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Here are the benefits of free testosterone.

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Sense of well-being,

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aplomb,

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assertiveness,

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competitiveness,

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memory,

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recall,

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the ability to learn new things,

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great sex,

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great sleep,

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great creativity,

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playing music,

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writing,

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painting,

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anti-depression.

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These are some of the fundamental benefits of testosterone.

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In our treatment,

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we put back in the missing hormones as well as we address the inflammation.

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So we've been able to drop inflammation.

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use a temporary stimuli like clomiphene citrate or e-clomiphene to increase the brain's ability to generate the signals to make ultimately your hormones.

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We die not because of heart disease or diabetes.

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We die from things that are missing in our brain that protects our heart,

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protects our pancreas,

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protects our livers and kidneys and so forth.

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And those are the neurosteroids,

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the group of steroids that are hormones that are produced in the brain.

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Raw,

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uncut,

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and unapologetic.

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Welcome to Men Talking Mindfulness.

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Will,

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good to see you.

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Dr.

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Gordon,

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Mark,

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great to see you.

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And we've had several conversations in the past few weeks,

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so I'm excited to get in this conversation.

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And then also,

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hey,

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join us in October,

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October

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19th. We're going to be down in the Dallas area.

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Will and I,

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we've got a Spartan race that we're competing in.

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And you can learn more about that at mentalkingmindfulness.com.

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And we've got a small team put together already and would love for you to join us.

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That all said,

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again,

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Mark,

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welcome to the show.

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And we're going to kick this off with a one breath grounding practice just to get us settled and to get our audience settled.

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So thank you for joining us.

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And for those listening and for the three of us here,

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let's just go ahead and begin with a nice exhale.

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Really grounding ourselves,

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feeling our bodies,

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feeling the space here and now.

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And now a nice,

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slow,

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deep breath in,

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filling all the way up to the top,

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holding full.

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And releasing that.

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Releasing,

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releasing.

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Now bring some movement back into the body,

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maybe wiggling your fingers,

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wiggling your toes.

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And here we are.

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I'm ready to go.

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Let's do it.

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My finger is not that long.

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And no glove on it just yet.

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Well,

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you know what?

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Let's just jump in.

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I might say Dr.

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Mark many times.

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Can you give us a little bit of your background,

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you know,

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the work that you have been putting out there in the world?

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I think one of the most important things is I'm a New Yorker coming from Queens,

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Long Island,

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and therefore with a lot of great energy to focus in on what,

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as I go from zero to 72 years of age,

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what I realized was necessary in the world.

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And that was a better understanding of the chemistry of our body,

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of our brain,

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means by which we alter it by.

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lifestyle choices,

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poor lifestyle choices,

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and sometimes good lifestyle choices,

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also by the jobs that we do,

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the military,

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you know,

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fire department,

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police department,

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someone who's a contractor working,

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understanding that,

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and professional sports people,

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understanding that there are a multitude of things that we do to our body that alters the chemistry.

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And in altering that chemistry in the brain alters our ability to function cognitively and emotionally.

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So my focus went into an area of medicine which is called neuroendocrinology.

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I did endocrinology before,

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which are usually the hormones from the neck down.

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And then neuroendocrinology looks at this real estate right here,

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and how important the chemistry of the brain is for regulating who we're perceived to be,

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and who we want to be,

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and how we function.

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So neuroendocrinology became my life's blood for the past

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30 years.

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over the past

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19 years been focusing on the needs of our military and our veteran community and active military.

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Seeing peoples way back in 2009 who are coming back from deployment where they're having diagnoses labeled as PTSD.

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What is PTSD?

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what is it?

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So how to go in and start looking at what PTSD is.

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What is TBI?

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How does TBI alter the chemistry of the brain?

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That became my platform starting in 2004,

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really moving forward and looking at how these things that we totally ignore create.

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inflammation in the brain and alters the chemistry.

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Very thankful for that work that you're doing with veterans since 2004.

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And I think Will was going to start with this question here,

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but you mentioned you've been doing it for the last 30 years.

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So going back from 2025 back to 1995,

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can you take us back to then when you first realized that there was a direct link between brain trauma and then human wellbeing and the hormones associated?

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I'll tell you why.

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In 1997,

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I was put on antidepressants.

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I've been there.

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I was depressed,

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didn't have any look forward at my life and so forth,

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was put on a medication.

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I'm a reader.

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So what happened was

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I picked up some literature and started reading.

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And an article talked about trauma causing a decrease in hormones and these alterations in hormones.

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can lead to change in personality.

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So I got my blood drawn.

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Organization called Cetagenics in Las Vegas.

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but they found growth hormone,

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testosterone,

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and thyroid deficiency.

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And within 90 days of being placed back onto these hormones and returning my levels to optimal 25 to 35 years of age,

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and I was in my late 40s at that time,

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and I started feeling phenomenal.

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And that's why I started reading more and more and more about endocrinology,

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neuroendocrinology,

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head trauma.

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And then an article came up from a Dr.

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Beilou out of Paris,

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France,

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who said they found the exact same enzymes that convert cholesterol down through a cascade of pregnenolone,

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cortisol,

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testosterone,

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DHEA,

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and so forth in the brain.

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And that sort of like put all the pieces together.

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We only thought about...

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the hormones and the enzymes below the neck,

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the gonads,

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the ovaries,

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and the testes,

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as having a right balance of enzymes to convert cholesterol to pregnenolone to cortisol to DHEA and so forth.

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Turns out it's in the brain.

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And it turns out that the responsibility for that are in the very specialized cells in the brain.

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Names like neurons,

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oligodendrocytes,

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It turned out that these cells had a role to play above and beyond their usual role to help generate hormones in the brain.

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And then the question arose,

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why do we lose it?

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And then one of our mentors,

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one of my mentors at

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Caleb Finch at USC,

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where I was an associate clinical professor volunteer there for

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13, 14 years,

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and he wrote a book.

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book that basically said that we die not because of heart disease or diabetes.

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We die from things that are missing in our brain that protects our heart,

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protects our pancreas,

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protects our livers and kidneys and so forth.

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And those are the neurosteroids,

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the group of steroids that are hormones that are produced in the brain.

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So in 1997,

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developed depression was put on a medication.

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It didn't work was another aspect to it.

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And now we understand that if antidepressant drugs don't work,

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number one,

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you didn't really need them.

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there's got to be some hormonal imbalance that's creating this biochemistry in the brain of resistance,

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treatment resistance.

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So that is how I started moving forward.

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in 95 until 2007,

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I worked for with NFL players,

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with boxers.

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James Toney,

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some major boxers and so forth.

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Outside the Line did a couple of those.

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And it became very popular to get their hormones tested and not just to replace the hormones.

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Like a lot of guys got busted for having hormone replacement,

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but it was the guys that had deficiency from their professional sports,

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the checking.

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in hockey is worse than actually playing the game.

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And the boxers having chronic trauma,

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repetitive trauma,

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creating what they call label CTE.

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But it turns out that that CTE,

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the chronic traumatic encephalopathy,

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is based on a chemical that they call hyperphosphorylated tau protein.

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NFTs, which is neurofibro tangles.

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It turns out that every neurodegenerative illness.

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has that component.

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It's in a new article that I'm writing.

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It's called The Converging Pathway,

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where it shows that MS,

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Parkinson's,

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Alzheimer's,

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traumatic brain injury,

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if you will,

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PTSD,

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they all have this thing that they call CTE or these NFTs,

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the neurofibro tangles in the mix as creating that underlying inflammatory mellu.

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So the fundamental issue is when you have trauma,

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inflammation occurs in the brain.

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And what we found in 2013,

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not me,

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but the literature,

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which...

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educated me.

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they started seeing a relationship between inflammation in the brain,

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regardless of how it occurred.

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And it's shutting down a regulatory mechanism in the higher area of the brain called the hypothalamus,

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which controls the pituitary gland to produce the different hormones that signal other organs or glands in the body to make hormones,

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luteinizing normal

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signals the ovaries,

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the fecal cells in the ovaries,

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the latic cells in the males to produce hormones.

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Thyroid stimulating to stimulate the thyroid.

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Growth hormone goes to the liver and turns on nine proteins,

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IGF-1,

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all these important hormones.

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And it turned out when you had inflammation,

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this regulatory system breaks down.

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And when that regulatory system breaks down,

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you end up having hormonal deficiency.

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But everybody's been treating it peripherally.

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meaning you have testosterone deficiency,

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let's whack them with some injectable testosterone.

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That's what I'm on.

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You volunteered that.

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Yeah,

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no,

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I absolutely volunteered.

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I've spoken about it on the show before,

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and it has been great.

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But even just since we spoke a couple weeks ago,

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you said,

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well,

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being on the TRT,

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this is the dosage you should be on.

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And if you're not on the pregnenolone,

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did I say it right that time?

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And the DHEA,

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then...

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then,

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then,

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uh,

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Yeah,

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then you're basically shutting off some,

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what did you say,

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37?

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35.

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35 other hormones that your body should be.

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Yeah,

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which is just wild to me.

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It's a feedback mechanism where when you use testosterone and estrogen,

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the body says it has a metering system,

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a sensory system.

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It says,

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okay,

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is testosterone,

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estrogen,

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and these hormones all normal for this person?

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Are they low or are they high?

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If they're low,

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it sends a signal to turn the hormone off.

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on so you make more.

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That's called positive feedback.

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But if you're injecting testosterone into your system,

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the body says,

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oh,

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too much.

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Let's send a negative impulse to hormonally,

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to the testicles or the ovaries to shut down additional production of the hormones.

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So that's negative feedback.

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So when I get an injection of testosterone,

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my brain shuts off the production of luteinizing hormone.

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It's actually another hormone called gonadotropic releasing hormone that controls the luteinizing hormone.

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So you stop making that.

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Luteinizing hormone is the linchpin or the rate-limiting hormone for 35 hormones in the brain.

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And then below the neck.

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So when you run out of allopregnanolone,

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you become depressed.

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When you run out of pregnenolone,

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you become depressed.

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You don't sleep,

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anxious.

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anxious.

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You don't have pro...

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progesterone being made and you get swelling of the brain,

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the fluid dynamics alters,

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you get more inflammation.

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So we generally look at our hormones as being gender hormones,

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reproductive hormones,

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sex hormones.

347
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Well,

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it turns out that they have a whole bunch of additional benefits.

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And that term we use is called pleiotropic,

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which means many other effects.

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Well,

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it turns out that all the hormones regulate cellular functioning.

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and biochemical pathways in the brain.

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So testosterone will actually shut down four nasty inflammatory chemicals in the brain that lead to neurodegenerative diseases.

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It also turns on a very powerful anti-inflammatory product called interleukin-10,

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which is part of our immune system,

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which drops inflammation.

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It's an anti-inflammatory product.

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So if I have a trauma,

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I have inflammation in the brain and I lose the hormones that have a benefit for what?

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For stopping the inflammation,

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for correcting the problem.

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But we can't make it because of the inflammation.

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It's a catch-22.

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So what we do is,

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in our treatment,

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we put back in the missing hormones as well as we address the inflammation.

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So we've been able to not use injectable testosterone,

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but drop inflammation,

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use a Temp.

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temporary stimuli like clomiphene citrate or e-clomiphene to increase the brain's ability to generate the signals.

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to make ultimately your hormones.

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And that's how we've been able to put patients on a protocol and then stop the protocol and they keep on producing their hormones in the majority of cases.

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Yes,

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we do have failures.

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It's not 100%.

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We're at 78.3%

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success,

379
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okay?

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And 30%,

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you know,

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we don't.

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And that 30%

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can be due to lifestyle,

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drugs,

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alcohol,

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not eating well,

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not meditating.

389
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That's why it's very important.

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Um,

391
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they're taking medication that is counterproductive for hormones in the brain,

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like,

393
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um,

394
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the,

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the,

396
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uh,

397
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gabapentin group of drugs,

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horrible,

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horrible on the brain.

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It eliminates three,

401
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four key hormones in the brain that help us with anti-anxiety,

402
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anti-depression helps us with sleep.

403
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And it's all in the literature.

404
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So all in the bloody literature.

405
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I love that you're diving deep.

406
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Um,

407
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but let's just go,

408
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just stay a little bit.

409
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high level,

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if you will,

411
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just for our audience to understand when we say neurodegenerative diseases,

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why don't we just kind of break down like,

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you know,

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the four or five most common,

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like dementia,

416
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like,

417
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you know,

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I'm,

419
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I have aging parents,

420
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I have aging,

421
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you know,

422
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family members,

423
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I'm seeing a decline in,

424
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you know,

425
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cognition and stuff.

426
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Alzheimer's,

427
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another thing,

428
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you know,

429
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we mentioned TBI at the top,

430
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and CTE,

431
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and maybe just cover those four.

432
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And like,

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I know,

434
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they're obviously connected to the brain.

435
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But maybe there obviously is some distinction between them.

436
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So help us understand that,

437
00:16:32.439 --> 00:16:34.500
because I think our audience would really appreciate,

438
00:16:34.801 --> 00:16:35.063
you know,

439
00:16:35.684 --> 00:16:39.286
because everyone hopefully doesn't have to face anything like this in the future.

440
00:16:39.348 --> 00:16:40.106
But maybe we can,

441
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understanding the baseline of this,

442
00:16:42.871 --> 00:16:43.590
we can avoid them,

443
00:16:43.825 --> 00:16:44.075
you know,

444
00:16:44.168 --> 00:16:45.575
with the rest of our conversation later.

445
00:16:45.668 --> 00:16:45.887
Please.

446
00:16:46.668 --> 00:16:56.278
Neurodegenerative diseases is a grouping of conditions or illnesses that are precipitated by.

447
00:16:56.894 --> 00:16:57.555
inflammation.

448
00:16:58.475 --> 00:16:59.856
Inflammation that's in the brain.

449
00:17:00.077 --> 00:17:04.001
So we refer to inflammation in the brain as neuroinflammation.

450
00:17:04.282 --> 00:17:04.602
Okay.

451
00:17:05.485 --> 00:17:07.102
So think of it this way.

452
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You put a drop of hydrochloric acid on your skin and then you quickly dilute it with water and you remove it.

453
00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:16.055
It's okay.

454
00:17:17.008 --> 00:17:20.149
But you put another drop on the skin and you let it sit there.

455
00:17:20.258 --> 00:17:21.336
And then at the same time,

456
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you're raising the concentration of the acid.

457
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And what will happen over time,

458
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nitric oxide,

459
00:17:28.520 --> 00:17:29.302
sulfuric acid,

460
00:17:29.603 --> 00:17:33.505
it burns through the skin and it destroys the tissue.

461
00:17:33.946 --> 00:17:34.067
Well,

462
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the same thing occurs with the inflammatory chemistry of the brain called cytokines.

463
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These cytokines will generate destruction of areas of tissue,

464
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neuro,

465
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neuron,

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nerve,

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degeneration.

468
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So it erodes layers of the brain.

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And when we look at things like.

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Alzheimer's disease and we look at the brain in the skull,

471
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we see that the brain has atrophied and there's shrinkage atrophy,

472
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shrinkage of the brain.

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And that shrinkage of the brain is the results of chronic neurodegenerative processes.

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So the issue is inflammation leads to that.

475
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So

476
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Alzheimer's, inflammation.

477
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Parkinson's disease,

478
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inflammation.

479
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And one of the stats that really blew me away was when I was writing,

480
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still writing it,

481
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the paper on Parkinson's disease in the military.

482
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Do you know that in a veteran who has never had a traumatic brain injury,

483
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that the occurrence after 65 years of age of

484
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Parkinson's is 1 to 3 percent?

485
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You know what it is if a veteran's had one traumatic brain injury?

486
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53 to 86 percent.

487
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53 to 86 percent.

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There's a 30 percent increase in multiple sclerosis after traumatic injury in veterans.

489
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It's almost a 50 percent increase in Alzheimer's disease.

490
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And just on and on and on.

491
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And why is that?

492
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Well,

493
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each one of these conditions,

494
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I believe,

495
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and the literature starting to really pan out to support it,

496
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is that all these diseases

497
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have a prehistory or a history of a trauma.

498
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I don't know if you've seen the

499
00:19:29.138 --> 00:19:37.787
YouTube video on my site of a Navy lieutenant who's in charge of the nuclear power plant on Nimitz-class carrier,

500
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who'd been in for a long time,

501
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retires in 2020,

502
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and subsequently develops multiple sclerosis,

503
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diagnosed by the VA in Florida.

504
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And he ends up circling around to us because

505
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He gets into his car,

506
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leaving his diagnosis from the VA of multiple sclerosis.

507
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He had lost vision in his eye,

508
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left eye.

509
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lost function in his right hand,

510
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right leg,

511
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was having hallucinations,

512
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wasn't doing well.

513
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As he's leaving the VA,

514
00:20:05.697 --> 00:20:06.416
who he told them,

515
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I'm not taking any of your treatment,

516
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because he's a smart kid.

517
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And he went and looked at the side effects of treatment versus the course that the average person with multiple sclerosis has.

518
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And he decided not doing anything.

519
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He gets into his car,

520
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he's driving home,

521
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turns on his favorite talk show,

522
00:20:25.576 --> 00:20:26.185
Joe Rogan.

523
00:20:26.744 --> 00:20:27.124
Remember,

524
00:20:27.125 --> 00:20:29.946
1589 at the second,

525
00:20:30.647 --> 00:20:36.532
I'm talking about one of our Navy SEALs out of three who came to us with multiple sclerosis.

526
00:20:37.251 --> 00:20:38.477
And in

527
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60 days,

528
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he was 50%

529
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better.

530
00:20:41.798 --> 00:20:41.977
Now,

531
00:20:42.157 --> 00:20:44.063
Tim was 100%

532
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better in about 100 days.

533
00:20:48.407 --> 00:20:48.704
Okay.

534
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He was 90%

535
00:20:49.892 --> 00:20:51.001
better at 90 days.

536
00:20:51.063 --> 00:20:51.751
He was 50%

537
00:20:52.141 --> 00:20:53.157
better at 30 days.

538
00:20:53.548 --> 00:20:54.485
He sent me a video,

539
00:20:54.579 --> 00:20:55.829
which is on my YouTube.

540
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telling his own story of what had transpired.

541
00:21:00.379 --> 00:21:03.524
So it's a neuroinflammatory process.

542
00:21:03.945 --> 00:21:04.164
I mean,

543
00:21:04.184 --> 00:21:06.524
they call multiple sclerosis autoimmune disease,

544
00:21:06.625 --> 00:21:12.289
but understanding how it is autoimmune is because of the trauma.

545
00:21:12.852 --> 00:21:13.086
30%

546
00:21:13.586 --> 00:21:15.649
of people with head trauma end up with MS.

547
00:21:16.149 --> 00:21:22.055
He had two major head traumas at below 20 years of age before he enlisted in the military.

548
00:21:23.040 --> 00:21:23.561
So anyway,

549
00:21:23.661 --> 00:21:24.821
the neuroinflammatory,

550
00:21:24.922 --> 00:21:29.065
neurodegenerative diseases are a side effect of chronic inflammation.

551
00:21:29.565 --> 00:21:33.788
So the reason why boxers have it is because they constantly are being pummeled.

552
00:21:34.733 --> 00:21:37.898
You have football players who are constantly being tackled.

553
00:21:38.476 --> 00:21:40.351
They're developing CTE.

554
00:21:40.601 --> 00:21:40.819
Well,

555
00:21:40.913 --> 00:21:41.554
CTE,

556
00:21:41.976 --> 00:21:42.616
the chemical,

557
00:21:43.398 --> 00:21:49.507
which is the neurofibril or the hyperphosphorylated tau protein,

558
00:21:50.236 --> 00:21:51.317
is inflammatory.

559
00:21:51.457 --> 00:21:53.498
It creates this horrible inflammation.

560
00:21:54.119 --> 00:21:59.846
And then what happens is the inflammation involves itself in enzymes.

561
00:22:00.690 --> 00:22:02.448
And these enzymes are destroyed,

562
00:22:02.830 --> 00:22:05.088
like the enzyme that generates serotonin.

563
00:22:06.299 --> 00:22:07.877
So you become greater depressed.

564
00:22:08.252 --> 00:22:10.580
The enzyme that generates melatonin,

565
00:22:10.893 --> 00:22:11.862
so you can't sleep.

566
00:22:12.643 --> 00:22:15.784
The enzyme that protects the brain from inflammation,

567
00:22:15.987 --> 00:22:16.799
glutathione,

568
00:22:17.721 --> 00:22:18.440
is destroyed.

569
00:22:19.792 --> 00:22:19.912
OK,

570
00:22:20.773 --> 00:22:27.320
so this is how you get psychiatric or neuropsychiatric conditions like depression,

571
00:22:27.460 --> 00:22:28.062
bipolar,

572
00:22:28.445 --> 00:22:28.984
anxiety,

573
00:22:29.179 --> 00:22:29.984
panic attack.

574
00:22:30.663 --> 00:22:35.624
We've learned that the lateral side of the mood center,

575
00:22:35.648 --> 00:22:36.570
the limbic system,

576
00:22:36.632 --> 00:22:37.413
the amygdalas,

577
00:22:38.726 --> 00:22:40.445
that if you're deficient in testosterone,

578
00:22:40.913 --> 00:22:44.538
people tend to be more prone towards panic attack,

579
00:22:45.195 --> 00:22:48.335
anxiety and startle response.

580
00:22:48.980 --> 00:22:51.943
Because it helps to calm these areas down.

581
00:22:51.962 --> 00:22:53.423
It's like meditating,

582
00:22:53.845 --> 00:22:54.907
taking deep breaths,

583
00:22:57.107 --> 00:22:58.091
calms things down.

584
00:22:58.208 --> 00:22:58.411
Well,

585
00:22:59.130 --> 00:23:00.333
without the testosterone,

586
00:23:01.075 --> 00:23:01.896
can't calm it down.

587
00:23:02.216 --> 00:23:02.450
Wow.

588
00:23:03.271 --> 00:23:06.833
Are all neurodegenerative diseases like linked to head trauma?

