Cancer prevention is the focal point of our discussion as we explore the groundbreaking tests and imaging techniques that aid in early detection. Our health experts discuss the Gallery Test, an innovative blood test that can identify potential cancer indicators years before they develop into tumors. Discover how whole-body MRIs can play a critical role in catching potential health issues early, giving you the best chance for effective treatment. This episode also features a heartfelt segment on supporting veterans through innovative healthcare solutions.
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Welcome back, listeners. It’s actually Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John. It is Health and Wellness Wednesday, but holding on a Tuesday right before the Fourth of July weekend. So, again, thank you for the troops for keeping us safe in our independence. And thank you, Supreme Court, for… Keeping us safe.
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Absolutely. Getting rid of those activists, liberal judges that thought they could hold the throne over the throats of all the people in the country. Amen. Amy Coney Barrett, way to give it to Ketanji Jackson.
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Finally. Yes. So we were talking about biohacking, the things that folks can do either by writing this down and taking it to their doc in the box and saying, this is what I want, or coming to somebody like James Flouting who owns Revitalized Health. And how do they find you?
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We can go to revitalized-health.com or call us at 720-361-2302.
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Yep, and you can find me, Dr. Scott Faulkner, Castle Rock Regenerative Healthcare, 303-663-6990. And you cannot find Jeremy because he’s always at my place.
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I was going to say, I’m easy to find. Just go to your place.
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Yeah, just go to my place because he’s doing all the modalities. So we’re not going to go back and rehash all the things that we talked about in hour one. Folks can listen to that. We hit the heart. We hit the brain. Some of the tests that you can do, like the glycan age. biomarkers. Let’s move on to metabolic health. Great. So Jeremy, take the floor.
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Yeah, so backing up a little bit, if I could do this over again, I probably would have started with metabolic health. Reason being, what the data shows is all of these horseman issues um they’re rooted in poor metabolic health that’s kind of where it all starts so poor metabolic health can lead to the heart issues to the brain issues to the cancer issues so how do you check your metabolic health right if once a year you go to the doctor and you get or even if you go a couple times a year they’ll give you your hemoglobin a1c number that’s kind of the What is that number? That’s if they do it. If they’ll do it. Well, hopefully they will because that’s the easiest thing to test is look back over the last 90 days of what’s going on with your blood glucose. So sugar. So basically, if it’s under 5.7 or less… you’re considered healthy there’s a few air quotes here but it’s probably better to be closer to 5.3 to 4.8 is ideal well actually now through A4M we’re aiming for 5.0 or less there you go so below 5 is the end goal and if you’re 5.7 to I think it’s 6.5 you’re considered pre-diabetic which means you pretty much have diabetes but you can still reverse it and over 7 you’re a type 2 diabetic and that’s going to lead to a whole host of
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health concerns well anything 6.5 or greater is the diagnosis so before we used to use glucose right one fasting glucose 126 or greater we needed that to make the diagnosis of diabetes then several years ago they said okay well you can use hemoglobin a1c 6.5 or greater you’ve got that marker bam
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Yep. There you go. So what I’ve found is basically a fasting glucose. So you don’t eat for 12 hours. You get your blood work done. It’s a snapshot in time. Should be less than 88 is the number. Your normal plant panel will have it normal under 100.
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Yeah. Again, a lot of air quotes. You’re right.
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Yeah, it’s more air quotes. But really, 88 or better is what a snapshot should look like. And what I’m certainly learning more and more, I’ve blown my own mind in the last five days. And we’re going to talk about some cool gadgets coming up. But I have a continuous glucose monitor on right now, CGM for short. And it looks at my blood glucose 24-7. Um, for 15 days at a time and I change it and I’m going to do this for at least 60 days. And the amount of data that I’m collecting about my own metabolic health has been phenomenal and they’re very easy to get. Um, and essentially what it does is it shows the spikes in the steady climbs and steady falls over the course of the day in your blood. Um, and you can learn to biohack certain things. And I’ll tell a very short story here over the last couple of days that I learned about seed oils. You’re hearing everybody talk about how bad these seed oils are for you. I know the Maha movement and RFK Jr. is trying to get rid of these seed oils for good reason. So I’m going to take Wendy’s and Popeye’s chicken. Two days in a row, I had the same thing. I had a fried chicken sandwich, a small fry, and a water. Wendy’s uses vegetable oil and canola oil, these seed oils they talk about. Popeye’s uses beef tallow. The Wendy’s spiked my glucose into dangerous ranges, and they held there for an hour and 20 minutes before they fell back into the normal ranges. Popeyes didn’t move it at all. It stayed normal the entire time. So the difference between vegetable oil and beef tallow. Now, you shouldn’t be eating fast food anyway, but if you’re forced into a situation where you have to get the quick meal, avoid the seed oils and go with places that have beef tallow. Beef tallow can also be high in saturated fats or SFAs. But far better choice than these dangerous seed oils. So I learned that just the last couple of days about my metabolic health. And I’ve learned how to keep it in line day and night. So those are very easy to do. But I’m not sure there’s a better way to manage and measure over time than to get one of these things in your arm. Because looking at 90 day chunks or looking at fasting glucose, for instance, I’ve also noticed that if I hit it right, I go get my blood work, it can be 85. But if I’m off by half hour, it could be 102. You’re looking at me like, why is your glucose 102? And I’m like, it’s not, it’s 85. But these subtle changes happen over the course of the day. So get a CGM, track your blood sugar. And before you know it, you’re going to start making some very well-informed decisions about what to eat, when to eat it. And I talk about an 80-20 rule. Like 80% of the time, try to do everything that I’m doing. And 20% of the time… live your life, eat the pizza, eat the pasta, eat the ice cream, eat the chocolate. But with the CGM monitor on, you can tell yourself when to eat it, have the ice cream at lunch and take a 20 minute walk with the dog. Don’t have the ice cream at 11 o’clock at night and go sit on the couch. Huge difference in blood glucose spikes.
