HR2 Dr. Scott: Forget Quick Fixes—Know Your Biomarkers. Blueprint to Lasting Energy & Weight Loss 10-8-25 by John Rush
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Are you crazy? Am I? Or am I so sane that you just blew your mind?
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Welcome to Hour 2, folks. It’s Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush with my friend Jeremy Sova. If you missed the first hour because you were in an office or doing something, you’re on a tractor or playing with the dogs and cats, we’re giving you the roadmap to overall great health. We’re not going into deep dives, but people have asked, okay, what does this system look like? Because it is, in a sense, it’s a system. There’s things that we can do along the way to start to get you to feel better, lose weight, happier, healthier, the whole nine yards. And so today we wanted to give you kind of the overview. So if you open a book and you see, OK, this is the index and this is what the book is going to be about by chapters. We’re giving those chapters. Then we’ll fill in the details at other times. And then you can go back and listen to some of our previous podcasts on Rush to Reason or Apple Podcasts.
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It’s Rush to Reason. It’s on Apple Podcasts for iPhone users. And for non-iPhone users, you can listen to it on iHeartRadio and KLZ 560 AM’s website. In those two modalities, you’ll have to listen to commercials where the Apple Podcast has a fast-forward function at 30 seconds at a time. So for you iPhone and Apple folks, it’s a little bit easier.
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Yeah. And so starting off Hour 2, Jeremy wanted to give you guys an update. For those of you who have been following along, we really appreciate it. So Jeremy, what’s your update?
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Yeah. So first it’s what you just spoke about. A lot of people, you know, they’re getting these algorithms and their buddies are saying, Hey, are you taking this? And I’m taking that. Are you trying this? Are you trying that? And the first thing I say is no, no, no, no, no. Go back to phase one. Like we need to know what’s going on on the inside and the outside. That’s the biomarkers. That’s the body composition. Then we can decide what is best for you. So stop spending the 30 bucks, you know, on the vitamin X, Y, Z, or the newest, coolest fad. So that’s my advice, you know, to start saving some of those funds, put them into the labs with someone like Dr. Faulkner. Then we can really put a roadmap together of what your specific body needs because we’re all different. So a little update on me. For those that have heard previously, you know, 10-year journey now, severe back pain, really, you know, broken femur, spine issues, blown discs, torn iliolumbar ligament. Bed ridden for about 10 years, working from a laptop and struggling to travel and couldn’t play sports, couldn’t play golf, couldn’t ski. So I looked into this regenerative medicine space. And 10 years ago, I wasn’t even really known to anybody. But I did find a good option in Vail, Colorado at the time. Did my research. Thought, okay, well, I’ll try the stem cell thing. I’ll pay out of pocket because I was desperate. I was willing. Yeah. To do anything other than get the fusion that the doctors wanted me to go through, two-level fusion, that would have cost an insurance company $300,000, and I’d be bolted up with basically my spine going up the chain, getting worse, no mobility. And most of these patients are still in pain after they get the fusion, which is unfortunate. So I took the dive, and I did find out that a year later I was feeling better, but more importantly, when I had re-imaged, the spine and the MRI, the disc height had grown, you know, like 60%, you know, something very, you know, considerable. And to the naked eye, it was like, oh, my goodness, like stem cells really can regrow tissue. Yes. And, you know, here we are 10 years later. And the newest update, and I think you were involved is in Florida, Governor DeSantis signed into law where now you can use stem cell therapy to off-label legally in the state of Florida, you know, for pretty much anything that your doctor says that will work for you.
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Yeah, there’s three indications. Yes, you are correct that I did. I went in front of the Florida legislature and testified to them, their House and their Senate. My friend Lisa, she’s an nurse practitioner in Los Angeles. She’s actually the one who created the language of the bill, and we set the bar so high that a lot of these fly-by-nights that say, oh, we can do stem cells, no, sorry, folks, you want to steer clear of that. And if you really, really want to know, call my office, the 303-663-6990, and we can have that conversation of what is a reputable company doing. and good stem cells because it’s a process, and there is government oversight, but there’s a lot of bad actors in the space.
