Allen Diaz introduces Dr. Chiriano at a recent Mastermind Conference.
(Allen)Now I want to ask you a question. How many of you have had any kind of physical problem in your life? Like back pain or something like that. Okay. Surgery for you. What was yours? RA. Rheumatoid arthritis. Thyroid. Oh, right there. Back pain. Yeah. A lot of back pain. A lot of physical stuff. What about migraines? Any of that kind of stuff? Any food allergies or, you know, stuff like that?
There you go. One there, right? Well, one of the things that I loved is I got the opportunity to go and hear Dr. speak up in Rancho Cucamonga. And it was mind-blowing, the things that he was talking about. And I believe it’s so unique and so interesting that I wanted to make him a part of this whole program because I think it’s life-changing, life-transformational. And if you get a hold of the information and then begin to go and see him, it’s going to be so life-transformational for your body and for the things that you might deal with or have to deal with over time or things you don’t even talk about. But you’re going to be able to hear more from him about some of the things that he does. But I want to encourage you guys, take notes and ask questions because he’s got a lot of really good information. So without further ado.
(DR. CHIRIANO) Thanks. Thank you.
How’s the day going so far? Are you guys doing good?
I’m in complete awe of everybody. Everybody’s speaking today. And after hearing Leo, I realized how much I don’t know about my own finances. So I need to do some work on that. So we’re going to just take about 30 minutes and we’re going to talk about health. Okay. It’s a subject that, you know, when we’re talking about success and how we want to live our lives, a lot of times people leave health out of that equation. And that to me is bizarre because without health, there’s no wealth. Right? No health, no wealth. No contacts, no contracts. No health, no wealth. Okay. So let’s start with health. So the first thing is, how do you even define what it means to be healthy? What does that mean? Does anybody have a definition in their mind of what health means?
Yeah, that’s a good question. I just go by the numbers, you know, like what’s my physical fat, my body type. Okay. That’s something that I gauge, you know. Yep. Those are markers of health, right? Markers of health. Wake up and feel good. Wake up and feel good. That’s good.
No pain. Wake up, feel good. Any other thing? What about good mental focus? What about good energy levels? What about optimal weight control? These types of things. Those are great definitions, but I’ll challenge that. And I will say that health, just like the word love, is not a word. It’s an action. Right? Health. Really should equal love.
Okay? And what I mean by that. Self-love. Right? We have to fall in love with ourselves to take accountability for our health. Right? So I love, and we’ll get more into this, what that means. But I love golf. Anybody golf fans here? Yeah? Golf? Okay. Golf to me is such a metaphor of life. Right? It takes so much mental discipline, physical discipline. You have to overcome adversity. You have to regroup. You have to focus on the little wins. Don’t let the setbacks hold you back. But so when you think about, I’m going to show you two, maybe you may have heard of them, golfers. Tiger Woods.
Right? And John Daly.
Okay? Two golfers who are most opposed, like they’re the most completely different golfers. Right? So I just saw something recently about Tiger Woods. And they were comparing Tiger Woods’ daily schedule to John Daly’s daily schedule. So Tiger Woods gets up 4 a.m., goes, runs four miles, works out two hours, goes to the range, goes, runs another four miles, goes to the weight room, goes back to the range, works on his short game, and then goes back to the range again. Okay? Then they showed John Daly. And John Daly said, oh, I get up, I have two Pepsis, I smoke four cigarettes, and some days I don’t even go to the range. Right? So let’s look at their records. Right? Tiger Woods, 82 tour wins, 15 majors.
Okay?
Probably the GOAT, right? Well, close. Nicholas probably is still the GOAT. Right? John Daly, I think he had like 15 tour wins, 19 tour wins, and two majors. Right?
Okay. John Daly has beaten Tiger Woods playing golf. His athleticism, amazing. Right? But what’s the difference between these two guys?
Discipline, work ethic, health, vitality. Right? But let’s take a deeper look at this. What happened to Tiger Woods in 2009?
120 affairs.
