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229: Hope for Cancer

Transcript of Episode 229: Hope for Cancer

With Dr. Daniel Pompa and Dr. Antonio Jimenez

Dr. Pompa:
Cellular Healing TV fans, exciting few weeks. You are on location with me at SOPMed, the Society of Progressive Medicine. You know why we’re here? [00:00:11] bringing together MDs, NDs, DCs, all types of practitioners to mastermind, bring the best of what we believe people need to get well today. As a matter of fact, even this every evening tonight, we have the leaders coming together in this profession to meet on the future of alternative medicine.

You’re on location. I’m going to be bringing you some exciting interviews with some of the leading practitioners in the area that you’re going to want to hear from, cancer researchers, doctors, stem cells, you name it. You’re going to hear some exciting interviews right here. The next few weeks, stay tuned to Cell TV for these exciting interviews that I know that you’re going to love. It’s going to definitely affect and change your life.

Ashley:
Hello, everyone. Welcome to Cellular Healing TV. I’m Ashley Smith, and today we welcome special guest Dr. Tony Jimenez. Dr. Pompa and Dr. Jimenez are discussing integrative cancer therapies and testing. We’ll hear all about the seven key principles that Dr. Tony uses to target cancer, and these principles can be applied to all of us for prevention, too.

Dr. Jimenez is a huge believer in empowering his patients to live to live and not live to die and that only when working through emotional health and identifying past traumas can true healing happen. Before we get started, let me tell you a little bit more about Dr. Tony Jimenez.

Dr. Antonio Jimenez is the founder and medical director of Hope4Cancer Institute with treatment centers in Mexico. For over 28 years he has dedicated his life to the study, clinical research, and implementation of nontoxic cancer therapies. Based on his seven key principles of cancer therapy, Dr. Jimenez successfully targets cancer with his multidimensional holistic whole-body approach. Emerging as one of the leading authorities in alternative cancer therapies, Dr. Jimenez continues to study medicine and lecture all over the world. Let’s join Dr. Pompa and Dr. Jimenez on this episode of Cellular Healing TV.

Dr. Pompa:
Dr. Tony Jimenez, welcome to the show.

Dr. Jimenez:
Nice to be here.

Dr. Pompa:
Absolutely, we met—where did we meet the first time? We were doing a TV show together.

Dr. Jimenez:
Yes, in Detroit.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, in Detroit, exactly.

Dr. Jimenez:
That seemed like it was yesterday.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, doesn’t it?

Dr. Jimenez:
Actually, we met here a year ago at the SOPMed conference when I dunked you, remember?

Dr. Pompa:
Yes, that’s right. It’s true. He did. He literally threw the ball. Wait, wait, hold on a second. You missed, and then you came up and finally kicked it, and he was the one who put me in the water. That’s true. I’m going to get even. Actually, when we met, too, for that TV show, my wife just fell in love with you. We went to dinner that night, and I think you two spoke the whole time.

Dr. Jimenez:
We did. She was next to me, so that made it easier.

Dr. Pompa:
She likes certain people, so you have a certain energy about you. You really do. You just have that heart. No surprise to me that you run these big—should I call it an alternative cancer clinic? How do you refer to it?

Dr. Jimenez:
We call it integrative because -inaudible- medical doctors. I’m an ND as well as a medical doctor. We give the patient the best that we can offer them with respect to nontoxic therapies and sometimes, for example, low-dose chemotherapy. I’m not a chemo guy, but if someone comes with a huge breast tumor or a tumor in the neck, you have to do something quicker. With low-dose, it’s safe. It’s not going to give the toxic effects, and in combination with the integrative therapy, it works very well.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s Hope4Cancer, and it’s Hope4Cancer Centers?

Dr. Jimenez:
Treatment Centers.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, the Hope4Cancer Treatment Centers with the number four, Hope4Cancer. You have locations in Cancun, Mexico, which I’m definitely going to visit.

Dr. Jimenez:
Oh, we can’t wait for that.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, absolutely, and also in Tijuana, correct?

Dr. Jimenez:
Yes.

Dr. Pompa:
How large are these clinics? We’ll talk about some of the really amazing therapies you’re doing there.

Dr. Jimenez:
The Tijuana clinic was the very first one, and we opened that in 2000. I’ve been working in integrative cancer therapies now for 28 years.

Dr. Pompa:
You’re an oncologist by trade.

Dr. Jimenez:
Yes, and so the Cancun clinic we opened in 2015, so we have three-plus years there. The difference between the two clinics are not the treatments because the treatments are the same. The Tijuana clinic is an in-patient facility, and we have 21 in-patient rooms. The patients stay there 24/7 typically for three weeks. The Cancun clinic is an outpatient facility.

Dr. Pompa:
Someone might start with the Cancun and oftentimes end up with the other one, perhaps.

Dr. Jimenez:
Yeah, hopefully not because—

Dr. Pompa:
Right, exactly, hopefully not. Let’s back up a little bit because I want you to tell your story. Everybody does have a story, right?

Dr. Jimenez:
Right.

Dr. Pompa:
To hear how somebody got into this—how did it choose you?

Dr. Jimenez:
It was my dad. My dad was my hero. My dad left Columbia when I was five years old and moved the family to New Jersey of all places. That’s where I grew up. I was just finishing medical school, and my dad gave me a call that not only was he diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer, but he had already received treatment at a medical center in Houston, Texas, but he was feeling terrible. He said, “Son, this is not the way I want to do any sort of therapies.” At that point, after I composed myself, I said, “Okay, Dad, let’s get going.” I flew him to Mexico. At this point, my dad was in his early 60s. My dad passed at 83, and he passed from unrelated causes and—old age, actually.

Dr. Pompa:
Wow, 20 years of health.

Dr. Jimenez:
Twenty years of health, exactly, very good health.

Dr. Pompa:
That brought you into now. From there, did you go into medical school?

Dr. Jimenez:
I was finishing medical school at that point.

Dr. Pompa:
You were finishing medical school. That’s what launched you into this particular career.

Dr. Jimenez:
Exactly, yes. Then just another story, a number of years later, I opened Hope4Cancer Treatment Centers in Tijuana. Four months into it, we get a six-year-old patient from Illinois.

Dr. Pompa:
I remember this story.

Dr. Jimenez:
She had leukemia. Whitney is now my daughter, and she’s 24. I’m a grandfather and another one on the way.

Dr. Pompa:
Slow that story down because I think they may have missed it. She’s a cancer patient.

Dr. Jimenez:
Right.

Dr. Pompa:
Was it terminal? What stage cancer?

Dr. Jimenez:
She had leukemia. The doctors in St. Louis, Missouri had told the mom that if she did chemo, it was 50/50 and 100% that she wouldn’t be able to have children if she survived. That’s when the mom decided to look elsewhere, and she came to Mexico.

Dr. Pompa:
You made the statement that that patient’s now your daughter.

Dr. Jimenez:
Exactly.

Dr. Pompa:
You got to tell them how that happened because they’re going, “Wait, what?” She starts as a patient. Now how did she end up your daughter?

Dr. Jimenez:
Her mom, Marcy, an incredible lady, and at one point—this is really funny. At the clinic, she told me, “Doctor, your girlfriend is not good for you.” I said, “Excuse me?” One thing led to another. We got married, and I walked Whitney down the aisle, seems like four years ago.

Dr. Pompa:
Then she ended up your daughter. How is she today?

Dr. Jimenez:
Oh, she’s wonderful, and a second grandchild on the way.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s awesome. You were called into it, weren’t you?

Dr. Jimenez:
I was called into, and God led me to where I am. Originally, Dan, I was going to go to medical school in England. At the last moment, it didn’t work out, and I was directed to go to school in Guadalajara, Mexico, and the rest—God opens the doors and closes others.

Dr. Pompa:
I think that’s why my—I know that’s why my wife is drawn to you because like you, I just am who I am. I can’t speak without speaking of God and what He’s done in my life, and you’re the same way.

Dr. Jimenez:
I am. I have a book coming out in October and November of 2018. It’s about our seven key principle philosophy at Hope4Cancer. The point is that there’s a lot of God in the book. When I was writing it, it’s like do I put God in almost every page? Yeah, why not? Why not?

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, absolutely. Because you speak of God, I can speak this for myself. I’ve had some hard things in my life. We are about a mission, right?

Dr. Jimenez:
That’s right.

Dr. Pompa:
We’re helping people. That’s our desire. That’s our goal. I sense that from you. What are some of your hard battles? I want people to know who you are. What are some of your hard battles that you’ve been through?

Dr. Jimenez:
Some of them have been health battles. I cannot see with my left eye. When I was a small child and going to the doctor every month because my mom wanted me to be fat, not skinny, the doctor used to give me a B complex injection, and away I went. One day, I asked the doctor if I can, myself, be a physician without having vision in my left eye, and he encouraged me. He said, “Yes, you can.” I’ve never forgotten that.

Another story is another doctor early on in my life, also, when I had a chest cold, he gave me a prescription. On that prescription, I had five medications. I was too young to understand, so I asked the doctor, “What are these for?” He said, “They are for what you have, so take them,” and walked away. I chased him down the hallway, pulled his lab coat, and said, “Doctor, can you please tell me what these are for?” He said, “I already told you,” and left. I ripped up the prescription, threw it in the trashcan, and told my mom, “I cannot take this if I don’t know what they’re for.”

Dr. Pompa:
Wow, how old were you?

Dr. Jimenez:
I was about 10.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s pretty impressive. We’re called to it.

Dr. Jimenez:
Obviously, this is why I connect very well with patients because at an early age, that stuck with me. I felt impotent at that point.

Dr. Pompa:
I just got goosebumps because imagine that. I just watched a show on TV recently, and the gentleman had lost his legs. He didn’t lose his legs; they were paralyzed in a bad accident. He was 6’4” and towering over his patients. He’s thinking, how can I be a doctor? What he’d learned is without his legs, now he’s pulling up to them in a wheelchair. It transformed his practice. He said even just being forced to be eye-to-eye—and then being them. I can tell you, I would never be the doctor that I am without going through the pain that I’ve been through.

Dr. Jimenez:
That’s right.

Dr. Pompa:
From pain to purpose, my wife kind of coined that in our life.

Dr. Jimenez:
I like that, from pain to purpose. The other issue I’ve had for years is hearing loss, tinnitus. I consider this a blessing. Why? I listen to patients. I look them in the eyes because my hearing—

Dr. Pompa:
You have to be this way.

Dr. Jimenez:
I have to be that way. It’s that connection, and that’s when the healing really takes off.

Dr. Pompa:
Gosh, that’s amazing. Talk about the seven—you have these seven philosophies, if you will, core principles of your cancer institutes. Talk about that.

Dr. Jimenez:
It’s been a long journey over 28 years in cancer therapies. I realized that there are seven core issues that we must address in cancer. Six of them are for all of us. The viewers, the listeners have to think, oh, I don’t have cancer, so focus on six of these principles. I’ll start off with number one, which are the nontoxic cancer therapies. Of course, that’s the one that applies to those with cancer. We can go into -inaudible-

Dr. Pompa:
We’ll go through that, exactly.

Dr. Jimenez:
Number two is oxygenation, and we well know the benefits of oxygenation. Hypoxia just makes cancer progress. Even patients that are receiving chemo and radiation—

Dr. Pompa:
Hypoxia means low oxygen.

Dr. Jimenez:
Yes, so patients that are receiving chemo and radiation in that hypoxia, low oxygen status, those therapies will even be less effective. The third one is the immune system. What’s important about the immune system is that it’s not only important to have an optimal immune system, but it’s important to have an immune system that can see the cancer cells. What we now know is that cancer cells shield or cloak themselves from being seen by the immune system. We need to formulate therapies that enable our God-given immune system to do what it’s supposed to do.

The next key principle is nutrition. Who better to talk about nutrition than Dr. Dan? Throughout the time that we’ve known each other, and listening to your information here, at the conferences, and to your talk yesterday, we resonate on many levels with respect to nutrition, right? That’s good, too. It’s like a confirmation of what I’ve seen in clinical practice. Then the next key point supports detoxification. I believe that detox starts in the brain, in the mind.

Dr. Pompa:
See? We’re resonating.

Dr. Jimenez:
I say that a negative thought can kill you faster than a bad germ, so we have to start with that detoxing. The next key point supports the microbiome.

Dr. Pompa:
We talked about that a lot last night.

Dr. Jimenez:
Yes, okay, the microbiome and healthy versus potentially pathogenic organisms like viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites, and others. Then we look at the aspect of the emotional/spiritual. I believe that that’s really at the core of disease and at the core of healing.

Dr. Pompa:
I interviewed Dr. Leigh Connealy, and she spoke of the emotions as being such a core. Last night, in our mastermind meeting with all these great doctors—we’re masterminding together—it seemed like the cancer doctors were the ones that I heard that message from the most as far as how much the emotion plays in a role. What’s your thoughts on that? What do you see? How do you deal with it in your clinic?

Dr. Jimenez:
Number one is that we have to enable the patient to go to that space because some of the patients, about 10%, have something called secondary gains. They unconsciously or even consciously, they want to remain in that sick condition because now their spouse, their family members, their friends are paying attention to them.

Dr. Pompa:
Identity.

Dr. Jimenez:
Right, identity. We have questionnaires that the patients fill out. This is not like a yes or no. It’s really going in depth with traumas, conflicts, bad stuff in life that happened. We’re all human. We have a backpack of stuff, so we need to start removing those stones from the backpack and letting them truly go, not putting them on a back burner, not saying, “I’ve dealt with them,” or, “I’ve resolved them,” but truly letting it go. In the letting go is the freedom and the healing.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s a detox. You’re getting rid of an emotion, and toxins, traumas, thoughts, even thoughts about those emotional situations or just thoughts in general?

Dr. Jimenez:
That’s right. Yeah, both.

Dr. Pompa:
All of it.

Dr. Jimenez:
It’s important for patients to do a timeline starting from the month and the year of birth and going on. Oftentimes, 18 months before the diagnosis of cancer, you have an acute traumatic event that happened.

Dr. Pompa:
Really?

Dr. Jimenez:
Yes, and then we go to the timelines before or after, and you’ll see cycles repeating themselves.

Dr. Pompa:
I’ve heard that. I don’t remember the years, whether it was every 10 years or every 13, there’s certain patterns. Let’s say something happened at age three. There’s a pattern of typically another trauma, something else occurs?

Dr. Jimenez:
Yeah, and when you’re working on this, sometimes you don’t remember them all, but you put one trauma there, and then that stirs the brain, accessing that file from the computer, the brain. This is hard work. It’s painful, but it’s liberating, and that’s the key to well being.

We had a patient that came to the clinic, and she said, “Dr. Tony, I have one month to live.” What do you think I thought? I said, “What am I going to do?”

Dr. Pompa:
She identified with that, too.

Dr. Jimenez:
Yeah, she identified with that. Why did she say she had one month to live? Five months prior to this, her oncologist had told her she had six months to live. She said, “I have never bought anything for myself in the last five months. I’ve just been preparing to die.” I said, “Well, why are you here?” I accessed that situation with her, and a few days later, I saw that she had a necklace on that I hadn’t seen before. I asked our driver at the clinic if he had taken her to a mall. He said, “Yeah, I took her to a jewelry store.”

I felt that at this point, she had shifted. I called her into my office, and she said, “Yes, I bought the necklace.” Now, she did an event that she hadn’t done in five months, and now she was living to live, and not living to die. That patient is alive to today.

Dr. Pompa:
I was hoping you’d say that. That’s amazing. Your name, Hope4Cancer—because without hope, it’s over.

Dr. Jimenez:
That’s right.

Dr. Pompa:
Is that the most important thing?

Dr. Jimenez:
That’s the most important thing. At Hope4Cancer Treatment Centers, our core principles are hope, faith, love, and generosity. If you have all four of them, seemingly miracles happen.

Dr. Pompa:
You’re getting me emotional. I don’t know why that is. I don’t even know why that just happened. I guess it’s who you are, honestly, and what you represent.

Dr. Jimenez:
Thank you. Thank you, Dan. My wife is a big part of this because she told me a few months ago, “When this stops being a mission, we close Hope4Cancer.” That’s what Hope4Cancer is. It’s a mission. Last year, we baptized about eight patients and number of staff members.

Dr. Pompa:
You’re killing me, dude.

Dr. Jimenez:
God is doing wonderful, wonderful work at the clinic. Sometimes patients come in, and they don’t make it. As a physician, as a believer, I said, “So God, give me a reason for this,” but I’m just seeing so much happening there. There are prayer groups every morning, patients coming into the treatment area, and just forming a circle, praying, the staff joining them. Medical doctors, PhDs joining them in prayer, it’s wonderful.

Dr. Pompa:
Oh, man, I—my wife and I have actually been praying many mornings, and God laid you on our heart. We pray for protection many mornings. I feel the important work that you’re doing and offering.

Dr. Jimenez:
Thank you for that because those prayers are needed. When we do what we do, we’re out there, right?

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah.

Dr. Jimenez:
Some people don’t want this to go forward.

Dr. Pompa:
I know it. We pray protection over you now and what you’re doing because they need it. You need to hear this message. Let’s talk about some of the unique treatments that you’re doing. You talked about the light therapy last night. You really are on the cutting edge of some amazing stuff. You talked about the oxygen work. A lot of people are doing that. It’s really important to do that. Talk about the light therapy you’re doing.

Dr. Jimenez:
We call it photobiomodulation or light therapy. There was light. Let there be light.

Dr. Pompa:
Let there be light, yeah, exactly.

Dr. Jimenez:
Light and sound are very healing. What we’re doing now and we’ve done for 18 years is using sound and light. As technology has improved, the delivery system of this light obviously has been enhanced. Now, for example, we give the patient a natural substance that’s absorbed by cancer cells selectively. Some of this is derived from chlorophyll. We can use quercumin. We could use St. John’s Wort extract and other substances that are natural. They’re up-taken by cancer cells. Then we put a laser into the vein. We can use ultraviolet light, red light, blue light, green light, yellow light, and infrared—

Dr. Pompa:
I stand in front of my red light every day.

Dr. Jimenez:
Yes, light is, as you know, very powerful. Now, we could deliver these photons of light directly into the blood stream and have it circulate throughout the body. We’re not only attacking primary tumors, but the circulating tumor cells or cancer stem cells in the body.

Dr. Pompa:
Oh, wow.

Dr. Jimenez:
For example, a patient that has a breast tumor, we give the IV treatment with the IV photo light therapy, but also we can do the needles right into the breast with the laser lights or into the lymph nodes. We see that these tumors are getting softer and smaller very quickly. It’s safe, nontoxic. It kills cancer stem cells or circulating tumor cells.

Dr. Pompa:
Right, yeah, the bad stem cells that cancer cells produce.

Dr. Jimenez:
Those are the ones that lead to metastasis, and those are the ones, eventually, that go to the lung, the liver, the brain, or the bone.

Dr. Pompa:
Dr. Ahvie, who I actually interviewed, he talked about using the same lights as stimulating cancer cells. They found that they get even higher yields when they extract cancer cells using these technologies.

Dr. Jimenez:
Stem cells.

Dr. Pompa:
The good stem cells. The stem cells absorb it just like the cancer stem cells, but you’re able to target it. Interesting.

Dr. Jimenez:
In regenerative medicine, we use this a lot. We do PRP into the knee, and then we put the laser light directly into the knee, as well.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s amazing.

Dr. Jimenez:
Photobiomodulation or laser light therapy is really the latest development in the field of integrative—

Dr. Pompa:
The cells literally just pull the light in. It’s pretty amazing.

Dr. Jimenez:
Yes, it is.

Dr. Pompa:
Let’s step back into some testing because you’re doing some very unique testing. I think many people would say, “What testing can I have done to be preventative?” and, “If I do have cancer, what testing can I do?” Then we’ll jump back into some of the unique treatments, but talk about testing a little bit.

Dr. Jimenez:
Are you ready for this?

Dr. Pompa:
I am.

Dr. Jimenez:
This is amazing.

Dr. Pompa:
Listen up. This is good.

Dr. Jimenez:
This is called photodynamic infrared spectroscopy, so we’re using light.

Dr. Pompa:
Red light frequencies, primarily?

Dr. Jimenez:
Red light frequencies, yes. What it is, we inject intravenously this [sensitizer], this natural substance that’s nontoxic and up-taken by cancer cells through a small catheter in the arm. Then we take this unit, this diagnostic equipment that has a probe, and we put the probe directly in the vein that we just injected the sensitizer. In 1,000 seconds our total blood volume, which is about five liters, will go through this point. If there are any circulating tumor cells, it will pick it up.

Dr. Pompa:
Which is how most metastasis happens.

Dr. Jimenez:
That’s right. It will pick it up. It’ll form a spike on the monitor of the computer, and we know that there is a circulating tumor cell. In addition to that, there’s a little apparatus that you put above that, and automatically, in milliseconds, it turns on when it detects—when the spectroscopy detects a circulating tumor cell and emits an infrared light that kills that cancer cell.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s a treatment and a test. How long has this been out? Is this something you can only do in Mexico versus the US?

Dr. Jimenez:
We are the first clinic in this part of the world that will have it. The only other one that’s in clinical use is in Europe.

Dr. Pompa:
Germany.

Dr. Jimenez:
Germany, yeah.

Dr. Pompa:
I knew it.

Dr. Jimenez:
Those Germans, right?

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, exactly.

Dr. Jimenez:
We’re excited about this. It’s going to change—it’s a game changer. Imagine a patient who comes to us and they’ve had treatment before. They say, “We’re coming to Hope4Cancer just for consolidation treatment because they told us we’re in remission.” Let’s check.

Dr. Pompa:
Is this something all of us should get done?

Dr. Jimenez:
This is something that all of us—

Dr. Pompa:
I want that done. Matter of fact, I just were referring one of my good friends to you to do all this amazing testing.

Dr. Jimenez:
Yes, exactly, so that could be done. When we’re doing the therapies at the clinic, we can monitor the effectiveness of the therapy as we see the circulating tumor cells decrease.

Dr. Pompa:
Because it’s so not invasive, it’s probably inexpensive if insurance wouldn’t cover it.

Dr. Jimenez:
Exactly, yes. If someone has a tumor, like I mentioned before, the breast, or an external tumor somewhere, or a lymph node, we could put the probe there and see if there’s stem cells in the area. Sometimes there’s a question, is this inflammation? Is it dead tissue? Is it active cancer cells? Now we will know non-invasively.

Dr. Pompa:
Wow, that’s incredible. What are some other tests you all were doing?

Dr. Jimenez:
The other tests we’re doing, we do a lot of energetic testing because at the end of the day, some of these tests like CAT scans, and PET scans, and MRIs, they can’t see at a deep, cellular level. We do some tests to look at gut function, thyroid health. It’s not just killing the cancer cell; it’s getting the body to a optimal functional state, as you know. Those tests are more based on energetic medicine, and they’re validated tests in Europe. It’s just that in the US, they’re not recognized.

Dr. Pompa:
With that said, what are some of the things you’re able to do in Mexico that you’re not able to get in the US, perhaps?

Dr. Jimenez:
We’re fortunate because in Mexico, they still give the doctor the benefit of the -inaudible-. We are truly here to help our patients. Most of what we do is not recognized legally by the authorities in the US, so no photodynamic therapy, hyperthermia. We use a lot of hyperthermia.

Dr. Pompa:
You might want to explain that, but go ahead. You can list them out.

Dr. Jimenez:
Yeah, so hyperthermia—ozone, there’s some thoughts about is it legal or not for cancer? The thing is here it’s for cancer. If you use it for inflammation, or beauty, or something else, it’s a different story.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s okay. Talk about the hyperthermia because that’s used in a lot of different conditions. I’ve heard it being used in Lyme disease, chronic infection, chronic fatigue. Talk about that.

Dr. Jimenez:
We know that cancer cells are heat-sensitive, and normal human cells are heat resistant. That’s why when we get a flu or a cold, the fever is to kill the bugs, not to kill our normal cells. We know this characteristics of cancer cells, so when we’re able to elicit heat, thermal energy, either locally in a breast cancer or systemically, we’re elevating the body temperature. Those cancer cells start to fragment. Every other therapy that you’re using is going to work synergistically. The beauty here is that, again, it’s nontoxic. Remember, most cancer patients have low body temperature. If we consider 98.6 Fahrenheit being normal, some of our patients are 95.

Dr. Pompa:
When I was sick, I was 95, believe it or not.

Dr. Jimenez:
Metabolically, the body is not function optimally at those temperatures, so we need to increase the core body temperature.

Dr. Pompa:
I ended up with so many other infections, Candida, parasite. My body temperature being so low, which turned out to be heavy metals, mercury. Then what happened was then all these other pathogens, opportunistic, came about.

Dr. Jimenez:
I’m glad you mentioned that because all of our patients at Hope4Cancer see a holistic, biological dentist.

Dr. Pompa:
I’m speaking on that this evening about this as being one of the big causes people don’t see. You see that in cancer, as well.

Dr. Jimenez:
All the time, so we have to make sure that root canals, metal fillings, cavitations, and periodontal disease are addressed and taken care of because it’s so important.

Dr. Pompa:
A lot of people—as soon as I hear cancer, throat cancer, breast cancer, thyroid cancer, first thing I ask is, “Have you had wisdom teeth out on that side?” and, “Do you have a root canal?” Talk to them about that because they’ve watched me do shows on that, but here is an oncologist, cancer doctor, telling you this. Talk about that connection.

Dr. Jimenez:
The mouth is the doorway to the internal environment, one of them, anyway, one of the most important. There’s study after study that validates this fact that these currents, galvanic currents that are happening in our mouth from metals, are toxic. It’s affecting our meridians, our circulation. It’s just tapping our immune system every single moment of every day. It’s like you’re going up the hill while you’re trying to get better.

Dr. Pompa:
Absolutely, yeah. I don’t like metal in the mouth, period, because of what you said. It’s a current. It’s an electrical current. You’re here telling us how important these energy fields and things are. We’re measuring them for cancer, and yet you have metal in your mouth. I don’t know.

Dr. Jimenez:
Right, we’re trying to protect ourselves from Wi-Fi and external electromagnetic fields, and then we have this in our—

Dr. Pompa:
I think the metal in the mouth, with all the exposure of EMF, it really does. It makes it worse. At least clinically, we’ve found that.

Dr. Jimenez:
Yes, and as I said, all of our patients see a biological, holistic dentist, and you could tell the difference. You can tell the difference clinically. Their energy improves. Just a brightness in their facial complexion improves.

Dr. Pompa:
You and I believe this. If you don’t get to the causes—and we’re talking toxins, traumas, and thoughts—you’re not going to get well. Again, that’s where even alternative doctors go wrong today. That was part of what I spoke on last night. I think we’re getting caught up in a lot of things instead of really what matters most. Remove the interference.

Dr. Jimenez:
It takes time, and sometimes doctors just don’t want to invest the time or don’t have the time. You have to have a team because alone, I can’t do it. We have a great team of doctors, practitioners to attend to all these.

Dr. Pompa:
Talk about some of the other cool treatments you’re doing. We kind of went back and forth to the testing, but talk about some other things you’re doing.

Dr. Jimenez:
For the immune system, I think we’re above what anyone else is doing for the immune system. We have to upregulate the innate immune system, which is that short-acting immune system, immediate-acting immune system, and the adaptive immune system, which is more the memory and the long-term immune system. There are these so-called macrophages that you know very well. These are like policemen, but we have to call the policemen out of the police station so they can do what they do.

Cancer cells have figured out a way to keep these policemen in the police station. That way, they’re doing what they’re doing, metastasizing and so forth. We have a therapy called Sunivera, comes from the sun. It’s composed of six ingredients, separate ingredients or products, which collectively up-regulate the effect of the macrophages. Helps the gut biome because we know that most of our immune system is there. It’s wonderful. Patients do it for at least three months. Part of it is injectable, a very small, thin needle. There’s nothing better to up-regulate the effects and the actions of the macrophages—

Dr. Pompa:
Again, could you use it for other conditions? Can someone healthy just do it, too, just upregulate those immune—

Dr. Jimenez:
Guess what? I do it myself, and my wife does, too.

Dr. Pompa:
I would, too. I’m thinking I want that.

Dr. Jimenez:
Together with the Vitamin D, yeah.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s brilliant. I said, “From here, I’m going down to get some IV ozone.” They offer it to us speakers here.

Dr. Jimenez:
By the way, we all know the benefits of ozone. It’s been done for centuries. At Hope4Cancer, we do ozone in various ways. Sometimes we even inject it directly into the tumor. We also do it rectally after a coffee enema.

Dr. Pompa:
We were just talking about that. I’m getting an ozone machine to do that.

Dr. Jimenez:
Right, so do your coffee enema, and then follow that up with the rectal ozone. Sometimes we take blood out. We put it in a bag, ultraviolet—

Dr. Pompa:
Right, that’s what I’m getting done here.

Dr. Jimenez:
Yeah, your [BBI], and then we put the ozone there, and put it back into the body.

Dr. Pompa:
Push it right in. Yeah, it’s amazing. Ozone, I think all of the docs here, we all resonate around using something as simple as three—O3, three oxygens. Come on. How can it be so simple?

Dr. Jimenez:
You know, most of us are shallow breathers. That’s one of the main things for lifestyle that we need to learn how to do is breathe. Take the deep breath through your nose, exhale, and exercise. Move, move, move. A body in motion is a body that can heal even from Stage 4 cancer.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, absolutely. Remove the interference, the body can heal. Give it what it needs.

Dr. Jimenez:
That’s right.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s what’s happening. We’re not getting the things that the cells need, and we have massive interferences, toxins, traumas, and thoughts. It’s huge. Last night, we had a mastermind of all of these amazing doctors from around the world. I was blessed to be on the panel. We talked about the future of medicine. What do you see? What did you see coming out of that meeting? What was some of the cool take-aways that you got?

Dr. Jimenez:
Interestingly enough, I came to this meeting from Cancun, and there was a stem cell PhD researcher from San Diego that flew into Cancun to meet with us.