589
00:23:07.302 --> 00:23:07.724
Or like,

590
00:23:08.193 --> 00:23:08.521
you know,

591
00:23:08.552 --> 00:23:08.818
I mean,

592
00:23:08.880 --> 00:23:09.364
you know what I'm saying?

593
00:23:09.365 --> 00:23:10.974
Because he kept coming back to that over and over,

594
00:23:11.083 --> 00:23:11.286
right?

595
00:23:11.349 --> 00:23:11.568
I mean,

596
00:23:12.068 --> 00:23:12.427
we're going to,

597
00:23:12.428 --> 00:23:12.583
yeah,

598
00:23:12.661 --> 00:23:13.458
let's dive into that.

599
00:23:13.505 --> 00:23:13.708
I mean,

600
00:23:13.709 --> 00:23:14.271
because it's like.

601
00:23:14.302 --> 00:23:17.989
It's a great question because define head trauma for me.

602
00:23:18.472 --> 00:23:18.592
Well,

603
00:23:18.632 --> 00:23:18.852
okay,

604
00:23:18.873 --> 00:23:19.733
here's an example,

605
00:23:19.973 --> 00:23:20.194
right?

606
00:23:20.834 --> 00:23:21.094
I mean,

607
00:23:21.095 --> 00:23:21.655
you mentioned,

608
00:23:21.856 --> 00:23:22.096
you know,

609
00:23:22.276 --> 00:23:22.696
military,

610
00:23:22.758 --> 00:23:23.297
this and that.

611
00:23:23.375 --> 00:23:23.598
Like,

612
00:23:23.637 --> 00:23:25.618
1983,

613
00:23:25.661 --> 00:23:25.961
right,

614
00:23:26.118 --> 00:23:27.297
before helmets were a thing,

615
00:23:27.805 --> 00:23:29.180
I didn't know what a skateboard was.

616
00:23:29.181 --> 00:23:29.540
I think I was,

617
00:23:29.541 --> 00:23:29.665
like,

618
00:23:29.743 --> 00:23:31.008
11 years old at the time.

619
00:23:31.024 --> 00:23:32.243
I jumped in a skateboard,

620
00:23:32.344 --> 00:23:32.485
like,

621
00:23:32.508 --> 00:23:33.227
with both legs,

622
00:23:33.305 --> 00:23:33.485
went,

623
00:23:33.586 --> 00:23:33.750
like,

624
00:23:33.844 --> 00:23:34.571
skateboard went out,

625
00:23:34.633 --> 00:23:34.930
I went,

626
00:23:35.165 --> 00:23:35.383
like,

627
00:23:35.555 --> 00:23:35.727
ass,

628
00:23:36.336 --> 00:23:36.446
and,

629
00:23:36.447 --> 00:23:36.586
like,

630
00:23:36.696 --> 00:23:38.024
smashed the fuck out of my head,

631
00:23:38.086 --> 00:23:38.227
like,

632
00:23:38.290 --> 00:23:38.540
really.

633
00:23:38.618 --> 00:23:40.290
And I saw some stars,

634
00:23:40.291 --> 00:23:41.071
I cried,

635
00:23:41.133 --> 00:23:41.336
like,

636
00:23:41.602 --> 00:23:42.196
I believe,

637
00:23:42.243 --> 00:23:42.399
like,

638
00:23:42.415 --> 00:23:44.040
I had headaches for,

639
00:23:44.180 --> 00:23:44.321
like,

640
00:23:44.322 --> 00:23:45.071
a couple weeks.

641
00:23:46.336 --> 00:23:46.586
and

642
00:23:46.724 --> 00:23:46.804
And,

643
00:23:46.805 --> 00:23:46.984
you know,

644
00:23:47.004 --> 00:23:47.465
here I am,

645
00:23:47.485 --> 00:23:48.085
I'm 52,

646
00:23:48.486 --> 00:23:48.726
you know,

647
00:23:48.947 --> 00:23:49.187
I'm in,

648
00:23:49.667 --> 00:23:50.228
I don't really,

649
00:23:50.369 --> 00:23:52.490
maybe I don't think I really struggle with depression,

650
00:23:52.529 --> 00:23:53.630
but maybe I do a little bit,

651
00:23:53.669 --> 00:23:54.052
but like,

652
00:23:54.833 --> 00:23:55.552
is this something

653
00:23:55.896 --> 00:23:57.154
I should probably get checked or,

654
00:23:57.497 --> 00:23:57.732
you know,

655
00:23:57.771 --> 00:23:58.513
give me an exam,

656
00:23:58.615 --> 00:23:59.974
please help diagnose me,

657
00:24:00.021 --> 00:24:00.279
doc.

658
00:24:00.677 --> 00:24:00.880
Okay.

659
00:24:01.036 --> 00:24:02.021
If the best you can,

660
00:24:02.138 --> 00:24:02.419
you know,

661
00:24:03.068 --> 00:24:03.568
if you will.

662
00:24:04.646 --> 00:24:07.240
We've taken care of some of the top skateboarders,

663
00:24:07.536 --> 00:24:10.083
internationally well-known skateboarders,

664
00:24:10.521 --> 00:24:12.349
motocross people who,

665
00:24:13.271 --> 00:24:13.505
you know,

666
00:24:14.005 --> 00:24:15.193
it's a dangerous sport.

667
00:24:15.708 --> 00:24:15.833
Oh.

668
00:24:16.424 --> 00:24:17.685
All those sports are dangerous.

669
00:24:17.765 --> 00:24:18.424
Skateboarding.

670
00:24:19.004 --> 00:24:19.264
You know,

671
00:24:20.004 --> 00:24:25.629
I've got to answer you in a circumlocutive way is that,

672
00:24:26.207 --> 00:24:26.449
you know,

673
00:24:26.450 --> 00:24:28.129
I have mothers who come to me and says,

674
00:24:28.527 --> 00:24:30.207
my kid is personalities.

675
00:24:30.606 --> 00:24:32.645
He's not doing straight A's in school anymore.

676
00:24:32.785 --> 00:24:33.895
He's smoking dope.

677
00:24:33.926 --> 00:24:36.285
He's stealing from neighbors and so forth.

678
00:24:36.676 --> 00:24:36.973
I said,

679
00:24:37.004 --> 00:24:39.254
so tell me about what head traumas.

680
00:24:39.332 --> 00:24:39.441
Oh,

681
00:24:39.442 --> 00:24:40.957
he's never had any head traumas.

682
00:24:41.285 --> 00:24:41.676
I said,

683
00:24:42.207 --> 00:24:43.895
did he ever roller skate?

684
00:24:44.145 --> 00:24:44.316
Yeah.

685
00:24:44.598 --> 00:24:45.535
Did he ever skateboard?

686
00:24:45.792 --> 00:24:56.488
yeah right yeah chances are he's had head trauma chances are look it up until five years of age you're born during birth trauma

687
00:24:56.914 --> 00:24:58.175
Did they use forceps?

688
00:24:58.276 --> 00:24:59.737
Did they have to push you out?

689
00:25:00.338 --> 00:25:01.858
Were you caught in the birth canal?

690
00:25:02.698 --> 00:25:02.819
Oh,

691
00:25:02.959 --> 00:25:05.284
between birth and 12 months of age,

692
00:25:05.479 --> 00:25:06.745
you were trying to do what?

693
00:25:07.284 --> 00:25:07.643
Walk?

694
00:25:08.245 --> 00:25:12.573
Did you ever put your hand on the wall and fall and hit your head up against the wall?

695
00:25:12.995 --> 00:25:13.432
Oh,

696
00:25:14.057 --> 00:25:18.401
and then you started walking and you tripped and fell because your balance wasn't there.

697
00:25:18.542 --> 00:25:18.651
Oh,

698
00:25:19.042 --> 00:25:21.698
and then you started bicycling or fell off the bicycle.

699
00:25:22.213 --> 00:25:23.526
So there are a lot of things that we...

700
00:25:23.690 --> 00:25:24.590
totally ignore.

701
00:25:24.710 --> 00:25:26.451
So the answer to your question is,

702
00:25:26.910 --> 00:25:33.053
could you still be having residual effects of that injury you had while skateboarding?

703
00:25:33.115 --> 00:25:33.311
Well,

704
00:25:33.334 --> 00:25:34.389
the literature shows

705
00:25:34.975 --> 00:25:38.654
17 plus years after the initial injury,

706
00:25:39.350 --> 00:25:45.936
you can still have the chemistry that's inflammatory and they meter it by a chemical called interleukin-6,

707
00:25:46.732 --> 00:25:48.295
which is an inflammatory marker.

708
00:25:48.482 --> 00:25:50.639
But we have a lot of inflammatory markers.

709
00:25:51.842 --> 00:25:52.123
Okay.

710
00:25:52.590 --> 00:25:55.072
So doing a blood test,

711
00:25:55.132 --> 00:26:02.923
we're just working with a genetics lab for doing inflammatory markers,

712
00:26:03.220 --> 00:26:05.462
RNA for inflammatory markers,

713
00:26:05.861 --> 00:26:06.103
you know,

714
00:26:06.345 --> 00:26:06.501
RNA,

715
00:26:07.048 --> 00:26:07.322
DNA,

716
00:26:07.884 --> 00:26:08.384
so forth.

717
00:26:08.408 --> 00:26:09.533
So we're using RNA,

718
00:26:09.673 --> 00:26:17.892
they're using RNA as the marker to say that the specific inflammatory chemical was turned on to be made.

719
00:26:19.142 --> 00:26:19.251
So

720
00:26:20.033 --> 00:26:20.923
50 markers,

721
00:26:21.361 --> 00:26:22.064
we'll look at that.

722
00:26:22.194 --> 00:26:24.457
and then correlate it to our biomarkers,

723
00:26:24.636 --> 00:26:27.338
our hormonal brain biomarkers,

724
00:26:27.400 --> 00:26:29.060
to see how they relate.

725
00:26:29.580 --> 00:26:32.287
So inflammation can last a long time,

726
00:26:33.287 --> 00:26:34.326
17 plus years.

727
00:26:34.685 --> 00:26:37.552
And you're going to tell me you've never had a fender bender,

728
00:26:38.052 --> 00:26:38.998
a rear end,

729
00:26:39.498 --> 00:26:40.998
or something minor like that,

730
00:26:41.373 --> 00:26:43.888
or a slip and fall,

731
00:26:44.201 --> 00:26:47.091
or wave runner.

732
00:26:47.546 --> 00:26:49.747
or snow skiing or water skiing.

733
00:26:49.907 --> 00:26:50.126
Yeah.

734
00:26:50.346 --> 00:26:50.467
Oh,

735
00:26:50.468 --> 00:26:51.106
I smashed it.

736
00:26:51.107 --> 00:26:51.688
Yeah.

737
00:26:51.708 --> 00:26:51.907
Yes.

738
00:26:52.106 --> 00:26:52.227
No.

739
00:26:52.329 --> 00:26:52.489
Yeah.

740
00:26:52.587 --> 00:26:52.727
Well,

741
00:26:52.728 --> 00:26:52.946
I mean,

742
00:26:53.106 --> 00:26:53.286
yeah,

743
00:26:53.305 --> 00:26:53.649
exactly.

744
00:26:53.650 --> 00:26:53.766
So,

745
00:26:54.067 --> 00:26:57.212
so the brain can over time heal itself.

746
00:26:57.485 --> 00:26:57.665
Well,

747
00:26:57.985 --> 00:26:59.188
I'll explain it to you this way.

748
00:26:59.548 --> 00:27:00.251
You get a cold.

749
00:27:01.907 --> 00:27:03.696
You have a cold for an average of how long?

750
00:27:03.915 --> 00:27:04.727
If you ever get sick?

751
00:27:05.696 --> 00:27:06.087
A week?

752
00:27:06.665 --> 00:27:07.055
A week?

753
00:27:07.118 --> 00:27:07.243
Yeah.

754
00:27:07.368 --> 00:27:07.727
A week.

755
00:27:07.852 --> 00:27:08.790
What happens during that,

756
00:27:09.446 --> 00:27:10.024
that course?

757
00:27:10.477 --> 00:27:11.665
You feel fatigued.

758
00:27:11.727 --> 00:27:12.477
You're irritable.

759
00:27:12.633 --> 00:27:13.774
Don't come and talk to me.

760
00:27:14.196 --> 00:27:14.930
I don't want to eat.

761
00:27:15.024 --> 00:27:15.805
Leave me alone.

762
00:27:16.278 --> 00:27:18.080
I just want to lay here in bed,

763
00:27:18.360 --> 00:27:19.421
close my eyes,

764
00:27:19.802 --> 00:27:20.723
shut the lights off.

765
00:27:20.845 --> 00:27:22.485
And then over a couple of days,

766
00:27:22.524 --> 00:27:23.466
you start feeling better.

767
00:27:23.485 --> 00:27:25.345
You start being more human again.

768
00:27:25.571 --> 00:27:26.587
Unless it's a man cold.

769
00:27:27.470 --> 00:27:28.266
If it's a man cold,

770
00:27:28.267 --> 00:27:29.251
then it might be two weeks.

771
00:27:31.337 --> 00:27:33.415
You take some extra time for good behavior.

772
00:27:33.868 --> 00:27:34.180
Right.

773
00:27:35.634 --> 00:27:38.118
So what happens is that's an acute process.

774
00:27:38.696 --> 00:27:41.337
What happens in traumatic brain injury,

775
00:27:41.446 --> 00:27:42.946
chronic traumatic brain injury,

776
00:27:43.102 --> 00:27:45.165
is that you keep on having dings.

777
00:27:46.094 --> 00:27:52.076
And those dings bring you back up and you come down and you go back up.

778
00:27:52.294 --> 00:28:00.021
So we live in a state of chronic inflammation because of all the toxic chemicals that we're exposed to.

779
00:28:00.115 --> 00:28:10.318
I'm not even talking about the black mold or the microplastic or the endocrine disrupting chemistry or the biophenones or the

780
00:28:11.224 --> 00:28:12.255
XYZ, ABC,

781
00:28:12.505 --> 00:28:14.693
all those letters you can put together in any order.

782
00:28:14.962 --> 00:28:18.926
They'll find a chemical that messes with our biochemistry of the body.

783
00:28:19.485 --> 00:28:24.008
So it's not as straightforward as identifying,

784
00:28:24.070 --> 00:28:24.211
yeah,

785
00:28:24.250 --> 00:28:28.094
I slipped and fell and hit my head against the wall or whatever.

786
00:28:28.656 --> 00:28:32.219
I hit my head in the 1973 earthquake,

787
00:28:32.220 --> 00:28:34.906
1993,

788
00:28:34.907 --> 00:28:35.188
you know,

789
00:28:35.219 --> 00:28:36.610
the Northridge earthquake,

790
00:28:37.016 --> 00:28:38.141
the Simi earthquake.

791
00:28:38.142 --> 00:28:40.422
I was in three or four major earthquakes.

792
00:28:40.485 --> 00:28:40.828
Wow.

793
00:28:40.829 --> 00:28:41.110
Okay.

794
00:28:41.703 --> 00:28:41.844
Yeah.

795
00:28:42.266 --> 00:28:43.266
And in Mexico City.

796
00:28:43.622 --> 00:28:45.784
Horrible one and twice in Mexico City.

797
00:28:46.665 --> 00:28:46.806
Yeah,

798
00:28:46.807 --> 00:28:47.925
because I go there to lecture.

799
00:28:47.926 --> 00:28:51.069
So anything can happen.

800
00:28:51.249 --> 00:28:59.604
And then one of the areas that I was pulled into last year in Tampa from a Sergeant Major in the Green Berets who had lost his son,

801
00:29:00.433 --> 00:29:00.698
Mac,

802
00:29:01.823 --> 00:29:03.386
through suicide.

803
00:29:05.870 --> 00:29:08.714
He was a wrestler and a football player.

804
00:29:09.511 --> 00:29:12.776
And he was having minor dings but repetitive.

805
00:29:13.230 --> 00:29:14.711
And they were subconcussive,

806
00:29:14.751 --> 00:29:16.590
which means that every time he had one,

807
00:29:17.649 --> 00:29:19.110
there was no real symptom.

808
00:29:19.290 --> 00:29:20.590
But over a course of time,

809
00:29:20.633 --> 00:29:21.594
they accumulated.

810
00:29:22.352 --> 00:29:30.251
They massed together and created the biochemical change to alter his ability to think through things,

811
00:29:30.376 --> 00:29:32.376
frontal lobe-related issues.

812
00:29:33.141 --> 00:29:40.672
So we talked about the mechanisms that play in subconcussive trauma or microtraumas,

813
00:29:40.719 --> 00:29:41.297
if you will.

814
00:29:42.018 --> 00:29:44.780
or repetitive head injury traumas.

815
00:29:46.163 --> 00:29:55.370
And then there was an article where they looked at female athletes who had broken a leg or a bone,

816
00:29:56.050 --> 00:29:57.495
never had any head traumas.

817
00:29:57.978 --> 00:29:58.493
What happened?

818
00:29:59.192 --> 00:30:01.613
Their hormonal balance was thrown totally off.

819
00:30:02.613 --> 00:30:05.713
And the reason is because when you break a bone,

820
00:30:06.354 --> 00:30:10.256
you release inflammatory chemicals from that bone fracture.

821
00:30:10.717 --> 00:30:15.592
And that goes right into the brain and turns on all these inflammatory mechanisms.

822
00:30:16.639 --> 00:30:16.858
Also,

823
00:30:16.920 --> 00:30:17.420
the gut.

824
00:30:17.654 --> 00:30:20.358
Why is it that we're looking very heavily into the gut,

825
00:30:20.420 --> 00:30:21.561
the microbiome?

826
00:30:22.061 --> 00:30:25.311
is because chronic gastritis or

827
00:30:25.654 --> 00:30:27.545
GERD or ulcer.

828
00:30:28.128 --> 00:30:29.348
or dysbiosis,

829
00:30:29.388 --> 00:30:29.629
you know,

830
00:30:29.709 --> 00:30:31.308
the bacteria is off in the gut,

831
00:30:31.828 --> 00:30:34.191
that they can cause chronic inflammation,

832
00:30:34.449 --> 00:30:36.386
which alters the brain function.

833
00:30:36.668 --> 00:30:39.051
And in looking at our population,

834
00:30:39.090 --> 00:30:40.988
I said early 78.3%

835
00:30:41.230 --> 00:30:44.472
of our patients are 50 to 100%

836
00:30:44.535 --> 00:30:45.629
better in 12 months.

837
00:30:45.972 --> 00:30:47.597
What happened to the other 30%

838
00:30:47.629 --> 00:30:48.738
when we look deeper,

839
00:30:49.457 --> 00:30:51.910
aside from it being lifestyle related issues,

840
00:30:52.051 --> 00:30:52.707
it was the gut.

841
00:30:53.801 --> 00:30:54.676
And then I dropped

842
00:30:54.756 --> 00:31:00.423
a new paper a couple months ago called The Influence of COVID-19 on the Gut

843
00:31:02.102 --> 00:31:04.462
Microbiota, the bacteria in the gut.

844
00:31:04.946 --> 00:31:10.493
Turns out that you could have gotten the vax or you could have gotten the cold,

845
00:31:10.790 --> 00:31:11.977
the virus itself,

846
00:31:12.430 --> 00:31:17.680
and it wipes out the gut and puts you at high risk for chronic inflammation.

847
00:31:18.134 --> 00:31:23.071
And chronic inflammation is what we need for neurodegenerative diseases.

848
00:31:23.316 --> 00:31:25.658
It's what we need to alter the chemistry in the brain.

849
00:31:26.019 --> 00:31:27.699
So you become depressed,

850
00:31:28.043 --> 00:31:28.461
anxious,

851
00:31:28.621 --> 00:31:29.222
bipolar,

852
00:31:30.484 --> 00:31:31.746
cognitively impaired.

853
00:31:32.129 --> 00:31:34.089
Your short-term memory is gone.

854
00:31:34.449 --> 00:31:36.269
Long-term memory is failing.

855
00:31:37.691 --> 00:31:38.550
Name recall,

856
00:31:38.714 --> 00:31:39.613
word recall,

857
00:31:39.738 --> 00:31:42.097
associations that we develop in our brain,

858
00:31:42.441 --> 00:31:43.097
we're losing it.

859
00:31:43.504 --> 00:31:47.144
Because the communication links are all neurons.

860
00:31:48.113 --> 00:31:52.207
And what happens is drugs like statin drugs to lower cholesterol.

861
00:31:52.688 --> 00:31:53.449
wipes that out.

862
00:31:54.030 --> 00:31:56.091
My mother died of statin dementia.

863
00:31:56.113 --> 00:32:04.023
It's one of the reasons why I went into looking deep dive into this area of Alzheimer's and neurodegenerative diseases.

864
00:32:04.320 --> 00:32:04.499
Yeah.

865
00:32:05.038 --> 00:32:05.304
Water.

866
00:32:05.577 --> 00:32:06.077
Spill water.

867
00:32:06.421 --> 00:32:07.046
Yeah.

868
00:32:07.280 --> 00:32:08.812
You got to have some water.

869
00:32:09.077 --> 00:32:10.843
And for those not watching,

870
00:32:11.187 --> 00:32:11.905
for those listening,

871
00:32:12.046 --> 00:32:13.624
he has his water in a wine glass.

872
00:32:13.952 --> 00:32:15.030
We're still questioning.

873
00:32:17.468 --> 00:32:17.890
Smell it.

874
00:32:19.234 --> 00:32:19.390
Yeah,

875
00:32:19.515 --> 00:32:19.812
great.

876
00:32:21.030 --> 00:32:21.530
White wine.

877
00:32:21.744 --> 00:32:24.446
I'm a red wine drinker.

878
00:32:24.927 --> 00:32:25.048
So,

879
00:32:25.147 --> 00:32:25.368
Doc,

880
00:32:27.710 --> 00:32:31.054
we talked about this neuroinflammation kind of at length here.

881
00:32:33.116 --> 00:32:37.562
What can be done to either counter or prevent,

882
00:32:38.468 --> 00:32:39.827
maybe proactively?

883
00:32:39.937 --> 00:32:41.577
Is there anything that can be done proactively?

