HR3 Mental Health Issues, Circulation Issues, SSRI’s 8-6-25 by John Rush
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Welcome back listeners. The third hour, you’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush. My guests in studio with me are Regan Kirstein, who’s actually one of our employees about to leave us, going back to Florida State University. He’s a whiz kid. And then we have Regina Nabrit here in studio, who is my friend, my I guess you’re patient, right? Yeah. All-around good person. If you could see her smile, you’d light up too. So I appreciate you being here.
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Thank you for inviting me.
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You’re welcome. We’re going to talk really more of that mental health aspect of why all this is so important. Meet people where they’re at because there’s so many people that are just down there. depressed, anxious. I wanted to talk on that because that’s a big topic. I deal with it every single day. You’re the expert. So you’re going to help a lot of folks. But right now we have a caller, Carol from Wyoming. Carol, what was your question?
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Hi, Dr. Scott. Here’s my question. I’ve had two heart attacks, and they are not finding anything wrong with any valves, arteries, anything like that. I’ve had massive amounts of testing, including the Mayo Clinic. I’m not overweight. I don’t do drugs, drink, or smoke. And they are unable to figure out why I’m having them. But I do notice my circulation is getting worse, which tells me I’m not getting the blood I need to circulate throughout my system, which would be logical to me. And so my question is, do you have anything? I mean, it can be 95 degrees outside, and I’m sitting there with a coat and a hot tea. There’s something wrong with that. And so I’m wondering if you could speak about how to increase circulation, even though I’m taking some supplements. circulation but it doesn’t seem to be helping okay what supplements are you taking currently I’m taking a over-the-counter it is actually Kroger and it’s called if I can get to it really quickly here to grab it here sorry no worries it’s called it’s called help maintain cardiovascular function and a healthy circulatory system and it’s called circuit flow what’s the ingredients on the back what’s like the main ingredient hawthorn berry Hawthorne, horse tail extract, tolling, L-arginine, potassium chloride, and whey.
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Okay. So if you heard in the second hour, one of the biggest problems with nutraceuticals or supplements is that they are not regulated by the FDA. So if you got a pill, let’s say a blood pressure pill, let’s say lisinopril, then the FDA mandates that the manufacturer… of lisinopril has a margin of error of that medicine. So if it says lisinopril 20 milligrams, you know for a fact within plus or minus 5% that that lisinopril really has 20 milligrams. If it’s a generic, they allow up to about a 20% variability, but still you’re getting pretty much the real deal. When you take nutraceuticals, there is no such oversight. So we’ve all seen the TV special where a 9 News reporter, she’ll go to the grocery store and she’ll take five vitamin Cs off the shelf, send them to a third-party independent lab. They will test those five, and the first one might come back, and on the label it says 500 milligrams of vitamin C, and there’s 20. The second one says 500 milligrams, and there’s 1,000. There’s nothing to regulate that. And that’s my fear is, number one, those supplements, although they’re natural, they’re not very good at endothelial or vascular health because you do have a problem with your vasculature. And I’ll bet your two heart attacks were most likely from something called prinsmetal angina. Okay. What is Prince Metal? So let me give you an example to illustrate this. When I was a resident there in Massachusetts, we had a nurse. She came to us from a neighboring hospital where she had practiced and she was complaining of chest pain. And after a while, because they did a cardiac catheterization on her, her arteries were clean. And they started thinking that she had Munchausen’s, that she was faking this. And she’s like, no, I’m telling you this is real. So she came to us because we didn’t know her. And she hadn’t told this story several times. So the cardiologist I was working with, he’s like, you know what, young, smart fella. I says, we’re just going to put this issue to rest. So we put her in bed, hooked her up to a 12-lead EKG machine. She’s a nurse. And he says, when you get the chest pain, hit the button. Because by the time we would get to her, it would already be resolved. Well, lo and behold, she hit the button, then hit her call light. We come running, and she was having arterial spasm. So the artery, like a charley horse where the muscle spasms, remember the arteries in your heart are a muscle too, and they can spasm. And it happens primarily in women. And so you can have this happen. And in fact, that young lady ended up in her 30s having a heart attack in front of our eyes. Yes.
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Okay, so may I ask you? Sure. Because one cardiologist did tell me we think it is something, and it’s an acronym called MINOCA, myocardial infarction with no obstructive coronary arteries. Correct.