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Just like we talked about with everything else popping up online. Everyone’s like, oh, these things work. Well, let’s come up with fake ones or ones that don’t work as well or maybe dangerous ones. Right. So you’ve got to be very, very careful. So two and a half weeks ago, well, let me back up, about three months ago before one of these podcasts, And after Ron DeSantis signed the bill into law, which I’ve been focusing on and paying attention to, I went in and had, again, a harvest. And I had my stem cells from my adipose fat stem cells taken out. And sent to a company in Florida that cultured them up and I got 500 million cells and they’re in vials that are under cryo freeze and I pay insurance to keep them under cryo freeze for my life. And I can use them periodically for different things that might pop up. So I went in three weeks ago and I had them injected into my L4, L5, my L5, S1, the facet joints, my iliolumbar ligament that was torn, my elbow that had tendinitis, my right shoulder that was healed partially from peptides for a slap tear. And then they put 20 million cells into my IV just to flood my body with them. And already I’m seeing incredible progress in the specific chronic pain areas, which are also coupled with everything I’m doing with your clinic. So I know we’re kind of getting off track a little bit here, but it goes to the kind of the totality of these things layer on to each other. Correct. You have to kind of not just say this one thing is a magic bullet. It’s doing all the things that we’re talking about here and implementing the system. And I had it done by a good friend. I’m going to throw a plug out to him. Dr. Scott Brandt at ThriveMD. He’s in Vail. He’s in Denver. And they’re kind of the specialists in this lower spine area. It’s kind of their thing. But it’s really changed my life. So thank you for letting me throw a plug out there. Sure. And at the same time, it sounds as if you are also going down that similar path so you can help people like me that have back pain.
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That’s exactly right. So we are taking extra space there in Castle Rock, about a quarter mile from where I’m located now, which is next to Target. And because I see the need. Well, I was never trained to do spine. So I’m turning people four or five people a week with your story. Right. And I’m saying, well, go see my friend Lisa, who works with Dr. Laurier in Los Angeles. Well, 95 percent of the time, people like I don’t want to go to L.A. to get my back fixed. Right. I’ll go up to Vail or I’ll go to one of the guys in Denver. And we know that adipose, now you had that before you met me. I have the papers to show you why that is. It’s an inferior form of stem cells, but I’m happy that it worked for you. And at the time you needed, you were desperate. Well, now- There was no option. There was no option. That’s right. So, but now- I took what I can get. We are creating that option. So as we take the new space, we’re building it out and we should be open just after Christmas. And we are putting in that spine center where we can do that, but using the best of the best stem cells, which is the umbilical cord. Now, again, if you’re from the FDA, this is an off-label use. The FDA has not approved these cells for use for regenerative medicine. I can But having said that, they are the best of the best, and I can prove that. In fact, I’ll be talking in December at A4M conference in Las Vegas to 7,500 doctors and showing them exactly what we’re talking about now. But right now, you guys are smarter than all those doctors. So they haven’t been trained yet. But we are putting in that spine center, and we can do this under a local program. Right. So you don’t have anesthesia. You’re not knocked out. Very safe and effective. You get the kind of relief that you’re talking about. And so Dr. Laurier is getting his Colorado license. He’ll be coming out from Los Angeles. And then my good friend Wu Shicheng is talking about joining me as well. Wu Shicheng. is a world-class spine surgeon he was the number one recruit coming out of his class probably 15 years ago he worked with george fry next to swedish medical center because my sister used george fry for her lower back and then um i was sending a lot of patients to george i know we’re getting off talk it but um Then George was so busy, they said, well, we have Wooshik Chung. Well, I didn’t know that Wooshik was featured in People magazine. He won two gold medals for the United States in Taekwondo. The guy is absolutely gifted. That’s incredible. And so he was working with Presbyterian St. Luke’s. He just left them. He’ll be down in the Greenwood Village, Castle Rock area, starting to see patients. So I have the best of the best.
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So they’ll, like, do it under, like, x-ray guidance where they can see.
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Fluoroscopy a C-arm. That’s exactly right. Gotcha. So we are creating that beautiful space for these guys so that we don’t have to turn people away. They don’t need to. Let’s face it. If you want liposuction, what you had, where they separate the fat cells from the stem cells, then go get liposuction. But if you want stem cells, you don’t have to undergo that painful procedure. Just get the stem cells from the umbilical cord.
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Right. In my case, too, I wanted to build up a lifetime supply because I didn’t know where things were headed or going. And it’s not something that I can apparently share with others. They’re kind of for me.
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They’re for you. That’s correct.
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And again, I’m ahead of my skis as a layperson. But I’m thinking in the future, there might be a way to combine or use different ones for different things. Or who knows? But this space… is just getting started where I thought 10 years ago, it’d be covered by insurance now and everybody would be getting them, but we’re learning so much.
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Insurance will never pay for this. They’re happy, right? Let’s learn. Let’s figure this out. The insurance system is not designed to keep you healthy. They’re there to maximize profits. That’s right. Period. So if they can get you to pay out of your own pocket and they maximize profits, make their shareholders happy, then they’ll do that all day, every day. And that’s the way the corporations are set up. So if that CEO wants to be benevolent, that board of directors will remove that man in a heartbeat.
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Which is strange, too, because the insurance company would have paid the doctor $300,000 to bolt me up and give me a two-level fusion. Correct. And I paid, I think, $24,000 or $25,000 to fix it. And now I’m a different person. Yeah, without a fusion. Golfing and skiing with no fusion. I mean, he’s my idol, always has been. But even Tiger Woods got fused at L5S1. Yeah. With all the money, the billions that he has, he had no idea. He had no idea. That’s right. That, you know, he didn’t need to lose the mobility and have it go up the chain now. And, of course, this is before the leg. So now, you know, hopefully he decides to use a card on the senior tour because that would be amazing to watch him compete. But, yeah, the low back, he didn’t have to have that fusion. No, he didn’t.
