2019 Podcasts

299: How to Protect Yourself From 5G and EMFs

Episode 299: How to Protect Yourself From 5G and EMFs

with Brian Hoyer

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In today's world, I know this concerning issue affects all of us. EMFs sabotage our health and healing everyday, and many of us are unaware of just how much. We live in a technological world, so what can we do to protect ourselves? Brian Hoyer is my guest today, and he is an EMF shielding expert who creates healing environments in your homes. We will be covering this common problem, and Brian will offer practical solutions to protect you and your family from the invisible 5G and EMFs that are overwhelming our homes, offices, and neighborhoods.

More about Brian Hoyer:

Brian’s dive into health started when he became a father wanting to provide the most optimal growing environment for his family. His desire for them to thrive and devotion to discover the truth drove him to find the most insightful and effective cutting-edge methods for addressing what’s really going on in our bodies and environments.

This led Brian to become a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, train with The Klinghardt Academy, and become a certified Geobiologist trained by a pioneering naturopathic and environmental medicine clinic in Austria that’s been addressing EMF and geopathic stress since 1983.

Brian and his wife, Lindsey, built an EMF shielded tiny house in the summer of 2017. Brian travels all over the country doing EMF assessments, speaking at conferences and on podcasts, and helping families install shielding solutions.

Transcript:

Dr. Pompa:
How many shows have I done on EMFs and the dangers of EMFs? This episode is not really about that, although we review the dangers of light and EMF. This was about solutions that I never heard of, even testing, how we test ourselves and the effects of electromagnetic frequencies on our bodies. This gentleman is—he has a solution like no other. Wait until you hear this episode.

As a matter of fact, he is going around the country. As a team, they will come into your home, test it, test you, and also bring solutions to the problem. Let me tell you something. I have to say this as a motivating factor. You want to change your life, and your world, and your health, and your healing. You de-EMF your bedroom. It’s trickier than you think.

On this episode, you're going to hear how to do that. You're going to hear some things that even though I'm here, I've learned on this episode myself. This is a great one. No doubt, this is an episode that you're going to want to take a lot of notes because this is a life changer. I'll see on the episode.

Ashley Smith:
Hello everyone, welcome to Cellular Healing TV. I'm Ashley Smith. Today we welcome Brian Hoyer, who is a nutritional therapy practitioner, geobiologist, and EMF shielding expert. He founded Shielded Healing with the goal of helping modern humanity recreate electromagnetic environments that more closely mimic the historic human habitats of our ancestors.

He now has a trained team of professionals that tour all over the country helping people build customized protocols to create these healing spaces in their homes. He is offering it to our Cell TV audience as well. Please check out the show notes and find out more information about that. This is an exciting episode, so let's get started. Welcome Brian Hoyer and Dr. Pompa to the show. This is Cellular Healing TV.

Dr. Pompa:
I'm here with Brian Hoyer. Gosh, Brian, this is a topic that, I'll tell you, this is overdue. It's not your fault, maybe it's ours. Where have you been? Honestly, this EMF thing is big deal. It's becoming a bigger deal. As people's buckets are filling up with stressors today, neurotoxic, and emotional, and all kinds of things, EMF is this new thing that's overflowing people's buckets.

People are realizing it's what's making them sick, keeping them from sleeping, feeling well, losing weight. I can go down a list of symptoms. I think what makes you so unique is what's been missing, and that's why I'm saying where have you been is because I’ve interviewed a lot of people on this topic. Everyone really comes down to, “I just need someone to come in and fix my home and figure my situation out.” That's what you do, which we're going to talk about. Welcome to Cell TV.

Brian Hoyer:
Oh, great to be here.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, no, this is a great topic. We get so many people who are listening or viewing for the first time, so look let's um let's jump right into it as far as giving them a review on what this EMF problem? Why all of a sudden is this an issue? Then we'll talk about where some of these huge exposures are that are really making people sick.

Brian Hoyer:
I think when you get into the health world, you really start to understand that a lot of our illnesses are modern illnesses, things that we've only had, really chronically, the last 100 years, maybe a little over 100 years. It's exponentially increased in the last 50 or so years in the same line that modern medicine has taken off. You’ve got big pharma and this whole different paradigm that's in contrast to a more natural, holistic perspective.

It's no different with these electromagnetic frequencies. From an ancestral perspective, we haven't had these type of exposures. Before 150 years ago there was nothing. Our ancestors, their bodies and our bodies are essentially the same. They were not exposed to any of this pulsating electricity that Nikola Tesla invented. That's what we have now in all of our homes is this alternating current. They call it AC pulsating electricity. Our body doesn't know what to do with these pulsations, but it does react to them.

You just think about with just general electricity that's surrounding us all day long, while we're in our homes, all night long, while we're in our beds. That's pulsating at 60 times per second, 120 pulsations back and forth per second. That's contracting our muscles. That's making it so we can't get true rest. It's causing calcium to flood into the cells. It's causing all of these metabolic and physiological responses that our body is perceiving as a stress response.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, Martin Paul talks about the calcium influx. Before, he was talking about EMF as a causative factor. I know Martin's work. He talked about how chemical sensitivity, sensitivities in general, are driven by this calcium influx. I think some of his later work was showing that EMFs drive this problem. It's creating a lot of these sensitivities that we're seeing in people.

Where are some of the big exposures coming from in the house? You have a different perspective on this because you're actually going into these homes, measuring this stuff with some of the highest tech stuff to measure. I have my device. I find it, but where do you find it?

Brian Hoyer:
What I found is actually in—has been a little bit different. I'm a nutritional therapy practitioner. I started off in this as a practitioner and wanting to help my own clients get better. I was approaching it more from health of the human body rather than just measuring things from a more electrical engineer standpoint, which is what a lot of the people in this profession—they're more come from the electrical side of it, but I'm coming from the health side of it and wanting to see results with things like leaky gut. Is your digestion getting better? How's your sleep? All those questions like how is your general zest for life, and how do you feel every day?

What I'm looking at is—I was trying to find different ways that—most of the people out there out there measuring the air. I wanted to measure the impact on the body. Every single type of EMF that we have, I've found a way that we can actually measure the body for wireless frequencies, for dirty electricity, for electric fields. That's something that they've always been measuring the body with a body voltage meter.

Just to give an example here, I'm in my shielded house. We have the whole house shielded here, so I don't have very much radio frequencies. There still is a little bit. When I measure that with this antenna, you can hear—when I touch this, you can hear [07:38]. Now, I don't have my window shielded over here. This is measuring the body as an antenna. It's kind of creepy. It doesn't sound very nice.

We basically take all this equipment and we're measuring, okay, what's coming in from outside the home. It's usually cell phone towers, radio towers, television towers, all these pulsating wireless signals. Then also what's in the home? We find there's six different stressors that we're testing for. There's wireless frequencies that are coming from all the towers, plus the wireless devices in the house. Then there's the electricity that's in the walls. Most of us have unshielded Romex that's in the wall. That's all the wiring. That's actually emanating from the wall and coming on to your body in a measurable way.

Dr. Pompa:
By the way, is that what you were measuring there? Explain that a little bit more. I want you to continue your thought there, but I want to go back. I didn't fully understand what that meant.

Brian Hoyer:
When you measure the body as an antenna, you just think about like when you were younger, and they had the actual television stations with the little bunny ears. It was all staticky. You have like your little brother get up and—

Dr. Pompa:
Who would hold them, yeah.

Brian Hoyer:
Yeah you hold on to the antenna, you say, “Okay, now—

Dr. Pompa:
We’d wrap them in aluminum foil, even, and make them longer, and bigger, and then hold them.

Brian Hoyer:
Exactly, yeah, so you picture that and that's—the reason that the reception gets better is because your body is a little bit conductive. All those frequencies are—you're able to increase the surface area of the antenna. What we've done with these meters is we've made it so that you can increase the surface area of the antenna. You're getting a true reading of what the body is being exposed to from all different angles.

Dr. Pompa:
Let's say if you were in the average home, what would it have given you? Is there a reading on there, or is it just the noise, or—

Brian Hoyer:
Yeah, some of them some meters we have it's the noise. Others, there's an actual reading that comes out like this one. I can put it right up to the—there's an actual reading that comes out. We want to see it around 30 or less. This is in my shielded house, so it's pretty low. We're also getting that sound that’s coming off of it.

Dr. Pompa:
You're measuring the body. You're getting the home, the sleep space, whatever it is, down below 30, or somewhere around that number. Then that's a safe place, correct?

Brian Hoyer:
Yeah, and obviously the lower the better. Sometimes in places where it's extremely high, in the inner city, and some of these high-rise condos that we've tested in New York, or LA, or wherever.

Dr. Pompa:
What do people measure in those places?

Brian Hoyer:
Oh man, sometimes it's maxed out the meter. It's gone over 10,000.

Dr. Pompa:
Are they sleeping? Do they have normal health? Can you have normal health at that level?

Brian Hoyer:
I think what happens—there's a lot of people that can't sleep. Some people have various symptoms: night sweats, ringing in the ears, just general restlessness. For a lot of people, it's the same as any stressor. The body goes into this high cortisol mode. You have this numbing down of a lot of the symptoms that that some other people might normally be like, “Oh my gosh, I can't sleep in this area. It's way too stressful. There's something going on here that's stressing my body out.”

Dr. Pompa:
I give an analogy of your bucket, your stress bucket. Once it gets super full, a little bit of EMF, you could have someone at 70 or 80 or 100 and they're spilling over because they just can't take that. If someone doesn't have as many other exposures throughout their life, and bioaccumulate those exposures in their stress bucket, they can handle more. Not that it’s good for them because eventually it can throw them over the edge there. Can you purchase one of those? Can we buy one of those units?

Brian Hoyer:
These two units that I have are—this one's $3,000. It's from Austria. Then this one is actually more affordable. It's around $500. It comes from Germany. There's only one website that sells it called prigin [12:04 ph]. He has a really hard time transferring money and working out—he's a very small business. I've had even a hard time getting them myself for my team. Those are those are the wireless measurements for the body that I think is very important to measure it that way rather than just measuring the air.

You think about a meter that's just measuring the air. It's just that little antenna which has maybe a thousand times less surface area than your body. You don't really get a true picture of what's going on. My goal is to get people down to what I consider to be a more ancestral environment so they're free of that stress. We can rule that out as a factor in what's preventing them from getting healthy.

Dr. Pompa:
Here's a question because there's a theory that Klinghardt and maybe some others have said. People with high heavy metals, even metal in their body, so to speak, are they more conductive? You're able to actually measure it now. Do you find that you could have Joe right next to you be higher than you because he's more conductive for multiple reasons, whether it's high heavy metals or just metal in his body?

Brian Hoyer:
Yeah, we have measured a few people that have been measuring higher even though they're a smaller person, which is really interesting. Usually it's the larger the person, the bigger antenna they are, and also the more hydrated you are because you are measuring the skin. There's been a few people where we've tested and they said that they know they're high in metals, various types of metals, and they have been higher.

These things do vary from one location to the next, so it's really hard to factor in all those variables. You have to stay in the exact same position and that sort of thing. It would be kind of hard to test that. In theory, anything that's more conductive, if you have more conductive tissues, it's going to actually penetrate deeper into the body and not just be on the surface area. It's going to actually get into the tissue more easily.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, when I do a measurement here they say over 0.5 starts at cellular damage, DNA damage. Again, ultimately it's how much of that are you conducting, which matters more. Go back. Let’s talk about—you enter into someone's home. Walk us through what that looks like. You end up leaving there with a prescription. Here's what you need to do to get your levels to where your life will change. Talk about that.

Brian Hoyer:
Yeah, so we're measuring six different types of EMF. There's never one solution that fixes all of your EMF problems. It's all based on real physics. There's ways to block wireless frequencies that are different from how you block electric fields that's also different from how you block or take care of magnetic fields or dirty electricity. I'm just listing all these things. Then there's also geopathic stress that's a type of radiation that comes up from the earth. The last thing that we measure for is artificial light. We have flickering light that we measure with a flicker meter, and then we're also looking at the spectrum of light in the house and seeing if it compares to what's outside.

Dr. Pompa:
That's a big deal too. I was going to ask you about that actually. I keep all my lights off in here, but I also have it just incandescent lighting in my house. There's some there way up high. I don't even turn those on. We use lamps with incandescent bulbs.

Brian Hoyer:
What we found is that even incandescent bulbs, especially if they're a lower wattage, they are still flickering quite a bit. We found that a combination of higher wattage incandescent bulbs, and some special LEDs that have a more full spectrum that have this driver in them where that where it doesn't flicker, that works really well.

Dr. Pompa:
Do you have those brands? What are some of those brands? Can we buy them? Do you have to buy them online?

Brian Hoyer:
Yeah, I'm actually getting ready to come out with a little book that has a review of all the different brands that we're recommending now. We'll have that available in probably a couple weeks. It takes a long time. I have a few of the good bulbs, what I consider to be good bulbs, and I plugged them into this fixture over here in my kitchen. I wired that, and I still am trying to figure out why when I plug the bulbs into there, that fixture, after about five minutes they start to flicker with my meter.

You can't see it. You can't see the flicker. This meter picks up. It's very sensitive. I can show you a little bit here how this works. This is from an incandescent bulb. This is that LED. Here’s an incandescent bulb. LEDs are typically worse than incandescent. These are special types of LEDs.

Dr. Pompa:
I was just going to say that. I thought LED were worse. It's a special kind of LED. Did you did you buy them online? What's the name of the company?

Brian Hoyer:
The one company for these lights is called Waveform Flicker Free. Then there's another one that has orange and red that we recommend for nighttime that are Sunlite S-U-N-L-I-T-E. They have to be the non-dimmable kind. Those are those are the main ones that we're recommending right now. I've got a few more that are in the wings that I'm in the final stages of testing. You have to test it for—

Dr. Pompa:
What was the name of the nighttime one, the orange and red one?

Brian Hoyer:
Sunlite, and they have to be non-dimmable. That would be like the orange and the red colored ones.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, exactly, that makes sense, which would be good for your bedroom to people that are listening to their point. Maybe we lost some people in the fact that why would my lights flickering, and if I can't see them, why is that a problem? Explain why that that's a problem.

Brian Hoyer:
Yeah, well, there there's this old functional test that a lot of doctors used to use for called the pupillary response test. What you do is you take a little flashlight, and you take it around the person's head, and then you point it right in their eye. You look at their pupil. If their pupil is pulsating, then you know that that person is an adrenal stress. Why is that pulsating happening when they have this this light in their eye? It's because their eye is constantly trying to adjust. It can't do it. It doesn't have the resiliency, the robustness to be able to hold that constriction to make it so the light’s not as blatant into the into the eye.

What's happening with all of these—I have this theory that I think that the reason that a lot of people do have that happening, and a big stressor on our adrenals, is that we’re around this flickering light all the time, especially people that are in offices. Your brain cannot perceive the flickering, but your eye is constantly trying to adjust to it all day long. Never before in the history of mankind have we ever had flickering light besides when we're in a stress response. The only time, ancestrally, you'd have a flickering light is if you're running through a jungle from a predator and there's sunlight going through the leaves.

Then you have a little bit of flickering going back and forth from the sunlight. Other than that, the sun is direct current. It's constantly beaming down on you. There is no flicker to the sun whatsoever. It's an incandescent light source that's based on heat. Fire doesn't have any flickering like we have with this modulated flickering that we have with the 60 Hertz. The reason that it's flickering is because it's running on that 60 Hertz electricity. It's turning off and on 60 times per second.

That's the reason that incandescent bulbs are typically better is because that filament heats up and it doesn't cool down fast enough to turn completely off. There's a little bit of a glow and not as much of a flicker. Then if we can run things off of batteries or these special LED lights, that technology makes it so there's no flicker. All the gaps are filled with a constant current constant voltage.

Dr. Pompa:
Then there's an issue with not being full spectrum, as well, with a lot of the new lights, halogens, LEDs. Incandescents are more full spectrum.

Brian Hoyer:
That's right. That's exactly right. That's the other thing that we're looking at. That's why we found a combination of the incandescent bulbs with some of these constant current LEDs is the best combination for human health in people's homes. We've been using a lot of the sauna space bulbs. We’ll recommend those in rooms. They have this photon light, this little portable 250-watt light.

They use it for near-infrared therapy and photobiomodulation. You put that in a room that has a bunch of LEDs, and it typically drowns out a lot of the flicker from all the LEDs or fluorescent bulbs that you have. Then it also provides a lot of the missing frequencies that you normally don't have in those [21:42] bulbs.

Dr. Pompa:
I have that light. They're about 300 bucks. You can buy one of those bulbs, and they're super bright. The bulbs I'm sure you can buy cheaper. I have the whole thing.

Brian Hoyer:
They've got these new bulbs that are about twice as bright as any that you can get at the stores now, the Thermalite bulbs. They have more radiance, more therapy—therapeutic benefits as well. I use those with my kids, especially in the wintertime before they go to bed, to shine it on the back of their neck and their head to get the circulation flowing for the glymphatic system at night. Your brain can detox better, and it helps to relax them, and that sort of thing.

Lighting is a huge issue. We're getting to the point where we have really good recommendations for that. The rest of the stuff, the rest of the types of EMF, are things like the electricity in the walls. If we just focus on the bedroom with most of the rest of the stressors that we find, then we find that people actually recover better. They're able to tolerate more of the EMF stress that we're exposed to during the daytime.

Dr. Pompa:
You come in you evaluate the light. You evaluate all of the EMF sources, obviously, the walls, their Wi-Fi. That's an issue. Fortunately, my Wi-Fi is low here, but we turn it off every night. I'm plugged in here. These are just simple adjustments. You have other big things that you do, too, as part of your solution. A lot of people's exposures, as you said, are coming from outside in. You have this shielding on windows and different paints. Talk about that. We've really never heard about those types of solutions before.

