Join Dr. Scott and special guest John Flouting as they explore the dynamics of modern healthcare and the shift towards integrative medicine. Discover the impact of lifestyle choices on health, the challenges faced by small healthcare providers, and the potential of continuous glucose monitoring in managing diabetes. The conversation highlights the need to question conventional practices and consider alternative approaches in promoting optimal health and well-being.
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Welcome back, listeners, to Hour 3. You’re listening to Dr. Scott filling in for John Rush, 560-KLZ. The phone number is 303-477-5600. For those of you just tuning in, we’ve had two great hours of talking about stem cells. What are they? Which ones are the best? How can they be used? What is the FDA rules and regulations? Do we really need a company that follows the current good manufacturing practices? And the answer is not just yes, but absolutely yes. You want to know where these cells are coming from. the training of the doctor putting them into your body, whether they’re into a knee, a shoulder, or IV. So if you want more information, go to RushToReason.com. You can tonight listen to that rebroadcast. So I want to switch gears a little bit for this last hour. I’m still getting a ton of calls at the office for the GLP medications. And Charlie told me during the break, explain to people what GLPs are and give some of the trade names, even though companies like Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly are closed. clamping down on people, sending, you know, letters from their lawyers for the compounding pharmacies and doctors to stop using their names. We can actually use them in conversation. So the GLPs, sorry, Charlie has me a little flustered here. So the glucagon-like peptide medications are semaglutide, which is, you’ll know that as Ozempic and Wegovy. The Terzeptide, which is Monjaro and Zepbound. And then the latest is Retatrutide. I don’t know what the brand name is going to be because it hasn’t quite been approved by the FDA. It’s in phase three clinical trials. That will be the next blockbuster. That one we expect to be approved probably in late summer, early fall. But I do have it available. I use it when somebody has tried semaglutide and truzeptide before I’ll go to retatrutide, but the results of that medication are pretty incredible. But again, because the FDA hasn’t approved it, I want you to try the others. So because of the lawsuit that Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly won, the judge ruled in their favor, John and I talked about this in late February when the ruling just came down, is they sent cease and desist letters to every compounding pharmacy in the United States, whether a 503A or a 503B. Now, to the layperson, that doesn’t mean a lot. Just know that those were the compounding pharmacies that we would get our medications from because it was either that or the name brand medication. So Big Pharma, they felt magnanimous and they said, OK, well, we’ll go to direct consumer and we’ll put out all these TV commercials saying, well, you can get the name brand stuff. If you just talk to your doctor, he can send a prescription over to CVS or Walgreens or Walmart or wherever. Well, in their magnanimity, they decreased the price to about $600, $650 a month, where before it was about $1,400 a month. So very big of big pharma. Well, guys like me are charging $200, $300. So you as the consumer should be scratching your head going, okay, this is just another ploy by big pharma to squash the little guy and force everybody to give us billions of dollars. I gave the figure when I was on with John a few weeks ago of how much money Eli Lilly made just on Monjaro in 2023, and it is in the billions of dollars. So you can’t compete. If you’re a little doctor or a little compounding pharmacy, how do you compete against that? Well, it’s next to impossible. So right now, and like I said, I just came back from Florida where the A4M Spring Conference was held, and they are telling their docs to put everybody on the sublingual medications. So no longer are most facilities, doctor’s offices or med spas, are they able to use the injectables? Well, I have the injectables. We know the sublinguals do not work anywhere as well as the injectable do. They’re trying to come up with oral medications that don’t work as well. So maybe down the road it’ll be okay, but if you’re doing really, really well on your medication, why in the world would you want to switch? To me, it doesn’t make any sense. It’s just bending the knee to big pharma. Well, those of you who have listened for a while have learned that I fear no man. Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior, and I will not go gently into that good night. So I have found a workaround. I will not tell you what that workaround is, but I have found it. And it’s still the same medication. It’s still approved. There’s nothing untoward about this. You get the real deal. So if you’re interested in that and it’s been working and your doctor is trying to get you to switch over to liraglutide, which doesn’t work very well at all, or one of the oral products, then just give us a call. 303-663-6990. So that is the back story on what has happened in the industry. I was telling you a little bit about the Reda True Tide. So most people are familiar with the Ozempic Wee Govee, which is semiglutide. Then there’s the Ter Zepp Tide, which is the Monjaro Zepp bound. That has two mechanisms of action. And now we have good studies head to head that shows terazeptide has fewer side effects and nausea being the biggest one that most people complain of and better weight loss. But if you can get away with semaglutide, then do it. But sometimes we have to switch people to terazeptide. But just know there is the latest and greatest. So what I’ve done is I’ve told my patients, okay, if you For one reason, let’s say you had nausea on semaglutide and then you went to the truzeptide and it wasn’t working as well as you had hoped. Then I will talk to you about the retitrutide. And I’ve put probably at least 10 patients on the newest medication. And that little sucker is incredible. In fact, I haven’t had anybody complain yet of a side effect, and they’re all loving the weight loss. Why is this important? Why am I drumming this into your heads? It’s because at the conference, we learned that you need to be at your ideal body weight. When you’re overweight, there are so many bad things that happen downstream. And I don’t want to make you all doctors and use all these technical terms. Just know the only disease that being overweight helps protect against is osteoporosis, right? Extra weight on your bones. Your bones get thicker. But everything else is a bad thing. And when Judy and I, we were in the airport, we started off in Palm Beach and everybody down there was fit. They were tan. They were exercising. They looked great. And then we flew up to Baltimore and we were sitting there for five hours on our layover. And folks, we have an obesity problem. Then we flew home, and then yesterday, as much as I try to boycott Costco, there was one thing that she needed. And I’m like, okay. So I reluctantly went in there. And I just started looking around at all the processed foods. It is nothing but junk. It’s convenient. It’s easy. I get it. When you’re working all day long, you’re tired. The kids are screaming when you get home, hey, I want this or that. It’s easy to take one of those pre-prepped meals, throw it in the oven. But it is toxic to you, your family. I’m going to keep beating on this. 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And we’re back. You’re listening to Dr. Scott filling in for John Rush, Health and Wellness Wednesdays. If you’re driving, don’t feel like you have to write all this stuff down. You can listen to the rebroadcast or go to rushtoreason.com later tonight, and you can get all this information without crashing your car. So I have a special guest here in the studio, John Flouting. And, John, tell the audience about yourself.
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Yeah, I’m a family nurse practitioner, and I have a wellness regenerative clinic over in Littleton off of C470 in Kipling.
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What’s the name of the clinic?
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Revitalized Health. Yep. And, you know, we’ve been around for about nine years, essentially doing, you know, what you do, concentrating on. You know, treatments that aren’t typically available in, you know, typical Western medicine. And so, yeah, I mean, that’s essentially what I do.
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Yeah.
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And you have two brothers. I do. Yes. James, he is the other practitioner. Joe, he is our business manager.
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So the brains of the outfit. He didn’t go into medicine, right?
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Correct. Yeah. Lucky him. But, yeah, so it’s all three of us. And, you know, actually we have our moments, but we work pretty well together.
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Yeah. And so you guys got into the same space that I did because you realized several years ago that traditional allopathic medicine is failing. And for those who don’t know, allopathic medicine is traditional medical school. Correct. Here’s a problem. Throw a pill at it. Yes. Yeah. And the audience can’t see you. You’ve got a face for a radio, by the way.
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Thank you.
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But you and your brothers, you’re buff guys. Let’s face it. You’ve got a lot of muscle mass. You’re not wallflowers here. No. Right? Practice what we preach. That’s exactly right. So you found out the things that help you. I remember as a kid reading Muscle and Fitness from Joe Weider and following everything that Rich Gaspari and those guys were doing. Memories, yes. Now, I don’t need to put a needle in my butt and get my testosterone level to be 4,000. No. But they learned how to eat well, how to fuel the machine, how to keep it running optimally. And I remember back then, even before I went to medical school, I was scratching my head going, well, why aren’t we doing more of that? And as I’ve gotten through my career, I learned that big ag, big pharma is not here to keep us healthy. They’re not here to improve the things that are ailing us. And in fact, they’re the problem because they make billions of dollars when we’re a sick society. Right.