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So we’ve got to take a quick break. When we come back, we’ll keep giving you more pieces of the puzzle. So Dr. Scott Faulkner and Jeremy filling in for John Rush, Health and Wellness Wednesdays.
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We’ll be right back.
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TJ here with KLZ and Al Smith of Golden Eagle Financial. And Al, I have a question for you. I’ve been putting money away for a while in a savings account or maybe a couple of investment accounts. But what am I doing wrong and what can you do better than that?
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Well, I think a savings account is important because all the financial gurus, including myself, agree you should have three to six months savings that you have ready liquid access to. But retirement planning is a bit more long term and it’s a bit more strategic. We want to take a look at the sum of money you’ll need way into the future. And we want to look at how that money can last by providing you income for as long as you live.
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What kind of planning or strategy do you provide for folks with that that have a big savings but haven’t made that next step?
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Well, that’s a good question. If someone has a large amount in savings, one of the things I do is we have a conversation about their risk tolerance. Nobody’s comfortable losing money, but having money in the market over a long period of time is a mechanism to accumulate wealth. And so we talk about the different levels of risk and the different products that are available. And we don’t put everybody into one box, but I have an enormous assortment of financial products. And it’s not that there’s good ones or bad ones. It’s there are some that are more appropriate for some people, but not for others.
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And that sounds excellent. How can folks get in touch with you for that meeting?
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You can reach me at 303-744-1128. And if I’m not there, it goes to voicemail, but I return my voicemails promptly. And we could have a conversation in the office. If you live a considerable distance away, we can have a long phone conversation or a Zoom call, whichever you would prefer.
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And as always, you can find him at klzradio.com slash money. Al, thanks so much for joining us today.
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Well, thank you, TJ. Thanks for the conversation.
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You bet.
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Putting reason into your afternoon drive, this is John Rush.
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Welcome back, listeners. Actually, it’s Dr. Scott Faulkner and Jeremy filling in for John on this beautiful Wednesday. Hopefully, John, you and Tara are having a great time up in Fort Collins. Enjoy this day, my friend. So we’re giving folks the blueprint or the overall roadmap of what it is that I do in the center. You’ve already lived it. You’re experiencing it, which is great because, folks, we’re just like you. I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Neither was Jeremy. We both worked for a living. And so this is doable.
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And we wrecked our bodies in the process.
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I had a great time doing it. But now we’re undoing a lot of the damage that was done, and you can do that too. So we’re going to continue kind of with that roadmap. I want to talk about Oura Rings and continuous glucose monitors for a minute. So I know you like the Oura Ring. I love mine. I forgot mine because of you.
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Yeah. And I think it’s called the whoop band. If you’re younger and more fitness oriented, I think it works fine. But for people like we talked about over 35 or 40, you need to look at different things, right? Fitness is only one piece of the puzzle. And I think I’ve done my research. I think the aura ring is definitely, at least today, by far the best. They’re giving them to our soldiers, right? So they got a huge contract with the Department of Defense, or I should say now it’s the the department of war that’s right yes go pete hegseth go pete hegseth so um it kind of goes back to the measurement right if you you talk about biomarkers if you don’t measure it you can’t manage it or optimize it well when you’re every day you’re on this journey and you’re just getting started with your roadmap you’re like all right well i got my dexa scan you know i’m starting to you know take some meds that you know doc gave me some peptides some supplements and I want to make sure I’m sleeping better and I’m exercising. I’m trying to kind of do operational things. Well, this Oura ring, it’s very simple. Different sizes. You slide them on your finger. They give you a sizing kit. You get the size. You set it back. A couple days, it shows up at your house. I’m getting them for all my family members and children for Christmas.
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They sell them at Costco now. Oh, wow. They actually stock them. That’s great.