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Yeah, so we could do… Normally they want to put a stent into something, right? They say, oh, you’ve got plaque. Let’s put a stent in there. Open it up. That’s 99.9% of the time. But every once in a while, some like you has a vasospasm. And so if you have a Charlie horse in the artery of your heart, it spasms down. Blood can’t flow through. What’s the end result? No oxygen. You get a heart attack. Then the spasm resolves. They do tests and say, we don’t know why you had a heart attack. We can’t find any evidence why. So the answer is to treat you for spasm and to improve your endothelium. because that’s the inner lining of the artery that needs to be improved and made healthy and prevent the spasm. Does that make sense?
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Yes, it makes absolute sense. They tried to put me on a stat, and I was on that for like four or five months, and I said, forget it. I’m not doing it. I’m not doing it. The only thing that I’m on right now, is an extended release mononitrate, which is basically the nitroglycerin on kind of an extended route to try to keep things, I guess, running somewhat smoothly. But it’s like… It’s certainly not helping any kind of circulation.
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Okay, so I told Reagan earlier that John’s listeners are some of the smartest people around. You figured this out on your own. So they just told you you don’t have atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries, right, the plaque? But yet they threw you on a statin. Right? Does that make sense to you?
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No, no. And believe me, Dr. Scott, believe me, I started to do my own research and I thought. This is insane. Do you know what these statins do to you? And I immediately went off, and it’s like, no, there’s got to be another way. I’m not going to support pharmaceuticals. I will do anything. Give me an exercise. I will do anything.
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Okay, well, let’s back up because this is one of those areas that we have to use our brain, and there is a pharmaceutical that can help you that prevents the statin, and that’s a calcium channel blocker. Okay. So look up Prince Metal Angina. And calcium channel blockers are the treatment to prevent the spasm. So this is one of those cases where I would say, no, you actually need the pharmaceutical so that you don’t have another spasm in the artery. Now, your nutraceuticals, things like beetroot, right, that increases your nitric oxide, that is one of the best things you can do for your vessel lining.
SPEAKER 20 :
There’s other things, but – Would beets – because I do eat beets.
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Keep eating them.
SPEAKER 20 :
Will that – Yes. Okay.
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Yeah, some people don’t like beets, so they choose super beets or take something that helps nitric oxide. But that’s something that you can do simple.
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No, I eat that.
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But I would – call the office tomorrow or set up an appointment. Well, actually, I’m kind of full through Monday. But you can go online, like I said, thecastlerockregenerativehealth.com. regardless of where you’re at, because with the telephone, televisits, I can help you. You’re in Wyoming, I believe, right?
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We just moved out of Colorado, and during the COVID thing, Colorado got so nuts during the COVID thing, I said, this is insane. We’ve got to get out of here. So we moved to Wyoming.
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Well, I love Wyoming. It’s beautiful up there. The wind blows too much for me, but I do love it. So even all the way up there, I can help you. So just call the office, either the 303-663-6990, or go online, the castlerockregenerativehealth.com, Book yourself for a free consultation. We can carry on this conversation, and I can help you where all these other goofball, dock-in-the-boxes are just dropping the ball. You’re that person that Reagan and I have been talking about for two hours. And Regina’s over here rolling her eyes, too.
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You know what, Dr. Scott? You are so refreshing. And we have all of our friends and family are back in Castle Rock. So I know exactly where you’re at. We’ve got plenty of people to stay with. So we’re down there on a regular basis anyway. So not a problem that I could set something up. just on a side note. But yes, I will call the office. Thank you so much for pointing things out.
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You’re welcome, Carol. God bless you. And we’re going to take a quick break really fast. And then when we come back, we’re going to keep talking about the GLP-1s with Regina and Reagan. Dr. Scott Faulkner, 560 KLZ for John Rush.