Dr. Pompa:
Okay, wait, not Dr. Ahvie?

Dr. Jimenez:
It wasn’t Dr. Ahvie. It was someone else. The topic of conversation was exosomes.

Dr. Pompa:
Which, by the way, I have. I told my story. After six days I injected exosomes.

Dr. Jimenez:
I’m starting to study this. I know you studied this for over two years. What I see with this is that exosomes are not cells, per se, right?

Dr. Pompa:
They’re not, right.

Dr. Jimenez:
They’re not cells, so—

Dr. Pompa:
Communication molecules.

Dr. Jimenez:
Yeah, communication molecules, so wow. Why is this a wow? Our cells are communicating every moment of every day. Information transfer is so vitally important, and that’s one thing that even cancer cells have. Cancer cell is an intelligent process. Cancer cells are communicating with each other. They’re learning. They’re adapting. Even their behavior changes to survive in the body. I believe the future of medicine within the energetic parameter, another part of that can be exosomes.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, no doubt. Not many people are—this show may be the first show that’s actually talked about exosomes in at least the depth that we have. Just looking at some of the studies with this, it’s amazing. When you look at cancer and many other diseases, many feel it’s the lack of cell communication that is the first problem.

Last night, we talked about—we had Gary Samuelson who is—he’s a medical atomic nuclear physicist. Who’s heard of such a thing? I actually interviewed him on the show. I’m going to have to bring him back. He talks about these redox molecules and cell-to-cell communication. Zach Bush talked about it last night, the failure of cells to communicate. These exosomes are part of that. Zach’s product, Restore ASEA—there’s other—hydrogen, we spoke—

Dr. Jimenez:
I, myself, do hydrogen every day.

Dr. Pompa:
Yep, me, too.

Dr. Jimenez:
I do hydrogen gas. When I’m studying or researching, I have my nasal canella and intaking hydrogen gases.

Dr. Pompa:
Matter of fact, I was going to ask you that. One of the things we talked about, oxygen, but is hydrogen—we have a product called Fastonic, which is molecular hydrogen that I love to give during fasts, and I take it every day. Are you utilizing that in your clinic?

Dr. Jimenez:
We are. We even have a hydrogen water device. In addition to some patients who have lung cancer and other cancers, we’re doing it by inhalation, as well. Also, in athletes, it’s been shown to—recovery, stamina. Hydrogen is also elongating those telomeres, the production of telomerase. The telomeres, as we know, is at the end of the chromosome. Cancer patients have shortened telomeres, so their longevity is way down.

Dr. Pompa:
We know that it extends those telomeres, absolutely. You know me. I’m big on detox. When we had a conversation, I’m like, “You need to do true cellular detox, cellular detox, in your clinic.” We got to bring it.

Dr. Jimenez:
We have to bring it.

Dr. Pompa:
You know what I mean? That excites me, though, because I’ve talked to some of the top stem cell docs in the world, talking to these top—you’ve taught cancer docs. This is what we’re doing. We’re trying to bring everything that works together. I know that’s why they invited me on the panel, to bring the cellular detox and the things that I bring with the fasting.

The stuff you’re doing with cancer, this is what we have to do right here. That, to me, came out of last night’s meeting. We have to meet like this more often because cream will rise to the top as far as therapies, treatments, and what’s working. We talked about that last night. What is working? Let’s bring it to the people.

Dr. Jimenez:
Talking about working, we had a third party do a retrospective study of 465 random patients at Hope4Cancer. Ninety-two percent of these patients were Stage 4. This is an ongoing retrospective study. We’re in year three now. The one-year survival was 78%. The two-year survival was 76%. Remember, these are Stage 4 cancer patients. If you compare that data with the NCI, National Cancer Institute’s SEER data, Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Stage Result data, which is the data that all medical institutes adhere by, their results on the same type of patients is 26 to 30 percent. We were at least double.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s incredible. That is incredible. It speaks what we know.

Dr. Jimenez:
What you’re doing and bringing to us docs and soon to the clinic—and then we’re using imaging medicine. We’re using sound and light. We’re looking at the emotions of the patients, their thoughts, and detoxing at all levels. Wow, the future is good. If anyone that’s watching this has cancer or knows of someone that has cancer, the first thing is to realize that very seldom is cancer a medical emergency. There’s time to think. There’s time to get informed. Don’t just say yes, yes, yes to the first thing your oncologist tells you. Get a second opinion. Get a third opinion.

Dr. Pompa:
Remind them of your website where they can go, and read, and educate themselves.

Dr. Jimenez:
It’s Hope4Cancer.com. Cancer is not a death sentence.

Dr. Pompa:
No, absolutely. You know, I was going to tell you to leave them in hope because it’s Hope4Cancer.

Dr. Jimenez:
That’s right.

Dr. Pompa:
I think you just did. You saying that, it’s not a death sentence.

Dr. Jimenez:
It’s not a death sentence.

Dr. Pompa:
I think that that’s what we have been taught. The cancer, the C-word, we don’t even like to talk about it because we look at it as soon as you get the diagnosis, it’s a death sentence.

Dr. Jimenez:
Then they tell you that you’re terminal. We’re all terminal. No one’s here forever, so we’re all terminal.

Dr. Pompa:
Tell me something I don’t know. You’re just trying to shorten it. No, I think I’m going to do some things.

Dr. Jimenez:
Guess what? Now, we’re having more doctors, more nurses, chiropractors, naturopath, people in the health field coming to Hope4Cancer Treatment Centers because they know better. They’re realizing that, hey. We had a patient from Mayo Clinic, but guess what? She doesn’t want their colleagues to know.

Dr. Pompa:
You mean a doctor from Mayo Clinic.

Dr. Jimenez:
Yes.

Dr. Pompa:
Okay, yeah, who is a patient at your—yeah. I’m going to be honest with you. I think that a doctor, if they were intellectually honest and they’re working in that environment long enough, they’re looking outside of it.

Dr. Jimenez:
They are.

Dr. Pompa:
They see the failure of it.

Dr. Jimenez:
Remember that poll that they did years ago. I think it was in California. They polled about 1,000 oncologists. Eighty-six percent of them said that they wouldn’t give themselves what they give their patients.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s what my brain was referencing when I said that.

Dr. Jimenez:
I have to add a little bit.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s a real number when you look at, really, the failure. Since the war on cancer, Tony, where are we? I have to ask you one more question. How do you feel about what’s becoming en vogue, and that’s really treating our genes? Women are removing their breasts because of certain genes. Of course, there’s all types of SNIP treating, and this, and that. How do you feel about that?

Dr. Jimenez:
The first thing to know is that a tumor can have up to 100 genetic mutations. Just think about that, 100 genetic mutations in one tumor. If someone has metastatic disease to the liver and they have two, three, four different tumors, the tumor next to that one can have 100 separate, different genetic mutations. We are still in very pamper state, infant state in gene-targeted therapy.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s not working.

Dr. Jimenez:
It’s not working, and it’s highly toxic. It’s very expensive. Some of these gene therapies, up to 46% of patients have to abandon treatment because of the severe toxic effect, one of them being death.

Dr. Pompa:
The thing that even worries me, even with the SNIPS, and MTHFR, and all these different things, it just concerns me always because people then define themselves with these things. The more we learn about this, the more we’re at epigenetics, meaning you might have a certain SNIP or certain gene, but we learn—the body, its innate intelligence, goes around these things, and it’s not as simple as we thought, at least we thought it was going to be.

Dr. Jimenez:
What I think, I think the opposite. I think it’s simple, but we’re complicating it.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s it. That’s my point. Absolutely, we are.

Dr. Jimenez:
Just go back to nature. Go back to God’s creation. Take resources that will enable the body to heal. Get a medical person like us at Hope4Cancer that can really guide you. We have over 28 years of experience. We’re just complicating it too much. Cancer is a multifactorial disease. I don’t think we’re ever going to be successful if we are targeting these genes or targeting this specific part of our immune system because there’s more that we don’t know about these areas of gene therapy than we do know.

Dr. Pompa:
Yep, absolutely. Dr. Jimenez, Tony, man, thank you.

Dr. Jimenez:
Thank you. I love you, brother.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I love you, too. Stay tuned for the next show. I tell you, this is exciting stuff. Thank you, man, appreciate it.

Dr. Jimenez:
Thank you.

228: A Whole Body Approach to Treating and Preventing Cancer

Transcript of Episode 228: A Whole Body Approach to Treating and Preventing Cancer

With Dr. Daniel Pompa and Dr. Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy

Dr. Pompa:
Cellular Healing TV fans, exciting few weeks, you are on location with me at SOPMed, the Society of Progressive Medicine. You know why we’re here? Bringing together MDs, NDs, DCs, all types of practitioners to mastermind, bring the best of what we believe people need to get well today, and as a matter of fact, even this very evening tonight we have the leaders coming together in this profession to meet on the future of alternative medicine. You’re on location, so I’m going to be bringing you some exciting interviews with some of the leading practitioners in the area that you’re going to want to hear from, cancer researchers, doctors, I mean, stem cells, you name it. You’re going to hear some exciting interviews right here. The next few weeks, stay tuned to Cell TV for these exciting interviews that I know that you’re going to love, and it’s going to definitely affect and change your life.

Ashley Smith:
Hello, everyone. Welcome to Cellular Healing TV. I’m Ashley Smith, and today we welcome a very special guest, Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy. Dr. Pompa and Dr. Connealy are having an incredible conversation about modern cancer prevention and detection from treatments to testing and prevention, to how implementing nutrition and lifestyle interventions can be more important than ever. We’ll dive deep into the best testing on the market, effective detox treatments, and how getting healthy is a process that takes addressing your whole body from top to bottom. Most importantly, we’ll learn about how resolving emotional conflicts and living a love-filled life can be one of the best cancer fighting medicines. Dr. Connealy is an advocate for making your life great today and encourages you to never give up on yourself or anybody else because nothing is impossible no matter what you were told. If you or someone you know has been touched by cancer or if cancer prevention is a top priority, you cannot miss this episode.

Before we get started, let me tell you a little bit more about Dr. Connealy. Dr. Leigh Erin Connealy attended the University of Texas School of Public Health and then attended the University of Health Sciences Chicago Medical School. She completed her post-graduate training at the Harbor/UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. Dr. Connealy began practicing medicine in 1986. In 1992, she founded the Center for New Medicine in Irvine, California where she serves as medical director and has successfully treated many patients with cancer and other chronic conditions. Her practice is firmly based in the belief that strictly treating the health problems with medications does not find the root cause of the illness. Let’s welcome Dr. Pompa and Dr. Connealy and get right into it. This is Cellular Healing TV.

Dr. Pompa:
Dr. Leigh, welcome to Cellular Healing TV.

Dr. Connealy:
Thank you, great to be here.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, your first episode and, gosh, what a more better topic than cancer. We’ve had so many people request this topic, actually, so I wanted to have you on this show. Here we are live with each other at the SOPMed Conference. You just came off stage and just briefly. It was just a little TED Talk. You’re talking about what you’re going to talk about next, but we’re going to talk about here and bring them the information. Thanks for being here.

Dr. Connealy:
Yeah, it’s great that you are spreading this incredible and valuable information to the world.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, well, let me just put this up right now because they saw me holding it. This is your brand new book, The Cancer Revolution, and there you are, Dr. Leigh Connealy. Awesome, when did it hit the presses?

Dr. Connealy:
Yeah, about a year ago and still—because it’s such a relevant topic and since it’s timeless and it’s also not just for cancer also, Dr. Pompa, it can be used as a life manual. I talk about everything about eating and emotion and exercise and purification and water and sleep. There isn’t any topic that I don’t talk about and talk about the references out there substantiating why we need to be living like this.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, because you’re talking about cancer, I would find the book almost not credible if you didn’t talk about it at all. All of those things, actually, I believe will lead to cancer if done incorrectly, so it’s good you address them. Talk about your story. I know that you said from stage that, look, this career chose me. I didn’t choose it. You could’ve done a lot of things, but talk about that because you are a product in the 1950s of DES. That’s part of this story.

Dr. Connealy:
Right, for our listeners out there, everybody has a story, and that’s why I always—and I know Dr. Pompa was saying something about his mess becomes your message. Something like that. Anyway, we all do. We become passionate about something because of why (trouble)? Trouble creates treasure and triumph, so anytime you have trouble, welcome it. Learn it. Of course, you’re going to have a pity party in the beginning.

Dr. Pompa:
I did.

Dr. Connealy:
You do, okay. I’ve had a lot of pity parties, but I’ve turned all those negative seeds into positive seeds. Here we are today with this talking about the cancer revolution. As Dr. Pompa says, I was born in the 50s, so now you know a little bit how old I am. I’m old enough now to even talk about life.

Dr. Pompa:
By the way, most people watching, I said DES. If you know what that is, okay, we’re dating ourselves even then.

Dr. Connealy:
Yes, so DES was a drug used in the 50s called diethylstilbestrol, and it was a very…

Dr. Pompa:
It was thing.

Dr. Connealy:
Yes, very, very powerful estrogen and there’s actually a movie about it called The Wonder Drug. Lots of pregnant mothers were given that, and they were given it because they were going to lose their baby. What mother would want to lose their child? Of course, they gave this very potent drug. I’m number three of six children, and I’m the only child that my mother took the drug. Sixteen years later, my parents received a letter stating that DES causes cancer and causes heart—excuse me, anatomical problems, hormone problems, all different myriad of problems. I started going to MD Anderson Hospital when I was 16 years of age. They said you need to be seen now because you may even have cancer now. Anyway, can you imagine a 16-year-old going into the ivory tower monstrosity of MD Anderson? First of all, at 16, you didn’t go to the doctors. Even at that time, you didn’t even go to the doctors, but to go to a cancer institution, it was quite dramatic.

Dr. Pompa:
Were you inspired? I mean, did your mother tell you? I mean, obviously, you heard conversations about DES. Maybe your mom even said, inspired you to do something about it. I mean, 16 years old going there, you knew a lot to choose I’m not going to be this, or I’m not going to get cancer. How did that happen so young?

Dr. Connealy:
First of all, at 16, luckily, I already knew I wanted to go to medical school. I was good in science, so I was blessed to have that gift of thinking like that. I was really good. I went to a Catholic school, and I was really good in biology and chemistry. I thought, okay, what could I do? I’m not really good in a lab with Bunsen burners, but I love to talk to people. I’m like what can I do? Oh, I can be a doctor, so I knew right then and there that I wanted to be a medical doctor, luckily. Not everybody knows at 16 years of age what they’re going to do, so I knew right then and there that I wanted to become a medical doctor.

Going through the experiences I have had has taught me so much about patience. It’s taught me so much about real life medicine. All of us today, we are in the era of information. We can read over anything. It doesn’t matter if you’re a doctor or not a doctor. Now we can read about anything. We can learn and become a master about everything.

Dr. Pompa:
University of Google.

Dr. Connealy:
Yes, but there is nothing like real life experience. There’s nothing like it.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s how I learned everything.

Dr. Connealy:
That’s how I have learned, and now, when I see a patient, I’m able to have, number one, instant rapport because I love my patients. Interesting story I’ll tell you because this is a segue. I was in Grand Canyon in a hike.

Dr. Pompa:
Grand Canyon?

Dr. Connealy:
Yes.

Dr. Pompa:
Okay.

Dr. Connealy:
Grand Canyon, you have to travel ten miles a night.

Dr. Pompa:
Were you on a donkey, or just walking?

Dr. Connealy:
No, walking, hiking. There was other people invited, and this other person who I didn’t know was a medical doctor. We’re walking ten miles. Of course, what do you do? Talk about who you are, what you are, what you like, and so forth. The doctor, he was a physiatrist, which is a doctor who focuses on physical therapy and rehabilitation of the body in all physical ways, and so he didn’t know anything about integrative complimentary medicine, what we’re talking about today and why this conference is happening. He says, “Well, tell me. Give me one sentence that summarizes your practice.” I said, “Love is the medicine for everything.”

Dr. Pompa:
I heard that yesterday. Someone at the conference said that.

Dr. Connealy:
I teach all my doctors and all my staff that. If we just learn to love the person that we’re seeing, then that is what will open up everything. We have all these fancy tests and diagnostic and scans and CTs and all this stuff, but the patient has all the answers so if you just sit down and talk to the patient and get to know the patient. Of course, you can’t do it all in one visit. Every visit will reveal something, but everybody has an amazing story to tell, good and bad. We aren’t just made up of this physical person. We’re made up of a mind, body, spirit, and we’ve got to put that all together. We are living, unfortunately, in a world of disconnectedness and social isolation, unfortunately, that everybody is in their own world. We don’t even know how to say hi to one another. We don’t even know how to look at and give eye contact to one another.

Dr. Pompa:
Right, it’s true.

Dr. Connealy:
We’re all inextricably connected to one another, and we need to help one another. There isn’t a study that doesn’t show that the social community connection is what’s going to keep us all alive. That’s the thing.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s going the other way.

Dr. Connealy:
It is, but it isn’t.

Dr. Pompa:
It has to come back, yeah.

Dr. Connealy:
It has to come back. What we do is we hopefully learn. Okay, we’re doing it this way, and we’ve got to change. If you are a human being that cares, then you see—intuitively you see what we have to change.

Dr. Pompa:
I mean, last night we were at the mastermind with all the leaders in our industry. I heard that message, and I heard it mostly from the big cancer doctors that were in the room. There was many, you, Dr. Jimenez, Tony, that we’re going to interview, Dr. Bush. All of you resonated that love, and yet, all of you are treating cancer. There’s got to be something here. If I asked you the classic question that they’re probably going to ask, what do you think the big causes of cancer are today? I could think of a lot, but what do you think they are?

Dr. Connealy:
I talk about that in my book, but I would tell you first and foremost—well, there’s so many things. I think they’re all important, but I think unresolved emotional conflict.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I knew you would start there.

Dr. Connealy:
That’s good. Anyway, unresolved emotional conflict and everybody will say, well, what do you mean? A lot of us really aren’t aware that we may or may not have emotional conflict. I will tell you that every single cancer patient that I have asked after their visit, well, why do you think this happened, every single patient hands down will tell you I’ve been taking care of my mother who has dementia for ten years. My son just died. Not just died but died five years ago. I am going through a divorce, a myriad of reason.

I begin and end in my treatments with emotional peace. I tell people stress starts in the head and ends in the body, and there are lots of scientific information and validation. Now they have proven as of a year ago that in—with PET imaging, that the parahippocampus, when a patient’s diagnosed, it is all lighted up. Then after the resolution of the cancer, the parahippocampus is all calmed down. Now, that’s brand new. Of course, now, that has led to another extreme avenue, but there are many, many doctors who’ve talked about it. One of the most famous doctors is Dr. Hamer. Dr. Hamer was an oncologist in Germany, and he got cancer himself. He got testicular cancer at around 50 years of age, which is highly unusual. You usually get cancer, testicular cancer, in your early 20’s.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, younger.

Dr. Connealy:
Younger. He’s like, wow, why do I have cancer? He started asking all of his patients just like I do. What happened to you? What happened to you? Every single one of them suffered some conflict and trauma. Of course, now, the advances we’ve made in helping people have emotional peace and resolution are amazing, and they can move forward with their life. I can tell you story after story.

Dr. Pompa:
You actually do that in your clinic?

Dr. Connealy:
Yes.

Dr. Pompa:
Matter of fact, tell them where your clinic is before I forget.

Dr. Connealy:
Yes, well, my clinic for the cancer side is Cancer Center for Healing, and then we have Center for New Medicine for patients who just want to get healthy or optimized, or they have some mysterious illness that no one can figure out. We take care of patients with cold to cancer or just to be optimized.

Dr. Pompa:
By the way, in one of my favorite places in the whole world, Laguna Beach.

Dr. Connealy:
Yes, in Laguna, yeah.

Dr. Pompa:
I love it there.

Dr. Connealy:
Orange County, Orange County is great.

Dr. Pompa:
I love the life. I love that area. We had that conversation before you all came on. Okay, so do you think it’s part of a perfect storm? I think when we look at—there was always emotional conflicts, I mean, all the way back through history, right?

Dr. Connealy:
That’s right.

Dr. Pompa:
Some emotions more, some traumas even more with wars and horrific things, but yet, cancer is exploding. Is it a perfect storm? What’s happening? Why is it exploding the way it is?

Dr. Connealy:
Lots of different reasons and we talked a lot about that. I spent five hours talking about that to doctors yesterday. We talked about emotion, and I think, unfortunately, there’s a lot more emotional turmoil because we have deterioration of the family. The family unit is being lost. I have so many young people. I have 20-year-olds, 22-year-olds, 24-year-olds, very young people who have a very serious form of cancer. I believe that that connectedness, the complete disintegration of the family—I mean, I’m not the only person that talks about it. Lots of people talk about it. I’m one of six kids, so back then, long time ago, though, we all hung out together all the time.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s true.

Dr. Connealy:
We hung out with nature all the time. Now, kids are isolated. They’re on video machines or cellphones and all these other things. Now, we talk about the other causes of cancer. Our food has dramatically changed. We have a lot of genetically modified food. The nutritional values of the food has changed quite a bit. We have overwhelming toxicity from toxic water to chlorine to fluorine to heavy metals to irradiated food. Everything in the air, water, and food that you eat, there is toxicity, if you go into a new building and you have a new building, sick syndrome. Then we have problems with the mouth. A lot of people—a lot of doctors forget about that the mouth is connected to the body, and we have now so much research that shows that heart disease and cancer is related to infections or root canals in the mouth.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s one of the first places that I look when I evaluate somebody who’s mysteriously not getting well or sick, right here. We’re going to be interviewing Dr. Tom Levy, so stay tuned for that in an up and coming show. Toxins, traumas, and thoughts when you talk about the family unit, that’s where, when you have a good family unit, we’re developing thoughts, positivity. That love that you talked about it. Toxins, traumas, thoughts, when you put those three together, it’s a perfect storm. Science shows that affects our DNA. That affects the proteins we make. That affects who we become and who we are, and that’s what you’re seeing today.

Dr. Connealy:
Right, I tell people we now know that emotional DNA is inherited nine generations back.

Dr. Pompa:
Absolutely, yeah.

Dr. Connealy:
I don’t want people to think, oh gosh, I’m not a good person. I’m bad, etc. It’s not that. He has problems. I’ve had problems. I’ve been working on myself for years now because it takes years. I heard another doctor yesterday whose cancer…

Dr. Pompa:
It does take years, so does the detox, by the way, the emotion and the…

Dr. Connealy:
Cancer doctor talked yesterday. He says I started four years ago looking at my emotional balance. He takes care of cancer patients for 28 years. I decided probably 15, 16 years ago to start detox. I call it purification because detox is like, oh, detox. Every patient looks at you like, oh, my God, what am I going to do? I say purification, and they think they’re an angel. The emotional part, I really started probably—like really hard, I mean, I know I was 40 when I started. Then I really, really delved in probably about seven years ago, but it’s been a process. Everybody think health is an event. It’s not an event.

Dr. Pompa:
Oh, so glad you said that.

Dr. Connealy:
This is a process. Don’t think you’re just going to get yourself well in a day or two, and you’re going to go on this eating program, and you’re going to do that. No, it’s a way of life, and don’t be hard on yourself. You’re going to eat a cookie, or you’re going to eat a piece of chocolate, or you’re going to eat something, and then you’re going to like, oh, my God, beat yourself up. No, don’t do it.

Dr. Pompa:
We call that feast days. We’re good with that.

Dr. Connealy:
Yeah, exactly, fun days, right?

Dr. Pompa:
That’s right.

Dr. Connealy:
It’s a process, and it’s also an evolving process. Self-mastery takes a long time, and if you’ve got it all figured out, then you don’t need to be here.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I’m not the expert in the emotion stuff, but yet, I recognize it. I mean, I’m the expert in chemical detox, which you use CytoDetox. You’re a big fan of CytoDetox, which they all know, but the emotional stuff, you have to put it all together. Like you said, if you’re not addressing all of those—and here’s the thing that frustrates me on my end. Oh, I detoxed heavy metals, or I did detox two months, three months. It’s a process. My goal is to teach you the process so you continue. No different with the emotional stuff and our thoughts. We have to keep that progression going if we’re going to beat the odds.

I want to talk about what you do in our clinic. First of all, let me back up. I think about the viewer right now is saying, well, wait a minute. First of all, what test can I get done if I want to make sure I don’t have cancer, prevent cancer? What testing is good or what testing even if you have cancer? Let’s start with tests, and then I want to talk about some of the things that you’re doing in your clinic that are completely different that they need to know about testing.

Dr. Connealy:
Okay, that’s a great question. I tell people, if a doctor’s not testing, he’s guessing. We do lots of investigative work, and so let’s talk about that. A lot of my patients today—now, because cancer is in about 1 in 2 men and 41% of females, I tell people it is a national emergency. Prevention never sells because think, well, I feel great.

Dr. Pompa:
It doesn’t sell. It never sells.

Dr. Connealy:
I feel great. No problem.

Dr. Pompa:
No one thinks they’re going to be the one.

Dr. Connealy:
You wouldn’t believe how many patients go, gosh, Dr. Connealy, I was running six miles a day. I live life. I did this. I did that. I feel great, and then, all of a sudden, their life changed. One second changed their life. I don’t want you to be that. I want you to have the peace and comfort of knowing. Look, I’ve gone to a doctor. I know.

People don’t realize cancer takes ten years to develop by it’s seen—by the time by an ultrasound, an MRI, a CT scan, or a PET scan. Okay, often times, it doesn’t have symptoms. It’s insidious disease.

Dr. Pompa:
Not even fatigue.

Dr. Connealy.
Right, yeah.

Dr. Pompa:
I mean, people have to understand. You can feel perfect and be developing cancer right now only to come out five, ten years from now.

Dr. Connealy:
Exactly, even heart disease. The top two killers are heart disease and cancer. When I see a patient, I make sure you don’t have those two problems. The third is probably doctors.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s not probably. It is, actually.

Dr. Connealy:
No, because the doctor of today, they’re really smart and brilliant, but they have to learn the new modern way of taking care of patients. I have gone back to school because what I learned in school—can you imagine? Would you use a cellphone came out 30 years ago? No, you’re going to use the cellphone that does a million different things, right?

Dr. Pompa:
You mean like the ones that look like little bricks? Do you remember those?

Dr. Connealy:
Yeah, no, boxes. Okay, I’m older than you, probably. It’s boxes. No, it was huge box and sat…

Dr. Pompa:
I remember the brick. That’s the one I remember. It was this fat and that high.

Dr. Connealy:
Oh, no, mine was way bigger, anyway.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, okay. They were strapped on walls, actually.

Dr. Connealy:
I always use that analogy. Would you use an old cellphone? I use a great little new cellphone, so you would too. Why wouldn’t you use the new modern way of cancer—and guess what? Medical knowledge is doubling about every nine months. Okay, I can’t even keep up. That’s why I have amazing team. You go to this conference. You go to this one. You go learn this, and then we collaborate together because united we can deliver.

If you come into my clinic—and a lot of patients come to me like, Dr. Connealy, my mom had cancer, my sister had, my brother. All these people had cancer. I want to make sure I don’t have cancer. First of all, I do all the blood tests on you. Let’s face it. I need to make sure that everything’s good. Not just that you don’t have cancer, but I want to make sure is your liver working, your kidney working? Do you have high sugar? Do you have good Vitamin D levels? Do you have inflammation? Does you thyroid work?

Do all the other hormones work? Hormones are the natural drugs. Everybody thinks, hormones, oh, my God, I’m going to get—no, hormones are the natural drugs to your body. Are you toxic? Do you have the right nutrition? Do you have the right antioxidant? What does your gut look like? Do you have bacteria? Do you have fungus? Do you have parasite? What does your mouth look like?

I go through an exhaustive list. Obviously, this is not accomplished in one visit, but if you want to be well, I need to address you from head to toe. Not just your heart. I zone in. I’m your quarterback for making sure that everything is working.

Dr. Pompa:
I mean, the system today is you wait ‘til you have cancer, of course. Then you go in, and you go to the expert in that particular area, typically. How’s that working out?

Dr. Connealy:
Right, first of all, like I said, there’s ten years of health opportunity to prevent cancer. What kind of testing do we do? Then I’ll talk to you—we’ll talk about if you have cancer.

Dr. Pompa:
If you have it, okay.

Dr. Connealy:
There’s a couple of things you can do. One, your blood tests a lot of times—I tell the people the CRP, which a very common blood test called C-reactive protein…

Dr. Pompa:
C-reactive protein, love it.

Dr. Connealy:
A lot of people don’t know. Any slight elevations of it, slight, not a lot, slight elevations indicate that something already is going on in your system.

Dr. Pompa:
So above 1, .5, what do you like?

Dr. Connealy:
Yeah, you should be less than 1.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I agree.

Dr. Connealy:
Ask your doctor. It’s a routine test. You’ve got to check your Vitamin D level. Vitamin D influences…

Dr. Pompa:
What level do you like above that?

Dr. Connealy:
Vitamin D?

Dr. Pompa:
Mm-hmm.

Dr. Connealy:
I like about 50 to 70.

Dr. Pompa:
Okay, I agree.

Dr. Connealy:
I would say 99% of the patients that come to see me, 99% have low Vitamin D levels. Now, the 1% that are normal are taking it, so Vitamin D influences thousands of genes in your body, cancer prevention, cancer treatment.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s a hormone.

Dr. Connealy:
Yes, it’s a hormone and a vitamin. Then there’s the hemoglobin A1c. The hemoglobin A1c is a reflection of your blood sugar over 90 days. What happens when your sugar’s high? If you’re pre-diabetic or diabetic, which is 80% of the population, you have a higher predisposition to cancer. That’s three blood test any doctor—you can order it yourself online.

Dr. Pompa:
HbA1c, 5?

Dr. Connealy:
Five would be great.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, me too, yeah, exactly.