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Absolutely. Yeah. Here’s a quick story. So a lot of the listeners have heard me talk about my sister-in-law, Eileen. She lives out in Massachusetts. She has early onset dementia. And now we know That is type 3 diabetes. It has everything to do with insulin resistance. So exactly what we’re talking about right now. Insulin resistance is the driver of a lot of this disease. And she came out with her husband to do the hyperbaric because we know hyperbaric treats dementia. We can actually reverse it. And she was doing so well. She could actually remember her husband. She could remember what we did. We went up to Cripple Creek. She could remember the drive, all that stuff. When she came to us, she couldn’t remember anything. And then we made the mistake. We got ice cream. One ice cream wrecked her for a day and a half. She went backwards to where she started from. After three weeks of hyperbaric, she could remember one ice cream. Just that sugar load alone wrecked her mental health. That’s the power of sugar insulin resistance in the human body. Whether you have a CGM on or not, but I guarantee you if she’d been wearing that continuous glucose monitor, she probably would have spiked to 180. Right. But that’s the information that people need, and you don’t have to be a diabetic to get these things. I mean, I sell them in my office. You can get them online. You don’t need a doctor’s prescription. Right.
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And the beauty is this is reversible. You can reverse this and get your blood sugar levels into perfection long before it turns into these other diseases, brain, heart, cancer.
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Yeah. And like Dr. David Perlmutter, he’s a neurologist, highly respected neurologist. So those who are listening… When you get home and you want to get an expert’s opinion, go on YouTube and type in Dr. David Perlmutter, P-E-R-L-M-U-T-T-E-R. He’s a neurologist. And listen to anything he talks about, and he will blow your mind on Alzheimer’s, dementia, brain health. and insulin resistance and type 3 diabetes. So that’s an expert that you can trust. Peter Attia is another expert that we listen to, the Mark Hyman’s of the world. Some of these guys are a little bit out there for me. James, who do you guys listen to, get some of your information from?
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Yeah, I mean, all different kinds of sources, different podcasts. I don’t think I have anything specific to mention right now.
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Dr. Andrew Huberman out of Stanford is a big one that I like too. And ironically, every man’s man, Joe Rogan is on top of this stuff now. So watch the Joe Rogan podcast when he talks about health because he’s using all the stuff we’re going to talk about like I am. And it’s done wonders. Wait till we talk about stem cells later.
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Yeah, but who’s got three hours to listen to Joe? I don’t. So I’ve got to pick and choose what I want to do.
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Yeah, you get the clips online. You can sort them through, ones that are just health-specific, and watch them in five, ten-minute chunks. Yeah, there you go. They call them reels on Instagram for all you young kids out there.
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That’s right. All right, so it looks like we’re up against the clock. We’re going to take another break, and then when we come back, we’re going to talk about hydration, sunscreen, mitochondrial health, things like that. So you’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush on Tuesday, Wednesday, which is Health and Wellness Wednesday before the 4th of July.
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putting reason into your afternoon drive this is john rush actually it’s dr scott faulkner filling in for john on this health and wellness wednesday on tuesday before fourth of july and uh during the break um jeremy and james and i we were talking that we wanted to actually round out cancer that fourth horseman of the apocalypse yeah um so jeremy talk about cancer
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Yep. So it’s going to be pretty short. Most important thing most people already realize is cancer is really hard to cure if it’s late stage. So early detection is the most important part of it. Catching it right away, stage zero, stage one. And an easy way to do that is to take an annual blood test called the gallery test. Gallery with an I, not a Y. and it’s a couple of vials of blood, and they look at like 60 different types of cancers that are common, and they can find out pretty early on if there’s markers in the blood. And now we’re seeing research that shows that you can almost find out three years before a tumor will form if you got the blood markers of certain cancers. That paired with an annual imaging or a full-body MRI that you can talk about, James. But those are the things, right? Like check the blood, check the imaging, and especially as you get older, do it on an annual basis because catching… cancer early like we did in my family can really save lives and add a lot of health span to those lives that otherwise would start to metastasize and get into a situation where they’re going to have a very poor quality of life and possibly short-lived.