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Welcome back, listeners. Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush. Thank you, Carol, for that very insightful call, and hopefully that helps you. We were talking before we took the call with Carol about the GLP-1 medications, and the GLP-1s, if you guys remember, semaglutide, turzepatide, and now retatrutide. I was explaining the generics and why… There’s a company there. There might be a couple more, but I know for a fact Strive is the compounding pharmacy in Arizona that is really pushing the envelope of this lawsuit because Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk did win in March. The judge said compounding pharmacies must cease and desist making these medications. Strive is saying, no, we’re going to push this. We believe that we have a good case. It is my opinion. feelings that they are going to lose and when they do it’s going to they’re going to lose big they don’t have a leg to stand on so we at castle rock regenerative health care have a different supplier it doesn’t fall under the same heading as a compounding pharmacy ours is pure so there’s nothing added to it there’s no b12 there’s no b6 there’s no l-carnitine It’s just the pure stuff. And if you want to know why, you can come to the office and talk to me. I’m not going to tell you my secrets over the radio and get myself in trouble or anybody else. But just know that you can still get the real stuff. It works great. And we have it available. And our prices are better than pretty much everybody else. And then you get to talk to me. It’s a free consultation. I want to make sure that you’re well-educated, not only on the good side, but the potential side effects. And to make sure that you’re very comfortable in this, you understand that 30% of the patients can come off of it and not need anything. The weight stays off. But 70% of you guys, when you use these medications, are going to need something long-term for maintenance. Well, that’s not a horrible thing because there’s actually good data that shows it can decrease your risk of heart attacks, strokes, and Alzheimer’s dementia. Regina, in the break, you were telling me with the mental health aspects of some of the research that’s come down the pike with the GLP-1s as well that I didn’t know. What is the good benefits on the mental health side?
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Well, one of the biggest ones that I’ve read about and have been hearing about from other professionals that are really into using GLPs for people with eating disorders is the, which I’m sure you and Regan talked about, is the inflammation, the lowering of inflammation going on. Actually, we did not. Oh, well, inflammation is huge when it comes to people that are looking for these medications. And what I’m seeing… with some clients that have delved into GLPs, that have anxiety disorders or depression symptoms, they’re noticing it’s not just a physical aesthetic piece, but part of them is actually, I would say they’re enjoying their body. They’re becoming close to their body. They’re feeling more connected to their body, which makes them want to make healthier choices when they’re sleeping better. They’re waking up with more energy to have more ability to exercise. So the inflammation causing this, I would say, drastic feeling of the body just balancing itself. And then they’re making all these better educated choices because they feel that they want to do that for their body now. So their self-esteem is picking up along with these great better sleep habits. And then because of the sleep habits, they’re having the energy to eat more nutritionally. So then it’s like a big change. effect that just keeps giving and giving and giving and then what you see is this person saying you know I don’t have those ruminating thoughts anymore rumination is constant thoughts going on and on and on and these people worrying about being in a relationship not feeling connected with their body then they don’t act appropriate socially so it’s like a big effect that just trickles down in so many areas of mental health
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Wow. Because when Reg and I were talking, there was a young lady who came into our office yesterday and she had lost 75 pounds and she was just grinning from ear to ear and she was crushing it. She looked great. And I said, wow, I didn’t recognize you. You look great. And you could just tell she was walking on her tippy toes. Her countenance was so improved. And we see this all the time because we’re getting people to lose 20 pounds, 40 pounds, in her case, 75 pounds. So you’re telling me there’s actually a good reason behind it. Yes. It’s not just because I lost the weight. It’s decreasing inflammation.
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Yes.
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And, you know, that triggers a thing in my brain that I wonder if Carol, the last caller, might have COVID, the long COVID with the spike protein, because there’s really nothing more inflammatory than COVID. So it would be interesting to check her spike protein levels to see if maybe this was COVID. Because doctors won’t talk to you about the damage from COVID, but we’ve seen the lung aspects, right? My mom died of blood clots to her lungs. We’ve seen the brain effects. I’ve seen people with complex regional pain syndrome, neurologic effects. I’ve seen young kids when I was working in the hospital with myocarditis and all the other cardiac things. You just hit on something. I wonder if she has a problem with spike protein, too, because almost everybody had COVID.
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Right. Oh, yeah.
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I just tested our daughter in Massachusetts, and her spike protein is off the charts. Literally, the test doesn’t go that high. It’s criminal what those people did. So now I’m going to put her on natokinase, the bromelain, and the curcumin, Dr. McCullough’s cocktail, and we’re getting people feeling better. And normally he recommends three months to a year. In this case, because they’re so high, I would say an entire year. But you just triggered something in my brain. So thank you very much, Carol, for your listening. Give us a call and I’ll talk to you further about that. But you also touched on something with NAD+, what Regan and I were talking about in the second hour. So tell us why NAD+, is great for mental health.