884
00:32:43.124 --> 00:32:45.874
And then what can be done to reverse it?

885
00:32:46.124 --> 00:32:46.827
Great question.

886
00:32:47.483 --> 00:32:47.671
Well,

887
00:32:48.187 --> 00:32:50.124
understanding that...

888
00:32:50.456 --> 00:32:57.663
the inflammation is primary because it's the inflammation that down-regulates,

889
00:32:57.765 --> 00:33:00.366
decreases our hormonal production in our brain.

890
00:33:01.390 --> 00:33:04.390
So if we're able to drop the inflammation,

891
00:33:04.507 --> 00:33:06.937
we should be able to regenerate our hormones,

892
00:33:06.999 --> 00:33:07.796
which we've proven.

893
00:33:08.468 --> 00:33:10.593
So what to use to help?

894
00:33:11.515 --> 00:33:13.155
So there are things like quercetin,

895
00:33:15.140 --> 00:33:15.765
vitamin E,

896
00:33:17.062 --> 00:33:17.562
vitamin D.

897
00:33:18.996 --> 00:33:19.677
EGCG,

898
00:33:19.917 --> 00:33:23.563
which is the green tea extract without caffeine.

899
00:33:23.981 --> 00:33:26.422
It's pure extract that can help.

900
00:33:27.164 --> 00:33:27.688
Fish oil,

901
00:33:29.125 --> 00:33:30.328
very important fish oil.

902
00:33:30.984 --> 00:33:31.766
Colonel Michael

903
00:33:32.672 --> 00:33:33.086
Lewis, D.

904
00:33:33.227 --> 00:33:33.531
Lewis,

905
00:33:33.711 --> 00:33:35.086
retired now in

906
00:33:35.617 --> 00:33:36.414
Washington area,

907
00:33:37.055 --> 00:33:37.461
Maryland,

908
00:33:37.492 --> 00:33:37.977
Washington,

909
00:33:38.883 --> 00:33:40.570
wrote a book called

910
00:33:41.102 --> 00:33:42.305
When Brains Collide.

911
00:33:42.586 --> 00:33:43.555
great thesis.

912
00:33:43.633 --> 00:33:48.445
It's what he built when he was actively in the military trying to get the DOD to

913
00:33:48.916 --> 00:33:51.539
increase the omega-3s,

914
00:33:52.340 --> 00:33:52.818
DHA,

915
00:33:53.080 --> 00:33:53.401
EPA,

916
00:33:53.803 --> 00:33:58.186
into the nutrition of our fighting force to give them protection,

917
00:33:59.068 --> 00:33:59.365
okay?

918
00:33:59.928 --> 00:34:01.170
So think of it this way.

919
00:34:03.514 --> 00:34:07.553
Our biological resiliency is like Kevlar,

920
00:34:08.053 --> 00:34:09.443
biological resiliency.

921
00:34:10.022 --> 00:34:12.506
That is how thick our Kevlar is.

922
00:34:13.084 --> 00:34:15.975
So if we do things to thin it out,

923
00:34:16.287 --> 00:34:17.100
drinking alcohol,

924
00:34:17.178 --> 00:34:17.881
not sleeping,

925
00:34:17.882 --> 00:34:18.006
And.

926
00:34:18.264 --> 00:34:19.324
not hydrating well,

927
00:34:19.904 --> 00:34:20.785
poor nutrition,

928
00:34:21.564 --> 00:34:22.203
medication,

929
00:34:22.266 --> 00:34:23.105
bad medication,

930
00:34:23.207 --> 00:34:23.785
drugs,

931
00:34:24.406 --> 00:34:24.844
alcohol,

932
00:34:25.066 --> 00:34:25.727
thins it out.

933
00:34:26.227 --> 00:34:28.109
So when you're exposed to a trauma,

934
00:34:28.562 --> 00:34:29.328
it penetrates.

935
00:34:29.445 --> 00:34:29.727
Well,

936
00:34:29.728 --> 00:34:29.930
I mean,

937
00:34:29.969 --> 00:34:30.469
penetrates,

938
00:34:31.984 --> 00:34:36.211
so your brain has a greater buffer to impact?

939
00:34:36.602 --> 00:34:37.242
Is that what it is?

940
00:34:37.430 --> 00:34:37.711
Yes.

941
00:34:38.164 --> 00:34:38.383
Oh,

942
00:34:38.914 --> 00:34:39.727
wow.

943
00:34:39.883 --> 00:34:40.367
That's right.

944
00:34:40.430 --> 00:34:41.773
There are two systems.

945
00:34:42.148 --> 00:34:43.742
There are two systems in the brain,

946
00:34:44.555 --> 00:34:47.727
one called the glutathione system.

947
00:34:48.152 --> 00:34:54.482
which is a first line of protection against inflammatory free radicals.

948
00:34:55.544 --> 00:34:58.068
And then the second line is called SAD,

949
00:34:58.450 --> 00:35:00.333
superoxide desmutase.

950
00:35:00.779 --> 00:35:01.239
Long name,

951
00:35:01.279 --> 00:35:02.360
that's why they call it sod.

952
00:35:02.720 --> 00:35:04.599
And I always thought they were talking about gardening.

953
00:35:05.218 --> 00:35:06.300
So anyway,

954
00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:11.038
the ability of our body to regenerate that vitamin C,

955
00:35:11.562 --> 00:35:12.218
very important,

956
00:35:12.241 --> 00:35:14.085
but not ascorbic acid,

957
00:35:14.140 --> 00:35:15.085
which is the most common,

958
00:35:15.601 --> 00:35:17.163
but ascorbate palmitate,

959
00:35:17.570 --> 00:35:19.257
which is a palmitic acid,

960
00:35:19.320 --> 00:35:20.116
palm oil,

961
00:35:20.616 --> 00:35:22.991
which helps it to get absorbed into the brain.

962
00:35:23.398 --> 00:35:23.929
What does it do?

963
00:35:24.288 --> 00:35:27.460
Helps regenerate the enzymes that increase glutathione.

964
00:35:28.119 --> 00:35:30.262
So everything we do is about increasing it.

965
00:35:30.301 --> 00:35:33.562
There were three major military studies on

966
00:35:33.965 --> 00:35:35.945
N-acetylcysteine, NAC.

967
00:35:37.109 --> 00:35:37.992
It's a precursor,

968
00:35:38.086 --> 00:35:41.516
two amino acid precursor to the three amino acid glutathione.

969
00:35:42.250 --> 00:35:48.758
So they did a study where they had guys that were out in the field of battle who were exposed within 12 to

970
00:35:50.133 --> 00:35:52.102
72 hours to a blast trauma,

971
00:35:52.539 --> 00:35:54.523
and they were brought in to this study.

972
00:35:55.659 --> 00:35:57.961
Half of them were put on N-acetylcysteine,

973
00:35:58.823 --> 00:36:00.204
four grams for three days,

974
00:36:00.243 --> 00:36:02.485
and then I think one gram for two days thereafter,

975
00:36:02.486 --> 00:36:03.047
and the other group,

976
00:36:03.086 --> 00:36:03.547
placebo.

977
00:36:04.426 --> 00:36:07.270
In the group that received the placebo,

978
00:36:08.934 --> 00:36:09.793
89%

979
00:36:10.270 --> 00:36:13.981
of them developed insomnia,

980
00:36:14.778 --> 00:36:15.184
anger,

981
00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:16.543
and depression.

982
00:36:17.543 --> 00:36:17.856
Okay?

983
00:36:18.309 --> 00:36:20.809
In the group that received the N-acetylcysteine,

984
00:36:22.059 --> 00:36:22.559
86%

985
00:36:23.059 --> 00:36:24.606
of them had no symptoms.

986
00:36:25.955 --> 00:36:26.856
14%

987
00:36:26.876 --> 00:36:32.040
of them developed symptoms similar to the group that were in the placebo group.

988
00:36:32.602 --> 00:36:34.106
And there are a number of studies,

989
00:36:34.622 --> 00:36:38.668
three studies that came out of the government from the medical,

990
00:36:39.208 --> 00:36:40.247
not Walter Reed,

991
00:36:40.309 --> 00:36:42.567
but the medical.

992
00:36:43.958 --> 00:36:44.458
Bethesda.

993
00:36:45.239 --> 00:36:45.348
No,

994
00:36:45.661 --> 00:36:47.582
the other one where it's the research.

995
00:36:48.239 --> 00:36:48.879
Fort Detrick,

996
00:36:48.973 --> 00:36:50.192
they do their research.

997
00:36:50.504 --> 00:36:51.442
Was it Johns Hopkins?

998
00:36:51.708 --> 00:36:51.817
No,

999
00:36:51.895 --> 00:36:52.723
it wasn't Johns Hopkins.

1000
00:36:52.724 --> 00:36:53.145
But anyway,

1001
00:36:53.161 --> 00:36:55.239
it was the military medical.

1002
00:36:56.167 --> 00:36:56.487
Center.

1003
00:36:56.928 --> 00:36:57.148
Okay.

1004
00:36:57.548 --> 00:36:57.749
Okay.

1005
00:36:57.829 --> 00:36:58.950
Military Medical Center.

1006
00:36:59.089 --> 00:37:00.030
And they did the study.

1007
00:37:00.112 --> 00:37:01.312
They're brilliant studies.

1008
00:37:01.714 --> 00:37:06.179
But what they came out to show is how important this protective glutathione is.

1009
00:37:06.601 --> 00:37:08.741
And acylcysteine helps to generate that.

1010
00:37:09.343 --> 00:37:11.163
So we have in our products,

1011
00:37:11.226 --> 00:37:14.866
we put in all the things we've talked about into the product.

1012
00:37:15.304 --> 00:37:17.569
And then we have one which is called

1013
00:37:18.288 --> 00:37:19.194
B is for Brain,

1014
00:37:19.710 --> 00:37:20.491
which has in it

1015
00:37:21.054 --> 00:37:24.819
B vitamins that are very special for protecting the brain from...

1016
00:37:25.511 --> 00:37:26.532
uh,

1017
00:37:26.533 --> 00:37:29.972
emotional impact of inflammation.

1018
00:37:30.331 --> 00:37:30.710
These,

1019
00:37:30.914 --> 00:37:31.831
these folks that were,

1020
00:37:31.894 --> 00:37:32.933
um,

1021
00:37:34.273 --> 00:37:34.656
they were,

1022
00:37:35.210 --> 00:37:35.492
I guess,

1023
00:37:35.593 --> 00:37:36.031
victims,

1024
00:37:36.054 --> 00:37:36.570
if you will,

1025
00:37:36.710 --> 00:37:36.976
of a,

1026
00:37:37.273 --> 00:37:38.976
of a blast of some sort.

1027
00:37:39.937 --> 00:37:45.320
I say victims intentionally because we assess certain blasts and say,

1028
00:37:45.351 --> 00:37:45.554
okay,

1029
00:37:45.601 --> 00:37:45.742
well,

1030
00:37:45.757 --> 00:37:45.976
they're,

1031
00:37:46.570 --> 00:37:53.835
they stepped on a mine or they were close to a mine or they were in a vehicle that an IED hit or something like that.

1032
00:37:54.967 --> 00:37:56.449
But a lot of the time,

1033
00:37:56.549 --> 00:37:57.410
as we've discussed,

1034
00:37:57.430 --> 00:37:57.709
Mark,

1035
00:37:58.430 --> 00:38:06.301
is we're in close proximity to blasts that are intentionally set off by us,

1036
00:38:06.778 --> 00:38:06.996
right?

1037
00:38:07.278 --> 00:38:09.199
So we have a breacher come up on a door,

1038
00:38:09.645 --> 00:38:12.106
slap a slap charge on there and blow it.

1039
00:38:12.590 --> 00:38:12.731
Well,

1040
00:38:12.778 --> 00:38:13.793
we're right next to it,

1041
00:38:14.621 --> 00:38:15.762
and that's a blast.

1042
00:38:16.293 --> 00:38:20.918
Or we're using a Carl Gustav recoilless rifle.

1043
00:38:22.246 --> 00:38:23.090
That's a blast.

1044
00:38:24.311 --> 00:38:25.612
we don't really consider that.

1045
00:38:25.652 --> 00:38:27.194
So there's probably hundreds,

1046
00:38:27.195 --> 00:38:30.259
if not thousands of service members and,

1047
00:38:30.356 --> 00:38:34.220
or veterans who have these blast effects that don't even realize it.

1048
00:38:34.259 --> 00:38:34.603
And then,

1049
00:38:34.759 --> 00:38:38.142
and then they're being administered all sorts of medications,

1050
00:38:38.868 --> 00:38:39.087
um,

1051
00:38:39.188 --> 00:38:42.267
that are even that are masking the symptoms,

1052
00:38:42.313 --> 00:38:44.657
but are not actually addressing the root cause.

1053
00:38:44.704 --> 00:38:44.907
Right.

1054
00:38:45.063 --> 00:38:45.485
Absolutely.

1055
00:38:45.595 --> 00:38:46.032
Well,

1056
00:38:46.313 --> 00:38:47.313
is it the shock waves?

1057
00:38:47.329 --> 00:38:47.657
I'm sorry.

1058
00:38:47.658 --> 00:38:49.798
Is it the shock waves from the blast that like,

1059
00:38:49.799 --> 00:38:50.001
I mean,

1060
00:38:50.002 --> 00:38:53.938
cause obviously our brain is and an aqueous solution and is the shock waves that...

1061
00:38:54.219 --> 00:38:54.479
You know,

1062
00:38:54.499 --> 00:38:56.140
because it's not like you're banging your head.

1063
00:38:56.662 --> 00:38:56.881
Right.

1064
00:38:56.922 --> 00:38:58.502
But you're you know what I mean?

1065
00:38:58.705 --> 00:38:59.346
Is that what it is?

1066
00:38:59.506 --> 00:38:59.685
Well,

1067
00:39:00.525 --> 00:39:03.611
it's an article that is about halfway finished right now,

1068
00:39:03.846 --> 00:39:06.955
which is called Meccano transduction.

1069
00:39:07.713 --> 00:39:09.197
Meccano transduction.

1070
00:39:09.252 --> 00:39:09.994
What does that mean?

1071
00:39:12.994 --> 00:39:14.400
Guys that are on the flight deck,

1072
00:39:14.619 --> 00:39:15.166
engineers,

1073
00:39:15.244 --> 00:39:16.353
flight deck engineers,

1074
00:39:16.744 --> 00:39:19.228
they're working on the engines of the jets.

1075
00:39:19.260 --> 00:39:20.041
They've never been to.

1076
00:39:20.075 --> 00:39:21.596
deployed into the field of battle.

1077
00:39:21.636 --> 00:39:23.315
They're there just working on the engines,

1078
00:39:23.395 --> 00:39:24.317
listening to the roar.

1079
00:39:24.876 --> 00:39:36.497
Turns out that there's a certain decibel and a certain frequency that will cause the vibration of the brain to create inflammation through things called free radicals.

1080
00:39:36.997 --> 00:39:39.544
Free radicals like nitric,

1081
00:39:40.122 --> 00:39:41.075
not nitric oxide,

1082
00:39:41.076 --> 00:39:42.575
like what?

1083
00:39:42.794 --> 00:39:43.700
I'm blanking on them.

1084
00:39:43.794 --> 00:39:47.028
Hydroxyl groups on peroxynitrite,

1085
00:39:47.106 --> 00:39:48.763
on reactive oxygen species.

1086
00:39:49.163 --> 00:39:51.388
active nitrogen species classifications,

1087
00:39:51.909 --> 00:39:54.979
turns out that these turn on,

1088
00:39:55.218 --> 00:39:58.749
activate the immune cells in the brain called microglia.

1089
00:39:59.491 --> 00:40:01.054
So the microglia are there.

1090
00:40:01.627 --> 00:40:02.808
in a resting state.

1091
00:40:03.890 --> 00:40:08.472
And when you have disruption of the control for resting state,

1092
00:40:08.816 --> 00:40:10.214
they become activated.

1093
00:40:10.793 --> 00:40:11.839
And when they're activated,

1094
00:40:11.855 --> 00:40:15.582
they start dumping pro-inflammatory cytokines.

1095
00:40:16.160 --> 00:40:20.043
So the vibration is enough to create the problem.

1096
00:40:20.105 --> 00:40:20.886
So you're right.

1097
00:40:21.183 --> 00:40:23.355
You don't need physical contact.

1098
00:40:24.386 --> 00:40:26.449
And a large group of our patients,

1099
00:40:26.511 --> 00:40:29.652
of our military clients that are with us,

1100
00:40:30.089 --> 00:40:31.293
have never been deployed.

1101
00:40:31.995 --> 00:40:32.916
But they were in what?

1102
00:40:33.536 --> 00:40:34.375
Basic training.

1103
00:40:34.936 --> 00:40:36.297
What did they do in basic training?

1104
00:40:36.458 --> 00:40:40.918
I went to Bragg and was standing on the catwalk overlooking the urban,

1105
00:40:41.497 --> 00:40:41.778
you know,

1106
00:40:42.137 --> 00:40:44.340
the urban breaching that they did.

1107
00:40:44.958 --> 00:40:46.254
I'm having a flak jacket.

1108
00:40:46.301 --> 00:40:47.075
I've got a helmet on.

1109
00:40:47.098 --> 00:40:48.895
I'm standing next to the CO.

1110
00:40:49.801 --> 00:40:51.520
And they go and they breach it.

1111
00:40:51.614 --> 00:40:53.082
And they're using a lesser charge,

1112
00:40:53.114 --> 00:40:53.567
as you know,

1113
00:40:53.645 --> 00:40:53.879
John.

1114
00:40:54.254 --> 00:40:55.582
They're using a lesser charge.

1115
00:40:55.645 --> 00:40:59.786
But I still felt the overpressure standing 13 feet up,

1116
00:41:00.020 --> 00:41:00.739
six foot tall.

1117
00:41:01.083 --> 00:41:02.044
19 feet,

1118
00:41:02.485 --> 00:41:03.626
still felt it.

1119
00:41:04.247 --> 00:41:07.950
And after they went in and they took care of the hajis that were in there,

1120
00:41:08.071 --> 00:41:08.771
whatever they did,

1121
00:41:09.353 --> 00:41:14.298
I turned to the CO and asked him a really important question.

1122
00:41:15.298 --> 00:41:17.939
How much money you guys spend per year on doors?

1123
00:41:20.860 --> 00:41:24.892
He looked at me like it's the weirdest question anyone could ask him,

1124
00:41:24.923 --> 00:41:26.673
but he answered about a million dollars.

1125
00:41:26.970 --> 00:41:27.251
I said,

1126
00:41:27.267 --> 00:41:28.845
you probably have great firewood

1127
00:41:29.475 --> 00:41:29.715
you know,

1128
00:41:30.296 --> 00:41:30.876
in Virginia,

1129
00:41:31.017 --> 00:41:31.897
it gets a little cold,

1130
00:41:31.898 --> 00:41:32.058
huh?

1131
00:41:32.397 --> 00:41:32.679
I mean,

1132
00:41:32.718 --> 00:41:32.839
in

1133
00:41:33.718 --> 00:41:34.358
North Carolina.

1134
00:41:34.640 --> 00:41:35.022
Virginia,

1135
00:41:35.179 --> 00:41:35.761
Fayetteville,

1136
00:41:36.222 --> 00:41:36.843
Bragg.

1137
00:41:36.844 --> 00:41:37.042
Yep.

1138
00:41:37.405 --> 00:41:37.819
For sure.

1139
00:41:38.022 --> 00:41:38.562
But anyway,

1140
00:41:39.468 --> 00:41:42.030
so the problem is perception.

1141
00:41:42.327 --> 00:41:50.601
And one of the arguments I had way back when with the DOD and the VA is their criteria for classifying someone as having

1142
00:41:51.022 --> 00:41:52.976
TBI, mild TBI,

1143
00:41:53.179 --> 00:41:55.054
moderate TBI versus PTSD.

1144
00:41:56.147 --> 00:41:57.335
And the criteria was.

1145
00:41:57.631 --> 00:42:01.996
If you didn't have near loss of consciousness or a Glasgow score

1146
00:42:02.336 --> 00:42:03.437
13 to 15,

1147
00:42:03.476 --> 00:42:04.058
you didn't have,

1148
00:42:04.398 --> 00:42:04.656
you know,

1149
00:42:04.957 --> 00:42:07.398
retrospective or prospective memory loss,

1150
00:42:07.484 --> 00:42:09.062
or you were fatigued or vomiting,

1151
00:42:09.179 --> 00:42:10.164
you didn't have any of that.

1152
00:42:10.781 --> 00:42:12.406
They put you into what classification?

1153
00:42:12.625 --> 00:42:13.187
PTSD.

1154
00:42:14.672 --> 00:42:19.000
So you're immediately given that little baggie with the different colored pills in it and said,

1155
00:42:19.031 --> 00:42:19.156
OK,

1156
00:42:19.406 --> 00:42:20.093
this will help you.

1157
00:42:20.968 --> 00:42:25.953
So they're drooling from the side of the face and they're not having any symptoms because they're suppressed.

1158
00:42:26.995 --> 00:42:29.578
And they feel emotionally disassociated.

1159
00:42:29.998 --> 00:42:30.619
And therefore,

1160
00:42:30.779 --> 00:42:33.060
taking their own life is irrelevant.

1161
00:42:33.744 --> 00:42:41.252
It has nothing to do with anything because they've lost the control system that allows them to evaluate their system and say,

1162
00:42:41.486 --> 00:42:43.556
make decisions that are logical.

1163
00:42:44.416 --> 00:42:48.650
I'm going to go and find an alternative means of treatment because this shit isn't working.

1164
00:42:50.072 --> 00:42:50.337
You know,

1165
00:42:50.462 --> 00:42:56.103
when I was at the beach sitting across from one of the operators,

1166
00:42:56.311 --> 00:42:57.472
with your first name,

1167
00:42:58.794 --> 00:43:00.755
who I had been taking care of long distance.

1168
00:43:01.478 --> 00:43:07.462
And he tells a story that he woke up one morning and he was depressed,

1169
00:43:07.524 --> 00:43:08.345
couldn't get out of bed.