This guy was doing things. This guy was doing things so out of his character. Okay? John Daly, really none of that. Right? But really just kind of fell off and he’s gone into other stuff.
Wow. again you didn’t win a tournament until 2012 okay did you see him play at the Masters issue plus 15
okay so if you had to take these guys and say who’s more healthy who’s more healthy John Daly or Tiger Woods depends on your definition of health right so clearly Tiger Woods physically very healthy this led to tremendous success right but where was he mentally where was he spiritually right so when you take those things into account Tiger Woods was self-sabotaging from the time he started probably from his teenage years all the way down and it didn’t manifest until 2009 but when that happened everything derailed right so when you look at pictures like this this is where we get kind of put into complacency when it’s around our health right so if you look at health is kind of like a river and you’re going down the river on a raft right the river is nice and calm it’s a beautiful day there’s trees maybe you’re drinking a beer maybe people are coming and bringing you stuff but what you don’t see is the rapids coming
out of the river and you’re in the river of denial right so that’s where I believe Tiger Woods was yeah right and we can go back to him at the end so I’m going to tell you some things uh lies that you’ve been told uh about your health and what you can do about it and this has been perpetuated by the health care system and brought to you by doctors me included I’m a vascular surgeon I did that for 15 years I’ve been indoctrinated in the conventional health care system I made a shift into alternative medicine functional medicine where I look at root cause and true health and healing so a totally different lens around health and it’s been just so transformative for my own life as well as for the patients that I’ve treated okay?
So lie number one: Uou are not capable of taking care of your own health
Now, do doctors in the health care system come out and tell you this? No. no they don’t right, but what they do do they sit you down and when you come in with a problem you’re having pain you don’t feel well your labs are screwed up what do they do they give you a drug Do they give you any tools or anything to take that power into your own hands? Do they empower you to take that problem and actually look at what’s going on with that problem? Right? Yeah, in the five minutes that you have. And it’s not the doctor’s fault. Doctors are doing the best they can. It’s the health care system that’s a big problem. Right? So this is a subconscious message that we’re getting as the public, is that we are not capable or entitled to take care of our own health. Right? So when you lose that power, you’re giving your power up to a system that’s not even built to serve you.
Right? So I equate that to the parents, right? Who has kids in here? Right? Kids have a school assignment. Some of the parents say, oh, I’ll do that for you. Right? Gets the kids a result. Maybe they get an A on the paper. But what’s the subconscious message you’re giving to your children?
They’re not good enough. They can’t do it. There’s no accountability. Right? Until we start taking accountability for our health, things will never get better in our lives. And that is just a microcosm of how you live your entire life. Right? When you’re giving your power up, whether it’s in your health, your business, your relationships, your friendships, that’s where things start going sour.
Right? So that’s lie number one.
Any questions about that? No.
Lie number two: Diseases exist.
What do I mean about that? So if you look at the word disease, disease, if you dissect the word disease, it literally means dis-ease.
Okay? So what the health care system and what the medical community has done is they’ve looked at, they’ve looked at a bunch of symptoms, and some famous person said, oh, all these symptoms go together, and this is what we’re going to call it. Diabetes.
Alzheimer’s.
Cancer.
So these don’t exist. Okay? What does exist?
Inflammation.
Toxins.
Environmental exposures. Stress. Okay? Wow. These are all. These are all. So.
Symptoms that the end product is disease.
But if you take those out of the equation, disease doesn’t exist.
Okay? So you look at blue zones, right? You look at Loma Linda, just down the street. You look at Sardinia. Do you think the Sardinians really think about their health? No. It’s a way of life for them. It’s an act.
Okay? Health is an act for them. That’s why those types of conditions in underdeveloped countries, actually as bad as this. They are like socioeconomic.
Look at the health care problems they have. They don’t have cardiovascular disease. They don’t have diabetes. They don’t have gut problems. Because they’re getting what they need to get in their way of life. Right? And that’s a community thing. And that’s a cultural thing.
So diseases don’t exist.