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Yeah, that’s absolutely true. I mean they’re not profiting on our health.
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Right. So it’s unfortunate, but – and John’s listeners are highly intelligent folks. Obviously this is conservative talk radio. Yeah. So they are starting to understand that if I want quality health care, then I’m going to have to pay for it because I can’t tell you how many times I get people coming into my office and say, well, do you take insurance? And the answer is not just no, but hell no. Because once you do and you put those handcuffs on, the industry, the medical model tells you, doctor, you have to practice this way. This is standard of care. But it’s not right. It’s not the best thing to do. Am I correct?
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Oh, you’re absolutely correct. Yes. I mean, it should be about what you feel is the best options for your patient.
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Right.
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And it always should be that way, but it’s not. In reality, it’s whatever insurance deems is necessary for your patient. Yeah. And most of the time, it’s not what they need.
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Right. Well, we were just talking through the break, and as I made mention before we went to the break, that now learning through the A4M conference that a hemoglobin A1C over 5 is abnormal. So to the listeners who don’t know what that is, a hemoglobin A1c is a three-month blood sugar average. So to give you a visual, imagine your car this time of year. Well, let’s go back a couple of months when it was colder, right? You’re driving your car. How many bugs stuck to the front of your car? Hardly any. Well, this time of year, it’s starting to warm up. There’s more bugs. You’re It’s going to be covered. Well, your little red blood cell is coursing through your body just like your car going down the road. And there’s always sugar or glucose. Well, it will stick to your automobile, your red blood cells. We can actually measure that. The more sugar is sticking around, the more will stick onto that red blood cell, the more damage is done to the rest of your body, to your brain, to your heart, to your arteries, you name it. And so now, I promise you, you go to your regular doctor with an A1C of 5, and they’re going to go, holy cow, what are you doing right? But if you wear a continuous glucose monitor and you see, oh my gosh, my sugars spike into 130 after I have a donut, you’re in trouble. Down the road, not today, but down the road, you’re going to have problems, right?
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Yes, and it should be a combination of both. You should have a lower A1C. But there should also be – I think the continuous glucose monitor is an amazing idea, and they’re cheap these days. You can just get them anywhere. I think I found them for like $100.
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$99.
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Stello.
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Just go online. Stello. You don’t need a prescription.
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Nope. You can just order it. You pop that thing on. You wear it, and – that, it will truly tell you, you know, what you should be doing for your diet. It’ll give you all the information you need.
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Yeah. So what do you tell patients when they come in to, uh, revive and revitalize and, um, they say, well, this is expensive or I can’t afford air. Why don’t you take insurance? What is your response?
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Yeah. I mean, I, I, I mean, I tell them I understand where they’re coming from, but at the same time, the the worst off your health is in the long run, it’s going to cost you more even with insurance. And so if you invest a little bit into your overall health initially, it’ll pay off in the long run. And you know, these, most of the stuff that we offer is, I mean, you know, it costs money to make it and then the research behind it. And so, um, I mean, it just is what it is. It costs money. So we, we, we try to present it to them with, it’s a true investment into their health. You know, and if they were to, you know, do little payment plans or, or just stop with the Starbucks every day, or, you know, that right there would, I mean, they’d be able to afford it.
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Right. It’s a choice.
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It’s a choice.
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Yeah. And do you want to have good health? And you’re actually investing your time to educate because, let’s face it, the conference I just went to wasn’t free. Nobody paid for it. Nope. But my wife and I. But I want to stay on the cutting edge for my patients. You and your brother are exactly the same way. And that costs money to do that. It does. And so our conferences are not sponsored by Big Pharma. No. Right? You go on a… To a center, right, Las Vegas or whatever. Oh, there’s a big conference. And most of that is underwritten by big pharma. And then they read or, you know, push this stuff down your in your brain, down your throat. And then you come out and suddenly you’re a zombie for big pharma. What’s your cholesterol? Oh, my LDL is 132. Well, therefore, you need this pill for the rest of your life. They don’t think, is this level actually causing disease?