1170
00:43:08.446 --> 00:43:12.454
And because he was one of their choice key operators,

1171
00:43:12.470 --> 00:43:13.204
they sent him to

1172
00:43:13.876 --> 00:43:16.829
Bethesda to Intrepid and whatever else.

1173
00:43:16.830 --> 00:43:19.907
And they ran him through and they found three hormone deficiencies.

1174
00:43:20.329 --> 00:43:21.157
So what did they give him?

1175
00:43:21.642 --> 00:43:23.579
They gave him three antidepressants.

1176
00:43:24.798 --> 00:43:25.798
They send them back.

1177
00:43:26.203 --> 00:43:27.164
They're back to the beach.

1178
00:43:27.564 --> 00:43:28.605
He goes back to the beach.

1179
00:43:28.646 --> 00:43:30.888
The first thing he does is he throws out the medication,

1180
00:43:30.947 --> 00:43:31.748
goes to GNC,

1181
00:43:31.947 --> 00:43:32.708
and picks up the

1182
00:43:33.392 --> 00:43:34.814
DHEA, pregnenolone,

1183
00:43:34.892 --> 00:43:35.431
vitamin D.

1184
00:43:36.173 --> 00:43:39.939
And I come in and I bring him the other aspects of the treatment protocol.

1185
00:43:40.415 --> 00:43:41.275
He's doing very well.

1186
00:43:42.556 --> 00:43:42.697
OK?

1187
00:43:43.337 --> 00:43:43.462
So,

1188
00:43:44.259 --> 00:43:44.525
you know,

1189
00:43:44.681 --> 00:43:45.806
why did he develop it?

1190
00:43:45.822 --> 00:43:46.728
He was breaching.

1191
00:43:46.806 --> 00:43:47.337
My partner,

1192
00:43:47.431 --> 00:43:48.025
Andrew Marr,

1193
00:43:48.228 --> 00:43:49.150
was Green Beret EOD.

1194
00:43:50.165 --> 00:43:51.650
And in his fourth tour of duty,

1195
00:43:51.665 --> 00:43:52.525
he gets blown up.

1196
00:43:52.787 --> 00:43:53.588
knocked unconscious,

1197
00:43:53.628 --> 00:43:54.769
not a scratch on his body.

1198
00:43:54.870 --> 00:43:55.890
But six months later,

1199
00:43:56.351 --> 00:43:57.792
he's on 13 medications,

1200
00:43:57.851 --> 00:43:58.894
full blown alcoholic,

1201
00:43:59.573 --> 00:44:00.597
comes into the program.

1202
00:44:00.655 --> 00:44:01.354
We test him,

1203
00:44:01.675 --> 00:44:02.620
find his deficiency.

1204
00:44:02.636 --> 00:44:03.675
He gets on treatment,

1205
00:44:04.261 --> 00:44:05.019
ends up doing

1206
00:44:06.237 --> 00:44:08.565
MBA at Pepperdine five years ago.

1207
00:44:08.604 --> 00:44:09.839
I think it was four or five years ago.

1208
00:44:10.151 --> 00:44:12.042
He's right now in law school in Texas,

1209
00:44:12.511 --> 00:44:13.886
in a law school.

1210
00:44:14.433 --> 00:44:15.276
So what does that tell you?

1211
00:44:15.292 --> 00:44:15.636
He was,

1212
00:44:16.276 --> 00:44:16.511
you know,

1213
00:44:16.948 --> 00:44:17.714
non-functional.

1214
00:44:17.886 --> 00:44:18.854
Now he's peak.

1215
00:44:19.791 --> 00:44:20.992
absolute back at his peak.

1216
00:44:21.013 --> 00:44:21.433
And he says,

1217
00:44:21.434 --> 00:44:23.495
I'm better now than I was when I enlisted.

1218
00:44:23.694 --> 00:44:23.894
Wow.

1219
00:44:23.913 --> 00:44:24.034
Well,

1220
00:44:24.995 --> 00:44:29.483
why are your methods seem like aren't being utilized everywhere or else?

1221
00:44:29.523 --> 00:44:29.765
I mean,

1222
00:44:30.101 --> 00:44:31.983
and instead like seeing as radical,

1223
00:44:32.140 --> 00:44:32.827
like I mean,

1224
00:44:32.843 --> 00:44:35.585
cause you obviously have done the work,

1225
00:44:35.780 --> 00:44:38.733
have done the studies and have proven,

1226
00:44:39.124 --> 00:44:39.390
you know,

1227
00:44:39.468 --> 00:44:40.624
that if we really look at,

1228
00:44:41.452 --> 00:44:42.015
you know,

1229
00:44:42.016 --> 00:44:42.171
neural,

1230
00:44:42.172 --> 00:44:42.468
you know,

1231
00:44:43.671 --> 00:44:44.874
brain inflammation in a way,

1232
00:44:45.108 --> 00:44:45.343
right.

1233
00:44:45.374 --> 00:44:45.577
That,

1234
00:44:45.655 --> 00:44:46.499
and we can heal it,

1235
00:44:46.577 --> 00:44:46.812
you know,

1236
00:44:46.843 --> 00:44:46.952
by.

1237
00:44:47.307 --> 00:44:50.092
obviously understanding the biochemistry that's going on in the brain and the body.

1238
00:44:50.832 --> 00:44:51.254
But it's like,

1239
00:44:51.255 --> 00:44:55.524
so why do we have like a VA and why do we have a country that they just like,

1240
00:44:55.625 --> 00:44:55.743
oh,

1241
00:44:55.844 --> 00:44:58.305
get on an SSRI or get on some other,

1242
00:44:58.649 --> 00:44:58.891
you know,

1243
00:44:59.086 --> 00:44:59.586
like money.

1244
00:44:59.966 --> 00:45:00.206
I mean,

1245
00:45:00.246 --> 00:45:01.566
why aren't people knocking down your door?

1246
00:45:02.726 --> 00:45:03.386
Two reasons.

1247
00:45:03.607 --> 00:45:04.148
Two reasons.

1248
00:45:04.207 --> 00:45:06.289
Number one is because

1249
00:45:09.851 --> 00:45:13.133
I am a for-profit organization that uses 60%

1250
00:45:13.633 --> 00:45:18.547
of profits from across my entire domain to support our veterans.

1251
00:45:19.250 --> 00:45:19.531
Okay?

1252
00:45:20.047 --> 00:45:20.265
Wow.

1253
00:45:20.672 --> 00:45:21.468
If it was free,

1254
00:45:22.609 --> 00:45:24.656
then there would be a lot more people coming in.

1255
00:45:24.657 --> 00:45:27.609
And that's what I've been working on since 2009.

1256
00:45:28.014 --> 00:45:29.154
is how to get this free.

1257
00:45:29.374 --> 00:45:30.095
For three years,

1258
00:45:30.354 --> 00:45:30.675
Andrew,

1259
00:45:30.874 --> 00:45:32.073
Warrior Angel Foundation,

1260
00:45:32.155 --> 00:45:32.655
Andrew Marr,

1261
00:45:33.175 --> 00:45:33.714
Adam Marr,

1262
00:45:34.554 --> 00:45:36.218
we were paying 100%

1263
00:45:37.179 --> 00:45:38.319
and we both went broke,

1264
00:45:38.936 --> 00:45:39.233
okay?

1265
00:45:40.194 --> 00:45:47.921
Because we saw the good that we were trying to do being more important than making it stable.

1266
00:45:47.983 --> 00:45:50.077
And we learned a very important lesson,

1267
00:45:50.452 --> 00:45:50.702
okay?

1268
00:45:50.733 --> 00:45:52.265
And that's probably why he went into

1269
00:45:52.780 --> 00:45:54.624
MBA, so he can help with the...

1270
00:45:55.122 --> 00:45:57.784
financial issues because we were just doing emotionally.

1271
00:45:58.386 --> 00:45:59.425
People were getting better.

1272
00:46:00.046 --> 00:46:01.147
That's the bottom line.

1273
00:46:01.729 --> 00:46:04.729
So the other aspect is you already said it.

1274
00:46:05.714 --> 00:46:08.776
It's easier just handing them a little bag of medication.

1275
00:46:09.315 --> 00:46:09.495
Right.

1276
00:46:09.800 --> 00:46:11.058
And it's probably more profitable,

1277
00:46:11.292 --> 00:46:12.417
a hell of a lot more profitable,

1278
00:46:12.917 --> 00:46:13.433
I'd imagine.

1279
00:46:13.434 --> 00:46:13.901
Yeah,

1280
00:46:13.995 --> 00:46:14.479
for someone.

1281
00:46:14.745 --> 00:46:15.245
For someone.

1282
00:46:15.479 --> 00:46:16.120
Absolutely.

1283
00:46:16.308 --> 00:46:16.511
Right.

1284
00:46:16.698 --> 00:46:16.839
Right.

1285
00:46:16.840 --> 00:46:17.417
Yeah,

1286
00:46:17.464 --> 00:46:17.886
absolutely.

1287
00:46:18.308 --> 00:46:22.776
So my entire past.

1288
00:46:23.526 --> 00:46:27.348
Last year and this year has been the plight of trying to get awareness out there,

1289
00:46:28.305 --> 00:46:31.606
writing stuff to hopefully get into Pete Hegseth's hands,

1290
00:46:31.684 --> 00:46:32.387
getting it into

1291
00:46:33.411 --> 00:46:37.465
RFK Jr.'s hands and Elon Musk because the cost for our program.

1292
00:46:37.770 --> 00:46:42.372
You know how much it is if a doctor does two MRIs of a patient?

1293
00:46:42.434 --> 00:46:43.184
A couple thousand.

1294
00:46:43.387 --> 00:46:44.465
Or does a spec scan.

1295
00:46:44.950 --> 00:46:51.872
It's $5,000 average for two brain functional MRIs or MRIs.

1296
00:46:52.234 --> 00:46:55.157
And I think it's about $10,000 for a spec scan.

1297
00:46:55.337 --> 00:46:55.597
Jeez.

1298
00:46:55.779 --> 00:46:56.638
Our treatment,

1299
00:46:57.458 --> 00:46:58.259
all-inclusive,

1300
00:46:58.919 --> 00:47:04.103
is around $4,900 to $5,500.

1301
00:47:04.423 --> 00:47:06.525
And they're not in our program for life.

1302
00:47:06.650 --> 00:47:07.150
They come in,

1303
00:47:07.306 --> 00:47:07.853
they get better,

1304
00:47:08.072 --> 00:47:08.587
and they're out.

1305
00:47:08.743 --> 00:47:12.228
We've got a lot of people who finished our program in less than six months.

1306
00:47:12.868 --> 00:47:17.775
We just have a major out of Fort Hood who was in our program for six months.

1307
00:47:17.776 --> 00:47:19.181
He was on eight medications.

1308
00:47:19.603 --> 00:47:20.415
He's now doing a...

1309
00:47:20.478 --> 00:47:26.141
PhD in Texas in an area that will support neuroscience.

1310
00:47:26.618 --> 00:47:26.958
Wow.

1311
00:47:27.180 --> 00:47:30.977
And he's leading our charge in the state of Texas for HB 381,

1312
00:47:31.360 --> 00:47:37.469
which is a bill to fund us for a pilot study with 250 veterans,

1313
00:47:37.470 --> 00:47:37.875
excuse me,

1314
00:47:37.876 --> 00:47:41.000
250 Texans who happen to be veterans.

1315
00:47:41.969 --> 00:47:43.063
So this is what Andrew,

1316
00:47:44.297 --> 00:47:47.063
Joshua and myself have been working on.

1317
00:47:47.922 --> 00:47:49.641
We've been back and forth with in

1318
00:47:49.866 --> 00:47:50.166
Austin,

1319
00:47:50.226 --> 00:47:50.667
Texas.

1320
00:47:51.307 --> 00:47:53.389
I hang out a lot in

1321
00:47:53.809 --> 00:47:54.813
Magnolia, Texas.

1322
00:47:55.731 --> 00:47:59.860
Just picking up this accent that's conflicting with my

1323
00:48:00.235 --> 00:48:02.000
Long Island and drink the water.

1324
00:48:04.860 --> 00:48:05.664
Water's fine.

1325
00:48:05.969 --> 00:48:07.344
Give me a call later,

1326
00:48:07.547 --> 00:48:07.907
okay?

1327
00:48:08.985 --> 00:48:09.750
Yeah.

1328
00:48:09.751 --> 00:48:10.344
I mean,

1329
00:48:10.360 --> 00:48:10.610
actually,

1330
00:48:10.611 --> 00:48:14.110
I know I met Adam and shot out to Adam a while ago.

1331
00:48:14.297 --> 00:48:18.391
He was at with

1332
00:48:18.750 --> 00:48:19.188
Dobler.

1333
00:48:19.478 --> 00:48:43.882
right um who does works with mdma he was out here in york and i got a chance to meet him you know we had tried we scheduled for the show he had to cancel so we're trying to get him back on but like i love what you're doing with or warrior angel project and it's like a lot of this work yeah that's where it's that's where it started and adam's gone into the psychedelic world which is really really uh interesting um you know in hb

1334
00:48:44.679 --> 00:48:49.039
1802 in texas in 2023 with uh

1335
00:48:49.186 --> 00:48:50.526
Rick Perry was part of it.

1336
00:48:50.666 --> 00:48:51.886
Morgan was part of it.

1337
00:48:52.946 --> 00:48:53.226
Morgan,

1338
00:48:53.866 --> 00:48:53.987
yeah,

1339
00:48:54.269 --> 00:48:54.905
Morgan Marcus.

1340
00:48:54.987 --> 00:48:55.288
Morgan.

1341
00:48:55.429 --> 00:48:56.429
Morgan was part of it.

1342
00:48:56.948 --> 00:48:57.210
Also,

1343
00:48:57.405 --> 00:48:59.171
Morgan Luttrell and Congressman,

1344
00:48:59.569 --> 00:49:00.632
and also

1345
00:49:01.108 --> 00:49:01.530
Dr.

1346
00:49:02.187 --> 00:49:03.390
Martin Polanco,

1347
00:49:03.507 --> 00:49:05.765
who's probably the leader in Ibogaine technology.

1348
00:49:06.108 --> 00:49:07.296
And then what happened with

1349
00:49:07.655 --> 00:49:08.608
Amber and

1350
00:49:09.077 --> 00:49:09.983
Marcus Capone.

1351
00:49:10.218 --> 00:49:10.983
Marcus Capone.

1352
00:49:11.171 --> 00:49:11.312
Yeah,

1353
00:49:11.452 --> 00:49:11.858
Capone,

1354
00:49:12.046 --> 00:49:14.827
is that they helped to get the

1355
00:49:16.015 --> 00:49:17.296
Ibogaine moving forward.

1356
00:49:18.934 --> 00:49:26.441
My position on psychedelics is really fundamentally the same as what we've been talking about.

1357
00:49:26.902 --> 00:49:28.441
If there's inflammation in the brain,

1358
00:49:28.465 --> 00:49:33.645
you need to settle that down so that you give psychedelic-assisted therapy so it can work.

1359
00:49:34.613 --> 00:49:36.613
When the chemistry in the brain is off,

1360
00:49:37.348 --> 00:49:41.191
how are we expecting to get the chemistry we're putting into the body,

1361
00:49:41.301 --> 00:49:42.441
the ibogaine,

1362
00:49:42.723 --> 00:49:43.723
the psilocybin,

1363
00:49:43.738 --> 00:49:44.238
the LSD,

1364
00:49:45.004 --> 00:49:45.816
the MDNA,

1365
00:49:46.160 --> 00:49:46.895
the whatever,

1366
00:49:47.379 --> 00:49:48.488
how are we supposed to get it?

1367
00:49:48.566 --> 00:49:54.892
to utilize the biochemical pathways in the brain if they're not there or if they're altered.

1368
00:49:54.893 --> 00:49:55.392
Great point.

1369
00:49:55.533 --> 00:49:55.834
You know,

1370
00:49:56.072 --> 00:50:01.298
so I wrote a paper that was published two years ago on psychedelic.

1371
00:50:02.112 --> 00:50:02.573
spotlight.

1372
00:50:03.013 --> 00:50:06.676
And it basically walked them through the logic of,

1373
00:50:07.679 --> 00:50:11.859
if you want to optimize the treatment with psychedelic-assisted therapy,

1374
00:50:12.359 --> 00:50:14.226
you need to first correct,

1375
00:50:14.586 --> 00:50:17.265
start the process of correcting the biochemistry of the brain.

1376
00:50:18.101 --> 00:50:18.586
Otherwise,

1377
00:50:18.711 --> 00:50:23.320
it's not going to be able to maximize or optimize its benefits.

1378
00:50:23.648 --> 00:50:25.789
And I just got off this morning,

1379
00:50:26.648 --> 00:50:27.914
was a guy who went to Mexico,

1380
00:50:27.976 --> 00:50:29.258
a veteran who went to Mexico.

1381
00:50:30.200 --> 00:50:33.483
He was on our program for about six months before.

1382
00:50:34.105 --> 00:50:39.788
He comes back with this incredible story of how phenomenal he's doing right now.

1383
00:50:40.733 --> 00:50:43.835
And we're going to meter him to see how long it lasts.

1384
00:50:43.851 --> 00:50:47.851
But it should last because the chemistry worked the best.

1385
00:50:48.163 --> 00:50:48.413
I mean,

1386
00:50:48.460 --> 00:50:48.585
the

1387
00:50:49.179 --> 00:50:56.210
Ibogaine that he took had an opportunity to optimize because his chemistry was almost completely optimized.

1388
00:50:56.882 --> 00:50:59.226
and another guy who came to us he said that um

1389
00:51:00.320 --> 00:51:02.743
He's cold turkeyed off his medication.

1390
00:51:02.744 --> 00:51:03.864
He'd been on our program,

1391
00:51:04.884 --> 00:51:09.192
stopped all his psychotropic medication,

1392
00:51:09.247 --> 00:51:10.012
antidepressants,

1393
00:51:10.606 --> 00:51:11.208
all that stuff.

1394
00:51:11.887 --> 00:51:16.192
And he didn't feel any difference from stopping it,

1395
00:51:16.231 --> 00:51:17.762
where he said that in the past,

1396
00:51:17.825 --> 00:51:19.184
before our treatment protocol,

1397
00:51:19.575 --> 00:51:21.294
he tried to stop his medication,

1398
00:51:22.106 --> 00:51:22.669
messed him up.

1399
00:51:23.028 --> 00:51:23.262
Sure.

1400
00:51:23.950 --> 00:51:24.466
Messed him up.

1401
00:51:24.528 --> 00:51:25.419
And that's because,

1402
00:51:25.466 --> 00:51:26.466
as you said earlier,

1403
00:51:26.512 --> 00:51:26.747
John,

1404
00:51:27.309 --> 00:51:27.872
is that the...

1405
00:51:29.012 --> 00:51:39.044
medication doesn't address the causation for why they were put onto the medication because it masks the symptoms and never actually treats the causation,

1406
00:51:39.099 --> 00:51:40.106
the chemical changes,

1407
00:51:40.122 --> 00:51:40.942
the inflammation.

1408
00:51:41.224 --> 00:51:42.645
That's what needs to be addressed.

1409
00:51:43.005 --> 00:51:43.169
Well,

1410
00:51:43.903 --> 00:51:49.294
let's move to one of the hormones we've spoken about on the show before at length,

1411
00:51:49.825 --> 00:51:51.997
and that's specifically testosterone.

1412
00:51:52.278 --> 00:51:52.763
Yeah.

1413
00:51:52.764 --> 00:51:55.091
And then we'll tie it all back together here.

1414
00:51:57.173 --> 00:51:58.734
And before we hit record,

1415
00:51:58.735 --> 00:52:01.337
you said there's another peptide that's better than testosterone.

1416
00:52:01.517 --> 00:52:02.818
And we're going to bring that one up too.

1417
00:52:02.837 --> 00:52:03.560
Okay.

1418
00:52:05.161 --> 00:52:05.521
PT141.

1419
00:52:07.005 --> 00:52:07.341
There it is.

1420
00:52:07.404 --> 00:52:10.489
PT141.

1421
00:52:11.771 --> 00:52:12.427
That's like ET.

1422
00:52:12.505 --> 00:52:12.630
ET.

1423
00:52:12.708 --> 00:52:16.474
It's a miracle.

1424
00:52:17.255 --> 00:52:18.255
Bring me the miracle.

1425
00:52:18.536 --> 00:52:18.677
Yeah.

1426
00:52:18.708 --> 00:52:20.458
Let's dive into this miracle hormone.

1427
00:52:20.474 --> 00:52:20.661
Like,

1428
00:52:20.677 --> 00:52:21.864
why is it misunderstood?

1429
00:52:21.911 --> 00:52:22.099
Like,

1430
00:52:22.130 --> 00:52:22.880
what's the broader,

1431
00:52:23.021 --> 00:52:23.193
like,

1432
00:52:23.302 --> 00:52:23.614
why,

1433
00:52:24.005 --> 00:52:24.239
you know,

1434
00:52:24.318 --> 00:52:24.443
the.

1435
00:52:24.852 --> 00:52:28.576
brain impact health of testosterone and like overall well-being,

1436
00:52:28.615 --> 00:52:33.080
like maybe gives a baseline of actual good testosterone flowing through the body or not good,

1437
00:52:33.103 --> 00:52:33.220
but,

1438
00:52:33.221 --> 00:52:33.463
you know,

1439
00:52:33.564 --> 00:52:36.861
functional testosterone flowing through and what that does for us,

1440
00:52:36.900 --> 00:52:37.564
how it helps us.

1441
00:52:37.627 --> 00:52:37.767
Yeah,

1442
00:52:38.322 --> 00:52:38.947
absolutely.

1443
00:52:39.064 --> 00:52:39.267
Well,

1444
00:52:39.744 --> 00:52:44.353
here's a short list of all the benefits of free testosterone.

1445
00:52:44.759 --> 00:52:53.728
And the reason why I make the distinction between free testosterone and total testosterone is because free testosterone is what does the work.