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So James, is that what you guys do? The gallery test and the MRI, whole body MRI?
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Absolutely. Yeah. And so the whole body MRI, we use a company called Simon Med to specifically do that. Relatively inexpensive, $650. And They have another option that’s a little bit more expensive, and that does more of the cardiac function and vessel health and so forth, a little bit more in-depth. But the whole-body MRI for 650 will essentially show you any active tumors, anything concerning. And so there’s a lot of speculation out there that, doctors are upset that people are doing this because it’s given them false because they’ll find all these little incident and incidental findings, right? That maybe just a little cyst or polyp or this or that, that’s not actually malignant, but you know, and so they’re saying like, well, why scare the patients? Well, why not? Right. If it’s something concerning, then that, then we need to decipher if we need to treat that or not, even if it is just a little cyst.
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Mm-hmm.
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get your cyst out or now, you know, it’s just a cyst and move on. Right. And it’s benign. So I don’t agree with that, but yes, absolutely. We, we do offer that.
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Yeah. Or you can track and say, okay, in six months, let’s repeat this scan and see, is this thing growing? Right. Right. That’s what we do all the time in the hospital. Oh, you came in because you’re got a car wreck. We do a pan scan, CT scan. and we see a nodule or a ditzel in your chest under one sonometer, well, is it real or isn’t it? What do they recommend? Well, in six months, you need to get a repeat scan. CT has radiation. MRI does not. The downside to MR is some people are claustrophobic and they don’t like being in that little tube. But if you’re not claustrophobic, I’ll tell you what, it’s a game changer. I just had a lady come to me a couple of days ago and she had a mammogram, which was negative, ultrasound, which was negative, but one of her implants was leaking. Went to the plastic surgeon and said, okay, well, I need an MRI to see what I’m getting into. But, yes, we can clearly give you a new implant. MRI showed she had breast cancer. She would have never have known it based on the mammogram and the ultrasound, but the MRI picked it up. That’s why I do a full-body MRI. My wife does a full-body MRI because I want to know – One, if I’m clean, I’m the happiest guy on the planet. That’s right. If I’ve got something, it’s actionable when it’s small and we can actually do something about it, cut it out, chemo rate, whatever. You have options at that point in time. That’s right. So having said that, I want to announce that one of the gals who works with me, she’s going to medical school, but we are doing a research protocol for folks, John’s listeners, because they believe, like I do, more natural without the toxic chemicals and stuff like that. So if you have a loved one or a friend who has cancer – We are doing a research protocol using more of a natural-based treatment. Okay. I’m not going to say it on the air. I was asked not to. Just give me a call at the office, 303-663-6990. We’ll give you more information on it. And it’s without the chemotherapy because if I do this in conjunction with chemo, then a lot of the oncologists get pissed off of those of us that do more functional medicine, natural stuff, and I don’t need a phone call from a nasty oncologist. So brain tumors, pancreatic, biliary, liver, you name it, it’s a solid tumor, so not the blood cancers, not the leukemias, lymphomas, myelomas, but more of the solid cancers, even prostate, colon cancer, esophageal cancer, anything like that, I would like to hear from you. So just give us a call, 303-663-6990, and then Edvita and I will advise you what it entails and how do we go get you into that protocol for us.
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That’s amazing.
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Yeah. So you wanted to plug your veterans program because James, unfortunately, has to go to his son’s football game. Correct. So then Jeremy are going to have to carry the load. Are you ready, Jeremy? We’ll see. All right. So give us a plug.
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Yeah. So we recently opened up a nonprofit organization to help our country’s veterans. You know, they’re. Struggling with PTSD, different mental disorders, and they don’t get the help that they need a lot of times through the VA, unfortunately. So we wanted to be able to help our little thing that we can do to offer. So revitalizingveterans.org is our nonprofit organization website. You can go there whether you’re a veteran yourself. to seek treatment or whether you just want to donate. So a good cause there, this September the 3rd, we’re putting on a charity event at Arrowhead Golf Club in Littleton just to raise money for the veteran program. And so September 3rd, the Valor Classic, the first annual, you can go to revitalizingveterans.org to learn more about it. And it’ll be fun, a lot of giveaways, food, sponsor a hole, sponsor just a foursome for the golf, but go into a good cause.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, great cause, our veterans. So if you guys can do that or you can reach out to James at the clinic, they can give you more information. One more time, your phone number at the clinic?
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720-361-2302. Yeah, thank you, and God bless you guys for doing that.
SPEAKER 07 :
So, Jeremy, let’s go into hydration.
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Okay, great. So it seems simple enough, right? Drink a lot of water, they say. But it’s not so simple. Right. Apparently, we’re finding out that most of the tap water throughout the country is fluorinated. And fluoride can be good for your teeth in certain instances, but you shouldn’t be drinking it every day. And unfortunately, a lot of people still drink tap water and they think, oh, I live in a clean community, you know, it’s good water. It has fluoride in it most likely.
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Right.
