HOUR 1 Hour 1 of Rush to Reason ignites Health & Wellness Wednesday with Dr. Scott Faulkner, owner of Castle Rock Regenerative Healthcare (https://castlerockregenerativehealth.com), stepping in for John Rush. He’s joined by biohacker and high-performance health strategist Jeremy Sova, whose dramatic personal transformation has placed him just one degree from today’s top longevity pioneers. But can the cutting edge of biohacking really help you reverse aging, sharpen performance, and even conquer brutal long-haul jet lag? Together, Dr. Scott and Jeremy unpack the radical experiments of tech mogul Brian Johnson—the Braintree/Venmo creator turned full-time anti-aging test case. What happens when
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I’m buying that supplement. I’m buying this. I’m like, don’t buy anything until you get your biomarkers done and have a consultation. Then we can talk about how to supplement for deficiency, what you need, what you don’t need. Don’t go out and spend hundreds of dollars a month because it’s the new fad supplement. Find out what’s under your specific hood and your engine because we’re all different. Then you have an approach that you can start to layer this stuff in.
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And then a lot of the stuff that you buy at Costco, you think you’re saving yourself money, but there’s no regulation to nutraceuticals and vitamins. So you can buy a big jar thinking you’re saving money on berberine or cinnamon to help your sugar or your ashwagandha. But what’s on the label oftentimes is not what’s in that pill.
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And probably not third-party tested like some of the stuff that we’re using.
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Then that’s the stuff that I recommend. Once we get the biomarkers, we look to see what is wrong. Then we address those specific issues so that we’re not shotgun approaching it. There’s actually some… thought process behind why do we do what we do so those are the sorts of things that um we we can do at our clinic and i’m sorry folks i’m looking at the clock and it’s i think i’m a little long so we’re gonna break here and we’ll come back at the top of the hour and we’ll keep the discussion then we’ll go into the plasma phrasis so dr scott faulkner with jeremy soba filling in for john rush 560 klz we’ll be right back
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This day, November 12, 1620, was the Pilgrims’ first full day in America. It took over two months for the 103 of them, cramped between the decks on the tiny Mayflower, to cross the freezing North Atlantic. They intended to sail to Jamestown, but were blown off course by violent storms and landed at Plymouth Rock instead. Governor William Bradford wrote, Being thus arrived, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of heaven, who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean and delivered them from all the perils, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth.
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Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth. For the Colson Center, I’m John Stonestreet. Albert Einstein famously defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. For the past few decades now, marriage rates have been plummeting. Those who are getting married are doing so much later in life. The entire Western world, including the United States, is facing an unprecedented birth dearth. And yet… Many Christians and many churches, including those who believe marriage is a created gift of God and a pillar of civilization, are doing nothing different to elevate marriage and family in the hearts and minds of young people. This is an example of what Einstein called insanity. Perhaps we could learn from a group of Chinese retirees who were recently covered in the Wall Street Journal. Apparently, each weekend, in an ongoing effort to play matchmaker for their older children, these parents meet at a park known as the marriage market with photos and achievement stats of their kids. The goal is to help them find a spouse. Now, the kids do not seem as concerned as their parents do. A 33-year-old single said, quote, my parents are more anxious than I am. But the problem is the parents should be. According to the article, in this country of over 1 billion people, only 6 million couples registered their marriages in 2024. This is a record low number, down 21% from just the previous year. And it’s another consequence of the one-child policy that China enforced for decades. Now, America is likely not ready for arranged marriages. Most people will not find marrying to save the economy a romantic enough notion. However, our young adults still need help in the relationship department too. First and foremost, they need help understanding what marriage is. The Bible describes it as a cornerstone of adulthood and of society, but many young adults view it as more of a capstone, something personal to be tended to once everything else in life is accomplished. Christ calls the church his bride, portraying marriage as a metaphor of eternal truth. But Hollywood and lifestyle magazines portray it as a burden, an obstacle to true personal fulfillment. God created us for family, but especially young women have been widely told that unencumbered sexual freedom is the real path to fulfillment. Another challenge is that young adults who are considering marriage often never turn to parents or pastors for guidance, but instead rely on apps. According to a 2023 Pew Research study, 30% of adults said they had used a dating app. 53% of those adults were age 18 to 29. 50% of college students said they used an app to find a date, and that’s in college, the place in which young adults are face-to-face with more like-minded, similar-age peers than at any other time in their lives. And at least according to one article covering dating trends on campuses, dating apps have ruined romance. This could be the church’s moment to save marriage, but it will require that we break dramatically from social norms, that we embrace the awkwardness inherent in such things, and reject the narrative of self-centeredness. In short, we’re going to have to be, well, weird. And that’s because many young adults simply lack the worldview categories to grasp what it means that marriage is good. Inundated at every turn to look inside, concepts like sacrificial love or statements like a central purpose of marriage is to have babies simply sound bizarre to them. We have to make them normal again. In short, young adults need to hear from someone other than Charlie Kirk that marriage and babies are good gifts of God to us. For the Colson Center, I’m John Stonestreet with Breakpoint. Today’s Breakpoint was co-authored with Haley Wilson. And for a copy of this commentary to download and share with others, go to colsoncenter.org slash radio.