1446
00:52:54.340 --> 00:52:57.384
total testosterone is a number that only has 2%

1447
00:52:58.444 --> 00:53:00.206
of free testosterone in its number.

1448
00:53:00.288 --> 00:53:00.647
And you say,

1449
00:53:01.007 --> 00:53:01.128
oh,

1450
00:53:01.589 --> 00:53:04.608
my testosterone level is 850.

1451
00:53:06.233 --> 00:53:06.350
So

1452
00:53:06.991 --> 00:53:08.952
I had a guy that was 850,

1453
00:53:09.374 --> 00:53:13.452
but his free testosterone was less than four and it should have been 15.

1454
00:53:14.139 --> 00:53:14.358
Wow.

1455
00:53:14.546 --> 00:53:17.686
So two endocrinologists at the VA kicked him out,

1456
00:53:17.717 --> 00:53:19.780
said your testosterone level is great.

1457
00:53:20.046 --> 00:53:22.842
So he goes to a civilian endocrinologist.

1458
00:53:23.108 --> 00:53:24.810
who does the laboratory testing and says,

1459
00:53:25.130 --> 00:53:25.329
oh,

1460
00:53:25.710 --> 00:53:27.552
your testosterone level is great.

1461
00:53:27.634 --> 00:53:34.142
They were only looking at total testosterone and failed to take in the fact that free testosterone is the key.

1462
00:53:34.540 --> 00:53:36.345
So all those people listening out there,

1463
00:53:36.782 --> 00:53:41.110
focus on the free and it should be 50 percent of the range.

1464
00:53:41.501 --> 00:53:42.360
And for instance,

1465
00:53:42.485 --> 00:53:46.704
so if the range in your laboratory is between 10 and 90,

1466
00:53:47.204 --> 00:53:47.845
take the 10,

1467
00:53:48.048 --> 00:53:48.767
add it to 90.

1468
00:53:48.829 --> 00:53:51.110
It's 100 divided by two and it's 50.

1469
00:53:51.544 --> 00:53:56.648
So it means that you should be at least a 50 on that fictitious range.

1470
00:53:57.370 --> 00:54:02.112
So it's the free testosterone that's the key because it gets into the brain.

1471
00:54:02.316 --> 00:54:03.355
Total testosterone,

1472
00:54:03.356 --> 00:54:03.753
only 2%

1473
00:54:04.175 --> 00:54:05.737
could possibly get into the brain.

1474
00:54:06.276 --> 00:54:08.542
We need free testosterone to get into the brain.

1475
00:54:08.948 --> 00:54:12.230
So here are the benefits of free testosterone.

1476
00:54:12.980 --> 00:54:13.964
Sense of well-being,

1477
00:54:14.026 --> 00:54:14.448
aplomb,

1478
00:54:14.480 --> 00:54:15.073
assertiveness,

1479
00:54:15.120 --> 00:54:15.995
competitiveness,

1480
00:54:16.089 --> 00:54:16.433
memory,

1481
00:54:16.526 --> 00:54:16.948
recall,

1482
00:54:16.964 --> 00:54:18.448
the ability to learn new things,

1483
00:54:18.511 --> 00:54:19.105
great sex,

1484
00:54:19.589 --> 00:54:20.386
great sleep.

1485
00:54:21.124 --> 00:54:22.486
Great creativity,

1486
00:54:23.046 --> 00:54:24.187
playing music,

1487
00:54:24.548 --> 00:54:25.107
writing,

1488
00:54:25.470 --> 00:54:26.048
painting,

1489
00:54:27.431 --> 00:54:28.451
anti-depression.

1490
00:54:29.634 --> 00:54:33.478
These are some of the fundamental benefits of testosterone.

1491
00:54:33.759 --> 00:54:34.759
And you can say energy,

1492
00:54:34.900 --> 00:54:36.283
but fatigue,

1493
00:54:36.361 --> 00:54:36.681
energy,

1494
00:54:36.798 --> 00:54:38.923
libido are multifaceted.

1495
00:54:39.126 --> 00:54:40.423
It's not just one thing,

1496
00:54:40.439 --> 00:54:42.611
and that's where PT-141 comes into play.

1497
00:54:44.673 --> 00:54:44.861
Mark,

1498
00:54:44.892 --> 00:54:45.986
are you selling this stuff?

1499
00:54:46.611 --> 00:54:46.736
No,

1500
00:54:47.126 --> 00:54:48.845
I don't sell any peptides.

1501
00:54:48.970 --> 00:54:50.189
What I do is educate,

1502
00:54:50.236 --> 00:54:50.830
and I'm just...

1503
00:54:50.948 --> 00:55:01.072
building the video on our YouTube site is how we took 127 plus vets with VA orthopedic diagnoses.

1504
00:55:01.514 --> 00:55:02.074
and fixed it.

1505
00:55:04.135 --> 00:55:04.975
Rotator cuff,

1506
00:55:05.135 --> 00:55:06.273
linoleum of the hip,

1507
00:55:06.594 --> 00:55:07.297
back problems,

1508
00:55:07.316 --> 00:55:07.957
knee problems,

1509
00:55:08.074 --> 00:55:09.016
ankle problems,

1510
00:55:10.258 --> 00:55:10.539
elbow,

1511
00:55:11.398 --> 00:55:11.656
you know,

1512
00:55:12.180 --> 00:55:15.594
so which is another discussion on peptides.

1513
00:55:15.595 --> 00:55:16.141
So anyway,

1514
00:55:16.617 --> 00:55:18.711
what is the importance of testosterone?

1515
00:55:20.039 --> 00:55:22.523
The importance is that when it's deficient,

1516
00:55:23.023 --> 00:55:26.258
we age rapidly because of all those things we've lost.

1517
00:55:26.758 --> 00:55:27.727
Depression goes up,

1518
00:55:28.680 --> 00:55:28.945
you know,

1519
00:55:28.946 --> 00:55:29.617
and you've seen the...

1520
00:55:29.942 --> 00:55:32.085
possibly the article out of Task and Purpose,

1521
00:55:32.845 --> 00:55:44.734
where the Congress was pushing against the DOD to test all operators for low testosterone and if they're deficient in testosterone,

1522
00:55:45.194 --> 00:55:47.476
to replace the testosterone.

1523
00:55:48.226 --> 00:55:50.757
So I was called by the senior writer for that article,

1524
00:55:50.882 --> 00:55:51.179
Patty,

1525
00:55:51.851 --> 00:55:52.741
and she told me this.

1526
00:55:53.101 --> 00:55:53.851
And I said to her,

1527
00:55:54.351 --> 00:55:57.304
that is the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard.

1528
00:55:57.585 --> 00:55:58.023
And I said,

1529
00:55:58.132 --> 00:55:58.366
oops.

1530
00:55:58.618 --> 00:55:59.339
I apologize.

1531
00:55:59.359 --> 00:55:59.999
I'm a New Yorker.

1532
00:56:00.019 --> 00:56:00.300
She says,

1533
00:56:00.340 --> 00:56:00.819
no problem.

1534
00:56:00.880 --> 00:56:01.161
Why?

1535
00:56:01.642 --> 00:56:05.065
So I explained to her the following two very important things.

1536
00:56:05.886 --> 00:56:06.366
Number one,

1537
00:56:07.085 --> 00:56:11.530
you guys are exposed to multiple means of inflammation.

1538
00:56:11.608 --> 00:56:13.796
So inflammation occurs in the brain.

1539
00:56:14.155 --> 00:56:15.960
And as I already talked about,

1540
00:56:16.335 --> 00:56:21.085
that inflammation shuts down the communication between the hypothalamus and the pituitary.

1541
00:56:21.444 --> 00:56:24.444
So it can't make the signal to tell the ovaries,

1542
00:56:24.460 --> 00:56:25.163
the gonads,

1543
00:56:25.444 --> 00:56:26.241
to make hormones.

1544
00:56:26.804 --> 00:56:27.272
Number one.

1545
00:56:27.866 --> 00:56:28.194
Number two.

1546
00:56:28.230 --> 00:56:28.350
two,

1547
00:56:29.710 --> 00:56:31.731
I was educated on this by you guys.

1548
00:56:32.232 --> 00:56:33.592
You guys suck up

1549
00:56:34.092 --> 00:56:35.791
Motrin, ibuprofen,

1550
00:56:36.232 --> 00:56:37.248
like it doesn't,

1551
00:56:37.654 --> 00:56:37.912
you know,

1552
00:56:38.053 --> 00:56:39.092
like it's the last day.

1553
00:56:39.209 --> 00:56:40.295
You got a special on it.

1554
00:56:40.334 --> 00:56:42.576
You get 100 tablets for free,

1555
00:56:42.732 --> 00:56:44.607
and then you pay a penny for another million.

1556
00:56:45.217 --> 00:56:48.514
So you guys are sucking up 800 milligrams,

1557
00:56:48.748 --> 00:56:49.029
two,

1558
00:56:49.389 --> 00:56:50.451
four tablets a day,

1559
00:56:50.951 --> 00:56:51.811
not for a day,

1560
00:56:52.170 --> 00:56:52.920
not for a week.

1561
00:56:53.123 --> 00:56:56.982
I've got guys nine months to a year on chronic...

1562
00:56:57.258 --> 00:56:57.999
ibuprofen,

1563
00:56:58.559 --> 00:57:03.625
which is in a classification called non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs,

1564
00:57:04.246 --> 00:57:05.106
NSAID,

1565
00:57:05.465 --> 00:57:05.723
okay,

1566
00:57:06.004 --> 00:57:06.465
NSAIDs.

1567
00:57:07.465 --> 00:57:09.246
So what's important about this?

1568
00:57:09.614 --> 00:57:09.793
Well,

1569
00:57:09.809 --> 00:57:12.129
in 2018,

1570
00:57:12.473 --> 00:57:13.410
my world,

1571
00:57:13.520 --> 00:57:15.473
my neuroendocrine world got rocked.

1572
00:57:15.910 --> 00:57:18.801
An article was published in 2017,

1573
00:57:18.802 --> 00:57:21.520
I didn't get to it until 2018,

1574
00:57:21.535 --> 00:57:22.239
from Denmark.

1575
00:57:22.364 --> 00:57:23.317
And what did they find?

1576
00:57:23.817 --> 00:57:24.379
They found that...

1577
00:57:24.594 --> 00:57:34.404
all these non-steroidal anti-inflammatories indexed by ibuprofen shut down the ability of gonads to respond to luteinizing hormone.

1578
00:57:35.521 --> 00:57:37.427
So the signal coming from the brain is saying,

1579
00:57:37.505 --> 00:57:37.747
okay,

1580
00:57:37.826 --> 00:57:38.544
make testosterone,

1581
00:57:38.545 --> 00:57:39.232
make testosterone.

1582
00:57:39.451 --> 00:57:40.130
And what's happening?

1583
00:57:40.349 --> 00:57:48.224
You're not making any because there's a block and the block is in the ability of the signal to be sent to the nucleus,

1584
00:57:48.833 --> 00:57:51.177
which codes out for testosterone production.

1585
00:57:52.740 --> 00:57:53.583
So you lose that.

1586
00:57:54.398 --> 00:57:56.240
So you lose that.

1587
00:57:56.780 --> 00:58:01.063
So what's the natural response by traditional doctors?

1588
00:58:01.247 --> 00:58:01.426
Oh,

1589
00:58:01.446 --> 00:58:02.926
just hit them with testosterone.

1590
00:58:04.247 --> 00:58:05.465
Just give them testosterone.

1591
00:58:05.567 --> 00:58:10.075
And that burns out the system in the brain and burns out the systems in the gonads.

1592
00:58:10.731 --> 00:58:13.512
So what we've been doing since 2014,

1593
00:58:13.762 --> 00:58:18.637
and we did a three-year veteran study on the use of clomiphene citrate.

1594
00:58:19.184 --> 00:58:21.762
We've got over 1,000 people on it right now.

1595
00:58:22.481 --> 00:58:22.684
And

1596
00:58:23.022 --> 00:58:27.608
that is what's stimulating their brain to produce the luteinizing hormone.

1597
00:58:28.069 --> 00:58:29.147
So as I just said,

1598
00:58:29.170 --> 00:58:32.334
if they've been on ibuprofen or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory,

1599
00:58:32.709 --> 00:58:34.475
you're producing the luteinizing hormone.

1600
00:58:34.514 --> 00:58:36.412
But when it gets to the gonads to say,

1601
00:58:36.475 --> 00:58:37.436
make testosterone,

1602
00:58:37.717 --> 00:58:38.561
it can't do that.

1603
00:58:40.061 --> 00:58:47.029
So what we were doing is we were raising the luteinizing hormone very high to force the testicles to respond.

1604
00:58:47.123 --> 00:58:47.670
And they did.

1605
00:58:48.186 --> 00:58:50.342
And then in 2020,

1606
00:58:50.576 --> 00:58:52.514
an article came out and saved us.

1607
00:58:53.002 --> 00:58:53.803
What did they find?

1608
00:58:54.244 --> 00:58:56.845
A mineral fixes the problem.

1609
00:58:57.464 --> 00:58:58.007
Selenium.

1610
00:58:59.230 --> 00:59:11.043
200 micrograms twice a day for eight weeks helps to fix the problem that ibuprofen or the non-steroidals created to the testes.

1611
00:59:11.214 --> 00:59:13.589
Can't you get selenium in like Brazil nuts?

1612
00:59:13.605 --> 00:59:14.386
Brazilian nuts.

1613
00:59:14.871 --> 00:59:15.652
These nuts.

1614
00:59:15.699 --> 00:59:15.886
Yeah,

1615
00:59:15.980 --> 00:59:16.371
these nuts.

1616
00:59:16.372 --> 00:59:17.183
Brazilian nuts.

1617
00:59:17.652 --> 00:59:18.449
The Brazilian nuts.

1618
00:59:18.527 --> 00:59:20.793
The nuts that help your nuts.

1619
00:59:21.238 --> 00:59:28.345
544 micrograms of selenium in five Brazil nuts.

1620
00:59:29.830 --> 00:59:30.728
Cashews have it,

1621
00:59:30.767 --> 00:59:32.713
but Brazil nuts are the very best.

1622
00:59:33.111 --> 00:59:33.447
Okay.

1623
00:59:33.853 --> 00:59:35.572
So there are natural ways of getting it.

1624
00:59:35.611 --> 00:59:37.150
Plus you get the oils from it.

1625
00:59:37.174 --> 00:59:39.142
So it's good for the skin and so forth.

1626
00:59:39.970 --> 00:59:50.205
So what we do first is we fix the inflammation and we address their history of ibuprofen use.

1627
00:59:50.767 --> 00:59:50.908
and

1628
00:59:51.018 --> 00:59:52.319
And in doing our blood panel,

1629
00:59:52.339 --> 00:59:54.202
the 28-point biomarker panel,

1630
00:59:54.682 --> 00:59:57.963
we see the pattern that is classical.

1631
00:59:58.662 --> 01:00:01.786
for ibuprofen or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory use,

1632
01:00:02.206 --> 01:00:05.610
where the luteinized hormone is high and testosterone is low.

1633
01:00:07.430 --> 01:00:08.891
So the major out of Fort Hood,

1634
01:00:10.516 --> 01:00:11.438
that was his pattern.

1635
01:00:12.454 --> 01:00:13.539
Six months on treatment,

1636
01:00:13.555 --> 01:00:17.477
he's off of his psychotropic medication and whatever,

1637
01:00:17.946 --> 01:00:18.727
eight medications,

1638
01:00:19.258 --> 01:00:20.524
and he stops our program.

1639
01:00:20.836 --> 01:00:23.243
He's still maintaining at 48 years of age,

1640
01:00:23.649 --> 01:00:26.727
a level of testosterone that's higher than mine.

1641
01:00:27.258 --> 01:00:28.499
13.4.

1642
01:00:28.579 --> 01:00:30.041
The median is 15.

1643
01:00:30.481 --> 01:00:32.061
That's the free testosterone.

1644
01:00:32.062 --> 01:00:33.104
That's only free.

1645
01:00:33.225 --> 01:00:35.623
I'll only talk about free testosterone.

1646
01:00:35.865 --> 01:00:36.108
Okay.

1647
01:00:36.428 --> 01:00:36.725
Right.

1648
01:00:36.726 --> 01:00:38.772
Let's take it a step further with NSAIDs.

1649
01:00:38.967 --> 01:00:41.592
And it gets even a little scarier as like your paper,

1650
01:00:41.936 --> 01:00:45.319
the two eyes of hypogonadotism.

1651
01:00:45.350 --> 01:00:45.990
Is that what you said?

1652
01:00:46.100 --> 01:00:46.537
Gonadotism.

1653
01:00:46.709 --> 01:00:46.897
Right.

1654
01:00:47.084 --> 01:00:47.319
And then,

1655
01:00:47.584 --> 01:00:47.772
right.

1656
01:00:47.819 --> 01:00:48.225
Gonadotism.

1657
01:00:48.226 --> 01:00:49.256
I haven't released that yet.

1658
01:00:49.334 --> 01:00:50.194
How'd you get a copy?

1659
01:00:50.897 --> 01:00:51.600
You sent it to me,

1660
01:00:51.662 --> 01:00:51.834
Mark.

1661
01:00:51.835 --> 01:00:52.756
You sent it to us through.

1662
01:00:52.757 --> 01:00:52.819
Oh,

1663
01:00:52.850 --> 01:00:54.490
thank God.

1664
01:00:54.506 --> 01:00:54.631
Yeah.

1665
01:00:54.632 --> 01:00:56.522
I give you information.

1666
01:00:57.014 --> 01:00:57.134
Well,

1667
01:00:57.135 --> 01:00:57.294
I mean,

1668
01:00:57.295 --> 01:00:58.135
we could talk about this,

1669
01:00:58.195 --> 01:00:58.396
right?

1670
01:00:58.435 --> 01:00:59.497
This is published.

1671
01:00:59.517 --> 01:00:59.857
Yeah,

1672
01:00:59.997 --> 01:01:00.277
okay.

1673
01:01:00.779 --> 01:01:00.939
Well,

1674
01:01:00.997 --> 01:01:03.419
pregnant mothers and a placenta and

1675
01:01:03.822 --> 01:01:10.568
NSAIDs disrupting fetal testosterone synthesis and causing shorter androgenital distance,

1676
01:01:10.990 --> 01:01:11.591
AGTA,

1677
01:01:11.685 --> 01:01:12.607
which is the taint.

1678
01:01:12.646 --> 01:01:13.833
I believe we can think it's a taint,

1679
01:01:13.865 --> 01:01:14.052
right?

1680
01:01:14.427 --> 01:01:17.568
In males is a biomarker for reproductive issues.

1681
01:01:17.958 --> 01:01:18.240
I mean,

1682
01:01:18.255 --> 01:01:18.802
this is like,

1683
01:01:19.880 --> 01:01:20.552
this is happening,

1684
01:01:20.771 --> 01:01:20.958
right?

1685
01:01:21.333 --> 01:01:21.693
Mothers,

1686
01:01:21.740 --> 01:01:22.365
if they're taking,

1687
01:01:22.802 --> 01:01:23.052
I guess,

1688
01:01:23.162 --> 01:01:23.974
too much or...

1689
01:01:24.374 --> 01:01:51.596
or any uh and said any kind of thing any could could actually have like and and then it goes even you take a step further transgenerational could be a problem down the road god it's like we're gonna have we're gonna wrap it up everybody eventually with some like good news but right now like i think this is important news as well so please dr mark take us to this well um you saw the first paper that i did which was called um the shadow the shadow oh that was the the

1690
01:01:52.134 --> 01:01:54.074
That's TBI in the shadow of PTSD.

1691
01:01:54.274 --> 01:02:02.914
But the article that was from 2023 was on endocrine disrupting chemistry and gender dysphoria.

1692
01:02:03.235 --> 01:02:03.360
Oh,

1693
01:02:03.414 --> 01:02:03.633
wow.

1694
01:02:04.156 --> 01:02:04.453
Okay.

1695
01:02:04.656 --> 01:02:05.656
It's on my website.

1696
01:02:06.039 --> 01:02:09.485
It's good I didn't send it to you because then I'd sit back and let you talk about it.

1697
01:02:09.875 --> 01:02:10.000
No.

1698
01:02:11.422 --> 01:02:11.578
Oh,

1699
01:02:11.813 --> 01:02:12.235
I get this.

1700
01:02:12.985 --> 01:02:13.094
No,

1701
01:02:14.000 --> 01:02:16.000
you're spot on with the paper.

1702
01:02:16.406 --> 01:02:16.531
Yeah,

1703
01:02:16.719 --> 01:02:20.000
you're spot on the two eyes of hypogonadism.

1704
01:02:20.410 --> 01:02:21.331
So what they found is,

1705
01:02:21.391 --> 01:02:22.132
as you said,

1706
01:02:22.512 --> 01:02:26.717
the transgenerational is where a mother is allowed to take Motrin,

1707
01:02:26.857 --> 01:02:29.861
not allowed to take Tylenol or to take aspirin,

1708
01:02:30.322 --> 01:02:33.205
but allowed to use ibuprofen or naproxen,

1709
01:02:33.244 --> 01:02:33.822
I think it is.

1710
01:02:34.346 --> 01:02:41.314
And it goes across the placenta and diminishes the response of hormones.

1711
01:02:41.736 --> 01:02:46.471
So that we need at between six and seven weeks of gestation,

1712
01:02:46.830 --> 01:02:48.814
we need our first hormone pulse.

1713
01:02:49.170 --> 01:02:50.070
to establish

1714
01:02:50.430 --> 01:02:52.511
XX or XY as the gender.

1715
01:02:52.970 --> 01:02:54.212
Then after birth,

1716
01:02:54.290 --> 01:02:55.673
between one and three months,

1717
01:02:55.790 --> 01:03:01.950
another pulse occurs to reinforce the original pulse that happened in utero,

1718
01:03:02.810 --> 01:03:03.310
in the womb,

1719
01:03:03.653 --> 01:03:03.935
okay?

1720
01:03:04.552 --> 01:03:06.067
So if you interrupt that,

1721
01:03:06.161 --> 01:03:08.052
you end up having gender dysphoria.