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And fluoride’s not good. So filter your water, whether it’s one of those like Brita type filters that you get at the store and you put your water through it and then pour it in. But what we’re finding out now is like my grandparents were poisoned by heavy metals, right? They were getting the mercury and the lead poisoning. And then my parents were getting the asbestos poisoning, right? Well, my generation is getting microplastics poisoning. So these microplastics are everywhere. They’re showing up in men’s testes, and they’re showing up in the placenta, and they’re showing up in the brain. And they’re bad, right? So you don’t want your kids and grandkids taking these microplastics in. So, I’ve removed plastic bottles from my daily life, unless I’m in an emergency, right, and I’m catching a flight and all they have and I need some water. But for the most part, everything I drink is from a stainless steel container or aluminum container or filtered into a glass at my house. And I just found out recently that water in glass bottles, prepackaged water like those Avion bottles that you see in the restaurants on your table, those contain more dangerous microplastics than the plastic bottles do because of the aluminum caps in the paint or leaching in plastic. and causing high numbers of microplastics so basically filter your water don’t use plastic and if you really want to take things up a notch i have one sitting right here in the studio i’m putting hydrogen in my water so eight parts per million hydrogen this particular brand is eco flask again i have no no incentive for this particular company they just had the highest ppm that i could find So it takes about nine minutes. I fill it with 12 ounces of water, probably six or seven times a day. Turn it on, push the button. Ten minutes later, it’s got enough hydrogen in it that it’s ready to go. You release the seal, you hear a noise like a psst. You open it and you drink it down. It tastes just the same as if there was no hydrogen in it. So that’s very healthy, and you can look up on chat GPT and these AI bots, and they’ll tell you all about hydrogen water. But if you have access to ozone water, that’s where the real magic happens. And Dr. Scott, at your clinic, you have ozone water, and I use it at least once a week between other modalities that we’ll talk about later. And you drink it relatively quickly, and the ozone in the body we’ll get into later has got profound effects on… antioxidants and reducing inflammation and improving the health of the cells and the mitochondria and your Krebs cycle. So ozone water is kind of the perfect water. If you can drink it, hydrogen water next, and then filtered water that does not have fluoride and stop using these plastic water bottles and these companies that are making them start to transition to aluminum. I know it’s going to cost you a little bit more money. The aluminum is recyclable, but you’ll stop killing your patient or your customers.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes. And if you see ozonated water at the 7-Eleven because you’re hot and you pop in, it is not ozonated because ozone dissipates very, very quickly. And it has to be in glass because ozone hates plastic.
SPEAKER 13 :
Do you have like 10 minutes once it’s poured to drink it?
SPEAKER 07 :
About 15 to 20 minutes, but it starts to dissipate very, very quickly. So you want to pound it down quick. And the colder the water, the more ozone that it’ll hold.
SPEAKER 13 :
Gotcha. Okay. So colder the better.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. So that’s why we have ours to where it’s almost freezing from the refrigerator. We’ll pull it into the glass. We’ll ozonate it for 10 minutes. hand it to you, and then you just pound it. Drink it down. Yeah.
SPEAKER 13 :
And this hydrogen water lasts about 10 hours, but I tend to drink it within the first 10 or 15 minutes.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah.
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Just to be safe.
SPEAKER 07 :
And here’s another little tidbit I just learned that so many women are on birth control pills that through their urine it is getting into the water supply because, you know, everybody’s – if you’re not up in the mountains, like close to the foothills where I am, where we get our water first because I have a well – And as it flows downstream, every municipality is kind of using recycled water that those filters don’t filter out the estrogens and stuff from the birth control pills. So that’s another reason why our young men are starting to get feminized.
SPEAKER 13 :
Oh, wow.
SPEAKER 07 :
I just found that out too.
SPEAKER 13 :
Wow. So it’s leaching through and it’s getting into the drinking water.
SPEAKER 07 :
That’s right. And because so many women are using birth control pills now, it’s actually becoming a big thing.
SPEAKER 13 :
Wow, that’s crazy.
SPEAKER 07 :
So another reason to just ditch your municipal water supply and start filtering your water.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, those hydro flasks, I should have been using them years ago. Everyone was carrying them around.
SPEAKER 07 :
All of us, we didn’t know, right?
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, we didn’t know any better. It was an act of convenience. But now we find out that microplastics are serious business.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. So we’re going to take a quick break, and then when we come back, we’ll talk about good sunscreen and bad screen since we’re in the middle of summer. So you’re listening to Dr. Scott filling in for John Rush, Health and Wellness Wednesday on Tuesday.
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Welcome back, listeners. Hour two, we’re in the middle of it, talking with Jeremy Sova, who is a patient of mine, who’s a biohacker, been doing this for about five years now, was in poor shape, overweight. You were just a train wreck.
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I’d be embarrassed to show you the pictures.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. But on this journey, now you’ve got your biological age under what your chronologic age is.
SPEAKER 13 :
And my heart is three years younger than my biological age. So the heart’s even younger than I am.