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Welcome back, listeners. Dr. Scott Faulkner. Sorry we went a little bit long in that last segment, but all is good. Charlie’s board is fixed. A little trial by fire, but because of my background in the ICU, we don’t panic. We just roll with it. So all is good. It’s all in God’s plan. That’s exactly right. So we hit a lot of highlights in the first segment, but we were talking specifically about why do I do 110 biomarkers on the front side now, a la Mark Hyman. And I wanted to finish that idea before we got to call our Ben. We’ll get to you in just a second, okay, Ben? But I wanted to finish this thought. So you’re a person who has gone through that rigmarole with your primary care and what will insurance cover, what won’t they cover. I had this conversation four times today with various patients and various complaints, but the biggest one is lack of energy. I think I’m perimetopausal, postmenopausal, or a guy’s like, you know what, I’ve just lost my fifth gear. I tell my doctor, he’s like – Exercise more, eat less, lose some weight, and that’s about as far as it goes, and their basic labs are fine. So that’s why we do that 110 biomarkers, because you could have a problem with your cortisol. We would never know it. Unless your blood pressure is dropping, you’re falling out, or your potassium and sodium are off, or your blood pressure is sky high. It could be an insulin problem. You could have, especially as a female, iron deficiency anemia, but since they never check your iron, you have no idea. You could have heavy metal. Because people my age, back then the water pipes had lead in them, and the fillings the dentist gave us had mercury. Yeah, I still have mercury fillings. You can see. I’m sure you’ve already had your mercury level checked. I have. But make sure that it’s not very high. So there’s so many things that interplay in the human body. The way God made us, it’s absolutely incredible. But just to pat you on the head and say, oh, well, your hormones have to be low, right? You can go to the Rocky Mountain Men’s Clinic and get your testosterone checked. Like, oh, look at that. It’s low. Here, let me give you an injection. It’s like, yeah, but that’s not looking at somebody as a whole person.
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That’s right. Everything needs to work together in harmony.
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That’s right.
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Homeostasis is very important.
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And so just drilling into one thing, it’s like, okay, doc, I feel a little stronger, but you didn’t really fix the underlying problem. So then it’s death by a thousand cuts, right? Because Rocky Mountain Men’s Clinic could care less if your thyroid is good or not. They could care less if you have heavy metal toxicity. They could care less if your adrenals are bad. Crash your ferritin. crash your ferritin or your primary he doesn’t have time for this he’s like i’ve got 30 other patients you know i’ve got five minutes to see you i’m not going to help you with this and it’s out of my wheelhouse i don’t know so that’s where coming to somebody like myself and that’s where the hsa savings account really is a as a booster for the layperson Now that we’re in open enrollment, I suggest you get an insurance plan that has an HSA or FSA. HSAs are better because that carries over. That’s your money. The FSA belongs to your employer.
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And if you’re on the Affordable Care Act, there is a HSA option. So that is good, even though the pricing is skyrocketing. We could talk about that for hours. The health care system needs to be fixed. It’s not going to be fixed anytime soon. But we have a plan to make it better than it will ever be, even when Congress is done, if you focus on the patient like we are.
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That’s exactly right. And you have a famous saying, Jeremy, if you don’t measure it, you can’t manage it.
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Yep. And I’ve even added, and you sure as hell can’t optimize it. That’s right. I like that. Because measuring is important. Management from unhealthy to healthy is important. But to get from my last couple of years of healthy to feeling superhuman, that’s the optimization part. And we can talk about all the different ways that… If I’ve gotten there, then I’m getting even further along. But yeah, the optimization piece I added recently.
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Yeah, and you’ve already mentioned this in the first hour. This is where it starts. This is what I told all four patients earlier today is without that data, I have no idea. Do I know your hormones off? Yeah, based on your symptomatology. But what else could be going on? And so I choose to look at you as a whole person. So let’s do that 110 biomarkers. Now, going forward, if you don’t have a problem with heavy metals and your cortisol is fine and you don’t have iron deficiency anemia and all these things are okay, I don’t have to check them in the future.
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So that was my next question. Obviously, a lot of stuff is one time. Other stuff is every 90, every 180, every year. if there’s stuff that the patient like myself wants to add on for more, say I want 150, but I want, I don’t need these 10 anymore and I want to add these 40. Is that an option similar to Dr. Hyman’s program? Are you working in that direction?
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It is because what I didn’t tell you is with Quest, I have beat them up on, they have thousands of tests available. So if you want to substitute something and say, okay, I don’t want X, Y, and Z, but can I have you know, a cancer marker or a gut biome or something like that.
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There you go.
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Absolutely. We can do that. Anything that quest labs offers, which is pretty much everything we can do at that discounted rate, because it wasn’t just for that 110 biomarkers. It was for most everything that quest does.
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Right. For the new person, you want to start with the 110 because this thing is in phases. But now Brian Johnson’s up to 256. I’m up to 192 on my annuals that I just got done. But you can just keep peeling that onion back, which is exciting.