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So we’re noticing a lot of research coming out with neurotransmitters, your serotonin and dopamine. And those are your feel-good hormones, right? Your feel-good chemicals that create you to stay in a positive state, think more rationally, have joy, all the great things. Right. So as we get older and for some people, it could be for various reasons, we start losing our natural NAD. And now they’re saying that, you know, women especially losing a lot of NAD by the time they hit their 40s, it’s actually pushing them into perimenopause and menopause a lot faster. So they’re saying, well, what can we also supplement to help them with these, creating more cellular energy, which NAD does, creating less inflammation, which NAD does, creating the ability to have a better positive neurotransmission process, which again is the dopamine and serotonin, which increases focus, better mindset, lower ability to get depressive symptoms, and also improve immunity. anxiety symptoms which a lot of people that when they hit their 40s they’re losing a lot of nad a lot of other things we could go further into that like hormones deficit sure but nad helps regulate that and almost jump starts the ability to be ahead of the game so that you don’t have to feel so down or feel everyone’s symptoms could be different, but less attention. So there’s, um, this other thing that I had a client working with. She was like, I have adult ADHD. My doctor told me that I’m like adult ADHD. Interesting. Tell me more about this. So she’s talking to me about this. I got adult ADHD. I’m like, well, maybe it was, you’ve always had it and now it’s just more symptomatic. So what’s changed? She’s 42 and she’s, I said, let’s get your blood work, your vitamin D, the Bs, your estrogen, testosterone, all of the things that we need to really check in, I would say, every four to six months. And she goes and she’s like, well, I have low testosterone. My D is low. And I’m like, well, I go, why don’t we start with that? But then also look at the fact that, you know, and this is the unfortunate part of NAD. It’s like people, we can’t really get that with insurance.
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Right.
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So you have to kind of have the ability to do that financially. That’s the only sad part. But the fortunate part is she was able to start on NAD, started on hormone therapy, and she was taking anti-anxiety medications for panic attacks. I’m quoting my little fingers right now for panic attacks. She was not having panic attacks, one. Was not having panic attacks. She described them to me and I’m like, oh, it sounds like you were getting over worried about something and ruminating, which means consistently thinking of something over and over again, causing your blood pressure to rise. But were you able to breathe through it? Yeah. But my doctor said this will ease it. And I’m like, no, no, no, no. I’m like, we’re not we’re going to we’re going to wean off of this. We’re going to start the NAD, get the doctor involved with your hormones. And what I saw is someone more connected, having a positive sleep routine, which, again, leads to better healthy choices throughout the day. And her mental clarity, NAD, gives a lot more mental clarity. Yes. And your attention span increases and also your memory enhances. There are studies out there for mental health on NAD, and I’m on it. I’ve been on it for two years. Okay. And I’ll tell you, I’ve come from a place of trauma, of loss. And I knew, I just felt it in my gut. I’m like, there has to be something that my body produces that something maybe was not producing right anymore. And you, Dr. Faulkner, helped me that about a year ago. And I was taking NAD, but it was like very various. But then you were like, no, let’s do it like this. And I was like, okay. And I’ve been on it for now, I would say consistently a year and a half. First year was a little off and on. But I’ve noticed a difference with my mental clarity. I also had ADHD. I don’t feel like I have ADHD anymore. Meaning I’m able to focus. I’m able to collaborate with my thoughts and talk, be attentive. And, yeah, here and there I have little memory lapses. But I see the change in with me. And I’m also seeing it with others. And I’m reading about it. I’ve become very passionate about it because I really believe it’s something that is a game changer for people. It doesn’t have side effects.
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Nope.
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Nope.
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Especially when we microdose it.
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When you microdose it, yes. When I did it microdose, I did feel that little dizziness and nausea related symptoms. But again, that was like a one to two minute feeling and then it went away. So the benefits outweighed the cost. But I’m a proponent for NAD and I really believe people that are in search for a more holistic method for mental health treatment and they have symptoms of anxiety, symptoms of depression, I believe NAD can help that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. And this is exactly why I needed you to be here and tell the audience, because I can say it. But when they hear it from you and you’ve lived it, I mean, I had my own experience. I know you were driving in and coming up the elevator and the traffic and everything like that. I was given the experience of how the power that I felt. And now it’s that mental clarity, the fastness. My workouts are better. Now, Reagan, you were nodding your head. Did you know all this stuff?