SPEAKER 07 :
So there is something to this. We can reverse the clock folks. Yep. Your regular doc has no idea about this. I promise you. But if you find somebody like James or myself, we can help you on that journey. whether it’s a first baby step or whether you’re an advanced biohacker like Jeremy is, wherever you’re at, we can meet you there and make you even better.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yep. It’s incremental, right? Certain things, you’ll kind of do it and forget it. Other things, you want to continue to build upon.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes. So I promised the audience that we were going to talk about sunscreen. We’re in the middle of summer, and I know everybody’s going to the swimming pool, and the moms are taking this banana boat or pick your favorite sunscreen and slathering their kids up, thinking they’re doing a great job. So let’s talk about sunscreen.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, wondering why some kids are getting rashes and they’re breaking out and they can take this kind of sunscreen, but not that kind. Well, I’m fair skin, so I burn. I always have. My kids do as well. So we kind of struggled with it for forever. And then now that I’m on this journey of not believing what big pharma is telling us in this medical industrial complex, I keep peeling back layers of the onion. And I found out there’s sunscreen out there that’s actually healthy for you, works, lasts longer, works better, better for the skin. So I’m using, it’s actually edible. I mean, I’ve never physically put it into my mouth, but it says right on the bottle that you can because it’s completely edible. And it’s basically tallow, non-nano zinc oxide, beeswax, lecithin. And the stuff I use is by a company called Sky and Soul. I found it online. They ship it to the house, and I just load it up for a… vacation for the kids here in August. So I got plenty of it for all of us. It is a little bit more expensive than what you would see at, say, the grocery store or Target or Walmart. But it’s on par with what you would pay kind of at the resort counter if you were in a gift shop at a resort paying that inflated price. So if you get it in bulk wholesale, it’s actually not that bad. And what I found is you can put it on and it lasts one coat lasts like four and a half hours. My son and I can go play a full round of golf with one coat and never have to reapply, which for a golfer, it’s great. Cause then your hands don’t get, you know, all sticky and greasy when you have to reapply at the turn. Um, so that blew my mind. And then the fact that it smells great, it sits on the skin. Nice. It doesn’t show like a white pasty film and it just works amazing, you know? So that’s something that I just recently started in the last couple of months.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. And that’s fairly new. Um, before that, uh, instead of using the banana boats and whatever, um, I had switched to zinc because this is what I learned many years ago is that sunscreen, the standard stuff that you would buy at Target or wherever. it’s actually a chemical reaction in the skin. So when the sun hits those chemicals, then that’s where the blocking takes place. Remember, there’s UV ultraviolet A and UVB rays. So the B rays, you can remember it because those are the ones that burn. So all of those do a fairly good job of covering that entire UVB spectrum. Every last one of them uses the same chemical to cover about 5% of the UVA spectrum. So 95% of the UVAs are still getting through. And you can remember the A by aging. So that’s why you see somebody who’s been out at the pool a lot. And it’s like, man, your skin’s getting wrinkly. You’re not burning, but your skin is turning wrinkly. That’s because the UVA rays are still getting through. And you’re doing a lot of damage to your skin. And it’s a chemical reaction.
SPEAKER 13 :
And the skin is the largest organ in the body.
SPEAKER 07 :
That’s exactly right. So that’s when many years ago I had switched to the micronized zinc. Think of it as the windscreen that you put in your car on a hot summer day that reflects the rays back towards the sun so that your steering wheel and your dashboard don’t get so hot and destroyed. So that’s the principle behind using mineral-based sunscreens. But I like yours now, and I will seek it out, even though I’ve got olive-colored skin, just for that fact.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. So moms out there and dads, if you want to keep your skin healthy and your kids, they don’t need all these ultraviolet rays.
SPEAKER 13 :
That’s exactly right. Now, if you look at the back of a normal thing, a sunscreen, there’s like 10 chemicals you can’t even pronounce.
SPEAKER 07 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 13 :
That in of itself tells me that it’s dangerous.
SPEAKER 07 :
Now, that goes to another point about vitamin D, though, because we are keeping ourselves from burning because we don’t want melanoma and skin cancer. Then the rate of vitamin D deficiency has gone through the roof over 80 percent when we test folks are deficient on vitamin D. So you’ll want to make sure that you’re supplementing your vitamin D.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, which strengthens the T cells and would have prevented a lot of those comorbidity deaths during COVID because they found out in most autopsies that they were vitamin D deficient. And how do you know what your vitamin D is? You go get your blood checked to find out in your biomarkers.
SPEAKER 07 :
And the labs that’s your regular doc in the box, he’ll say, oh, you’re at 30 or 35. That is normal. No, it is not. You need to be 65 to about 100. You get over 100, then you start having problems with calcium.
SPEAKER 13 :
Right. I think 75 to 80 is a good sweet spot.
SPEAKER 07 :
That’s a sweet spot. That’s exactly right. So little tidbit there.
SPEAKER 13 :
And it turns out my doc put me on 1,000 IUs, but it took 6,000 IUs to get to there. Everyone’s different. I got people that can take 2,000 and get there. So you don’t know until you know what your numbers are and you start to supplement for deficiency, not supplementing for the sake of supplementation.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes. And if you do something, especially as a doctor to a patient, you need to retest to say, did my therapy work? not just, oh, I’ll see you in a year. That’s exactly right. Yeah.