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You can. And take it in baby steps. Of course. Remember the old Bill Murray movie, What About Bob? Baby steps, Dr. Marvin, baby steps. So if you’re kind of thinking, well, maybe I should do this, let’s just get the 110 biomarkers. And let’s say your thyroid is off and your hormones are off. That’s a great place to start. We’ll also start with your mitochondria because mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. So start fixing that. Then we’ll talk about other things that you can do as you start becoming a baby biohacker. Then you end up getting your aura ring like we’ve got, and you start getting your Carol bike, and then you just say, what else? I’m starting to feel so good. What else can you do for me? So I don’t hit you all at once with everything. It would overwhelm the average person.
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Yeah, I’ve got to keep reminding myself that this is year four, approaching year five, and it’s happening at an accelerated rate, but When I think back to, like, the very first trying to find a doc that would check this or check that, we’ve simplified it a lot here. But, yeah, I’ve got to remind myself that it definitely is a process.
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Yeah, it is. So we’ve got a caller, Ben, in Evergreen. Ben, you had a question.
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Yeah, I heard you guys allude to light a little earlier. Like you were saying, you think you’ve got some seasonal affective disorder. Where are you guys at as a general question on sunlight? You know, I’ve heard dubious things there. And there’s a guy by the name of Krause, and he was a neurosurgeon. He’s a big advocate of light therapy. Because from what I understand of how he sees it, which I’m not real clear on it, but it seems like a lot of the chemical stuff we do, be it allopathic medicine, it’s like that’s one half of this equation because it’s more within the electromagnetic spectrum, and the light is more on the photonic aspect, and a lot of our skin and body has… for lack of a better term, photocells in it. But anyway, what do you guys make of all that? And how big of a part, if any, does it play in your therapy and medical approach?
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Um, so I am a big fan. That’s why I love Colorado is right. We are the sunniest state in the union. We get more days of sunshine than Texas, California, Florida, Arizona, places like that. We get over 300 days of sunshine and I need that. So as we are talking about the seasonal affective disorder, we know for a fact, what you just said is correct. The photons, because sunlight not only hits your skin, but it goes through your eyes and And it hits the pineal gland in the back of your brain. That’s what sets your circadian rhythm. That’s where melatonin is made. So we know already for a fact that that’s one of the mechanisms. So getting sunshine, it just makes your mood better. You feel more euphoric. I’m a big proponent of natural light. We know that in the Seattle area, almost everybody has a lux box, a light box, because they don’t get enough sunshine and the depression rates are astronomical. So it helps ward off depression. And then we’ve seen a big decrease in vitamin D levels in Colorado. Why? Two things have happened is nobody wants skin cancer. So we all slather our kids up with sunscreen and ourselves, right? If you’re going to go skiing, you put on sunscreen because you don’t want to get burnt. Even on a sunny day when you’re on the slopes, that sun will refract the light. And you can get sunburned. So nobody wants that, which can lead to skin cancer. But as a result, then we are deficient in vitamin D. 80% of the population in Colorado is low on vitamin D. Now, by the way, the labs that your doctor showed you, when they say, oh, your D is 30, congratulations. No, that is low. It actually needs to be between 65% and 100%. So if you’re able to take your shirt off and get some natural sunlight, the healing properties, the vitamin D alone is worth it. Now, if you have skin cancer, you have to be cautious. And the problem with the regular sunscreen that people use, like the banana boat, is they all use a chemical to prevent the burns. So you get a chemical reaction in your skin. And so you have two wavelengths, right? UVA and UVB. So the UVA are the waves that age our skin. The UVB keeps you from burning. So modern day sunscreens are very good at blocking out pretty much all of the UVB. And there’s a chemical that every last one of them uses that covers about 10 percent of the UVA spectrum. So that’s why the FDA has allowed them to say, oh, we’re broad spectrum. But when, you know, five, 10 years in the sun, you start to age and get wrinkles and things like that. So it’s not really broad spectrum, but you’re getting a chemical reaction in your skin which is not good for you. So that’s where we like the mineral base, especially zinc, micronized zinc, because zinc acts like the little windshield screen that you put in your car to reflect the rays back to the sun. So it’s not actually a chemical reaction. So for people who are fair-skinned or who burn easily, who get skin cancer, you’ve got to be very cautious. But for everybody else, sunshine is a great thing, and I’m a firm believer.
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I will add, though, people that have a ton of sun with very low vitamin D levels, I’ve seen it. Everybody’s different. I need 6,000 international units daily to stay between 60 and 80. Some people need two. Some people need 10. So once again, you’ve got to know what’s in your blood and then start to optimize by taking the right amounts and then measuring again. Because just the sun isn’t cutting it for a lot of people that have the deficiency. I’ve seen it myself.
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Yeah, but does light help you? Yeah, we’re big proponents of natural sunlight.
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But the red light stuff is really interesting, too, because it’s penetrating up to 10 millimeters into the skin and helping with the mitochondria and the inflammatory responses. So not just similar to sunlight, all those other different spectrums of red light and near-infrared light
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are very beneficial for the mitochondria and um inflammation if you will yeah and those don’t hurt your eyes it’s actually one of the treatments for macular degeneration so it is actually really good but we’re talking two different spectrums right right red near infrared versus ultraviolet which you get from natural sunshine natural sunshine those rays can burn you um so you got to be careful with them the red light like what we have a spectra 10 in our office um I’m addicted to the thing. I’m in it every single day. I love how it makes me feel. I love the power of regenerating my mitochondria.