Dr. Connealy:
They show that anything higher than that you already have microscopic damage to the cell, so your goal is about 5.0. I know people out there, and they’re diabetic. They’re like, oh, my doctor’s happy at 6. I’m like, well, he obviously hasn’t read the papers, and he needs to care about you to get you optimal. My goal is to get people optimal; not perfect, optimal. There’s no such thing as perfection. I don’t try to be perfect. I’m sure he doesn’t try to be perfect. We’re just trying to be as good as we can be today.

Now, the other tests that you don’t know about, okay, there’s a blood test, a panel called the cancer profile, and it will tell you if you’re fermenting, simmering, brewing cancer, okay. It has its profile. Then there’s the liquid biopsy from a great lab in Greece of all places. Okay, they’re in 14 countries. They’re not just in Greece. They’re in 14 countries. It’s called RGCC. They can tell you if you have circulating tumor cells. If something is a millimeter or two in size, that is like two pencil lines, you can already be releasing circulating tumor cells.

Why is that important? That is the future of oncology because circulating tumor cells are responsible for 95% of metastasis, so this is important if you don’t have cancer or you do have cancer. This is the future of modern medicine, and we’ve been doing it a very long time.

Dr. Pompa:
The RGCC, if you went to their—if they went to their regular doctor and asked them for it, would they get starry eyes?

Dr. Connealy:
They would probably get—but there’s over 800 doctors utilizing that lab in America today.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s not that many, actually, though.

Dr. Connealy:
It’s not that many, but you can seek it out. I tell people seek and be curious about yourself. Don’t take health for granted, your most important asset. In today’s world, you may be doing everything great, but you do not live in a perfect world. That is the thing is just because you think, oh, my God, I juice, and I do sauna, and I do this and that, don’t take that as a measure of whether or not. He needs to be checked. I need to be checked. Everyone listening out there, we need to be checked because there’s one in two chances that something is probably going on.

It’s not that you’re bad. That has nothing to do with it. We’re living in a world that we’ve never lived in today, literally. The technological advances, the industrial advancement, there are a lot of hazards. Just listen to the news. Read Science. Read Discovery. Read Nature. I mean, it’s in every journal. Okay, it’s not just he and I talking about it. It’s everywhere in every kind of magazine.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, what about the—there’s the ONCOblot. There’s thermography. What about some of these?

Dr. Connealy:
Okay, yeah. ONCOblot was a company that was testing cancer. It checked the ENOX2 protein, which is demonstrated on every cancer. That company, the owner died, and so that’s not available. It was great test that we used, but now it’s been replaced with a—the new company is called IvyGene, which shows DNA fragments of cancer, so that’s very good.

Dr. Pompa:
Ivy.

Dr. Connealy:
Ivy, I-V-Y.

Dr. Pompa:
They can hear it, yeah.

Dr. Connealy:
Yeah, so the other thing is he mentioned thermography. I’ve been using thermography for years. Thermography is a thermal. You can do a thermal image of your body from head to toe, and so this will tell me heat variations, like for women out there, breasts. Breast imaging is beautiful. First of all, there’s no radiation. Number two, no touching. Number three, it’s just a camera that takes a picture of your breasts, and it will tell me physiological vascular images of the breasts. If you’ve had a mammogram, a mammogram will miss somewhere between 20 and 50% of pathology.

Dr. Pompa:
How do you feel about mammograms? They’re told that they should get one every year.

Dr. Connealy:
Right, the standard of care—because I am a medical doctor, the standard of care is to get mammography. Okay, now, the new information, it’s not that new, actually, but the information is saying, if you get routine mammography, you’re probably 25% increased risk of cancer. I do everything on an individual basis. I do not do one-size-fits-all for any patient. Every individual is an original. You can’t treat every single patient the same, and every single treatment and recommendations are not going to be the same. Mammogram can have potential danger because they’re carcinogenic. They are. They’re radiation just like CT scans, just like PET scans. If you do any kind of scanning, you must do protection, which we’ll talk about in a second. You must do body cellular protection if you’re going to get those scans, which is what I do on every single patient.

Now, the other thing you can do is you can do—we were talking yesterday about bioenergetic testing. Bioenergetic testing, we all have a biofield. Yes, you see Dr. Pompa, 3D physical. If you looked at every single one of his trillions of cells resonate with this beautiful bioelectromagnetic energy and all the cells resonate differently, okay, they all have this beautiful photonic light that exudes. The new field in the United States—now, it’s not new because in Europe they’ve been doing it a long time. Actually, in the United States, we’ve been doing it probably over 30 years now, and it’s assessing the biofield just like—very much like an EKG. When you go to the doctor and get EKG, it’s an electrical energy assessment of your heart. It tells me, oh, is his heart working or not? Is it showing any kind of variations, okay? It may be normal, but he still may have heart problems, okay.

Then there’s something called the quantitative EEG of your brain. It actually checks the measurements of all your lobes, okay. It says what’s in balance and what’s out of balance, and then we know how to fix it. We can check the whole body now doing bioenergetic testing.

Dr. Pompa:
You do that in your clinic.

Dr. Connealy:
Yes, we do it in our clinic. We’ve been doing it. I’ve been doing it personally on myself because I’m so into cancer prevention because of my own issues. I’ve been doing it for about 20 years, and I learned from a mentor. This has been around since 1940, and so it’s not a new—it’s new, but now, as you know, everything gets better.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, it gets better.

Dr. Connealy:
Everything gets better, and it’s more fine-tuned. We have all of these options to know before you see it on an ultrasound, before you see it on a scan. Don’t wait because the cure for cancer…

Dr. Pompa:
Prevention.

Dr. Connealy:
Is prevention, thank you. The cure for cancer is prevention.

Dr. Pompa:
Got it. Hey, I got that one right, all right. Yeah, I mean, that’s really important here. It’s the message that’s so important that everyone goes yeah, okay, yeah, let’s go on now. Tell me what I need to do if I have cancer. All right, let’s talk about that, so let’s talk about some of the things that you’re doing that are really different. I mean, I believe we should prevent. That is the most important.

Okay, but now I have concerns. I was diagnosed with these bad cells, whatever cancer diagnosis you may have had. What do you do? What are you doing that’s different?

Dr. Connealy:
Right, first of all…

Dr. Pompa:
We’re not telling you to replace your treatments, right?

Dr. Connealy:
Right.

Dr. Pompa:
A lot of these things go right along with it even.

Dr. Connealy:
Right, okay, the conventional treatments for cancer are surgery, chemo, or radiation, or some combination thereof. I will tell you sometimes people need surgery.

Dr. Pompa:
Mm-hmm, absolutely, I agree.

Dr. Connealy:
Sometimes people need chemotherapy, and radiation, I’ll reserve.

Dr. Pompa:
Fair enough.

Dr. Connealy:
Anyway, with that said, so if you have a lump or bump, remember that’s just the top of the iceberg. I just tell people, if you need surgery or chemo, you need me because I’m going to protect you through the process. Plus, I’m going to get you well from head to toe, whether it’s emotional, whether it’s eating, whether it’s purification, whether it’s your sleep, whatever. You’re fixing your nutrient. Maybe it’s fixing your gut. Maybe it’s fixing whatever, okay? Then if you do surgery, think about it. Surgery is an invasive, injurious, inflammatory, immunocompromising process.

Even if I have a patient who comes in for a facelift, they go, Dr. Connealy, I need a pre-op for a facelift. I go, okay, well, guess what? We’re not only going to do a pre-op. We are going to prepare you for this surgery so that you heal beautifully. I have my patients do hyperbaric oxygen, IV vitamin C. I have a whole nutritional protocol to prepare them for not only facelift surgery but for cancer surgery. Sometimes people need to have surgery, okay, unfortunately. Tumors are immunosuppressant, so sometimes you have to, or maybe sometimes the tumor is impeding with your intestines or some anatomical part of your body.

Then there’s chemotherapy. Chemotherapy we’ve been doing for 50, 60 years. Nixon declared war on cancer in 1970. Now, we have not made any advancements in cancer in the success…

Dr. Pompa:
Since the war on it.

Dr. Connealy:
Since the war on it. Now we need to say time out. Okay, we need to probably look at things differently. We need to integrate the surgery and chemo with all of these other lifestyle interventions, whether it’s what we talked about, whether it’s dealing with the emotions. When I have a patient that comes in, I do all their bloodwork, okay, and I tell them, first and foremost, you got to relax. You have this diagnosis. You can’t unring the bell. Do not become your diagnosis.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s very important.

Dr. Connealy:
Do not own the diagnosis.

Dr. Pompa:
Very important, thoughts.

Dr. Connealy:
Don’t become the label, don’t. This is an episode of life that you’re learning, okay? You’re learning about, and now, you are going to now get the microscope out and look at everything you do. There’s no way that I can tell you in one or two visits everything I know, so that means you’re going to have to go and do lots of research. If things sound the same on many places that you read, then there must be some validity and truth to it, okay? I’m not the only doctor. Dr. Pompa is not the only doctor saying these things. We’re all singing the same song, so you have to change.

Dr. Pompa:
It must be truth.

Dr. Connealy:
We all have to change. I have to change. He has to change. Everyone out there listening needs to change. We are here. We are all here to improve and become enlightened better human beings. I do a complete bloodwork to see everything that’s going on, and then I always do a nutritional analysis on everything, which is very, very—and by the way, just so people out there know, do you know your insurance covers all these things? Your insurance covers all of this stuff, all of this bloodwork I do, all the nutritional assessment I do, so there is no reason you shouldn’t be doing just that alone. Okay, then a lot of the lifestyle recommendations, you can learn very easily now because there is Google now. There’s so much information.

Dr. Pompa:
Podcasts like this everywhere.

Dr. Connealy:
Podcasts, you can learn all this stuff. Let’s say you can’t afford all the treatments. There is the information online to learn about, but the first and foremost thing I have every single person do is to meet the nutritionist so they can get their personalized plan. I will tell you there’s no one-diet-fits-all. There isn’t.

Dr. Pompa:
Oh, that’s my message, diet variation.

Dr. Connealy:
Okay, everyone goes, oh, my God.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s this diet. It’s that diet.

Dr. Connealy:
Yeah, so there’s a wave on ketogenic. Then there’s the Paleo, and then there’s this.

Dr. Pompa:
Oh, speaking my language.

Dr. Connealy:
I’m like, oh, my goodness, people are going to get so like, okay, what diet do I really do?

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, you know what I—the magic, I’m telling you, the science shows it’s actually in the change. All of those diets can be very, very good, but really, the magic’s in the change.

Dr. Connealy:
Yeah, first of all, you don’t want to use diet, the word diet. It means temporary.

Dr. Pompa:
That means watching your waistline, your calories, right?

Dr. Connealy:
Yes, it’s a bad word.

Dr. Pompa:
Bad word.

Dr. Connealy:
It’s a bad word. Just look at it as you’re going to be transforming yourself, okay. Information incites transformation. You’re changing yourself. You’re going to create a new you, and it’s going to take time.

Dr. Pompa:
Do you find this, though, especially because someone comes to you as the cancer doctor, the medical doctor, and you’re telling them about their emotions and their diet? I would almost sense that many people would be like, yeah, now give me the real thing.

Dr. Connealy:
Yeah, they do.

Dr. Pompa:
Give me the real treatment. Hit me with that pill. Even if they’re there for alternative more so, right, it’s like, yeah, but give me the magic thing that’s sitting over there in the bottle. I mean, I find that.

Dr. Connealy:
That’s true. People will say, okay, now but, really, how I going to fight this cancer?

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, diet.

Dr. Connealy:
Let me tell you, the pill for every ill is over.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, it is.

Dr. Connealy:
Okay, it’s over. I’m telling you it’s over.

Dr. Pompa:
Done.

Dr. Connealy:
For example, let’s just hypothetically say you have back pain, right, and you take ibuprofen, right? You take it like a really pure, dye-free, gluten-free ibuprofen. That ibuprofen will turn against you, okay? It will take care of your back pain.

Dr. Pompa:
Momentarily.

Dr. Connealy:
Momentarily, but it will create a cascade of other health problems. No medicine is really designed for you to take that long, and then, more importantly, a symptom is a sign telling you I need to check this out.

Dr. Pompa:
Something’s wrong, mm-hmm.

Dr. Connealy:
All right, there is something wrong. That’s why you have the perception of a discomfort. It’s a sign that something isn’t right, right? Take a 6-year-old who’s perfectly healthy. They have not one symptom in the world, for the most part, okay? If you have a symptom, that’s a sign. Now, granted, some things are—we have this innate ability to heal ourself, and some things just go away in a day, or two, or three. If something persists, you need to get it checked out and figure out and say, okay, I can’t take ibuprofen or, God forbid, other stronger pills forever. It is just not going to fix the problem.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s the old analogy of your oil light comes on. You would take your car to the mechanic and say what’s going on? For our body, a headache is an oil light, right? It’s like you wouldn’t snip the wire going to the oil light, but you’ll still take the medication, or the Tylenol, or whatever it is for the headache.

Dr. Connealy:
Right, let’s talk about treatments, okay?

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, exactly. That’s where I was going. You read my mind.

Dr. Connealy:
Yeah, there’s several things that we do that are different and can really be amazing. One of the things we do is, if a patient has tumor burden and they have tumors in their body or one tumor, we use something called IPT, insulin potentiation therapy with chemotherapy.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I know it.

Dr. Connealy:
That’s been around, actually, a long time. It’s using very low dose, so it’s about 10%. It is combined with insulin. Insulin is a hormone that’s normally made by your pancreas, but we use the insulin. Cancer cells, what do they love?

Dr. Pompa:
Sugar.

Dr. Connealy:
Sugar, so that’s the cardinal rule in eating is get off sugar and carbohydrates. The insulin brings in the chemo, sparing normal cells and really going after the cancer. The amount of treatments is around somewhere between 8 and 12. I use a laboratory, RGCC, that I spoke about earlier that actually tells me what chemo to use. I just don’t go, okay, let me have a great idea today. Here’s the chemo we’re going to use. We actually know. We have chemo sensitive testing that tells me what’s the best chemo?

Now there’s studies. There’s a seven-year study out showing the success rate is almost double than using regular chemo. Also, if I have a patient that goes to a conventional oncologist, which I often do, is I will tell the patient, okay, so these are the things that I want you to do. Protect yourself while you’re getting chemo, and so that would be Vitamin C. That would be fasting. That would be coffee enemas, liver flush, all these other things.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, talk about all those things.

Dr. Connealy:
Active hydrogen, that’s a whole other subject. I do all these things, and most of my patients, they really don’t have any symptoms because they’re prepared to get the conventional chemo. Whether you do IPT or conventional, you still need to do all these other things so that—there’s a study that shows fasting—okay, fasting dramatically, okay, that’s easy. That doesn’t cause -inaudible-. You can look up the study online, and it shows that, if you fast, you dramatically decrease the side effects of chemo.

Dr. Pompa:
Yes, absolutely.

Dr. Connealy:
I tell people surgery, chemo, and radiation are just the first three steps of a hundred that we need to do. The other treatments we do, we use something called Salicinium.

Dr. Pompa:
Mm-hmm, I know it.

Dr. Connealy:
Salicinium is a vegetable glycome. All cancer cells thrive in a low-oxygen environment. Why do we have low-oxygen environment? We all eat bad. Maybe we have candida. Maybe we don’t exercise. Maybe we sit around too much. Maybe there’s pollution. There’s too much pollution in our body. Maybe we’re extremely stressed, and we’re very acidic. We have this environment, that cancer, so there’s a famous scientist, Dr. Warburg.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, Otto Warburg.

Dr. Connealy:
Otto Warburg got a Nobel Prize about how cancer cells do not use oxygen and are anaerobic, which means without oxygen, so just exercise alone helps prevent cancer, probably 50%. We use this Salicinium molecule that turns this low oxygen cell into anaerobic cell. Remember a long time ago when exercise, aerobics and everything, so there was actually a lot of good thought to that. Anyway, we do that. We saturate your body for a couple weeks, and then you go on an oral protocol.

Then there are the other treatments in our practice. We use something called PMF, pulsed electromagnetic field. There’s over 1,000 PubMed studies that change the electrical rhythm—not rhythm but the electrical energy of every cell in your body. It also makes every single thing work at the membrane, all right? Then we have lymphatic drainage. We use an amazing device called Hemo-Sonic. People don’t realize this. Your blood delivers the groceries. The lymph removes the garbage. You lymph is four times greater than your blood circulation, so your lymph is where the garbage accumulates. We’ve got to get this garbage moving out of your body, so this device eliminates and lets the lymph flow like a waterfall.

Then we do hyperbaric oxygen. Remember I was talking about low oxygen?

Dr. Pompa:
Pushes it up.

Dr. Connealy:
Hyperbaric has been used for years all over the world. I have a beautiful case that I’m presenting today about a breast cancer patient who had surgery, chemo, and radiation. Her lungs were damaged by the radiation, and she did hyperbaric, got rid of the cancer. She says, oh, I feel great now. Everything’s wonderful. She stopped doing everything. Cancer came back. She went back to her protocol, and the cancer went away.

You talked about magic bullet. There isn’t one magic bullet. There’s lots of magic bullets. I will tell you, you need to do everything because that is just the way it is.

Dr. Pompa:
I agree. I would. Ozone, what about ozone?

Dr. Connealy:
Ozone’s another great oxygen, okay? We do IV ozone. Ozone is used literally all over the world. There’s millions of cases, million studies have been done, and there’s lot of books on that too. You can do IV ozone. You can do rectal ozone. You can do vaginal ozone. It’s just basically, they put an IV in your arm, and you run through an ozonator. The doctor takes out blood, ozonates it, puts it back in, and does this for as any times as he or she thinks is necessary for the patient.

Ozone deactivates chemicals, optimizes the immune system, gets rid of bugs. It’s beautiful. It’s been around. Some people can’t get the IV, so sometimes we do rectal and/or vaginal depending on. Sometimes we do topical ozone. We use topical creams for all kinds of things. They use ozone in the hospital to sterilize. Now, they use ozone in cars and everything to get rid of all the chemicals and junk and everything.

Dr. Pompa:
Mm-hmm, bad smells.

Dr. Connealy:
Ozone is a wonderful molecule. Then we do lots of different IV therapies. We have a plethora of IVs. It might be IV Vitamin C. It might be IV curcumin, IV artesunate, IV Poly-MVA. We have so many anticancer IVs that I talk about in my book, and so there’s lots of different things.

Some of the new things on the horizon are light therapy. Obviously, light therapy laser has been around for a long time, and now, it’s amazing. The science is jut growing and growing and growing. Light therapy given to the patient either locally or IV will basically disable the cancer cell.

Dr. Pompa:
Dr. Jimenez was speaking about it last night a little bit. I guess he does that, their clinics, a lot.

Dr. Connealy:
Yes, right, exactly. That’s the new thing. The other thing is there’s ultra sound therapy, high-intensity frequency ultrasound, great for cancer. You can look at ultrasound therapy for cancer. Again, I really individualize every treatment. I talk about most things. I will tell you that every Monday at 4 o’clock—I’m all about community, whether it’s community in my office or community in the world. Just like Dr. Pompa is. That’s why he has his podcast. I or one of my team, we talk about all of this and what’s new. I’m at this conference today, so I’m going to talk about with my staff next week what we’re going to do, what we’re going to make better, what we’re going to—like I said, the medical knowledge is coming so fast.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, it’s true. It’s why we’re here.

Dr. Connealy:
We’ve got to implement all these new things. Guess what? Someone is disastrously ill Monday morning.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, no doubt.

Dr. Connealy:
They need this new information. You need this new information. Every Monday at 4 o’clock, we do a Facebook Live. You can just chime in, and we talk about everything. We take questions. It’s going to be amazing. I just instituted this six weeks ago.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s great, yeah.

Dr. Connealy:
I want people to know what we—what I know. I want you to know this.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s what I always say. I want you to know what I know. How do you use CytoDetox? You have to be careful with it. It’s such a strong binder. It could pull out chemo if you’re doing it with chemo. I always tell people stay away from that. How do you use it?

Dr. Connealy:
Right, that’s a good point. I tell people, when you’re doing chemotherapy, let the chemo do its thing, okay? Then, after that, the chemo doesn’t last forever, so after three to five days, you can start the Cyto. Now we use the CytoDetox for patients who don’t have cancer and then patients who do have cancer. Every single one of us has toxins. Don’t think you’re not toxic.

Patients, they’ll say, well—I’ll say you need to purify yourself. Now, they like that word better than—if I say detox, oh, my God, they get scared. What am I going to have to do, literally? I’m like, oh, no, it’s not like you think. It really isn’t like you think. Just starting to eat right is purification.

Dr. Pompa:
Yes, your body will start.

Dr. Connealy
Yeah, first of all, just purify thoughts. Just being in an attitude of gratitude dramatically will change your cells, dramatically. Your self-talk, I want you to just—every single morning when you wake up, before you jump out of bed—hopefully, you’re jumping out of bed. Just stay in bed, and I want you to think how many things you are thankful for. Your list will grow and grow. You won’t have any—you won’t be able to get out of bed.

Dr. Pompa:
Gratitude.

Dr. Connealy:
Whatever you’re thinking—and this has been proven. If you just read Bruce Lipton, The Biology of Belief…

Dr. Pompa:
Love that book.

Dr. Connealy:
You will understand. He has all this science proving that. He has beautiful YouTubes.

Dr. Pompa:
We’ve interviewed him here twice on this show.

Dr. Connealy:
Yeah, I read his book years ago. It is like what are you thinking every day?

Dr. Pompa:
Thoughts.

Dr. Connealy:
Guess what? We all think negative. He does. I do, everyone out there. You turn that negative. Immediately go, oh, thank you for the resolution of X, Y, Z, right? You always say things in the affirmative as if it’s already happened, okay?

Dr. Pompa:
Yes, that’s great.

Dr. Connealy:
If you don’t ask for it, it ain’t going to happen, so you might as well just start your day like that.

Dr. Pompa:
God, don’t you love her?

Dr. Connealy:
I learned this literally not that long ago, okay, unfortunately. I wish I would’ve known this 20 years ago, but I learned it probably 7 years ago. It is me, and it is of me. I live my life.

Dr. Pompa:
It is me, and it is of me. Love that.

Dr. Connealy:
I drive out every day. I’ve already done that in the morning. Now, when I drive out, I’m like, oh, my gosh, I get to drive a car to work. I am so lucky. People drive every day and don’t think…

Dr. Pompa:
Rich people drive cars.

Dr. Connealy:
Yeah, right. No, we get to drive a car. I’m so happy.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s what I mean. We’re rich. You live in this country. You’re rich.

Dr. Connealy:
Right, I go to work thinking or sometimes I have to take care of business, but when I get to work and I walk in my back door, I was telling him I am thankful that I get to work here. Yes, I built it, but I didn’t build it by myself. I built it with this amazing team.

Dr. Pompa:
She describes it as Disneyland or World. I don’t know which one.

Dr. Connealy:
Disneyland, yeah.

Dr. Pompa:
Disneyland, she’s like it’s—how many employees do you have there?

Dr. Connealy:
Fifty, maybe it’s over 50.

Dr. Pompa:
Fifty employees, sounds like a disaster to me. No, it sounds like Disneyland. She loves going to work all day. I’m just imaging people running everywhere.

Dr. Connealy:
I do. I do love going to work. It’s absolutely amazing. I love my staff. They are just wonderful because they’re so dedicated to our mission.

Dr. Pompa:
Imagine the contrast of going to the typical oncology clinic or cancer clinic where I would imagine just dreading going to work, and I’ve spoken to some of those people where they’re dealing with death in their minds every day. It’s not a great place, and often times, they retire from it quickly. You’re the exact opposite. You’re bringing hope.

Dr. Connealy:
Yes, I tell people I’m going to add life to your life today. Today is all we have. I don’t know about tomorrow. Tomorrow is a mystery. We don’t know. None of us know, but I’m going to make your life great today.

Dr. Pompa:
All right, last thing—don’t you just love her energy? Oh, my gosh, yeah, the camera girl is going, yep, I love her energy too. I do too. Anyway, leave them, Dr. Leigh, with hope. Maybe there’s people out there watching right now that are like I hear you, but you’re not in my situation. Leave them with hope.

Dr. Connealy:
Oh, well, you haven’t been in my situation.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s what I say.

Dr. Connealy:
Let me tell you how many things I’ve overcome, but that’s not what this is about. This is about you, and this is about you evolving. Nothing is impossible. Never give up on yourself, never, and never give up on anybody else.

Dr. Pompa:
I got to hug her. We’re going to end right there. Yeah, you’re just lovely. You are, really. Thank you for being on the show.

Dr. Connealy:
Oh, thank you.

Dr. Pompa:
Thank you.

227: The Future of Stem Cell Medicine

Transcript of Episode 227: The Future of Stem Cell Medicine

With Dr. Daniel Pompa and Dr. Ahvie Herskowitz

Dr. Pompa:
Cellular Healing TV fans, exciting few weeks. You are on location with me at SocMed, the Society of Progressive Medicine. You know why we’re here? Because we’re bringing together MDs, NDs, DCs, all types of practitioners to mastermind, bring the best of what we believe people need to get well today, and as a matter of fact, even this very evening, tonight, we have the leaders coming together in this profession to meet on the future of alternative medicine. You’re on location, so I’m going to be bringing you some exciting interviews with some of the leading practitioners in the area that you’re going to want to hear from, cancer researchers, doctors, stem cells, you name it. You’re going to hear some exciting interviews right here, so the next few weeks, stay tuned to Cell TV for these exciting interviews that I know that you’re going to love, and it’s going to definitely affect and change your life.

Ashley:
Hello, everyone. Welcome to Cellular Healing TV. I’m Ashley Smith, and today we welcome special guest, Dr. Ahvie Herskowitz. We have a really exciting topic for you today. Dr. Pompa and Dr. Herskowitz will be talking all about the future of stem cell medicine and advancements that we will see even in just a few years. We’ll learn about how stem cell medicine will hopefully become more affordable, and we’ll discuss whether there’s hope for the future of insurance as stem cell medicine evolves, how living longer is possible, and how stem cells are the future. This is an episode you won’t want to miss.

Before we jump in, let me tell you a little bit more about Dr. Herskowitz. Dr. Herskowitz’s extensive training includes a medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, residencies in anatomical pathology and internal medicine, and fellowship training in cardiology at the Johns Hopkins Medical Center. He is the founder of Anatara Medicine, based in San Francisco, a world-class integrative medical center. He is also the founder of the San Francisco Stem Cell Treatment Center. With his 37 years of experience, Dr. Herskowitz is one of the most renowned anti-aging specialists in the U.S., so let’s welcome Dr. Pompa and Dr. Herskowitz and get right into it. This is Cellular Healing TV.

Dr. Pompa:
Welcome to Cell TV, and you can see we have a special series at the conference of SocMed, and you, Doc, are the first one, the first interview.

Dr. Ahvie:
Thank you, Dr. Dan.

Dr. Pompa:
Welcome, welcome, Dr. Ahvie. I appreciate you taking the time out from the busy seminar schedule here, and welcome to Cell TV.

Dr. Ahvie:
Thank you, Dr. Dan. It’s a pleasure.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, no, listen, I want to hear—we had a little bio, obviously, before this, but I want to hear a little bit about you. I want to hear from you personally, what you do, where you practice. How’d you end up in medicine?

Dr. Ahvie:
Okay, well, you know, a good Jewish boy from Brooklyn ends up going into medicine. I went to Einstein, Albert Einstein, in the Bronx in New York, and I decided to do things like the European style, and I studied their style. Apparently, the Europeans tended to work in anatomy and pathology before they went on to medicine, so I did a residency and chief residency in anatomical pathology before I went on to medicine and ultimately to cardiology. I had the real pleasure of being at both the Yale and Yale-affiliated hospitals for medicine and Johns Hopkins for cardiology, but by the time I moved into cardiology, I was already trained in immunology, so I fused the two together, and as you know, 25, 30 years ago, inflammation and cardiology came together as one and the same, so we were able to ride that wave over time.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, no, I was just going to say, then you ended up here in San Francisco, practicing.

Dr. Ahvie:
Yeah, so in 1995, some 23 years ago, I moved and led a team of 70 MDs and PhDs in a cardiac institute and ran the institute for 5 years in cardiovascular outcomes research of big data from a hundred hospitals around the world, and then ultimately became professor at UC San Francisco. About seven or so years ago, I decided to enter the field of functional medicine, integrative medicine.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s the story I want to hear. How did you make that transition, because you were in the world of medicine as we know it today.

Dr. Ahvie:
I have a story to tell. It takes about a minute or two, if you don’t mind.

Dr. Pompa:
No, let’s hear it.

Dr. Ahvie:
When I was on the transplant team, the cardiac transplant team at Hopkins, we were the founding team there. We had some folks that were never going to get transplanted. They had bad blood types, bad antibody profiles, and some of them were youngsters. The group that got to me the most were the postpartum cardiomyopathy patients, the ones that had heart failure after childbirth, and they were going to die, and so I did everything that I could do. I said, well, let’s optimize your nutrition, so I sent them to the -inaudible- Institute. In those days, it was the premiere institute.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I remember.

Dr. Ahvie:
Then, there was an acupuncture college close by in Columbia, Maryland, that I took them to just to see, because I had no idea what to do, and then a cluster of them did well, unexpectedly well. We didn’t know why, but when I presented the material at Grand Rounds at Hopkins in probably 1993, some 25 years ago, it was a bit too early for that, because when I unblinded the event, I said, the intervention that we did and the reason that they’re alive today was because I sent them to nutrition and the acupuncture. That had a lasting impact on me over time, and when I was in my European centers, when I ran the heart institute, I realized that they treat their patients differently, not in hospital, but in the real world, their pharmacists are homeopathists. They’re herbalists, so I understood that we have a lot of different approaches to take, and so how to fuse those approaches and do them safely was a good question.

Then, I had a woman who was the first employee of that nonprofit that I ran, which is now part of the story today, the Institute for OneWorld Health, which took us globally. Our first employee developed stage 4 colon cancer. It was a late-stage, because it grew outward, and they asked me the simple question, what would you do if you were us? What would you do if you were me? I realized that that’s the standard that we have to apply to our souls.