1722
01:03:08.255 --> 01:03:09.489
And I'm going through,

1723
01:03:09.880 --> 01:03:11.677
I wrote that article in 23,

1724
01:03:11.678 --> 01:03:12.161
I think it was,

1725
01:03:12.536 --> 01:03:16.911
but it had been a thought for a long period of time as I started seeing more...

1726
01:03:18.402 --> 01:03:22.083
gender dysphoria occurring as we move forward in years.

1727
01:03:22.583 --> 01:03:26.184
So I'm looking at how about the use of all these non-steroidals?

1728
01:03:26.223 --> 01:03:29.368
They've gotten more and more and more because the other drugs,

1729
01:03:29.423 --> 01:03:30.407
Tylenol and aspirin,

1730
01:03:30.485 --> 01:03:34.126
have been removed and the non-steroidals have been put into play.

1731
01:03:34.751 --> 01:03:43.595
They didn't even know that it created this problem with hormonal production or with the endocrine disrupting aspect of it.

1732
01:03:43.813 --> 01:03:44.907
What do you do to fix it?

1733
01:03:45.548 --> 01:03:46.766
Is selenium the answer?

1734
01:03:47.204 --> 01:03:47.704
I don't know.

1735
01:03:47.994 --> 01:03:52.156
I think the real answer is staying off all these medication,

1736
01:03:52.258 --> 01:03:52.598
drugs,

1737
01:03:52.641 --> 01:03:54.801
and whatever that you have,

1738
01:03:55.062 --> 01:03:55.320
you know,

1739
01:03:55.543 --> 01:03:59.344
that during gestation until you're seven,

1740
01:03:59.930 --> 01:04:00.086
what,

1741
01:04:00.406 --> 01:04:01.008
second,

1742
01:04:02.508 --> 01:04:02.766
second,

1743
01:04:02.805 --> 01:04:03.828
third trimester,

1744
01:04:04.867 --> 01:04:05.945
unless you really need it.

1745
01:04:06.367 --> 01:04:09.101
Just like you stop drinking alcohol when you're pregnant.

1746
01:04:09.273 --> 01:04:09.508
Most,

1747
01:04:09.883 --> 01:04:11.476
most cognitive people do.

1748
01:04:11.961 --> 01:04:13.461
We're broadcasting the world now.

1749
01:04:13.586 --> 01:04:15.383
Stay off the NSAIDs when you're pregnant.

1750
01:04:15.638 --> 01:04:15.938
out there,

1751
01:04:15.958 --> 01:04:16.299
ladies.

1752
01:04:16.399 --> 01:04:17.520
Stay off them altogether,

1753
01:04:17.539 --> 01:04:18.141
it sounds like.

1754
01:04:18.301 --> 01:04:23.264
I've got tons of reference articles in that paper to support the position.

1755
01:04:24.166 --> 01:04:24.909
And all I do is,

1756
01:04:24.987 --> 01:04:25.127
look,

1757
01:04:25.151 --> 01:04:26.166
I'm not a genius.

1758
01:04:26.268 --> 01:04:27.729
What I do is I love reading.

1759
01:04:28.854 --> 01:04:29.870
And in the reading,

1760
01:04:30.354 --> 01:04:32.127
and because of what I've been on,

1761
01:04:32.190 --> 01:04:33.190
I've been on my own treatment,

1762
01:04:33.191 --> 01:04:35.002
the stuff that you're looking at getting onto.

1763
01:04:35.096 --> 01:04:37.815
I've been on this since 1997,

1764
01:04:38.315 --> 01:04:38.784
official.

1765
01:04:39.455 --> 01:04:41.362
95 is when I started in 97,

1766
01:04:41.409 --> 01:04:43.268
when I officially got on to everything.

1767
01:04:43.642 --> 01:04:46.267
based upon that laboratory testing that found growth hormone,

1768
01:04:46.626 --> 01:04:47.189
testosterone,

1769
01:04:47.190 --> 01:04:48.289
and thyroid deficiency.

1770
01:04:49.332 --> 01:04:54.343
And my capacity for reading is quite high.

1771
01:04:55.242 --> 01:04:56.664
I see it in our population,

1772
01:04:56.789 --> 01:04:58.546
people who are failing in school,

1773
01:04:58.789 --> 01:04:59.546
go back to school,

1774
01:04:59.656 --> 01:05:00.687
get their PhDs.

1775
01:05:00.997 --> 01:05:03.159
I've got two guys who got their PAs.

1776
01:05:04.140 --> 01:05:05.161
One of them works with

1777
01:05:06.884 --> 01:05:08.044
SOA. You know SOA.

1778
01:05:08.825 --> 01:05:12.388
So their doc who's a PA or their medical officers of

1779
01:05:13.286 --> 01:05:14.013
PA, Ryan,

1780
01:05:15.270 --> 01:05:16.153
did very well.

1781
01:05:16.333 --> 01:05:17.809
He's been trained in all our stuff,

1782
01:05:17.888 --> 01:05:19.247
has access to all our stuff.

1783
01:05:21.763 --> 01:05:23.184
So anyway,

1784
01:05:23.653 --> 01:05:25.700
there's a lot of danger out there,

1785
01:05:26.325 --> 01:05:28.091
and we're ignoring it.

1786
01:05:28.106 --> 01:05:30.669
That's why this awareness is so very important.

1787
01:05:30.801 --> 01:05:31.822
I'm glad you're helping us today.

1788
01:05:32.041 --> 01:05:32.541
Thank you.

1789
01:05:32.642 --> 01:05:33.081
I'm trying.

1790
01:05:33.382 --> 01:05:34.042
So my question,

1791
01:05:34.322 --> 01:05:37.804
my next question is related to testosterone,

1792
01:05:37.805 --> 01:05:40.683
but it's with females.

1793
01:05:42.066 --> 01:05:48.245
What studies have you done and what effects have you seen with your protocol in females?

1794
01:05:48.542 --> 01:05:48.730
Well,

1795
01:05:49.058 --> 01:05:54.230
we do the exact same testing in males as females.

1796
01:05:55.230 --> 01:05:55.511
Okay.

1797
01:05:56.167 --> 01:05:57.245
And if they're deficient,

1798
01:05:58.011 --> 01:06:00.230
we put them on hormones that they need.

1799
01:06:00.389 --> 01:06:01.210
testosterone,

1800
01:06:01.550 --> 01:06:02.311
progesterone,

1801
01:06:02.972 --> 01:06:03.612
estriol,

1802
01:06:04.253 --> 01:06:05.075
estradiol.

1803
01:06:05.735 --> 01:06:08.595
And in 2005 or 2006,

1804
01:06:08.596 --> 01:06:16.001
we started a project for females where it's intravaginal introduced cream.

1805
01:06:16.970 --> 01:06:17.766
A lot of women,

1806
01:06:18.110 --> 01:06:19.813
when they go to their OBGYNs,

1807
01:06:19.829 --> 01:06:21.345
they give them topical creams,

1808
01:06:21.423 --> 01:06:24.188
but you can't put testosterone on the top,

1809
01:06:24.454 --> 01:06:29.595
on the skin of women because it causes their hair to get darker and to increase density.

1810
01:06:30.277 --> 01:06:30.557
Okay.

1811
01:06:31.158 --> 01:06:33.441
So they were putting it on the inner thigh,

1812
01:06:33.461 --> 01:06:35.762
but what we did in 2005,

1813
01:06:35.863 --> 01:06:40.367
six with the nurse and with two females that became our key,

1814
01:06:40.711 --> 01:06:41.008
uh,

1815
01:06:41.570 --> 01:06:42.265
our primary,

1816
01:06:42.328 --> 01:06:42.547
uh,

1817
01:06:42.828 --> 01:06:45.531
recipients of the technology intravaginal,

1818
01:06:45.633 --> 01:06:46.758
very small dosing,

1819
01:06:47.054 --> 01:06:52.554
and it gets absorbed and it helps immensely because when you put it on the skin,

1820
01:06:52.601 --> 01:06:54.179
it's got to go through all these layers.

1821
01:06:54.965 --> 01:07:00.069
And there's an enzyme in the skin that converts the free testosterone to dihydrotestosterone,

1822
01:07:00.432 --> 01:07:01.612
which can't get into the brain.

1823
01:07:02.213 --> 01:07:02.994
It's made in the brain.

1824
01:07:03.033 --> 01:07:05.315
It can't get past the periphery,

1825
01:07:05.955 --> 01:07:07.760
the brain blood barrier into the brain.

1826
01:07:08.158 --> 01:07:09.518
So you need free testosterone.

1827
01:07:09.519 --> 01:07:11.182
So in the women we give testosterone,

1828
01:07:11.354 --> 01:07:12.635
they get the same benefits.

1829
01:07:13.697 --> 01:07:14.463
Clear mind,

1830
01:07:14.666 --> 01:07:15.447
more energy,

1831
01:07:15.822 --> 01:07:16.932
libido goes up.

1832
01:07:17.463 --> 01:07:17.713
You know,

1833
01:07:17.744 --> 01:07:19.854
I've had it with the guys more than with the women,

1834
01:07:20.244 --> 01:07:21.713
where the wives will call me and say,

1835
01:07:21.791 --> 01:07:21.916
look,

1836
01:07:22.026 --> 01:07:23.229
whatever you give my husband,

1837
01:07:23.526 --> 01:07:24.057
decrease it,

1838
01:07:24.088 --> 01:07:24.494
please.

1839
01:07:26.759 --> 01:07:27.800
and I respect that.

1840
01:07:28.179 --> 01:07:28.461
Okay.

1841
01:07:29.582 --> 01:07:30.582
Decrease it please.

1842
01:07:30.863 --> 01:07:31.804
And from the women,

1843
01:07:32.144 --> 01:07:33.082
I hear the opposite.

1844
01:07:33.105 --> 01:07:33.425
I said,

1845
01:07:33.504 --> 01:07:34.425
can I get a little more?

1846
01:07:35.527 --> 01:07:36.527
Can I get a little more?

1847
01:07:36.972 --> 01:07:38.972
Their work is better.

1848
01:07:39.230 --> 01:07:39.996
Their cognition,

1849
01:07:40.011 --> 01:07:40.449
as I said,

1850
01:07:40.550 --> 01:07:40.855
memory,

1851
01:07:40.980 --> 01:07:41.308
recall,

1852
01:07:41.309 --> 01:07:42.636
the ability to learn new things.

1853
01:07:42.699 --> 01:07:43.621
Cognition is better.

1854
01:07:43.652 --> 01:07:44.574
They're sleeping better.

1855
01:07:45.324 --> 01:07:46.324
Mood is great.

1856
01:07:47.136 --> 01:07:52.449
As long as you stay within the physiological level for free testosterone.

1857
01:07:53.109 --> 01:07:56.152
There's a side effect of free testosterone that

1858
01:07:56.492 --> 01:08:00.017
I've only seen in less than a dozen patients in the

1859
01:08:00.818 --> 01:08:02.537
20 years I've been working with the military,

1860
01:08:03.341 --> 01:08:05.459
and that is panic attacks.

1861
01:08:06.060 --> 01:08:06.185
Oh,

1862
01:08:06.302 --> 01:08:06.826
wow.

1863
01:08:07.185 --> 01:08:07.404
Yeah.

1864
01:08:08.404 --> 01:08:16.091
Turns out that too high of a level of testosterone will turn on a chemical in the brain called adenyl cyclase,

1865
01:08:16.138 --> 01:08:17.232
which is like speed.

1866
01:08:18.591 --> 01:08:18.935
And then

1867
01:08:19.420 --> 01:08:20.779
I'm just dealing with...

1868
01:08:22.069 --> 01:08:25.051
an individual who said on testosterone,

1869
01:08:25.612 --> 01:08:26.735
he's lost his libido.

1870
01:08:27.973 --> 01:08:35.301
It turns out the same chemical adenyl cyclase is important for maintaining erections and getting erections.

1871
01:08:36.645 --> 01:08:39.926
And after long-term use of testosterone,

1872
01:08:40.364 --> 01:08:43.005
you burn out the adenyl cyclase.

1873
01:08:43.364 --> 01:08:47.801
So you create from a sufficiency to a deficiency.

1874
01:08:48.551 --> 01:08:50.020
And that's where you start having...

1875
01:08:50.609 --> 01:08:51.889
libido-related issues.

1876
01:08:52.629 --> 01:08:53.110
And then

1877
01:08:54.930 --> 01:08:57.930
PT phone home comes into play.

1878
01:08:58.449 --> 01:09:06.656
PT-141 is this amazing peptide that was developed in Russia.

1879
01:09:07.313 --> 01:09:08.453
And it's a snippet.

1880
01:09:08.610 --> 01:09:09.594
It's a peptide,

1881
01:09:09.610 --> 01:09:15.016
which is a small amount of amino acids in a chain that comes off of our ACTH,

1882
01:09:15.094 --> 01:09:17.235
adrenocorticotropic releasing hormone,

1883
01:09:17.891 --> 01:09:19.610
or simulating hormone.

1884
01:09:19.881 --> 01:09:22.164
which stimulates our adrenals to make cortisol.

1885
01:09:22.244 --> 01:09:27.008
They found this small piece of it that when you give it to males or females,

1886
01:09:27.851 --> 01:09:30.953
supercharges their libido center.

1887
01:09:31.773 --> 01:09:37.031
So they're like 18 years of age or else a six-year-old just finding themselves.

1888
01:09:37.422 --> 01:09:37.672
Male,

1889
01:09:38.125 --> 01:09:38.562
five-year-old,

1890
01:09:38.593 --> 01:09:39.000
six-year-old,

1891
01:09:39.047 --> 01:09:39.718
finding himself.

1892
01:09:40.968 --> 01:09:44.000
Got a six-year-old little boy currently finding himself.

1893
01:09:46.734 --> 01:09:48.515
And I'm sure he's going to watch this show later.

1894
01:09:49.101 --> 01:09:49.902
When he's 18,

1895
01:09:49.962 --> 01:09:50.423
he's going to be like,

1896
01:09:50.622 --> 01:09:51.163
good God,

1897
01:09:51.243 --> 01:09:51.503
Dad.

1898
01:09:53.745 --> 01:09:54.507
So the

1899
01:09:55.089 --> 01:09:56.909
PT-141 injectable,

1900
01:09:58.534 --> 01:10:01.190
it helps to re-stimulate in women.

1901
01:10:01.534 --> 01:10:03.276
There are a lot of articles in the...

1902
01:10:04.079 --> 01:10:11.826
neuropsych for women and in the OBGYN literature and the hormones and behavior,

1903
01:10:12.529 --> 01:10:18.591
where it talks about how it gives them more stimulation,

1904
01:10:19.076 --> 01:10:19.998
more reactivity.

1905
01:10:21.654 --> 01:10:26.545
They go through the appropriate phases in stimulation,

1906
01:10:26.763 --> 01:10:27.341
lubrication,

1907
01:10:27.342 --> 01:10:28.060
and so forth,

1908
01:10:28.357 --> 01:10:28.810
arousal,

1909
01:10:28.826 --> 01:10:29.341
lubrication,

1910
01:10:29.342 --> 01:10:29.888
and so forth.

1911
01:10:30.466 --> 01:10:32.529
And they have a more enjoyable time.

1912
01:10:32.987 --> 01:10:40.836
having sex as well as it heightens the orgasm level of orgasm and the spasms of the vagina.

1913
01:10:40.992 --> 01:10:41.656
In the men,

1914
01:10:43.094 --> 01:10:44.476
it basically does the same thing,

1915
01:10:44.539 --> 01:10:45.562
but with their organs,

1916
01:10:45.640 --> 01:10:46.562
not with her organs,

1917
01:10:46.703 --> 01:10:50.429
but helps them with- I'm buying some of this stuff immediately.

1918
01:10:50.664 --> 01:10:51.086
Afterwards,

1919
01:10:51.087 --> 01:10:52.992
I'll tell you where you can possibly get it.

1920
01:10:54.351 --> 01:10:55.445
It's very expensive.

1921
01:10:55.711 --> 01:10:58.398
It's about $72 for 30 shots,

1922
01:10:58.476 --> 01:11:00.492
which means about three months supply.

1923
01:11:00.679 --> 01:11:00.789
Oh,

1924
01:11:00.820 --> 01:11:01.133
that's not-

1925
01:11:01.491 --> 01:11:02.712
That doesn't sound terribly expensive.

1926
01:11:02.713 --> 01:11:02.753
No,

1927
01:11:02.754 --> 01:11:03.673
I'm being facetious.

1928
01:11:03.794 --> 01:11:04.073
Okay,

1929
01:11:04.074 --> 01:11:04.934
I was going to say,

1930
01:11:04.954 --> 01:11:06.138
it sounds super cheap.

1931
01:11:06.255 --> 01:11:08.399
It is reasonably priced.

1932
01:11:09.098 --> 01:11:09.239
Well,

1933
01:11:09.419 --> 01:11:09.739
anyway,

1934
01:11:09.817 --> 01:11:11.622
so what it does is it helps.

1935
01:11:11.763 --> 01:11:14.302
And in women that are in their 60s,

1936
01:11:15.067 --> 01:11:19.661
they psychologically would like to have good interpersonal relationships,

1937
01:11:21.552 --> 01:11:24.036
and they feel deficient.

1938
01:11:24.552 --> 01:11:25.630
This corrects it.

1939
01:11:26.473 --> 01:11:29.223
And it's female sexual dysfunction syndrome,

1940
01:11:29.255 --> 01:11:30.239
which is talked about.

1941
01:11:30.942 --> 01:11:31.114
and

1942
01:11:31.471 --> 01:11:32.312
Also in males,

1943
01:11:32.392 --> 01:11:33.493
it works very well.

1944
01:11:34.815 --> 01:11:35.054
You know,

1945
01:11:35.155 --> 01:11:38.577
what happens is you can,

1946
01:11:38.917 --> 01:11:40.276
if you're aroused,

1947
01:11:41.378 --> 01:11:41.800
visually,

1948
01:11:43.284 --> 01:11:43.683
smell,

1949
01:11:44.065 --> 01:11:44.503
visual,

1950
01:11:44.643 --> 01:11:45.003
hearing,

1951
01:11:45.065 --> 01:11:45.503
whatever,

1952
01:11:46.628 --> 01:11:52.128
it'll kick in the libido center and you will be ready to scale the walls.

1953
01:11:54.159 --> 01:11:56.378
So having testosterone,

1954
01:11:57.253 --> 01:11:57.784
what we do,

1955
01:11:57.972 --> 01:11:59.722
going back to the testosterone issue,

1956
01:11:59.878 --> 01:12:00.003
so...

1957
01:12:00.615 --> 01:12:05.441
We don't start any of our patients on injectable testosterone.

1958
01:12:05.882 --> 01:12:11.085
What we do is we start them on either clomiphene citrate or on e-clomid.

1959
01:12:11.086 --> 01:12:13.929
And in 2014,

1960
01:12:14.031 --> 01:12:14.429
15,

1961
01:12:14.468 --> 01:12:15.312
and 16,

1962
01:12:15.313 --> 01:12:16.890
we did the three-year veteran study.

1963
01:12:17.890 --> 01:12:20.296
And the reason for that was in 2013,

1964
01:12:20.390 --> 01:12:21.015
14,

1965
01:12:21.016 --> 01:12:29.749
the DOD started pulling back on dispensing of testosterone because they believed it was making the warriors out there

1966
01:12:30.495 --> 01:12:33.017
a little bit more lethal than what they wanted to.

1967
01:12:33.517 --> 01:12:33.859
Okay.

1968
01:12:34.458 --> 01:12:35.740
So they pulled back on it.

1969
01:12:35.802 --> 01:12:38.607
So we had to find another replacement.

1970
01:12:38.662 --> 01:12:43.185
So I had used in recovery protocols with beta HCG,

1971
01:12:44.349 --> 01:12:48.529
used clomiphene citrate and guys that were no other word,

1972
01:12:48.576 --> 01:12:50.232
but abusive with testosterone.

1973
01:12:51.138 --> 01:12:53.451
They needed to have regeneration of their system.

1974
01:12:53.544 --> 01:12:56.638
So we use clomiphene citrate and beta HCG.

1975
01:12:57.654 --> 01:13:00.060
So in 2014,

1976
01:13:00.061 --> 01:13:00.216
team.

1977
01:13:00.611 --> 01:13:03.834
We started the project in January 2015.

1978
01:13:03.835 --> 01:13:05.236
I'm reviewing the results,

1979
01:13:05.775 --> 01:13:08.178
and the results are just impressive.

1980
01:13:08.662 --> 01:13:12.904
I had already been on injectable testosterone for almost 17 years at that time.

1981
01:13:13.224 --> 01:13:16.209
I threw out my testosterone and went on to Clomid,

1982
01:13:16.365 --> 01:13:18.701
which I'm still on now at 72.

1983
01:13:19.357 --> 01:13:21.467
Our oldest on Clomid is 76,

1984
01:13:22.326 --> 01:13:23.857
still producing testosterone.

1985
01:13:24.279 --> 01:13:29.701
So this fallacy about over a certain age you need injectable testosterone,

1986
01:13:29.779 --> 01:13:29.904
no.

1987
01:13:30.483 --> 01:13:34.446
What you need to do is first test it out and see if the person responds.

1988
01:13:35.548 --> 01:13:38.169
And if they respond with an elevation luteinizing hormone,

1989
01:13:38.192 --> 01:13:40.934
it tells us that the hypothalamus pituitary is working.

1990
01:13:42.434 --> 01:13:44.614
And if they produce luteinizing hormone,

1991
01:13:44.700 --> 01:13:46.872
but they don't produce testosterone,

1992
01:13:47.465 --> 01:13:51.465
you know the problem is in the testes by something blocking,

1993
01:13:51.497 --> 01:13:53.481
whether or not it's not- Get off the Advil.

1994
01:13:54.434 --> 01:13:55.544
Ibuprofen or whatever,

1995
01:13:56.153 --> 01:13:58.653
or environmental toxins or burn pits.

1996
01:13:59.247 --> 01:13:59.512
The toxin.