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True. I mean, the statement is very true, and that’s the go-to. I think these days the good old conversations about diet and exercise are lost. And it’s between the kickbacks of big pharma, the lunches they provide to the doctor’s offices, the concentration is on medication and medication alone. Whereas you take a good six months and lower that cholesterol naturally… I mean, the results are, you know, the proof right there. I mean, you don’t need these medications necessarily all the time. Yeah. And let’s say someone does, you know, instead of letting them know this is and there’s no follow up, you’re just on this statin now forever. You know, instead of just giving them, you know, potentially a trial, say, you know, it’s pretty high. Let’s work on the diet and exercise, but maybe take it for three months and drop it down and then we’re going to remove it. I mean, there’s many options that you can do, but most people will just be on it. They’d be on it forever. That’s exactly how many patients have you seen? that are on these lists of medications, and they don’t even know why they’re on them.
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Oh, yeah. I used to see that in the hospital all the time. Somebody would come into the ICU, and they would bring a bag of pills. It’s like, what are you on these for? Three pages. I have no idea. I just went to the doctor. I’m like, well, this has got this doctor’s name on it. That has that doctor’s name on it. Did this doctor know that that doctor was putting you on this? Because there was a huge interaction. Nope. Had no clue. Yeah. But because insurance has helped covering the cost and it’s fairly inexpensive, I just went to Walmart and I got my pills and I dutifully took them.
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Absolutely. And what I think that also leads down a bad path because they’ll get on these medications and then I call it the clean bill of health because my dad that that’s what he would say. He’s like, you know, I, oh, I, I got these medications. Doc gave me a clean bill of health. Like, no, he just trying to keep you alive, you know? And, but what are you doing to make this better on your own? What are you doing to prevent this? And, you know, and that’s, that’s not what, that’s not, that’s not what’s happening with these people. So there’s, there’s a lot of prime time that’s missed with these patients. That we, of what like you and I do, I think we have the ability, because we’re not tied to insurance companies and big pharma, that we afford the ability to actually provide quality products and healthcare benefits to our patients.
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Yeah, you’re exactly right. Well, we’re going to go to a break right now. And when we come back, we’ll continue this conversation. So you’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush, 560 KLZ. We’ll be right back.
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Welcome back, listeners. You’re listening to Dr. Scott filling in for John Rush, 560 KLZ on this beautiful afternoon here in Colorado. And in studio, I have John Flouting. uh who is an expert like myself in um regenerative uh integrative medicine so i never wanted to pigeon my whole self because yeah i’m not an integrative doctor not yet but i’ll tell you what the more conferences i go to um i think they have the right mindset absolutely uh on where healthcare is going and we had this conversation during the break john um first off give the name of your clinic again
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Yeah, my clinic’s Revitalized Health.
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And where are you guys located? We are in Littleton off of C470 in Kipling. So those of you who keep asking, hey, is there somebody like Dr. Scott but closer to me in the Denver area? I don’t want to go all the way to Castle Rock. There’s your answer. He and his brother do great work, so I highly recommend them. It’s not competition to me. I can’t treat everybody. I want, especially John’s listeners. Cause you guys, you think outside of the box, you get it. Big pharma is bad. Traditional medicine sucks, but we were talking about how there’s going to be a dichotomy or a split coming up here very soon in the world of medicine. Do you want to carry that on?
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Yeah. What we were discussing is that, I mean, there’s going to be two different pathways that people are going to have to choose. There’s those that are going to, you know, follow along with what they’re told to do and, We’re out of big pharma and insurance, and everything’s for free or very low cost. And then there’s going to be the pathway of paying for your own health care, like we were talking about owning your own health, and going down pathways of individuals like ourselves and using the services we provide, diving more deeply.
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into your actual health and providing more benefits so yeah it’s going to be a interesting to see what’s coming up especially when you see president trump you know shaking up the entire world with tariffs i mean i didn’t know this and i like to be a historian i didn’t realize that in america we didn’t have an income well i knew that but i didn’t know that we survived off of tariffs For, you know, like 100 years until they go and screw it up and give us the IRS and income tax.
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Yeah.
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Right. I knew that was the end of the Gilded Age. And then from there, you know, it’s just been downhill. But old timers will remember something called fee for service.