Dr. Pompa:
Absolutely. Oh, my gosh.

Dr. Ahvie:
That’s it, so if you can do that—so I said, well, I don’t know, and I took a two-year journey, started ultimately in anatomic medicine, which is my version of how I want to be treated into the future of medicine on the integrative medicine side, and then four and a half years ago, we felt strongly that regenerative medicine would be part of the future, so that was relatively easy to do, because in fact, we were able to accomplish it fairly easy. In my case, I went after the adipose-derived stem cells. In other people’s cases, they went to bone marrow, but it was available.

Dr. Pompa:
Right. A lot of people—now, we’ve been kind of doing a theme or a series on stem cells these days, because it’s my interest. One of my interests is living long healthy, and we have that in common.

Dr. Ahvie:
Yes.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I believe stem cells is the future of medicine and what we can do. Tonight, you’re speaking. You’re actually leading a group that—there’s I don’t know how many of them. How many of us are there?

Dr. Ahvie:
Yes, about 15 or 16 of us.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, about 15 or 16 of us, the heads of functional medicine, if you will, or this integrative approach to healthcare and medicine. We’re all getting together, and we’re sharing. Talk about that, because that’s part of what we’re doing here with this conference. That’s why, by the way, we have so many amazing doctors here.

Dr. Ahvie:
It’s an opportunity. I was thinking this through a few years back and said, why don’t we get together the team of people? Obviously, the organizers of the meeting, Tom Lowe, he actually executed it, so I had nothing to do with that, but once he gave to me the population of doctors that we have, I said, let’s talk about our version of the future of medicine, not 20 years out, but I want it to be practical, and let’s talk about it 3 to 5 years out. We’ll have you speak about metabolomics or the effects of fasting on stem cell populations and how to get to a hundred on the same train that I intend to be on. I’m going to give the future of stem cell medicine. Dr. Bush will give the future of biomics and so on, so we’ll have some—

Dr. Pompa:
We even have a good friend of mine, Patrick Gentempo, speaking with Bush on insurance, even looking at the future of medicine with insurance. Dr. Mercola’s in the room, Stephen Sinatra. Who else? Tony Jimenez, leading up the Hope4Cancer, so some amazing—

Dr. Ahvie:
Some amazing folks. I have the blessing of being moderator of that event, so hopefully we’ll get the most out of it.

Dr. Pompa:
Better you than I.

Dr. Ahvie:
Yes, so what I’ll be talking about is a few things. The future of stem cell—we know that it’s going to be part of the future, because as chairman of one of the largest safety committees in the United States on stem cell therapy, we know that it’s fundamentally safe. Right now, we’re using live cells. Maybe that’s going to be not the future, but right now, we’re using live cells, whether they’re embryonic or they’re your own adult cells. The majority of us use adipose-derived or bone marrow-derived, but there are other lineages that are now being explored by the commercial sector. Surprisingly, this is one of the few fields of medicine that’s both consumer-driven as well as commercially-driven, and they’re both—I think they’ve been run—they’ve been energized by the consumer sector, so ultimately, the question is, how do we participate as functional medicine doctors so we can today learn how to optimize, activate, and localize these stem cells better than we are doing, and we can also deal with what is going to happen in the future, so what is going on in the future?

In the commercial sector, as well as the private sector, there are folks saying, listen, these cells are big. They’re large. They can’t cross all the different barriers that we have. They can’t get all the way downstream, so what about their own communications network? We have to optimize ours in order to accept these cells. I know that you went on a six-day water fast, so that would be a great time to exercise and actually initiate to be given your stem cells.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I may be the only one that’s ever done that, at least with exosomes, which we’re getting to, but—

Dr. Ahvie:
Yeah, we’re getting to that.

Dr. Pompa:
Opportune time.

Dr. Ahvie:
Optimize yourself if you’re getting your stem cells now, whether they be exosomes—we’ll talk about that in a second—or embryonic or your own stem cells, but they have their own communications network, so they—I like to look at it like this. When you have a stem cell interacting with an endogenous cell, we have two things that can happen. One thing is that cell can become the cell type that’s injured.

Dr. Pompa:
Mm-hmm, whether it’s a meniscus, joint, disc, or—

Dr. Ahvie:
Brain, heart cell.

Dr. Pompa:
Brain, heart cell, right.

Dr. Ahvie:
Yes, we know people—I just treated a woman who I had as an original patient at Johns Hopkins 30 some odd years ago with an ejection fraction of 40 percent. Now, her ejection fraction is 60 percent three weeks after getting her own stem cells, so we know that it can do it, but the question is, did it do that because it generated new cardiac cells in three weeks? No, it could not have done it, so it has to have what’s called a paracrine effect. That paracrine effect is when the stem cell is talking to the lineage that it’s talking to. In the heart, that’s certainly heart cells, but it’s also interstitial cells. It’s vascular cells.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s driving the healing. It’s speaking healing.

Dr. Ahvie:
What I like to say is here’s the space shuttle. Here’s the shuttle, which is the stem cell, and it’s shooting out photon torpedoes. Those torpedoes are the vesicles. These lysosomes, these exosomes, these are packets of information, and they’re going, and they’re shooting them in the right direction. They know they have that inherent intelligence, which is profound and complicated and fascinating, but they go there, and they say, listen, we have to optimize your energy cycles, your vascular supply, your oxygen utilization.

Dr. Pompa:
This is massive, innate intelligence communication.

Dr. Ahvie:
It’s massive intelligence, and if you think—and the reason I wanted to act as a bridge between professor of medicine at a major institution, molecular biology, cellular immunology, and ultimately this functional world is because if you think that you can work exogenously and not use the bizone intelligence, you’re fooling yourself. You’re just absolutely fooling yourself.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, and by the way, you have a lot of experience here, because you did go to the basement. You were in pathology at one point for some years.

Dr. Ahvie:
Yeah, so we always just ask these mentors at Albert Einstein, these 90-year-old guys already—

Dr. Pompa:
Oh, my God, -inaudible-.

Dr. Ahvie:
—who were already retired and used to come downstairs and talk to us.

Dr. Pompa:
What a blessing.

Dr. Ahvie:
I used to say, what are these cells doing here? Oh, they’re cells. They’re immune cells. We don’t know what they do. Now, we know that they’re part of the massive communications network that’s telling us, hey, there are foreigners around here that we didn’t know about before, because they didn’t see those cells in the gut. We see them now, and well, it emerged in the ‘70s, because they didn’t see them before. That was one of the major lessons that I got from them, so then you say, I’d rather use these photon torpedoes to make this happen, so then now—

Dr. Pompa:
Instead of the cell itself.

Dr. Ahvie:
Now, the reality is, we’re blessed with nature’s reality, that we can isolate and characterize and concentrate these packets of information from the peripheral blood, and so we have the next three to five years in the following fashion. There are going to be companies coming forward. There are companies already doing neural elements, the Israeli company that’s giving stem cells into the spinal canal of ASL patients, but they’re neurally differentiated. They’re going to be ophthalmic differentiated cells, cardiac, lung, kidney, liver cells, and then they’re going to say, let’s use those, and my argument may very well be that I hold true is that you need the combination of all the cell types in addition to that individual cell type, but then we may end up layering in the informational packets as well, so we’ll need to figure out the best way to approach it, but for the public and for the population of physicians that we’re now in, we’re in a renaissance period. It’s fantastic.

Never been a bad time to be alive today and to say—I just want you to understand one thing if you’re in the lay public. You have to wake up to the reality that you need this type of technology, number one. Number two is that you need to participate. Without participating in this and making it part of your life’s work, you will not age gracefully. There are no magic pills for you, and there more likely than not won’t be for another 10 or 20 years. If it happens, it happens. It’s great. If genomics suddenly takes off in the way it has not yet taken off, then that’s fantastic. If robotics takes off, if tissue engineering will grow you—I remember I gave a lecture seven years ago at a -inaudible- Conference on the future of medicine, and there, the head of the Diabetes Association said, well, don’t you worry, we’re going to be able to have artificial pancreases for all you guys with diabetes, and it mortified me, because that’s not the message we want to give.

Dr. Pompa:
Right. You know, you said something that’s, I think, so profound, because we thought all this advancement in genetics, even some of the pathways and the SNPs that we’ve been studying, we thought that was going to change treatment. It really hasn’t.

Dr. Ahvie:
It has not.

Dr. Pompa:
Right, but stem cells has, and yet it’s gotten really a fraction of the attention, but I know right now 25 people whose lives were changed from stem cells. I can’t tell you one whose lives were changed by knowing that they had a MTHFR SNP and all those different genetic pathways. It’s fun to look at your genetics, but ultimately, how does that change—how does that allow me to live longer healthy? It really, ultimately, doesn’t.

Dr. Ahvie:
I agree with you, Dan. It’s fun. It has not led to any actionable—and for the average person is not actionable, and it’s also fun to look at your images. We have fantastic imaging technology. It’s fun to look at. Oh, this cyst in my liver doesn’t mean anything. Oh, it’s fun to see it. Oh, it’s fun to see I don’t have something, but when I do have something, well, what do I do about it? If it’s on the kidney, you go to the kidney specialist. If it’s on your liver, you go to a liver specialist, and you and I well know that, in order to live to 100, if you take that approach, you will not get there more likely than not, unless you’re just an oddball, and you’re just fortunate. If you want to play the odds, you play the odds on the system side.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, there might be people watching this, saying, okay, but I can’t take advantage of stem cells. To get a knee done could be three thousand dollars to some of these procedures even far more. That’s why I talk about fasting, because autophagy, your body literally eats away the bad tissues and the bad DNA, and then stem cells rise, so you can take advantage of it somehow, but I believe, though, in the future, as we’re talking about the future, it’s really making this more affordable, and what about insurance? Is insurance going to play some role at some point? At a certain point, they have to look at the numbers and say, wait a minute. They’re a business. This is going to save them money in the long—where are we on that?

Dr. Ahvie:
We’re nowhere yet on it, so we have to—that’s the blessing of this afternoon’s lecture on the information technology or the IT platform. They will be able to accumulate the data. In the organization that I sort of chair, the functional safety committee, we have a database. The database is following patients over time. That database will be useful, but is it at the standard that’s necessary for insurance to cover it? No, not yet today, but yet there will be compelling arguments, and I’ll say this. One of the major areas of benefit is going to be traumatic brain injury, because we’ve seen lives changed. Now, on the one hand, people are encouraged by football players with concussive illnesses. The major area for this will be veterans with RPG injury, blast injury, whose lives will change, and the public cannot allow someone who’s been a hero for society to suffer needlessly because insurance won’t pay for it, so I think may end up to be the golden—the bullet that we’ll need to use to get their attention, because we know one thing—

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I agree.

Dr. Ahvie:
—about stem cells, and they’re safe.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. Wow. True. I always feel like I’m representing so many of my clients, people watching this, who go, ask him this please. I got to interview Dr. Ernesto from Mexico, and they’re doing a lot and seeing amazing results with neurodegenerative conditions. What about that? What are you seeing? The reason I ask the question is because I know so many moms are watching with the autistic children. I know so many people with family members, loved ones, with Alzheimer’s, dementia, and all these different brain conditions. What are your thoughts?

Dr. Ahvie:
I think that this will be another area of great efficacy, so we’ve seen personally, in my own clinic, Parkinsonian patients who stand up and walk out. We’ve seen MS patients do the same. We have not had the—we’ve stabilized a few patients with ALS. Stabilized.

Dr. Pompa:
ALS is the hardest.

Dr. Ahvie:
That’s the hardest of the hard.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s hard.

Dr. Ahvie:
We used similar to the Israeli protocol of using intrathecal stem cells every two months. It’s a bear of a protocol, but it has stabilized some folks. We have a lot to go there, and that’s where exosomes will play a big role, because they cross the blood-brain barrier.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, we’ll talk about that.

Dr. Ahvie:
I think that we want to get to a place where, when you inject your knee, even when you have severe, stage 3 or 4 arthritic degeneration, you’re going to get an 80 percent effect. We’d like to get the same with autoimmune diseases, with neurodegenerative diseases, with the larger organ diseases, and to get there, we’re going to have to optimize. We’re going to have to have the patients optimized, so when you have a center that has great data, they’re also a center that are looking at not putting the stem cells into a polluted terrain and activate them and localize them.

Dr. Pompa:
Let’s talk about that, because I’ve been looking for everybody who’s doing something that I need to know about, they need to know about, and doing something more, because I really am—when I understand the toxicity of the body, the autoimmune, all of these things, I realize optimizing the body even ahead of time is very critical, and we even talk about that with fasting, but talk about some of these things that you’ve discovered that you’re doing to optimize the stem cells, whether it’s joints, heart, whatever it is.

Dr. Ahvie:
Right, so four or five years ago, five years ago or so, before when I did my diligence, the literature was clear then that, in animal models and in vitro, the stem cells respond to other forms of energy. They respond to photonic energy. They respond therefore to lasers or to LED lights. They respond to low-frequency ultrasound waves, so that’s a way to localize. When I give you now a stem cell treatment, and I say, I need these cells to be here for a longer period of time. I did this person with a quasi-severe asthmatic condition that is not quite asthma but not quite cystic fibrosis, and we localized the stem cells that he got infused intravenously and got it inhaled. I localized them there for a few hours, and his oxygen saturation went up by six points.

Dr. Pompa:
How did you do that?

Dr. Ahvie:
Literally. It’s a device. I have a German laser device that has the ability to go on the skin, like almost with EKG leads stuck on the skin, but also I can go deeper into the body, and I can give it intravenously, so my goal, when I get my stem cells again in the near future, is to get the stem cells infused in one vein and have the photonic energy infused in the other vein.

Dr. Pompa:
Right. That’s interesting. I’ve used myself—to optimize mine, I’ve used red light therapies, different spectrums in the red light. I used PEMF and BEMER devices.

Dr. Ahvie:
Absolutely.

Dr. Pompa:
All of that concentrates the stem cells.

Dr. Ahvie:
The folks that come into the clinic, they sit on the BEMER for an hour.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I have a BEMER.

Dr. Ahvie:
They have a PEMF device that we use locally into the joint, over the joint, so we’re trying to optimize, and then I noticed—when I began stem cells, I said, listen, I don’t know enough about this area, so I’m not going to mix and match things, and then we got comfortable enough with the safety profiles that we said, okay, let’s see what happens when we give folks intravenous ozone, glutathione, and acetylcysteine and sort of an antimodulatory version of a nutritive vitamin C drip. We noticed two things. One is that they felt better immediately, even before the stem cell procedure, which we normally would expect. Number two is we had 30 to 40 percent higher stem cell yields. That doesn’t mean you’re producing those stem cells suddenly. It means they were more easily extracted from the fat.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, so you’re able to measure, meaning that, when you extract from the fat or bone or whatever you’re extracting, you’re able to actually measure and look at how many stem cells you have, and you realized the yields were higher when you did, say, ozone head of time.

Dr. Ahvie:
Right, and the yields are higher if I say to somebody, you are ready for stem cell therapy. You need three, four, six weeks of preparation, and then I don’t get the low end of the yield. I get the high end of the yield when they’re busy to do that, and they get better effects, because there is an association, albeit not completely linear, between the number of stem cells you’re taking, you’re able to get, and the effect.

Dr. Pompa:
What about expansion, expanding the stem cells? What I mean by that is extracting, whether it’s from bone or fat, and then expanding. Some people expand right there in the lab, right in the moment, and maybe inject later that day or two or three days later, and then you can also—like you and I did, you can send it to US Stem Cells, and they can expand there, and then we can opt for our stem cells at any time. Talk about the expansion. Is it better than just pulling out and putting right back in?

Dr. Ahvie:
We don’t know the answer to that.

Dr. Pompa:
We don’t know. Yeah.

Dr. Ahvie:
We don’t know the answer to that. I think that the strongest stem cells are fresh, but that’s just something that needs to be shown. Certain folks cannot be extracted repeatedly, repeatedly, repeatedly, the thinner patients, the patients have difficulty maintaining nutritional status, so using expanded cells and then bank them is the only viable option for them, so that’s when we use the expanded cells. As you know, FDA is taking this to court, and we’ll have an answer in a year or two, but in the meantime, you can do this. I’m now figuring out who is best to use both embryonic cells as well as their own stem cells, because we’re seeing effects when we didn’t see them before with either one.

Dr. Pompa:
Okay, I want to talk about that, because I’ve already had the question asked by many of you about the difference, the taking your own versus whether it’s placenta, cord, embryonic, so talk a little bit about the benefits of both of those.

Dr. Ahvie:
Taking your own is the safest approach. When you’re taking embryonic cells, whether they’re from the cord—they’re usually from the cord. Just as an aside, amniotic cells are not cells. They’re just growth factor, so they’re not large cells, so they’re not in that category of stem cells. Taking it from the embryo, in this case from the umbilical cord, the FDA seems to not have any issue whatsoever, as long as it’s manufactured properly, and it’s been shown absolutely not to have any communicable disease, and it’s done safely and so on, and then it’s not passed so many times that you have DNA injury. They’re fine with joint use. They have no regular opinion yet on intravenous use, so when the companies first came out, they wouldn’t talk about the intravenous use. The doctors used them as they knew to see fit, particularly in patients that had no option.

We noticed that it was safe in the short term. We don’t have 20, 30-year follow-up yet. We do have 20, 30-year follow-up on patients that got fetal cells in the olden days when they went abroad, so in those days, you had more self-antigen cells, these HLADR cells, than we do today, and if you go to certain vendors now, you have to ask them, what proportion of the cells have self-antigens on them? The higher they are, the more—if you get them repeatedly from different donors, and it’s part of your routine once or twice a year to get these cells, well, after 50 years, you’re going to have a hundred donors. You want to be able to minimize that and minimize the self-antigen recognition, but there have never been any—there’s never been graft versus host reactions. That’s never been the case, nor has there been published reports of the folks getting these fetal cells decades earlier and getting malignancies later. They have had rare cases with benign tumors, but it’s never been malignant, so there’s a few cases, and it’s surprising that it hasn’t been more, so we’re completely resilient—

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, especially the way they were doing it then.

Dr. Ahvie:
—to these types of cells. We’re basically quite resilient to them. I don’t know of centers that will expand the cells in their office.

Dr. Pompa:
Not in this country.

Dr. Ahvie:
To say that, how much can you expand them? You can expand them in three days, but you can expand a lot more over six weeks, so ultimately the real centers that are doing true, cultured work will have you come back in a month to six weeks.

Dr. Pompa:
Right. Okay, so we talked a little bit about these molecules, the communication molecules, these exosomes. That’s what I had. The thing I like about them is they are completely safe, because it’s just packets of information, as you said, right? Let’s remind them what are exosomes. Back in the old days, we used to—they were just called vesicles. We thought it was rubbish in the cells not that long ago. We thought it was cellular rubbish or at least removing cellular debris, if that. Now, we know, oh, my gosh, these things are really that innate intelligence, that communication from that, so what is an exosome again, and why could this be the future?

Dr. Ahvie:
This is going to be part of the future. It’s being handled more in the commercial sector, so it’s going to be a bit slower. There are private clinics popping up. I’m taking a few of my patients to an exosome center in Southern California in a week from Monday. These are, again, the vehicle by which you can talk to your environment. It’s not different whether you’re a stem cell or a regular cell, so these are the mechanisms by any cell talking to its neighbor. In this case, they’re probably much more—the RNA that they’re going to hand over is probably much more intelligent, less polluted, less damaged and so on. There’s much more -inaudible- potential. I will say one thing, though.

Dr. Pompa:
Explain what -inaudible- potential means.

Dr. Ahvie:
-inaudible- potential means your stem cells can become any one of 220 cell types in the body. It can do anything it wants to do. We have to optimize more of those cells, and we will do so in the future, but these are the packets that these produce. I will say that one thing that my center has learned over years in terms of taking care of the iller populations, not just the optimized populations, is go slow. With the iller populations, go slow. That comes fully to bear with people that you can’t push that much, so people in adrenal failure, people with autoimmune states that are really at the edge—

Dr. Pompa:
I was going to ask you about that.

Dr. Ahvie:
Where they’re on immunosuppressives. They’re fighting for their lives. You do not want to change anything. I don’t want to give them 5—1X is good, 5X must be better. No, not in that population. You can push all—

Dr. Pompa:
In a joint, different. Yeah.

Dr. Ahvie:
You can push us a little bit further. How many of these vials should I take? How many vials did you get?

Dr. Pompa:
I had two vials of my own and two vials of exosomes.

Dr. Ahvie:
Two vials of your own and two vials of exosomes. If you got embryonic cells, you’d also say, I—

Dr. Pompa:
That was after they were expanded. That’s what I just got.

Dr. Ahvie:
Yes, that’s what I’m saying, but two vials is a certain number of cells, but when you get the embryonic vials, they come also in low, medium, or high volume of concentration, so what’s a therapeutic dose? No one really knows, but there, one is good, two is better is probably a good idea for those of us that are trying to optimize. Is one is good, three is better for someone who’s truly on the lip of their systems are truly collapsed? I wouldn’t say so, so I think I would just send out that warning out there.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. All right, so let’s talk a little bit about some of these—autoimmune. Are you helping any of those, or—

Dr. Ahvie:
Yes, absolutely, so we have—our approach is to optimize communications networks in general, so thyroid and adrenal function have to be optimized no matter what, and sex hormones are a different story. I could discuss that in another session, but modulation, these cells are good at. They’re the good modulators, and again, optimize the person going—now, you can override their effect, so one of the favorite stories that I have is younger folks, the teenagers with autoimmune bowel disease, whether ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s, they normalize. They’ve been already on stricter diets, and they’ve been difficult—they’ve had a difficult life, so then they feel normal. They go to their first set of birthday parties. They go with their friends to McDonald’s. They can override its effect in a year. It’s logical that that’s the case, so you can override it. Then, I like to go into the pep talk and try to do the immunomodulatory peptides, and the one I tend to use now is thymosin.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I’ve heard.

Dr. Ahvie:
In the olden times, you had this homeopathist in Europe grinding up animal thymuses and giving them to folks with these types of conditions in the olden days. Now, we have more sophisticated approaches, so we’re using those approaches with good effect. We use them with—I would also use that—if you’re going to use stem cells for Lyme disease, I would also use it for that population to modulate it down, because you don’t want to activate. You want to modulate. That’s another one where I say, one is good, three may not be better, because you just want to start low. If you get a good effect, then go ahead and go for it. If you don’t, if you get nothing, go for it, but if you get a negative effect, you’re not burnt in any significant way.

Dr. Pompa:
Right. You can keep progressing. Yeah, the autoimmune, the results even fasting alone, because the autophagy is bringing that immune system down, so that’s some of my theory that the fasting ahead of some of this is really absolutely amazing. I’ll tell you, my cellular detox ahead of it is critical, because I think that’s why some people don’t get the full response. As you and I know, cellular toxins are going to affect the stem cells, as well as infection. I think that’s another reason why doing the ozone perhaps gives you more yield.

Dr. Ahvie:
As I told you before, I feel better intermittently fasting and naturally gravitated to that 30 years ago.

Dr. Pompa:
Let’s talk about that.

Dr. Ahvie:
I actually started eating breakfast, because everyone said, oh, you have to eat breakfast, and I started getting sicker. I’ve sent a few of my clients to your program, because you know best what you’re the expert in. The concept is, you have normal cells, you have senescent, and you have ultimately mutated cells. The senescent cells are also in this gray zone. They’re pathways for cell death. Our apoptosis pathways are not functioning beautifully. They’re so ambivalent that they don’t know what they’re doing, so fasting gets—this is one of the things that it does. It gets rid of these cells. There are ways to optimize to get that done. This is probably the most single easiest and most efficient way to get it done, because as you’ve said before, and I think I truly believe, our state of affairs today is ridiculous. We eat, eat, eat three or four times a day. There’s a very small portion of the population that needs to snack repeatedly throughout the day, a very small proportion.

Dr. Pompa:
Even when we do that, I make them do it in a window.

Dr. Ahvie:
Yeah, and you have more experience than I do there, but we’re not geared to that. Our whole history is not geared for that. Our protein synthesis pathways are not geared for that. That’s nonsense that we have to eat all the time, so we’re just feasting all the time, which is not a great thing.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, if you want to die early, eat more often. If you want to live long healthy, eat less often.

Dr. Ahvie:
Yes.

Dr. Pompa:
In all the studies, when you look at studies on living longer, it really is about eating less, but everybody thinks it’s about pushing the food away. It’s not. It’s really about eating less by eating less often, and that’s what ancient cultures have done. One of the things that you and I are bringing together tonight with these leaders in this industry of alternative medicine, if you will, is bringing stem cells, fasting, the cellular work that we have been doing for years, together. I believe every practitioner needs to be doing these things in some aspect. This is, in fact, the future of medicine, so hopefully we get our message across.

Dr. Ahvie:
Yeah, I agree.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s great. Tell them where they can find your clinic in San Francisco and how they find you.

Dr. Ahvie:
Right, so you can find us at Anatara Medicine. Anatara is a Sanskrit word for core, so we’re going to focus on system biology on the core. Anatara Medicine in San Francisco. We have the San Francisco Stem Cell Treatment Center, and over time, I’ll probably do what you’ve done. I’ll probably create a channel called drahvie.com.

Dr. Pompa:
I think you should.

Dr. Ahvie:
Yes.

Dr. Pompa:
You’re a rare breed, because you’ve come not just from the other world, so to speak, but you’ve come from deep within the other world, no doubt, with a philosophy that is the body has an ability to heal itself, and we just can remove the—

Dr. Ahvie:
I’ll tell you one last story, okay? In preparation for a talk I gave here about a year or two ago, I looked into alternatives to this. There’s a few billionaire folks out there that have large-scale research outfits, looking for the magic bullets. God bless them. It’s fantastic. They’re very serious scientists doing that. Then, you have the Ray Kurzweils of the world that want to live forever and doing a good job of it, mentally alert and so on and doing a lot of different things, but he says, when my body fails, when it fails, I expect my brain to be connected to a supercomputer. That’s going to be my thing, because ultimately the body will fail.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, it’s true. It’s designed to fail.

Dr. Ahvie:
Then, they said this other thing. No, actually, that’s too primitive, so the Russians came up—this Russian group of scientists came up with the idea to get together, and they have now 60,000 people in this association that has till 2045 to link our brains to an avatar, so we’ll produce an avatar of a body of ourselves, because fundamentally, the whole premise, the whole excitement there is that the body is not capable of doing it ourselves, and that’s what I have a problem with. If you’re waiting for this, go ahead. You’re rolling a dice. Wait. If you don’t want to wait, you can do some things right away, and these are the types of things you can do right away.

Dr. Pompa:
What are you doing? Your goal’s the same as my goal. I don’t want to just live longer. I want to do it healthy, prevent age-related diseases. What are you doing? Intermittent fasting.

Dr. Ahvie:
I do intermittent fasting. It probably is the single most effective thing I do today.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, it’s powerful.

Dr. Ahvie:
I optimize my thyroid function. I don’t want to be in the bottom quantile. I want to be in the upper quantile.

Dr. Pompa:
How do you do that?

Dr. Ahvie:
I measure it. I measure the right thing. I get all these patients that are measuring TSH and free T4, which is not, in my opinion, the right measurement, so I measure for my free T3 to be above normal, at the peak level of concentration.

Dr. Pompa:
What do you like it above?

Dr. Ahvie:
I like it above 4.2 at the peak level, so that’s at noon to 2 o’clock after I take it at 7 in the morning, I want it to be above 4.2.

Dr. Pompa:
Noon to 2 o’clock, about 4.2.

Dr. Ahvie:
I want it to be above the normal range so that the rest of the day, it’s in the upper quantile. I optimize my adrenal function, so I do the curve, the stress index curve.

Dr. Pompa:
Mm-hmm, cortisol.

Dr. Ahvie:
When my cortisol was low, I started with adrenal adaptogens, but it didn’t work.

Dr. Pompa:
Mm-hmm. Bravo.

Dr. Ahvie:
It didn’t work for me.

Dr. Pompa:
Okay, yeah.

Dr. Ahvie:
Then, I did it with adrenal cortex. It worked, and then they came right down again, so I use a low dose of hydrocortisone in the morning.

Dr. Pompa:
That kind of just boosts you up.

Dr. Ahvie:
Boosts up and doesn’t change the rest of the curve, and so it allows me to sleep well, and it’s fine.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I was just going to ask that. Does it interfere with your sleep?

Dr. Ahvie:
It does not interfere. Again, if you take the first dose—either the only dose in the morning, or you take your second lower dose—10 milligrams in the morning and 5 at lunchtime. If you don’t take it past that, usually it does not affect sleep. The thing that I also—as part of my bio that may not be on my usual bio, I’m the—I guess—I used to be the chairman. Now I’m the director of the Institute for Rare and Neglected Disease Drug Discovery and Development. It’s a big mouthful, but it’s IRND3, and this was meant for the rare and neglected disease. I’ve decided to take it over now. We’ve had a very long history of success, and you know something? Our rarest diseases are our common diseases not being treated properly. Really, our biggest gap—so what’s going to be the gap when you live forever? What’s going to be the gap? Not to live forever. Let’s say you live to a hundred very gracefully, beautifully. You’re still active. You’re still having sex. You’re still doing the things you really like to do. It’s our musculoskeletal systems.

Dr. Pompa:
Yes, that’s why I’m getting stem cells.

Dr. Ahvie:
It’s brain.

Dr. Pompa:
Yep, brain.

Dr. Ahvie:
We’ve shown at Hopkins 30 years ago that a well taken care of 80-year-old, an athletic 80-year-old’s heart under great stress conditions is indiscernible from a 20-year-old heart, so it’s not going to be your heart. It’s going to be your brain. It’s going to be your skeletal muscle, perhaps your eyes. We have to protect these individual places which don’t have the same compensatory mechanisms as other places do, so that’s one—these are limiting factors, right?