SPEAKER 13 :
As if there was a way to track this stuff and be able to show it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, if only if. Let’s talk about mitochondria health and the IVs.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yep. So mitochondria, mitochondria, mitochondria, I think is what you said last time.
SPEAKER 07 :
Correct. That’s exactly right. Well done.
SPEAKER 13 :
Everything is driven by what they call the Krebs cycle through the mitochondria wall and kicks out ATP, which is the energy in all the cells and all things. you need to really focus on mitochondrial health and getting rid of inflammation or what they call inflammation. Um, so what I do is, uh, and Vita, you mentioned at your clinic, who’s, um, amazing. I think she’s going off to med school soon. Um, we came up with what we call the Sova mito max, which is basically a mitochondrial health IV bag that also has additional minerals and vitamins that my particular body needs. Um, So basically it is something that I do every two weeks and it entails, is it lipo? One second here. Yeah, so alpha lipoic acid, which is something that pairs really well with CoQ10, and it’s a really strong anti-inflammatory, antioxidant. Mixed with rosveritrol and curcumin, again, anti-inflammatory. Magnesium, B-complex, B12, glutathione. And then I add, for me personally, vitamin C, calcium, and zinc, because those are the things that my particular testing said that needed to be driven up. So twice a month, I get that done at your clinic. It’s very affordable. Buy packages of them. And it gets me also very well hydrated. So if I go out and play golf in the summer sun or go out and push the body, I get that mitochondrial efficiency and that ATP production. specifically from that bag. So there’s a lot of different IV choices, but that’s the one that I’ve found to have the best impact for me. And again, that’s because I did the research and found out what my body needed.
SPEAKER 07 :
That’s right. And that’s the difference between us and, say, a Prime or an Onus is they’re a pre-made bag. They’re not going to customize it. They don’t think this stuff through. I use All Natural from Vertis’ compounding pharmacy there in Scottsdale, Arizona. So we don’t spare expenses. I could use cheaper stuff. But then you would notice it because when you would test yourself again, you’d say, wait a second. What’s going on here? What’s going on? I spent this money, but I’m not getting the results that I should be. Why? And that’s because they looked at profit more than getting you healthy and using the right stuff.
SPEAKER 13 :
And then you’ll find out over time that it would be a customer for life if you continue to help versus trying to nickel and dime them.
SPEAKER 07 :
That’s exactly right. But mitochondria, mitochondria, mitochondria. So for the listeners who are driving home, you remember kind of high school biology. I remember mitochondria, ATP, like Jeremy said. What is that? So in every cell, there is mitochondria. Think of mitochondria as a nuclear power plant. It is what gives you power and energy throughout the day. And they don’t sleep. They’re always on. Well, if you don’t have the proper nutrients to make them healthy, then your nuclear power plants are actually going to come offline. And they will not function. So then you feel sluggish. You feel tired the whole nine yards. So you must feed your mitochondria. the proper nutrients so that they’re optimized. So if you have, let’s say a brain cell has the most, a neuron has the most mitochondria in a cell, up to 2,500 mitochondria in one cell. And if you’re functioning at say a thousand, well, your brain isn’t going to be working well. You’re going to feel foggy. You’re not going to recall things like you could or should. Well, when you give your body the resveratrol, the alpha lipoic acid, the NAD+, the glutathione, those supplements, now you’ve given it everything that he needs to fire back up. And when he does, that’s when you start saying, I haven’t felt this good since I was in my 20s.
SPEAKER 13 :
That’s exactly right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep. So if nothing else, make sure your mitochondria health is optimized, whether it’s through IV. The nice thing about the IV is it bypasses the gut.
SPEAKER 13 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 07 :
And let’s face it, our nutritional food supply in America sucks. It’s deficient.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 07 :
So you have to do something to augment that, whether it’s taking supplements. But again, you’ve got your gut and something called the first pass effect. That’s where you take something. It gets absorbed through the intestinal lining. It goes up through the hepatic portal vein to your liver. And your liver’s job is to metabolize things. And it does a very good job of doing it, especially things like NAD, which is a coenzyme to your mitochondria. Well, you can take oral NAD, but you are wasting your time and your money because so little gets through that you’re like, oh, well, okay, I didn’t feel a whole lot. But I promise you, come into the clinic and we give you an injection of NAD and it bypasses the gut. And when those mitochondria wake up, you’ll know it.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, similar to the water, right? Like hydrogen water is not as good as ozone water. I would say that obviously the NAD plus and some other injections are much, much better, but there is a liposomal option where you basically package. these fat-like spheres called liposomes and phospholipids, and it helps with bioabsorption. So it doesn’t quite get eaten up by the stomach as if it wasn’t liposomal. So if you can’t get the shot, like, cause I do both, right? Like when I can get the shot, I do. If I can’t, I’m making sure, you know, the NMN or the NAD plus and the glutathione is a liposomal version. So, again, not quite good. But if you’re in a pinch, right, you’re on the road, I can’t come to you because, you know, I’m in Vegas or something. I’ll take the liposomal version because at least some of it will get through and not get eaten up by the GI tract.