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You don’t have to order it. That’s great. So it pretty much tracks a lot of data. It tracks your, they call it your readiness score, which is inclusive of a lot of different factors. It tracks your sleep. It tracks your heart. It tracks the stiffness of your arteries. It tracks your heart rate variability. And I’ve gotten to the point now where this thing is kind of, the accountability holder for myself because I, again, like anyone else, you know, I have good days. I have bad days. Maybe that one week I only went to the gym twice instead of four times for whatever reason. But the aura ring says, you know, Hey, you have an issue here. You’re not sleeping well. Your sleep score for the last three days has been, you know, below 65 or it was at 85 or 90. Um, So it kind of gets you back on track, which we all need, right? Whether it’s through scripture or through, you know, anything else in your life. But I found it to be very, very good in that regard. And then the Stello glucose monitor, they’ve paired up with Oura Ring so you can order them at the same time. And the Stello monitor is a continuous glucose monitor, a CGM monitor that tracks your blood glucose in real time. And at first, I’m like, oh, I’m going to try this thing for a week or two and see what’s going on with my hemoglobin A1C and my insulin resistance. And now I’ve had it on, I think, for three months, and I have basically a cupboard full of them. And I just change them out every 10 to 14 days. And we’ll talk later about exactly how I’ve been able to do it because it’s not one thing, but it’s two or three, I think. Yeah. I’ve been able to take myself from insulin-resistant, pre-diabetic, A1C of 6.1, to now I’m insulin-sensitive and my A1C is at 5, maybe under. We’re going to find out next week. Somewhere between 4.9 and 5.1 based on the math that Dexcom, which is the company behind Stello that tracks all of your data, is showing me. Yep. So I never would have known how to biohack prediabetes without putting on this glucose monitor. Even my other two doctors, one said, well, yeah, we got you down to five, five. That’s great. And they were happy with that, by the way. And they said, well, in our experience, yeah. you may never go off of that, and that’s okay. You may never go back into prediabetes or diabetes. So I was satisfied at the time. But again, I’ve learned so much about this anti-aging space and biohacking that now I’m an expert, and I knocked it from 6-1 to 5, and I can basically eat whatever I want within reason. And as long as I do the right things, you know, I go to the gym after I eat the pizza or the ice cream or I walk the dog after I have the, you know, the high carb snack. And you can watch the graph and basically train your pancreas on exactly how much insulin to give or not give and get rid of insulin resistance. I’m convinced that we can cure type 2 diabetes. Yeah.
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And one of those biomarkers is an insulin level that your doctor will never check because your body inside, let’s say you are insulin resistant because you don’t feel it. So your pancreas is working overtime to pump out extra insulin to keep your sugar under control right now. But it will give up the ghost at some point in time.
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The body gets better until it doesn’t. Until it doesn’t. It heals itself very well until it gives up.
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And that’s modern medicine, right? So we… We’ll let you crash and burn. That was my life in the ICU. It’s like, okay, now I have this body that’s crashed. I’ve got to put together the pieces, but you’ll never be Humpty Dumpty. I’ll never put you back together the way you were. So that’s when I finally had enough of that medical industrial complex and said, wait a second. I need to be the guy on the front side helping people stay healthy fixing insulin resistance and what is a4m or american academy anti-aging medicine what did we learn three months ago at the conference what is the ideal a1c under five that’s exactly right and you’re there based on the things that we’re doing so it is possible mine is 4.9
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It’s very possible. And I walk around and someone will see it if I have a short-sleeve shirt on. And if they know me, they’ll be like, I had no idea that you were diabetic. And I’m like, oh, you think because I have this little thing on. And I’m like, how much time do you have?
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That’s right.
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I think people are starting to see him at the gym more and more as well. So using the CGM monitor to help fix your metabolic system.
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is a huge step in the metabolic health sector yeah i can’t believe i’ve gone from insulin resistant to insulin sensitive in like three months isn’t that cool it’s crazy um we were talking earlier today before i was doing show prep before we came to the studio and in the epic times There is an article, Insulin Resistance is Silent Driver of Pancreatic Cancer. So I printed it out. This is from today. And it says, I try not to read things on the air, but in this case, I think it’s that important for you guys. Insulin resistance, the body’s inability to regulate blood sugar levels properly may be a silent killer hunting the pancreas, inflaming and mutating its cells into a ticking time bomb. Research suggests a link between elevated insulin linked to poor diet, obesity, and the development of pancreatic cancer, which is the third leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States.
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And one of the hardest to solve for X. I know it’s easier now than it used to be, an immediate death sentence like Patrick Swayze, but it’s still one that you want to avoid at all costs.
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Oh, yeah, if you can. And so it goes on. You guys can go to the Epoch Times if you get it, and you can read about this article. But it’s exactly what we’re talking about, and this is why I’m so excited in this space doing what I do. And, oh, yeah, by the way – If you are that unfortunate person with cancer, I know I let the cat out of the bag about a month ago that we were working with the NK cells. We are gathering data. We have treated several patients now with esophageal cancer, prostate cancer. Ovarian cancer, and this is so exciting. There’s a well-known researcher billionaire out of Southern California, Sun Xiong, S-C-H-I-O-N-G. He was on Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly, and he touted, we have the cure for cancer. Well, what I didn’t realize is my friend, the researcher here in Southern California, and this guy, they were buddies at City of Hope working on the same stuff. Now, unfortunately, to get to that guy, you have to be on death’s doorstep, whereas you don’t for us. So if you have somebody who’s unfortunate and you’ve tried the standard medical stuff and it’s not looking good, you might want to reach out to us there at the office, 303-663-6990, and I can give you more information. Now, we are pleased to have Regina, nay Brit, join us. And you guys will remember Regina. She is our expert on everything female and mental health. And so we’re going to take a break. And when we come back, I want to get Regina’s take on basically this puzzle because we’re a couple of guys talking. But I’d like to get that female perspective of is this possible? How can we do this? What does this mean for you ladies? So – We’ll have Regina’s take on that when we come back from the break. You’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner, playing it for John Rush, 560 KLC.