Dr. Pompa:
What have you done stem cell wise, because you said that. My injuries back in my 20s, there’s a limitation to matter, even with what I did. My discs needed—

Dr. Ahvie:
I’ve done a few things. I had my own stem cells when I found a clinician that I trusted to extract them, so he gave me my own stem cells. I had a good effect. It’s been about two and a half years ago. The effect has worn off. I did bolus myself—

Dr. Pompa:
You just put them in.

Dr. Ahvie:
I put them IV. I had no joint issues, thankfully, for myself at this point. I did use platelet-rich plasma on my left shoulder at one time. I had a much better effect by using the laser intraarticularly. The laser intraarticularly set into motion the repair mechanisms that have been permanent for me. I had given myself intravenous embryonic cells and got a good effect. It’s been about six months, so I still have the effect.

As the story goes for the IRND3 thing, I asked a group of very serious neuroscientists who we had worked with in the past when we ran this institute that was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for other people’s diseases—I said, let’s talk about brain function. How come there’s no brain food out there? Tell me about—I want you to find me a nootropic—this field of nootropics that has emerged that has been largely abused by—not abused—largely used by people that want to stay up all night, people that want to have a bolus at work to accomplish—in a very short time to accomplish it. Now, C-level people in Silicon Valley are adopting it and so on, but is that safe? Is it safe to push your brain without feeding it? In my opinion, no, it’s not. It’s a short-term thing. It’s like giving yourself amphetamines. You think you’re doing great, but you’re not doing that great. You may be making a lot of mistakes. You think you’re not, but you are.

Dr. Pompa:
The premise you’re talking about is microdosing basically and taking—

Dr. Ahvie:
Constantly feeding yourself things that are good for your brain. Everyone knows that omega-3 fatty acids are.

Dr. Pompa:
Pushing. Okay.

Dr. Ahvie:
You’re one of the experts on that. Everyone knows some of the components of brain food, but there hasn’t been a strategy over time, over a ten-year period of time, to make yourself more cognitively focused, because as you can improve cardiac function by exercising it, you can of course exercise your brain ,but you also have to feed your brain, so we’ve had—now this Institute for Rare and Neglected Diseases is coming up with a formulation is the point, that will do both. It’ll push you like the others. The others do it mainly with caffeine.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, of course.

Dr. Ahvie:
Caffeine is not a bad drug.

Dr. Pompa:
I thought you were talking about even microdosing, where people are using small amounts of brain stimulants, very small amounts.

Dr. Ahvie:
Yeah, and I think that that’s going to be part of the future, too, as well as microdosing of a lot of different things will be—

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, right, well, I think people can push that too far, too. I think you made a good point.

Dr. Ahvie:
It’s not for me.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, it’s not for me, either.

Dr. Ahvie:
I’d rather say, this is what my brain needs. I don’t really understand why these are not packaged in one package anymore. I don’t know why, but it’s an opportunity that we can take advantage of.

Dr. Pompa:
Dr. Ahvie, I don’t know how much you know about my work with my cellular detox, but the brain phase is how I got my life back and thousands of people even watching this. The toxins that are accumulating in the brain, driving inflammation in different parts of the brain that they affect, will oftentimes manifest as a certain condition that genetically we are predisposed to or what have you, but combining some of the things that you’re talking about, the stem cells, etcetera, with that, I think, again, it’s part of the future that we have to understand. People aren’t dealing with toxins in the brain correctly or even long enough to matter. People would say, oh, I did this detox, or I did that, but really they didn’t do it long enough to actually matter, so with Dr. Ernesto, one of the conversations was that. With some of these neurodegenerative conditions, we put it in remission, but then, oftentimes, it starts coming back, because I believe they’re not getting to the cause of why it was happening in the first place.

Dr. Ahvie:
Right, and so, again, the message to the public is wake up. It took 50-plus years to get there. It’s going to take a longer time than you hoped it would take, because we’ve been mythed into the idea that you take your one pill a day, and you’ll be fine. You’re not fine. You’re just masking your symptoms a bit longer, so I get patients that are angry. I take this thing twice a day. Are you serious? You want me to take it three times a day?

Dr. Pompa:
I’ve done that for two months.

Dr. Ahvie:
I’ve done it for a month. This is no different than the joke we used to have at Hopkins when we used to bring these patients for cardiac bypass surgery, and they said, listen, Doc, I don’t understand why. I can’t understand why this is happening to me. I said, what do you mean? Why? Because I eat a banana every day. I take care of myself. I’m at the cutting edge of prevention, but you’re not, so let’s understand that the system is—it’s beautiful that it works. It’s amazing that it works despite all the toxicity, but if you want to feed it, there’s a large level of intelligence, participation, sharing and collaboration, joining communities of likeminded people. I hope to join—

Dr. Pompa:
That’s what we’re doing tonight.

Dr. Ahvie:
I hope to have my own community, in addition to clustering other communities, and this is a good way to start.

Dr. Pompa:
I can’t wait. I want to have you as a guest at one of my seminars for sure, because we have a growing group of doctors who get this, what we’re talking about. All right, last question. ACAM Seminar. We have a lot of practitioners that watch this. Tell us about ACAM. What’s it about, and what’s happening this year in Vegas?

Dr. Ahvie:
ACAM is the American College for Advancement of Medicine. I guess they never actually hired a marketing firm, but it was the first of the integrative medicine groups that’s around 50 some odd years old. It actually is the group that A4M spawned from, so the largest anti-aging group in the world, for that matter, A4M, spawned from this some 25 years ago or so. We’re a collection of 700 or a thousand doctors that think likemindedly, like Dr. Dan does here and the doctors that come to SocMed. We have a meeting this November, from November 8th to 10th, in Las Vegas. The unique part of this meeting is it’s advanced integrative medicine. We have our own sessions, but we also bring together two serious dental groups that also have systemic health interests and how to merge the two, because we know that one of the systemwide effects is in the oral cavity.

Dr. Pompa:
Oh, boy.

Dr. Ahvie:
This is something that I used to laugh at, and I don’t laugh at it anymore.

Dr. Pompa:
Me, either.

Dr. Ahvie:
The Germans and Europeans have a lot more experience with this, but now we understand we have to merge the two worlds. It’s not the only two worlds we have to merge, but it’s clearly the two, so we’re going to have a thousand some odd participants. I invited Dr. Pompa to not only give a lecture within the ACAM, the integrative medicine component, but also to talk to all the thousand or so complete dental MD doctors, also naturopaths, chiropractors, and so on, because he’s going to give a TED-like talk on the version of the future of this type of thinking, but basically we’re trying to have an advanced form of integrative medicine, merging several communities together.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, well, I appreciate the opportunity, and they need to hear the message. That’s for sure.

Dr. Ahvie:
Thank you, Dan.

Dr. Pompa:
Dr. Ahvie, thank you.

Dr. Ahvie:
Thank you.

226: Treating Neurodegenerative Disease with Stem Cell Therapy

Transcript of Episode 226: Treating Neurodegenerative Disease with Stem Cell Therapy

With Dr. Daniel Pompa and Dr. Ernesto Guitierrez

Dr. Pompa:
Wait till you watch this show on Cell TV. Look, you know for the last two years, I’ve been digging deep into stem cell research, and I had Dr. Harry Adelson on. He is the best when he comes to pain here in the U.S., but I had to reach out to Mexico, because all of you were asking me about neurodegenerative conditions, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, dementia, autism. The list goes on.

Wait till you hear the show. Every organ of the body, so I interviewed Dr. Ernesto Gutierrez, and I probably butchered it, but I called him Dr. E and Dr. Ernesto on the whole show just not to butcher it again. He’s the medical director of Rehealth in World Stem Cells Clinic in Mexico, and I’m telling you, he brought some really amazing information about stem cells, what’s happening new in stem cells, and also new protocols for these types of conditions that people in the U.S.—well, they’re not going to be able to do, because it’s in the U.S., so watch this show, and this is one, no doubt, you’re going to want to share, because I’m telling you, this affects all of us. Living longer healthy, if that’s your interest, watch this show. Stay tuned.

Dr. Ernesto, welcome to the show. This is absolutely one of my favorite topics, stem cells, and my viewing audience and listening audience, they know that. They know that I absolutely love stem cells, so I can’t wait to dig in deep here.

Look, I interviewed Harry Adelson, and he is one of the leading experts in stem cells in this country, but he focuses on pain, which Harry changed my world. If you haven’t watched that show, folks, go back. It’s not that many shows ago, and it talks about stem cells for pain, but this show, you’re going way beyond pain with stem cells, and I’ll tell you, there’s a great interest here for me. We have many people with neurodegenerative conditions, all types of conditions, so I’m going to answer their questions.

Thank you for being here. Tell us about who you are and how you got into this. How did you end up in this role?

Dr. Ernesto:
First of all, thank you so much for the invite. I’ve been watching some of your videos and other episodes, and really, this last year, I’ve been focusing a lot on raising awareness about stem cell therapeutics and what we can do and what we can achieve, and now it’s really an alternative for a lot of people. People who have conditions who were previously told that they were untreatable, now we’re finding out that there’s things you can do. There’s things such as stem cell therapy that can help you improve the outcome of their current condition.

Going back to answer your question, well, my name’s Ernesto, as you said earlier. I’m a physician. I was born and raised in Mexico City, and I’ve been training also in the U.S. I lived there for a little bit, and one thing led to another. I wanted to be a pediatrician. That really didn’t work out very well for me, because parents and moms mostly, I just didn’t have the patience for that, and I ended up doing age management training with Cenegenics and regenerative medicine.

Then, one thing led to another, and before I knew it, I was back in Mexico, running the clinics down here, and we’ve been in business since 2010, and we’ve been doing some very, very interesting things with a lot of different conditions, neurodegenerative being some of the few really big things that we’ve been working on, so Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis, any kind of autoimmune disorder, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. We have a very large number of patients with CMT that we’ve been fortunate enough to help, and in one of our clinics, we deal exclusively with patients with autism and cerebral palsy, so we have developed exclusive, specific protocol for that that’s been giving us some phenomenal results. We’ve treated over four hundred—well, close to five hundred patients now with that protocol, and we’re getting some very positive outcomes.

Dr. Pompa:
I want to talk about some of those protocols, because I’m telling you, right now, we’ve been inundated with so many people, just from my other stem cell shows, about those topics, and I know we can do more in Mexico than we can do in the U.S., and so that’s why I was so excited to do this show.

Okay, let’s back up just a little bit, because some people, maybe this is the first time they’re hearing about stem cells, so let’s talk about what stem cells are briefly and basically why we’re seeing such incredible results. I saw incredible results with me, so talk about what stem cells are and why they work so well.

Dr. Ernesto:
Yeah, perfect. Stem cells, at the most basic level, they are the kind of cells that have two basic characteristics. One is that they can replicate or self-renew. From one cell, you get two, and you get four, and you get eight identical cells, and second is that they can differentiate, which basically means that they can become different tissues. That’s where the name stem comes from, so they’re the stem, and they can branch out into different specific tissues, so they can go into blood. They can go into bone, into muscle, into nerves, into neurons.

When we are conceived, at conception, we have one -inaudible- cell, and that means that that one cell gives rise to every other tissue in the body, so everything that you get in a human being comes from this one cell. As it starts differentiating, it becomes specialized. The example that I like to give my medical students and parents of patients who want to come and pretty much anybody who asks is, when we’re little, when we’re kids, and we start school, we go to the same elementary school, so all the children go to the same elementary school. They have the same classes, but as they start growing older, and they go to different areas, exactly. Each starts branching out, and the group of children who began at first, in the end, one might be a tax lawyer, and the other one might end up being a neurosurgeon with a self-specialty, and they’ve completely branched out, but they all—

Dr. Pompa:
-inaudible-.

Dr. Ernesto:
Exactly, so they all started out at the same spot, and basically, this is, at the most basic level, what stem cells are.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, no doubt about it, and I think that what we know now, even beyond differentiating into certain tissues, when we inject them and put them in those tissues, we also know that it stimulates. Even our own body is healing, right? There’s certain little redox molecules, if you will, that the stem cells use called exosomes that literally will drive our own stem cells and start the healing process, if you will, so they drive healing where we typically can’t heal.

I’ll tell you, one of the things I do want to talk about, too, is I’m very interested in living longer healthy, me.

Dr. Ernesto:
Exactly.

Dr. Pompa:
I saw what these stem cells can do to my joints, which was going to perhaps limit me from past injuries, but this goes even beyond that. This is a way to anti-age, because when we look at age-related diseases and preventing them, it really comes down to the lack of viable stem cells as we age, so we’re not recuperating the same. We’re not healing at the same rate, so talk a little bit about that. Can stem cells really anti-age us?

Dr. Ernesto:
Yeah, exactly. Before I go into that, there’s a point that you made right now, which is very, very important. We used to believe that the stem cells that we gave somebody would go to a specific injury site and would differentiate and become cartilage or bone or muscle or whatever tissue was damaged. Now we know that it’s a very minute percentage of cells that actually remain in the body after maybe 10 to 14 days. The rest of them, their main job is to actually go in there and start releasing these exosomes or these cytoplasm and anti- and pro-inflammatory markers, and that’s how they rebalance the immune system. That’s how they promote repair. That’s how they activate your own body’s repair mechanism. That’s why it’s called regenerative medicine, because it doesn’t go in there and replace, but it actually goes in there and promotes your body to replace its own tissue, so that’s a very, very big difference that now we understand, and we can tell.

In order to answer your question, absolutely, as we age, something that we’ve been seeing is that both the quantity but also the quality of the stem cells that remain in our body and our bone marrow and these different tissues starts decreasing exponentially. We get to a certain age where, because of what we’re eating, because of what we’re doing, because of the environment that we live in, because of our work, all these different things, not sleeping well, we start losing our ability to repair ourselves and our ability—

Dr. Pompa:
Toxicity. I do a lot of very toxic people. Their cells just get crushed. I mean, crushed. I was just reading a study about heavy metals and how they just really just crush the stem cells, and again, to get those stem cells back, we’re using strategies like fasting, intermittent fasting, things that things get the stem cells going. There is a need, oftentimes, to influx these stem cells, but go ahead. Finish your point, because it was a good one.

Dr. Ernesto:
No, it was basically that, and it’s actually very, very important that you bring it up once again, because stem cells don’t cure anything. If somebody comes over and says, oh, well, we’re going to get rid of this with stem cells, that’s simply not true. The stem cells can only potentiate whatever that person is doing, so now that you said you have a lot of people who come from a toxic environment or have been exposed to all these things, we see that that is probably the population that benefits the most from anti-aging and overall wellness treatment, because as they start transitioning into a healthier lifestyle, they start cleaning up their diet, they start exercising a little bit, they start taking care of the environment, what they’re putting in their bodies, and what they expose themselves to, they are also dragging with them 20, 30, 40, 50 years of bad habits, so they have all this underlying tissue damage.

When you can go in with a stem cell solution, contrary to what you’ve got directly in specific joints and muscles and tissues, and you can go IV, these cells are going to be able to go in there and start promoting a repair of all these damaged tissues that they’re dragging along. They’re going to see benefits much quicker and much more evidently than patients—for instance, a high-performance athlete who has taken pristine care of his body, and he’s in his mid-20s. They might not feel so great, but these people, 55 who have been dragging and doing all these bad things to their bodies before, they’re going to feel like a million dollars afterwards.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. Boom. That’s why I’m doing it. Actually, before we got on, I told you what I’m doing right now. Everyone who’s watched my procedure where Dr. Harry literally injected every joint in my body, all the way down my spine, and literally, I was just telling my wife, it’s like, oh, my gosh. It’s like, I can put my hands flat on the floor again for the first time in I can’t remember. What I’m doing right now is I’m in a five-day fast, and Friday morning, I will go and get my own stem cells injected. I harvested them, which you can talk about, and then the exosomes with it, so I’m doing that at the end of my fast to maximize the benefit with my own stem cells, which are very high right now post fast, and injecting them.

These stem cell injections and IVs, what are you finding with that? Is it part of your protocol, and I want you to kind of describe some of the things you’re doing. When you inject them, do they find the bad spots? How does that work?

Dr. Ernesto:
Yeah, well, we have—there’s basically two kinds of stem cells that we can use, depending on their source. We can do bone marrow aspirate like you had done a couple of weeks ago, and you harvest those cells, so you grab them, and you put them right back into the patient. That’s an autologous, which means -inaudible-

Dr. Pompa:
I’m three months out right now.

Dr. Ernesto:
Okay. Oh, yeah.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s why I’ve had more benefit.

Dr. Ernesto:
Exactly. That’s another thing. It is not immediate, because the cells aren’t going in there and fixing. They’re going in there and really recruiting every other kind of cell that will actually do the repair, so it takes a while. Going back, so we have autologous, and then we also have allogeneic cells. Now, allogeneic cells, they are the ones usually from cord blood or from cord tissue. They’re from a donor. Parents are researched intensely. They’re studied. You want to make sure that they meet certain criteria from birth as well, and then you do certain tests afterward. These cells, they don’t have a surface marker, because at that age, the placenta filters the blood from the mother to the child and back and removes the surface marker so the immune system, if the mother’s receiving them, doesn’t reject them, and these are also cells that you can utilize, and you can do IV, and you can do all these different things. Depending on the condition and the patient, you want to use one or the other.

Now, in order to address your specific question, the cells will go in there and will start finding or will start looking for injured tissues, and the way they do this is, as you and probably all of your viewers know, when a cell is injured, it starts displaying certain markers, certain surface markers that are releasing cytoplasm, all these different things. The stem cells pick up on these signals and home it. What we’ve been doing for a while is that, instead of using exogenous exosomes, so from a donor, from somebody else, what we’re doing is we’re also harvesting the patient’s own PRP right before the infusion.

The PRP, the way that we do it, we -inaudible- remove it. People think that it’s the platelets. It’s not just the platelets. It also comes with all the inflammatory markers that your cells are currently secreting, so we combine those with the stem cells, and that sort of activates them before we infuse them IV, so they already know what they’re going for.

Dr. Pompa:
Ah, interesting, so the PRP with that. Now, do you find that the stem cells derived from your own body versus placenta tissue, matrix, cord blood, whatever it is—do you find benefits to one versus the other?

Dr. Ernesto:
Yes, depending on what you’re treating, and this is a funny finding, because when you start talking to specific clinics, the ones who only have access to donated cells will say that those are much better. The ones who only have access to -inaudible-, they’ll say those are much better. We really have the ability that we have a cell manufacturing lab here, so we can use all sources. For autism, for instance, we’re treating mostly children, most of them under the age of 12, although we’ve treated 32, 33-year-olds with this protocol. We utilize autologous, so we grab the cells from them, because they’ve only been exposed to all these environmental factors and all these things for maybe four, five, six years. Those are giving us great results. The risk of rejection is much lower, and we use those.

For instance, any time that somebody in their 50s comes in or in the 60s and say, I want anti-aging or something for wellness, we recommend the donated cells, because those are younger cells. Those are really going to trigger the repair. It doesn’t mean that autologous won’t work. It just means that we’ve seen better results. Same thing with autoimmune disorders, patients with lupus, with CMT, with multiple sclerosis, we see better results, quicker results, with donated cells. Of course, you have to do some premedication. You have to control for certain factors, but it’s just the one thing right before so an H+ blocker, all these different things so that they don’t react, because they already have a very overactive immune system, but we’ve seen better results in those patients with allogeneic cells, so it really depends on each patient.

Dr. Pompa:
For me, can you do both? Because I have my own cells that I harvested. It was from fat and bone. In this case, the ones that were harvested would actually be fat. Can I combine it with the PRP and some other cord blood or placenta, whatever?

Dr. Ernesto:
Yeah, you don’t want to mix the whole thing into one bag before you pass it, but you can definitely do it with two hours difference between one and the other, and you would be getting both benefits. We would combine—ideally, we would combine both of those, both the allogeneic and the autologous, with your own PRP.

Dr. Pompa:
Right, but why would you separate them?

Dr. Ernesto:
You know what? We just like to be extra careful. They might agglutinize and stick together, coagulate, all of these different things, so it’s not a common request. We don’t get a lot of patients who say, I already have my stem cells harvested, so let’s try both. We either do one or the other. We have had patients—we had, for instance, this patient who has chronic kidney failure, and we go in—our interventional radiologist goes in with a catheter into their femoral artery and then into the renal artery and deposits the stem cells right there, and she has been treated four or five times so far. Some of those, we harvested her cells, and then we tried the other ones, so in her, for instance, we’ve done it this one. We do the infusion with one, then we do the IV with the other, and we just mix them around.

Dr. Pompa:
I have a client who has—their adrenals aren’t functioning. She still has adrenals, but they say that they’re not functioning. They wanted to take them out, and she said, well, Dr. Pompa, would stem cells possibly help me regenerate the adrenal function? Is it possible, and would you actually go in directly into the adrenals themselves, or would it just be an IV, or both?

Dr. Ernesto:
Yeah, well, in theory, you could promote certain repair. I would have to really look into the evidence. There is a lot of things that people contact us and are like, oh, I have this, and nobody’s been able to tell me if they can be done, and that has taken us to talk to a specific specialist and say, you know what? What do you think? They say, I don’t know, let’s give it a shot. As long as the patient is safe, we can give it a shot. IV is definitely an alternative. As a matter of fact, every patient that comes to our facility for whatever they want to get treated, even if it’s just a knee, they get an IV as well, because once we have the stem cells, we can just grow them and get as many as we need, so everybody gets an IV.

Then, specifically, most of the organs around the abdomen, you want to go periorgan, so we’ve done that with pancreas. We’ve done that with—never with the adrenals, though. We tried it with this one patient around the kidneys, guided with a CT or guided with an MRI, depending on what we’re treating, so yeah, all those are valid approaches. The great thing about stem cells is that, most of the time, if the cells are harvested correctly from the same patient, or they’re from a reputable source, worst case scenario, they’re simply not going to work.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, -inaudible-.

Dr. Ernesto:
Yeah, exactly. That’s it.

Dr. Pompa:
No harm. No harm done. Yeah. Okay, so let’s talk about some of the protocols you’re doing for the brain, whether it’s autism, Parkinson’s. It’s probably very similar, but talk about that.

Dr. Ernesto:
Our standard advanced stem cell therapy for autism, it’s a five-day process where the patients come in. It’s a lot more comprehensive than you come in, you get a shot, and you go. We see them for five days. These are people who travel from all over the world. We’ve had a family from Australia. We’ve had families from South Africa. Most of them are from the U.S. and Canada, but we’ve had them from all over the place. We evaluate them remotely before they decide to come, via Facetime or via Skype or something like that. They talk to our physicians.

Then, once they come in, we do baseline labs so just basically preops. We do certain other baseline evaluations for our studies, so we’re doing full chemistry so a full metabolic panel and full hormonal panel and a couple of other things. Then, on day two, we do filgrastim, so that’s another thing that can’t be done in the U.S. if you’re doing bone marrow aspirate, because that does qualify as manipulating the tissue, and Neupogen or filgrastim, what it does is it promotes the release of more stem cells from the bone. Its objective is to create and to increase the number of white blood cells, and it’s very widely used in oncology for patients after chemotherapy, but the way that you get more white blood cells in the bloodstream is by increasing the number of stem cells being produced in the bone marrow, so that works beautifully for us. We do that on the second day.

Then, on the third day, we do bone marrow aspirate. We process it in our labs. That takes us about 45 minutes, and it goes way beyond simply spinning. We can separate the -inaudible- fibers. We can wash them. We can concentrate them a lot better, and we create two infusions, one that goes intrathecally so through a lumbar puncture, and it’s very highly concentrated, usually around 0.5 cc, so half a cc that goes into the cerebrospinal fluid, but that does contain sometimes up to 100 million cells. Then, we create another one that goes IV in that same patient, and we’re also banking their stem cells for future use, so if they wanted to come back, we’ve already got their specific tissue.

Once we do these two infusions, that’s an outpatient procedure. It takes about an hour and a half. They go back to their hotel, and the following day, a lot of the times, we do a second IV with the same solution that we drew the first day, and which is very, very important for anything that’s neurological, and you’re talking CP, you’re talking autism, you’re talking dementias, you’re talking Alzheimer’s, is we sort of open a window of neuroplasticity, so it’s very important to start stimulating somehow, cognitively challenge these patients.

What we do is we send them out to speech therapy, occupational therapy, ABA therapy, anything like that. Everybody says one session of therapy does nothing, but we’re not doing it because we want the effect of the therapy. We want the effect of the neurochallenge, challenging cognitively these patients, and we’ve seen that the difference between doing that or not doing it and just creating new stimuli is enormous, because we’re opening up this very, very brief window of a couple of—even two weeks maybe, where we are able to really start installing new behaviors.

Dr. Pompa:
Are you doing anything to get more of it across the blood-brain barrier? You’re doing the IVs. Are you doing mannitol or—I know some people are even shunting some of the stem cells into the brain. What’s your process?

Dr. Ernesto:
Yes, we do use mannitol for some of these patients, but most importantly, we do an intrathecal infusion, so we’re going through a lumbar puncture into the cervical spinal fluid, and although you’re going down at the lumbar level, you’re depositing these cells in the cerebrospinal fluid that really flows all around and bathes the brain and the brainstem. That’s really one of the approaches that we’ve done for pretty much every neurological condition that we treat, with the exception of the one patient who contacted us about four years ago who absolutely wanted to have treatment for schizophrenia, and he threatened to commit suicide if we didn’t treat him.

He sent us studies, and this study was done in rats at the University of San Antonio where they actually injected directly into the hippocampus, and he said, I’ll have that. We talked him out of that one, obviously, and the closest that we could get, both our neurologist and our neurosurgeon and the cardiologist that we go to, was to the carotid artery, so a catheter into the carotid artery, both sides, infused a couple of cells in there, and the last follow-up that we did with him about a year after his procedure, he was so much happier, because he was able to decrease his medication to less than half of what he was taking, so he was able to function.

His problem was that, if he didn’t take it, he couldn’t function, but if he took it, he couldn’t function, so he was at a loss. His wife had left him. He was 31, 32. Wife left him. Kids had been gone with mom. He couldn’t keep a job, so those are some of the different approaches that we’re able to make, but keep in mind, we’re not just cowboys. We always have to talk the neurosurgeon into doing this. We have to talk the cardiologist into doing this. We spoke to the team at university of San Antonio and said, okay, so what are you guys doing? What was it, what he saw? They’re like, well, these were rats. I wouldn’t really go much farther with it, but that’s—

Dr. Pompa:
That’s exciting, though. What results are you getting with Alzheimer’s?

Dr. Ernesto:
With Alzheimer’s and with pretty much any kind of dementia, we’re seeing some reversal. We’re still at a point where we get some reversal, but we have to be very, very aware that most of these conditions are progressive, so you’re kind of going both ways. They improve a little bit, then they get worse, so then you treat again, and they improve a little bit. That’s why autism has been so popular, because unless the patient has a new toxic insult, which most of the time is what triggers their condition, they have no reason to lose whatever function they recover.

The same thing happens, for instance, with COPD that we’ve had some great success with, but most of the neurological conditions, they’re neurodegenerative, so you’ll achieve a certain degree of reversal, but then they’ll come right back, or for instance, with multiple sclerosis, and this is a constant fight with every neurologist that we’ve treated their patients, they get an MRI. They come down for treatment. They go back. They feel much better. They get a new MRI, and it looks the same, so they conclude that it doesn’t work, and we say, no, no, no, you’ve been getting MRIs for the last seven years, and every time it’s worse. This one, it stayed the same. That, for me, is a great success, plus your patient now has bladder control, but that’s a whole different story. It is important to understand that, a lot of these conditions, if we achieve that they slow down or they stop even temporarily, that is a big win.

Dr. Pompa:
I’m very excited to do my work with this work with these clinicians, because I’ve been just amazingly successful. My brain detox that I teach doctors around the country has been unbelievable. The autism, even these dementia, neurodegenerative cases, remarkable. I believe that putting these two things together, because I think a lot of the things that keeps that degeneration going is a lot of the things that are—the toxins that are still in the brain, heavy metals just being one of them, but it keeps that inflammation going, and it’s affecting—if that inflammation is being driven still by the sources, then you’re right. It’ll put it into remission, if you will. You’ll actually make us some ground, but if the sources are still there, it’s going to continue to drive it. I think our work—I know that’s why I’m doing this interview today. We both -inaudible-.

Dr. Ernesto:
It’s important that you mention it, because like you said at the beginning, stem cells on their own, they don’t cure anything, so stem cell therapy is something you do in addition to everything else. We’ve had a lot of people contact us and say, you know what? We just learned about my child’s diagnosis. He has autism, and we were reading about the diet and the supplements and this and that. We can’t be bothered. We’ll just do stem cells, and that’ll take care of it, right? We’re like, no, I’m sorry, you have to stick to the diet. You will have to do these things, because that’s the only way that the cells will work. The same thing with dementia, same thing with even overall wellness and anti-aging. It’s something you do in addition to—

Dr. Pompa:
I have a saying. I don’t treat anything. I remove the interference. The body has the ability to heal if you remove the interference, but the problem is when you lack viable stem cells. That can be an issue. To get the body to heal, I’m removing the interference. I’m really, really excited, Doc, honestly. Just talk a little bit about some of the other cases that you’re doing and seeing great results with.

Dr. Ernesto:
COPD’s one of the biggest ones. COPD, especially in people who smoked for a long time or were exposed to certain substances and start developing COPD, we had—the one thing I really like about COPD is that there is no backfire from the specialists, because we have spirometry tests before the infusion, we do the infusion, and 36 hours later, we had this one gentleman, 30 percent improvement on spirometry test, printed out, objective, no question about it. The guy didn’t need his oxygen anymore, so that is great, and that’s a single treatment, one IV, which could be done in the U.S. if the FDA just wanted to cooperate a little bit.