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Yeah, a lot of the NAD research is done on the addiction side of things, kind of going into the… Eating disorders. is, is one of the best NAD benefits. And that goes back to our mitochondrial health, right? It’s no surprise. Our neurons have the highest concentration of mitochondria. So getting those mitochondria functioning best in the neurons is going to have that energy production.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s what you need. And Reagan taught us that every 20 years we age, we lose 40%. 50% of our NAD plus stores. So that’s why this helps.
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And that is a, that is a person who’s naturally aging, but what about the people who have inflammation problems? What about the people who experience extreme trauma to moderate to all types of trauma, but it messes with your neurotransmitter process. It messes with your serotonin and dopamine. And that’s why people end up going on mental health, psychiatric medication because
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Well, let’s talk about that. We have to take a break. So we’ll save that for the next segment. Very passionate about this. Yes, a nice little teaser. You’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush, 560 KLC on this Health and Wellness Wednesday. We’ll be right back.
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Welcome back, listeners. Dr. Scott Faulkner on this Health and Wellness Wednesday filling in for John with my employee slash brainchild over here, Reagan, Kirstein, and Regina Nae Britt, who is an expert in mental health. Really quick, give your credentials again.
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I’m a licensed mental health counselor, also life and health coach, and I’m also certified in hypnotherapy and yoga.
SPEAKER 04 :
Fantastic. Because you’ve been on before. Reagan has not, so I gave his bio in the first hour. But you are super passionate. I had to cut you off. I feel badly. Don’t feel bad. I can go on and on. But you were talking about low vitamins, antidepressants, these SSRIs. Just take that and run with it.
SPEAKER 09 :
So if we’re starting with the SSRIs, what I commonly see in my practice is people.
SPEAKER 04 :
So what are SSRIs? Give us some name brands so people know what they are.
SPEAKER 09 :
So we got Prozac.
SPEAKER 04 :
Paxil, Lexapro, Celexa.
SPEAKER 09 :
There’s just so many. Zoloft. Yeah, okay. There’s many medications. Basically, what these medications do, depending on your symptoms, usually they target your depressive symptoms or anxiety symptoms, and they help supposedly regulate them, which they do. There’s great studies in them. However, the necessity… that people actually need to take this, I think it’s on a scale depending on who’s prescribing them. And this is the problem is they’re being given out like Xanax. And Xanax to me is a very easy pill to give out in a regular doctor’s office for people who are having anxiety symptoms. They don’t even have to qualify with anxiety disorder.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. So Xanax is not an SSRI. No, it’s not. It is a benzodiazepine.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right, right. But it’s also helping for panic attacks and stuff like that, which there’s nothing wrong with that. But what I’m seeing is, is the abuse of first the doctors prescribing and the clients not knowing when or how to take these properly or not using other forms of, I would say, supplements, medicines, more holistic side, trying those aspects before they go into these SSRIs. And that’s the part where I’m seeing is once you start the SSRIs, it’s hurting other areas in your chemical system.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 09 :
So when I started doing treatment with people with anxiety and depression, I loved working with psychiatrists and other doctors. But what I found was that they wanted to band-aid these people, give them something quick so they could feel good, which it worked. It worked for three to six months, maybe a year. But then their symptoms continued or they got worse. So I’m like, okay, so now they’re getting higher and higher on the meds. And I’m like, where does this go? Where does this go? Where’s the actual treatment, the actual chemical change inside the body, which helps the mental health aspect, which is in my room what happens is the talk therapy, the coaching through. Okay. And what I saw was doctors not testing these, testing the bees, testing just general metabolic panels and looking at sleep disturbances, looking at diet and looking at hormonal health.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, these doctors have five minutes. I mean, I used to be one of those docs, right? We meant well. Of course. But the system is so stacked against you, you have a CEO or a manager telling you, you’ve got five minutes to see somebody. It’s a numbers game. They’re not even patients anymore.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, yeah. I’ve worked in offices like this.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. So- Help because patients have to become advocates for themselves. That’s why I’m on this radio program right now. We are giving people tools to start owning their own medicine and their own health. So give these people some tools because you know you can go to your doctor. They may be a nice person, but they don’t have time to sit down and coach you and say, oh, let’s check your NAD level. Let’s check your vitamin D level. Let’s check your Bs. Let’s check your hormone health. So help somebody start becoming an advocate.