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Welcome back, listeners. Dr. Scott Faulkner and friends filling in for John on this Health and Wellness Wednesday. So we’ve been giving you guys the pieces to the puzzle, painting with the broad strokes on kind of what I think when somebody comes into me so I don’t overwhelm you with everything. And like I said, in more podcasts, in previous ones, you can hear us on Rush to Reason. Go back to the website. You can listen to those or Apple Podcasts or iHeartRadio. and get more deep information on VO2 max or rapamycin that we’ve talked about in the past. But right now, Regina, I want to get your take because you are, I guess for lack of a better word, a mental health expert. You are a girl.
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I am.
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Yes, you are. And so help the ladies who are driving home right now listening to this going, well, I didn’t think this was for me. I didn’t think it was possible because I just feel – Is it depression? Is it hormones? What is this? So give us your take.
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So we’re discussing overall health, like just feeling a general state of I feel detached from myself. I feel not me or I feel like I want to be something else, but I can’t. I don’t have the energy.
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Right. What happened to that 20-year-old who was in college who had the tiger by the tail? The vitality. Thank you. That’s a great word. Love that word.
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Yes. Yes. So I’m 46. And just in my journey for myself, along with clients, I’ve had many women and men come to me with a common interest in wanting to have more energy. And they’re saying they’re depressed or they’re overanxious, turning into depression. And alongside with that, their health is also, I would say, They’re not balanced. They don’t look balanced. They’re not sleeping balanced. They’re not eating balanced. They’re not moving balanced. And when I say that, your body needs to have homeostasis, which is balance. The ability to create an environment physically, mentally, and spiritually that you feel you’re analyzing, taking in, and working in all these three areas. All the time, every day, even if it’s five, ten minutes. And what I found as a therapist working with women is they go through these hormone changes right in their late 20s to beginning 30s, just silent. They’re small little hormone changes that are happening. Late 20s, most women, I’m not going to say all, but you’re going out a lot. You’re drinking. You’re doing lots of things that are causing inflammation. And inflammation is something that stacks. I’m going to use that word stack. It doesn’t just, oh, I’m inflamed and it goes away tomorrow if I do my green juices and my detox. Or I’m not going to drink for two weeks. I’m going to have a month of sorority. Okay. Yeah, it’s going to help. However… Years and years of yo-yoing, going back and forth, going back and forth. Then the women are hitting their 30s, introduction to 30s to mid-30s. Have a kid or two? Maybe. Again, that will increase more, I would call deprivation, meaning your body is now overworking to achieve homeostasis, that balance again. And over time, the body’s not able to spring back like that because it has inflammation.
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Yeah, we call it inflamaging.
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Inflamaging, exactly. So you’re aging because of the inflammation, and it’s happening daily, monthly, and you’re just getting the feelings of it, the hair shedding. The circles under their eyes, the non-glowing skin, the loss of keratin in the hair, the nails not growing. I can’t run like I used to. I can’t dance like how I used to. My hips hurt. All these things start creeping up, and it starts in the 30s. And they’re coming to me because, oh, my relationships are hurting. I don’t have the energy to have conversations. I can’t pay attention. I have adult ADHD. I have anxiety disorder. I can’t sleep right. I need sleep meds. And I’m like… wow, this is interesting that all these common things are happening, yet the other common things that are happening is the lifestyle.
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It’s all systemic.
SPEAKER 08 :
It’s systemic, exactly. We are a system. It’s actually built beautifully, perfect, our system. And we mess it up. We mess it up, and maybe it’s not us messing up in the beginning, meaning… how our parents are feeding us, how our parents are teaching us how to unite the physical, mental, and spiritual health. And again, that’s not to blame anybody. It’s just what we know. We go by what we know. We don’t want to blame.
SPEAKER 13 :
And the terrible food source that, you know, since our grandparents, you know, we didn’t know until recently about ultra-processed foods and all this inflammation driving. Microplastics.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes. And then you hear this common thread, which is, Oh, my grandmother had diabetes. So did my mom. So I’m going to probably have diabetes. I’m like, whoa. I go, but let’s look at a pattern here other than genetics. Your grandmother ate this way and didn’t move this way. Your mother also didn’t move and ate this way. I go, could it be possible because of your behavior, you are introducing a disease?
SPEAKER 13 :
And on top of that, only 30%-ish is really truly genetic. The other 70% is epigenetics that we can use to change the gene expressions and make sure that you don’t get what mom or dad had through lifestyle changes, like you’re saying.