1997
01:14:00.079 --> 01:14:15.362
from burn pits we've forgotten that um also in one of the things i was educated on by seeing a large group of vets coming from a brag is that in close combat training you're sucking up your you

1998
01:14:15.363 --> 01:14:27.502
know your fume of the brass uh everything fumes fumes the vapors from the um the primer which is mercuric chloride and you're pulling up the

1999
01:14:27.967 --> 01:14:29.168
round going through the chamber,

2000
01:14:29.388 --> 01:14:31.952
and you've got lead.

2001
01:14:32.574 --> 01:14:39.035
So lead and mercury stop the conversion of DHEA to testosterone.

2002
01:14:39.722 --> 01:14:42.683
So we'll see guys with huge levels of DHT.

2003
01:14:42.785 --> 01:14:43.620
And the first thing I says,

2004
01:14:44.128 --> 01:14:45.878
how much DHEA are you taking?

2005
01:14:46.144 --> 01:14:47.441
Dihydroepiandostroin,

2006
01:14:47.503 --> 01:14:51.191
which is very important for generating a lot of hormones.

2007
01:14:51.753 --> 01:14:52.144
And they said,

2008
01:14:52.191 --> 01:14:53.019
I'm not taking any.

2009
01:14:53.613 --> 01:14:57.472
And I had to go back and read that mercury and lead poison.

2010
01:14:57.719 --> 01:15:02.631
two enzymes that allow for the conversion of DHEA to testosterone.

2011
01:15:03.655 --> 01:15:04.355
And therefore,

2012
01:15:05.096 --> 01:15:06.776
they weren't able to make testosterone.

2013
01:15:06.796 --> 01:15:11.137
That's why they were having all the symptoms relative to testosterone deficiency.

2014
01:15:11.653 --> 01:15:13.700
So we send them out for a heavy metals test.

2015
01:15:13.739 --> 01:15:15.255
And we find high mercury,

2016
01:15:15.614 --> 01:15:15.919
high,

2017
01:15:16.341 --> 01:15:16.778
not high,

2018
01:15:16.802 --> 01:15:17.036
hello,

2019
01:15:17.239 --> 01:15:20.419
but elevated levels of mercury and lead.

2020
01:15:20.997 --> 01:15:22.544
And then we go and my daughter,

2021
01:15:22.856 --> 01:15:25.716
who takes care of all our civilians,

2022
01:15:25.887 --> 01:15:27.341
as well as she's a naturopath,

2023
01:15:27.856 --> 01:15:29.247
who knows how to detox.

2024
01:15:29.794 --> 01:15:32.669
And so she'll detox the individual.

2025
01:15:33.143 --> 01:15:37.307
and get rid of the mercury and with zeolite and a couple other things,

2026
01:15:38.108 --> 01:15:38.608
cilantro,

2027
01:15:38.909 --> 01:15:39.510
zeolite,

2028
01:15:39.788 --> 01:15:41.389
red infrared heating,

2029
01:15:41.749 --> 01:15:42.092
sauna.

2030
01:15:42.553 --> 01:15:45.592
These help to expedite it and some kind of a tea.

2031
01:15:47.014 --> 01:15:48.256
So it helps to expedite it.

2032
01:15:49.420 --> 01:15:54.249
She also takes care of all our vets and civilians with gut-related dysbiosis,

2033
01:15:54.905 --> 01:15:56.483
and it really works very well.

2034
01:15:57.139 --> 01:16:01.233
So what we do is first the clomiphene citrate and

2035
01:16:02.423 --> 01:16:03.564
If they respond well,

2036
01:16:04.124 --> 01:16:04.605
wonderful.

2037
01:16:05.587 --> 01:16:06.228
Keep them on it.

2038
01:16:06.646 --> 01:16:07.029
People say,

2039
01:16:07.068 --> 01:16:07.228
oh,

2040
01:16:07.286 --> 01:16:09.048
there are a lot of side effects from Clomid.

2041
01:16:09.470 --> 01:16:12.154
That's if you give it like you give it to a woman.

2042
01:16:13.075 --> 01:16:14.575
We use 50 milligrams,

2043
01:16:14.654 --> 01:16:17.318
25 to 50 milligrams every third night.

2044
01:16:17.380 --> 01:16:19.357
That's what the three-year study was about,

2045
01:16:19.716 --> 01:16:28.654
to find what the lowest dose was and how we can pulse it in order to avoid any side effects and maximize benefits.

2046
01:16:29.031 --> 01:16:31.492
And what we found is every 72 hours,

2047
01:16:31.652 --> 01:16:32.912
it works phenomenally well.

2048
01:16:33.310 --> 01:16:34.892
50 milligrams at nighttime,

2049
01:16:35.674 --> 01:16:35.873
okay,

2050
01:16:35.874 --> 01:16:36.392
at bedtime,

2051
01:16:36.892 --> 01:16:37.654
works very well.

2052
01:16:37.795 --> 01:16:38.053
Yes,

2053
01:16:38.576 --> 01:16:41.717
we've got a half a dozen guys who take one pill a week,

2054
01:16:42.295 --> 01:16:43.732
and they've got levels like a

2055
01:16:44.193 --> 01:16:46.170
15-year-old of testosterone or

2056
01:16:46.607 --> 01:16:46.888
16-year-old.

2057
01:16:47.373 --> 01:16:50.513
Unbelievable. And then we've got some people who,

2058
01:16:50.623 --> 01:16:52.342
because they were on testosterone,

2059
01:16:52.435 --> 01:16:56.779
have basically damaged their system or on...

2060
01:16:57.059 --> 01:16:57.580
ibuprofen.

2061
01:16:57.600 --> 01:17:04.427
We ask everybody if they've been on ibuprofen when we go through their review,

2062
01:17:04.548 --> 01:17:05.228
their consult.

2063
01:17:06.087 --> 01:17:14.564
And if they have the pattern off of Clomid where they're not responding,

2064
01:17:14.798 --> 01:17:16.111
and we go up in dose,

2065
01:17:16.205 --> 01:17:17.361
and they still don't respond,

2066
01:17:18.158 --> 01:17:20.283
then we'll put them on injectable testosterone,

2067
01:17:21.330 --> 01:17:21.595
okay?

2068
01:17:22.486 --> 01:17:23.939
Put them on injectable testosterone.

2069
01:17:24.048 --> 01:17:25.173
And the reason being is,

2070
01:17:25.814 --> 01:17:26.533
I had one vet

2071
01:17:27.055 --> 01:17:37.544
who was on 200 milligrams of testosterone cipionate every Sunday for like five years while I was active,

2072
01:17:38.005 --> 01:17:39.029
the VA would give it to him.

2073
01:17:39.708 --> 01:17:51.294
And then he retired and the VA was holding back on using testosterone because they were using it under the last administration to treat all the people who were going through gender reassignment.

2074
01:17:52.701 --> 01:17:55.810
So instead of giving it to people who needed it,

2075
01:17:55.888 --> 01:17:56.029
They

2076
01:17:56.227 --> 01:18:00.687
preference people who were going through gender reassignment by using hormones.

2077
01:18:01.230 --> 01:18:01.507
Okay.

2078
01:18:02.929 --> 01:18:05.789
We've had periods of time where in the last administration,

2079
01:18:05.828 --> 01:18:13.734
we couldn't get testosterone for our regular non-psychiatric patients.

2080
01:18:14.249 --> 01:18:14.531
Okay.

2081
01:18:15.531 --> 01:18:16.828
So anyway,

2082
01:18:17.390 --> 01:18:19.249
so we'll put them on testosterone.

2083
01:18:19.468 --> 01:18:19.609
Now,

2084
01:18:19.624 --> 01:18:24.499
the question I ask a lot of docs who are treating people we see with

2085
01:18:25.247 --> 01:18:27.828
to injectable testosterone right out of the gate.

2086
01:18:28.408 --> 01:18:29.008
I say to him- TRT?

2087
01:18:30.027 --> 01:18:30.348
TRT,

2088
01:18:30.707 --> 01:18:31.047
correct.

2089
01:18:31.129 --> 01:18:32.449
Testosterone replacement therapy.

2090
01:18:33.148 --> 01:18:33.769
I say to him,

2091
01:18:36.027 --> 01:18:39.809
how much testosterone does an average 25 to

2092
01:18:40.488 --> 01:18:43.129
35-year-old strapping healthy male make a day?

2093
01:18:44.238 --> 01:18:45.238
A lot of them would say,

2094
01:18:46.191 --> 01:18:46.566
I don't know.

2095
01:18:48.691 --> 01:18:51.457
And you're giving them 200 milligrams a week in one shot?

2096
01:18:52.191 --> 01:18:52.660
And he said,

2097
01:18:52.661 --> 01:18:52.894
I don't know.

2098
01:18:53.343 --> 01:18:55.105
It's 4 to 10 milligrams per day,

2099
01:18:55.185 --> 01:18:57.307
so it's 28 to 70 milligrams per week.

2100
01:18:58.127 --> 01:18:59.147
So in our protocol,

2101
01:18:59.787 --> 01:19:00.830
our max is 80.

2102
01:19:02.053 --> 01:19:08.600
And we get people who are responding very well because my job is not to treat everybody like a bodybuilder.

2103
01:19:08.936 --> 01:19:10.412
And that's what they got hooked into,

2104
01:19:11.147 --> 01:19:13.303
is they're treating everybody like a bodybuilder.

2105
01:19:13.850 --> 01:19:22.350
And I've proved it again and again with people working out in the gym that low doses do just as well as high doses without the side effects.

2106
01:19:22.747 --> 01:19:23.668
What are the side effects?

2107
01:19:24.549 --> 01:19:26.350
Our body is smart,

2108
01:19:26.670 --> 01:19:26.952
very,

2109
01:19:27.053 --> 01:19:27.651
very smart.

2110
01:19:27.991 --> 01:19:30.413
If you put too much in of anything,

2111
01:19:30.596 --> 01:19:32.920
the body will try to find ways to get rid of it.

2112
01:19:33.655 --> 01:19:37.920
So our body has two ways of getting rid of excessive testosterone,

2113
01:19:38.319 --> 01:19:43.459
converting it to estradiol and converting it to dihydrotestosterone,

2114
01:19:43.506 --> 01:19:43.944
DHT.

2115
01:19:45.350 --> 01:19:47.116
DHT has benefits on the gut,

2116
01:19:47.194 --> 01:19:47.850
the bacteria.

2117
01:19:48.397 --> 01:19:50.397
It has a negative effect on losing hair.

2118
01:19:51.387 --> 01:19:51.908
oily skin,

2119
01:19:52.128 --> 01:19:52.409
acne,

2120
01:19:52.569 --> 01:19:53.772
prostate enlargement,

2121
01:19:53.773 --> 01:19:55.194
and shrinkage of the testicles.

2122
01:19:56.135 --> 01:19:56.416
Okay.

2123
01:19:56.858 --> 01:19:59.338
Those are side effects of testosterone.

2124
01:19:59.502 --> 01:20:00.502
The estradiol,

2125
01:20:01.143 --> 01:20:01.385
you know,

2126
01:20:01.666 --> 01:20:04.213
I say to the guys who have elevated levels of estradiol,

2127
01:20:04.291 --> 01:20:04.588
I said,

2128
01:20:05.670 --> 01:20:08.774
What are you feeling from this elevated level of estradiol?

2129
01:20:09.174 --> 01:20:09.293
Oh,

2130
01:20:09.514 --> 01:20:10.557
I'm more emotional.

2131
01:20:11.756 --> 01:20:12.037
I said,

2132
01:20:12.076 --> 01:20:12.455
bullshit.

2133
01:20:13.358 --> 01:20:13.596
I said,

2134
01:20:13.635 --> 01:20:14.041
bullshit.

2135
01:20:14.440 --> 01:20:14.682
Really?

2136
01:20:15.276 --> 01:20:15.479
Well,

2137
01:20:15.877 --> 01:20:17.260
their estradiol is elevated,

2138
01:20:17.322 --> 01:20:19.862
but they've got so much more of free testosterone,

2139
01:20:20.346 --> 01:20:24.213
which counteracts a lot of the potential side effects of estradiol.

2140
01:20:24.666 --> 01:20:24.885
Yes,

2141
01:20:25.510 --> 01:20:33.760
I will be honest and say that there are rare individuals who will respond with

2142
01:20:33.986 --> 01:20:36.550
adverse effects at lower levels than expected.

2143
01:20:37.050 --> 01:20:38.710
So I don't really say bullshit.

2144
01:20:39.011 --> 01:20:40.714
I work with them and try to fix it.

2145
01:20:41.073 --> 01:20:45.616
A benefit of the estradiol is that it increases growth hormone production.

2146
01:20:45.835 --> 01:20:48.061
Does it increase bone density as well?

2147
01:20:48.358 --> 01:20:49.960
I've heard it increases bone density.

2148
01:20:50.319 --> 01:20:53.803
And that's the reason why certain of the CIRMs that are used out there,

2149
01:20:54.225 --> 01:20:57.194
selective estrogen receptor modulators,

2150
01:20:58.272 --> 01:21:01.210
are not good is because I don't use Arimidex.

2151
01:21:02.634 --> 01:21:03.855
because anastrozole,

2152
01:21:03.956 --> 01:21:04.475
arimidex,

2153
01:21:04.997 --> 01:21:08.741
because there are eight systems in the body that need estradiol,

2154
01:21:08.901 --> 01:21:09.940
growth hormone production,

2155
01:21:10.343 --> 01:21:11.323
neuroplasticity,

2156
01:21:12.167 --> 01:21:13.565
nitric oxide synthetase,

2157
01:21:13.581 --> 01:21:15.807
which allows good blood flow in the brain,

2158
01:21:16.511 --> 01:21:17.409
libido center,

2159
01:21:17.729 --> 01:21:20.518
estradiol is what helps that.

2160
01:21:20.878 --> 01:21:21.378
The liver,

2161
01:21:21.565 --> 01:21:24.081
you need estradiol and growth hormone to make IGF-1,

2162
01:21:24.768 --> 01:21:31.237
the main growth factor below the neck that increases muscle um maya

2163
01:21:32.082 --> 01:21:36.684
actinomycin protein synthesis for muscle growth,

2164
01:21:36.782 --> 01:21:37.583
muscle repair,

2165
01:21:38.922 --> 01:21:39.422
endurance,

2166
01:21:39.442 --> 01:21:40.161
and so forth.

2167
01:21:41.247 --> 01:21:43.387
It helps protect the lining of the arteries.

2168
01:21:43.465 --> 01:21:46.442
It protects the heart and bone mineral density.

2169
01:21:46.965 --> 01:21:48.692
Those are the benefits of estradiol.

2170
01:21:49.239 --> 01:21:51.270
So when you throw stuff in to block it,

2171
01:21:51.739 --> 01:21:52.629
like arimidex,

2172
01:21:54.286 --> 01:21:55.348
it leads to a problem.

2173
01:21:56.708 --> 01:21:59.583
We use a CIRMS that doesn't appear to do that.

2174
01:21:59.730 --> 01:22:01.893
which is our Clomid and E-Clomiphene.

2175
01:22:02.172 --> 01:22:03.776
And the fact that we're pulsing it,

2176
01:22:03.913 --> 01:22:05.014
not giving it every day,

2177
01:22:05.655 --> 01:22:07.038
helps to protect the individual.

2178
01:22:07.096 --> 01:22:07.901
So they spike,

2179
01:22:07.979 --> 01:22:08.456
they peak,

2180
01:22:08.737 --> 01:22:09.338
they produce.

2181
01:22:09.557 --> 01:22:10.362
Then it comes down,

2182
01:22:10.377 --> 01:22:10.862
they spike,

2183
01:22:10.901 --> 01:22:11.338
they peak.

2184
01:22:11.862 --> 01:22:13.346
So every 72 hours,

2185
01:22:13.385 --> 01:22:16.190
and then when we look at them on what we call the trough,

2186
01:22:16.690 --> 01:22:19.065
they took the last pill 72 hours later.

2187
01:22:19.206 --> 01:22:19.674
We look

2188
01:22:20.565 --> 01:22:22.331
72 hours after the last pill,

2189
01:22:22.674 --> 01:22:24.518
and we see where their testosterone levels are,

2190
01:22:24.799 --> 01:22:28.565
and they're producing great levels in the majority of cases.

2191
01:22:28.706 --> 01:22:29.002
Yes.

2192
01:22:29.578 --> 01:22:30.879
There are people who do not,

2193
01:22:31.660 --> 01:22:31.919
okay?

2194
01:22:32.380 --> 01:22:33.744
And that's the exception,

2195
01:22:33.841 --> 01:22:36.224
not the standard,

2196
01:22:36.525 --> 01:22:36.826
okay?

2197
01:22:37.767 --> 01:22:39.970
And I never say anybody is,

2198
01:22:40.025 --> 01:22:40.290
you know,

2199
01:22:40.853 --> 01:22:42.447
overreacting or whatever.

2200
01:22:43.048 --> 01:22:43.689
That could be them,

2201
01:22:44.673 --> 01:22:44.915
okay?

2202
01:22:45.251 --> 01:22:47.759
But what we find is as we balance all hormones,

2203
01:22:47.790 --> 01:22:49.962
it's not just a matter of taking testosterone.

2204
01:22:50.353 --> 01:22:54.056
It's about making sure the entire homeostasis,

2205
01:22:54.165 --> 01:22:56.603
the balance of all your hormones is there.

2206
01:22:57.114 --> 01:22:58.696
I put out a very short video,

2207
01:22:58.736 --> 01:22:59.737
I think it's three minutes,

2208
01:22:59.778 --> 01:23:03.200
that talks about this aspect of balancing the hormones.

2209
01:23:03.821 --> 01:23:08.989
And you made mention about pregnenolone that you had a chying time to say.

2210
01:23:09.145 --> 01:23:09.403
Oh man,

2211
01:23:09.404 --> 01:23:11.770
I don't know why I have such a pregnenolone.

2212
01:23:11.871 --> 01:23:12.051
Yeah,

2213
01:23:12.192 --> 01:23:14.637
pregnenolone is called the mother of all hormones.

2214
01:23:15.371 --> 01:23:24.809
And the reason why it's called the mother of all hormones is because it is responsible for giving rise to all the steroidal hormones in our body.

2215
01:23:25.970 --> 01:23:28.012
When you use testosterone,

2216
01:23:28.013 --> 01:23:29.916
you shut off its manufacturing.

2217
01:23:31.217 --> 01:23:33.557
So how do you get pregnenodial?

2218
01:23:33.760 --> 01:23:35.338
How do you get allopregnanolone?

2219
01:23:35.439 --> 01:23:37.744
How do you get progesterone?

2220
01:23:37.885 --> 01:23:39.221
How do you get cortisol?

2221
01:23:39.307 --> 01:23:43.064
How do you get all these hormones that come from pregnenolone?

2222
01:23:43.471 --> 01:23:44.971
If by taking testosterone,

2223
01:23:45.096 --> 01:23:45.783
you shut it off,

2224
01:23:46.549 --> 01:23:47.611
you have to replace it.

2225
01:23:49.158 --> 01:23:51.830
So there's a video called Beyond Testosterone.

2226
01:23:53.114 --> 01:23:55.616
argument for DHEA and pregnenolone.

2227
01:23:55.657 --> 01:23:57.899
There are two key pathways,

2228
01:23:58.278 --> 01:24:01.466
DHEA pathway and the pregnenolone pathway.

2229
01:24:02.825 --> 01:24:05.864
And the literature talks about increased anxiety,

2230
01:24:05.950 --> 01:24:06.528
depression,

2231
01:24:07.005 --> 01:24:07.927
agitation,

2232
01:24:08.106 --> 01:24:12.278
and aggression when you lose those hormones.

2233
01:24:12.388 --> 01:24:13.919
And we've seen it in our practice.

2234
01:24:14.060 --> 01:24:14.731
Yeah.

2235
01:24:15.856 --> 01:24:17.622
It's crazy how important,

2236
01:24:18.200 --> 01:24:19.435
with testosterone for sure,

2237
01:24:19.653 --> 01:24:21.716
and all the derivatives of testosterone.

2238
01:24:22.254 --> 01:24:22.374
uh,

2239
01:24:22.614 --> 01:24:22.855
you know,

2240
01:24:22.915 --> 01:24:23.896
play within the body.

2241
01:24:24.216 --> 01:24:24.417
Right.

2242
01:24:24.456 --> 01:24:24.716
I mean,

2243
01:24:24.776 --> 01:24:25.417
it's just like,

2244
01:24:26.378 --> 01:24:26.499
uh,

2245
01:24:26.500 --> 01:24:28.542
we can really keep going down the rabbit hole,

2246
01:24:28.562 --> 01:24:29.601
especially with testosterone,

2247
01:24:29.602 --> 01:24:30.081
but thank you,

2248
01:24:30.566 --> 01:24:30.800
you know,

2249
01:24:30.901 --> 01:24:37.472
for mentioning the distinction between total testosterone and free testosterone and the free testosterone is where we want,

2250
01:24:37.526 --> 01:24:37.972
like at the,

2251
01:24:38.050 --> 01:24:38.855
at that higher level.

2252
01:24:39.136 --> 01:24:39.245
Well,

2253
01:24:39.246 --> 01:24:39.370
so,

2254
01:24:39.745 --> 01:24:39.870
uh,

2255
01:24:39.886 --> 01:24:40.886
we're going to start wrapping it up,

2256
01:24:40.917 --> 01:24:41.198
Dr.

2257
01:24:41.214 --> 01:24:41.870
Mark a little bit,

2258
01:24:41.886 --> 01:24:42.526
but what are some,

2259
01:24:43.370 --> 01:24:43.620
you know,

2260
01:24:43.683 --> 01:24:44.370
someone that's,

2261
01:24:44.495 --> 01:24:44.839
uh,

2262
01:24:45.401 --> 01:24:46.855
coming back to the head injuries and,

2263
01:24:47.011 --> 01:24:47.136
and,

2264
01:24:47.261 --> 01:24:47.495
you know,

2265
01:24:47.558 --> 01:24:48.261
brain trauma,

2266
01:24:48.683 --> 01:24:48.886
um,

2267
01:24:48.917 --> 01:24:49.167
you know,

2268
01:24:49.198 --> 01:24:50.745
somebody that has had

2269
01:24:51.438 --> 01:24:55.900
or continually has some sort of continual brain trauma,

2270
01:24:55.983 --> 01:24:57.443
whatever they're doing out there in the world,

2271
01:24:57.904 --> 01:25:02.111
what are some simple steps that they can take today or later this week to help really...