Brian Hoyer:
What I do is—when I first started out, I was working for this other company from Austria. They had this paint that they claimed was the best. What it is it's a shielding paint. It blocks the—you’re creating a Faraday Cage in your bedroom, essentially. What that does is it blocks out most of the wireless frequencies from outside. Then it's also grounded. The grounding of this conductive paint also blocks the electric fields. It traps them in the wall so they can't come in and come onto your body while you're sleeping. The paint's really a two-for-one, arguably, three-for-one issue because you're also blocking the—when you block electricity you're also blocking the dirty electricity that's in the walls as well.

Dr. Pompa:
Right, so paint your bedroom. Do they have normal colors?

Brian Hoyer:
It's all black, just like your background there. Then you can paint over it. You can make the room look—

Dr. Pompa:
You can use regular paint.

Brian Hoyer:
This house, right behind me here, my kitchen’s back here. This has all been painted. I painted the ceiling, the walls. Sometimes we'll even paint the floors, or we have this fleece that we can put down as underlayment underneath flooring. The goal is to just get down to where, okay, before electricity, what would our readings have been? That's our goal.

Dr. Pompa:
After you painted that whole room, were you able to measurably see the difference?

Brian Hoyer:
Oh, yeah, it's incredible the huge difference that you see. Then you also need stuff over the windows. I don't have anything over this window over here, yet, but I've got the curtain rod in the closet over there. We're getting ready to do that. There's the paint for the walls. There's special curtains with this special type of shielding fabric that's got silver infused with cotton. We'll put that over the windows. That blocks it from coming out. There's some people who don't want to paint. We provide our fabric for them to make an actual canopy over their bed. Then that canopy can be grounded as well, so you can still block the electricity from coming in. Then you're also blocking all the wireless from around.

Dr. Pompa:
I don't know if it's a cheaper solution. How much is the paint? Is it double regular paint?

Brian Hoyer:
The paint I first started out with was around $700 for 1.3 gallons. Now it's down to about $300 for the same amount. You can get your bedroom, a typical 12 by 12 foot by 8-foot-tall ceiling bedroom, you can get that shielded for about $600 to $800 plus the plus the fabric for the windows, or doors, or whatever you have.

Dr. Pompa:
Put a Faraday Cage—basically, net your bed so to speak. I'm sure you can make it look fancy for the ladies listening. How much is that?

Brian Hoyer:
The fabric we sell is about a $133 per yard. Then it comes in an eight-foot two wide roll. It's actually a pretty wide roll, almost all the way to the ceiling, then you sell it by the yard like that. For a typical queen bed, you need about 13 yards; king, you need about fourteen.

Dr. Pompa:
That's awesome. Then you come in, you measure all these things because not everyone needs these things. It's better to start with an evaluation. Then you just may figure out what somebody needs. Now, what are you charged to come in? You have five people that you go around the nation, and you're going to provide your service, we’ll add the link here. Just give us an idea of what something like that would run.

Brian Hoyer:
We have a base price, and then we charge per bedroom. When we do the bedrooms, we are really focusing in on that and building a custom protocol for the bedroom. It takes a long time to evaluate each bedroom in a house. The base price is around $1,000 for a house that includes two bedrooms. Studio, we go down a hundred dollars less than. The typical house is up to 2,500 square feet, $1000, then you add $100 per bedroom beyond that. Then we also have had to add $100 per extra thousand square feet. I've done a few really large houses that I was only charging bedrooms for, and it took me like six hours to go through this 5,000 square foot house. I was like, maybe I should start charging for extra square footage too.

Dr. Pompa:
I have to say, though, that's pretty—I think that's really reasonable. You’re obviously flying in, and doing this, and spending time in the home. I know what these things take. For me, I think it's well worth it because this is a knowledge that's taken you years to acquire. The average person's not going to be able to do that. Ultimately, what are you paying for? You're paying for your health, and to protect you and your family. You're getting your health back. I can tell you that it's very difficult to get people's health back when they have this massive EMF source as part of the hidden problem. It’s a big issue.

Brian Hoyer:
I've had people who the night after they've shielded their room and put in the solutions that we recommend—one woman just a few weeks ago, she was a colleague of mine. She couldn't sleep the first few nights. “The first two nights,” she said, “I just couldn't sleep. Then I started to think about some of my symptoms. They were all hyperthyroid symptoms.” She was like, “Why is this going on? I have hypothyroidism, and now I have hyperthyroidism. What the heck is going on? Then she thinks about it. “Well, I'm still on my thyroid glandular.” She cut that out, and everything went down to normal. She got the best sleep of her life.

Within one night, her body was already like, “Okay, I don't need this thyroid medication anymore. I don't need to be ramping up my metabolism to deal with these stressors anymore. The stressors are gone, and we can actually fix these issues.” It's just this innate intelligence of the body. It's when you shield a room. You're awakening all these dormant healing responses in the body.

It's allowing the person's body to do what it's meant to do at night, which is heal, and detox, and drain all the different organs through the lymphatic system. It's incredible what happens. That's the ideal healing time is at night when we're sleeping. We work so hard putting things into our body to help us during the day, but really at night is when all the repair is happening.

Dr. Pompa:
If you just get your bedroom right, my gosh, your life will change. Between the light and the electromagnetic fields, my gosh, really, it's unbelievable the amount of stress that we're under. Then you add that someone has silver fillings in their mouth, infections in their jaw, maybe a mold situation. Forget it. Then they're just taking a bunch of medications and supplements trying to chase it. Impossible, unless you get to the cause. That's my message, always.

Brian Hoyer:
When I first started doing this, it was one of those things where I—I took some continuing education with Dr. Klinghardt. He was the guy that really inspired me to get into this field. Now I'm actually working with him and his patients to do it right. There's a lot of people out there that do these types of assessments, but their recommendations aren't from a health perspective or a health practitioner perspective. It's not treating it like, okay, let's rule out all of these, so we can move on to the next step, the next level of healing for you.

That's what we do automatically with people. We're not just trying to get rid of the ringing in the ears or get you off your thyroid medication. It's about actually seeing those steps of progress in the in the person's health. We always follow up with people. We do a free retest after the solutions are in place when we're back in the area. We want to make sure that everything's working the way that should, so you can see the results.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s awesome. That's great, and that speaks for itself. This is a big question, here. I know I'm interested in it, and probably so many people watching. The 5G, what is it? When are we going to be affected by it? How do we mitigate it? It's interesting because a lot of people, when we talk about 5G, they’re mainly talking about the millimeter waves that are the new spectrum of frequencies, the higher frequencies, 30 gigahertz and above that are beaming. The beams are closer together. The frequencies are a lot closer together. It really resonates more on a cellular level.

My feeling on the whole 5G issue is that we already had a horrible situation with 4G, and 3G, and all the frequencies that we were exposed to then. Those frequencies were all the way up to 24 gigahertz. We're upping it by about six more gigahertz, plus there's other frequencies that are on the horizon that are even higher. I'd like to help people to back away from that, and say it's not necessarily about the frequency, it's about the amount of exposure.

With 5G it's not the higher frequencies that are concerning me as much as the saturation in the lower frequencies. 5G is going to continue to deploy more 4G antennas and a little bit higher frequency like 3.5 gigahertz, 5, 6 gigahertz. Those are the things that are going to be going on every block in the city, and on your posts in your neighborhood. Those are going to be blasting a lot closer to your house. Luckily, we have the technology to block those frequencies.

The millimeter wave frequencies we actually—I've tested all of our shielding products up to that in a lab up to 40 gigahertz. They actually do really well against those frequencies. I bought a 5G meter last year, and took it on a couple tours with me, and measured in Los Angeles in Austin, Texas. It was really hard to find anything. There was hardly any of the millimeter wave frequencies. There was a lot more 4G antennas, a lot more of the saturation in the things that we can readily detect right now.

Dr. Pompa:
They've launched the satellites for this 5G, but they send a signal down. It's these local antennas that they're putting up everywhere that will conduct that, correct?

Brian Hoyer:
Yeah, that's what delivers it into your house. The reason they're using the lower frequencies is because they penetrate easier into the house than the higher frequency millimeter waves. That's why they have to have them up in the sky where there's not as many obstructions. They're going to use them in stadiums, and downtown areas, and places where they can actually send drones with the millimeter waves blasting to people on those. Even your walls have a huge effect on attenuating those millimeter waves. The stuff that we're already exposed to, and that we're going to be more saturated with 5G, the low 6 gigahertz, that is going to still be able to penetrate through walls unless you’ve shielded them.

Dr. Pompa:
What you’re saying is they take the higher frequency, and then they target an antenna, convert it to a lower frequency that penetrates your house better. Is that the case?

Brian Hoyer:
Yeah, that's essentially what's happening. That's what they did with 4G too. They did that with the 23 gigahertz tower to tower transmissions pointed like a laser beam at each other. Then from there the information travels through like 900 to 1900 megahertz, which is what your phone operates at.

Dr. Pompa:
Basically, like you said, because of 5G we're going to have more of the lower frequency than we're already exposed to. We’re just going to have more of it.

Brian Hoyer:
More of it, and then companies like T-Mobile has an even lower frequency, 600 megahertz, which travels even further. A lot of your listeners might have heard the T-Mobile commercial. They're like, “Oh yeah, it's on the 600 megahertz. We’re all the way the middle of nowhere and we still have a signal. A lot of the rural areas are actually going to be getting more impacted by 5G as well because of networks like T-Mobile that are sending 600 megahertz, which travels a lot further than our current networks do.

It's a mixed bag of things that are going on. It's not just one frequency that's the bad thing. It's that we really just have to—I'm at the point now where I've traveled all around the country, done 500 assessments in two years. I've seen things transitioning from 4G to 5G. 4G is bad. 5G is just making everything more saturated. I haven't tested one house that doesn't need shielding.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, of course. We all need it, I know. I tested a pair of LAMBS underwear, where you can actually wear clothing. I tested it just with the technology I had. It was about 50% protection. It didn't shield it all out. Fifty percent, that's a lot, right, even if my testing is accurate.

Brian Hoyer:
Any amount of reduction that you can get in any type of the EMF is worth it in my opinion.

Dr. Pompa:
We need to make more clothes. The lines that are coming out with, hey, we have EMF. Listen, we would have never thought that we would see GMO-free on things 10 years ago. Who knows? Maybe your average clothing line will have your frequency protectors.

Brian Hoyer:
It could be. I've actually just come on the bandwagon with the shielded clothing now. For a while, it seemed to me that it was acting as an antenna on to the body and making you more conductive. I ordered some for myself, and I've been testing it for a few weeks now. I feel like, you know what, the conductance of the body is really only so much that when I measure my body as an antenna it really is only measuring this part of my body. If I took the [38:32] covered with the shield, then it makes sense that that's going to be a lot lower reading on your body. It's not going into your organs and things like that too.

Dr. Pompa:
Exactly, yeah, that's the point. When I fly now, I put on my LAMBS underwear to protect the boys. They’re very sensitive. I'm telling you, you're offering a great service. I think most people watching this, they need your service. Everybody, arguably, needs your service. I don't know where you live, but I live in probably a better place than most. When you're in Utah, I want you out here, man. I want you to measure my home.

Brian Hoyer:
Yeah, I definitely will. One of the things that anybody can do right away—we haven't talked about the daytime strategies which is something that that I like to talk about a little bit. With your normal habits and usage of your phone, and your Wi-Fi router, and those sorts of things, but then also the electricity in your home, there's this phenomena called dirty electricity that gets thrown around a lot.

Essentially what it is is thousands of these higher frequency wireless transmissions that are riding on the electrical lines of your house. That can be caused by solar panels, fluorescent bulbs. I have this little flashlight charger that we found on an assessment. Just plugging that into the wall produces as much dirty electricity as a whole solar panel system.

Dr. Pompa:
My TVs produce a lot. The outlets that I've tested in my house just go crazy near the TVs.

Brian Hoyer:
We have this whole house filtration system that we recommend called the Superpower Perfect Box. That's installed right at the breaker panel. It filters out the dirty electricity coming into the house. It'll reduce your dirty electricity by anywhere from 50% to all the way. It depends on the situation.

Dr. Pompa:
Do you sell those, Brian?

Brian Hoyer:
Yeah, we have them on the website.

Dr. Pompa:
How much are they?

Brian Hoyer:
Those are about $1,500 retail. Then whenever we do an assessment for somebody we give a 10% discount on all of the products that we recommend.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s awesome. That's something people can do right away, to your point. That's a big deal. I put these green waves in, but it's a pain. They're all over the house. I’ve already spent $300 on them, more.

Brian Hoyer:
Some people need as many as 20 or 40 or more of those little plugin filters. This box, since it's installed at the breaker panel, it's filtering everything before it gets to the other circuits in your house. With the plugins, it's dirty all the way to the plug. Then you filter it, and then it then it helps in spot areas. This is filtering everything right at the box. Then wherever you have dirty electricity in the house, we recommend to do the plugins in those areas and everything.

Dr. Pompa:
That's great. That's a great tip. Any other tips that you'll give our viewers that they should do right away?

Brian Hoyer:
With the cell phone, never keep that thing on your body.

Dr. Pompa:
I never do.

Brian Hoyer:
One thing that's really good is to put the cellular data off. That makes it so your apps aren't constantly updating all the time and pinging the tower. A lot of people will still want to be able to receive text messages and phone calls. You can still do that if your cellular data is off, but it's not going to ping the tower near as much. The number one thing is keep that thing on airplane mode unless you absolutely need to use it, or you need to be available.

Airplane mode’s better than any shielded pouch or anything that you can get. Any protection type of thing that you can put on your phone, whatever, just turn that thing on airplane mode as much as possible. Then, when you're turning it off from airplane mode, set it down first, and then press it, and then step back.

Dr. Pompa:
It reaches, yeah.

Brian Hoyer:
It'll ping really strong when you first turn it back on from airplane mode. A lot of people don't realize that. They just turned it on airplane mode, and then they have it right at their face, and they're going like crazy. I always set mind down and then—and I know this because I'm measuring these things all the time. Set your phone down. Turn it off airplane mode. Walk away. Wait for all the dinging, and all the updates to happen, all your text messages and everything, and then go and check everything.

Dr. Pompa:
Wow, great advice, what a great show, Brian. We're going to put your link down here below. I know you offered something for our viewers. That's great and really appreciate that. I think you're going to have many people take advantage of it. They're crazy if they don't. That's awesome what a service, Brian. I tell you what. This was a brilliant business. When you have something that people need—something that people want is great, but when you have something that people absolutely need, and it affects their health, and solves a problem, man, that's amazing, so good for you.

Brian Hoyer:
I really want to help people to actually have these solutions so that they don't have to freaking worry about it all the time. So many people stress out about EMF issues that the stress is almost worse than the EMF itself in many cases. If you can just fix this problem in your bedroom, in your whole house. Make your house a sanctuary, especially your bedroom, then you have eight hours of healing therapy that you have every single night. You don't have to even think about it. You just put your children in the bedroom. They're good. They have that healing therapy every single night, same thing for yourself.

Dr. Pompa:
It's huge, just the cellular you know stress that it's putting on us. Like you said, at night, that's when you drain your detox. I talk a lot about detox on this show. Your lymphatics drain at night, and they drain your brain. With that stress, it doesn't, so huge, big thing here. Thank you, Brian, for your brilliance and knowledge. Thank you for your service, no doubt. Hopefully, you're going to get a lot of calls, so appreciate it.

Brian Hoyer:
Cool, thank you for having me on.

Dr. Pompa:
Yep.

298: Healing From Emotional Toxicity

Episode 298: Healing From Emotional Toxicity

with Dr. Eva Detko

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Today I welcome Dr. Eva Detko, who is a mind transformation and holistic autoimmune specialist.

As you know, educating about detox is one of my biggest purposes in life, and it's important to include the emotional component as well. Dr. Eva is here to explain how to identify and overcome emotional toxicity, and you'll learn her top emotional detox strategies to achieve optimal wellness. You will also hear about the link between emotional toxicity and its vast effects on your health.

More about Dr. Eva Detko:
Dr Eva has studied natural medicine and the human mind for over 20 years. She has recovered successfully from chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, and reversed Hashimoto's thyroiditis. Now she is passionate about helping others recover their health.

Dr Eva has an extensive knowledge and experience in the field of human physiology, biochemistry, and nutritional sciences. She also uses a wide range of mind-transforming tools and modalities, including: Havening Techniques ®, Brain Working Recursive Therapy ®, psychoanalysis, hypnotherapy, Mindfulness, and applied psychoneuroimmunology.

Transcript:

Ashley Smith:
Hello, everyone, welcome to Cellular Healing TV. I'm Ashley Smith and today we welcome mind transformation and holistic autoimmune specialist dr. Eva Detko. She is here to discuss the whys and hows of emotional detox for optimal healing. She'll also share her top emotional detox strategies to achieve optimal wellness. This is an important topic, and I cannot wait to turn this over to both of you. Let's get started. Welcome, Dr. Eva Detko and Dr. Pompa to the show. This is Cellular Healing TV.

Dr. Pompa:
Welcome, Dr. Eva, thanks for being here.

Dr. Eva Detko:
Oh, thank you so much for having me. I am so hugely passionate about this topic, so really excited to talk about it with you.

Dr. Pompa:
All the way from southern Spain, nonetheless.

Dr. Eva Detko:
Yes, at the moment, yes, there are plans to move to Poland, but yes southern Spain at the moment, a bit nomadic.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, which is—your heritage is from Poland, correct?

Dr. Eva Detko:
Yes, that's right, yeah.