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You could argue that daily red light plus vitamin D supplementation is healthy or healthier than spending time out in the sun with sunscreen on.
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Yeah, so you have options. But I think, Ben, hopefully that answers your question.
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Yeah, it’s good to get a second opinion. I started to get into this Well, intermittently, my interest kind of waxes and wanes. Years ago, I went to this alternative medicine convention in Vegas, and this girl, she had these glass lenses, if you will, and she was talking about it, and I’d worked for a company that made lighting. In fact, these… A lot of these lights that go up to Seattle is where we were shipping them. We made a number of them, and I did assembly on them. And so I’m like, well, what are these about? We were so busy at the time. It’s like, who cares? Just make it, pack it, ship it, don’t break it. So it spurred my interest in light therapy. And this girl in Vegas, I’m like, what’s she talking about? She’s got these yellow, green, red shades. She went into it, and I’m like, well, how much of this is foo-foo and how much of it’s relevant? And I’m thinking for certain people, it might be foo-foo because when we look underneath the hood for everybody, we’re all different. There’s some people, you might put them under infrared, and it’s like, yeah, you know. five percent difference in metabolism or whatever and other people it’s like lighting up their life no pun intended that’s right that’s exactly right so if to me uh i like how you guys are into the diagnostics of it all whereas the regular more or less whatever it is out of box medicine they’re like yeah come in yeah what’s up yeah yeah this that the other thing And I think that that is so critical.
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It is.
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And I’m glad to see you guys doing it. My question is, can I afford it?
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Well, that’s it. I mean, you’re going to have to afford something, right? So you may have to give up a Starbucks coffee. You may have to give up a Big Mac or something like that. But this is your health. This is the rest of your life. And you want to age gracefully. And as you get older, do you want to have your faculties? Do you want to be able to have lean muscle mass that you can get up and out of a chair and go up the stairs, play with grandkids? It’s worth it. If you’re that person that’s like, no, my muscle mass will continue to get weaker and I’ll end up in a wheelchair in a nursing home, then that’s your choice. But we now have the technology to keep you young, healthy, and living a very vibrant life.
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My opinion is spend the $700 to pop the hood and get the consult. get all the information, and then make your own budgetary decision on what you want to spend, don’t want to spend, if anything, and how much, and put a budget together to get from chronic disease to no disease or from no disease to amazing. Everybody’s different as far as their needs and their body and their budget, but I would say anybody that doesn’t take that deal for that amount of data that would cost you tens of thousands to get if you walked in the door of a lab
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and sit down and talk to a doctor like yourself is doing themselves a grave disservice yeah and that’s where we start is we need the data to see what’s broken like jeremy says if you don’t measure it you can’t manage it and you sure as hell can’t what optimize it optimize it so ben hopefully that helps we’re a little long we got to take a commercial break i’m like way long so charlie’s yelling at me thank you for the call ben this is dr scott faulkner we’ll be right back
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TJ here with KLZ Radio once again with Al Smith of Golden Eagle Financial. Al, we’re coming up to the end of the year, and I’ll bet you things are getting a little bit nervous. What kind of things do people need to think about with their retirement as they approach the end of the year?
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Well, some of the financial things have a deadline of December 31st each year, and the biggest ones are required minimum distributions. If you’re under age 73, you don’t need to be concerned with that. If you’re over and you have an IRA, that’s something that needs to be done before the end of the year. Don’t wait until the last week in December Because the financial companies, the Charles Schwab, the Fidelities, the insurance companies, they get incredibly busy that time of year. So it’s better to do it the end of November or at the latest the beginning of December.
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So you’ll sit on the phone for them and sit on hold then, huh?
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Well, if it’s the last week in December, you’ll bet there’ll be some time on hold. Also, if people have traditional IRAs and they want to convert to Roth, usually by the end of the year, most people know how much money they’ve earned. And we can estimate the correct tax brackets because Roth conversions also need to be done before the end of the year. And people can do those at any age.
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And you need to take those RMDs so you can go buy Christmas for your family, right?
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There you go. Or there’s something called a QCD, Qualified Charitable Distribution, where you can take part of your required minimum distribution, have it go directly to your church or other charitable entity, and you won’t have to pay tax on it.
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That’s fantastic, Al. How do people get in touch with you to start that out?
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You can reach me at 303-744-1128. If you’re driving, contact 560-KLZ and they’ll put you in touch with me.
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Al, thanks for coming in today.
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You’re welcome. Thanks for having me.
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Welcome back, listeners. Sorry for the long commercial break. We went about 10 minutes long in the previous segment, but now we have plenty of time to talk about everything else. So great news is Judy and I are adding a second location about a quarter of a mile of where we’re at in Castle Rock because I need to expand. And those of you who know the Castle Rock real estate market, there is no big commercial space available. so until i’m able to build a building it’s the best that i can do but we are bringing in more stuff this goes back to our conversation in the first hour of how we’re always looking for something that will move the needle for my patients to help them optimize their health so with this new space we’re keeping the original space so that’s not going away So we’ll continue to do the GLP-1s. We continue to have red light. We have the cryotherapy. Oh, by the way, we’re getting rid of our current nitrogen-based cryotherapy machine, and we’re going with the best one on the market. And it’ll get you cold to negative one hundred and seventy degrees. Awesome. It’s going to be cold. So those of you who think you’re tough and you like this stuff, I got a challenge for you. So that’s coming down the pike. We just talked to the people yesterday. We’re firming that deal up. We should have it in around Christmas time. The old nitrogen one’s going away. We’ll get the brand new one. And we can have multiple people in it at the same time. So if it’s a husband-wife couple, they can go into the chamber. It’s fully self-serve. And because it’s electric, there’s no risk of you passing out with the nitrogen gas. Well, that’s helpful. Yeah. So that’s one of the latest and greatest things. We’re going to be bringing in a device called the DaVinci. Have you ever seen the DaVinci? No.