So, what does the definition of good health mean? Lie number three.
Eat less, exercise more, equals good health.
Ok?
You guys been told that?
What if I told you you need to eat more, and exercise less, and have good health right what’s that it’s what you eat right our country’s killing us with our food supply killing us okay do you guys know what glyphosate is Roundup okay Roundup was brought in the United States in the 1970s and it was used as a way to increase the crop production keep crops away from bacteria
because of the effect that it had on crops now there’s about 21 million pounds of glyphosate put into our produce every year you know what glyphosate does glyphosate basically kills everything in our back to in our guts because it’s an antibacterial our guts are inhabited by millions and millions of bacteria those bacteria are what keep us healthy and so once that happens once we’re ingesting all this glyphosate
all of that bacteria is going to get into our food supply and that’s what we’re all about that we get what’s called leaky gut and leaky guts when all the toxins get put into our bloodstream so how does that manifest brain fog poor energy depression anxiety ADD skin conditions chronic total inflammation which leads to cancers endocrine dysfunction hormone dysfunction you name it right? So, saying that you can’t eat less but you need to eat more of what’s good for you right and part of that is really eating organic right getting there’s a list you can look it up it’s called the dirty dozen and it’s 12 produce products that leads that are the most pesticide and lady and then there’s the clean 15 there’s two there’s two lists so what’s the top of the list on the dirty dozen
Strawberries no strawberries yeah strawberries so try if anything I know eating clean and eating organic can be more expensive but if you look at the cost of treating chronic health conditions in this country it’s about two hundred fifty thousand dollars over a lifetime for one condition so if you invest upfront in your health you’re gonna have less chronic health conditions and you’re gonna be much better off now as far as the meats concern that’s a whole no other issue right so hormones antibiotics we know that the food supply is leading to severe hormone depletion in our population the hormone dysfunction that’s present in younger individuals and the presence of obesity in young individuals has tripled over the last three thirty years and a lot of it can be attributed to our food supply okay
so exercise so most people think that you have to do like two to three hours of cardio a day okay something crazy
it on exercise and the time of day that you exercise
to 180 minutes of zone to cardio everyday wants a week week so that’s how many minutes a day so if you do 180 x 7 like 25 30 minutes or so of cardio a day zone to two, meaning that zone two means that you can actually have a conversation while you’re exercising, that that is much more beneficial than doing steady state cardio, because steady state long cardio actually creates inflammation in your body that can then lead to chronic illness, right? Also, the time of day that you’re exercising. So you guys know what cortisol is? Yeah, cortisol. Cortisol is our stress hormone. Cortisol is the highest in the morning, or it should be, and then it kind of peaks, and then it starts dripping down during the day, and then by nighttime, it’s low, so we can go to sleep.
Cortisol, if you wake up and the first thing you do is exercise, depending on how high your cortisol is, that can actually raise your cortisol even more.
So it’s probably better to at least be up an hour or so before you exercise and let that natural waking response happen, and then exercise.
So now, these two, exercise cardio and exercise with strength training, have been found to decrease mortality about 40%, okay? Each one alone is about 20%, so there’s a huge benefit of exercise, but diet, we can have, this is where, you know, I believe that I can make a big influence on people, is this whole diet and nutrition component, as well as probably you can, too. She’s a holistic. She’s a holistic health coach.
Okay.
Lie number four,
age, aging equals feeling like crap.
Okay.
So, I don’t know how many times I’ve had patients come into my office, and they say, I went to my doctor because I have no energy, and I feel like crap, and I’m depressed, and I’m 45 years old, and the doctor looked at me and said, what’s wrong with you? And I said, wow. He’s like, you’re just getting older. Here’s an antidepressant, right? This happens all the time. What’s really going on here? Okay, we are not, aging is a disease, really, I mean, if diseases actually exist. We don’t have to age like this, okay? Our cells are actually designed to live 200 years in a perfect environment, obviously, you know, we’re not at a point not to live 200 years.
Okay. Okay. Okay. That will make the aging process much easier, right?