So many people are affected by this, and you could be addressing it with one IV. This gentleman that I’m telling you about, he had been going for over two years to the Mayo Clinic for nebulizations and for all sorts of things. He comes down here once, gets the treatment that could be technically done anywhere. We don’t have a super-secret formula like the formula for Coca-Cola. We have something that pretty much anybody could be doing, and that’s really part of our job is to really get this across that we’re not here to steal any doctors’ work. They could be doing this.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s irritating. That’s why when I saw that you were in Mexico, I knew that, okay, we’ll be able to actually help people that aren’t going to be able to get that here. It’s frustrating, but here’s the funny thing. You said before we got on the show, most of the studies that you’re doing are happening in the U.S., but unfortunately we can’t do it in the U.S. We have to go to Mexico.

Dr. Ernesto:
Yeah, most of the preclinical that we’ve done, developing our different cells and our different technologies, they’ve been done in the U.S. We’ve recently just sold that lab, because we really built one up to spec here, and we don’t have to be doing the back-and-forth anymore, but that was the whole purpose. Our whole research team, our chief scientific officer is in the U.S. He’s in Canada—in California, not in Canada, and we’re developing these different techniques. We have all these different patents, and we had to come down here to really start them, to really get the ball rolling and be able to serve some people, which is what the final goal of this is, to really be able to make a difference.

Dr. Pompa:
I’m going to put you on the spot a little bit, but I have so many viewers that I really want helped by this. Would you offer my viewers a free, very brief consultation just to see if this would be right for them? Can we make that available somehow?

Dr. Ernesto:
Absolutely. I will send you a link so that you can share it out, and the way we’ll do this is I’ll make sure that they get some screen time with one of our doctors in exchange of them just completing a brief intake form. That way, the doctor doesn’t go in—

Dr. Pompa:
They’ll identify themselves as seeing the show -inaudible-, and then you can—

Dr. Ernesto:
We’ll create a specific—I’ll have the guys create a specific link for you guys.

Dr. Pompa:
I always want to—when I bring someone on, I always feel like I have to bless the viewers in some way, and that’s—well, because I know people are watching this, and they’re going, well, can it help me? They have questions and concerns, and if I can break the barrier for them, it’s like, hey, I watched the show, and here’s the questions I have.

Dr. Ernesto:
Yeah, definitely. If they take a couple of minutes to complete a brief intake form about their medical history and what their concern is, we’ll make sure that they get a chance to get some screen time with one of our doctors.

Dr. Pompa:
My new team member, Ashley, is watching, and she’ll make sure that that happens, so I appreciate that, honestly. I really do.

Dr. Ernesto:
No problem. That’s what we do.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, no doubt. I’m going to be coming to check out your clinic, and that’s the other thing, too, is I want to come down and check it out. I’m going to bring a video.

Dr. Ernesto:
If you have other physicians that watch your videos, we have a very strict open door policy, so if you want to show up, let me know a day in advance that you’re around. We’ll send someone to pick you up. We’ll show you around. You can go in. Sometimes doctors come with their patients. You can go in the OR and see what we’re doing. You can talk to our staff. You can go in the lab. You can see what’s going on in the lab. You can see our certification. Like you said, we don’t have anything that we should be hiding or that we should be ultraprotective about. We have something that we want the whole world to find out about.

Dr. Pompa:
No, exactly, and I’ll be down. There’s no doubt about it. Where are you in Mexico? Where exactly are you?

Dr. Ernesto:
We’re in Cancun.

Dr. Pompa:
Cancun. Come on, man. Who doesn’t want to go there?

Dr. Ernesto:
We want to make it easy for people to come.

Dr. Pompa:
Exactly. In the show, we’ll make sure that they have the link, and then they’ll be able to contact you and get that little free consultation there. How long does it take? I know with what I had done, people think in a month—the first couple weeks, it was kind of up and down. Actually, for a month, it was up and down, and then it was a little better, but I didn’t get most of the healing until after two months, three months. Is that common, and what do you typically expect?

Dr. Ernesto:
Yeah, that’s more than—that’s exactly what we tell patients to expect. The difference and the kind of unfair advantage that we have when we’re treating here, let’s say that somebody came in with your exact same conditions here, is that you would also have gotten an IV, so just like getting an IV, you get this -inaudible- effect of the stem cells releasing anti-inflammatory factors, so you would have felt okay throughout those first two weeks that you were up and down, because you had the -inaudible- effect before the stem cell effect really kicked in, but that is usually—that’s a very common, very logical timeframe for most of these conditions.

For a lot of neurological conditions, and this is something interesting, remember that, while certain cells do not cross the blood-brain barrier, cytokines do, so you do have pro- and anti-inflammatory side effects going across the blood-brain barrier, which by controlling inflammation at a systemic level, you also start decreasing these pro-inflammatory side effects inside the central nervous system, so you clear part of that fog, and something very interesting that we’ve been seeing is with our patients with autism, because they’re so small, before we inject 0.5 cc into the cerebrospinal fluid, we also draw out 0.5 cc. We’re seeing something that a group of Japanese researchers had described in 2007, which is that, when we send the cerebrospinal fluid to be analyzed, we’re seeing very, very high numbers of interferon gamma in it. Same thing as patients with dementia, so it’s the exact same kind of mental fog that both of these populations have. They have high levels of interferon gamma. They have high levels of tumor necrosis factor alpha in the cerebrospinal fluid, and those decrease with treatment, so that’s another big advantage. That’s why people really do benefit mentally from an IV push.

Dr. Pompa:
Wow, yeah, that’s amazing. Do you look for a certain amount in the IV push? Does it have to be a certain amount, because you’re mixing it with PRP, so is there an amount there?

Dr. Ernesto:
For adults, it’s usually around 250 cc total that they end up getting, 270, depending on how much we get from PRP and how much we get through the stem cells. The ability of the lab like we have here is twofold. One is that we can create a cellular solution, and we can concentrate them tremendously. If you wanted, for instance, to inject a knee where the volume cannot be too high, we can concentrate the cells there a lot, or we can do the opposite. We can really dilute them for IV infusions so that they have certain time to actually go down. Most of the time, we’re dealing with allogeneic, so if we draw the cells from a vial, we have standardized dosages. The patients are getting about 100, 120 million cells, but when we’re doing autologous, patients get back most of the cells that we draw. We’ve had children who, after the three infusions, end up getting close to a billion cells all together, all combined.

Dr. Pompa:
Man. Wow, that’s amazing. Gosh, putting that many stem cells in, good stuff’s going to happen. That’s why you get it.

Dr. Ernesto:
That’s why we split the infusion in two days, because there’s also this theory of limited engraftment sites, so if you throw them all in at the same time, and you saturate the engraftment sites, then you’re going to waste a few of those, so we split it over two days, and that’s why our protocols are usually three days or five days. Patients don’t just show up, get an IV, and go right back out.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s brilliant. That’s fantastic. I am excited. I am. I’m excited to be a part of what you’re doing there, because like I said, these conditions that we’re seeing more of, I know that what I do with this, it’s the next level, honestly.

Dr. Ernesto:
Yeah, it’s exciting times, and if you still have time, I can fill you in. We’re also banking and harvesting NKs, so natural killer cells, and we’re able to get those from peripheral blood. We’ve partnered with a Japanese firm, and we’re actually, as far as I know, the only ones this side of the world who are actually being able to do that, so from a blood draw, we process it, and we can bank and harvest your own natural killer cells, and those are even better at rebooting your immune system and giving you all these longevity benefits. We can bank them. We can culture them.

In the U.S., you could get them banked. We still cannot give them back to you, but that’s why we have the lab here, so people come down, and they can get an infusion of their own NK cells. I’ve done that with my own. I’ve down the stem cells as well, both autologous and allogeneic. The difference is noticeable with the NK cells. It’s this big boost of energy of—I don’t know how to explain it, because like I said, I don’t have any specific diagnosis that I was treating, but you do feel this boost, especially if you have someone, or if you have a family history of certain cancers, and you want to prepare yourself, it’s a great idea to bank your cells in advance so that, when you do—if you do develop cancer down the road, you can get your own personalized infusions of your own healthy NK cells.

Dr. Pompa:
Wow. What about for Lyme disease and so many—

Dr. Ernesto:
Yeah, any of these.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, because people are doing stem cells for Lyme disease and getting great results. I think the natural killer cells would be even a step above or doing both.

Dr. Ernesto:
Yeah, the tricky part about the natural killer cells is that those are harvested from peripheral blood, so people who already have cancer, we struggle to get enough NK cells. People who already have Lyme or have already some of these consequences of it, we struggle to get those, but if you had harvested them in the past, which to be honest with you is very affordable—I think it’s four thousand dollars to harvest them, and it’s about 250 dollars a year for banking, which might be out of certain people’s pockets, but it’s not completely out of—it’s not undoable, so yeah, those are all great alternatives, especially for people who are at risk. If you know you’re at risk of some of these conditions, then it’s a great alternative.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, so you can actually bank your natural killer cells like you bank your stem cells.

Dr. Ernesto:
Yeah.

Dr. Pompa:
Basically, instead of from the bone—I mean, I took it from the fat or the bone—this would be actually from the blood that they bank them.

Dr. Ernesto:
Yes.

Dr. Pompa:
Oh, my gosh, well, who wouldn’t do that? I’m doing this.

Dr. Ernesto:
You need about six vials, and the only tricky thing is that it has to be processed fresh, so you cannot freeze them or do anything like that, but we’re doing that in my lab in California, so once you actually get them, we send them over there, and then we just export and bank them down here, and they’re ready for treatment whenever you are.

Dr. Pompa:
Again, this is—why wouldn’t—to do the injections with the stem cells and the natural killer cells, that’s the way to go, right?

Dr. Ernesto:
Exactly.

Dr. Pompa:
Oh, my gosh. Who wouldn’t do that, because again, like you’ve said, you’re talking about boosting your immune system.

Dr. Ernesto:
Yeah, and we’re working together with some other projects, so here we’re dealing with very specific diagnosis, like we were discussing. One of the companies that we’re working with, we’re talking about partnering and opening up a center as well in Costa Rica, which is going to be more of a very high-end wellness where people will pay kind of a yearly membership and be able to go down there and get their infusions with certain regularity, stem cells, natural killers, the whole deal.

We want to be able to gather—we’re at a point where we need to get more data. Sadly, it’s still very expensive technology for us to really make it available to everybody, especially when you involve banking where you involve all these different -inaudible- that are manufactured just for research, but we’re convinced that, as we get more people onboard, attention is going to start turning this way, and then we’ll get some physicians, and then we’ll get some other people. The laws will have to change, because this could potentially really help save healthcare.

Dr. Pompa:
This is the future of medicine. That’s why I’ve been studying this for the last two years. I’m coming out of my skin with it, because I see these people who are suffering. It’s like, my gosh, when you add this stuff to the work that I’ve been doing, the cellular work and the cellular detox, I’m telling you, it’s like I just want to scream from the rooftops. It’s absolutely exciting. Is there anything else? Is there anything else you’re doing? I’m stunned at the natural killer cell thing. I’m blown away by that. I never heard of that. All the reading I do, I never came across that.

Dr. Ernesto:
You have to know that we also have to be very careful with what we say and we don’t say. We’ve had problems in the past, and there are certain things that we’re working on that are not ready for the spotlight, but this one is, and it’s one of the newest ones. We’ve been working on it for years, and we’re finally getting ready to really start making it commercial on a larger scale, so that’s one of the big ones. Like I said, we can bank, and we’re going to start training physicians, because one of the rules that we got from COFEPRIS, the FDA here, which is called COFEPRIS, is that, sure, we can get a stem cell license, which by the way, we helped them create their whole stem cell licensing.

When we first started, we had a blood bank license, which was the closest thing, and we’ve helped them evolve. We got the stem cell license, and now we have the ability to really manufacture an off-the-shelf product, so if a doctor in Mexico City calls us and says, you know what, I have a patient coming tomorrow, we can manufacture and create a product specifically for him with the amount of stem cells that he needs, with the concentration, the viscosity, anything that he needs, but the requirement is that we need to train them, because it’s the opposite in the U.S. In the U.S., the manufacturer of the product is responsible for the product, and then the doctor is responsible for what they do. Here, if we want to be able to sell them the product, we need to make sure that they have training, and they’re using one of the protocols that we got approved.

Now, if they receive it, and they want to do something else, that’s a whole thing, but we’re going to start training doctors, and it won’t be exclusive just for doctors in Mexico, so we’ll be able to train other physicians. We’ll be able to have them bring in their own patients and treat them here, so it’s exciting times. We want to really open the door and -inaudible- access to these technologies.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, well, I’m excited to be onboard with y’all. It’s very exciting, and I have a very big outreach, and I train hundreds of doctors around the country, so we really are so glad that we’ll be able to offer more of these.

Dr. Ernesto:
Yeah, me, too.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s exciting.

Dr. Ernesto:
Yeah, it’s exciting times, but this is exactly what we need, support and people who really start—even if they are not sure that they want to do this at this point, we want more people to know that it is successful, that it is available, and that there are alternatives. There are options.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. Thank you, Dr. Ernesto, and folks, his offer, take advantage of it, obviously. You get a free consultation. Fill out what he told you. Ashley, she’ll put that on the link here, and they can contact you, so I really appreciate that, honestly.

Dr. Ernesto:
Oh, no problem.

Dr. Pompa:
Believe me, I have so many clients and doctors, and I know the questions they’re asking, and literally, I was saying, look, I’m looking into this. I know that it’s going to probably have to be offshore, but -inaudible-. Thank you.

Dr. Ernesto:
Not a problem. Thank you for inviting me.

Dr. Pompa:
Oh, and we’re going to do a part two when I come down to Cancun, and we’re going to take it to the next level. We’ll do a live show right there.

Dr. Ernesto:
Sounds great.

Dr. Pompa:
Thank you, Dr. E, and by the way, that’s what you told me to call you, Dr. E.

Dr. Ernesto:
That’s right. Thank you.

Dr. Pompa:
Ernesto. By the way, folks, I didn’t even attempt the last name, because I butcher every name anyway, so go ahead and give them your full name, Doc.

Dr. Ernesto:
My full name is Ernesto Gutierrez.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, so he told me, don’t worry about that. He goes, just call me Dr. E. That’s what everyone calls me. I’m like, I can handle Ernesto. I can handle that.

Dr. Ernesto:
After your time in Cancun, you’ll be doing better on the Spanish.

Dr. Pompa:
Absolutely. Thanks for being on the show. I appreciate it.

Dr. Ernesto:
No problem. Thanks for the invite.

225: Balancing with Botanicals

Transcript of Episode 225: Balancing with Botanicals

With Dr. Daniel Pompa and Dr. Rachel Fresco

Dr. Pompa:
You’re going to want to stay tuned to this episode of Cell TV to hear Dr. Rachel Fresco. She is the CEO of Bio-Botanical Research. They have come out with some very unique products that are transforming really hard-to-get areas in the gut like the biofilm. Matter of fact, the one product we’re going to talk about, Biocidin, it was brought to me by one of my clients that said, “Hey, this product is really what worked for me. You have to check it out,” and I did. That’s how Dr. Rachel ended up on this show.

Look, we’re going to examine Lyme disease really hard. You’re going to realize that there are some unique products here that could be of assistance there. Parasites, SIBO, another almost impossible-to-fix gut problem, small intestinal bacteria overgrowth, wait until you hear—we’re going to give specific protocols, Candida, sinus issues, all of it. Stay tuned to this episode of Cell TV.

Dr. Rachel, thank you for joining us. This is a big topic that our viewers absolutely love because everyone’s trying to fix their gut. Dysbiosis, SIBO, Lyme, biofilms, how our dental stuff is affecting our gut and our heath, all these are topics that you hit, that you lecture on, so we wanted to bring you on the show because we are always looking for new research, new studies, new products in this area of the gut. If we can’t fix the gut, we’re not going to fix the brain, we’re not going to fix the immune system, and we’re not going to feel well. Welcome to the show. Thank you for joining us.

Dr. Rachel:
Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Pompa. I’m excited because I’ve been doing this research and work now almost 30 years. I started working with Biocidin way back in the late ‘80s. It was Great Smokies Diagnostic Labs, which is now Genova, of course, who contacted me. They said, “We don’t know what this is you have, but it kills everything, and we want to use it as a candidate substance on our comprehensive digestive stool analysis.” I said, “Sure, fine. That’s fine.”

Suddenly, 30,000 doctors a month are finding out that this formula, the Biocidin, is very equal to a lot of the pharmaceuticals for yeast and bacteria. People who are more functional medicine oriented, they want to use something that’s less toxic if they can, and so people started using it. We started compiling research and kind of went on from there. That’s how we sort of got our claim to fame was with the dysbiosis, and then we branched out into researching other infections.

Dr. Pompa:
I guess it’s the Bio-Botanical Research, that’s kind of what you head up, correct?

Dr. Rachel:
Yes, that’s our company. We’ve got 10 products that are all very much focused on either directly impacting infection as antimicrobials or as secondary support for the digestive system, secondary anti-inflammatory support, immune support. All of these are nutritional supplements that practitioners can use with their patients to really help impact their health from a natural perspective.

Dr. Pompa:
Most of them are practitioner-grade supplements. You have to get them through your doctor. Listen, I wanted you on the show because I actually came—the Biocidin, one of my clients turned me onto it and said, “Hey, I use this.” I know this client really well, and I know if it worked for this person, then this must be the real deal. I checked it out. That’s kind of how I ended up here. I said, “Okay, these are some real products, no doubt.” I have a lot of my docs that watch this show, too, and I want to turn them onto them, as well.

As we talk about some of these cases, you can reference some of the products. On Revelation Health here—Revelation Health will be able to get the products, so many people watching are going to want to get a product like Biocidin. All right, look, when we deal with pathogens in the gut, biofilm becomes a—biofilms are normal. I want to point that out. We have biofilms, but it’s a matter of a biofilm that has dysbiosis meaning too many bad guys and not enough good guys. These bad guys can hide in the biofilms, and it becomes really difficult to knock them out. Talk a little bit about that. Then we’ll go into some specifics.

Dr. Rachel:
This has been a huge area of research for me because it was sort of the cart came before the horse in a way. For years, doctors are giving me feedback that their patients on Biocidin are getting better from these chronic infections like ear infections, and UTIs, and other things. The common element in a lot of these infection is the biofilm component. Once you’ve had an infection in your body, say, more than a few weeks, they’ll start to develop this outer coating that will protect them from detection from your immune system and also from treatment. Unless you can break that biofilm, you really can’t impact, in a long-term sense, these infections.

What I found out in my research is, sure enough, almost every herb in the Biocidin—if you look it up on PubMed, if you look in that herb and biofilm, you’ll find out this one inhibits quorum sensing that causes a formation of biofilms. This one breaks the lipid layer that is surrounding it. This one stops them from attaching or moving. The combination altogether of these botanical ingredients—and these are ingredients that everyone knows. These are things like bilberry, and grape seed, and garlic, and goldenseal, and gentian, and black walnut, and things like that. There’s a lot of things. It’s also the essential oil components like oregano, tea tree, lavender, and galbanum, and then some secondary liver support.

That whole combination together just impacts microbes in a lot of different ways, and it also seems to stop them from becoming resistant. I think that’s the advantage that some of the botanicals have over antibiotics; number one, that they can break biofilms and stop them from spreading and attaching, and number two, that they don’t cause resistance.

In fact, three or four of the herbs in the Biocidin and our other Olivirex formula, which is a anti-viral olive leaf combination, they both affect the efflux pump. Basically, that’s where the bacteria pump out the toxins of the antibiotics. They sense the antibiotic, and they pump it out, so the antibiotic can’t really affectively treat. When you have this efflux pump mechanism and you have the biofilm, you’ve basically created an antibiotic resistance. The botanicals have a way of getting around that by shutting down the efflux pump. There’s a ton of studies on that.

When I’ve been lecturing at some of these functional medicine conferences around the world, this is a topic that has been of great interest to doctors because they really weren’t sure why they couldn’t get rid of these sinus infections, or why these patients were having these recurrent UTIs, and things like that, or current gut infections that won’t go away. This is sort of the answer. We’ve been able to really significantly impact people’s health by addressing it.

Dr. Pompa:
You have biofilms not just in the gut, but in the sinus cavities, all throughout. This is a problem everywhere. I have to say the Biocidin—and I haven’t tried it. Olive leaf is one of my—I love it as a killer -inaudible-. When I looked at the ingredients in these, they’re my favorites, many of them. I thought how you stacked them in the formulas was absolutely brilliant.

Dr. Rachel:
Thank you.

Dr. Pompa:
There’s a synergy in there somewhere that really works. I think the key was—is what it does in the biofilms. What you were just explaining, I didn’t know that, so that’s awesome.

Dr. Rachel:
Also, the other thing that’s really important to think about is the concentration of these ingredients. You can get olive leaf from the GNC or something, right? It might be 5% olive leaf. You’d have to take the whole bottle to equal two capsules of our stuff because it’s pharmaceutical grade from Europe. It’s 22% oleuropein. Most of even the professional lines available have anywhere from 11 to 17 or 18 percent. I think we’re one of the few that goes for the 22 to 24.

In fact, the head person for the botanical company in Europe where we get most of our herbs, he approached me at the Expo West at Anaheim. He goes, “Rachel, you should be really proud because your company is in the 1% in terms of the quality of your ingredients.” He said, “There’s hardly anybody who’s putting in what you are.” I’m like, “That’s because since I own the company and I’m a practitioner, I just want it to work, and I want the best thing I can get. Profit margins are secondary. I don’t have venture capitalists or people telling me that they need more money out of my company. It’s just me. I’m fine with—I don’t mind if it’s—if it’s the best, that’s what I want.”

I think that often surprises the manufacturers when I’m like, “Oh, look, we found this pharmaceutical grade quercetin. It’s 170 times more absorbable than regular quercetin. They’re like, “But it’s twice as expensive.” I’m like, “I don’t care. Put it in there.”

Dr. Pompa:
I know, believe me. I’ve been in this business a long time. It’s like you could look at a product and go, “All right, this is actually a really good product.” I stated that when I saw the products. Again, that’s why you’re here. It’s really hard to find that these days because—

Dr. Rachel:
It is.

Dr. Pompa:
It is. I mean, it’s mostly about profits out there.

Dr. Rachel:
Right.

Dr. Pompa:
Listen, I have an obligation to these viewers, and the people that trust me, even the doctors that I train to find the stuff that really works and it’s good stuff. We like to test everything, as well, because a lot of products are contaminated.

Dr. Rachel:
I know. I know.

Dr. Pompa:
That brings me to my next question, is are the—the products, what do you do for testing to make sure that we’re not putting contaminated products in there?

Dr. Rachel:
First of all, the ingredients themselves have to come with a certificate of analysis, and then that ingredient is actually checked to see is that really the ingredient? Are the companies either using mass spectrometry or some other method? Then they’re doing metals tests in addition to the typical microbial tests. For something like our Biotonic product that’s organically grown in China, but still, it’s China, right? We get a stack this high of reports for pesticides or any kind of contamination that could have happened either there or on its way here, molds.

We had to reject recently—in fact, that’s how I found the pharmaceutical grade quercetin for our Proflora 4R product because I knew I wanted quercetin in there, and then it came back. It was mold. It was moldy. I’m like [snap] . Then I went back to the drawing board. I’m like, “Let’s do some more research online. Let’s see who’s making quercetin and where it’s coming from.” Sure enough, this company in Brazil—it was organic, sustainably grown, pharmaceutical grade. They had patented that absorbability of it. I’m like, “This is much better. Let’s get this one.” Sometimes that happens and—

Dr. Pompa:
What product is that in?

Dr. Rachel:
That’s in the Proflora 4R. It’s a spore-based probiotic combination. We were very grateful to MegaSpore for letting us use several of their pharmaceutical spore strains. Then we added to that the quercetin, marshmallow, and aloe to kind of give the gut a little bit more help and a little more anti-inflammatory support when you’re working with the spores. As you know, the spores are good because if you have SIBO, you can’t use the regular acidophilus-type probiotics.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, talk a little bit about that because SIBO is one of the big problems today. I think a lot of people that—they just battle it, right?

Dr. Rachel:
Right.

Dr. Pompa:
We can’t use your average probiotic. It makes them worse, and oftentimes, the killers just aren’t strong enough to knock them back. Give us a little protocol with these products for SIBO and using that particular probiotic.

Dr. Rachel:
Okay, so we did a study with Dr. Danielle Lewis, and she—we decided to try just the Biocidin and see if that, by itself—what impact that would have in six to eight weeks on a patient who had tested positive for SIBO. We got 70 to 100 percent improvement in symptoms, and their lab tests on the hydrogen producers really was knocked back good. The methane ones were still there, but the patients were feeling better. We thought, well, this was no change of diet. This was no other products, just that one thing.

I said, “Okay, let’s now—let’s add in the Olivirex because the olive leaf is so good for the methane-producing bacteria. Let’s use things to mop up the toxins and pull those out like the GI Detox we have, which is a clay/charcoal blend with a few other things and probiotic like the Proflora 4R. Now we’re seeing patients really, really responding well in two to three months. Their lab tests are looking really great. You’ll still get a few people who are really resistant with SIBO, and they may need to do it longer or at a maintenance, and, of course, the diet is paramount. If you don’t—I looked at your diets, and I was so happy to see what you recommend because it’s exactly what I do with myself.

I’m a person who has to work on inflammation, too, and it’s very important to have an anti-inflammatory diet, and a correct diet, and a low-sugar, and correct type of nutrients for your situation. We’ve seen good results with people with SIBO, and so I recommend that people talk to a health professional or you and get a consultation. Maybe get the breath test done so that they have a baseline, and then work on it. Even if it takes you six months, it’s—a lot of people battle with this for 20 years, so if you could—

Dr. Pompa:
Oh, yeah, -inaudible-. For our new viewers, I have to be sensitive. “What is SIBO?” they’re probably asking. I would say most of our viewers have heard of it, but small intestinal bacteria overgrowth. Typical symptom is bloating after meals, severe bloating even hours later. One of the things I always say, don’t forget about the ileocecal valve. It’s fooled me in a couple cases. When you draw a line between your belly button and the ASIS, which is the biggest little lump on your sacrum—I’m trying not to be too technical. It’s a line that goes diagonal between it halfway.

Push really hard in there, and you’ll find your ileocecal valve. If it’s tender, yep, you better massage it a few times a day. That oftentimes is why those darn bacteria back up into the small intestine. Talk a little bit about the Proflora because that’s a—we made the mention that we can’t utilize typical bacteria with SIBO. If the good bacteria from the large intestine are backing up into the small intestine, we’re adding to that problem. What does the Proflora do? How is it different for SIBO?

Dr. Rachel:
The nice thing about spores is they kind of go directly into the large intestine. They go through, and when they get in the right environment, then they proliferate. They also actually secrete bacteriocins that are antimicrobial themselves, and they also modulate the immune system. They’re anti-inflammatory, they’re antibacterial, and they sort of crowd out the unfriendly organisms.

I think in the past in our diets, we used to eat things from the ground, right? You ate food that you grew, and there was dirt, and you touched dirt. You got exposed to dirt, and these spore-forming bacteria were a natural part of our diet, a natural part of our gut. Then today, everything’s so clean. Everything’s so processed. We don’t get in contact with dirt the way we used to. At least, if you live in a city, perhaps you never do. I have horses. I have a garden.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, it’s true. It is. We need dirt. There’s a product we’ve used for a while. It’s Prescript-Assist. It’s soil—

Dr. Rachel:
Similar.

Dr. Pompa:
How does it compare to that?

Dr. Rachel:
It’s very similar to something like that. I don’t remember all the ingredients in Prescript-Assist off the top of my head, but I know it’s got Bacillus subtilis and so forth, which ours does. I think the difference in ours is that we added the quercetin, that pharmaceutical-strength quercetin, and we added the aloe and marshmallow for motility and to give that type of fiber that helps those flora to grow. You don’t seem to get the reaction when you have that quercetin onboard that—I used to try taking the spore formers like Prescript-Assist by itself, and I would get a little bit gassy or I’d get a little bit of a reaction to it. With that quercetin onboard, it seems to cut down that histamine response, that mast cell response.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I’m going to try it with people. Admittedly, I haven’t tried it yet. The Biocidin was my introduction into these products. Now I’m excited about—even about the Olivirex, as well.

Dr. Rachel:
That’s a great one. I mean, anytime you have—I love the Olivirex for flu season support, when you’re just looking to really help protect yourself when traveling, as a basic maintenance through the winter if you’re a person who’s been susceptible, or if you’re elderly, or otherwise immune compromised. Something like that, just one or two a day of those through the winter can be super-helpful. We also have the Biocidin in a throat spray version.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s what I was going to ask you because I saw that on the thing. You have the throat spray, and they use it up for the—a lot of our mold patients get MARCoNS. They were using it for that.

Dr. Rachel:
We don’t use the spray in the nose because it’s got a alcohol content of about 65%, so what we—

Dr. Pompa:
Oh, so you’re just using—what were they using?

Dr. Rachel:
They’ll use the regular Biocidin drops or the liposomal Biocidin, which is in that oil base. We’ve had unbelievable results before and after. I’ve seen lab results come across my desk now on MARKoNS and other things that people have had in their sinuses. People have cultured MRSA. I mean, it’s amazing. There’s always a fungal component, too. It’s not just bacterial, so that’s why breaking the biofilms and doing something that’s anti-fungal and anti-bacterial is really good.

We did a study on that throat spray with the University of Louisiana, double blind, placebo-controlled trial on immune-compromised athletes. These are marathon runners, NFL players, people who are just over-exerting all the time. When you test their secretory IGA in their upper respiratory tract, it’s suppressed.

Dr. Pompa:
Terrible, yeah.

Dr. Rachel:
One dose of the Biocidin throat spray post-exercise raised the SIGA by 66%.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s so true. I’m a cyclist, right, and I’ll come back from a hard ride, and I’m clearing my throat for hours, even sometimes the next day if it was a really hard ride. You rip the mucus out, and it leaves it vulnerable is actually what’s happening, and then that can lead you to infections. That’s a really good—so the throat spray is a good thing. Then talk a little bit about a protocol because we have so many people watching this with mold issues, MARCoNS, sinus issues. Talk about a protocol for that.

Dr. Rachel:
You know Dr. Jill Carnahan, right?