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I have. I’ve been watching all the different cool gadgets that everyone tries to one-up each other. But DaVinci Medical has been on the forefront. That’s where Gary Breck and his former partners had started. But it is a very, very good high-end bed. And it sounds like your staff was saying you’re going to pair it with the VO2 Max option. So if you get the Carol bike and the Red Light, the VO2 Max, you kind of got the full system there of DaVinci, which is amazing.
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Yeah, so you can exercise with oxygen. They call it EWOT, exercise while on oxygen. While on oxygen. So the DaVinci will be able to do that. You just said we’re going to bring in probably two Carol bikes. Everybody keeps hearing me talk about the Carol bike. That’s what I have. It’s spelled C-A-R-O-L. And a lot of people understand what hit high-intensity interval training is. Well, this takes it to the next level. It’s re-hit, reduced exertion, high-intensity interval training. Now, you don’t mind cardio. You’re a hockey player. You like that sort of stuff.
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I wouldn’t say I love it, but I know how important it is. So I grin and bear it four days a week.
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Yeah. Well, I hate cardio. I was that guy that in football, I’ll run from here to there so long as I can hit you at the end. But when you’d watch during track season and my buddies are like, oh, we’re going to go run 10 miles. I’m like, great. Have at it. Good time. I’m going to run from here to there, and then I’m going to sit down on the pole vaulting
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Yeah, I’m the guy handing out the Gatorades at the marathon as they’re running by.
SPEAKER 14 :
Right. So it is not my cup of tea. But with this Carroll bike, with the reduced exertion, high intensity interval, and I get a better workout in 8 minutes and 40 seconds than 45 minutes on a Peloton, it’s insane. And my VO2 max, I can’t wait to test my VO2 max next. And you had alluded to that in the first hour. You had mentioned VO2 Max. And several months ago, Reagan, one of my young employees, he and I were talking about VO2 Max and how important that was. But for people who have missed that segment, what exactly is VO2 Max?
SPEAKER 18 :
So it might actually be the most important, well, it is the most important marker in the exercise category. You know, you have sleep, exercise, nutritional biochemistry, and stress and muscle health management is the way to attack all five horsemen that we mentioned earlier. But the VO2 max really tells you how healthy you are longevity-wise for exercise, and it basically maximizes the amount of oxygen input, or I’m sorry, output, That the body can have at its complete, you know, pushing it to the limit. Like, for instance, ironically, I’m doing mine tomorrow with the machinery, put the mask on. It’s a full hour. I’ve never done it before. I’ve done the Oura Ring one, which apparently is close. And I get to compare and contrast. But I’m going to be pushed, you know, heart rate 177. And we’re going to see what it’s at after this journey. And then I have a new benchmark tomorrow. to try to improve, but improving your VO2 max over your lifetime, especially as you approach that marginal decade, we’re learning is extremely important.
SPEAKER 14 :
Extremely. So that’s the difference between being healthy, playing with your grandkids, going up to Breckenridge skiing, and sitting at home in your recliner because you can’t get up, you can’t do the stairs, you can’t take the garbage out. It’s that critical, folks.
SPEAKER 18 :
I might put muscle mass up there. There are one and two.
SPEAKER 14 :
Muscle mass and grip strength.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, but VO2 max and muscle on the body, those two things alone are so important.
SPEAKER 14 :
But if you think about it, if you’re working your VO2 max, you’re probably getting good muscle mass. You’re doing something exercise to build that lean muscle mass. Not in all cases. Some people like just pure cardio exercise.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah. I mean, you still need the resistance training and tearing the muscle fibers to build long-term longevity physically as you get older, but the VO two max gives you that, you know, ability to, to get to the gym to resistance train in your eighties, nineties, age a hundred. But everybody should know what theirs is. It’s not easy to get. Same with a DEXA scan. You should know what your body composition is and you should know your VO2 max. And it’s so exciting to know that you’re finally going to offer this as a part of the journey because it’s more multi-modality into the exercise realm, which we know is very important.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah. And we’ll come back to the DEXA scan because what you said is very critical. But one of the other things we’re bringing into the new location is a spine center because every week I talk to four or five people about stem cells, and they’re like, I have a bad back. You’ve already given your testimony of what stem cells have done, and we can touch on that. But I’m turning away people. I’m sending them to Dr. Laurier, my friend who’s a spine guy in L.A. because there’s nobody – In my opinion, in the Denver market, that is doing spine well.
SPEAKER 18 :
Right, especially with the special sauce that you have.