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Yes.
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That’s where you went to the doctor. Right. Johnny had a cold. You went to the doctor. You either paid the doctor or you gave him a chicken or you bartered with the doctor and he treated you. Now, obviously, back then, he didn’t know about regenerative or integrative medicine, how to stop these things from happening. We didn’t have electron microscopes, all the knowledge that we have now. It’s fascinating. One of my coolest things that I saw over the conference was the CT calcium score, because I order CT calcium scores on pretty much every one of my patients. Well, now with A.I., Because on a CAT scan, you see the calcium, but we didn’t know what was lying underneath it. And now these CT scanners, when they use AI, you can actually see if there’s soft plaque under the calcium. Really?
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Yes. That is news to me. That is… It’s probably one of the coolest things.
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It is so cool. And so I’m leery about AI because I know that’s going to take us down that primrose path. And look what happened in Canada to the truckers, the debanking. Oh, you don’t think the right way. And yes, Trump is president right now, but there’s going to be a day when he’s not. And you get these nefarious people in Washington, you give them a little power. Yeah. And, oh, we’re going to use AI to do facial recognition. Oh, guess what? You can’t get on a plane or you’re conservative. You listen to John Rush. So that’s another side note of where this is going. But in the short term, AI is going to help us clinicians to get to the root cause, to actually tailor a program for folks. And I’m so excited about it.
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Yeah. I mean, even with just charting software, you know, the time saving that AI has already provided, but from a diagnostic standpoint, that is where the future of medicine is with this whole AI thing. I mean, I’m with you. I order calcium scores on many, many of my patients. You know, I… I mean, there’s things that, you know, I had a guy who was healthy, appeared healthy, 53 year olds and cholesterol levels. Everything was normal. He marathon runner, biked, hiked, skied. But he had a family history and something was off a little bit. I ordered one, and it came back at $1,800. Holy cow. For those that don’t know, obviously zero is the best, and you want to be under $300. And he was at $1,800. This guy was a walking, ticking time bomb.
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That’s exactly right.
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And he had no idea. I mean, the blockage in his arteries was insane. But, yeah, to be able to have AI and look past beyond that, that’s going to be crazy.
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Yeah, because I have patients who have, let’s say, multivessel disease. Yeah. And their CT calcium score comes back total of, say, 350. You’re like, okay, you’re over 300. It’s not one solid lesion in one vessel like a left main. Okay. But is there soft plaque underneath? And to the listeners, what we’re talking about is calcium shouldn’t be in your arteries. It’s hard. But when it’s hard, it doesn’t rupture. What we are concerned about is the soft, gooey stuff underneath. The rupture of those vessels. That’s exactly right. And now with AI, they can look underneath the calcium and say, hey, you’re in trouble. Because when I would get a patient with the high CT calcium score, I would then turn around and do a LP PLA2. If that’s high, you better go see the cardiologist because you’re in trouble. Yes, I’m going to do mitochondria health. I’m going to give you everything I can to decrease inflammation. But you’re a ticking time bomb. You’re in trouble. But now with the AI, it’s incredible the images that we’re getting. And then I don’t know what you guys do. I do a whole body MRI scanning.
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Haven’t implemented that, but I’ve been looking into it. Oh, my gosh.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 06 :
There’s a place over in Cherry Creek that does it.
SPEAKER 05 :
So I usually send people, because I’m in Castle Rock, I send them over to Simon Med. And I don’t have any stock in Simon Med. But over in Parker.