SPEAKER 09 :
So I would say the first place to start is the Internet. I know the Internet can be dangerous too. You have to caution with that, meaning people can post anything they want on the Internet but get viable research, meaning where does it come from? Who’s supplying this research? Who’s paying for the research? And when you read about this research – What did the study outcome look like? And once you look at that, then you could kind of see, you know what? I’m going to go down a rabbit hole. NAD, what’s that? Get on social media. Click on NAD. There are many speakers. When I say many, again, you want to look at reputable sources. But lots of people speaking about the positive effects of NAD, positive effects of HRT.
SPEAKER 04 :
HRT is?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, hormone replacement therapy. Right. And they’re speaking how many people are going over-diagnosed, meaning you have anxiety disorder. No, you do not have anxiety disorder. In fact, I have had, I’ll go with this number, 10 clients. Out of 10 clients coming with anxiety, and that’s my specialty. I treat a lot of trauma issues, anxiety disorders, eating disorders. and they’ll come to me and say, yeah, my doctor says this, this, and that. I’m like, okay, okay, well, let’s go on this journey together. And again, I love that you said our job here is to educate people. So my job and my practice is to psychoeducate, educate them on mental health so they become their own advocate, their own person to know what they want and what doesn’t feel right. And when we go on this journey, I also include, I’m like, well, we need to see how your insides, in layman’s terms, let’s see how your insides are working. Let’s do some blood work. Have you done this before? And I would say 50%, which is a high percent of people I see, are not tested for D. Yeah. Are not tested for a full panel B. And are definitely not tested for their hormones. Not until they reach a certain age.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right. 52, right?
SPEAKER 04 :
If you’re a female.
SPEAKER 1 :
52, 48, 47.
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s late 40s, basically.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. But they’re meeting all the symptoms, all the symptoms that I’m like, why doesn’t the doctor look at this area instead of just saying they have anxiety disorder? And I’m like, oh, my goodness. I’m like, well, why don’t I go? Let’s go with you have anxiety disorder because I don’t want to stomp on feet in the medical area.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I started stomping on feet.
SPEAKER 09 :
They could be right, but let’s keep our window open. And so what I like to do is help clients is – Don’t take one word. Don’t take one person who’s telling you, hey, you have this. Become open-minded to you might have various things going on with the mechanisms in our body because it’s a machine. This is an operative machine. And when it’s not running efficiently and the chemicals are not right, imbalances happen. Inflammation happens. And when that happens, your mood also takes over. Step back. Your sleep gets deprived. When that happens, again, we go into mental health issues. So it’s a trickling effect. So my thing of helping people is the basics. Get down to the basics. When we’re done with the basics and we’re treating the basics, which is the blood work, the sleep, the nutrition, exercise if needed, which I am a big proponent to exercise. Yes. We’ve spent a whole hour talking about it. I won’t get into it, but exercise is great. But when we get it down to the basics… And then psychoeducating clients, psychoeducating people, which means teaching them about mental health. What are these feelings feeling like? What problems are you having in your relationships? How’s your sleep? All of it’s relational. All of it. All of it is related. It’s interconnected. And once you do that with the basics… then if symptoms are continuing, true symptoms of depression and anxiety, then there’s the treatment to that. But it should be the last step with psychotropic medications. That should be the last step.
SPEAKER 04 :
I love it. We have to take another break. When we come back for the last segment, we’re going to give people practical tips on how they can be advocates for themselves. So you’re listening to Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush, 560 KLZ. We’ll be right back.
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This isn’t rage radio. This is real, relatable radio. Back to Rush to Reason.
SPEAKER 04 :
Welcome back, listeners. For the final segment, Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush with guests Reagan and Regina. And this is my little disclaimer. Please don’t stop your medications. Your doctor put you on them probably for a reason. You need to talk to them. Because I am not most of your doctor. So get guidance from them or seek it out or give us a call. I’ll give you a consultation, maybe help you out. Regina, how can people get a hold of you?
