first and foremost, he’ll check your LDL, right? Low density lipoprotein. Well, there’s fluffy LDL and then there’s the dense LDL. Yeah, I call them beach balls and golf balls. That’s exactly right. And you’ve mentioned that in the past. So people don’t even know that. And if your doc in the box looks at your LDL cholesterol and says, oh, well, it’s 130. You need a statin. you should say thank you very much, back away to the door slowly, and then run when you’re out the door to somebody like myself. Because the LDL is actually a horrible predictor of heart disease. The things that are more important are things like apoprotein B, lipoprotein A, The really bad particles. That’s right. And on that biomarker panel, we actually fractionate it. We check these, and we tell you how much of the bad LDL versus the good LDL do you have, how much of your HDL, your good cholesterol. So we get more data. But even then, it still markers, but it doesn’t tell the whole story.
SPEAKER 08 :
Until you look at it.
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s right. And so in Rick’s case, he went to his credit and got this scan. And about six days later in my inbox, I get this CTA with clearly alert. So I open it up and instantly my eyes went to his right coronary artery. The man was 98% occluded in his right coronary artery. and 88% in his left anterior descending artery.
SPEAKER 08 :
The one right next to the left main?
SPEAKER 16 :
Correct. So for those of you who don’t know, the left main is the one that comes off the aorta, and that’s the widowmaker. Because when that goes, it not only supplies the left anterior descending, but the left circumflex, your obtuse marginal, basically the entire left side of your heart. That’s what happened to my dad. That’s why he was dead instantly. The right coronary supplies what we call the inferior wall. Now, you never want to have a heart attack, but if you’re going to have one, that’s the side to have it on. But you will never climb a mountain again. You’ll be weak and exhausted and huff and puff. Your life will never be the same again. So when I saw that, my very first call was to the cardiologist, my friend. The second one was to Rick. I said, do not exert yourself. Start taking an aspirin. You need to go see my friend. Well, the cardiologists don’t believe this because this is brand new technology. So they’re used to, you know, like poo-pooing things.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right.
SPEAKER 16 :
And they’re like, yeah, okay, well, we’ll take a look and see.
SPEAKER 08 :
And they look at the data and they go, oh, goodness, how come this didn’t cross my desk sooner?
SPEAKER 16 :
And so that’s exactly what happened. He actually went and they did an angiogram, right, old-fashioned way with a – wire up his wrist, up to his heart, squirted dyes. And he said within a few seconds, the cardiologist said, oh my gosh, it was accurate.
SPEAKER 08 :
I’m actually amazed that they had to go back and do it the old way, even though they had irrefutable evidence given to you.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, in all honesty, that probably was the right step.
SPEAKER 08 :
Better safe than sorry to go through all the different ways.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, correct, because if it wasn’t quite this bad, they could have done an angioplasty called PTCA, where they balloon open the artery and then put in a stent. But in this case, Rick ended up getting triple bypass. He was that bad.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, my goodness.
SPEAKER 16 :
But he never had a heart attack. That’s exactly right. So he will be able to live. And see his kids, his grandkids. That’s exactly right. And run his business. Walk up that wall. That’s why we do what we do. So I hear the music. This is Dr. Scott Faulkner. Hour one is in the can. Jeremy and I will be back for hour two. And keep giving you the pieces of the puzzle. Don’t go away.
SPEAKER 06 :
Rich guys.