2272
01:25:02.754 --> 01:25:04.415
understand what's going on on the inside,

2273
01:25:04.436 --> 01:25:09.700
but also support the hormonal health that we've learned about to really become healthier?

2274
01:25:10.200 --> 01:25:10.423
Well,

2275
01:25:10.501 --> 01:25:11.525
that's a great question.

2276
01:25:11.845 --> 01:25:14.704
And it's about thickening the Keflar.

2277
01:25:15.446 --> 01:25:18.368
So with things like gamma tocopherol,

2278
01:25:18.407 --> 01:25:19.634
which is vitamin E,

2279
01:25:20.228 --> 01:25:20.525
gamma,

2280
01:25:20.650 --> 01:25:21.337
there's alpha,

2281
01:25:21.431 --> 01:25:21.775
delta,

2282
01:25:21.868 --> 01:25:22.353
and gamma.

2283
01:25:22.915 --> 01:25:25.384
The gamma is the one that helps protect the brain.

2284
01:25:26.243 --> 01:25:28.978
Then there is the fish oils,

2285
01:25:29.853 --> 01:25:30.946
Very important.

2286
01:25:32.955 --> 01:25:35.238
Nordic Natural is just one suggestion.

2287
01:25:35.898 --> 01:25:37.918
It's quality fish oil,

2288
01:25:38.140 --> 01:25:39.980
making sure you're getting five to ten,

2289
01:25:40.465 --> 01:25:41.183
reading the book

2290
01:25:41.926 --> 01:25:45.090
When Brains Collide to just thicken that

2291
01:25:45.746 --> 01:26:00.574
Keflar. Adding quercetin drops inflammatory markers so that you don't keep building and enlarging the amount of inflammation to increase the occurrence of neurodegenerative diseases.

2292
01:26:01.210 --> 01:26:02.111
Good hydration,

2293
01:26:02.671 --> 01:26:04.974
staying away from alcohol as best you can,

2294
01:26:07.017 --> 01:26:12.380
hydrating well with either alkaline water or mineral-enriched water.

2295
01:26:13.505 --> 01:26:15.927
Minerals play an important part in the brain.

2296
01:26:16.388 --> 01:26:17.599
That SAD system,

2297
01:26:17.692 --> 01:26:19.021
superoxide desmitase,

2298
01:26:19.067 --> 01:26:19.661
magnesium,

2299
01:26:19.724 --> 01:26:20.286
manganese,

2300
01:26:20.349 --> 01:26:20.630
zinc,

2301
01:26:21.067 --> 01:26:26.396
these are all important minerals to help our body defend itself against inflammation.

2302
01:26:27.458 --> 01:26:28.802
Great protein intake,

2303
01:26:28.958 --> 01:26:30.333
eat a half a cow every month.

2304
01:26:30.926 --> 01:26:31.587
or quarter cal,

2305
01:26:33.129 --> 01:26:33.369
you know,

2306
01:26:34.590 --> 01:26:37.631
just good protein intake.

2307
01:26:38.756 --> 01:26:39.396
Hydration,

2308
01:26:39.756 --> 01:26:40.857
that's what we talked about.

2309
01:26:40.935 --> 01:26:41.232
Sleep,

2310
01:26:41.678 --> 01:26:43.201
very important to get good sleep.

2311
01:26:43.842 --> 01:26:47.920
If you're going to bed and you're in bed for eight hours,

2312
01:26:47.998 --> 01:26:48.467
nine hours,

2313
01:26:48.545 --> 01:26:49.060
ten hours,

2314
01:26:49.638 --> 01:26:52.092
and you wake up in the morning and you don't pop out of bed,

2315
01:26:52.592 --> 01:26:56.326
it means during the night you're not getting into deep sleep.

2316
01:26:56.763 --> 01:26:59.326
And that's a function of pregnenolone.

2317
01:27:00.710 --> 01:27:01.651
Pregnena diol,

2318
01:27:01.791 --> 01:27:02.511
progesterone,

2319
01:27:02.532 --> 01:27:03.673
and allopregnanolone.

2320
01:27:04.234 --> 01:27:10.900
The mother of all hormone generates three other hormones that help build a chemical in the brain called

2321
01:27:12.861 --> 01:27:14.025
GABA. GABA,

2322
01:27:14.064 --> 01:27:15.142
aminobutyric acid,

2323
01:27:15.181 --> 01:27:15.705
G-A-B-A,

2324
01:27:16.322 --> 01:27:18.181
is the natural volume of the brain.

2325
01:27:19.072 --> 01:27:20.962
So I've had people who've come in,

2326
01:27:21.009 --> 01:27:23.259
a Marine who came into the practice,

2327
01:27:23.447 --> 01:27:24.791
and I asked them a simple question.

2328
01:27:25.119 --> 01:27:26.322
How many hours are you in bed?

2329
01:27:26.822 --> 01:27:28.212
And I'm looking at his lab results.

2330
01:27:28.634 --> 01:27:29.759
How many hours are you in bed?

2331
01:27:29.775 --> 01:27:30.181
He said.

2332
01:27:30.938 --> 01:27:31.479
13.

2333
01:27:31.679 --> 01:27:31.999
I said,

2334
01:27:32.219 --> 01:27:32.660
damn,

2335
01:27:32.661 --> 01:27:34.503
you must wake up in the morning feeling great.

2336
01:27:34.862 --> 01:27:35.163
He said,

2337
01:27:35.241 --> 01:27:35.420
doc,

2338
01:27:35.542 --> 01:27:36.342
on the contrary,

2339
01:27:36.565 --> 01:27:40.389
I wake up in the morning feeling like I never put my head to the pillow.

2340
01:27:41.085 --> 01:27:42.506
I'm looking at his lab results.

2341
01:27:43.053 --> 01:27:44.413
Zero pregnenolone,

2342
01:27:44.889 --> 01:27:46.210
zero progesterone,

2343
01:27:46.272 --> 01:27:49.249
which means he could not develop allopregnanolone.

2344
01:27:49.702 --> 01:27:56.905
Allopregnanolone is a pharmaceutical drug now called Brixanolone for $34,000 a year.

2345
01:27:57.311 --> 01:27:57.577
Holy cow.

2346
01:27:57.978 --> 01:27:58.979
postpartum depression,

2347
01:27:59.020 --> 01:27:59.420
depression,

2348
01:27:59.459 --> 01:27:59.939
anxiety,

2349
01:28:00.061 --> 01:28:02.043
and they haven't even talked about sleep.

2350
01:28:02.742 --> 01:28:03.441
Pregnenolone,

2351
01:28:03.762 --> 01:28:06.270
a year's supply is about $80.

2352
01:28:07.730 --> 01:28:07.988
Wow.

2353
01:28:08.129 --> 01:28:12.895
And the literature shows that it is absorbed by the gut.

2354
01:28:13.395 --> 01:28:14.949
It's absorbed into the blood.

2355
01:28:15.262 --> 01:28:19.152
It passes into the brain and gets converted to allopregnenolone.

2356
01:28:19.996 --> 01:28:24.059
So we've got the entire journey of it by taking it orally,

2357
01:28:24.230 --> 01:28:25.340
a good quality one.

2358
01:28:26.027 --> 01:28:26.512
So that's...

2359
01:28:26.870 --> 01:28:28.352
what you can do to defend yourself.

2360
01:28:28.611 --> 01:28:32.594
If you're suffering with symptoms of traumatic brain injury,

2361
01:28:32.777 --> 01:28:34.398
you need to get the

2362
01:28:34.961 --> 01:28:36.562
28-point biomarker panel done.

2363
01:28:36.719 --> 01:28:41.227
I'm just about finished with the paper on the 28 biomarker panel,

2364
01:28:41.625 --> 01:28:50.891
which will be posted on my website so anybody can get it and get their doctor to run the test because this is what we've...

2365
01:28:51.094 --> 01:28:54.359
It took 14 years to develop that panel and we've used it...

2366
01:28:55.590 --> 01:28:56.331
2004,

2367
01:28:56.451 --> 01:28:58.112
we've used it for 21 years,

2368
01:28:58.634 --> 01:28:58.913
okay?

2369
01:28:59.473 --> 01:29:00.675
14 and then 21,

2370
01:29:00.694 --> 01:29:03.780
so seven years we've used it in its present state.

2371
01:29:04.296 --> 01:29:04.936
And as I said,

2372
01:29:04.983 --> 01:29:06.819
my background was computer electronics.

2373
01:29:06.842 --> 01:29:12.171
I spent 10 years and wrote a software package that interprets the laboratory results,

2374
01:29:12.592 --> 01:29:12.983
gives you a

2375
01:29:13.374 --> 01:29:14.171
12-page report,

2376
01:29:14.671 --> 01:29:16.046
and predictive treatment.

2377
01:29:16.546 --> 01:29:20.374
So we're now in about 123 facilities in 14 countries,

2378
01:29:21.014 --> 01:29:21.577
bringing on

2379
01:29:22.249 --> 01:29:23.296
Australia, New Zealand,

2380
01:29:23.796 --> 01:29:24.311
Thailand.

2381
01:29:24.682 --> 01:29:25.503
and Malaysia.

2382
01:29:27.065 --> 01:29:32.928
And what it does is it helps to accelerate any doctor who wants to help us with this program and,

2383
01:29:33.311 --> 01:29:33.553
you know,

2384
01:29:33.991 --> 01:29:44.600
availability to immediately be able to provide the same level of care that we have been doing at our level in neuroendocrinology through the use of the program.

2385
01:29:45.334 --> 01:29:47.178
So that's basically it.

2386
01:29:47.225 --> 01:29:48.006
Well,

2387
01:29:48.007 --> 01:29:48.991
that's basically it.

2388
01:29:49.022 --> 01:29:50.522
That's a lot there.

2389
01:29:50.928 --> 01:29:51.428
But I'm glad,

2390
01:29:51.569 --> 01:29:51.913
I mean,

2391
01:29:52.069 --> 01:29:54.006
We did break down the entire.

2392
01:29:54.319 --> 01:29:54.479
what,

2393
01:29:54.641 --> 01:29:55.627
almost hour and a half.

2394
01:29:56.360 --> 01:29:57.922
down into a few minutes there,

2395
01:29:58.423 --> 01:29:58.641
Doc.

2396
01:29:58.743 --> 01:29:59.845
So I appreciate that.

2397
01:29:59.944 --> 01:30:03.446
And I look forward to getting onto your protocol myself.

2398
01:30:04.009 --> 01:30:04.286
I know

2399
01:30:05.067 --> 01:30:08.473
I'm one of the folks who's going to be jumping on here soon.

2400
01:30:10.177 --> 01:30:10.958
But yeah,

2401
01:30:11.677 --> 01:30:12.872
fantastic information.

2402
01:30:12.981 --> 01:30:15.934
Probably going to have to watch it myself two or three times,

2403
01:30:15.935 --> 01:30:17.606
at least to fully understand it,

2404
01:30:17.700 --> 01:30:18.559
fully grasp it all.

2405
01:30:19.278 --> 01:30:20.403
But this has been phenomenal.

2406
01:30:20.450 --> 01:30:21.122
So thank you.

2407
01:30:21.372 --> 01:30:24.903
Thanks to an increase in RevuStream.

2408
01:30:25.856 --> 01:30:26.257
To date,

2409
01:30:26.317 --> 01:30:27.238
we've now brought in,

2410
01:30:27.719 --> 01:30:28.420
since January,

2411
01:30:28.498 --> 01:30:30.502
since being on What's His Name Show,

2412
01:30:30.580 --> 01:30:31.221
on Joe's show,

2413
01:30:33.924 --> 01:30:34.947
he's been very kind.

2414
01:30:35.182 --> 01:30:35.783
He's been very,

2415
01:30:35.846 --> 01:30:36.408
very kind,

2416
01:30:38.385 --> 01:30:44.213
as you guys have been by allowing me this time now to share with your audience the work that we do.

2417
01:30:45.057 --> 01:30:47.744
And my soft spot is with our veterans,

2418
01:30:47.775 --> 01:30:48.275
as you know.

2419
01:30:48.635 --> 01:30:49.900
And we put 60%

2420
01:30:50.244 --> 01:30:53.650
of all our proceeds into a fund to help our veterans.

2421
01:30:53.885 --> 01:30:54.322
And now.

2422
01:30:55.124 --> 01:30:56.365
their family members.

2423
01:30:56.925 --> 01:31:01.250
And we still have funds left for about,

2424
01:31:02.293 --> 01:31:03.054
as of today,

2425
01:31:03.234 --> 01:31:05.132
about 40 more vets.

2426
01:31:05.593 --> 01:31:07.054
And in June,

2427
01:31:07.640 --> 01:31:09.375
we'll look and see how much more we have.

2428
01:31:09.578 --> 01:31:10.742
And it's ongoing.

2429
01:31:11.156 --> 01:31:11.281
So

2430
01:31:11.765 --> 01:31:16.640
I keep on traveling as I start traveling to weird places like Thailand,

2431
01:31:17.203 --> 01:31:17.859
Cambodia,

2432
01:31:18.421 --> 01:31:18.968
Vietnam,

2433
01:31:19.687 --> 01:31:22.671
where they want to learn this science a lot more than here,

2434
01:31:23.437 --> 01:31:23.937
Australia.

2435
01:31:24.676 --> 01:31:25.817
They want to learn the science.

2436
01:31:26.358 --> 01:31:27.698
So if there are any people,

2437
01:31:28.139 --> 01:31:29.682
you can direct them to us.

2438
01:31:30.022 --> 01:31:30.483
We've got a

2439
01:31:31.061 --> 01:31:32.464
U.S. veteran friend.

2440
01:31:33.100 --> 01:31:33.804
We have a U.S.

2441
01:31:33.866 --> 01:31:38.632
veteran friend in Thailand that we should definitely link you up with when you head out that way.

2442
01:31:38.827 --> 01:31:39.811
I'll be there August

2443
01:31:40.210 --> 01:31:41.272
12th until the

2444
01:31:41.913 --> 01:31:43.350
20th, giving a lecture.

2445
01:31:43.897 --> 01:31:45.132
If they get in touch with me,

2446
01:31:45.991 --> 01:31:47.538
I'll get them a free pass into the

2447
01:31:47.897 --> 01:31:49.335
HEAT symposium.

2448
01:31:49.975 --> 01:31:53.663
I spend a whole day going through this on a technical level.

2449
01:31:54.056 --> 01:31:55.376
I'm sure he would find it fascinating.

2450
01:31:55.377 --> 01:31:56.456
So we'll definitely connect you.

2451
01:31:56.796 --> 01:31:56.917
Yeah,

2452
01:31:56.918 --> 01:31:57.497
that'd be great.

2453
01:31:57.997 --> 01:31:58.177
Yeah,

2454
01:31:58.197 --> 01:31:59.298
I think he's up in Chiang Mai,

2455
01:31:59.376 --> 01:32:01.259
but awesome.

2456
01:32:01.579 --> 01:32:03.001
This has been so great,

2457
01:32:03.454 --> 01:32:03.697
Dr.

2458
01:32:03.736 --> 01:32:04.017
Mark.

2459
01:32:04.681 --> 01:32:04.900
Really,

2460
01:32:04.978 --> 01:32:05.181
really,

2461
01:32:05.220 --> 01:32:05.376
really,

2462
01:32:05.415 --> 01:32:07.439
really appreciate your time and everything you've done,

2463
01:32:07.462 --> 01:32:08.603
like all the hard work you've done,

2464
01:32:08.681 --> 01:32:09.439
all the research,

2465
01:32:09.783 --> 01:32:15.634
all the lives that you've helped and all the science that you're bringing into our community right now,

2466
01:32:15.681 --> 01:32:16.494
but into the world.

2467
01:32:16.495 --> 01:32:21.619
And hopefully this becomes more mainstream because people need a lot of help.

2468
01:32:21.697 --> 01:32:23.681
And if we begin to reduce that.

2469
01:32:23.944 --> 01:32:24.906
inflammation in the brain,

2470
01:32:24.945 --> 01:32:26.085
like what is possible,

2471
01:32:26.427 --> 01:32:26.667
you know,

2472
01:32:26.668 --> 01:32:27.167
but it's also,

2473
01:32:27.267 --> 01:32:27.667
it's like,

2474
01:32:27.847 --> 01:32:28.968
it sounds like it's not,

2475
01:32:30.230 --> 01:32:30.351
uh,

2476
01:32:30.429 --> 01:32:32.335
extremely invasive in what you're doing,

2477
01:32:32.429 --> 01:32:33.710
but something that is actually,

2478
01:32:34.195 --> 01:32:34.437
you know,

2479
01:32:34.538 --> 01:32:35.312
over time,

2480
01:32:35.632 --> 01:32:35.874
um,

2481
01:32:36.179 --> 01:32:39.820
can really radically shift a person's life and what they're doing.

2482
01:32:39.976 --> 01:32:41.554
So this has been so great.

2483
01:32:41.617 --> 01:32:42.507
That's what we're hoping.

2484
01:32:42.757 --> 01:32:46.007
Give people an opportunity to step up and do what they really want to do.

2485
01:32:46.320 --> 01:32:47.054
Thank you for that,

2486
01:32:47.132 --> 01:32:47.367
Mark.

2487
01:32:47.913 --> 01:32:48.070
Well,

2488
01:32:48.740 --> 01:32:51.784
Last question for those who want to find out more about you,

2489
01:32:51.823 --> 01:32:54.747
find out more about your protocol for veterans who may be listening.

2490
01:32:54.946 --> 01:32:57.571
The best place is the educational website,

2491
01:32:57.712 --> 01:33:01.391
which is tbihelpnow.org.

2492
01:33:02.055 --> 01:33:03.235
Under the science,

2493
01:33:03.532 --> 01:33:05.376
you'll get a lot of the articles that I've written.

2494
01:33:06.204 --> 01:33:07.626
They're all consolidated there.

2495
01:33:09.407 --> 01:33:14.922
And then you can go to the media so you can see some of the videos that we've done.

2496
01:33:15.422 --> 01:33:15.672
and then

2497
01:33:16.252 --> 01:33:16.692
From there,

2498
01:33:16.752 --> 01:33:18.692
there'll be a link to our YouTube channel,

2499
01:33:18.733 --> 01:33:24.016
which has short videos on some of the Peptide for Health program that we have,

2500
01:33:25.735 --> 01:33:28.196
some of the podcasts that I've done.

2501
01:33:28.696 --> 01:33:29.438
Pieces of this,

2502
01:33:29.594 --> 01:33:30.016
obviously,

2503
01:33:30.133 --> 01:33:33.415
will be added to it with your permission.

2504
01:33:33.618 --> 01:33:34.149
Of course.

2505
01:33:34.477 --> 01:33:35.055
Of course.

2506
01:33:35.056 --> 01:33:35.196
Yeah,

2507
01:33:35.243 --> 01:33:35.540
yeah,

2508
01:33:35.758 --> 01:33:35.930
yeah.

2509
01:33:35.931 --> 01:33:36.415
I always ask.

2510
01:33:36.416 --> 01:33:37.743
Let's make sure we include the link.

2511
01:33:37.744 --> 01:33:37.836
No,

2512
01:33:37.837 --> 01:33:38.211
of course.

2513
01:33:38.212 --> 01:33:41.696
We'll make sure to include the link in our show notes to get to your website.

2514
01:33:41.743 --> 01:33:42.102
What is that?

2515
01:33:42.165 --> 01:33:42.571
TBI.

2516
01:33:42.602 --> 01:33:43.196
What was that again,

2517
01:33:43.243 --> 01:33:43.352
Mark?

2518
01:33:43.353 --> 01:33:44.977
TBIhelpnow.com.

2519
01:33:45.260 --> 01:33:45.600
Dot org.

2520
01:33:45.761 --> 01:33:46.621
Dot org.

2521
01:33:46.622 --> 01:33:46.881
Beautiful.

2522
01:33:46.882 --> 01:33:47.121
Dot org,

2523
01:33:47.243 --> 01:33:47.483
right.

2524
01:33:48.284 --> 01:33:48.604
And

2525
01:33:49.422 --> 01:33:52.028
I'll send it to you so you have it as well.

2526
01:33:52.305 --> 01:33:52.426
Yeah,

2527
01:33:52.446 --> 01:33:53.946
we'll take it offline.

2528
01:33:54.368 --> 01:33:55.532
But thank you,

2529
01:33:55.571 --> 01:33:55.828
Dr.

2530
01:33:55.868 --> 01:33:56.047
Mark.

2531
01:33:56.071 --> 01:33:57.055
Thank you everyone for listening.

2532
01:33:57.133 --> 01:33:57.375
John,

2533
01:33:57.430 --> 01:33:58.055
great to see you.

2534
01:33:58.094 --> 01:33:58.633
You as well.

2535
01:33:58.813 --> 01:33:59.016
Thank you,

2536
01:33:59.017 --> 01:33:59.094
Mark.

2537
01:33:59.095 --> 01:33:59.571
So helpful.

2538
01:33:59.797 --> 01:34:00.852
And thank you.

2539
01:34:00.977 --> 01:34:01.289
All right.

2540
01:34:01.352 --> 01:34:01.633
Take care,

2541
01:34:01.634 --> 01:34:02.039
everyone.

2542
01:34:02.180 --> 01:34:02.805
Thanks for joining.

2543
01:34:03.211 --> 01:34:03.555
Bye-bye.

2544
01:34:04.196 --> 01:34:05.274
Thank you for joining us today.

2545
01:34:05.493 --> 01:34:09.336
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2546
01:34:09.883 --> 01:34:11.664
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2547
01:34:11.711 --> 01:34:14.055
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2548
01:34:14.376 --> 01:34:15.200
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2549
01:34:15.300 --> 01:34:17.753
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