Dr. Pompa:
It's technology, right? You're in Spain, right now, and here we are. I love that, 9:30 at night where you are, and 1:30 where I am.

Dr. Eva Detko:
I apologize in advance if I'm not completely with it, but yes it is a bit late.

Dr. Pompa:
We had to get you before you went to bed. All right, but that's good. I'm glad that—thank you for making the time. This subject, I actually have been just fascinated. I always say, look, I'm not the expert when it comes to emotional detox. That's why I have you here. I'm the expert when it comes to chemical detox and how that affects our lives, but when we look at conditions, which, this is another area of your study. It's autoimmune.

This is a big topic for me because so many people have it, unknowingly. I talk about it as a three-legged stool meaning that one leg, a certain gene gets triggered of autoimmune. It's different for all of us. All of us have these weaknesses or susceptibilities. The center leg is the stressors that turn on that gene. It could be physical, chemical, or emotional. In my doctor training the other day, we all were in agreement that we see this combination of chemical and emotional traumas that take place in a perfect storm in both. We have the autoimmune condition, or whatever condition it is. Then the gut plays a role here as well as part of that three-legged stool.

Today, emotional trauma, I think that it doesn't really get the attention that it really deserves in that trapped emotions are no different than trapped traumas, or trapped toxins, in that the body doesn’t know the difference. I want to give some solutions for people. That's why you're here. Let's talk about the problem as it relates to conditions like autoimmune. How do traumas cause the same type of thing that a chemical would?

Dr. Eva Detko:
First of all, I really want to say that I want to draw some parallels here because obviously you talk a lot about biochemical detox. I talk a lot about emotional detox. It’s true, for the body, toxins are toxins, right, whether they are emotional or chemical. Unfortunately, what happens is for one reason or another—there's obviously a multitude of reasons for this. There seems to be quite a—what I find a superficial approach to emotional detox.

I remember when you kindly gave me an interview for one of my summits. We were talking about biochemical detox. You were talking about the fact that some people can approach a biochemical detox in a superficial way, just taking a supplement that says, “Oh, this is a detox supplement.” Let’s just take that. A few days later, I'm considering myself detoxed.

I have to say that I find the same problem with emotional detox. This is why I really encourage people to dive a little bit deeper into the subject. When we have a lot of emotional toxicity—and believe me, anybody with chronic physical symptoms whether it is autoimmunity or something unidentified, which a lot of people go through. Maybe they don't have a diagnosis, but they have a whole host of physical symptoms that they've had for years. If there's anything like that going on, obviously anything like cancer obviously falls into that category as well, we’re really talking about you're not going to get to that point that the body manifests physically in that way without having a level of emotional toxicity.

In all honesty, I haven't seen this yet, myself. Perhaps there’s somebody out there who has seen this. I have not seen a person with physical issues that wouldn't have complex emotional stuff going on. They may or may not be aware of how much emotional complexity there is because actually that's part of the issue.

Part of the issue why people treat it so superficially is because it's not so easy to understand for people. It can be quite confusing. It can be quite overwhelming. People who specialize in biochemical stuff won't necessarily, at the same time, be experts on emotional stuff. If you go to a functional medicine doctor, they will tell you to manage your stress. That may mean that you will occasionally do a meditation. That is just not going to do it. It’s just not going to do it.

I just wanted to just put it out there that we really need to—when we're talking about cellular healing, when we're talking—well, in functional medicine, natural medicine, we're talking about root causes when it comes to healing. We want to really go after the root causes rather than treat symptoms, which is obviously what conventional medicine tends to do. With emotional healing, it has to be the same.

We can't just treat symptoms. We need to go after the root causes. Of course we're going to go into more detail with early childhood advanced emotional trauma. There's obviously other layers to that, but that's another thing that I want people to think about when you're thinking about your emotional healing. You need to be—rather than think, “Oh how do I, maybe, numb the bad feeling that I have being frustration, anger, sadness.” You need to be thinking, “Why is it that I am experiencing this feeling on a regular basis?”

Obviously, we're talking about chronic stuff. If you occasionally get angry, by the way, this is a normal human response. There’s nothing wrong with that. I'm talking about symptoms, which I will hopefully get to that in a moment, what sort of symptoms are we talking about when we're talking about emotional healing. We’re talking about stuff that goes on chronically day in, day out.

The issue with that is that a lot of people are not even aware that that's happening because—why is that? We desensitize. If we’re exposed to something, day in, day out, and we experience something day in, day out, very often people will get to a point where they will desensitize to the fact that they may be chronically angry, or chronically anxious, or chronically fearful or upset, whatever is, sad, because that's been with them for such a long time. They will say, Well, that's just how I've always been. They won't even go to question why they're feeling this way in the first place. They just accept it as part of who they are, which then causes other problems because it becomes part of their identity. That's called [00:08:26].

Dr. Pompa:
It's similar to—gosh, I mean, I didn't realize I was angry, but they had mercury in their brain. It's like, “Oh gosh, I just respond that way.” With these emotional toxins it's the same thing. How do we identify? I'll use myself as an example. I had dyslexia as a child and got through it. As a matter of fact, I would argue that it's part of my gifting, today, I mean what makes me special in the sense that I can remember things the way I do. I wouldn't have even the influence that I have it wasn't for my dyslexia.

However, when I dug deeper here, I realized how many things that I do react certain ways because of my insecurity. It was developed thinking I was dumb because I couldn’t read—all of that. I literally had to uproot that. I would look and say, “Well I wasn't abused that's a real trauma,” meaning that that's real stuff. I didn't have that. I always looked at—put myself in the [00:09:33], well, I didn't have these emotional traumas. I did. Arguably, my brain perceived it as traumatic as being abused. The point is is how do we identify it? That was me looking back and identif4y something that I didn't think affected me but did.

Dr. Eva Detko:
Yeah, you made a good point there about the sort of severity of trauma. This is very interesting because people often think of trauma, they will hear a term, PTSD, and they will assume that in order to consider themselves traumatized, they would have had to go through something very major, perhaps be in a war zone, or somebody dying, or even a divorce, or something like that, being abused. That, obviously, is an issue. Something like this has happened to somebody, then that is one of the adverse childhood events what we talk about.

However, people really do underestimate the sort of trauma that doesn't necessarily happen as a one-off big event, but rather is an accumulation of small, not even events, but daily—perhaps daily, maybe, teasing at school, something like that. I had that. I was bullied at school for four years. It wasn't necessarily that one big thing happened. That was highly damaging. That was highly, highly damaging because it was something that happened over a long period of time.

In addition to that, and this is the biggest one that I see, when I work—because I currently work with people with chronic health issues and highly complex emotional issues. The one that I sort of see as most underestimated is the developmental trauma. The developmental trauma is even more interesting because it's not about one big thing that happened, although it obviously could be.

It's really about lack of bonding. That's really what developmental trauma is about. The first year, the zero to four in particular, extremely vulnerable years for any human being. In those years, if there isn't enough human contact, if there isn't enough, basically, kisses, cuddles, connection that every human being needs, then that could result in a person actually being traumatized. That is perfectly [00:12:28]. In fact, that that sort of trauma will usually affect people's identity. It's not so much that it will just affect their behavior. No, it will cut much deeper. It will go right through to the core.

Why is that important? This is important because when dealing with emotional stuff, the behavioral—so for instance somebody could have a phobia. They're doing this phobia. Phobia is really a behavior. When they're doing this phobia, maybe they see a spider, and they freak out, and every time they run this pattern over and over. That is actually fairly easy to do. With a straightforward phobia, I can deal with a client in a matter of half an hour, and maybe sometimes not even that, and that phobia is gone forever. That's actually an easy—if it's a straightforward phobia, obviously, not a complex one.

Then what most people, actually, with chronic illness will experience—they will experience erosion of their core identity. That is actually a much—so that would take a little bit more time to resolve. It still can be resolved, but it's not a superficial issue. It’s a core identity issue. That comes from—a lot of the time, from the fact that people may have just felt abandoned as a child, or just purely and simply their emotional needs in the first few years of their lives were not being met sufficiently.

Dr. Pompa:
How would you know? Just like a toxin. I always say when we look at the toxins there are so many parallels here. The number one source is actually what we inherited from our mother and father. You don't know that, right? Especially, mom, gives lead and mercury through utero. You don't remember that, of course. You don't remember not being cuddled or kissed. You don't remember what happened, or the stresses in that time which can create that.

I just taught a master mind to my doctor group. I was talking about—really about functioning from your true identity. I'm trying to help these doctors, and when I see them not functioning from a true identity is when they don't build rapport with patients whether they're speaking from stage or one-on-one. It's because they're not coming across as authentic in a sense. The key is is they're not functioning from their true identity.

What you're saying is when you're not in your true identity that affects your life in many ways. Here I am training professionals. The ones that are having trouble functioning just from who God made them, who they should be, the gifts they have, they're not. They're struggling. It could be all the way back from two years old.

Dr. Eva Detko:
That's absolutely right. It's very interesting because, of course, as you said, that's going to affect so many things. It's going to affect your whole life. Ultimately, erosion of your identity means you're not going to be comfortable with who you are. It doesn't get any worse than that, let's say, when it comes to emotional healing. You need to heal that. That's going to be—that's the foundation. That's the foundation of everything.

If you're not comfortable with who you are, and if you—maybe you self-criticize, you beat yourself up over various things. You tell yourself that you're not good enough, that you’re too stupid, too fat, too thin, too this, too that. When you do all that on a regular basis, a lot of people have this negative self-talk that just goes on every hour of every day. They don't even know that they’re doing it.

Of course, rapport with other people will be difficult because you will always project. In psychotherapy, we call it projection when you project your own emotional crap onto other people. That would, for instance, manifest. Let's say somebody feels—they they're self-critical. They're critical of themselves. They don't feel good enough. Immediately, what they're going to do, is they're going to assume that other people are critical of them. That's what I mean by projection.

When you think about it, every single relationship that you have will be affected by that including relationships with patients. If you're not comfortable with who you are, undoubtedly you will impact the relationship with your patient. Of course, we know how important the relationship with the patient is for their—through their healing.

Dr. Pompa:
Here’s the thing. It's just like toxicity. How do we identify it, and then, okay, how do we detox these emotions? Give some solutions of how we identify areas where this may have affected our identity. This may have caused emotional traumas, and we don't even know. How do we know?

Dr. Eva Detko:
Actually, yes, you asked that question. Yes, I was going to answer that. Let’s start with how do we know. I actually devised this questionnaire that I have on my website. If people want to go in a little bit deeper, I'll explain in a minute what symptoms we're looking out for. If you want to do it at the deeper level, you can go to my website. Check out that questionnaire. It's just free for people to look at.

Dr. Pompa:
We’ll make sure. Ashley will put that up here. Then we can go to your website.

Dr. Eva Detko:
The reason I say that is oftentimes people will say, “No, I'm good. I really don't have anything like that going on. When they do the questionnaire, that really opens up their eyes. There are things that people wouldn't have thought about when it comes to emotional toxicity. Let me give you a few examples. I already mentioned, in passing, negative self-talk. If you identify that you do have negative self-talk, then that is emotionally toxic. That definitely tells me that there would have been some issues earlier on in your life. Anything to do with, in fact, poor self-worth, poor self-esteem, poor self-image, those are the ones that are identity-based.

Dr. Pompa:
Give us examples of the negative self-talk and—

Dr. Eva Detko:
Yeah, sure, so for instance you're doing something and you're thinking, “Oh I'm not really doing this right. I should be doing this and should be doing that. Maybe I'm not good enough to do this. I'm not smart enough to do this.” Just talking yourself down, talking yourself down, really, is what I'm talking about. It's looking yourself in the face in the mirror, looking at yourself and thinking, “Oh gosh, I'm so ugly. I wish I didn't have this pimple or whatever else.” I mean, it's just that constant negativity directed at yourself.

Dr. Pompa:
Let me ask you a question. I want you to keep going, giving us examples, but I have to ask this right here. Can it go the opposite way, meaning narcissistic people, oftentimes out of great insecurity, they make this false thing? You look at these people and you go, “My gosh, they must be super insecure because they're the greatest and everything. They're always right.” I mean, so can it be the opposite to protect that person?

Dr. Eva Detko:
A lot of people overcompensate. You're right. You can spot that from miles away. You can spot. You can sense when somebody is truly comfortable with who they are. They're a confident person, and they’re an assertive person, which assertive is a positive thing. It's good to be assertive, right, and assert yourself in life. There’s nothing wrong with that.

There is that line that some people cross. It’s quite true. They go out of their way to appear confident, or they always have to prove that they’re right. For instance, they would—if somebody questions them, they would go and research on the internet, and dig out the encyclopedia, whatever. They will just go out of the way to prove that they're right on this particular point. Stuff like that is overcompensation.

Dr. Pompa:
Then they have almost an obnoxious self-positive talk. It's like you look at it and go—I mean it's just not normative. They have that kind of talk too.

Dr. Eva Detko:
Yeah, and so part of it is actually a personality trait. Part of it is a personality trait. I use different personality profiling tools. One of them is Enneagram, which people may be familiar with. There’s nine personality types. What’s interesting is it's not necessarily that that you’re one thing or the other. It's just that you dominate in one area with your personality. We all do.

What's also interesting is that across each type, it’s a spectrum. You can be at a high expression of that personality type, or at a really low expression of that personality type. That narcissistic type person would be actually the lowest expression of type A, for instance, yes. However, you see, if that person ever comes out of their narcissistic bubble, which obviously with narcissists it’s not the whole thing. They just don't see the wood for the trees.

Occasionally, that may happen that people decide to embark on self-development, or whatever else they're going to do. They may actually recognize that even though their safety is in always being right, and always being superior, or whatever else that they need to do to feel important. When they step out of it, they understand that they can actually be more balanced, and still feel good about the world and about themselves.

That's a journey that is very difficult for somebody who is naturally skewing in that direction. Yes, a part of it is actually a personality thing. Most people—so yes, we have a lot of narcissists there, that's true. Most people, in particularly people who have chronic health issues, they will be on the other side of this. They will be more inclined to do the negative self-talk.

Dr. Pompa:
Self-talk, negative self-talk is one symptom. What’s another side?

Dr. Eva Detko:
Another side is anything such as not feeling deserving. Something happens, and you feel, “Oh yeah, this is nice, but I just don't feel like I truly deserve it.” Again, just feeling like you’re worth less, and everybody else around you is somehow more worthy than you are. That's a big identity issue as well.

Chronic guilt and shame, this is quite a big one because that will come out from early childhood as well. I'm not talking about healthy shame because there's such a thing, but most people these days because the society shames us in so many different ways. I mean it's nuts, right, it's nuts, from the word go, particularly the West. I’m talking Western society, obviously. Children are shamed for all sorts of things. Particularly when they’re shamed around this toddler age, preschool age, that could cause big problems later on. That is something to be aware of, just going in and thinking, “Well do I feel guilty all the time? Do I feel ashamed?” All the time there’s something that people may actually be aware of.

Another thing is feeling constantly anxious, and constantly worried, or fearful. Of course, anxiety is just a symptom. It’s not actually the root cause because anxiety is basically fear. It's fear of something. How interesting. Do you not find it interesting that not so long ago we didn't even have the label that is the generalized anxiety disorder? Now we have this thing that is generalized anxiety disorder, which means that this would be somebody who is just anxious all the time about everything. Sometimes they don't even know what they're anxious about.

That is highly emotionally toxic. Your winding up. You’re basically stressing your nervous system, constantly. It’s constant fight or flight. Of course, you can't heal, and you can't detoxify if you’re constantly in fight or flight, as we know. Those fears could be all sorts of things. It could be fear failure. A lot of people have that fear of failure, fear of losing control, which are connected. Fear of criticism, fear of rejection, that's a big one. Of course, even things like fear of death or fear of illness.

Let's not forget that illness, itself, is a trauma. When somebody has been chronically ill for a very long time, often time, before I even get to any other trauma of with them, I need to work with them on the trauma of the illness, itself. Some people actually do have fear of the unknown, which links back to fear of not being in control. There are also other things.

People who over analyze or overthink a lot because what that means—that means that they live in their heads so much that they almost lost the connection to their feelings and to the body. Why is that? Why does that happen? Usually this happens as a result of a bad experience. This is a protective mechanism. Some people think that if they’re able to rationalize and analyze the hell out of everything, they feel safer if they can do that.

Of course, it's not exactly possible to do that all the time. Sometimes we need to accept that there are things that we don't have control over. There are things that we cannot analyze or understand. That would make somebody that way inclined very uneasy. When people have this—often people say, “Oh, I've got a monkey mind. I can't meditate because my mind is so busy. We know there’s something majorly toxic going on at the emotional level if you can't make your mind go quiet, and you've got these constant thoughts, and they're usually negative coming into your mind just constantly, so the monkey mind, obviously, as well.

Dwelling on anything that happened in the past—how many people do you know, literally, who still go over, today, something that happened ten years ago, twenty years ago, and they just can't let it go. It’s that inability to let go of stuff, inability to forgive, that resentment, that chronic resentment that some people hold, the chronic grudges. That's obviously highly toxic, and that definitely points that to the fact that there's been—that something went on earlier in life, some level of trauma must have occurred in order for you to have that chronic resentment.

Of course, when people are in toxic relationships is another one because you—again you need to have serious identity issues. You, yourself, have to feel quite unworthy in order to let other people take advantage of you and treat you like dirt. If you're in a personal or otherwise a relationship where people treat you—walk all over you and treat you like a doormat, then you know that there is an issue there. That’ why we say, there's quite a lot within that, but nonetheless it’s really important for people to pay attention to all those things.

Dr. Pompa:
I mean, you gave us, literally, nine things there that people need to look at. I mean it's not like you'll have all of them. How many of those would you say, yeah, okay, you need to really look deeper that you have some emotional toxicity from your childhood.