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s right. And this is where I come in with people working in the mental health side. You need to train your brain, cognitive behavioral. You need to retrain your brain to think I have manageability over my health. I have control over my choices of what I put in my machine. I have choices how I move my machine. I have choices how I believe in my machine. And this is something to me is where the root needs to start. You need to retrain your brain. on saying, I can do this, I can do that. Not, oh, I can’t. Oh, that doesn’t. And again, these are people coming to me already feeling defeated. So working on them, having more inspiration, working on finding just the smallest avenue. And one of the things I work on telling my clients, forget the 10 minute, 15 minute exercise. I go, let’s start small. I want you to get on the floor and I want you to just breathe. Notice where you’re breathing. Notice how you’re breathing. Let’s start there. Fresh oxygen. Fresh oxygen, the way we breathe. We’re not… I’m going to throw a number out there, but half of people out there are not breathing correctly. We’re not exhaling properly. We’re not inhaling properly. We start with the basics. And I’m like, that’s called exercise. You’re exercising your lungs.
SPEAKER 05 :
My sister taught me to take off my shoes and ground.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes. So I walk on the grass. Every day I walk on the lawn and it feels so good. I just sit there. It is. And I get an energetic response.
SPEAKER 13 :
I sleep on grounding sheets every night.
SPEAKER 08 :
I love it. I bought my husband a grounding mat underneath his office because he’s not as, I call it frou-frou as me. I’m like walking like a hippie on the grass. I’m like, oh, look at me with my dog and my cat get grounding. Let’s everybody we’re grounding. I get my son on the, get on your hands. Let’s ground.
SPEAKER 13 :
But when there’s a blizzard outside and two inches of ice on the driveway, that grounding mat in the office is going to come in really handy.
SPEAKER 08 :
And science, this is the beautiful part about living in today. We have the science. We have minds like ourselves and minds that have created these abilities to help us bring the inflammation down, to center ourselves. Research is more and more coming out how we do have control.
SPEAKER 13 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 08 :
We do. We do have control.
SPEAKER 13 :
You’ll find that, like you said, once you get over the hump and you feel better, and some people it might take a couple of weeks, maybe a couple of months, but when they actually feel like, oh, my goodness, my anxiety is down or I feel more vibrant, then it’ll start to build and build like a snowball rolling down a mountain. That’s right. But you’ve got to give them that little shove so that they can understand that it’s a lot easier than you think.
SPEAKER 08 :
It is. And a lot of times what I have to do with women on the women’s side, I work with men and women equally. But speaking since Dr. Faulkner mentioned women, I teach them about compassion, compassion to themselves, compassion and the ability to be honest and raw with their compassion. Because it’s not about, oh, I did this wrong. Oh, I’m not doing this right. Okay. We already know that. We don’t need to. keep in that darkness we can show light now it’s like okay let’s become an educator let’s become a seeker of information so i truly believe in psychoeducation is giving everyone the ability to have knowledge just like how we’re talking it’s out there and we live in a time that information is readily available
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, with AI now, you can pretty much ask it anything and get like 100 bullet points on exactly what’s going on without all the, you know, I’ll say the word fake news or the poor context. You know, the big pharma is trying to shove in your algo or the big medical guys are trying to. And then again, there’ll be a few bullet points that says, well, you know, maybe it’s not quite done with a clinical trial just yet, you know, in real fine print. But then you put it into play and you’re like, I don’t give up. you know what, what the FDA is 10 years away from still, I feel really good. And my biomarkers say that I’m a lot healthier. Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
So I’ve got a great story. So I have a young lady who came to me, she’s in her late thirties. Um, and she was, you could see her countenance, right? As a doctor, you, you learned to get a quick glance at somebody and you know, um, that there’s obviously something off. And she was kind of ash in color, a little heavy, but just no life in her body. And she was asking me, I know my hormones are off. Can you please help me? And I’m like, well, yeah, that’s pretty much a piece of cake. But we need to get those biomarkers to find out where we’re starting. And there was just something inside of me that I looked at her and I said, Do you have breast cancer or did you have cancer at one time? And she started crying. She says, I was not going to tell you because I’d been to so many doctors who refused to treat me. And when they gave me all the hormone blockers, this is several years ago. So she’s been cancer free for many years now. She said, it has sucked the soul out of my body. My bones ache. I’m depressed. I no longer feel sexy. Everything is amiss.
SPEAKER 08 :
She feels disconnected.
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s right. And I said, okay. She’s like, I was afraid that you wouldn’t give me hormones. I’m like, well, you see this waiver right here where you agree to hold me harmless if I give them to you? She’s like, yeah. I said, will you sign this? She’s like, absolutely. She grabbed it, took the pen. I said, then why wouldn’t I help you? It’s your choice, right, whether you want to do this or not. And, oh, by the way, you’re still a female. You still have a chance of recurrence, but you’re miserable. And I know what’s going to happen to you when you leave here. If I turn you down, you’re going to go bite the end of a gun. And she’s like, how did you know? I just said, I feel it in my spirit that there’s something off and you’re desperate. You’re asking me to help you. I’m listening to you. I hear what you’re saying. Sign this waiver and here’s your hormones. Because once we got our labs, I mean, there was nothing in her body. And within a week and a half, she came into my office, and she was bouncing. She was telling everybody, you have saved my life. I feel so good. The pain is gone. I thought it was going to take a long time.