SPEAKER 06 :
That’s where I send them for the calcium scores.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. For $650, you can get a whole body MRI. Why is that important, folks, and especially if you’re not claustrophobic, is because it gives us an early look at your brain, your heart, your chest, your abdomen, your pelvis. And if you have a little ditzel, right, let’s say you have a lung nodule, not sure what it is, we would never know that as clinicians. There’s no way we would know that. Because there’s no signs or symptoms. That’s exactly right. Until you come into us and you’re lost 15 pounds and you’re coughing up blood. It’s too late. Then it’s too late. Yep. It’s… It’s a band-aid medicine. Then you go to the oncologist. You see the surgeon. They’re going to use radiation. They’re going to cut the thing out. They’re going to say, we’re going to give you this toxic medicine to treat your cancer. And oh yeah, by the way, there’s a huge chance that this isn’t going to work and sucks to be you. And the recurrence rate. Correct. But guys like you and I, if we are saying, hey, you should just do for 650 bucks, own it. Go get your MRI if you’re not claustrophobic. And let’s take a look under the hood and see, is there a problem there that we can address now? Well, it’s a small thing and not wait until, oh, by the way, it’s too late.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, yeah. I mean, it could be a cluster of tumor cells or it could just be a calcified plaque. But at least you know and we can follow it, right?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes, and absolutely. And then there’s things with genetics and epigenetics, right? So epigenetics, folks, is what your environment does to your genes. It’s the outside influence. Because just because you have a gene, let’s take the Alzheimer’s gene, that doesn’t mean you’re going to get Alzheimer’s. But we talked about the hemoglobin A1C. When your sugar is up, remember we said Alzheimer’s dementia is now type 3 diabetes. It has everything to do with insulin resistance. So if we’re picking up high blood glucose, even though your A1C isn’t that bad, 20, 30 years early, when you’re in your 20s, 30s, 40s, we’re going to be able to prevent you from getting Alzheimer’s. Right. But what is modern medicine doing right now? Oh, we’re going to wait until you can’t remember where you put your car keys and your grandkids name. And then pump you full of a bunch of meds. Then we’re going to pump you full of a bunch of meds that don’t work. Oh, your Aricep, your Namenda, they don’t work. They quote unquote slow the progression, but it doesn’t reverse it. So I don’t know if you were listening on your way over to the studio, but I’m now a prime investigator for a new medication. I cannot, because I signed an NAD, I can’t tell you what the name is on the air. But here’s the data. I mean, I’ve got this piece of paper in my hand and how it actually improves the mini mental status exam. They’re making people with mild, moderate, and severe Alzheimer’s dementia. We’re normalizing people. We’re curing dementia. So we’re taking people who already have it and we’re giving them their life back. And then you and I on the front side, we’re taking our patients and keeping them from getting these horrible things. This is phenomenal. It’s absolutely phenomenal. We’re repairing mitochondria. We’re repairing the glycocalyx. Here’s another thing I just learned at A4M conference is that if you’re on lisinopril and I’m one of those guys, That if you’re on long-term lisinopril, did you know you have a 20% increase in lung cancer? In a non-smoker? In a non-smoker, yes. Correct. So when I was at the VA yesterday, I said, put me on an ARB. Telmosar. Yeah, but it’s very expensive and the VA doesn’t pay for it. So I said, okay, put me on rosuvastatin. Rosuvastatin, yeah. Yeah. So folks, you just heard that here. If you’re on an ACE inhibitor, especially lisinopril, the new data shows that you have a 20% increase. This is in non-smokers in lung cancer. Now, my incidence is already low, but if I can do something to prevent myself from getting lung cancer, I think I’m going to do that just by switching up. Why wouldn’t you? Right. And by going on things that boost my nitric oxide, right? Beats. Then I’ve noticed my blood pressure is coming down. I did take my GLP medicine, the Ozempic. Lost that 14 pounds. Blood pressure is even better. Starting to do more cardio because I have to admit I hate doing cardio.
SPEAKER 13 :
You and me both.
SPEAKER 05 :
But there’s benefits to both the cardio and the resistive training. Lift pumping a little iron. Just a little bit improves so many different things.
SPEAKER 06 :
I mean blood flow to the brain, cognitive behaviors, insulin resistance.
SPEAKER 05 :
I mean you name it. That’s exactly right. So I’m going to blow your mind when we come back. This is our last break before we cut out of here, but I’m going to talk to you about the glymphatics. I know you know about lymphatics, but I’m going to ask you the question, do you know about glymphatics? You just learned that at A4M. So we’ll be right back. You’re listening to Dr. Scott filling in for John Rush on this Health and Wellness Wednesday.