Dr. Eva Detko:
I'm going back to the questionnaire because I’ve graded it. There's 42 questions on that questionnaire. I've given you nine, but there is, obviously, when you break it down there is more. If you answer to any more than five, then you already have a level of emotional toxicity that needs to be looked at.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, so take the quiz. Well put how to access the quiz right here.

Dr. Eva Detko:
Yeah, I believe that will be really helpful to really some more light for people on this and where they’re at. Essentially, before we can move forward and look for solutions, we need to assess where we are. We do that with biochemistry as well.

Dr. Pompa:
Again, the parallels with chemical toxicity, we want to know what we're up against. It's like, okay, great, now we've identified that mold and mercury are prevailing here. Now we know what we can do about it. We’ve taken the test. Thank you for that. Then okay, great, now what can we do about it? Now what do we do? This is that detox question. How do I detox these emotions out of me so that I could live a happy, normal life? Also, again, we're talking about turn off this illness that I'm dealing with because we know just like the chemical toxins, it can keep these symptoms there, no different. I need this next level detox, so I can get where I want to go with my health, or my emotions, whatever it is.

Dr. Eva Detko:
Yeah, that certainly was the case for me. I had chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia. I was really sick. I couldn't get out of bed at some point. It was not so much the diet because I had already been gluten free at that point anyway. I was quite careful about what I was eating. It was actually doing the trauma work that got me out of chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia.

I definitely see that with many of my clients because what ends up happening is I get a lot of inquiries from people who have already done a lot of work on the biochemistry front. That's what people tend to go to first because it's just easier. Then the emotional stuff is left till the end, usually. What I'll say here is don't leave it till the end. Just do this work alongside each other because that really—

Dr. Pompa:
I agree. What’s the work? How do we do it? What's going on?

Dr. Eva Detko:
We've got the awareness bit. That is really important because you can’t deal with something you don't know what you're dealing with. Trauma work, there are a number of superb modalities these days. The go-to modalities for me are havening techniques and brain working recursive therapy. Havening techniques is actually a psychosensory modality, which means that you simulate the receptors on the skin. That acts directly via the nervous system connection on the amygdala part of the brain, so the part of the brain that is responsible for processing emotions.

This is a really incredible method because you can use it for severe trauma, but you can also use it as a management tool. For instance, you go into a meeting, and you have to give a speech, or whatever, you have to speak, or give a presentation, and you’re a bit anxious. You can actually use it to manage the symptoms of anxiety, but of course I always encourage to get to the root of the anxiety. You can use that method for that.

Dr. Pompa:
How do you spell it? You said havening techniques?

Dr. Eva Detko:
Havening, like haven as in haven the safe place, havening. The havening touch itself, it's actually very simple, but please do not underestimate. Just because this is simple, and easy to do, a child can do this, doesn't mean it's less effective for it. It's actually incredibly effective. It also combines really well with all sorts of other modalities. It's a very flexible method. People may be familiar with emotional freedom techniques. I've got havening, so I don't work with EFT so much because I've got havening, but of course EFT is also an excellent technique to work with.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, just so people know, EFT is the tapping.

Dr. Eva Detko:
Yes, that’s the tapping.

Dr. Pompa:
Could you show us what the havening technique is?

Dr. Eva Detko:
Yes, since we've got the video go here. There are three sites. Essentially, what's really interesting about havening techniques, is that by stimulating the receptors on the skin, like I said, you are actually able to change your brainwave activity. Usually, when we’re stressed, or when we're going through a traumatic experience, the brainwave activity is really high. With havening, we’re able to bring it right down all the way to Delta level, which is the same level of activity that we experienced in deep sleep, which of course is when we heal. Havening is very conducive to healing in that respect.

There are three sites. It's really simple so the first one is the face. All we’re doing, essentially, is strokes like this. You can go from the top of the forehead, or you can go from—even from under the eyes. That's the first one. The second one is the arms. You can do it through one layer of clothing. Of course, if you have lots of layers, you need to remove some of them. You don't need to do it on the skin. You can do it through one layer of clothing, like I’ve got now, and you've got now. We're going from the top of the shoulder and sweeping all the way down to the elbow. Obviously, I'm just doing this now. You don't need to hold your arms up in the air. I'm just wanting to show this. You're obviously keeping them down here so that you're comfortable.

That's more or less the speed and the tempo of it. It doesn't need to be too slow or too fast. It's just moderate. Then the third one is your hands. It goes like this. It's basically almost like washing your hands. Very easy, right? Okay, so here's the thing with this modality. You can actually work on a specific traumatic memory with this if you have a memory of something that you experienced that’s still causing an emotional response. That's the key one. You still need to have an emotional response.

Say you go to that memory, you could close your eyes and go there. Then the moment you bring that feeling up—because of course you remember something and immediately you've got that emotional response, you start havening at that point, straight away. We don't want to retraumatize, so we don't want to necessarily go over and over what we experience. What we do with havening is we start stimulating the brain in a variety of different ways. We use humming, we use counting, and we use spatial awareness. For instance, you would imagine that you're walking on the beach, or in the forest, or something like that. You imagine yourself walking, or skipping on a skipping rope, or something like that. There’s movement involved. Then finally we also use the eye movement. People may have heard of EMDR.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah.

Dr. Eva Detko:
Right, so this utilizes the eye movement, also, as well as the havening touch. You're doing that, and at the same time you’re moving your eyes sharply right and sharply left. You can go over your own if you’re obviously—I want to just caveat here. If you have complex emotional trauma, don't try and work on this yourself because you could bite off more than you can chew, obviously.

If you maybe had a family gathering, and somebody really got on your nerves, and then you're still fuming and week later, go back to that in your mind. Bring up the emotional response and Haven on that. In a matter of 10 minutes, sometimes even less, you could get rid of that emotional response. What then happens is you still have the memory, but it does not upset you anymore because essentially it’s the emotional response that's going to put the stress on the nervous system.

If we just have a memory of something, and it causes no emotional response whatsoever, then fine. That’s not toxic. What’s toxic is that the negative emotional response that that memory will induce. That can be addressed with havening. Of course, if people know tapping, then of course they can tap on those things as well, on those negative memories. That is one way of using this modality.

I mix it with all sorts of things. Like I said, I work with really complex emotional trauma. I bring all sorts of other things into where they're bringing NLP, hypnosis, Gestalt therapy, all sorts of other things, inner child work. Of course, when you were—if you had issues in those first formative years of your life, then we need to do some work around that. I obviously use havening alongside other techniques to do that.

Definitely, this is a self-help tool that anybody can use. It's really amazing because sometimes—okay, so maybe you're in the meeting and you're a bit stressed. Okay, fine, you're not going to start stroking your face, but you can still rub your hands. Nobody is going to know any better because people just do that, don’t they? Nobody’s going to question why you’re rubbing your hands. You can even do it in the heat of the moment where you’re going through something stressful. That's really excellent.

Then another one that I use is brain working recursive therapies, actually psychotherapy techniques. There's no sensory stimulation. It's actually a set protocol of steps. Just to describe what we're trying to do is we're trying to interrupt the pattern. For instance, people may know, or may not know, I don't know, but our conscious response is much slower than our instinctive subconscious response.

For instance, if I was to throw something at you, you immediately would either try to catch it, or you would try to get out of the way. It will be something that you would just do, and then a moment later you would be aware that you've done it. It's that the consciousness only catches up a couple of seconds later.

Dr. Pompa:
What was this called? What’s this technique called?

Dr. Eva Detko:
Brain working recursive therapy, or BWRT for short. The idea here is that we want to almost interrupt the pattern because when people have emotional responses is usually that they have a memory and then that emotional response comes in. We want to sort of interrupt. We’re actually almost injecting something else in between the original memory and the response.

We actually work with preferred response, and we’re working with future memories. We’re kind of replacing the original memory, if you will. That's what we're trying to do with this one. Your mind doesn't actually know reality from fiction, so the alternative memory work is actually really effective. That's another great technique that people can do if they have memories that are seriously disturbing to them. They can go—

Dr. Pompa:
Give us an example of how you would interrupt that. I mean, what would—

Dr. Eva Detko:
The protocol has got about fourteen steps in it. You follow this exactly. Basically, what you do is you recall the original memory. With that, usually, there will be an emotional response. Even if there isn't that immediate emotional response, we can still work with the memory. Then we want to then think about how we want it to be instead, in that moment. We know what we did or didn't do. How could you sort of change that original memory to be more positive, more empowering, so you're more in control?

We’re going to keep it positive. We don't be vindictive in it or anything like that, just keep it nice and clean, keep it positive. Then you also create a future memory where in that memory you look back and you realize hey, I had this problem once, but now I can see I don't have this problem anymore. The future movie of whatever is that you're doing is telling you that you don't have that problem anymore. Then, what we're doing is—and there's other steps involved, but basically you’re jumping around between those three stages, between those three memories, the original, and the preferred, and the future memory.

What then ends up happening is that after a while—so you repeat that X number of times, and then there's other steps involved. After a while, what often happens is that you can no longer recall the original memory in the same way as you did initially, number one. Number two, you don't have the emotional response that comes with it. Again, you can eliminate that emotional toxic response, essentially. That's a great one. This one is not so easy to do on yourself, but the alternative memory work—this is not necessarily something completely new because in NLP we use the alternative memory work as well. That people can do on themselves. That is as simple as going over the traumatic memory, or whatever memory that upsets you still, and gives you that feeling of fear, anger, frustration, whatever, or sadness. T

hen you go over that memory in a different way. You create a different movie of that memory as if you're still there doing something different in order for that memory to give you a better—so you have a better outcome in the memory, in other words. You change the outcome. That's another psycho—that’s more of a psychotherapy. Another one that I really want people to have a go at is the inner child work because that that's huge.

As I described, we have those different stages of child development. We've got infancy, we've got toddler, preschool. John Bradshaw was the one who described this really well. If somebody wants to know a little bit more about this, John Bradshaw Homecoming is a great book to read. He talked about infancy, toddler, and preschool, and school child. We have different emotional needs through those different stages because as we develop, our needs change.

In the infancy stage, of course, it's all about touch. It’s about that kind of comfort, a physical comfort. Then as we as become a little bit older, we start learning to say no. Then we start to communicate and so on. Our needs change through those different stages. Sometimes, when people, for example, have difficulty saying no, I already know that there was something that happened at the toddler stage because they never developed this ability to say no and feel good about saying no. That's another symptom, when people will just say yes to everything and then they feel resentful about it, but they're just not able to say no to people. That's already a little red light there.

Another one is, for instance, when people have difficulties expressing anger. That will be more to do with the preschool stage. What we can also do is we can go—if people don't have specific memories of when they were really little, it doesn't stop them from imagining. We're creating some imagery around this time of our lives even if it's not really—it doesn't matter because I already told you your subconscious mind doesn't really tell the difference between what's real and what's not real, which is why you can alter memories and get a better response.

We can create that imagery around the child, and then we can bring our adult self into that memory. We can be the protector for that child. This may sound like something really weird, but people have incredible emotional releases and responses when they do this exercise. Again, if you know that you had loads of trauma as a child, then maybe you do need to be guided through this process.

If you feel that your childhood was okay, but maybe there were some wounds there that you want to heal, okay. If you know that you had a lot of trauma, then potentially that exercise can bring out a lot of stuff that you may feel completely overwhelmed by. If you're in that camp, then it's better to just get two, three sessions with somebody to guide you through this process. Then then you're done.

I just want to be—do this responsibly. I don't want people to end up in a situation where they're not able to handle their own work. People can do their own work. I encourage—I always—that's how I work with people. I coach and teach people to do a lot of their own work. There are some times that when there's a lot of complexity it really pays off to have a little bit of guidance at the beginning. Then you take it away, and you can do it yourself.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, wow, I mean, and I agree. Some people are going to need a coach. I mean, that's what they hire me for. It's like, you’re too toxic. You can't do this alone. Although, I encourage people. I teach people all the time, this is what you should be doing in your life. However, many people are far too toxic physically, chemically, to do it on their own. They need a coach. That's what I do.

Same with this. You made great suggestions here, but many people watching and listening, you need a coach because you could end up in great doo doo, just like chemical toxicity. Hire a coach. That's the point. You have her information here, and the quiz even to take as a starting point, and even some things you can start right away. I’m sure it’s much deeper than that, Dr. Eva. Some people need you, no doubt. I so appreciate this because you gave us really good tools.

I mean, from an understanding of testing, is this me, to start here right away, to start some of this emotional detox work. I think it was the most useful show we've had on this subject. Really, you give us great tools. It’s a set of tools, but yet it's still a starting place. We have to identify this stuff, just like a toxin. Otherwise, you’re not going to get well. It's the hidden toxin of all hidden toxins, frankly.

Dr. Eva Detko:
Yeah, and there's one thing that I didn't mention, but there's definitely a place here to mention values and beliefs. Sometimes, people can have a very negative response to life, not necessarily as a result of trauma, but as a result of something that I call social engineering. This basically happens to all of us from the word go.

We come into this world, and immediately we're being passed on other people's values and beliefs. Quite honestly, without them, we would not be able to survive. You need to know that you don't stick your hand in the fire because this is a bad thing to do. There's obviously a lot of positive beliefs that our caregivers, our parents, our guardians, give us when we—at that young age when we need to learn. At the same time, they had their own hang-ups, and they had their own insecurities, and they're going to end up—a lot of it will end up being your stuff just because it was their stuff.

That is another thing to pay attention to because one of the things that people, and that I didn't mention earlier as a symptom of emotional toxicity, is emotional conflict. This is huge. How do you know you have emotional conflict? You've got that constant er, er, er, er, er going on in your mind. It's like, “Oh, I want to go in this direction, but oh, but no, oh God.” You’re questioning yourself, and going back and forth, and you're feeling conflicted because maybe you think that your biggest value in life is making a lot of money.

At the same time you've got your family, and you want to spend time with them. Do you see what I mean? Maybe that value isn't even your value. Maybe that’s something that somebody said to you when you were young. They said, “Oh, in order for your life to be worthwhile you need to be making lots of money.” Do you know what I mean? You just take it on.

Dr. Pompa:
One of the things that I had said when I you know was coaching my Docs in this is look, you have to go back on a timeline. Of course, look at these potential traumas that occurred, things that really changed your views. Also evaluate not just the events in our life, but the people, teachers, friends, impact that had—that gave you certain premises.

We carry these false beliefs and premises that set up certain values that aren't right, and yet it defines our life, possibly, for the negative. You have to look at these premises and evaluate them. You're right. Sometimes they're given to us, and it's not even who we are, and we're living our life in conflict.

Dr. Eva Detko:
Yeah, and it goes back to having enough self-awareness to step back and go, okay, what is it that is going round and round in my head? Is it that maybe—I actually had a client, once, who believed they were going to die at the age of 60 because their aunt and their mother died at the age of 60. Now, wow, if you have a belief like that, that's really bad. You need to change that.

Dr. Pompa:
Look at the areas in your life that you're not successful or you're struggling, whether it's your health, finances, relationships. Evaluate your premises around those. If you have trouble with the money I promise you there's a belief that was maybe given to you from your family, your father, a teacher, brother, who knows. It's like that's not right. Then it's creating a lot of grief in your life.

Dr. Eva Detko:
Absolutely, so yes, so that’s a big one. People can do that for themselves. They can just sit down and actually just spend 15 minutes, half an hour, to really think what is really important to me? What do I believe about health? What do I believe about myself? What do I believe about my professional life, or whatever else it may be? The things that are important, and to see whether those things align. If you're not aligned, then you're going to be emotionally toxic. We’re back to square one having this problem all over again. Yeah, that's another important thing that I forgot to mention earlier.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, no, that's great stuff. Thank you so much. Gosh, wealth of knowledge on the subject. I can't wait to visit your site. I'm going to take the quiz, so that’s awesome.

Dr. Eva Detko:
Oh, brilliant, excellent, well, thank you for having me. It's been an absolute pleasure. I am really pleased that you’re shining the light on this for people as well because there needs to be more discussion on this. There needs to be more depth. This is not just about doing an occasional guided meditation. There's a lot more to it than that.

Dr. Pompa:
This is important. I think I'm going to have you come to one of my seminars when we get you to the U.S. Let’s get you here. Thank you, Dr. Eva, we appreciate you.

Dr. Eva Detko:
Thank you so much, Dr. Dan. Thank you.

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297: The Stem Cell Machine

Episode 297: The Stem Cell Machine

with with Dr. Matt DiDuro

Additional Information:

Practitioners! Email Dr. DiDuro at drdiduro@gmail.com to inquire about incorporating this technology in your practice. For the public, email Dr. DiDuro at drdiduro@gmail.com to find a practitioner in your area.

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Dr. Matt DiDuro is here to talk about the emerging technology of Tissue Regeneration Technologies otherwise known as TRT, and how this stem cell machine is being used to help accelerate the body’s natural healing ability.

You'll learn why professional sports teams are implementing this therapy to accelerate healing in athletes, as well as how effective it can be when targeting bone, cardiac, neural & vascular tissue. This remarkable device was also pivotal in my son Daniel's healing after his accident. I can't wait for you to hear all about it.

More about Dr. DiDuro:

Dr DiDuro is a member & past president of Neuropathy Treatment centers of America. He has helped train over 600 clinics around the country. He is an international speaker & one of the premier researchers in the southeast on Peripheral neuropathy. He has been married to his wife, Sherri, for over 27 years & they have 3 daughters, Isabella, Emma & Annalia.

Transcript:

Dr. Pompa:
I say this a few times. This is an episode you're going to want to share. Of course you're going to want to watch it. Look, I brought Dr. Matt DiDuro on who introduced to me a stem-cell machine. I was so skeptical, I said, “Just send me the research.” You'll hear the whole story. He sent me the research. From there, you have to hear this story on this episode
of what happened.