Dr. Pompa:
Mm-hmm.

Dr. Rachel:
She’s been using these for a long time. What we’ve been doing is internally, we’ve been using that GI Detox to bind the mycotoxins, and then typically in the sinuses, we have a little kit you can get. You just get a bottle and little buffered saline packets, and you mix up this solution. You pour it into a one-ounce nasal spray bottle, and you put in about 10 drops of Biocidin or so. Shake it, and then use that up in two or three days. Wash everything off, and then refill it, and do it again. Continue like that about two to three weeks is usually enough. If you have a cold or flu, it’s usually not that much. It’s a few days. If you’ve had chronic sinus problems, you could do that.

One doctor told me he took the liposomal Biocidin, and he stuck it on his finger, and stuck it up his nose. I’m like, “Well, that’s elegant, but hey, okay.” I felt like the spray kind of gets more washing in the sinuses. This guy, he’s a famous Lyme doctor, actually, and he said he’d had sinus infections for 20 years. Just sticking it up his nose with his finger every day, it cleared up his sinus infections.

Dr. Pompa:
Wow, that’s amazing. You actually have the kit for the sinuses, right?

Dr. Rachel:
Yeah, it’s not on our website. It’s something that the doctors can order. All you have to do is really go to the drugstore or the health food store and get a bottle that has buffered saline nasal spray that the cap can unscrew. As long as you find one that the cap can unscrew, then you can just put the Biocidin in there, shake it, and do it yourself. You don’t need to get our kit. It’s -inaudible- neti pot—

Dr. Pompa:
You could -inaudible- people at -inaudible-, they do sell the sprayers. We use the Restore sometimes, and we spray it up there. Yeah, okay, that’s great, awesome. Then the Lyme, this is a big deal. When we talk about Lyme, again, it’s—Lyme can get into the—obviously, into the biofilms, into the joints. Give us the typical Lyme protocol that you would use with some of these products.

Dr. Rachel:
With Lyme, patients can really have a Herxheimer or die-off reaction. In fact, any patient who takes Biocidin can have a Herxheimer or die-off reaction because you’re killing things off, right? I mean, it’s good to have that GI Detox onboard that we have, which is specially designed to mop up the endotoxins as you’re killing things off.

Dr. Pompa:
We have a product that I helped develop called BIND. It has four different binders. Very similar thing, but hey, another one wouldn’t hurt.

Dr. Rachel:
No, I mean, yours was probably fine. We’ve got activated charcoal, zeolite, pectin, humic/fulvic acid, and a special type of silica in ours, in the new version of ours. We did just have one that had a pyrophyllite clay and activated charcoal, but here’s a good source for you of your story about what do you do about contamination? This mine had changed the spot where they were mining, and the level of metals in that clay went up. It was under what is allowable by the EPA and everything, but I didn’t want it in my product anymore. It didn’t have the high silica content that it used to, which was the main thing that’s helping heal the gut lining. We wanted that silica in there, so that’s why we switched the product.

For Lyme patients, you start so slow. You might only put one little bit of Biocidin in a glass of water this big, and have them sip that water, and see how they respond. If they do okay and they can get to the point where they can take a whole pump of the liposomal or a drop of the regular Biocidin at a time, you gradually, gradually work up per their tolerance. You don’t want them to be miserable. You don’t want them to be able not to function because of the die-off, so you have the GI Detox onboard, and something like the Proflora with the quercetin can really help, too. Then slowly increase per their tolerance.

The Lyme patients are going to stay on this for at least a year, probably, so there’s no rush. Then we bring the Olivirex onboard because Lyme patients typically have a secondary problem with EBV or another herpes family type virus, and so getting a good anti-viral in there, as well, is important, and the metals, as you know, you have to work on all of these things at once.

You just have to—with everyone, whether you’re a dysbiosis person or a person with SIBO, you always start with just one drop. It sounds crazy, like one drop, really? It’s so much more concentrated than your typical tincture from a health food store. It’s just not even in the same category. You have to start slowly and work up per your tolerance to the recommendation that the doctor has or what’s on our label.

Dr. Pompa:
What’s the typical recommended on the label?

Dr. Rachel:
You start with one drop, and you might work up to five drops three times a day of the regular Biocidin. The liposomal version, of course, it’s going straight into your blood stream because it’s absorbing directly from the oral cavity, so that’s even a stronger effect. You might put one pump in water and sip the water to start with and then gradually work up to about three pumps a day. Now, if you have a situation with an acute infection, you can go higher for a short period of time.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, of course. Now, when would you go with the liposomal over the regular, or do you work up to the liposomal? What’s your recommendation on that?

Dr. Rachel:
Most people can go onto the liposomal if they need it right away. Yesterday, a doctor wrote to me, and she said she had a patient with a urinary tract issue. I would go with the liposomal because it’s going to go—bypass the digestion.

Dr. Pompa:
Got it, yeah, immediately right in there. The regular one, of course, with Lyme and SIBO’s probably better because you’re starting slower and lower.

Dr. Rachel:
Right.

Dr. Pompa:
You need it, and oftentimes, you need it in the gut, so regular would be better there as opposed to a liposome where you’re trying to get it beyond the gut.

Dr. Rachel:
Exactly.

Dr. Pompa:
Got it. That makes total sense to me. I have to ask you the question, how did you get into this? What’s your story?

Dr. Rachel:
It’s funny. Do you want the really long version or the really short version? I was a young woman, and I had gone in for my annual exam at Planned Parenthood, and they had done my pap smear. They found that it was class 4, which is super-high. That’s one stage away from cancer. Of course, I was kind of freaked out, 19 years old or whatever, 20 years old. At the time, I was enrolled in a massage school. The teacher there said, “Why don’t you try this acupuncturist? She’s really good.”

I went to see her, and she took my pulse, and looked at my tongue. She goes, “Oh, yeah, you have blood stagnation in your lower burner.” I’m like, “Great, can you fix that?” She was like, “Yeah.” Twice a week for eight weeks, I went in, and she did all this cupping. My abdomen and back were just black, like stagnation. She didn’t even do herbs. She just did acupuncture and cupping.

I went back to get a follow-up, and my pap was negative. After the first pap, I had gone to a regular doctor, and he had scheduled me for some type of surgical procedure, right? I’m like, “That’s really freaky a bit.” Nineteen, twenty years old, you don’t want to lose your cervix. When I went back to his office and I told him that I was having a negative pap now, he said, “I don’t believe it. That’s not possible,” so he did it again, and it was negative. He told me to get the hell out of his office.

Dr. Pompa:
You know the same thing happened to me and my wife?

Dr. Rachel:
Really?

Dr. Pompa:
She -inaudible- class 4, and he was basically like, “It’s cancer now. That’s the stage before blah, blah. You need to get the colposcopy, and then basically it’s going to lead to surgery,” the whole thing. I basically said, “Well, we’re not going to do that,” and he basically said I was nuts, and basically, that was it, kind of that cold shoulder whole thing. My wife fasted, and that’s really what got me—I was, at that time, learning about fasting, and then I took it to her. She fasted about 12 days. She went back, and she had negative tests, and they were mad.

Dr. Rachel:
Yeah, they wanted to do the surgery. They didn’t want us to get well.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s like maybe it was just because they were wrong. I don’t know. Basically, he said, “You’ll be back,” and it didn’t come back at all, and now, in fact, her pap smears became normal, and that’s the story.

Dr. Rachel:
I decided I was going to become an acupuncturist, so I enrolled in Five Branches University here in Santa Cruz. I had already taken my state boards, and I was waiting for my license to come in the mail when Martin Lee from Great Smokies contacted me about the Biocidin. Before I could even get a private practice going, I had so many doctors wanting the Biocidin. I was bottling it on the kitchen table in the beginning, and I didn’t even have a company yet.

I ended up doing this instead. I ended up working primarily with physicians who were treating infection for the past 30 years is what I do. I still keep my hand in—I did veterinary acupuncture, too, because I’m a trainer for horses, and I do dogs, as well, so I do a little bit of that for fun. Primarily, I’ve sort of become someone who trains doctors how to use herbal medicine. That’s what I do. I go lecture at these conferences, and I show the research, and show how the botanicals can be used. It’s super-exciting, especially in this day and age of antibiotic resistance and overuse of antibiotics. It’s nice to have alternatives.

Dr. Pompa:
We’ll have to do a training. We could do it even with our doctor group online.

Dr. Rachel:
Yeah, we do that.

Dr. Pompa:
-inaudible- we start using some of these products along with some of the other things that we’re doing. That’s great. Another big problem today, I would say, is a lot of heartburn-related conditions. Maybe it’s related to H. pylori, maybe not. H. pylori and stomach ulcers, there’s a big link. Talk a little bit about that because I know your products really target that well, as well.

Dr. Rachel:
The liquid Biocidin drops, as you said, go straight to the gut. A nice thing about the liquid is you’re getting it from the mouth all the way through the esophagus and all the way down. We had several doctors do studies for us on H. pylori. One was doing biopsies, and other people have just done the other types of testing for H. pylori. We’ve seen that that’s pretty easy to get rid of.

The thing about H. pylori, though, is that it will come back if you don’t either do an annual maintenance or look at what caused you to be susceptible to that bacteria in the first place. Maybe you have low stomach acid, or it’s something about your diet.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, absolutely. By the way, H. pylori, to a certain extent, is normal. It actually works in relationship with ghrelin. If you kill it off completely like a lot of the antibiotics do, you end up with problems with ghrelin, and you’re hungry all the time, so that may not be good.

Dr. Rachel:
That’s interesting. We’ve definitely had good result. I had one patient—you’ll like this one. Now, this guy was a beefy, beefy triathlete, ultra-marathoner kind of guy, and all of a sudden, he started wasting. The doctors could not figure out what was wrong with him. Do you have AIDS? Do you have cancer?

Why are you like—and then the only thing that they could find was his nutritionist, actually, who found the H. pylori and treated him with Biocidin and, I think, also a few of the other products in our range at the same time. Within six weeks, all his weight started coming back. His energy came back, and he was able to work out again. He wrote us a letter. I had never heard of H. pylori causing such a systemic condition.

Dr. Pompa:
I believe that because it is relinked to ghrelin, which is a hunger hormone, and it’s also indirectly then relinked to leptin, both of which affect the metabolism in a sense. Yeah, I could see that being an issue. Who knows? Once you have too high of H. pylori, then it’s affecting other bacteria, and we know bacteria affect so many aspects -inaudible- the immune system and beyond, right?

Dr. Rachel:
Right, neurotransmitters and—

Dr. Pompa:
Everything, yeah, and neurotransmitters, you name it. That’s why this is a big topic. So many people are—they’re trying to fix their depression. They’re trying to fix whatever other condition they have. Meanwhile, it’s a gut issue. It’s a dysbiosis issue. Having these products that are able to penetrate the biofilms and really, I think that’s, again, why these products are special because we have so few products that can actually get into the biofilms. That’s where these guys hide, these infections, and then you’re not going to affect the way the brain works if you don’t deal with this microbiome.

Dr. Rachel:
That’s right. We did a study with the University of Binghamton in New York on biofilms. They had multi-pathogen biofilms, so lots of different ones like pseudomonas and other bacteria along with single-origin biofilms. They tested the Biocidin against these, and within the first six hours, the die-off curve is like this. They’re almost completely gone. Then they culture them out for up to a month, and nothing grows back. I even had the fluorescing microscope to show a candida biofilm, and then within 24 hours, the biofilm was completely dissolved with the Biocidin.

Then the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland repeated that research with the Lyme biofilm. They saw that the Biocidin not only was effective at inhibiting and killing the spirochetes, but also the persister forms in the Lyme as well as the biofilm, and also helped—the liposomal Biocidin showed a really remarkable influx inracellularly, so in areas where you have pathogens inside the cell, mycoplasmas and things like that.

Dr. Pompa:
I could see that’s where it’s such a benefit, too, because certain pathogens in the gut, your Biocidin’s working there, and then the liposome is working more in and around the cell, which again, we know that the Lyme, even certain parasites—

Dr. Rachel:
Mold.

Dr. Pompa:
Mold biotoxins, we have to approach that. It’s a great system. I can’t wait to put more of it into practice. I appreciate you being on the show. You know, I have to say this, too. You answered one of my questions because you brought up candida, and that was actually on my list of questions. We didn’t talk about candida. We talked a little bit about other pathogens like biotoxins from mold and endotoxins, but what about candida?

Dr. Rachel:
Candida, as you know, is an invasive type of fungus. The hyphal form perforates and causes leaky gut. It can dig in there and really invade. It has a biofilm component. There’s a ton of anti-fungal herbs in the Biocidin, and that’s why it works so well on candida. Do you remember a guy names William Crook years ago? He wrote this candida book years and years ago.

Dr. Pompa:
I remember that, yeah.

Dr. Rachel:
He put Biocidin in his book as the only herbal thing that he used.

Dr. Pompa:
Yes, I remember that book. You could find that book in every little health food store. You remember when back in the day, it was just -inaudible- food stores around?

Dr. Rachel:
Yeah, right.

Dr. Pompa:
That book was on the counter. That’s how I know it.

Dr. Rachel:
Yeah, yeah. For candida, it’s worked really well. Like I said, in sinus infections and children’s ear infections, believe it or not, candida is a main problem. You keep giving these kids the antibiotics. You’re just giving more candida.

Dr. Pompa:
Would you use the liposome in the ear or the regular?

Dr. Rachel:
I do. I take the liposome, and I just drop it directly in the ear, or with a small child, you could take a little bit of cotton, and cover it, maybe. Let them sleep like that, as well as taking them orally, but I just put it directly in. It’s going to get to the outer ear and that canal area super well.

Dr. Pompa:
Then last one, parasites.

Dr. Rachel:
Yeah, they’re nasty. Certain kinds of parasites, like typical worms like pinworms and tapeworms—it’s horrible to think about, but people get them. These products seem to work really well. We’ve had the worms coming out in the stool, people have reported.

When you have things like Blastocystis hominis and giardia, those are the cyst-forming parasites. They can have up to a year lifecycle, so you have to—what we developed is a program where you would take the whole range for, say, three months, and then retest. If you’ve gotten rid of all of the adults that can be seen swimming around there, now every month during the full moon, like three days before and three days after the full moon, you take them all again. The full moon is when these things seem to sort of hatch and come out of the cysts. You do this for up to a year.

According to Dr. Leo Galland—he did a study for us way back when in the early ‘90s where he compared the Biocidin with Flagyl and other drugs at the time. I think there’s better drugs now, like Humatin and Tinidazole, but he said that the Biocidin was equally effective as the drug therapies, but neither were effective in 100% of patients. There are a certain subset of patients with Blastocystis that it’s just super-resistant. Then those people are going to have to keep working on this for a while.

I think diet plays a big part, too. If they went on your diet, the advanced stage of your diet, the cell detox part—if they did that, I think they’d have a lot better chance of getting rid of the parasites because they thrive on carbohydrates. If you cut out the grains and the sugars, you’re going to have a better chance on something like Biocidin. Even if you do the drug therapies, the beautiful thing about the Biocidin is because it actually helps shut down the antibiotic resistance and breaks the biofilms, it helps the antibiotics to work better. If you do need to use an antibiotic, there’s absolutely a good reason to bring these on at the same time.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s good advice. When I was sick, I had a nasty Blastocystis hominis infection myself, and it was persistent. It wasn’t until I got rid of a certain amount of mercury upstream that I was able to get my microbiome really healthy enough to beat it back and keep it back. I did a lot of the products. Systemic Formulas has their VRM products, the 1 and the 2, which are for larger ones, and the 3 and the 4 for these persistent little guys that—they’re tough. Put it with the Biocidin, I think we’d have something.

Dr. Rachel:
I agree. I think that would be a good one. Did you get that in India, or in Mexico, or in another country, or here?

Dr. Pompa:
No clue, probably the what came first, the chicken or the egg? I’m sure my high mercury levels created the opportunistic environment for the opportunistic organism to take off in. Honestly, I have no idea. I’ve -inaudible-.

Dr. Rachel:
I think there’s some kind of relationship between mercury and candida, right? Have you read about that?

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, yeah. I had terrible candida, too. I mean, terrible. I couldn’t get rid of it until, again, until I got my mercury down to a certain place, the Blastocystis hominis and the candida. I had a little bit of giardia. There was a couple other [opportins], right? You have to look upstream. All right, last topic that I want to hit, we have a lot of people who—again, I was talking about can’t fix the gut; can’t get well. We talk a lot about this. Eighty-five percent of all disease potentially starts in the mouth whether it’s amalgams, root canals, cavitations.

We did a show with Dr. Gerry from New York. He’s on Dr. Oz a lot. We did the mouth/body connection. We talked about how to get rid of these cavitations correctly. A lot of these pathogens end up here, matter of fact, systemically causing heart attacks, strokes, high blood pressure. Matter of fact, my cavitation moved into my upper neck and caused arthritis. Talk about how we can use these for even improving this because this is a problem.

Dr. Rachel:
For years, we had been saying to people you could use the Biocidin on your toothbrush, and press it into the gum line, and so forth. Then Dr. Lyn Patrick, she’s a naturopath, and she lectures for ACAM and other groups. She had a really terrible case of inflamed gums. When her dentist took a scraping in her mouth, her mouth was full of spirochetes and other bacteria.

Anyway, so she used the liposomal Biocidin for six weeks as a rinse twice a day after she brushed. When she went back to the dentist and he scraped again, they were all gone. He was so blown away. He’s like, “I need to study this. I want to know about this,” so we sent him a few cases of the liposomal Biocidin and had him try it on a number of patients with similar kinds of problems. Every single one of those patients came back with clean slides after six to eight weeks.

Based on that, he got excited about doing a study on cavitations. What he did was, he had a patient with a root canal, he takes out the root canal, and then he debrides and cleans the area. He ozonates the area, and then he gets a sample of the bone and sends that to a lab called DNA Connections and gets a DNA analysis. The results of this bone on—I think he did 13 patients. The average number of pathogens these patients had in their bone was 35.

These things included HPV, amoebas, every kind of bad bacteria. After they went home—he treated them on the spot with the liposomal Biocidin, rinsed the area with it, and then closed it up, and then sent them home with the liposomal Biocidin. They used that for eight weeks, and then come back in, opened the area back up. Go back into the bone and take another sample. Guess what? Those patients went from 35 pathogens down to 3 or 4.

Based on that, we decided to take the liposomal Biocidin formula, add to it some things for the gums like clove, and CoQ10, and quercetin, and myrrh, and a little bit of mint for flavor, and we created a specific oral solution called the Dentalcidin Oral Solution. We also took the Biocidin and put it in a toothpaste, so now you can brush with the Biocidin toothpaste as a daily maintenance. If you need to treat more deeply, you can use this Dentalcidin rinse. It’s just been amazing.

We got to these dental conferences. Now, I had never been to a holistic dental conference. We decided to show up with these things at a dental conference. The dentists were blown away when they saw the research we had done. They were like, “Where have you been? Why haven’t we ever heard of this?” We sold out. We couldn’t even keep it in stock. I never expected that level of response. I think it’s because like you said, almost everybody is concerned about their oral health, and especially—like even in the New York Times recently, they had articles about how the bacteria from your teeth can be causing cardiac events.

Dr. Pompa:
There was just a new study this year absolutely, positively linking these things to Alzheimer’s, stroke. You wouldn’t believe the conditions. This is a big deal. Trust me, it is. I’ll tell you, I’d never used the Biocidin for this yet, so you better send me some of this.

Dr. Rachel:
I will. I’m going to send you everything. I’ll send you a kit.

Dr. Pompa:
-inaudible- it’s going out there.

Dr. Rachel:
You’re going to try—everyone loves the Dentalcidin toothpaste because it’s got a special professional-grade dental hydrated silica that really cleans. What I notice with this toothpaste is—I was using the natural Eco-Dent tooth powder with the baking soda and sea salt for years. That was what I used, and it was fine, but by the end of the day, I could feel that film on my mouth, and like, “Oh, I need to brush my teeth again.” When you use the Dentalcidin, the anti-plaque ability is so strong of the Biocidin, by the end of the day, your teeth still feel clean. You’ll notice this. I’ll look forward to your feedback. Everyone who has tried that toothpaste just doesn’t want to be without it. Everyone loves it.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I can’t wait. I’ll tell you, those cavitations, you were right about one thing. You find spirochetes in them. We’ve tested enough of them. You find parasites in some of these cavitations.

Dr. Rachel:
Exactly.

Dr. Pompa:
Folks, if you haven’t watched the mouth/body connection, it was a few months ago. It’s episode 210. I just told someone to watch it today. That’s why I knew the episode number. Watch it. This is a big deal. That’s awesome. We’re going to get our dentists using your product. I’m going to tell Dr. Gerry and Dr. [Greco]. We have a bunch of dentists. I just interviewed another dentist last show, just amazing dentist from California. I’m sure he’ll be wanting to know about it, too, so fantastic.

Dr. Rachel:
Good.

Dr. Pompa:
Thanks for coming on. People are going to absolutely love trying the products, and we can’t wait. That’s why we had you here. Folks watching, go to Revelation Health. You’ll be able to see. They’ll put them up there somewhere so you know where they are. You can just put them in the search engine, the Biocidin, the Olivirex, and the Proflora. All the ones we mentioned, they’ll be there, the oral stuff, as well. Thank you for being on the show. Wealth of knowledge in this area. Thanks for developing these formulas, as well.

Dr. Rachel:
Oh, thank you. It’s a pleasure. I look forward to hearing from you.

Dr. Pompa:
You will.

Dr. Rachel:
Okay, bye-bye.

224: The Dangers of Crowns

Dr. Pompa:
It’s said that 80 to 85% of disease starts in the mouth. You’ve heard me say that in many past shows on dentistry. I get this question all the time: what about crowns? You’re going to get that answered. You’re also going to hear about a word that I’d never heard of: biomimetic dentistry. Listen, this could be a game changer for you. You’re going to get a lot of teeth questions answered. We’ve been having so many because of the show that I did with Dr. Gerry. This is a show that you going to want to share. Please rate us on Google. Rate us on that because that helps and obviously share. When you look at this show and the last one I did, these shows should really be put together because this is how people are getting their lives back. Check it out.

Alright, well I’m here live with Dr. Paul O’Malley. I have to say doc, we love dentists and we hate dentists. Let me be less personal. We love dentistry and we hate dentistry. We love you man because you’re doing it right. One of the things that I always say folks is at least 80 to 85% of disease starts in the mouth. This is a passion of mine. I’ve done so many shows on dentistry. Today’s show is actually something we haven’t really talked a lot about. That’s the dangers of crowns, and something else that really probably most of you haven’t heard of, and its biomimetic dentistry. Dr. Paul, thanks for joining us.

Dr. O’Malley:
Sure, my pleasure. Happy to be on the show.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I have to start there. What is biomimetic dentistry? I sure do want to hear your story, but just give a little about that. We can build on it later.

Dr. O’Malley:
Biomimetic, it’s a fancy name, but it basically is broken down into two parts. Bio means life. Mimetic means copying. It’s the scientific approach to how do we reconstruct a tooth that’s been broken down, rather than grinded down further and stick something over it; mainly, a crown. How do we rebuild the tooth and keep as much tooth structure as possible? How do we connect the precious nerve essentially? That’s the game.

Dr. Pompa:
Right, yeah, that is, in fact, the game. Tell me your story. You’re doing safe dentistry. I’m sure you started like most dentists as just doing regular dentistry. How did you end up here?

Dr. O’Malley:
Years ago, I’ve been practicing for a little over 30 years. When I first started out, I was the traditional dentist doing a lot of drilling, filling, and reconstructions, and trying to do the best we could with the tools that we had. Around 1992, I had a patient that had a couple root canals done under a denture. Thankfully, I don’t believe I did those; I hope. He came back and he said, “You know, my kidneys are bothering me. Can it be from those root canals?” I thought rather than be so certain of what I knew that I didn’t know, I said, “You know, I don’t know?”

Dr. Pompa:
That was a good response.

Dr. O’Malley:
Thank you. I said, “Let me research it.” In that time, I reached out to Hal Huggins. Hal Huggins was a pioneer in safe dentistry and this whole thing about root canals, and crowns, and amalgam mercury fillings, etc. Hal said, “Yes, it can contribute. It depends where it’s at and it depends if those are weak organs in the first place.” Then I went back to the patient. I said, “Yes, it can contribute to it.” I still didn’t know what to do with that. Over the next several years, I started studying about those things. In 1993, I stopped—in my practice, I had the biggest practice in all of west Texas and eastern New Mexico. I told all my associates, I said, “We’re not doing amalgam mercury fillings anymore.” They said, “Wow, people are going to be upset. Do people know about this?” I said, “Trust me, they’re ugly anyway. It will be an easy sell.” We did that at least, but we still weren’t protecting ourselves, nor the patient when we were removing them. My journey began at that point and time.

Then we fast forward to about 1997. I personally wasn’t physically feeling well. I was ready to sell my practice. I just wasn’t feeling good at all; no idea what. Went to all the different docs. Could it be this? Could it be that? Tested for mercury, did the traditional blood tests. It said okay. Everything got missed. I said, “Alright, I’ve got to take care of myself.” Oddly enough, I’d had a root canal in my front tooth for about—since I was 13 from a baseball accident. It had been reworked two times. I had severe sinus troubles that would come and go. At that point, I’d done enough research. I told my associate at the time, I said, “Pull that darn thing out of there.” He said, “Are you sure? That’s your front tooth.” I said, “I don’t care. I want it out.” Took it out. We cleaned the bone up. We put a temporary little flipper in there to replace it. Within four to six months, without even knowing how to detox properly, my body started recovering and feeling better.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah man, I see it all the time, Doc. I see it all the time. Story after story about someone getting root canals out, cavitations, galvanism where they have other metals. They get it out and their world changes. You’re right; it does take a few months. The whole microbiome starts to change. Some things happen immediately and other things take some time. I’ll tell you; you’re right. You fix that stuff and magic happens.

Dr. O’Malley:
Yeah, all the time. I had an 18-year-old girl that came in I recall a few years ago. She had several molars that were really bad including a couple wisdom teeth. She had chronic fatigue so bad, she couldn’t get out of bed. She made it to the appointment. I looked at her and I said—
in those days, you would say—some people would still say even though they would think it could make them sick or they weren’t sure, they’d want a root canal, etc. I said, “Listen, in your case, go get those out. I’m sending you to this person that knows how to clean the bone, and clean the periodontal ligament out, and get all the infection out. She was another success story that was within three to four months, she was completely back to the normal activity of an 18-year-old woman.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, it’s funny. The Cell Healing TV right before this one, if folks could go back to last week’s show, you’ll hear a testimony of a gentleman who was mercury poisoned from the time he was—I think it started 13 when they put amalgams in. He had certain symptoms. Then here he is now, was in his 40’s. All of a sudden, neurological stuff starts happening: strabismus, where he’s seeing double. They were going to do this surgery on him for goodness sakes. Fortunately, he was smart enough to be like, “I’m not doing that.” Then they said, “Well, we could do these coke bottle glasses.” He says, “I’m not doing that either.” He found mercury poisoning and strabismus. He had neurological stuff starting to happen in his whole body, his whole nerve system. If you watch the story, removes the source, we get it out of his brain. He gets his life back.

Alright, let’s talk about crowns because I find that a lot of problems here. People have a lot of crowns. If somebody’s not getting better, I often times I get suspicious of these crowns because number one, there can be mercury underneath them. Number two, there’s a lot of other problems, even with galvanism with these crowns. You talk about some other issues.

Dr. O’Malley:
You’re right on the money with that. First of all, when you do a crown, you have to reduce and remove about 75 to 85% of the enamel. You’re basically destroying a tooth to—it’s almost an oxymoron. To rebuild the tooth, you have to destroy the tooth. Usually, the person’s coming in and they have a lot of decay to begin with. The dentist looks at it and it’s what we’ve been taught. If you go see a carpenter, he’s going to fix things with a hammer. You go see the dentist, they’re going to fix things with crowns because that’s what we’ve been taught. For 150 years, these things have been around. Then it depends who you go see. Someone’s going to be more conservative in their preparation and someone’s going to be more aggressive; it depends on their philosophy and school of thought. My thought processes and also through the Academy of Biomimetic Dentistry for your listeners and your audience, they can all tune into these different academies. That’s a great one and it gives basic information. Also, a little something, I offer a free course for anybody that’s interested. They can sign up. It’s freeholisticdentalcourse.com. Maybe we can mention it later because I don’t have all the visual aids to go over things here. On those courses, there are about 18 small courses that go over all these aspects of dentistry.

Getting back to the crown issue, the first thing is it demolishes a tooth. The second thing is because it does that, it strips the coating off the top of a tooth. The tooth is built like our head. We have this hard outer skull to protect the soft inner pulp known as the brain. In the tooth, it’s the pulp of the nerve, but a hard outer shell; that’s the enamel. Just below that, we have a softer, forgiving shock absorbing type of material called dentin. That’s hydrated all through little dentinal tubules. Those little tubules, just like if you have a straw filled with water, you can touch one end of the straw and the other end, and it communicates. We’ve all played this little game as kids. Throughout that tooth from the nerve, there’s fluids in there keeping it hydrated. It adds to the flexibility of the tooth itself. That gets pretty much demolished and then one big hard block of something is stuck down over it.

Now, for years it’s all we had. Today, with biomimetic dentistry, we have all the science behind us. They’re based on 15 and 20-year studies of the types of materials that flex the same as the dentin and types of materials that mimic the hardness of enamel. Envision someone comes in with decay, all we do is remove that little bit of decay. We can even leave half a millimeter of decay behind, and we can seal around, and build that part of the tooth up. The body will then remineralize and heal that little bit of decay. These are huge paradigm shifts. There’s only about four or five hundred of us trained in biomimetic dentistry.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s it.

Dr. O’Malley:
It’s sad. We try to get the word out, but just like anything else, people are sometimes averse to change. It does take a mindset and a little bit of change. Any dentist that’s been through the program or courses, it becomes a game changer for them. It just enhances their life.