SPEAKER 08 :
And when you say life, this is another thing. We’re not here to exist.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah. We’re here to live.
SPEAKER 08 :
Wall paint. We’re not wall paint. We’re not that statue.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, we’re here to thrive and enjoy the experience.
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 13 :
Because it’s a very short experience.
SPEAKER 08 :
She wasn’t living. She’s existing.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right. And I took an oath to help people. That’s right. Right? So I’m like, absolutely. So that’s why I do what I do. And again, I’ve told the listeners this. If I don’t have the expertise in somebody in an area, then I will refer you out. Like I don’t do spine. So I have the Dr. Laurier’s and the Woosuk Chung’s in the world. I have you as a mental health coach, a guide. I have Sam Peterson with MindSpot Denver who does ketamine and things like that for people with TBIs and PTSD well. Because I can’t do everything well, but I have friends who do it really well. So, hey, you need a team. Yes, you do.
SPEAKER 13 :
I mean, even back in the day, it’s kind of like this medicine 2.0. You have your general practitioner.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right.
SPEAKER 13 :
And then they refer you through the insurance company to all these specialists. Well, it’s the same concept, only instead of keeping you sick, you’re using that roadmap to make people better.
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s right. Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. I love when I get a client and they’re like on these antidepressants, anxiety, sleep meds. And I’m just like, did anyone check your vitamin D and B? And what about your testosterone? They’re like, huh? I’m like, you’ve been on this for eight years and no one has checked if you have a deficit in your D. Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
So I’ve got an article here from the epic times. So we’ve got to take a break really fast. When we come back, Regina, take a deeper dive on that part of the puzzle. Okay. So Dr. Scott Faulkner with Regina and Jeremy, 560 KLZ, filling in for John Rush. We’ll be right back.
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We inform you. Now, back to Rush to Reason.
SPEAKER 05 :
Welcome back, listeners. Dr. Scott Faulkner with Regina and Jeremy. We are talking about, believe it or not, vitamin D. Regina, you had a point you wanted to make, so have at it.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes, so we were discussing how women, men and women, I’ve had both cases, but we’ll concentrate on women, come to me. They’re in a marriage, and they’re not being sexual with their husbands. Husbands are complaining. They’re not sleeping right. Their skin is not looking as glowy. They’re trying all these products, all these things. They just don’t feel themselves. They feel detached. And they’re coming to me on SSRIs, antidepressants. or on anxiety medication, or sleep meds. Sleep meds with the anti-anxiety. I’m like, wow, you got a concussion. That’s a lot of stuff you’re on. Oh, yeah. And then they have this low energy. So what does low energy cause? Cravings. The easiest way for a body to convert energy, sleep, and carbohydrates, right?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, binge.
SPEAKER 08 :
Binge, exactly. So I have an eating disorder now, and I’m like… I have adult ADHD. They’re Googling their symptoms. So they got adult ADHD. Right. So I’m like, OK, I listen to them and I see the sadness, that detachment, just like you were discussing. You could see they’re not there, but they’re there. They’re existing. They’re not living. And I’m listening, letting them cry, letting them purge, purging so important. And I’m I’m wondering, where’s your blood work?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, your biomarkers.
SPEAKER 08 :
Your biomarkers. So I say, okay, when’s the last time you did a blood work? A lot of them, it’s about a year and a half to two years. That’s about average.
SPEAKER 05 :
And it’s basic stuff. Basic stuff.
SPEAKER 08 :
And I go, let me see your last blood work. However… I want you to get this done. And what I have them get done, your Ds, your Bs. I want to see your T3, T4, reverse, right, all of it. I want to see how your thyroid is working, not just the TSH, which is the normal stuff. And they’re like, that’s never, they’ve never, I look at their past blood work. Never has it been. And they’re on these antidepressants. And I’m like, are they not also checking your cortisol levels? There’s a cortisol level check. And I’m like, yeah, your doctor should be educating you on this. I’m like, it’s your body. This is your body. So I send them a bunch of articles about all the things I’m discussing so they can psychoeducate themselves because they need to be informed because that creates passion. Passion to be like, oh, wait a minute. There’s a window of opportunity for me to actually do something. I don’t have to go and take a pill and wait. and be, oh, I feel good, but I kind of don’t. Like, yes, that’s right.
SPEAKER 13 :
You pull the blinders off.
SPEAKER 08 :
You pull the blinders off, exactly. And I would say, I’m going to say in the 70%, most of these cases have something wrong with one of those biomarkers or many.