Now, we're putting these in centers, our Health Centers of the Future, around the country. This device, it will change your life. Wait till you see. Wait till you hear the stories, one of which is ending up on The Doctors and airing in November. You'll see. This is something, again, you're going to want to know about, hear about, and we're also connecting you to where you can get this done as well. Stay tuned for cell TV.

Ashley Smith:
Hello everyone. Welcome to Cellular Healing TV. I'm Ashley Smith, and today we welcome Dr. Matt Diduro, who brings over 25 years of experience in health care. Dr. Matt is here to talk about the emerging technology of tissue regeneration technologies, otherwise known as TRT, and how the stem cell machine is being used to help accelerate the body's natural healing ability. This is a really remarkable therapy. Let's get started so we can learn all about it. Practitioners, please check out the notes, so you can learn how to incorporate this into your practice. Welcome Dr. Matt, and of course Dr. Pompa.

Dr. Pompa:
Welcome, Dr. Matt. Thank you for being on Cell TV. I'm so excited for this topic. Wait till people hear this.

Dr. Matt DiDuro:
I'm excited too Doc, and thanks so much for giving us a platform. Honestly, you were one of the first Doc's in the country that actually embraced this technology. I'm so grateful for that opportunity.

Dr. Pompa:
Let me tell that story, man. I don't embrace things lightly. I go through a process when I look at something because people are bringing me things. Everyone brings me everything. I developed a process on what to do to really vet things. You showed up with the device, my seminar – where was it, Nashville I guess?

Dr. Matt DiDuro:
Yes.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, Nashville. I was going to say Atlanta because you're from Atlanta. I was like, I didn't do a seminar in Atlanta. You showed up with the device. You used it on me and a couple other people. I went and dragged a guy I that I said if it works on him, if we can get him treated because he has a nasty neuropathy in a toe because he has kidney transplants, the whole thing.

Here was the interesting thing why I thought he was the best test case because I know everything Doctor Hank did for this toe. He had some other issues going, one of which is you know a personal issue, so I don't want to say it. I'll just say this, both of those issues were not clearing up with all of the best technology. Hank's an amazing doctor and has access to amazing practitioners and devices and everything. He does everything. We put it to the test.

You made someone – you hooked him up with someone in California. They worked and treated Hank. It healed his toe. I was impressed. When I saw his toe, I was like, oh, my God. Then it worked on a lot of other things with Hank. Then it went to the next step where we opened it up, we tried it on some other cases, different people, and other doctors. It was just outstanding results to the point where we said, okay, this has to be part of a health center the future.

I was just on a call, yesterday. Ashley was on the call with me. I was just telling you about it. The doctors in our group, now, that have these things, they were telling story after story, I mean, just unbelievable stories. It's like where all the other doctors don't have one, it's like, okay, we're getting one of these things. I hope we've got your interest. What the heck are we talking about, stem cell machine? All right, Matt, bring us back. What is the stem cell machine and this tissue regenerative therapy?

Dr. Matt DiDuro:
It starts off about forty years ago. This is really a lithotripsy device. What is a lithotripsy device? It is the device that are $550,000 that hospitals use to break up kidney stones. Those are high intensity. They use about 2,500 shockwaves pointed directly at that kidney stone. They use heat, light, and electrohydraulically produced shockwaves or sound waves that penetrate through the body. Then when they hit that stone, they break it up.

This is low intensity. You don't need anesthesiology. You don't need to be under anesthetics. You actually have this device that is a mobile, so it's about 20% of the strength of those big lithotripsies. It's been around for the last nine years, and really just starting to take traction in the last few years. We're so excited because this technology is what we're finding is it creates a – it talks – it's a cellular signaling basically. I mean, you've seen the research. You poured through. I know there's over 120 peer-reviewed studies. I sent him to you. I know you went through them.

Dr. Pompa:
Yep, hours, because that's actually step one for me is I look through the studies. Then step two is testing the device. Before you even came to Nashville to that seminar, I had already been through most of the studies for me even to be interested. Yeah, go ahead.

Dr. Matt DiDuro:
It really activates your natural biological healing. First, within 45 minutes, it brings those resident stem cells out of this dormant level. We've been cleared by the FDA to help decrease pain and improve circulation, so that's awesome. Really, the amazing thing, this is an unfocused, low intensity. What it does is it decreases inflammation better than anything I've seen in the last 25 years.

It's very versatile. I mean, it was started using on plantar fasciitis, things like that, heel spurs. In Austria, which has probably the best work comp system, or healthcare system, in the world. They've been using it for the last ten years. Wolfgang Shagun [00:06:50 ph], he was a worker back ten years ago, just a doctor in one of the centers.

What happens in Austria is if you're injured, and they don't offer that type of care for you, they will fly you or send you to anywhere in the world to have that procedure done. They'll pay for it. After numerous patients going down into Germany to have this therapy done –

Dr. Pompa:
This is out of Germany, this device [00:07:17].

Dr. Matt DiDuro:
That's right. MTS is our parent company. After patients going down, and mostly for non-healing fractures. These were fractures and the lower extremities that weren't healing. The Director of the Work Comp Board said, “Listen I want to get one of these devices for 90 days. Dr. Wolfgang, you're in charge of proving that this thing is a sham.” They took all their bad patients, and they started bringing them in.

Within 45 days, Dr. Wolfgang came back to his Director and said, “I can't live without this device. It's so versatile, from wound healing, to the non-healing fractures, to high ankle sprains, you name it. Dr. Wolfgang is now the Director of the Austrian Work Comp System, ten years later. They have this device in every trauma center, all 11 centers, across their country.

The wild thing is within 72 hours of any spinal cord injuries, they're having this treatment done. This started July of 2018. It was a mandate that their health company decided – their health system decided to do. In a small pilot study, the early results show a 50% reduction in spinal cord paralysis.

Dr. Pompa:
Two personal stories, one I had this posterior knee thing that I couldn't get stem cells back to it. It wasn't healing, whereas my medial meniscus stem cells fixed it. This area was not healing. The stem surge was the transformation, for me, on that. Another personal story is my son, Daniel. As you know, he jumped off a 60-foot cliff. Unfortunately, ten feet out of the water was another out cliff. Dropped 50 feet and hit, boom, on his heel first and then right on his butt. He fractured his spine. He had a double chance fracture, the worst.

Eighty percent of these cases end up in paralysis. He should have been dead. For 50 feet, he was almost at terminal velocity. He should have been dead. I mean, a centimeter more in forward or backwards, he would have been dead. He should have been dead or paralyzed. He was neither, so God the glory there because that was a miracle. We did, probably, I don't know, five, six different devices on him because we didn't choose the surgery. They were basically like, “Look, he's going to be in bed for 12 to 15 weeks. Unless you get this surgery, he'll be in bed for a month.”

We didn't get the surgery. In two weeks, he was walking, a complete healing. Matter fact, the doctors, at two weeks, did an x-ray just to see because they said, “Look, if you're not going to this surgery, there's no way with these fractures. They're two floating vertebra that the spine would even hold. In two weeks, we're going to do another x-ray just to see if it can hold it all. He looked at my son and said, “Daniel, I don't want to get your hopes up because there's no way that this is going to hold.”

We did that post x-ray, and not only did it hold, they were like, “Holy cow. The one surgeon was – she said, “Well, look, I was a big naysayer.” There was four different surgeons. She's like, “but I have to say I eat my words.” Daniel literally just got back from Europe, as you know. Here we at the 12-week mark and not only is he walking, he was walking, literally, in two or three weeks, which they said would take four weeks. The point is is part of that success was the [00:11:01]. We were getting it done once a week on him, which is pretty much a standard protocol.

Dr. Matt DiDuro:
Right, and that's the cool thing about this. It's you don't need a dozen sessions. We find that within three to four treatments on a specific area, we're getting the maximum amount of pain relief, but also the maximum amount of stem cell migration. Not only does it decrease the inflammation, decrease pain, improve circulation, but eight to ten weeks after treatment, we're seeing stem cell migration to that area, that treated area. It's really such a versatile device.

By the way, I have to give a shout out to Daniel because he was traveling with Olivia, and came through Atlanta in late February, early March. I had treated him and showed him the patient – the stroke patient who hadn't moved his hand in 20 years. I treated Daniel. He got off the phone. He FaceTimed with you right away. I had been waiting a year and a half to try to talk to you. Daniel made one call, that's all. He got you on the phone. You said, “All right, it sounds interesting. Send me the research. Daniel has really helped get this ball rolling.

Dr. Pompa:
The irony is is it's one of the things that saved his spine. I mean, it's just the amount of healing. It's just unbelievable. I mean, he's – no brace. I mean, they cleared him Matt. They were like, “He's healed. He can go to Europe.” The doctors are shaking their heads. Listen, the versatility of this, I think, is important to talk about because one of the big breakthroughs, too, is one of the top urologists in the country is using this. Talk about that, and what is he using it for because people are
spending a lot of money on drugs for erectile dysfunction, nightly urination problems. I mean, go on, the list is – and so talk about that.

Dr. Matt DiDuro:
Yeah, so I mean, across the country, erectile dysfunction is on the rise. It goes in correlation with the rise in Type II diabetes. That's what I work on here in our clinic is Type II diabetics. We work with diabetic and peripheral neuropathy. That's our specialty. Dr. Goldstein, in San Diego, who is Past President of one of the major American neurology societies, He's had it since about April. He went from using one of those radial devices that kind of –

Dr. Pompa:
Don't talk about that because those are not the same.

Dr. Matt DiDuro:
No, they're not. What we're using is a true, genuine, lithotripsy device. It's called extracorporeal shock wave therapy. I don't want doctors – I notice what they do. I've seen over the last two years they Google shock wave therapy, they see the price of our device, they see the cheaper one. Then they go and they buy. I'm like, don't make that $25,000 mistake. They have, listen, I mean, they have about one-eighth of our biological effects. They actually create trauma. You have to use a numbing cream. Then it tricks the body in thinking there's a new injury.

Dr. Pompa:
Remember the story that I was afraid of your machine because somebody did a radial device in my neck. My hearing was never the same. It created a ringing and a buzzing in my ear. Actually, this machine, your machine actually fixed that ringing in my ear for the most part. I mean, it's so slight now. It happened right after that it. It traumatized my nerve to my middle ear.

Dr. Matt DiDuro:
I mean, they're getting a 35 to 40% improvement with men with erectile dysfunction. It tends to work better with younger men, but with our device we were seeing about a 60 to 65% improvement with erectile dysfunction. There's no numbing cream used. It's a very easy application. We have a pre-ED and a regular ED program because that's one disease that a lot of males don't want to develop. What we found – and the wonderful thing about Dr. Goldstein is his wife is a clinical researcher.

They have real-time medical statistics going on. One of the things they noticed is our CEO John Warlick was telling Dr. Goldstein, “Do you want to improve your results? Do you want to go from 65% to higher?” Dr. Goldstein is like, “Yeah, what do we need to do?” We started showing him our low back, or our lumbar plexus protocol. We do about a thousand to 1,500 shock waves right around the PSIS and sacral base. All where those L 2, 3, and 4 help keep all those important things off the floor. As we treat that area, now Dr. Goldstein and his wife are reporting 80% success rate with erectile dysfunction, which is just amazing.

We're so excited about it. He just presented in Nashville this past weekend. It was very well accepted. Not only that, he hired a physical therapist to bring in, so that he could actually look at that all his patients low back pain issues. He's working with some really tough conditions that people come from all over the world to work with. One of those conditions is – and I'm going to pull up my notes on it. It's called PGAD. It's called Persistent Genitalia Arousal Disorder. It's basically a condition that every step you take, the female body part is hyper-sensitive and stimulates the genitals to the point of orgasms.

It's orgasms – it's a terrible condition because they have 30, 40 of these orgasms every you know hour. It is painful. It has a terrible, high rate of suicides associated with this condition. The cool thing is Dr. Goldstein has called in a couple of his – he's got two or three patients that have suffered from this. He's used our protocol on these patients, starting in the lumbar spine, okay, mind you, and he's three for three right now.

He's getting ready to write a paper on that. We used the acronym, HEAL, heat, electromagnetic pulse, acoustic generated by electro-hydraulically produce waves, and light. It pairs so well with chiropractors, doc, because we help work with the innate ability to have the body function a higher level.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, and all this does is stimulate the own body's healing via stem cells and exosomes, which we've talked a lot about on this show, which is absolutely fascinating. When you say, shockwave, people think, “Oh my God, it sounds so painful.” I have to tell you that on the genitals, which I've had done.

By the way, why would I have it done? I don't have erectile dysfunction. Just doing your testicles raises your testosterone about 20% after one treatment. That's why I had it done. Athletes are doing this for advantage. I mean, didn't they outlaw it in horse racing or something?

Dr. Matt DiDuro:
Yeah, I mean, this type of technology, electro-hydraulically produced sound waves and lithotripsy devices have been around for over 30 years in horse racing. January of 2018, race officials made it illegal for horses to have this done three days prior to a race because it was a performance-enhancing device. That's why we've treated over 200 NBA players.

The LA Lakers just bought one. The Chicago Cubs have two. The New York Knicks have one. The New York Mets have one and the Memphis Grizzlies. What we're finding is these patients, these professional teams, they're paying millions of dollars to keep these players on the court. The coolest thing is the Cleveland Indians are using it almost as a preventative-type technique.

Dr. Pompa:
You said that, they'll literally do it on a shoulder. You're making my point for me because when you do it – obviously you do it on you know your area there, whether you the genitals. You'd think, my gosh, that would hurt so bad. You don't even feel it. You just feel a little tapping, unlike the radial device, which actually really hurts.

Anyway, let's say you're doing a shoulder. You don't feel it, you don't feel it, and then all of a sudden you feel it because it only affects the damaged tissues. The sport teams are doing it ahead of time. They find the areas that are damaged. That's the area that would have been an injury. They're saving millions of dollars. They'll do it on the knee. You find that sore spot you didn't even know you had. That's what it would have injured. They're doing it before the injury.

Dr. Matt DiDuro:
That's true preventative health. We have to look at this as a diagnostic component as well. Again, you run it over normal tissue, no pain. As soon as you get to an area of abnormal tissue, degeneration, inflammation, the patient says, “Right there.” We do have to give a shout out to one of your platinum docs, Doctor Duncan McCollum, because he's really coined this as the Star Trek Medical Scanner. The Tri Core Medical Scanner.

Some of our older listeners out there will probably remember how Dr. McCoy, Bones, had this little Tri Core Medical Scanner. They would run it over an area, and then uh-oh, they'd keep it there. It would help accelerate the healing. Within three minutes, these patients would pop up. They're like, “Oh, what happened?” It's got that ability. It's so futuristic that some people just can't absorb it. You said something to me in Nashville. You're like, “Doc, you're making a lot of claims about this device.”

Dr. Pompa:
When someone makes a claim that it can do this for your genitals. It can raise your testosterone. It can increase libido. That's why a lot of people do it. Then it can fix your shoulder, your knee, your back, your foot. Skepticism goes up. After I started reading the studies, and understanding its stem cell effect, then I got it.

Then I had to see it actually happen. The sports teams aren't stupid. This is a cheap way out. If someone gets injured, this is their first line of defense, and then obviously prevention as well. Duncan, you mentioned Duncan, he told an amazing story, and so did one of my other doctors. By the way folks listening, we'll provide – as a matter of fact, we're going to give your email, correct, Matt?

Dr. Matt DiDuro:
That's right.

Dr. Pompa:
Doctors out there who want one, a device, email Matt. Public out there that want to connect with one of our doctors, or one of the doctors that has one, email Matt. Be kind. Don't make a lengthy email. He'll get back to you. I know Matt. Matt's amazing like that. You've been a blessing to all my doctors. Duncan's story was this lady did it. It was firing her up, just like, “Oh my gosh.”

She came walking back in an hour, two hours later. She was basically like, “Okay, I can't believe the pain relief that I have. What the heck?” She was in pain while she was hitting the bad tissues because she had so much destruction. Then he turned it down to a tolerable level. The fact was, she came back a couple of hours later going, “What did you do to me? I can actually walk without pain.” Then tell Scott's story, Doctor Scott. That story's ending up on The Doctors. Tell that story.

Dr. Matt DiDuro:
Yeah, it will be – it's going to be featured on The Doctors. Again, one of your wonderful doctors, he's got an amazing couple of facilities up in Redding, California in Red Bluff. I have to give kudos to your Docs who are the early adopters. They took a chance on us and your recommendation. Basically, when I was getting ready to train Scott. I fly right in for the day. I work with your team. I make sure everybody's certified in this technology, knows how to handle it.

One of the things he said is, “Who do I have come?” I said, “Doc, bring all – any of your patients who had chronic issues, who haven't been getting better, who have inflammation, degeneration, low back issues, foot drop, whatever it is. Bring those in, and let's use this device.” We literally had them in the waiting room. We were training people. It was an open forum.

One of his associate doctors, Doctor Darren Oiler, his wife, Shannon, who's just a wonderful person, and who's basically suffered for 23 years with back issues after a terrible car accident. Three and a half years ago had back surgery that was somewhat successful but left her with numbness and nerve damage in her left calf and knee. We had her down. She was watching some of the other patients. I said, you've got to feel it to heal it. The people who have the most discomfort during a session actually have the best results and outcome. It was painful. I was right there.

We videotaped everything on Shannon's first session on her low back. She was quite moved. She was a little upset. She had to go compose herself. Then she came back, and she was like, “I don't have pain. I can't believe this. She went home. She drove 20 minutes. She couldn't believe it. She was walking around, and she had this loose – these loose pants on. She kept thinking someone was touching the back of her left calf because she was starting to get feeling within 45 minutes. That was September 10th. We filmed another one on September 18th.