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Welcome back, listeners. You’re listening to Dr. Scott Delaney for John Rush on this beautiful Wednesday in Denver, Colorado, Health and Wellness Wednesdays with special guest John Flouting here in studio. You and your brother run a, do you call it a regenerative clinic or what do you call it?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. Functional medicine, regenerative.
SPEAKER 05 :
We kind of toss those words around.
SPEAKER 06 :
There’s nothing that really is like set in stone, you know, it’s like, well, what are you? I’m like, well, we’re not just a hormone clinic. We do hormones, but yet we do all this other stuff and it’s more regenerative. I think would be more of the umbrella.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, because we’re turning back the clock.
SPEAKER 06 :
Prevention, turning back versus repairing damage.
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s why I called myself Castle Rock Regenerative Healthcare. It’s not just with the stem cells because we are regenerating people. We’re fixing mitochondrial damage. We’re fixing the brain using hyperbaric, especially guys with traumatic brain injuries and stuff like that. We can actually induce stem cells into your body 800% using hyperbaric. So it is regenerating the body and the stem cell just goes and does what they do. I love stem cells. Oh, yeah. So I wanted to talk, this is the last segment, why is it critical for people to see either yourself, your brother, myself for hormone replacement therapy?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, I mean, in general, hormones are the key to life in a sense, right? Like, I mean, hormones… you know, so many people have so many symptoms and it can be a simple hormonal imbalance where, you know, from everything from temperature to, uh, you know, body composition, to energy, to sleep, to mood, um, libido regulated through our hormones. And when they’re out of, out of balance, then, you know, you don’t feel well or I’m sick or, you know, where in reality, if you just balance out your hormones, I mean, life could be much better.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. And, and earlier people wait, they think that, okay, for women, I have to go through menopause and then I’ll think about going on hormone replacement therapy or my hot flashes are so bad. That’s the time when they’ll seek it. Yeah. Is that right or wrong?
SPEAKER 06 :
I mean, that’s individualized. I mean, it’s not necessarily right or wrong. I would lean more towards that’s not the right answer, you know, and because there are so many things that can help. I mean, I have so many female patients that are in that perimenopausal stage, premenopause, that they may not be a candidate for any estrogen replacement now, but yet 80% to 90% of their symptoms may be solved with testosterone or thyroid. Bingo. And so there’s a lot of overlap between these hormones. So, yeah, it’s not yes or no. It’s like, well, what are your symptoms and what are you looking to improve?
SPEAKER 05 :
So are you seeing what I’m seeing is this epidemic of hypogonadism or low testosterone levels? both in men and women in their teens and twenties.
SPEAKER 06 :
It’s scary. It is. Yeah. You know, it’s scary. And, and, you know, you think about it, but all the, you know, I mean, stress and social media and, and, and, um, you know, blue light and diets and lack, you know, microplastics and lack of exercise and, Lack of being just outdoors in the fresh air has led to a severe decline in our testosterone level.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. And now we’re seeing fertility rates tanking. Yeah. And then you throw the COVID vaccine on top of it. I mean, the miscarriage rates in these young ladies is scary. Yep. And then you see big pharma throwing out the abortion pill. Yeah. Our numbers are plummeting. We’re in big trouble, folks. Whether you believe in abortion or not, I do not as a Christian. But the numbers are frightening. And then the side effects that those pills give these young ladies. And then what we don’t talk about is the psychological damage that comes from that. That’s the biggest part. Yeah. It really is. And it’s underneath the surface. So they buy into this, oh, it’ll be okay, it’s just fetal tissue. And once they realize what they’ve done with this human life, that psychological damage stays with these ladies forever. Forever. Yeah. And it needs to be dealt with. Mm-hmm. And I have sympathy. As a Christian, do I want you to do that? No. Do I understand that some girls find themselves in a situation that maybe they thought that that was the right answer? But we have to have empathy and compassion and say, we don’t think it was the right choice, but what’s done is done. Let me help you heal from this trauma that you’ve experienced. So it may not be a car accident where we can see, okay, on an MRI, you have shearing of your, neurons and you don’t have the neuroplasticity. And here’s how we can help you with hyperbaric and these other things. This, but this damage is real.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh yeah. It’s definitely real. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, you know, ultimately, you know, from, it is astounding the, the ages that we’re, we’re seeing, you know, I know 10 years ago when we started, you know, our typical, we were seeing, you know, 40 year old and above and your, your, your things you would normally typically think about. and now you’ve got parents bringing their eight, 17, 18 year old son. And, you know, he’s on the football team and he, and he can’t seem to, you know, repair from an injury or he’s just, he comes home from practice and he’s just dead tired. And, you know, and everyone has told him he’s depressed. He’s gone to, you know, traditional doctor and he’s depressed and they want to start his meds. And, Luckily, they bring them to us before they make that decision.