SPEAKER 09 :
So they can reach me at ReginaNay on psychologytoday.com. You just type in ReginaNay, N as in Nancy, A-Y. And then you can also email me at empoweryourenergyllc at gmail.com. And contact is also 305-431-4242. And I’d be happy to help.
SPEAKER 04 :
Fantastic. So during the break, Reagan asked me a question. I said, I don’t know the answer to that. Why don’t you break out your chat, GPD Pro? He did. So Reagan, what was the question?
SPEAKER 03 :
So I was asking the most important biomarkers for inflammation, and we were talking about HSCR Pro. Highly sensitive C-reactive protein, yes. And I was curious on highly reactive CRP protein, or excuse me, CRP, the link to mental health. And what we found was higher HSCRP levels are linked to increased risk of dementia, Alzheimer’s, increased risks of depression, especially among youth and among men. Elevated CRP in youth predicts midlife cognitive decline. Inflammation and brain health, the link is truly staggering. And so making sure we’re doing things to control our inflammation levels, whether it be a GLP, whether it be an NAD, because we weren’t able to completely dive into it. But the NAD cycle is heavily tied to inflammation as well. And sometimes taking more of these precursors. can actually increase inflammation. But without getting too much into the weeds, brain health and inflammation is a very important relationship to look at. And you can’t really talk about brain health without checking inflammation as well.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. And that’s why in the past we’ve talked and said that Alzheimer’s is type 3 diabetes. We now know for a fact that it is insulin resistance, which is inflammation. And by going on the GLP-1s, you actually decrease your risk of Alzheimer’s. And as well as heart attacks and strokes. So that’s why long-term we use these messages. That’s why I use it for biohacking, right? There’s that term again to prevent these things in the future. Cause my grandmother died of Alzheimer’s. I watched that horrible death. This is when she was a lady who did crossword puzzles, uh, you know, for a living and then just watch her just take this nosedive. It was horrible to watch. So I don’t want that to happen to anybody. We can help you. We can reverse that biologic age. We can reduce the inflammation.
SPEAKER 09 :
And I love that you said we don’t have to accept that our ancestors or our grandparents and great-grandparents, oh, it’s in the family. I hear this constantly. Everybody has diabetes. I’m just going to have it. And I’m like, what? Like, no. Like, my mom had anxiety. My parents had depression. And I’m like, and okay, so maybe you have a predisposition, but what are you doing to not get this? And let’s not just open the door to have it because you think it’s just a genetic problem. Problem.
SPEAKER 04 :
And that’s the difference between genetics and epigenetics. But that’s a talk for another day. I wanted to give you an opportunity to tell your story, Regina, because a lot of people don’t know it. So please tell us your story.
SPEAKER 09 :
So I’ve been in the mental health field for over 20 years and the fit about. Yeah. 14 years ago now, I lost a child. He passed away right before he turned one. And then my mom died a year later from cancer. Because of that, my body went through a lot of trauma. And what does that mean? Yes, I went through trauma mentally. But my body, when we go through something mentally… What’s really happening is, again, those chemicals we talked about earlier, dopamine and serotonin, they’re becoming irregular. They’re trying to help you feel good. So they’re overworking. The cortisol levels are extremely high to help deal with that panic, help you deal with the flight fight response. And I was going through that for years and doing my best in my own doing therapy, exercising, getting my blood work, basic stuff. But over the years, my body started having adrenal problems, started having deficient problems, and I started losing hair. My thyroid became low. It was the period of over 8 to 10 years I started noticing all these things with my body just start to break. And I’m like, what is going on? I’m doing all the things I need to do. I’m eating right. I’m exercising. Going to mental health counseling. And I’m like, what is going on here? And finally I was able to meet some holistic doctors where I used to live. I just moved to Colorado a little over a year ago. And they started looking into my endocrine system. What does that mean? Okay, your endocrine system, your thyroid, your ability for your metabolic functioning. And what they found is I had a low thyroid but not Hashimoto’s. That led them to look into other things, vitamin D and my B. They’re on the low end. And such on the low end, when I started supplementing with DB and a little low dose of thyroid medication, I started having elevated mood, better concentration, more energy, better sleep, which led to better life. Later down the road, I meet Dr. Faulkner about a year ago. And Dr. Faulkner says, wait a minute, because I was having problems with the thyroid medicine and other things. And I’m like, I feel like there’s something more I could be doing. Something is going on with me. I still feel