Before her third visit on October 10th, she was doing pirouettes. She was standing on her toes. In the meantime, I'm getting a lot of response from different groups out there. I was in talks with the doctors. They wanted to feature the stem cell machine. They wanted to feature it. Is this the real – is this the next stem cell machine, the way they wanted to pitch it? They wanted me to give a couple of different patients. Shannon was perfect. Her story was real. It had just happened. It was amazing. She was interviewed on The Doctors. Her story is going to be displayed to three to five million people the middle of November. Again, thanks to you, Doc, for helping.

Dr. Pompa:
When I believe in something, man, I'm all in. As a matter of fact, Hank will be getting a machine in Laguna Beach. You said California's Dr. Scott in Redmon, California. Duncan is near San Francisco. Where is he exactly?

Dr. Matt DiDuro:
He's Santa Cruz and Capitola. Amazing, some of his stuff that's coming out. He's got some of the best videos of his patients pre and post. One of them said, “You've got to feel it to heal it.” He's got such great patients that are so bright. We do have to give a shout-out to Dr. Jason West, who's in Utah, who really said to us, both you and I, he said, “Let's just call it what it is. This is the stem cell machine.”

Dr. Pompa:
Did he get his machines yet?

Dr. Matt DiDuro:
He hasn't yet, but his sons keep getting injured. I told him –

Dr. Pompa:
You can fly even to the Salt Lake to get to him. Then Doctor Lee Nagle, where's he – do you know exactly where he is?

Dr. Matt DiDuro:
Lee – we've got one in – we've got Sean McHugh down in Jacksonville, Florida, doing some wonderful work. Tammy Stewart is going to be in Grapevine, Texas. She'll be getting hers in the next two weeks.

Dr. Pompa:
We've got another one in Utah. Anyways, there's [00:27:20].

Dr. Matt DiDuro:
If patients, they want to email me –

Dr. Pompa:
Just email Matt. He'll tell you all about Docs who have one and others that are out there. There's not that many, yet, around the country. That's why we're trying to spread the word. We'll connect you with the Docs who have them. Again, doctors, you need one of these in your practice. It's a game changer for a practice, and it's a game changer for the people going to the practice. If you were on my call yesterday, literally, half of my coaching call, 30 minutes was devoted to the stem cell machine, 30 minutes. All the testimonies, this and that, I just sat there and listened, and just how their practice is transforming because of it. Go ahead, you were going to say something.

Dr. Matt DiDuro:
One of the things that's been amazing working with this company and bringing this device to a national level is two weeks ago I was up meeting with the Pentagon about getting this device into their Special Operations. I didn't realize it, but the Navy SEALS, and the Delta Force, and some of those Special Ops people, I mean, they have a million dollars invested in each one of these soldiers. If they're injured, or down, they're losing efficiency in these soldiers. They're looking on the performance enhancing side. They actually ask – I mean, it's a 51-pound unit that sits on a desktop. It's mobile. We use it between clinics and things. They want it to be in a 25 pound so they can put it in their ruck pack, and they can run it out into an area.

We're really excited about working with them. The other thing while I was up in DC, I met with one of President Trump's – an advisor to his Opioid Czar, Dr. John Rosa. I told Dr. John, I said, “Do you really want a tool to fight the opioid epidemic? This is it.” He goes, “What do you mean?” I go, “I call it the opioid buster because not only will it disintegrate the pills, but what it will do is it gets to the root source of the pain, why these people are on it.”

I have to give another shout out to Doctor John Mullins. He's a Plastic Surgeon and a Wound Care Specialist here in Atlanta at Piedmont Hospital. He's had it in his clinic since July 2018. He's doing some wonderful work. The coolest thing is, since using it, he's guestimating he's got a 70% reduction in his opioid writing. He's using it right after surgery. He talked on my show, my podcast is Free My Pain Now. We have a YouTube channel as well. It's called Free My Pain Now with Doctor Matt DiDuro.

In that, he actually talks about one of his breast augmentation patients who had lost sensation around her right nipple. Within two treatments, not only did she get her sensation back, but she got the erectile function back. That's one of the things. We actually have a patent for neural elongation or accelerating peripheral nerve regeneration. How many companies can say that? Now, we're documenting these case studies. I'm so excited because Doctor John Mullins is also working with the Cardiology Department at Piedmont. Do you know what an LVAD machine is, Doc? Do you remember what that is?

Dr. Pompa:
No, LVAC?

Dr. Matt DiDuro:
LVAD, it's a Left Ventricular Assist Device. It's for patients with congestive heart failure waiting for a heart transplant. They have this mechanical pump that's outside their body with an internal lead that goes in to help pump the left ventricle. They either die because they don't get a heart transplant, or they get an infection to that line going in. Doctor Mullins is two for two right now. The patients, when they get this infection, it's typically deadly.

They have to go on Cipro and all these strong antibiotics. That alone can kill them, kind of like Doctor Hank Williams. What we're noticing, and I can show you a patient, Mr. Cobb, unbelievable. One treatment, which was painful as heck, and it was able to kill that bacterial infection. He's now still on the heart transplant list. This has an antimicrobial effect as well.

Dr. Pompa:
I was just going to say that's another cool part. One of the things we're starting to do is cavitations, these hidden infections. We're starting to use it for that. We want to do more with that with our dentists in our program. Yeah, it has an antiviral, antibacterial effect. Explain that a little bit, which is, again, another reason why it helps so many different conditions.

Dr. Matt DiDuro:
It's so cool. We've used it on infected dog bites, infected spider bites. My dog got bit by a copperhead snake Labor Day. They were going to amputate a couple of his toes. Our Medical Director said, “Let's use the shockwave.” We did three days in a row. It was necrotizing fasciitis. Again, I wouldn't believe it if I didn't do it myself.

Again, it's signaling all these other helper cells. On a cellular level, it's activating and signaling for [00:32:59] that come in there. They start fighting and really calling for all these other helper cells to come and fight that infection and decrease that inflammation.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, it's amazing. Again, I hope – you're going to get a lot of emails. I'm going to tell you that now.

Dr. Matt DiDuro:
Good.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, exactly. It's your passion to bring it, man, [00:33:26]. You're in Atlanta, by the way.

Dr. Matt DiDuro:
I'm in Atlanta. We've been working with diabetic and neuropathy patients for the last 11 years. We see over 900 new neuropathy patients per year. We were a niche marketing up until two years ago when I brought this clinic in. I will tell you that prior to this, we had a very good success rate, about 90% patient satisfaction rate. When I brought it into my clinic, it was really on the 10% of the patients who weren't benefiting from our traditional care. I started using it just on them.

I almost had a guarantee policy. If patients bought these photo biomodulation lights, and they didn't see results, or they didn't have 20% improvement after two months, then I would buy them back. In 2017, I think we bought back almost $22,000 worth of [00:34:21] packs. I started using this on September 11, 2017 on my first patient, Carol Roland, and it was a game changer. She went from 8% improvement to 38% improvement in three weeks. Then I started – at the first of the year, I started using it on all of our neuropathy patients.

We haven't had one – we had bought one back on a patient who had passed away. We bought it from the family. It saved me tens of thousands of dollars. It's doubled our improvements. I was telling you earlier, we're working with Dr. Jesse Martin, she's a Ph.D. Researcher out of Georgia Tech. She's helping compile this data. Every patient that comes through could be its own case study. Prior to adding the stem cell machine, we had about a 20% improvement in the sensory nerves that are just underneath the skin.

Since adding just three sessions to each foot over a five-week period, we're not at 38% improvement. She's compiling this data. Not to mention, their balance is improving. Sixty percent of your balance comes from your feet. A lot of our diabetics haven't been walking and moving properly. Now, their [00:35:36] is improving, and their feet are communicating with their brain and nervous system. From that standpoint, I'm looking to present this in Vienna at the International Shockwave Symposium in June of 2020.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, it's awesome. Dr. Matt, I so appreciate you coming on Cell TV. I said at the top of the show how excited I am to bring this information. Nobody, like I said, has really heard about it. My goal is to get all of my Health Centers of the Future doctors having the device, which we're doing. We have to keep up with manufacturing.

Dr. Matt DiDuro:
Yeah, exactly, that's our biggest thing. You're aligned with my vision, Doc. I want this in every major city across the country. Your doctors are really years ahead of the rest of these doctors. Just to see – when I was out visiting you in August at your mastermind seminar, and everything you had there, working on Daniel, to help speed and accelerate his healing. I mean, you said it best. All of our Health Centers of the Future have to have these devices. It's as simple as that.

Dr. Pompa:
Everything I did on my son should be in every Health Center of the Future. It should. That's my goal. I'm training doctors on my detox, my cellular work that I have 20 years teaching. These devices need to be part of that protocol and everything we're doing. That's what we're doing, man, teaming up with you.

Dr. Matt DiDuro:
Listen, you are the father of functional medicine for a lot of healthcare people. You brought this to our profession and our health care system. People forget to thank you, sometimes. Our communities are very sick. The tools you're putting out there for your doctors are helping, basically, one person at a time. The more people we have that can bring this to a national level, the healthier our communities are going to be. I'm glad to be able to partner with you on this and bring this.

Dr. Pompa:
We appreciate it. Folks, you need to share this episode. Honestly, how often do I ask you to do that? Rarely, maybe a few times, but so many people need this. It's such an inexpensive solution to really serious conditions. Share this episode, pass it on, and Docs, get one in your office. Email Matt. Thanks, Matt, I appreciate you coming on.

Dr. Matt DiDuro:
Thank you, Dr. Pompa, I really appreciate your time.

Ashley Smith:
That's it for this week. I hope you enjoyed today's episode, which was brought to you by Fastonic Molecular Hydrogen. Please check it out at getfastonic.com. We'll be back next week and every Friday at 10 am Eastern. We truly appreciate your support. You can always find us at cellularhealing.tv. Please remember to spread the love by liking, subscribing, giving an iTunes review, or sharing the show with anyone who may benefit from the information heard here. As always, thanks for listening.

296: The Power Of Deuterium Depletion

Episode 296: The Power Of Deuterium Depletion

with Dr. Anne Cooper and Dr. Que Collins

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Have you heard of Deuterium? Wait until you watch this. My general curiosity is very apparent here as I interview 2 experts on the topic of deuterium. Did you know that 75% of disease today, that can be affecting you and your family in a huge way, can come down to deuterium. Everyone should know how well they can deplete deuterium since it's the basis for health and disease!

When you have a serious metabolic disorder like cancer, chronic fatigue, cognitive decline, or Lyme disease, the worry is real. Repairing your damaged metabolism empowers your body to create more energy to heal itself from the inside out so you can focus on living your life the way you want to live it. My guests today have been studying the power of deuterium depletion for more than 30 years, and they recently tested me and Merily. We are going to share our results with you today, and interpret what it all means.

Curious to test your own levels? I have a special link just for my CHTV audience. Check out the notes below.

More about Dr. Anne Cooper:

A native of Australia, Dr. Anne Cooper, D.C., LAc. earned her Doctorate in Chiropractic from Cleveland Chiropractic College (Los Angeles), graduating with Honors in 1997, while on the Dean’s list and winning the Charles Gibson award for clinical excellence. Her growing commitment to total health and innovative healing therapies led her to continue on with over 20 years of post doctoral experience in Functional

Medicine and a Masters degree in Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine, graduating with

highest honors in 2011. Early in her career as a celebrity aesthetician working with great beauties such as Ava Gabor, she realized that where there is beauty, there MUST be health and that health must be established on a very deep cellular level.

-Master’s in Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine (Highest Honors)
-Doctorate of Chiropractic (Honors)
-Charles Gibson Clinic Entrance Award
-Licensed Aesthetician
-Certifications: Clinical Nutrition, Applied Kinesiology, Functional Medicine, Energetic Medicine, Herbal Medicine

At the Center for Deuterium Depletion, Dr. Cooper actively works with patients and guides their day-to-day therapy. She also is the Center’s healthcare professional liaison, helping other clinicians implement these protocols and services into their practices. Her expertise as both an experienced natural and

functional medicine practitioner helps bridge any communication gap between the Center’s principal and chief scientists’ training in allopathic medicine and the training received by chiropractors, naturopaths, acupuncturists, herbalists, nutritionists, and other partners in the medical field.

More about Dr. Que Collins:

Dr. Que Collins, PH.D., M.A., M.S. is the leading scientist when it comes to developing and applying nutrition and metabolic therapies to treat cancer in people and pets.

-Ph.D., Clinical Immunology
-M.S., Oncotherapeutics
-M.A., Experimental Pathology
-B.S., Poverty Health Care and Cancer Epidemiology

Co-Founder and Principal Investigator, Center for Deuterium Depletion – the world’s first organization to use deuterium and tracer technologies in a research clinic setting to describe and follow the health status of patients with metabolic disorders such as cancer, diabetes, and autoimmune disorders.

Principal Investigator, Epigenix Foundation – not-for-profit organization created by the founders of Quest Nutrition promoting research to prevent and ameliorate disease, maximize quality of life and/or improve personal performance.

Co-Founder and Principal Investigator, Ketopet Sanctuary – a 53-acre ranch outside Austin, Texas using the ketogenic diet and other metabolic therapies with and without standard of care to treat dogs with naturally occurring cancers.

Transcript:

Dr. Pompa:
Have you heard of the word deuterium? Probably not. Wait until you watch this episode. It’s going to blow you away, I promise you. As a matter of fact, you can see in this episode my general curiosity because this is a topic that I heard about a year ago. I’ll be honest with you; I blew it off as just another thing that’s coming into our world that really it’s small potatoes.

I interviewed two, a doctor and a scientist doctor, who is an immunologist whose name is on a lot of studies on deuterium. Yeah, it affects and he believes is a cause of 75% of disease today. He’s done a lot of studies on this, brilliant. You’re going to realize that this deuterium can be affecting you and your family in a huge way. It’s so easy to actually test and retest and to see what you’re doing if it’s actually working. Stay tuned for this episode of Cell TV.

Ashley:
Hello, everyone. Welcome to Cellular Healing TV. I’m Ashley Smith. Today, we will learn all about the science behind deuterium and its role in health and disease. We will hear everything we need to know about deuterium from what it is, from deuterium depletion, and cellular energy production.

We have two amazing doctors with us today from the Center of Deuterium Depletion, Dr. Que Collins, you can call him Dr. Que, and Dr. Anne Cooper. You will also see Dr. Pompa and Merily’s results here live on the show. You’ll learn more about these testing resources that are accessible to all of you. Let’s get started and welcome Doctors Que Collins and of course Dr. Pompa to the show. This is Cellular Healing TV.

Dr. Pompa:
Alright, welcome. This topic, I have had just a fascination for. Admittedly to you all before the show, I say I know very little about it. I think I interviewed Robert Slovak on Facebook Live. That was the first that I brought this topic to my audience. I would argue that they too know very little. Maybe they heard the word, but probably like me, have a zillion questions.

Okay, I want to start here just very briefly. Then I want you to tell your story on how you even got into this. Why would someone need to be concerned about this deuterium, something that we have—all have in our bodies that we’re exposed to, but new science is showing that this can lead to cancer, energy depletion, and a lot of other cellular problems? This is Cellular Healing TV. Very briefly, and we’ll expand upon this, why do we need to be concerned about this?

Dr. Cooper:
Alright, that our body is always trying to create homeostasis with whatever is going on. Deuterium is natural; it’s an element; it’s an atom; it’s basically a larger hydrogen, larger and heavier. Our body’s always trying to keep the water amounts in our body. However, due to our environment and our lifestyles, in the last few decades, we are accumulating more deuterium than our body is designed to handle. We always have all of these mechanisms in place to deplete or to handle the proper amounts of elements or substances such as potassium in our body. We are losing that ability because we have been overloaded with deuterium.

The consequences of the overload due to the size and heavier weight of deuterium, it actually makes water—and we are mostly made of water. When the water is made more of deuterium, it becomes a heavier and larger molecule, the water. As it gets into our cells and since we are really talking about cellular energy and cellular health, it does have a very large impact and quite a deleterious biological impact on all of our systems due to the fact that it’s so large that once it gets inside our mitochondria, it can actually break the function of our cells from producing cellular energy.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, which again affects detox, affects how fast you’re aging or not. Obviously, it can cause bad cells, cancer. All of these things happen. Okay, we’re going to dive down, folks, because I know like me, there’s a zillion questions about just what you said. That was a great intro.

Alright, how did you all get into this? You have your own clinic. How did you find this? How long have you been into this? Give us a little history from you and this whole topic.

Dr. Collins:
I’m a clinical immunologist. I’ve been doing this for 35 years. I’m also one of the leading I guess godfathers of keto and keto diets for cancer. We got together about four years ago. I met our Chief Scientist, Laszlo Boros, at a meeting that I had in Florida called Metabolic Therapeutics, which is one of the largest meetings for keto heads and the first meeting that was started about four years ago about using—applying keto therapeutics and keto to different diseases. We had 5,000 people there last year in California, so it’s one of the largest meetings in the country.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, Dr. Dom has spoken at my—

Dr. Collins:
Yep, Dom has. I started this out with Dom about almost seven, eight years ago when my wife developed a glioblastoma. That’s how I came into the realm of understanding about keto. My wife was probably one of the first people on the planet that really used keto for cancer.

What we did was take everything from Dom’s lab and all the labs across the country. I opened an adult study where I tried all these different drugs and keto diets on dogs. If it worked, it went into my wife. With her glioblastoma, she lived for about two years; was given five weeks to live.