SPEAKER 07 :
Fantastic. Thank you for that, Jeremy. So we’re going to take another break and then we’ll finish out the top of the hour talking about sleep and exercise. You’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush on this Tuesday Health and Wellness Wednesday.
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This is TJ with KLZ Radio, and I’ve got Al Smith from Golden Eagle Financial here in the studio with me. Al and I were just talking about how in retirement he helps his clients to stretch the time in their retirement. Al, what do you mean by that? Tell us a little bit more about how time works in retirement.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, when you think about leaving the working world, you think about, well, it’s still going to take money to live on once I’m retired. And that nest egg, whatever that is, that’s going to permit you to do what you want to do with the time that you have sort of earned for yourself. So the nest egg is not only in dollars, but it’s also in the time that you have to do the things that you believe will be fulfilling in retirement. And when I have a conversation with people, I think it’s equally important to think about how they’re going to be spending their time as it is to accumulate a nest egg.
SPEAKER 14 :
You’ve got to have some pretty good examples of things that people do in retirement. So open the door for us. What sort of things can we expect?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, sure. I have one gentleman who is very much into aviation. He owns his own small plane. He actually works on that small plane. He’s within a few years of retirement. He’s retirement age. But right now, while he’s working, he takes his small aircraft, flies to locations where he investigates air disasters. I also have some people who spend a lot of time with their grandkids, some of whom live nearby and some are a little farther away. I have some who are incredibly involved with their churches and go on missionary trips and so forth.
SPEAKER 14 :
How do people get in touch with you if they want to stretch that time out in their retirement?
SPEAKER 03 :
They can reach me at 303-744-1128. And if they’re driving when they hear this, you can contact KLZ and they’ll put them in touch with me.
SPEAKER 14 :
Of course, as always, you can find Golden Eagle Financial on klzradio.com slash advertisers and get right in touch with Al if you’re driving and can’t write that number down. Al, thank you so much for joining us today.
SPEAKER 03 :
You’re welcome.
SPEAKER 06 :
Listen online, klzradio.com. Back to Rush to Reason.
SPEAKER 07 :
Welcome back, listeners. Dr. Scott filling in for John on this Health and Wellness Wednesday. On Tuesday, before 4th of July, Jeremy Soma is a patient slash friend guest who is an expert biohacker. I guess I could say you’re an expert after five years.
SPEAKER 13 :
I hope so. I like to call myself an intelligent aging expert. There you go. And you’re never going to reverse it completely, but you can do it smartly. That’s right. As you go.
SPEAKER 07 :
And so for the last almost two hours, we’ve been talking about what can you do as a lay person to help yourself along this journey, whether it’s your first step or you’re going to take this information to a doctor or you’ve been doing it for a long time. Maybe we’ll teach you something new that you didn’t know. We’ve covered a lot of ground. We’re not going to rehash that. Please go back and listen tonight when this is posted on Rush to Reason. But we want to talk about tracking devices because there’s a lot of them coming out now. So, Jeremy, what’s the skinny on tracking devices?
SPEAKER 13 :
So looked at all of them, um, decided that the aura O U R a aura ring 4.0 was the best one for my overall health. Um, there’s the whoop band, there’s the apple watch. There’s a couple of them out there and they’re more focused on fitness and do have a lot of the same things that aura does. But I think aura is like the Maserati of the choices. And I just found out from a military friend that the federal government has now signed a contract to give them to all of our troops. So that should tell you that they’re pretty good. So I’ve had it on for the better part of three weeks now. And what I’ve learned on a daily basis about all things sleep, exercise, heart health, metabolic health, have really opened my eyes to kind of take an even deeper dive than I already have. And I mentioned earlier I had a glucose monitor on. I ended up getting the Stelo, S-T-E-L-O, that you mentioned last time we were together. Turns out they have a contract with Aura so you can order them together. And I think the Aura application… It’s actually better than Stello’s. So when you get them working together, the aura overlays the glucose stuff across everything, your meals, your exercise, your sleep, and it shows graphs and patterns of how they work together versus just watching glucose spikes.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right.