SPEAKER 13 :
We talked about it earlier that you’re going to be surprised at what you see, but don’t worry, we can fix it.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes. In most cases. So the D, I have one case, a woman, 34. on anti-anxiety medication, sleep meds. I have panic attacks. I have panic attacks. I’m like, all right. We did some things, taught her diaphragmatic breathing, taught her meditation cycles, yoga for breathing, all the stuff. I said, while we wait for your blood work, we’re going to implement these things. However, I want you to realize you are a machine. You have parts to your machine. If your machine is not well-oiled, if your machine is not well- With certain nutrients. All the things we’re doing are not truly going to work. You’re not going to feel that grounding, that connection. So once we had the blood work in this one woman, her D, like we were discussing, was so low. Was so low. I was like, okay. Her B, very low. Her cortisol was through the roof. Mm-hmm. I was like, wow, and I got excited for her. I got so excited. She was in my office, and I’m like, this is wonderful. She’s like, what do you mean it’s bad? I’m like, no, no, no.
SPEAKER 13 :
Because you know how fast you can make her bounce back and feel better.
SPEAKER 08 :
I was like, this is exciting. I go, oh, my God. I go, give me four to six weeks. She’s like, what? She’s like, I’ve been on this stuff for eight years. I go, four to six weeks. I go, we’re going to wean you off. We’re going to read you off your meds. You’re going to start on a D supplement. I want you to go. This is when I was living in St. Pete, Florida. I sent her to a doctor who I knew. I’m like, you’re going to get D shots. You’re going to get B supplements every week. And you’re going to do stuff to help your cortisol levels come down. And she’s like, really? I’m like, yeah. Worked with her. It was around the fifth week I saw her. She came in and she had lost like, I think it was like six pounds already.
SPEAKER 05 :
The cortisol.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right. She talked to her psychiatric doctor. I already said, already start a plan to start weaning off. She stopped her sleep meds after two months because that was a little process to get off of that. And I saw a different woman within three months, a different woman. She got a hairstyle change. She had a boyfriend. She wanted to have a boyfriend. She wanted to. Yes, she had the. Oh, she had. She. And that was one of the things she complained to me. She said, Regina, I don’t even want to be in a relationship. And she was 34. And I’m like, what? No, that’s not even close to normal.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, she was broken.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, and then she explained her mom had the same symptoms. And I was like, no, this is not hereditary. So she thinks it’s normal, right? Yes.
SPEAKER 13 :
Like, oh, mom was depressed.
SPEAKER 08 :
And her mom was telling her, oh, honey, this is you just getting older. I’m like.
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 08 :
This is what they’re told.
SPEAKER 05 :
Natural aging.
SPEAKER 08 :
Natural aging. Oh, you’re getting gray hair. Oh, you’re doing. Oh, well, you know, this is what happens to women. And I’m like, no, no, no. Capital N. Oh, no. Yeah. We’re going to go out a different out here.
SPEAKER 05 :
And so what do we know in Colorado? 80% of Coloradoans are deficient in vitamin D. And oh, yeah, by the way, the biomarkers, the labs that you get back, that scale is wrong. Because if you’re 35 or 40, they’re like, oh, great, you’re normal. No, it has to be 65 to 100. Yes.
SPEAKER 13 :
Imagine places that don’t have as much sunshine as here. I have friends in Michigan. And if you really want to go back and look at the literature, that first wave of COVID that really knocked out a lot of people with comorbidities, when they did the autopsies, every single one of them was deficient, severely deficient in vitamin D, as was I. Didn’t know it. Just did my wife’s biomarkers because she sees my progress. And she’s 11 years younger than me. Same age you’re talking about.
SPEAKER 01 :
She’s 36.
SPEAKER 13 :
And she said, yeah, maybe I should, you know, maybe do this biomarker thing. And her vitamin D level was eight. And so we started the supplementation. And here we are. 10 weeks later, better mood, skin’s glowing, sleeping better. It’s incredible what that one vitamin can do.
SPEAKER 08 :
She’s going to enter her 40s feeling vitality. She’s not going to be depleted. It’s amazing.
SPEAKER 1 :
100%.
SPEAKER 13 :
On top of everything else we’re going to talk about, too.
SPEAKER 05 :
And here’s another study from the Epoch Times, right? Printed off today, vitamin D deficiency linked to higher risk of early-onset dementia.
SPEAKER 13 :
And most docs are saying just take like 600 IUs a day. Look at your biomarkers and learn. I have to take 6,000 IUs a day to get over 50 and maintain 50 nanograms per deciliter.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yep. Well, there’s the music, so that tells us that Hour 2 is in the can. Thank you for listening. We’ll be back for Hour 3, and we’ve got some more great stuff, so don’t go anywhere. Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush, 560 KLC.
SPEAKER 1 :
I’m a rich guy
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