We’ll fast forward from there. I went to work for Quest Nutrition. From there, I opened a 52-acre sanctuary for dogs with cancer. Low and behold, we started using ketogenic diets and deuterium depleted water as a first step to do clinical trials in people. That’s when Dr. Boros came in with Dr. Somlyai in Hungary, who is one of the inventors of deuterium depletion, so unlocked a lot of things.

We’ve actually been doing this a total of about 30 years between the three of us. We’ve published over 100 papers, and treated over 1,200 patients, and published two books. I know it doesn’t—it seems like a lot of people don’t know, but within the academic community, we are the leaders. A lot of people do know we teach this at UCLA; we teach it at Washington; we teach at Penn State; we teach at a lot of universities now in the medical schools.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, no, exactly. Despite your amazing efforts, if I asked ten people right now on the street, they’d look at me like, huh? Listen, if I asked ten people about keto, they’d be like I’ve heard of it; I just don’t know what it is.

Dr. Collins:
It is crazy. You’re so right. As a matter of fact, keto, we have to always laugh and I tell Dr. Cooper because nobody knew what keto was. When I worked for Quest, they said, well, what do you want to do? I said, “I want to make keto famous in four years.” Four years now, it’s now the Number One searched topic on Google. We’re hoping to improve—

Dr. Pompa:
I said that about fasting in the ‘90s. Gosh, I couldn’t get anyone interested. Now, finally.

Dr. Collins:
Yeah, I love fasting; I really do. It’s a—

Dr. Pompa:
The fastest way into ketosis. Anyways, so okay, let’s give a little history of—you said a lot of terms that people are going, wait, so what’s good, a lot of deuterium, deuterium depletion, deuterium depleted water, deuterium depleted? Give us a history about this. It sounds like it came out of Russia. Give us a history of this and where we’re at today.

Dr. Collins:
Deuterium actually was used in the nuclear energy in our nuclear bomb industry. That’s where it came from, making nuclear weapons. That was with Russia, China. If you find a lot of places where deuterium water—deuterium depleted water is coming now from, it’s from former facilities in the communist countries that had them. Then in the early ‘70s and ‘90s, Gabor helped with the Romanian Academy of Sciences. They built the first Deuterium Depleted Water facility that had nothing to do with nuclear stuff.

Dr. Pompa:
They needed to deplete the deuterium out of the water for the nuclear facility to process, etc?

Dr. Collins:
Right, that’s the thing that causes that bomb, part of the fuses.

Dr. Pompa:
Right, so it’s safe to say then all water has some level of deuterium? Otherwise, we wouldn’t be trying to deplete it of it.

Dr. Collins:
Right, the average water has 155 parts per million. For every million hydrogens, there are 155 deuterium.

Dr. Pompa:
Okay, alright. Some water obviously has a lot more than others?

Dr. Collins:
Right; yeah, and that depends. It’s really interesting that you asked that because it depends on where it’s taken. Water at the top of a mountain in the ice has lower amounts of deuterium; waters in valleys and in oceans have higher amounts. Waters around the equator have higher amounts; waters at the poles have lower amounts. That’s not the deuterium; that’s deuterium also in the water, but also in the atmosphere in the humidity.

Dr. Pompa:
I would argue like this, okay, like heavy metals. We’re always going to be exposed to some degree. Can’t avoid it; heavy metals are in the air; heavy metals are in food. If you analyzed heavy metals on broccoli, there’s going to be some level because it’s in the soil. The point is it’s similar to that like deuterium. Meaning that the body, if it’s less—if it’s a normal amount, the body, a healthy body gets rid of it. Otherwise, it could bioaccumulate.

Dr. Collins:
Actually, no. Deuterium is not a toxin. Deuterium is actually required for your body to actually operate properly to form the right three-dimensional structures on things like redox reactions and in the hydrogens and oxygens and calcium. It determines all those things.

What is the bad problem is once it gets too high as Dr. Cooper said, it starts to be so heavy, it breaks your mitochondria, these things called nanomotors that make your ATP. You stop being able to sleep. You get depressed and all these other things start to happen. It’s not like mercury or Osage. It’s not a toxin.

Dr. Pompa:
Alright, great. Yeah, so just when it accumulates to a certain level, then it becomes a problem in the cell because you said it’s heavy.

Dr. Collins:
Yes.

Dr. Pompa:
Okay, great. That’s a great answer right there. Here’s the next question I think the logical question is what became the problem? Meaning that it’s naturally in the environment. Our bodies function with a certain amount of it. Why all of a sudden are we bioaccumulating or having too much?

Dr. Cooper:
It’s not really all of a sudden. It has accumulated in our bodies more and more over the last few decades. It has to do with our—

Dr. Pompa:
That’s kind of all of a sudden.

Dr. Cooper:
Okay, but compared to our great-great-grandparents, there’s quite a bit of difference in the health status in the world. A lot of it does have to do with the foods that we are consuming. There was really very low processed foods. There wasn’t potato chips around for them to grab into at those days. Mostly, it was they ate naturally.

There’s always been stress in the world, but I think in the last few decades, particularly in the last decade, the technology, it’s just a low-grade chronic stress where people cannot relax as much as well as they used to. It really isn’t getting their REM Sleep and REM sleep is a natural deuterium depletion method. It’s also accumulating in the atmosphere, what we’re breathing.

The problem with it, once we get too much, it does—not only does it cause problems when it’s in our system, but it does slow down our natural mechanisms for removing it. Therefore, the more you’re exposed to, the less you can get rid of before the more you’re exposed to. It’s going in that adverse downhill direction. We need to switch that around.

Dr. Pompa:
Alright, so doing a test to see where you are, that’s where I wanted to start. As a matter of fact, let’s share my test. Ashley will help us with that. Then you get to teach from that just to give people an idea.

Obviously, my viewers and listeners know, hey, I do all these biohacks. I’ve been eating a very healthy diet for a long time. However, I was still suboptimal despite my efforts. Not that I was making any. By the way, I was making no efforts to make my deuterium levels better. This was just me living.

I started with the test just to see where I was at. That way, I can say, okay, great; I’m going to do some things to try to deplete it. Then I can even bring you onto a Part Two show. I love doing that by the way, doing something and then doing a Part Two. Okay, so walk us through the test, my results.

Dr. Collins:
Okay, go ahead here.

Dr. Cooper:
Okay, so I see that the Breathy Test—

Dr. Pompa:
By the way, some people are just listening to the download, the audio. Try to play like it’s radio, too. Try to be as descriptive as you can.

Dr. Cooper:
Oh, okay. I’ve got Breathy both times.

Dr. Collins:
Yeah, that’s—go ahead.

Dr. Cooper:
I see that your breath test is 141.8.

Dr. Pompa:
By the way, we did—we measured with the test. We did breath and we did saliva. This is the breath portion.

Dr. Cooper:
Yes, and then the saliva component is—where am I reading? Oh, there it is, you’re doing it for me, thank you, is 146.3. We always look the actual numbers, but what’s also important is to be able to compare those two numbers to each other because we want to know what your load is in your tissues. We also want to get an indication of how well or unwell your own natural mechanisms for removing deuterium are working.

We can compare those two numbers together. We get a lot of information just with those two numbers. We call it the D-Factor. That’s your ability to remove your own deuterium which we have many mechanisms of doing.

Dr. Pompa:
It gives you a number on that as well, right?

Dr. Cooper:
Yeah.

Dr. Collins:
Yes.

Dr. Pompa:
Scroll down, Ashley. Then we can take a look at that. Okay, this is not what I was talking about. This is the ATP Production Factor.

Dr. Cooper:
Yeah, there is a relationship between your deuterium levels and your ATP production. As I explained before, it has an effect on your cellular energy production. We do see those numbers change very well and rather quickly once we get people on a deuterium depletion program.

Dr. Pompa:
Okay, we’re going to discuss that program, folks. Just so you know, greater than 51.3 is where you want to be, correct?

Dr. Collins:
Yeah, when you really look at this—let’s go back. Here’s what people when you read this as—and I’m glad you’re bringing this up. We really use this as a baseline to see where people are. What this shows for you, you’re in pretty good shape.

Now, what we’ll do is look at a lot of other things: really how you breathe, what you do every day, how you sleep, to see how we can get that better. You’re exactly right that you’re in that range to where you’re in that okay range as long as you don’t have cancer or a metabolic disease. If there was something there, then we’d really put you on a program to try to get that lower to get more energy, those redox reactions to start working, your cellular membranes to start working better. That’s how it starts.

Dr. Pompa:
Then okay, scroll down again, Ashley. This is what we were talking about, the difference between the two numbers. Your ability to get rid of it, is that what this number is?

Dr. Collins:
Yes, and it’s a measure. Again, just measuring salvia alone or urine alone is like a waste of time because it really doesn’t tell you anything. What you want to know is from the breath which is a marker for how much is in your tissue, how much is in your brain, how much is in your lungs. That’s what this is—that’s what the breath is for. You want to know how much is—your body is able to take in and how much it’s able to get out. That’s this percentage here.

As you can see in yours, you have a very low—your ability to deplete is lower. However, we talked a little bit before you started and you told me you use red light. This is something that we know that’s going to happen with red light because it tends to suppress to get rid of what’s in your tissues, but it doesn’t get rid of it out of your body.

Dr. Pompa:
Red light then, it alters this number, but is it good or bad for deuterium?

Dr. Collins:
It’s good because what it allows you to do, it allows less deuterium to be in your tissues with the mitochondria.

Dr. Pompa:
I got it.

Dr. Collins:
What we’d have to do is to fix your—a couple of things about fixing. Now, you can get rid of extra stuff that’s coming out can get out of your body so you would see even a lower saliva number.

Dr. Pompa:
I got it. The red light, I do it, it moves it out of my tissue, but now, we have to help it all the way out of the body or just take in less, am I right?

Dr. Collins:
Correct, that is it.

Dr. Pompa:
Alright, okay. By the way, interestingly, we don’t have time to show my wife’s, but it was almost identical. Two people eating the same food, living in the same house, living the same lifestyle. We both do red light. We both do the same things. It tested very similar. Do you see that often, people that are living in the same house, doing the same things?

Dr. Collins:
Yes, we see. This is what’s so amazing. We see that until there’s something wrong with one of the spouses. Then if there’s a difference, then we know that one of them with the faulty dysfunctional deuterium factor that’s here, then we know that he or she most likely has some kind of metabolic dysfunction disease. We get them to go to the doctor to find out what it is.

Dr. Pompa:
Interesting.

Dr. Collins:
We find this all the time as a matter of fact.

Dr. Pompa:
Okay, one of the things you all provided for my viewers and listeners is a discount on being able to get the test done. Ashley will put up those links there. How much is this test? Then I think they get 20% off of this even if they want a consultation for somebody to go over the result with them. That way, they actually get something out of it. How much is this test?

Dr. Collins:
The test for them is going to be about $260. We’re also going to put out for them the ability for them to be in a study where they can even get more off. They can see how they can get better and see what their deuterium levels are. They use red light and all these other things and be like you, so that’s what we’ll offer that to them to.

Dr. Pompa:
Gosh, be like me, I wasn’t very happy with my result.

Dr. Collins:
It’s not bad; it really isn’t bad.

Dr. Pompa:
I’m still motivated to see how low I can get it. Okay, but we’re going to talk about that. Let’s talk about again how this is affecting people. Where are their exposures outside of water? Talk about that. Where are there exposures and how is this affecting people so people can look at their life and go, oh okay, that can be a problem?

Dr. Cooper:
We do know that GMOs make things grow fast. It’s loaded in deuterium. Children and teenagers do need deuterium to grow, but past a certain age, we don’t need to be growing so much anymore. Generally, people grow out instead of up after a certain age. It also encourages the growth of other things that we don’t want. GMOs are high in deuterium. Pretty much processed foods; they use deuterium to process those foods. Sugar, we each so much sugar than way back when our grandparents did.

Dr. Pompa:
What do you mean by they use deuterium to process those foods?

Dr. Cooper:
They use the hydrogen. Remember hydrogenated oil?

Dr. Pompa:
Mm-hmm.

Dr. Cooper:
That’s deuterium.

Dr. Collins:
If you think about it, what Dr. Cooper is saying, when you use tap water, you’re using water that has high levels of deuterium to make something; therefore, the easiest things to come off and recover are the heavy hydrogens because the light ones float away. You’re building this Frankenstein monster that has high levels of deuterium on it.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, and we don’t drink ever, we don’t drink tap water. We don’t eat GMOs ever. Even at a restaurant, I’m asking, where’s this from, the corn, the soil? No vegetable oil, soil, all these things that are high in those things.

Dr. Cooper:
It’s very difficult to find any low—well, it’s almost impossible to find low deuterium depleted water on planet Earth anymore.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s where I was going next, yeah. In other words, we do all the food things; however, we’re still—every bit of water is still high deuterium, correct?

Dr. Collins:
Yeah. Not only that but now—

Dr. Pompa:
It’s not exposure, note that.

Dr. Collins:
Yes, well, not only that but not only are you—you’ve got to remember all the food that you’re eating is exposed to high deuterium levels. That’s not even the same as it used to be when our grandparents are coming up. That’s higher, too.

Dr. Pompa:
The foods are higher because—I just want to clean it up one more time for other’s sake.

Dr. Collins:
Yeah, the foods are higher for—because they’re taking in that—they’re using river water. The rain water’s now higher. The humidity is higher. All of these things, the farming principles don’t allow “the plants to sleep like they use to sleep before” because now they’re—instead of it going for a whole season, they aim to have corn growing for six weeks, or a chicken for six weeks, it’s full grown. These things are not going through their cycles to get rid of their deuterium anymore.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, so basically, the planet is not detoxing itself from the deuterium levels; and therefore, that ends up in our water. Glyphosate is in whatever it is, 70% of the water, even the rainfall. That’s a chemical. How much is something natural would be in there that our environment controls? It’s not able to control this, so these levels are building up in the environment, and therefore, our body.

Dr. Collins:
Yeah, that’s wonderful because it’s even global—or the climate change that we’re seeing, that’s also driven by hydrogens, the ratio between hydrogen-deuterium. Even that has to do with deuterium because heat, the transfer of heat from the sun actually is a transfer from oxygen to the oxygen-hydrogen bond. It’s not CO2, but oxygen and hydrogen. As you get deuterium on it, deuterium can’t transfer that energy; and therefore, it starts to heat up the earth. It is really connected.

Dr. Pompa:
We could have a whole global warming debate. I feel like man has very little to do with it.

Dr. Collins:
No, I don’t—what I’m trying to say—I don’t care what the reason. It’s simply that this is the biology, this is the reason for it.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, no, exactly. You’re right. That’s still occurring regardless. I get that and I agree with you on that. Okay, interesting.

Now, here’s the other question I know people are thinking because I ask this question: well, can’t we just filter our water out? We could not eat those foods and we could filter it out. If it were only so easy was what was said to me.

Dr. Cooper:
It’s a great thought and it’s made nice that people make an effort to try to make things better, but it just doesn’t. It’s so small you cannot filter it out.

Dr. Pompa:
RO distillation doesn’t even get it out?

Dr. Cooper:
No.

Dr. Collins:
No.

Dr. Cooper:
You have to have it—you have to get it out enough for it to be therapeutically beneficial.

Dr. Collins:
Distillation, deuterium depleted water is made from distillation, but it’s a seven-million-dollar disinflation for that.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, right, the process is like [00:25:22].

Dr. Collins:
Yeah, it’s not the one we have in our house.

Dr. Pompa:
This tube or whatever that goes up like I don’t know how high, you can tell me, and it’s distilled with this level because it’s heavy, so they have to go really high. Am I right on that process?

Dr. Collins:
Yes, you’re exactly right. Again, it’s not the water; it’s the food that is now be drinking the water. That’s really the catch, it’s the food.

Dr. Cooper:
We also use the water in the beginning as pretty much maybe a good kickstart to get things going, but it’s really not only about deuterium depleted water because we really teach people how they can kick in their own natural mechanisms for removing it, how they can limit their intake, and how they can have a lifestyle that they can continue to do for the rest of their life. Once we’ve got them in a good position that they really don’t need as much any—at all even because they have these tools to manage their own deuterium levels, therefore, their future.

Dr. Pompa:
I like that it’s testable. The testing is very accurate. Let’s say I did a test today and I did one tomorrow the next day. Where would my results—how close would they be?

Dr. Collins:
They would be the same.

Dr. Pompa:
Okay, I love that. I love accurate; I love reproducibility in a test. That’s a great place to start. Then I also love the fact now that we can retest and see what we’re doing, is it helping? I think that’s very motivating. Would I notice a difference? Do people get their levels down and go, oh my gosh, my cellular energy is so much better. My headaches are gone.

Dr. Cooper:
Dr. Pompa, I’m like you; I’m a chiropractor. The first thing that we learned the first day at chiropractor school was that we have our own innate intelligence; therefore, as we are lowering our deuterium levels, our body is the one that makes the decisions on what needs to be repaired first. What’s the most important priority?

Dr. Pompa:
That’s what fasting is. Fasting, the body makes a decision, you know what, I’m going to repair this first, and then that, and then this, so I get that.

Dr. Cooper:
Therefore, your body is going to make the decision. People do vary in their symptomatic relief. Sometimes you may have symptoms, but that energy may—your cellular energy may go to fixing what you—what’s causing the symptoms or it may find something more important to fix, so people respond at their own level.

However, having said that, most—almost most people that we work with within the first few weeks have reported to me, Anne, I feel more energetic big time. I feel more refreshed in the morning. I’m sleeping better. I don’t need as much sleep. Cognition, people really report that they can read and write better, and focus, and think more clearly.

Dr. Pompa:
Dr. Que, I have to ask you this question being an immunologist. What effects do you see in studies on the immune system which is a big deal today?