SPEAKER 13 :
So the Oura Ring, I think, is incredible. It starts with readiness, so it kind of tells you what you can handle for this day or this coming day, and using all of your different markers of your sleep quality. Did you get enough deep sleep? Did you get enough REM sleep? What was your sleep latency, meaning how long did it take you to fall asleep? What was your heart rate variability? What was your blood oxygen level for the night? And it all works together on a simple app on your phone. And it graphs everything. And it has an AI bot that basically learns you with you and the app. And it talks to you and tells you little things like, you know, this glucose spike happened at 1.16 p.m. Maybe you should take a walk. And you find out you walked the dog for 10 minutes after you have that ice cream. And all of a sudden, your glucose drops back down into the normal levels. versus if I just wouldn’t have sat on the couch and turned on Netflix, the spike would have stayed up and extended, which is dangerous for your metabolic health. So those types of things. But I’ve learned so much about my sleep. I found out that just because I put the phone down 30 minutes before bed and then I fall asleep and then I wake up in the morning, I called that eight hours, but turns out it was only like six hours and 45 minutes when you look at the data. So that means I need to shut it down earlier because you really need to get eight to nine hours of sleep each night, which is almost impossible in our society, to maximize the benefits of sleep. But sleep is extremely important, like we’ll talk about in a bit. So get a tracking device. Again, I don’t work for Aura. I think the Whoop band is great too. I just think if you’re over 40 and you’re looking at all things overall health, like we’re talking about here in biohacking, The aura does it all. So I think everybody should have one. I’m going to buy them for all my family members. They’re going to be Christmas gifts to friends and family, along with instructions on how to optimize them. Because it took me a good three weeks to learn all the functionality. And I still have a few weeks to go before it tells me about my chronotype and my complete… VO2 max health and my full cardiovascular aging health and my resilience. There’s so many things it’s learning about me over time that I’ll continue to optimize, I guess is the word I’ll use.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. And you were talking during the break how this technology is probably not the first thing you want to jump into, but especially if you’re a hypochondriac or you have anxiety at baseline. Tell why. That’s right.
SPEAKER 13 :
So you’re going to see some pretty freaky stuff. Like I went to Las Vegas for my wife’s birthday, and we went, and we were drinking, and we only had four hours of sleep, and we saw a Vegas show. And I’d been pretty much perfect up until this point with my health and wellness. And Aura does not like Las Vegas. Let me just say that. The numbers plummeted big time. Heart rate variability came down 60 points. My resilience was terrible. My stress markers went up from the lack of sleep and whatnot. So I almost wish that I would have left it at home. Um, but I’m glad that I didn’t cause now that I know everything came back, I’m back to healthy again, but it really showed me that this normal, you know, work Monday through Friday and eat right and exercise and then party on the weekends. You’re really taking about 10 steps backwards when you do that party on the weekends thing because these, um, um, These lifestyle habits that you have are doing a lot more damage than you really realize they’re doing. So make sure you kind of get everything in order first and then start to move into the tracking because it can be pretty overwhelming when you see some of the bad news. But the good news is the body is very resilient and they come back if you’re healthy. but it really opens your eyes. Well, maybe next time I’ll get eight hours of sleep or I’ll have a few, few less drinks.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. Fantastic. Well, since we have about four minutes left before we go to a break, let’s talk about sleep. Let’s do a deeper dive, um, on exactly what does that look like? Cause most people, well, that used to be one of my subspecialties is sleep medicine. Um, Their sleep just sucks.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, definitely. Well, you take it for granted. Even our president only, President Trump gets three or four hours a night. Luckily, he’s got good genotypes and he’s on a God’s given mission to fix the country. But that’s very unhealthy. Right. We find out that sleep can wreck everything else. It can wreck the exercise, wreck the nutrition, and wreck your emotional health, which are the other three things that will kill you. So what I’ve found is don’t eat food two hours before you go to bed. Get eight hours of sleep minimum. For me, I stop eating at 7.30 and I try to be asleep by 9.30 most of the time, 80% of the time. And Aura loves that. No phone 30 minutes before, shut it down, turn it off, no more emails, no more text messages. Get the room as dark as possible. Close the blinds. If you’ve got to use clips, like those little clips for paper, make it as dark as humanly possible and make sure the room is set up so you’re not in a dangerous position if you have to get up. The Oura Ring glows just enough at night that you can use it to move around in the dark if you need to get up and use the restroom or whatnot. Make sleep a priority in your life, regardless what your boss is saying, regardless what your spouse needs or your kids need. You’re going to be your best version of you for all of them, including your boss, if you get the sleep that you need and you have to make it number one priority. It feeds everything else. And track your latency. How long does it take you to fall asleep? Find out how much deep sleep you’re getting. Are you getting enough REM sleep? Are you dreaming? What’s your heart rate where you’re sleeping? What’s the variability throughout the night? These are all important things that are going to help drive us into all the stuff we’re going to talk about next.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. And especially for you ladies, when you get perimenopausal, when your hormones are… messing with your brain, your sleep is horrible. And oftentimes it’s a lack of progesterone. If you went to a regular doctor, what is he going to do? He’s going to give you a prescription for Ambien or some other sleeping agent. He’s not going to think this thing through and say, wait a second, maybe we should look at what else is going on in your life and in your body. Those are the biomarkers, the hormones that have to be tested because if they’re off, they’re absolutely critical. And so you need a doctor like myself or James and his brother who can help sort this out and not just throw a pill at you.
SPEAKER 13 :
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SPEAKER 07 :
Yes. So we’re going to take another break. We’re at the top or bottom of the hour. No, this is the top of the hour. So we have to break. And we’ll be back for hour three shortly. You’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner for John Rush 560 KLZ.