Dr. Pompa:
Just to make it simple, you’re saying, hey look, all crowns are bad just because it’s smothering the tooth if you will.

Dr. O’Malley:
You’re right. I love that use of terminology: smothering the tooth, encasing the tooth, maybe embalming the tooth. I don’t know. It’s very sad.

Dr. Pompa:
Is there ever a time where that’s all you have? That you just have to do it because you’re not a believer in root canals, so we have to do something, or is there always a way around it?

Dr. O’Malley:
There may be a rare instance where the destruction is already so bad that you’re going to be covering the whole tooth and building it up. However, it’s still ideal to build the tooth up on the inside with a more flexible material and put the outer part with the crown if we had to. The other time that we’ll do a crown in my office, for example, is if I’m replacing old crowns. A lot of the old crowns have metals under them. They have teeth destroyed under them, so we take the old crown off, and we can rebuild that tooth, and reseal it. You’re actually making a double seal or a sandwich. You seal that tooth. Then the crown that you make is an all-porcelain type crown. People can be tested which one they’re most compatible with. One of the most compatible ones is a material brand name called E-Max. It’s a beautiful porcelain and it can be bonded to the bond of the tooth. Literally, if that thing leaks underneath it, you still can’t decay that underneath part of the tooth; it’s impervious to decay. It’s a fantastic thing because the bottom line is the minute we start getting into a root canal, we get into a severe gray area when it comes to the health of the individual.

Anybody in holistic dentistry, holistic medicine that’s connected with holistic dentistry knows, okay, this is a really gray area. Will it make that person sick? Will it not make that person sick? We want to cause and do no harm. The best way to do that is we test the tooth first. Does it respond normally to cold? If it does, I don’t care how bad the decay is; we can generally restore that tooth completely and it’s going to last and be predictable for us in the practice. We find that with all the biomimetic dentists that are practicing this.

Dr. Pompa:
The cold is saying, hey, there’s some viable nerve left here. If you have nerve, you have life?

Dr. O’Malley:
Yeah.

Dr. Pompa:
Then there’s the subject of veneers. You’ve placed many cosmetic veneers, which can transform people and it’s oftentimes needed. What is the difference between a crown and a veneer? With a veneer than, you can somehow do it safe because the whole tooth’s not covered or what’s the answer to that?

Dr. O’Malley:
That’s right. Typically, you’re only laying something over one surface or maybe two surfaces of the tooth. Let’s say when it comes to a front tooth, it’s just barely laying something over the front and a little bit over the edge, so they can get the proper strength. That’s minimal prep. A lot of times it can be done, you can do ultra-thin veneers. It’s harder on the lab, but it’s better for the individual receiving the veneer. It’s a little harder to block colors out with it if we’re changing dark colors, but it can be done. Then you’re not cutting through the enamel of the tooth. I think a lot of this came from—for example, years ago they’ve been doing hip implants for a long time. When they first came out with the hip implants, they were doing them on 70-year-old individuals. They would only last 10 to 12 years and most of the people would die before it became a problem. Now, people are getting them younger, earlier. You know all the reasons behind because of the diet, and the Coca-Colas and the sodas, and all kinds of stuff. They had to figure out a way that it could last longer.

It’s the same way in dentistry. The average crown is replaced on insurance every five years. The average traditional filling that is just a big glob of what stuff stuck in a tooth they put the blue light on, they all shrink based on electron microscope studies. All of those shrink unless you do them in small layers. It just takes time and the dentists are programmed to go fast. They don’t know this. If they knew that, they wouldn’t do it. It’s not like they’re bad people out there. The whole bottom line is even through the safe mercury removal, we want to take mercury out safely and do these things, you’re left with a hole in the tooth. A lot of the safe mercury removal docs, they don’t know about biomimetic dentistry, so they’re sticking big globs down there too, or they’re crowning the teeth. Now, they’ve put that precious nerve at risk.

Dr. Pompa:
You have ceramic inlays now that are an option as opposed to putting composite in. Are you a fan?

Dr. O’Malley:
I’m somewhat a fan of the inlays. Again, everything that we want to do in biomimetic, it creates low stress on the tooth. You can imagine an inlay, you have all these walls that this thing fits down into. It’s like this precision key fit down into the tooth. Now, it’s got to bond to each and every wall. The minute you put it in there with a cement that bonds, that blue lights going to pull that tooth in on itself. The flatter the design of the final restoration is better. It creates we call it a low C factor, C for configuration. We try to create a configuration that’s rather flat and low and is not going to try to bind the tooth in on itself. That’s also the beauty with the veneers. The veneer is just on one surface, not all the way around. The minute we bond on there, it’s not going to pull against all the different bond strengths. It’s going to actually seal to the tooth.

Dr. Pompa:
If the inlay then pulls in, what potentially can happen to the tooth?

Dr. O’Malley:
Again, you can stress the tooth. If the dentist just cuts out the part of the tooth and takes an impression, and the lab makes this little piece that fits on, they’re notorious for causing post-operative sensitivity because they’ve strained the tooth inward. As a person bites on it, it hurts. Then they go back. They have their bite adjusted. It feels a little better. About six months later, it finally begins to go away because really what’s happening is microscopically, it de-bonds from the tooth. Now, it’s relaxed. Now, you have a microscopic leakage going, and because the dentin is not sealed underneath with layers of composite first, you have a nidus for bacteria to go in and re-infiltrate the dentinal tubules, infect the tooth, harm the nerve, etc. An inlay is great if they put a base in and keep it flat.

Dr. Pompa:
Got it. Alright, yeah, that’s the first time I’ve heard that. Yeah, are you a believer of metal in the mouth at all? Absolutely no metal?

Dr. O’Malley:
I believe no metal is the best way to go because the minute you put dissimilar metals in, you create an electric current. You have the Chinese medicine with the meridians. Is it interfering with that? You have all kinds of things it goes—the body is an electrical unit anyways, so it’s throwing an electrical interference in there. Less metals, the better, no metals even way better. Now, the challenge is with dental implants. Now that people are replacing their teeth, so we have—

Dr. Pompa:
That was my next question.

Dr. O’Malley:
Oh, it was? Go ahead, tell me your question and I’ll—

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, what’s your feeling on dental implants how we’ve revolutioned from titanium, which I wasn’t a fan—posts that is—to ceramic. Do you do implants and can they be safe?

Dr. O’Malley:
I do the implants. If you look at the Hal Huggins studies, all the implants, talk about a scary world. It’s all scary out there. All the implants will show they harbor some bacteria. You go from a potential root canal that can harbor bacteria to an implant that may harbor bacteria. There’s more studies that have to take place. Even the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology, which is loaded with toxicologists, MDs, dentists, healthcare folks, even they have not made a blanket statement to remove all root canals, always 100%. They’re waiting for more and more science, so a little bit of a gray area. The bottom line is when it comes to implants, the most biomimetic one let’s say, the most one that actually you can lay in that will flex like the jawbone is going to be actually the titanium one because the titanium one has a little bit of flexation to it.

Dr. Pompa:
It does?

Dr. O’Malley:
Yeah; on the ceramic ones, they’re calling them ceramic ones, and a lot of your audience should know that they’re actually zirconium implants. On the chemistry periodic chart, it’s listed under transitional metals. It’s literally still a transitional metal. What the heck that means I haven’t fully cleared up myself, but I think that it means that it’s not a ceramic. It’s not a metal, but it’s kind of a metal. If it is, that means it could transmit some type of a current. The other negative part of the zirconium is it’s rock solid. There’s no forgiveness. That thing is so rigid. I’m just watching those things. In my practice, if someone wants zirconium, no problem. We have the surgeon that can do that. Otherwise, if they’re going to do a metal, they have to make sure—spend the extra money. Get the good implants because there’s about 200 knock-off companies out there that are mixing all these different alloys and you’re not getting a pure titanium. You’re not getting a really decently machined tolerance. They start fudging on the tolerance; it gets cheaper. I hope that answers your question, but on occasion it is—

Dr. Pompa:
Like you said, there’s some gray areas here we don’t know. You could get a bad titanium. If you go with titanium, it’s still a metal. There’s still a potential negative there. The zircon, it’s a potential negative there because it doesn’t have much flex to it. Some people say there’s absolutely no current with it, etc, so there’s some gray areas there. You just have to do the best you can. Put it this way; all of these things are far better than getting the root canal or having obviously the infection.

Dr. O’Malley: 
You’re absolutely right. That’s why I talk about the biomimetic with so much passion. For example, a lady came into my office last year. She had been to two other dental offices. The one said she needed nine root canals; another said she needed five. I tested all of her teeth. We fixed everything. We built everything up. She’s had no root canals. Everything with veneers that we were able to cover without ruining her teeth or grinding down the good part of her tooth structure. It’s actually a miracle. You feel good. I feel good as a dentist when I’m like, okay, I’m not opening up Pandora’s box by having them have root canals. I really watch it carefully with my patients like are they sickly? Are they not? Is something going in their life? Okay, we better do a Clifford Test, the blood test to see what can they tolerate materials wise, etc.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, no doubt about it. When I was getting my life back, I had a root canal. Researching root canals, it’s not what made sick, but I’m like I may not get well with it, so it’s gone; took it out. I just was really unsure. I didn’t like what I was finding out with titanium. I found immunosuppressive studies, this, so I didn’t go with an implant. I just went with a zircon bridge. That was years ago. It’s done really well. I had it touched up. Again, that’s these areas of would I do an implant done differently today safe? I probably would. Back then when I got this done, it was impossible to get done safe. These are the things. The mouth is a very serious thing. It has to be done right.

Dr. O’Malley:
I agree. Something else for your audience is that a lot of times—see, dentists are more and more trained now, everything is implant, implant, implant, so a tooth can become a little bit expendable. They can build it up. They can put the crown on it or they can put a big filling in it that breaks down. It ends up needing a crown five, eight years later. Then it needs a root canal. Then the thing breaks. I know there is people listening right now that this has happened to them. Then they end up—and the doc says, oh well, let’s just pull it and put an implant in there. Wait a minute; I just spent all that time, money, misery fixing the darn thing. They’re quick to do that. Now, there’s another alternative to the implant. If you’ve lost a tooth between teeth, you can actually construct a bridge that’s bonded between the two teeth.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s what I have.

Dr. O’Malley:
That’s what you have, perfect. Then if it’s bonded, then you don’t have to whittle down the tooth, the two teeth next to it. Again, some people have a tooth missing here. Then they’ll whittle down both teeth on either side and put a crown over that to hold the false tooth. Now, they end up with a sensitive tooth that needs a root canal here. Then they go, well, I better get that out. Let’s make another bridge. It’s a way to prevent that from going down, spiraling down, is to look at these bonded type bridges. Most dentists won’t do them because they’re afraid they will break. For any of your audience, if you decide to do them, you have to take a little bit of responsibility. You want something a little bit more holistic and natural, it won’t be as solid as a traditional bridge, but you’ll be protecting your teeth.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, it’s just so many things to consider. I’m assuming you do—obviously, you do safe amalgam removal. You could talk a little bit about that. It’s not today’s topic. We’ve done a lot of shows on this but go ahead. You’re doing some good stuff here. I’m sure that’s—

Dr. O’Malley:
Thank you. The safe mercury removal’s been a blast for me to do. The minute I started following the protocol from the IOMT Organization—which is probably one of the more renowned organization in this arena. I started following them around 2003. Previously, I’d worked with someone that had been through all that. Since about 2001 forward, I’ve been removing mercury safely for myself, my staff, the environment, and for my patients. So many success stories, so many wonderful things. People having buzzing in their head, their ear, electrical weird interferences, and it goes away. By the way, just as a little caveat, it doesn’t happen all the time, but sometimes it does. We’re all happy when it does.

I was talking on another show. I had another patient when I was in northern California. He had burning sensation, fibromyalgia, from his neck down. I asked him, I said, “On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the worst, how bad was it?” He said, “It’s an 11. I sleep about 10 minutes at a time at night.” I said, “Wow.” He’s been all over the world. He’s a wealthy man, so he can go all over the world. German guy; he went to Germany, went to the Mayo Clinic. He did all kinds of stuff; nothing. He had a mouth full of mercury fillings. Through a healthcare practitioner, sent him in. Was already detoxing him. I took out one side. Got it all out safely. Then I saw him a few weeks later to put the little onlays in that are a litter flatter, inlays let’s say. Bonded all those in. He reported, he said, “You know Doc, the burning now, I only have it from the waist down.” I said, “Wow, that’s great.” He said, “You think it could be from the mercury fillings?” I said, “Could be.” “Well, maybe we should continue.” I said, “Yeah, let’s go for it.” Then we got the other side all out. Then when he came back, the last report that I got from him, he only had burning in the tips of his toes. Those are amazing stories.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, no, I have many of them as well. I want to caution people. You get this stuff out and you have to do it right. That’s step one. I put people on a prep phase even before the procedure just to open up their detox pathways, improve their cellular function, and detox there as well.

Dr. O’Malley:
That’s fantastic.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, and then we give them some things right before the procedure and right after because even the best, safest protocol, you’re still getting some things that get by the barriers; that’s for sure.

Dr. O’Malley:
Absolutely.

Dr. Pompa:
Then the other key is then once this is done, then we start getting that inorganic mercury out of the brain because this vapor turns the inorganic mercury and there it’s stuck. Only to get a diagnosis—many people’s symptoms, this gets better, that gets better. Then they get another diagnosis 10, 20 years down the road because the mercury is still trapped there, so you’ve got to get it out, man. That’s what I’m trying to educate. I just spoke at the IAOMT.

Dr. O’Malley:
Oh, you did? Great.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, it was part of my message is okay, we’re doing this better. You guys, you’re doing a great job here, but you’re leaving it here.

Dr. O’Malley:
So much it’s a teamwork thing. I can handle the major source, but it’s so much up to the health
care practitioners then continue this care because if they don’t do that, they’re going to get well slowly over time, but they may not fully recover for sure.

Dr. Pompa:
Dentists don’t have time to research real detox because look at all this information. I don’t have time to research what you just taught me. It’s critical because most of them are doing the typicals: the cilantro, the chlorella, the weak binders. Of course, they get sucked into all the scam type detox products. You have to do it right. You have to use chelators and binders in their half-life correctly. You have to use the real ones. You have to pulse them correctly. You have to support it around them correctly. There’s so much to it. That’s my goal is to get more of you all doing the detox right or at least recommending the detox right. I have doctors trained in these protocols around the country. That’s why we’ve got to team up. We need safe dentists and we need doctors doing detox right.

Dr. O’Malley:
One hundred percent. I love that. Some of the things that I do is not only do I have the oxygen on my patients, they’re covered from head to toe. People go on my website, just drpaulomalley.com. Even on some Instagrams, I show them covered. Then not only that, the rubber dam goes on, but there’s what’s called liquid rubber dam. I can place it around areas that I feel like could have some small seepage. We do all that. Dr. Pompa, I agree with you so much. If we’re working with a healthcare expert in this area, it’s so much better because even the stress of the procedure can make them sick because they’re so loaded with this mercury that it’s like the garage can’s just spilling over. There’s no room for anything. I love that there’s—again though, it would be great. Actually, I’d love to have you come out here. I could put a few of the folks together and make—

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, tell people where you are. You gave your website but give it again.

Dr. O’Malley:
Yeah, I’m in Encino, California. My website is dr, just D-R, paulomalley.com. The free course, I welcome them all to it. It touches on all these things is freeholisticdentalcourse.com.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s fantastic. Yeah, no doubt I want to see what you’re doing. This is exciting work. It’s sad that there’s only—it’s like what I do. There’s just a few hundred of us around the country doing cellular detox the way we do it. Unfortunately, it’s the right way. We just need more people doing it. Like you, there’s not that many people doing this work. I think one of the cool things is you’re treating a tooth like it is. You’re treating it like a living organism and not this mechanistic head of a diode, a wooden diode. There’s a -inaudible-. There’s a life. There’s from the nerve are these microtubules that feed in. Obviously, if you interfere with that, you’re going to have a problem that probably won’t occur for 10, 20, 30 years down the road. Is that what you see?

Dr. O’Malley:
Yes, 100%. When you grind a tooth down and put a crown on it, there’s some studies that’ll show there’s a 33% change it will need a root canal within 10 years. You may not see it now. Each year, it’s like 3.3% chance. It keeps expanding. Whether it’s from its leaking underneath, the exposure. The only hard part about the tooth is the enamel. That’s the part that’s essentially -inaudible-. Let’s say it’s inorganic. It’s a really cool mechanism the way our teeth are. That will be the cool thing with implants in the future if we can regrow our own teeth, which they’re working on. Right now, they’re regrowing them in a petri dish. They can make them. Then they’d have to implant them into a socket area. First, they have to do a root canal to do it. They’re not quite there yet.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s interesting, the future of medicine is stem cells. Already, in my show that I did with Dr. Gerry, we talked about cavitation and how they’re putting—well, PRF, which is essentially activates stem cell production in there, so we don’t reform cavitation. For years, I watched people get cavitations done. There I should say decavitated. They went in and did the procedure. A few years later, they have another infection because it just kept—their immune system’s low. They’re sick people. It heals over and the end up with another infection. With the PRF, the stem cell technology, it’s definitely a big breakthrough in dentistry.

Dr. O’Malley:
That’s great. One of the surgeons I use, he uses PRF all the time. They’re now able to lift—if a gum is receding, they can lift the gum up and place some PRF. It looks like a little gummy bear. They can wiggle it under there and bulk the tissue out and it will turn into that healthy tissue again. It’s so nice. Then they don’t have to graft it from the palette. It’s so much more comfortable for the patients themselves.

Dr. Pompa:
I think there’s two big breakthroughs in dentistry recently. That and then the laser, which you’re an expert in, too. Tell us about how you use laser in dentistry. I think laser in dentistry is a big deal because let me tell you something; it made a big deal for me. I got laser procedures done. It’s no pain, I mean as far as later. I’ve had no inflammation, so there’s a lot of benefits to this.

Dr. O’Malley:
Absolutely, the main one that I’m using in the practice is a diode laser. It’s a heat type laser. It’s for reshaping tissue and sterilizing teeth if we need it. Before I got heavily into biomimetic dentistry, I’d use it all the time to sterilize. When you’d remove decay, I would sterilize with the laser because it will penetrate a good millimeter or so into a tooth. Now, with the biomimetic dentistry, that’s all—we don’t have to do those things. It’s really nice. We don’t even have to blast with ozone or anything like that. The laser in my hands is basically to help clean up infected tissue without them going through a huge surgery. My gosh, nobody wants that.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, it made a big difference. The old days we would have to—your right, a lot of ozone because it was tough. The laser, it really simplifies the procedure. I’ll tell you like I said, the post-op if you will, is a big deal, too. I’ve had it done with and without and it is a big deal.

Dr. O’Malley:
Yeah, the laser itself, it’s beautiful because it has a healing wavelength. I think it’s somewhere in the 400 nms or something. Anyway, it penetrates. You can take someone who has a sensitive tooth and just put the healing wavelength on it for about 30 to 40 seconds and then the sensitivity goes away. We found that to be a short-term handling. That’s a good short-term handling until you can get maybe some bonding to seal that area.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, well, dentistry, we’re talking about this topic today. Then there’s the pitfall of fluoride. Then there’s the pitfalls of bonding. I’m sure you’re against both bonding—well, not bonding; I’m sorry. Sealing, sealants that they’re doing on children, sealants.

Dr. O’Malley:
I was hoping you weren’t going to say bonding because I—

Dr. Pompa:
I meant sealants. They’re sealing kids’ teeth to prevent cavities. I can see obviously the problem with that, but you can talk more about it. Then fluoride, that’s a whole other subject.

Dr. O’Malley:
Yeah, fluoride; wow, that’s like we could almost go into a whole show here.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, a whole show.

Dr. O’Malley:
I could bring my friend, Dr. Kennedy on that show. He’s one of the probably the foremost experts.

Dr. Pompa:
I’ve got a show. I’ve interviewed Dr. Kennedy on fluoride. Folks, if you’re more interested in the whole story of fluoride, Google—not Google, but in the Cellular Healing TV, on the search topic, put fluoride. You’ll find Dr. Kennedy’s show.

Dr. O’Malley:
Yeah, it’s an interesting thing. In 2004, the American Dental Association came out and said there is no systemic benefit to fluoridation in the water. Now, in 2009 I think in the city of Los Angeles, all the waters of the municipalities approved putting “fluoride”, although it’s hydrafluorosilicic that they put in the water, which is a byproduct of the aluminum and the fertilizer companies. When you look at brilliance of things, it’s brilliant these companies had this waste product that would cost them millions and millions to get rid of it safety, and said, hey, let’s put it in the water supply, and get paid for it instead. The big thing is the ADA, the American Dental Association, even came out and said, no known benefit from it systemically. Okay, there’s reasons why and how the studies were flawed. We can go over that another time. I bet Dr. Kennedy goes over that. That other aspect is it’s a poison.

Dr. Pompa:
It is.

Dr. O’Malley:
People watching this, if you have fluoridated toothpaste, it’s 300 times more potent than drinking water. If your small child gets a teaspoon full of it and they eat it, you’ve got to take them to the emergency room because they can technically die. They have to get their stomach pumped unless they’ve changed that now. Why are we doing that? Essentially, the reason that it can help prevent cavities—and it does. There’s studies that show it that it does. It’s a pesticide. It kills bugs. It can linger. It can stick around the teeth and hang there, so there’s long-term effect. The only problem is we’re ingesting the stuff.

Mercury fillings, fluoride, they’re all sadly funny things. Could you image, Dr. Pompa, if I had you come in my practice, said, we’re going to put a tooth-colored filling in. Oh, by the way, it has a little bit of arsenic in it. It comes out a little bit, but don’t you worry; it won’t make you sick. We have some studies that show you’ll be okay. You would probably easily say, no thank you. When you look at the toxicology of arsenic, fluoride is way worse. Then you look at mercury, it’s up in the ionosphere in toxicity. You go, wow, that’s a sad thing that happened in our profession unfortunately. I will say this; the dentists out there, they believe that they’re doing safe things with their whole heart because our teachers and their teachers teachers told them this was safe and we honored these people. Tough one to bring about. When I first came here in 2001 or so, 2002, there was only a handful of us doing holistic and mercury safe metals remover, etc. Now, there’s several hundred in the area, so it is starting to grow.

Dr. Pompa:
It is.

Dr. O’Malley:
Now, it’s up to your audience. If you decide who you select and who you’re going to choose, do your own research. Make sure they’re not just someone that did a little course; they put it up on a website. Make sure it’s really their philosophy.

Dr. Pompa:
Believe me, I warn people. I’ll say, “Go to the iamot.org and you can find a safe biological dentist.” I caution that a lot of them join that organization just because they get patients and they’re not. I say, “Ask these questions.” Many times, it takes a few of those dentists to find the right one so good.

Dr. O’Malley:
It’s so true. I just had a lady in the other day. A year or so ago, went to a biologic dentist, a IOMT I think dentist. She went in and she had her mercury removed. No rubber dam. He did bring the suction up underneath the big outside suction and he had the high-speed suction. No rubber dam, no oxygen, no isolation. You just go, okay, I guess he’s just a member.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, they like doing the things that were pretty easy to add on, but some of the big things forget it. Dentistry, obviously, it brings it full circle; love-hate relationship here. I love dentistry done right and dentists who do it right, but I’ll tell you; I hate dentistry done wrong. Why? I see all these sick people. I have story after story. I’m looking down at these files of just one story after another of just people who lost their life to this. I was one of them. It’s so upsetting. Believe it or not—and you’re right in what you’re saying though. I shouldn’t say I hate the dentist itself; I hate dentistry for deceiving the dentist because they believe that amalgam fillings are safe. They believe that these root canals are okay. They believe what they’re doing. It’s not the person, man; it is dentistry and what they’re teaching. It’s in every profession, honestly.

Dr. O’Malley:
It is. I think it gets ingrained and it’s so big. It’s like how fast can you turn a speedboat ride around? This is like a barge and it’s almost packed side to side. Turning them around to a different philosophy, it’s just taking some time. With people like yourself and others that are out there on the airwaves, the TV waves, etc, it helps raise the awareness. When the public goes out and they demand for this, the dentists have to go and get trained.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, you all need to share this show with as many people as you can. Rate us on Google, etc. That helps too when you rate the show because people need to hear this, man. It’s like you’re right; the ship is turning so slowly. People watch the show, but if you don’t turn your other people onto it, the message doesn’t get out. We have to get the message out.

Dr. O’Malley:
Can I add one thing to the show? What I wanted to say is that to bring a little hope to your audience, those people listening, if you’ve had crowns, you’ve had root canals, now you’re aware. Those crowns if they start giving you troubles, the can be safely removed. The teeth can be built up and sealed properly underneath. You have to find a biomimetic dentist that really does that and believes in it. They’re out there. I have people travel and things like that. Another thing is on a prevention side, there’s really good news. If a person gets decay, and the decay is removed ultra-conservatively, and then the bonding that’s laid in is laid in with precision layers. It takes some time for the dentist. That’s a biomimetic restoration, layer by layer. That thing will not leak under it, will not break down. It’s one and done. I’d like to say it will last 100 years, but we don’t have 100 years of studies out there. We know it’s going to last. I have eight in my own mouth from the year 2000 and they still look brand new. I had the mercury removed and they were safely built up in layers. No sensitivity, no issue, and they were deep. I experienced it myself, I see it with my patients, I see it with the profession. That’s a bit of good news for people.

If you have your children, your family out there, they can watch this show. The main things is there are three things besides an accident and only three things that cause people to lose their teeth. My goal is to help people save their healthy teeth for a lifetime of great health. How do we do that? We have to analyzes those three things: one is cavities, one is gum disease. Those are both caused from an out of balance that happens with the bacteria in the mouth, nutrition. All these things that you’re well aware of. The third one that is a harder one to control and you just have to have a good dentist look at it is a bad bite. That’s clenching, rubbing, grinding of the teeth, etc. That can destroy the teeth as well and cause gum recession. It can cause the teeth to break along the gum line and then you have no enamel there. There’s a lot of—people listening right now, you can put your fingernail in these little grooves along your gum line, and go oh, I feel these grooves. That’s generally from clenching. Three things: gum disease, cavities, and a bad bite. If you have those three things looked at, and you get them all under control, you can save your teeth for life. Again, you can visit my website and go on freeholisiticdentalcourse.com for information.

Dr. Pompa, lastly, I’ve never discussed this with you before, but I also have several patents on products to help rebalance the bacteria in the mouth. One is my patented formula, all natural. It’s an advanced oral probiotic for the mouth. It’s real simple. You chew two at night when you go to bed. It doesn’t replace good cleaning, and brushing, and flossing; but it can put the healthy bacteria back. We were able to find out 2% of the population never gets decay and they don’t get gum disease. We were able to isolate what kind of bacteria do they have. They have a predominately high number of a certain type of bacteria that’s in my formulation. By seeding that back in, it gives them a chance to bring about a balance. Trying to kill everything doesn’t work.

Dr. Pompa:
No, -inaudible-.

Dr. O’Malley:
You can get rid of the bad stuff; well, the bad stuff is involved in—it actually helps detox the heavy metals, it get’s rid of the junk in there, so the harmful bacteria play a role, but when they get out of balance, they cause damage and destruction.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, well, let me ask you a question because the bite being the third thing and so important. Number one, what are symptoms of your bite being off? Number two, do you do something special to make sure the bite is right?

Dr. O’Malley:
There’s a couple of things. One of the symptoms to know if your bite is off is you could have been to a dentist, and you’re getting recession with your teeth, and the dentist says you’re brushing too hard. That’s typically not true unless you are brushing with a hard toothbrush. You always want to use a soft toothbrush.

Dr. Pompa:
You’re saying gum recession?

Dr. O’Malley:
Gum recession. Now, a little bit of that can be genetic, but if it’s there, you want to make sure that there’s not a clenching problem or a rubbing problem at night time. It’s easy for a dentist that has some understanding of the whole joint anatomy and things like that they’ll check. You can go in and say I want you to check my bite. I think I’m grinding. If that’s the case, they’ll make you what’s called a night guard, something you can wear at night time. Just make sure they can make you one made out of nylon because most people don’t react to that and then they’re not chewing up plastic. They can make them out of nylon now, so that’s good news. Then they can chew all they want on that thing and you’re not going to hurt your teeth. It acts as a shock absorber. By the way, some people have asked me, well, why I don’t just buy that online or something like that? It has to be really precision fit because the dentist should adjust your bite to make sure it’s guiding in a happy way so that it’s not causing further joint trauma.

Dr. Pompa:
Is that one of the signs too is people can get clicking, pain in here, or is it opposite?

Dr. O’Malley:
It’s all these. They call it TMJ pain; T stands for the temporal, around the temporal. You have the M is the mandible. Then you have the joint, so you have TMJ. I know you know this; this is just for the audience out there.

Dr. Pompa:
Of course, yeah.

Dr. O’Malley:
This is one of those things that if there’s clicking, popping, pain, ear pain, sometimes ringing in the ear can be a contributing factor. All those things are signs and symptoms, neck pain. Going to the chiropractor, you get adjustment after adjustment; it won’t hold. A lot of times the bite is off. These are some of the things to look at. The visible things are a person can look, and honestly, we want to catch it well before that, but they can start seeing they’re chipping the edges of their teeth, or they can see a little wear on their front teeth. That one you want to handle right away because you might be chewing all the way through that protective enamel. Once that happens, the wear continues fast.

Dr. Pompa:
Alright, man, we hit a lot of topics here. Dr. Paul, man, you’re a wealth of knowledge. I appreciate it. My viewers and listeners, this is a big deal. This is a big topic. When I heard and saw what you were doing, I said, “We’ve got to have this guy on the show.” Thank you for being on the show. Thank you for the wealth of information. I hope people visit your site; I know they will.

Dr. O’Malley:
Thank you so much. I really enjoyed it.

Dr. Pompa:
Absolutely; thanks, man.