SPEAKER 14 :
That’s right. So I said, well, you know what? If you build it, they will come. So I’m taking the bull by the horns in the new space. We’re putting in a C-arm. a special room with lead-lightened walls, and Dr. Loria, I’m going to bring him out from California because I was never trained to do spine. I can do shoulders, I can do knees, hips, all that stuff, but I was never trained to do spine, and I’m not about to train at 59. So I’m going to bring the expert with this technology with those stem cells. So when you have that bad back like you did, you’re young. You’re like, I don’t want somebody hacking on me. Let’s try this. It is way better than cortisone because cortisone is just a Band-Aid.
SPEAKER 18 :
And it’s going to tear up the joints around it over time, too. But avoiding surgery, A, and avoiding a fusion or metal, B, I would say to anybody, do not let the primary care health insurance spend half a million dollars. I’m destroying your mobility for the rest of your life and you’re still going to be in pain. I’m living proof that budget for the stem cells because they repair the tissue. You keep the mobility. Motion is lotion. And the more you ski, the more you go to the gym, the more you bike ride, the more you golf, the less pain you’re going to be in.
SPEAKER 14 :
The living testament of it. Yep. So those are some of the things that we’re bringing into the new location. Again, we’re keeping the old one. This will be about a quarter mile away there on the corner of Founders and Allen Street. So those of you in Castle Rock, if you know where the DaVita Dialysis Center is right at that intersection, we’ll be there on the first floor. Is it like across from the big car wash, the Moto Spa? Yeah, that’s exactly right, yeah. So as you’re going up Founders, past Target, past the entrance to my place, go about another quarter mile. On the right-hand side, there’s that two-story building. Before you’re going to, like, Parker, you go to Parker or Franktown. So as you’re going up Founders to the east, we’re just going to be right there. Great. now we had teased benefits of plasmapheresis so there was a major study just published in may 2025 talking about forever toxins so now it’s time people have been waiting it’s like when is he going to talk about this so first off what is a forever toxin
SPEAKER 18 :
I would say, back it up, what is plasmapheresis?
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 18 :
Because it’s, from what I’m learning, you know, Brian Johnson did this. You mentioned watch the Don’t Die thing to the folks out there. And you’ll hear about the blood boy, right? Like he took his blood plasma from his son, then he gave his own to his father. And it was beautiful. All three of them got to do that. Well, what he’s learned since then is is there’s a better way right and it’s called therapeutic plasma exchange or tpe for short and plasmapheresis is the long doctor word you know from what i found out but i’ve been following brian and i saw that he’s done um four so far and i’ve talked to his team and i’ve gotten to see some of the photos in the process and gotten some guidance on it because i’m interested in Being that I’m beating up the autoimmune rheumatoid that I’ve knocked down significantly, I’m learning there’s a better way to kind of speed this up. So I went out looking for this, and I found a place in Tennessee that seemed credible, and I did find one in the state of Colorado. But the price was so astronomical that I just put it on the shelf. And this was long before the study came out. So this was still, you know, do I trust Brian? Is it worth the money, et cetera? But when you, I think you went to a conference or something, and then you came back and you mentioned it. And then I went back and looked. I’m like, are you serious? This is something that you’re going to bring in? Because the data, I think you alluded to a study that just came out a couple of months ago. But I love seeing literature that shows, you know, placebo-controlled double-blind studies that, you know, to this regard. So, I mean, explain plasmapheresis.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay. I’m glad you lobbed me that softball. So imagine in your mind we take the blood out of your body. So it’s almost sort of like a dialysis, okay?
SPEAKER 18 :
Like they take the plasma but not the blood? Like when you go donate plasma, they only take the – Well, we take both, right?
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay. So as we hook you up to an IV and we’re bloodletting you, so the blood is coming out of your body, not going in. So there’s a combination of the plasma, right? That’s the clear stuff or kind of yellow. So if you get a rug burn and you see that fluid, that’s the plasma. Okay. Okay? But – When we poke you and take an IV out or your blood out, then there’s also the red and white blood cells and platelets. So there’s the cellular component and then there’s the liquid or the plasma. Got it. Well, in the plasma, there’s a protein called albumin. Okay, so albumin is the transport carrier. Think of it like a tow truck and your car’s hooked up behind it, right? So a lot of things are carried through the body with albumin. Things like testosterone, estrogen, thyroid, right? So that’s why we measure the free component of a lot of these things because most of it is bound to this albumin molecule. Well, what we found is other things will attach to albumin as well. And some of these are these forever toxins. And we’ll go deeper onto that. But now you’ve got the idea, tow truck, car behind it. So albumin with something attached to it going through the body. So the plasmapheresis, what happens is this machine is able to separate the plasma, that yellowy liquid, from the cells. We put the cells back into your body, but now we’re depleting you of the plasma. But at the same time, we’re taking that albumin, that tow truck, that has this nasty stuff attached to it, things like microplastics. Forever toxins.
SPEAKER 18 :
Stuff that’s been accumulating in your body for your whole life, right?