So, one of the things that I really focus on and that nobody really focuses on in conventional medicine is gut health, right? So, the gut is the second brain. Most disease starts in the gut. If you have inflammation in the gut, there’s such a connection between the gut and the brain.
There’s something that’s called neuroinflammation or meta-inflammation, which is metabolic inflammation. And we are all walking around, not all of us, but a lot of us are walking around, our brains are on fire, our bodies are melting, and we don’t even know it. We’re sitting on the raft in the river, and we’re wondering why we feel awful, right? And no one’s doing anything about it.
So, when you talk about autoimmune disease, it starts in the gut.
Have you ever been told that before? Have you done anything about it?
Has it helped?
Yeah, I mean,
I have treated people’s guts and gotten them out of joint pain. I’ve gotten their skin cleared up, brain fog, gone, completely gone. And they’ve been to doctor after doctor after doctor. And this is so simple. It’s not very difficult. And then you combine this with hormone optimization, testosterone, if you need it, even as females. Females need testosterone.
And this is a very simple thing. And this can be so transformative to the aging process that, you know, I’m hoping to live over 100.
And I’ll tell you, I was 40 years old. I was doing trauma surgery. I was working like 140 hours a week, working every weekend doing trauma. I was 240 pounds. I was so burnt out mentally.
I was on seven medications, including blood pressure, cholesterol. Thyroid, and a few others.
And I was, I couldn’t think right. My energy was horrible. I’m pretty sure my adrenals were pooping out because I was under so much stress all the time. And this is not uncommon for healthcare professionals. Who helps the help? Nobody.
And so I had to take things into my own hands. So I got my insulin resistance. I was pre-diabetic. So I fixed that. I fixed my thyroid. I fixed my gut. Changed my diet. Started exercising. And now I’m 50, and I feel, I look better, I believe, and I feel better than I did in my early 40s. Okay? And this is just by changing your life, lifestyle, right?
So, and then lie number five is that your genetics predetermine your destiny.
And that’s what we’re talking about, right? Right? This is a lie. Lie. Okay, you look at families. Everyone in the family maybe is 400 pounds. There’s that one person, comes from the same family, who’s taking control of their life. Their optimal weight, right? So how does that happen? Now, there’s genetic diseases, obviously. There’s people that are born with muscular dystrophy and things like that. And, you know, a lot of that can be very lethal early on. But a lot of the things that we attribute to genetics are cardiovascular diseases. There’s high cholesterol, all these things. There’s something that’s going to turn off depending on lifestyle changes. And those can actually be tested. And a lot of these genes exist in the powerhouse of our cells, which are called mitochondria.
And so depending on how you choose to live your life and how you choose to get in control of your inflammation and your neuroinflammation, your hormones, your gut health, will determine whether or not these genes are actually expressed.
And so, really, it’s all in your control. The question is, can you actually commit to it? Right? And I think what happens is that, and it’s the fault of the healthcare system. It’s not your fault. So, again, the message is that you aren’t capable. That’s ingrained in us from early, early on. And then the other thing is it’s such a maze. No one knows where to start. There’s no coaching. There’s no consulting. Right? So just a couple of things. Just like starting a business or trying to gain wealth, if you don’t have a direction, if you don’t have someone steering the ship, it’s very, very difficult.
But it also starts with you. And you have to have your why as to why you want to take control of your health. Right? And for me, my why was I have kids. You know, I want to be the best version of myself. How can I do that if I wake up feeling like crap every day? How can I impact others on this planet? If I’m barely struggling to get out of bed every day, if I’m carrying an extra 40 pounds on my body like I’m carrying an extra child on my body every day, how can I do that? And so when you’re talking about leadership, you’re talking about mindset, you’re talking about starting a business, gaining wealth, how can you do that if you’re not the highest version of yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, you can’t, it’s very difficult. So this is something that you really, really have to take seriously. When you’re talking about overall success in your life and how you want to impact the world.
Does that make sense?
Okay.