like inflammation is going on. So he walked me down the path of looking more deeper into other things, such as NED and But also looking at what was the other thing that you had? Oh, my adrenal fatigue syndrome. You had me look into that because you said, because of everything I’ve gone through, how can you not have had cortisol problems? Meaning my cortisol was pumping for years, helping me survive through all this trauma. And it made so much sense. I just started taking adrenal. Yeah. Yeah. It’s an alpha, alpha, beta, GABA. Mm hmm. And I’ll tell you, I have felt more connected with my body than I’ve ever felt ever in my life. One, I’ve also noticed awesome things physically. Okay, we’ll leave it at that. Less graying in my hair. But also my mood. My mood, my ability to handle stress is a lot more efficient. When I say efficient, I can look at stress and analyze it and take it in and do something with it instead of reacting immediately to it which what I’m why I’m sharing the story is because I I lead my practice but not by not just what I’m learning but also what I’ve experienced myself and family members that experience and I truly believe that mental health is also about your your blood work yes yes you can’t go blindside with that it has been a huge precursor to my health my mental health along with other clients that i work with it’s helped them so much looking at the biohacking looking at the inflammation it’s been so it’s The word of it is great, but it seems so minimal. It’s phenomenal because the connection now I have with my mental health and my body is phenomenal. And this is what I want for my clients and for anyone looking for this.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s the transformation. Yes. Yes. So that’s what we’re looking to do. And with Reagan’s help, when he gets back from school, we’ll continue doing that. But here’s the crazy thing, like on vitamin D, 80% of Coloradoans are low on vitamin D. And when you go to your regular doctor and he does a vitamin D panel, if you ask them to, because they’re not just going to willy-nilly do it, right? Because we’re saving the insurance company money. Oh, that kills me. So the actual normal range is 65. because on the Quest Labs or LabCorp, it’ll say, oh, you’re at 40. Congratulations, you’re normal. You’re 35. No, folks, you’re deficient. It has to be 65 to about 100. You start getting over 100. So this is one of those cases where more is not better. Then you can start having problems with calcium metabolism. We don’t want you having kidney stones and things like that. But your D should be over 65. The other thing with the B vitamins is some people cannot methylate. So there’s a… A gene that helps your body take the vitamin Bs that you eat, whether it’s riboflavin, pyridoxine, decapanthenol.
SPEAKER 09 :
I call these the gateways.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes. So if you have this MTFR genetic mutation, you can eat all the salads and the meats and drink all the milk that you want. and folate, and your body cannot methylate it. So it takes the basic molecule and converts it to a usable form. Well, most people, I probably would say 40% of my patients, when I test them for the first time, I check a surrogate marker because the MTFR gene mutation itself is about $200. But I can do a homocysteine level for about $20. And that’s a surrogate marker. And if your homocysteine level is up, I can almost guarantee you you’re not methylating. So you can take all the supplements you want. You can eat all the salads you want, eat all the meat, drink all the milk, and you’re not getting the methylated B vitamins that your body needs. And that’s why you see such a high rate. So that’s why I started taking that pure multivitamin because the Bs are all in there in the right amount. and they’re already methylated.
SPEAKER 09 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, something as simple as that.
SPEAKER 09 :
So simple. See, this is what I’m talking about is the educational part to people is just educating them with the basics. This should be taught to us in high school.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right.
SPEAKER 09 :
I mean, why not? I mean, this is crazy.
SPEAKER 04 :
This is one of those cases where we’re doing a simple blood test. Uh-huh. can prevent all these horrible things down the road. How much money would we save the healthcare industry if we did simple little things like this?
SPEAKER 09 :
A lot.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 09 :
And people would be a lot happier and connected to themselves.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s right. So one more time, how can people find you, Regina?
SPEAKER 09 :
On psychologytoday.com, look for Regina Ney. My email address is empoweryourenergyllc at Gmail. And my phone number is 305-431-4242.
SPEAKER 03 :
Reagan, what’s our phone number at the office? 303-663-6990. Castle Rock Regenerative Healthcare. And if you’re lucky enough, you may be speaking to me when you call.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s right. So thank you for listening for the last three hours. This is Dr. Scott Faulkner signing in for John Rush, signing off Health and Wellness Wednesday.