SPEAKER 07 :
Uh-huh.
SPEAKER 06 :
You know, we’re like, well, I mean, a lot of that sounds like hypogonadism. Yeah. And we check it. And I’ll see, you know, 17, 18, mid-20-year-olds with testosterone levels in the 200s. Yeah. Which is absolutely terrible.
SPEAKER 05 :
So that brings up another point I wanted to talk about is the normal – and I’m doing air quotes, folks – normal values that your regular doc in the box – He would draw, let’s say, a testosterone level, and it comes back 250. Is that really normal?
SPEAKER 06 :
No one in the history of ever has felt normal with a testosterone at 250. Thank you. Ever. Yeah. You know, and the reason why I can say that is you just talk to the patient. You know, instead of looking at the piece of paper and being like, well, this piece of paper says it’s normal. It’s within a normal range. Yeah. Well, who got to decide that? I wasn’t part of that. You know, you didn’t ask any of my patients. None of them feel normal. Right. So yeah. Yeah. I mean, it’s, it’s more of, and that’s another thing. If you have to, if you’re bound, hands are tied by insurance, you know, you have to look your patient in the eye and say, I can’t do anything for you. That’s right. That has to be a terrible feeling as a practitioner, you know, and we, we go into this to help people. Yeah. And now we get to say, you know, Oh, five, 600. Well, yeah, elsewhere, that’s quote-unquote normal. But here, you present with every symptom of hypogonadism. Let’s see what a little testosterone will do.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, 800, 1,200 for a guy. Oh, good grief, yes. Yeah, I’m giving my ladies the total. We’re talking total testosterone, not free. These ladies are coming in with a total testosterone of, six, eight, 10. And I’m like, I’m getting you to 80, 120. If they’re working out, I’m pushing it to 225. And then they come back and they’re like, oh my gosh, I feel so good.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and to be honest, the women are some of my favorite patients because, you know, I mean, man, we just don’t have much to say sometimes or talk, but through your female patients, you’ll change their life.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. Oh, and here’s another one I just learned at A4M. So a lot of these, so folks, a lot of these clinics are starting to get into the hormone replacement because they think it’s the coolest thing and they can make money at it, but they’ve had no training. They have no idea what they’re doing. And a lot of these men’s clinics are, If you’re a guy, you’re going in for your testosterone. And along with that, they’re giving you an estrogen blocker. OK, wrong. So we now know that when you give somebody a guy an estrogen blocker, you are leading to some serious side effects down the road because we actually need estrogen. uh, estrogen along with the testosterone for so many different things in the human body. Um, and, uh, when you lose your estradiol, it increases the glycans and increases your epigenetic age.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and, and, and estrogen is actually heart protective and bone protective and, you know, and for our brain function, but it’s the, uh, the, the, um, the, the, inflammation within the heart that higher estrogen levels have shown to present with less inflammation. That’s right. And so you take these blockers, you suppress that, you suppress it too low. And now you’ve got joint pain and aches and, and mood disorders, you know? That’s exactly right.
SPEAKER 05 :
So if you want expert advice, you can reach out to either one of us. Give the name of your clinic. Give the phone number.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, Revitalized Health. And we’re 720-361-2302. Yeah, you’re in Littleton.
SPEAKER 05 :
I’m down in Castle Rock, Castle Rock Regenerative Health. You can reach us at 303-663-69990. And this investigational medicine that I told you about to reverse Alzheimer’s, call the clinic. We’ll get you set up for a consultation, you or your loved one, and we can tell you more about it. You’ve been listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush, 560-KLZ, and thank you for listening.