So, how am I on time?
I have 25 more minutes? Oh, I have 25 more minutes. Okay. All right. So, I’m going to give you just a few strategies to get you started. And again. You know, when you start taking control of your health, it’s not about making a thousand changes all at once. That’s the set of failures.
And this is not a sprint. It’s a marathon. And it’s a way of life. Okay. Learning that self-love, that self-care, it takes time.
Okay. So, I was just recently listening to a coach. And he was a physical trainer. And he was talking about meeting patients where they’re at or meeting people where they’re at. So, he had a lady who was extremely overweight. She wanted to change her life. She didn’t know where to start. So, he asked her to start. Like, well, what can you commit to? Can you commit? What’s out of 10, can you commit to working out three days a week? And she goes, oh, that’s probably like a five. He’s like, forget it. Like, not going to do it. And he says, well, can you commit to working out one day a week? She said, oh, that’s probably like a four. No, can’t do it. He says, can you commit to putting your gym shoes on every day?
And she goes, oh, yeah. That’s easy. I did it at 10. He goes, all right. Well, we’ll start with that. So, you know, she came back the next week to meet with him. And she goes, man, I failed. She’s like, I went out with the girls. I went to happy hour. I had desserts. I had alcohol. And he’s like, well, he’s like, did you put your gym shoes on every day? She goes, yeah. He goes, wow. She’s like, that’s amazing. And for the first time in her life, she was told that she was doing something good for her health. And you can’t believe how powerful that’ll be. So, be gentle on yourself. And on top of that, she took two walks. That week. And then, a year later, she lost 65 pounds. So, it starts with putting on your gym shoes. That’s it. That’s it. OK. That’s all it takes.
I hear a book in there.
Exactly. Exactly. So, here’s five things that you can do. Free. OK.
It’ll get you started. Wake up one hour earlier every day. OK. What does that do for you? Well, for me, I have kids, right? So, if I wake up when they wake up, I’m already starting my day on the defensive, right? When I start my day on the defensive and I’m having to take care of everybody else, I’m a single dad, my cortisol goes through the roof. I’m stressed out. By the time I get to work, I already feel like I’ve been through the ringer. And then, how am I supposed to show up for myself or anybody else at that point? Number two, waking up an hour early, you can actually do stuff for yourself. So, meditate for 15 minutes. Strategize about yourself. Think about your day, what you need to get done for your business, what you need to get done for yourself, any tasks that need to be done for that day.
And three, you can exercise, right, if you need to.
And you can really start your day in control. Very easy. Now, there’s caveats to that. Obviously, if you work a graveyard shift and you’re not getting home till 2 in the morning, you don’t need to get up at, you know, and you were getting up at 7, don’t get up at 6. OK. You need to get, try to get eight hours of sleep. That’s the recommendation. Quality sleep.
Number two, get your red light therapy, OK? This does not mean that you have to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars going to health care centers to get your red light bed and go sit in a bed and travel. You can go outside at 5.30, 6 in the morning and look at the sun. Put your bathing suit on. It’s now summertime, so it’s a little warmer. And most of the red light that comes from the sun comes around that time. Now, red light’s very beneficial for aging. It’s great for the powerhouse of our cells. It makes all of our energy, the mitochondria, so about tenfold increase in that. It helps with oxygen metabolism, so you’re not generating as many what we call free radicals or toxins from oxygen metabolism.
And then if you’re doing that, take your shoes off and put your feet in the dirt and the grass. It’s called earthing. OK. Earthing, yes. Like dawn. Dawn and dusk is when we get most of the red light from the sun. Earthing, very important, OK? Take your bare feet, ground with the earth. It will increase your energy. It will discharge electrons. It will discharge electricity from your body. You will absorb electrons from the earth and resonate with the earth’s frequency, OK? You do that at the same time you’re getting your red light, free therapy, OK?
Number three, we already talked about it, but we’ll go to plunging. Have you guys heard of cold plunging?