SPEAKER 14 :
Correct. And so we take the nastiness out, we dump it, throw it away because it’s no good to you or anybody else, and then we put back pure human albumin. You’re like, well, where do we get that? Was it donated from a drunk down in Colorado Springs who wanted 20 bucks and went to the plasma center? The answer is no. I was explaining this to Charlie before we came on the air. I said, now with technology, we’re able to sequence. in the DNA, the code that makes albumin also like human insulin. So that’s one of the best examples I can give you. So when I first started training, we were giving people insulin from pigs, right? Or bovine from cows. Well, you’re not a pig or a cow, so a lot of people had these horrible reactions because it’s not identical to human insulin.
SPEAKER 18 :
Gotcha.
SPEAKER 14 :
Or in Lance Armstrong’s case where he used erythropoietin to blood dope. Erythropoietin is what is secreted by your kidneys. When you go up in elevation, your kidneys are very sensitive to low oxygen tension. So your kidneys will secrete erythropoietin to cause you to make more red blood cells. to attach every last drop of oxygen because the higher you go, there’s fewer oxygen molecules. Your body’s saying, I want to grab every last one of them. Well, it’s erythropoietin that’s secreted by the kidneys that increases your blood count. So Colorado is the worst in the country for that. That’s exactly right. But that’s why all your professional athletes train, right? Lance Armstrong of the bicycling team, they’ll go up to Vail and they’ll ride up and over Vail Pass. Because what they’re doing is legal blood doping. Their body is sensing that. They get more red blood cells. So when they go down to elevation, they have an advantage, more blood, more oxygen. They can ride farther. Wow, interesting. So back to the insulin. So we have identified that DNA sequence. So what researchers do is they take that, splice it out, and they put it into a bacteria. And the bacteria doesn’t know any better, so he produces pure human insulin all day, every day. Because he’s a bacteria, you don’t have to pay him. So then we get these vatfuls of pure human insulin. And since my early days of training, I’ve never seen an insulin reaction because it’s pure human stuff, along with the erythropoietin, along with the albumin. fascinating so now we get these big vats so the cost came way down and we can give you the good albumin right the tow truck that doesn’t have all the garbage attached to it so what’s the immunoglobulin that i saw in the study that they put in there with the albumin right so a immune globulin is a protein okay right so part of your immune system is immune globulins they take it from you and put it back in you or do you get it the immunoglobulin from another source like the albumin Well, oftentimes your body will just make more. It’s always producing it, but it’s good immune globulin. It doesn’t have any garbage attached to it.
SPEAKER 18 :
Gotcha, because you took all the nasty stuff out.
SPEAKER 14 :
Because we took the nasty stuff out and threw it away.
SPEAKER 18 :
Wow, okay.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, and that’s how we’re starting to – you alluded to a condition called hypertriglyceridemia. Okay. So if you’ve ever had a patient, you’ve not because you’re not a doctor, but if you took blood from… I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. That’s right. And we keep doing this long enough and we’re going to make you an honorary doctor. But if you take the blood of somebody who has hypertriglyceridemia… So when you look at a cholesterol panel, there’s HDL cholesterol, which is the good stuff, there’s LDL cholesterol, and there’s triglycerides. Triglycerides are more of an oily substance. So if somebody has this familial hypertriglyceridemia, and this number is not 130 or 140, it’s in the thousands, 2,000, 3,000, and those people are at high risk for pancreatitis. Okay. Because that triglyceride, that globules just clog up your pancreas and then suddenly – Vile ducts get all jammed up. Everything. So – and we don’t have great treatments. Yes, we can put you on pills, which helps some. But when your body is cranking this stuff out, it’s coded for it, then you’re in big trouble. Well, now this plasmapheresis is the treatment for hypertriglyceridemia. It’s really gross when you see somebody’s vial of blood when we take it and you let it sit for about five minutes. It turns into nothing but lard.
SPEAKER 18 :
Oh, wow.
SPEAKER 14 :
That’s really gross. There’s no blood. It’s not red. It’s white fat globules.
SPEAKER 18 :
Bacon grease in the iron skillet after you put two pounds in there.
SPEAKER 14 :
That’s a great analogy. Not that I would ever eat that, of course. Yep. So you were asking other questions like these forever chemicals. So we’re a little long. When we come back, can you talk about these forever chemicals and why is this so important for pregnant ladies?
SPEAKER 18 :
Yes. I’m interested myself, so I did quite a bit of research. So I have some questions for you.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay. So we’re going to take a break. We’ll come back and we’ll keep talking about plasmapheresis. So Dr. Scott Faulkner and Jeremy Sova filling in for John Rush, 560 KLZ. We’ll be right back.
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SPEAKER 14 :
Welcome back, listeners. Dr. Scott Faulkner and Jeremy filling in for John Rush on this wonderful Wednesday afternoon in Denver, Colorado. The sun is set now, so those of you driving should have an easier time. Be careful out there, please. So Jeremy and I were talking about plasmapheresis and how we’re going to be bringing that into the new location. So it’s not entirely new. It’s a second location, I guess, is what we’d call this, or an offshoot of what we’re doing already. We’ve talked about how we’ll have the DaVinci machine. Pretty incredible how that works. The Carol bikes, so we can just check people’s VO2 Macs. the spine center, a few other really cool things.
SPEAKER 18 :
Another hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber, too, I think you said, right?
SPEAKER 14 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 18 :
I want to talk about that later.