You don’t have to go to a health care center to do cold plunging. You don’t have to go anywhere. Fifty-nine degrees is the ideal temperature for cold plunging. Decreases inflammation, increases dopamine, serotonin, helps with muscle recovery.
So most cold tap water in the house is 60 degrees. So you’re about one degree off. Or if you have a pool in the backyard, you know, it’s still cold enough, you can jump in the pool. You want to stay in there, you know, about 10 minutes or so. Or you can just take a cold shower, a cold bath. It will change your life if you cold plunge. Clears your head, clears your body, free, except for the cost of water. How often do you do this? Every day.
Every day.
Number four, move your body, OK? Move your body, but you have to be honest with yourself. What can you commit to? And it’s something that you need to be able to do where you’re at. And then be gentle with yourself and move forward. But you should be moving your body every day, whether it’s just getting 5 to 10,000 steps or if it’s actually engaging in cardio workouts or strength training. Something like that. We know that people live longer if they’re moving their body. A body in motion stays in motion. A body at rest goes to, you know, what, OK? And then number five, we talked about it, eat as clean as you can, but also look at your environment. And look at your relationships, OK?
50% of the house, of the structures in the United States are water damaged. People don’t know it. They’re living in water contaminated houses. This is, if you look at the data, so much chronic disease happens from living in water contaminated buildings, OK? And you will never know it. If you come see me, we can test for it. But if there’s any sort of musty smell in your house or anything like that in the most, you need to have that house checked out for water damage, OK? You call a company to come and test your house for mold.
Yeah.
That’s one of the biggest steps of cleaning up your health is making sure your living environment is clean, OK? And that’s aside from the hygiene of it. Also keep your living environment organized and neat, OK? Our external world’s a mirror of our internal world. So if we’re not clean, neat, and organized on the outside, chances are we’re probably not clean, neat, and organized on the inside.
So if you look around your living area and you notice everything’s in a disaster, maybe look inside and say, why is this, right? And start making those changes in your own life. If you do that, you will see yourself noticing these things in your external life and trying to change them, OK?
So I work with a lot of this stuff in my clinic. I think I’m pretty much out of time. I’m happy to answer any questions.
But this is a huge step of your overall personal development is really getting control of your health. I want you guys to ask me some questions. But because there’s some valuable stuff here, Doc, I also have some questions. OK. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. So anybody got any questions for me? Yeah.
I know someone who has . And what would you say to someone who has , because it’s not real, it’s on the mind.
And the living condition has everything that you mentioned, the environment, the health.
What would you say? Just follow the steps, right? Well, the first thing I would tell that person to do is that it has to be a consistent that person is that they’re not going crazy. Because a lot of the, and I’ll tell you, when I was in conventional medicine, my nurses would red flag the charts when patients had a diagnosis of fibromyalgia as an indicator that this person was crazy.
Wow. And the first thing to do with these people is to really validate them and tell them that it’s real, right? That in and of itself can make them a lot better. That’s the first step in healing.
But as far as treatments go, it’s really about the metabolic derangements that go along with fibromyalgia, that like the total body inflammation, neuroinflammation, and breaking that pain cycle. And that’s something that I do. I’ve worked with a lot of fibromyalgia. So we address their hormones, we address their gut health, we address their total body inflammation. I’ve actually been able to get patients that have been out in pain for 20 years and tried everything out of pain within two months. Okay. I do believe like everything you’re saying and what are your thoughts on emotional trauma? Yes. Yeah. And Jesse knows this too, as a life coach. I mean, we, we store emotional trauma, right? And it manifests in so many different ways. There’s actually a gene for PTSD that you can actually turn on and turn off with the proper therapy.
But I deal a lot with brain health in my clinic as well. And so, you know, I’ve been able to get patients that have been out in pain for 20 years and tried everything out of pain. And so, you know, I’ve been able to get I do brain entrainment. We do IV ketamine therapy to break those trauma loops. And we’ve had a lot of success around that. And part of the treatment around fibromyalgia and also some reflex sympathetic dystrophy or causalgia centers around breaking those trauma loops. And there’s a lot of research that shows if you can do that, you can actually get them out of pain. Would you put in that category of mental like pain or anguish, would you put stress? Absolutely. Because I hear a lot of doctors talk about stress.