SPEAKER 14 :
Currently, we have a two-person HBOT, H-B-O-T, hyperbaric oxygen therapy machine, and then we’re going to be bringing in a four-person HBOT Really, that’s for somebody like your son and maybe his teammates because they’re always getting concussed or broken bones. You have a story on that. Or just athletic performance in general. Yeah. Or it actually improves your cognitive ability, test scores. So my daughter Kaylee is the prime example. She has dyslexia. So didactic learning is very difficult for her. And so she’s in paramedic class right now. We put her in the hyperbaric chamber while she was doing the didactic. She’s in clinicals now. And her test scores were 20% better when she studies in the hyperbaric chamber. Oh, that’s amazing. She was crushing it. I was like, that’s my little girl? Are you kidding me?
SPEAKER 18 :
And it’s interesting, right? We’re going to talk about plasmapheresis and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. These aren’t new, right? These have been around and basically untapped for very rare things that nobody wants to pay for. But now for longevity and reverse aging, the needle is moving incredibly. incredibly fast in the right direction. So I get so mad when I hear that there’s 500 HBOTs sitting idle in these medical centers, but all these kids are getting concussed or all these broken bones or all these Alzheimer’s patients. So I digress, but this isn’t new technology. You’re just using it for a new purpose.
SPEAKER 14 :
Right. And we’re actually using our brains because, like you said, you’ve got all these HBOT machines that Sitting, say, in the Denver market being unused. Well, insurance only covers a few diagnoses so that somebody could actually go in there, carbon monoxide poisoning or a diabetic wound that’s non-healing. So there’s very few covered indications. And the CEO of the hospital does not want his chamber tied up with an off-label use because – They may not pay him either through Medicare, Medicaid, insurance. If they find out, it’s like, well, something happened, so you can kiss your hospital goodbye. Makes sense. Where guys like myself say, you know what, I took an oath to help my patients, and I know that if I get a top-of-the-line offer, chamber that is totally safe and we had this conversation right because there was two deaths a few months ago now the five-year-old up in michigan and the gentleman i think it was a physical therapist out in arizona that’s right well that was sort of his fault that he got into a chamber by himself after hours like 11 o’clock at night and there were those little i call them the coffins the single person where you lay down and um they get a spark and And then you put a spark.
SPEAKER 18 :
It’s 100% oxygen environment with external, you know, tanks. Very, very dangerous. Your technology is the safest on the market, right? It doesn’t even get to a point that you can have that danger with all of the safety mechanisms. But when people hear that, like, they need to know the distinction. There are… There’s dangerous machines and there’s really, really safe machines.
SPEAKER 14 :
Right. And we spared no expense, Judy and I, to make sure that ours is the top of the line, the safest that we can get. So it’s right there where our staff is watching you. As you alluded to, inside the chamber, it doesn’t get above 24.5% oxygen tension or it automatically off gases so that we never get to that 100% because you put a spark under 100% oxygen under pressure, you’ve created a bomb. And that’s what happened. So safety matters to us, doing it the right way.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, I wouldn’t have put my children in there had I not done that research. But now I’ve been in it 54 times and unbelievable results.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, and we’ll get to that. But let’s keep talking about the plasma freezes and why is that so important? So you have a story of your friend. So go ahead and tell your story. And then you were hoping that we could get a moment of silence for him. Yes, unfortunately, he passed away. Jeremy is going to tell the story now and the backstory of why we’re doing this.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, so I’m not going to name the name. I know the family’s still grieving and they’re working on the memorial. But a good friend, hockey dad, my son’s teammate from last year, one of the kindest souls I’ve ever met, you know, went out of his way to make my entire family from across the country feel welcome at a state tournament. Never had any other parent do that before. So really, really special human being. And Hilly, worth thinking about you. But I wish I would have known sooner because plasmapheresis is actually an indication out of the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology for acute liver failure. And that is what he passed from. So it’s so important to know what’s going on in the body and be able to catch these things earlier. But just a real short moment of silence for our buddy Hilly, his family, all the hockey players, and everybody affected by his passing two days ago.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, so listeners, if you don’t mind, let’s take a few seconds in honor of this gentleman who was a fine specimen, okay? So just a few seconds. In Jesus’ name we pray, amen. Amen, thank you for that. Yeah, you’re welcome. So there’s another condition, optic neuritis.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yes. I never even heard of it, but apparently an article three months ago in the American Academy of Ophthalmology noted that while steroids are the standard treatment currently for optinuritis, therapeutic plasma exchange is becoming a much more popular treatment option, especially for cases that are steroid resistant. So there’s another pretty important use that we didn’t know about.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah. And for those of you who don’t know, the optic nerve is your vision nerve. It’s Attaches to the back of your eyeball to your brain. Sounds like an important one. So it’s the cranial nerve. Yes, it’s very important if you want to be able to see. So more and more information is coming out. That’s why I’m saying this is such an exciting time to be in this field of regenerative medicine. And I will be your eyes and ears. I’ll keep looking for things that can help my patients and give you guys these tidbits and hopefully it helps. So we’re at the top of the hour. We need to take a break. We’ll be back for our final hour. You’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulconer with Jeremy filling in for John Rush. We’ll be right back.
SPEAKER 1 :
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