Absolutely. I mean, if you look at how stress impacts everything in our life, I mean, the cortisol levels, the hormones, everything. I mean, but there’s so much to it. It’s not just say, oh, you know, go meditate or do this. Like there are things physiologically that you need to help them with as well as changing whether it be their relationships, their working environment, the people that are around, you know, you know, this like we’re the average of the five closest people we hang out with every day. If those people are toxic and they’re not bringing us up, then the chances of us bringing them up is probably a lot less than them bringing us down. Yeah, that’s true. So change your relationships. If you have to cut people out of your life, cut them out. You know, I know it sounds, it’s hard, but sometimes you have to do that.
I had some conversations, but mineral and vitamin deficiency in people’s lives. Can you speak on that? Like briefly, like maybe like how that can affect and manifest and what are maybe three or four of the ones that America lacks? Yeah, well, we lack most of them because our food is so dead. I mean, you know this, right? I mean, we have a dead food supply. But one of the main ones, and it’s basic, it’s just the B vitamins, the C vitamins, zinc, particularly B6 and zinc, very important for hormone optimization. And vitamin D is essential for gut health, hormone optimization. Weight loss, everything. So vitamin D, I just want to touch on that for a second.
Vitamin or sun? So you need the sun to make vitamin D. However, however, we still have an epidemic of vitamin D deficiency in this country. I was so vitamin D deficient when I was working full time in the hospital. I, my bones were hurting. My vitamin D was like at five, the normal level should be like six D. So that’s one of the symptoms, bones hurting. It can in extreme cases. But people who are having problems losing weight, if they’re having problems with gut health, you know, a lot of irritable bowel syndrome hormones, like a lot of it, they have to be on vitamin D. Yeah. Is it true that neuropathy things like tingling the feet when you step up can be like B1 deficiency?
Yeah, thiamine deficiency, B1, panathenic acid, and magnesium, a lot of that. Yeah. I know I just adjusted a few things and one of them was just potassium. I had read that 90% of Americans lack potassium. You have to eat eight bananas a day, so you’ve got to eat enough stuff with potassium in it to get the potassium. I could be wrong. You’re the doctor. No, that’s true. I’m asking you. No, and it’s, it’s absolutely true. It’s absolutely true. I mean, we’re, we’re lacking in so many of the micronutrients in our diets. Being that I was in the church counseling world, I would counsel a lot of people and we don’t go into that kind of stuff. We do that for the doctors, but I always begin to then think, you know, people are having depression, lethargic.
It’s, you know, all these things, um, that they’re going through and I’m like, I think these are all attached to just not eating well, you know what I mean? Oh, you’d be surprised. And I used to go around and ask doctors always the same thing. And, and I’ve met many of doctors. I actually haven’t asked you this, I don’t think, but I would ask them, well, why, why do you guys always give so much medicine? And their basic response was, and, and this is what they just said to me. And that was, you know, um, we want the best for our clients for the most part, but, uh, they won’t do the three basics. Exercise, eat healthy, uh, you know, have plenty of water. And they can tell you how to do it.
Eat less, eat your veggies.
Problems. They said my, I was a walking heart attack. Try to give me medicine. I go in.
He said, I’m not a nutritionist. I have no idea, dude. You’re on your own. Cause I couldn’t even take their medicines, probacitin. And then I was like. What do you mean? I’m on my own. He’s like, I don’t know. You maybe need to go learn how to eat better or something. I have no idea. Yeah. I was like, but you’re my doctor. Well, and the thing is like the statin therapy, what you’re talking about are, it’s really bad for you. It depletes CoQ levels, which is an adaptogen, which helps our cellular function, our neuro function. It’s been associated with long-term neurodegenerative problems, um, and cardiovascular disease. It does lower cholesterol. Very good for that. But the side effect profiles. So I do. I do natural cholesterol reduction in my clinic. I don’t use statin therapy. Interesting. Yeah. Yeah. It’s really good. Anybody else have any questions? Yeah. Ken.
Does it frustrate you as a doctor?
Am I being recorded? I don’t want to be assassinated, but yeah, I mean, we, we know, we know that, uh, big pharma runs healthcare. Right. And I’m a doctor and sit there for a half hour. No patients going out and then a pharmaceutical rep will come out and then patients are being. Yeah. Well, and then if you look at a lot of the things that I do, there’s a lot of restrictions on some of the stuff that I do, even including like peptide therapy, like FDA just decided to use as, you know, safety unknown, which is ridiculous. Um, and then, uh, like things like NAD, I can’t get in California, which helps with mitochondrial health. I mean, there’s so many things. So restricted, but then Oxycontin, you know, anybody can get it. And so, you know, we know that things that work are there as a target on those therapies, because what’s the incentive of getting people healthy?
Yeah.
Well, a lot of the treatments that are done in Mexico. I don’t.
I, um, so I. Don’t have B 17 IV, but we do do the apricot, uh, kernels. Yeah. What kind of, I do do alternative cancer therapy, so there is no insurance, nothing I do, but we do do regenerative biologics. So we do stem cell therapy.
Now.
Okay. Uh, I’m gonna ask him a question. I’ll let you ask your one more question there. Um, I read. Um, his book, gun G is a, how you say his name? Mm-hmm. Gundry. Gundry. Yes. Yeah. His name. Yeah. Did you watch the plant paradox? Yeah, I didn’t watch it. I read. Oh, you read it. The plan there. Um, what is, what is this whole thing with lectins subscriber in that? Yeah. So leptins. Yeah. So, uh, there is some, uh, ox, uh, oxalate problems in that.
Um, so I think my whole philosophy on, on diet is that the extreme diets just aren’t great. Aren’t great. So. So we know that, um, you need some, you need some can’t digest, uh, plant protein as well. Uh, if you look at gorillas, they have very, very long hind guts, so they can actually digest plant proteins better, but we need to take so much plant protein that you can’t do it. But, but yeah, so the lectins can be a problem problem. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.
You were talking about the, the antibiotics. Is it true that antibiotics destroy your, your. Your intestines. Intestines. Yeah. Yeah.
Most Americans are on like two or three courses of antibiotics every year, every course will destroy your microbiome. So anytime I, I have had to put patients on antibiotics, even going into holistic medicine, but I always put them on a probiotic and a prebiotic if I’m going to have to do antibiotics. Yeah. I mean, I can ask a massive question. Did I study that too? I’m sure you could as well, but any last questions before we let the doctor go? Yeah. I have one about. Sun. So being a contractor, I’m in the sun, sun up, sun down. Yeah. I should be on sunscreen.
So in the morning, in the morning, the UV light is not as much as the red light. So I would say don’t wear sunscreen in the morning or at dusk, but during the daytime, you need to be wearing sunscreen. What, what power?
30 to 50. After 50, is it. Uh-huh.
My question, I guess is what.
I guess the ones that are pava-free. Can he wear long shirts and that works fine? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I mean, well, some, some clothing actually is UV resistant. So like, uh, like I go to Lake Mahogany, UV resistant, um, like rash guard, you know, things that you mentioned at the last one, just for the audience is what are five foods that kill testosterone? What are five foods that help increase testosterone? So I don’t know about five, let’s see. Soy products, not great for testosterone. They’re very estrogenic. Beer, not very good for testosterone. The whole is very estrogenic. Um, marijuana is estrogenic. Yeah, abilities. Yeah. Um, things that help with testosterone.
Watermelon, uh, and then the adaptogens like ashwagandha works well for testosterone as well. Uh, boron helps with testosterone.
Then obviously optimizing your gut health and, and supplementation. Well, thank you, doc. And you guys will be able to ask questions later on, but I want to get into the money stuff.