Dr. Collins:
Inflammation, we’ve published several papers. Inflammation’s related to deuterium levels. The honing of the immune factors all—the three-dimensional structure of all—once your deuterium levels are high, the three-dimensional structures, all your cytokines are changed. Therefore, you start to see differences there. Oncogenes are turned on and off depending on your deuterium levels and ATP. All these things you already know, but it’s just they’re—it’s simply the foundation of biology. It’s highly effective.

That’s important because we did segue to something really nice. That is, at the end of the day, our focus on cancer while we can talk about energy. What’s really neat is that while it makes normal cells—gives them much more energy, it takes away the energy of cancer cells. Cancer cells need deuterium to grow; without it, they’re done.

Dr. Pompa:
There’s actually studies showing that the cancer cells need the deuterium. Obviously, you’ve been through every study almost, if not all.

Dr. Collins:
We wrote most of them.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I was just going to say that or have you been involved in at least most of them. Yeah, that’s exciting. Okay, what conditions, cancer being one of them obviously, is deuterium directly correlated to that you think, listen, the rise in cancer is absolutely affected to the rise in deuterium levels? Do you believe that?

Dr. Collins:
Yeah, we’ve published epidemiological papers that can show the higher places of higher amounts of deuterium and your inability—that’s where you see—epidemiological studies have shown an increase in cancer in those places like San Francisco and wine.

Dr. Pompa:
Are there other correlation studies, other conditions?

Dr. Collins:
Yeah, and why in Utah and Colorado, why the cancer rate is lower. You also have a lower deuterium level in Utah, in Colorado because you guys are higher levels.

Dr. Pompa:
Oh, so that’s what it is; it’s the elevation?

Dr. Collins:
Yes.

Dr. Cooper:
Deuterium is too heavy to float that high.

Dr. Pompa:
Unfortunately, we’re eating food that’s growing where other people are making food.

Dr. Collins:
That’s exactly it. Things are not supposed to do this.

Dr. Pompa:
Our spring water might be better if we got spring water from here, which we actually have a local source. Our air, it’s less in our environment, but unfortunately, as you pointed out, most of it’s probably coming from our food sources.

Dr. Collins:
Yes, very good.

Dr. Pompa:
Alright, what are some of the other conditions that the studies are supporting that are linked to high deuterium levels in the body? Cancer was one.

Dr. Collins:
Oh, cancer. Again, anything that’s a metabolic disorder is related, directly related to deuterium.

Dr. Pompa:
Diabetes, obviously.

Dr. Collins:
Diabetes, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s, premature aging. We’re even working with the state of Ohio on the opioid crisis. Depression, anxiety, papers have been published on all of these things. It really sounds like Windex, but it is at the base because it’s just hydrogens and we’re 66% hydrogen. It’s at the base of almost all metabolic disorders if it’s not genetic. There are some genetic disorders, but 99% of disorders are not genetic.

Dr. Pompa:
What percentage would you say deuterium is related—and I know you don’t have an exact number. This is just your opinion just to step outside of [00:31:54].

Dr. Collins:
No, I am not afraid to say that if it’s mitochondrial dysfunction, its deuterium related. There’s very little doubt about that. If you take the biggest scourges of the not on this country, but on the world, and you say 75% of those people die from these diseases, 75% die because the deuterium levels are too high.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s just fascinating to me. How easy is it, and we’re moving into this next topic because I know my viewers are like okay, where do I get it
? How easy is it to change that number on that test? How long will it take for someone who’s even worse than me to get in a safe range?

Dr. Cooper:
This is what people love to see because generally within the first four to six weeks, they can come from a rather high range to close to or into the desired range. The deuterium depleted water really flushes out that deuterium to enable your body to work properly. It happens quickly.

Dr. Pompa:
The deuterium depleted water acts like a magnet, a chelator, or how does it work like that?

Dr. Cooper:
This is how I explain it. If your car engine were to end up with very thick gluggy oil in it, your motor can’t go. You can’t get anywhere. You would force in oil into it. Essentially, you’re full of this deuterium, heavy water. You’re going to put low deuterium water in to flush out that heavy water.

Dr. Pompa:
Alright, I like the oil analogy.

Dr. Cooper:
Men like that.

Dr. Pompa:
If I can get one for my women then. I thought that was good for everybody.

Dr. Collins:
I know; shame on you.

Dr. Cooper:
My dad taught me mechanics early on, so I’m in, but yeah, the guys really get that one.

Dr. Pompa:
Alright, but you put in enough of the bad, and you’re putting in new, and it’s going to be new after a period of time.

Dr. Cooper:
Then it’s like going to the gym. You go and you’re getting your muscle. You don’t want to stop. You want to maintain those levels for enough time to allow your body to kick in its own natural mechanisms. You’re going to accumulate more energy. The relationship between deuterium and ATP production, ATP energy is going to go up. Now, your body can kick in its own natural detox mechanisms better.

It’s going to be able to extract nutrients from your food better. You’re going to be able to function as you did when you were younger the longer you maintain those deuterium levels until you get to a point where we can start weening people off the deuterium depleted water. By doing all these other modules, we call them lifestyle factors, we—the more we encourage people or the more motivated people to get these other factors, they can let go of the water and just get tested once a year and then determine what they need to do or not.

Dr. Pompa:
Okay, yeah, well, let’s talk about all of the things that we need to do. If we had okay, here’s the program. You already started this. You already said get rid of all processed foods, GMOs. I’m going to make the argument—and most of my listeners are probably going, yeah, we’ll I’ve done that, but that’s where you start. Then what?

Dr. Collins:
Your listeners are going to laugh because it’s everything you already know: sleeping better, again, less stress, proper exercise, learning how to breathe correctly. Everybody’s always used these words, but what we’re able to do is quantify what you need to do. We look at how long you can hold your breath as a measure of how much oxygen you have in your tissue. How much oxygen you have in your tissue is directly related to your ability to bleed deuterium out of those tissues because oxygen binds with deuterium to make heavy water and get it out of your body.

Sleep, the same way. We can look at your sleep and see if your REM and deep sleep, fix those, that starts to remove it. A matter of fact, just people doing deuterium depleted water or a couple of our little modules, they actually—their sleep starts fixing itself. We have people that were insomniacs that can’t sleep, that sleep apnea got reversed without doing anything. It’s deuterium related, not—it’s not a physical thing is what we’ve—

Dr. Pompa:
The water helps. Of course, my viewers and listeners right now are going, well, how do I get this water? Where do I get it at? That’s a problem because it’s not cheap to produce this water, am I right? Then it becomes, well, I can’t drink all of my water from that because I don’t have enough space in my house.

Dr. Collins:
That’s good. Here’s what we tell people. I thank you for that question. Again, deuterium depleted water is an easy way, a great Band-Aid to get down. Most people don’t need to spend the expense of using deuterium depleted water.

We can show them how to get up, when to—how to breathe, when to go in the sun, all those things you already teach people, but we can put it to an exact science. That’s what we offer. They use these different tests to say, this is when you need to do it. This is when it works for your body.

We can look at your cholesterol. Say your cholesterol is exuberated. Let’s get your cholesterol [00:37:03] amount of cholesterol. Therefore, now, you can make vitamin D. You can make estrogen. You can make testosterone. You can make bile, all these things that you couldn’t do before.

Yes, the deuterium depleted water is available. Quite personally, I think it’s really important for people with cancer and metabolic disorders first and secondarily as a hack. Great, use it for a little while but only use it for a little while because you don’t want to set your body up to where it’s dependent on the water and you’re not doing the right things to fix yourself.

Dr. Pompa:
Alright, well, again, I appreciate that answer because, again, my viewers are like, I can’t afford to buy deuterium. Okay, it’s a good place to start; if you have an illness, definitely a good place to start, but all of these other things really matter most.

Dr. Cooper:
Dr. Pompa, we actually make this deuterium depleted metabolic water in ourselves given the right circumstances. We are teaching that eventually, we’ll be—you’ll be making this deuterium depleted water where you won’t be so thirsty. You won’t even have the need to drink your high levels of deuterium depleted water because you’re going to make more of your own.

Dr. Pompa:
Okay, now, here’s the thing. Name some other biohacks. Red light therapy you said is a really good way. There’s different types: there’s red, there’s near-infrared, there’s far-infrared. Do studies show which one’s better for this?

Dr. Collins:
We do a lot of studies. We know red light, we know sound.

Dr. Cooper:
The combination.

Dr. Collins:
Yeah, the combination of the two. There’s vibrational energies. All these things travel through water. As you know, it travels through water. That viscosity of the water is changed by the level of deuterium that’s in it. That’s really just the way to think of it; it really is.

When Anne says thick gluggy oil, that’s not a bad way of thinking about this. It’s just not as thick and gluggy, but it really is thicker. That little bit keeps those light rays from getting into your skin, and getting onto your receptors, and getting to your gut like they should be able to get into your brain so your brain can operate better. Indeed—

Dr. Cooper:
We have vibrational energy. You don’t want to slow that resonance down; you want to raise it up so you can resonate at a higher level. You can do that because sound and light move by a frequency or a resonance. If it’s bumping into deuterium, it’s going to fracture—fragment that and break it down. As we lower your deuterium, you benefit so much better from all of these other biohacking methods because it can not impede them.

Dr. Pompa:
Okay, so what would you say for someone like me to lower my deuterium levels because my viewers and listeners are people like me? What would you say, yeah, here’s what you need to do? Because my REMs, I measure my sleep, my deep sleep. I get well over two hours a night on REM sleep. I can prove that in a second.

I have my own little thing. I get a lot of deep sleep. I average probably two hours a night in deep sleep. Then I even get more REM sleep.

Okay, that’s good, but yet my levels still weren’t perfect. I do red light every day. I’m out in the sun a lot; I purposely do that. I exercise. I don’t eat processed foods. What do you tell me?

Dr. Collins:
I think the best—the first thing we’d probably start with you is breathing, is learning—to see how you breathe, how long, what is your oxygen content of your cells or of your muscles?

Dr. Pompa:
When I compare myself, my son can hold his breath for three to five minutes at a time. If he does breath [sparsting], he can go longer, but just off the cold. I can only hold my breath for maybe a minute and a half.

Dr. Cooper:
That’s a start.

Dr. Collins:
When we talk about breath-hold, we’re talking about on exhale. That’s the big difference is you want to get it all—what you’re trying to do is get it all out and then how long you can hold your breath on the exhale.

Dr. Pompa:
Oh, I’ve never tried that. I always breathe in and hold my breath.

Dr. Collins:
Yeah, that’s what’s so weird. It’s not measuring lung capacity, but your ability of what’s left in your tissues after it’s gone. Really, that’s what we’d start working on first.

Dr. Pompa:
What’s a good number there to exhale?

Dr. Collins:
If you look at this, we try—a good number is 45 seconds. Anything lower than 45 seconds—most cancer patients can only hold their breath for 10 seconds, almost like hyperventilating, diabetes patients, obese patients. If you can get up to a minute and over a minute, that’s where we see our professional athletes and our Olympic gold medalists. We had six Olympic gold medalists last year or last Olympics. They use this as a true biohack at the top of athletics.

Dr. Pompa:
Okay, let’s talk about that. You said on me breathing would be a big deal, a big additional. What about hyperbaric?

Dr. Collins:
Hyperbaric oxygen?

Dr. Pompa:
Mm-hmm.

Dr. Collins:
Yeah, both ozone and hyperbaric oxygen are—actually help remove deuterium because again, it forces oxygen into you. It’s better on hyperbaric oxygen therapy at atmospheres that are greater than 1.9, 2 atmospheres.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, which makes a problem because those machines aren’t as affordable.

Dr. Collins:
Yeah, there’s no doubt about it. What we use it for, we use it different than most people. Again, we wrote a paper some time ago on ketogenics and hyperbaric oxygen therapy showing how that worked and how intermittent fasting and fasting works with it. That’s with Dominic.

Dr. Pompa:
You know—go ahead.

Dr. Collins:
What you can use that for is to get rid of it in your tissue and then with deuterium depletion, you don’t feed in the bad stuff anymore. You don’t have to do hyperbaric oxygen for 13, 14 sessions because you just use it almost like IV water to get the stuff out of you because the oxygen bonds it. Now, you’re able to now lower that 5 or 6 points, make it easier to get below 130.

Dr. Pompa:
With the water, you can get a jump on it to your point before no matter what you do, then apply all of these things. Okay, are there any other tips right now that this is how you get rid of it?

Dr. Collins:
Yeah, what we’ve actually set up is we’re starting to tell you guys we started a new portal which we call [My-tabulism] which takes all these markers that you have for mitochondria dysfunction. Patients or clients can actually follow where those mitochondrial markers are. We use a Fitbit watch to track your—how much time you’ve been walking, and your resting heart rate, your HRV. We can actually adjust those even getting your differences between—you sleep great.

Now, pretty soon, the question is, how low is your resting heart rate while you sleep versus your resting heart rate while you’re up. Those are things that change in this modern society that we’re actually after there to know how to make that greater, that part bigger. Therefore, your sleep is not only more sleep but more restorative sleep. That’s one. Sleep, it’s really the—biohacking is great, but you have to know what you know of how it works.

We look at things like that. We work on your resting heart rate. We work on your heart rate variability. We work on skin integrity. We work on your gut.

When you talk about gut and everybody talking about how the gut works, bacteria take deuterium out of your body. That’s what they’re for. We work with a lot of Crohn’s Disease and IBS patients because the problem is they can’t—their gut’s not stable. They can’t remove deuterium from their body. That’s why they get this illness for so long.

Dr. Pompa:
Interesting; what percentage of the population, you see the tests come in, are normal, absolutely spot on normal?

Dr. Cooper:
Very few. Go ahead.

Dr. Collins:
Yeah, there’s very few, as Dr. Cooper said. Let me make sure we tell it because our people are skewed. The people that really come to us come to us because they know something’s wrong.

Dr. Pompa:
I would argue a lot of your people are probably in the red zone, right?

Dr. Collins:
Oh, yes. It’s just amazing. We can’t say this is a diagnostic test, but there’s not a day that doesn’t go by where we don’t get a test in and have to write one of those letters that say, go you see your physician immediately. We can’t tell you something’s wrong, but they need to tell you.

Dr. Pompa:
Wow, it’s that accurate that when you—

Dr. Collins:
It’s that accurate.

Dr. Pompa:
What level on that—you said to me that it’s the breath that matters most. What level would you be like concerned and tell someone to go see their doctor?

Dr. Collins:
In a vacuum, we would say things that are over 150 that we start to worry.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s pretty high.

Dr. Collins:
Especially if they get—we had a patient that came into us over 155, which shouldn’t exist.

Dr. Pompa:
Okay, wow.

Dr. Collins:
At the same time, once you start to look at a whole clinical history, it can actually be lower than that because you have got to see what else is going on. We’ve gotten it past an art because we’ve done so many patients, but it’s not as—it’s not just as simple as people think it is who haven’t done it before. Wouldn’t you agree?

Dr. Cooper:
Yeah, I just wanted to make sure we say, Dr. Pompa, about the breathing, there’s cancer patients, in fact, a lot of them have trouble getting to six seconds. I see a lot of patients who start out at 12 seconds and it does not mean that they are a cancer patient so that all of your clients aren’t going to measure their breath-hold and get worried. It does mean that they really are very low oxygen content in their body. They probably have some metabolic disease.

Dr. Pompa:
Alright, I rarely do this, but I’m going to do this today. I want Ashley to come back on because I want her to ask a couple questions that are on her mind right now. I’m so intrigued that oftentimes I leave the show like this regretting that I didn’t ask that question or my viewers say, gosh, I wish you would have asked this. Ashley, there’s so many questions here. I feel like I’m missing them because my brain is processing. Ashley, do you have questions about this?

Ashley:
I’m the same way because this—for me, this is all so new as well. I didn’t take a test, but I’m curious when you would think somebody does need to take a test or do you think it’s pretty much appropriate for everybody?

Dr. Collins:
I think this is yours.

Dr. Cooper:
My feeling is that everybody should have their deuterium levels tested because it’s going to give them more power over how they’re going to deal with their life. Once you manage your deuterium levels, frankly, all of the other markers may change. I would rather test deuterium levels first, get that under control, and then do a lot of the other tests.

Because I was doing a lot of testing, functional testing doctor doing a lot of fat testing, thyroid testing, hormonal testing. I don’t do that anymore because once I learned about deuterium, I really did feel like I was still working upstream. My whole goal has always been try to find out the best way to approach these patients and try to find the best way to get them better.

Many people have so many different things going wrong that we end up testing all over the map. Forget it. I just test their deuterium levels. I give their body the opportunity for their own innate intelligence to kick back in, fix a lot of things. Then I can come in and do—see what else your body has really not been able—is so damaged that it needs a little bit of assistance rectifying.

Dr. Pompa:
Ashley, you can reexplain what they’ve given our viewers, 20% off the test. You’ll put the links in, right?

Ashley:
Yeah, I’ll definitely put the links here. Just to let you know, there’s a few different tests as well as the study that people can volunteer to be a part of as well which is a really cool opportunity. I might actually do that myself.

Dr. Collins:
They’ll also be able to measure the water and the food, so whatever they want to do.

Dr. Pompa:
Oh yeah, that’s right, the water, the water you drink for sure, right? I can test even the spring water that we get versus my RO water that I have. Food, is it the food you eat every day all the time? Is that the one you would measure or just random?

Dr. Cooper:
We have some people who just love to eat a certain thing and they just want to know. You’re not going to obviously test every food you eat.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that was my point, yeah.

Dr. Cooper:
We’ve got some people who just love this certain shake or something and the powder or whatever the use. They don’t want to give it up. We’ll test it and then they’ll make their own decision. Maybe it’s not worth it.

Dr. Collins:
Also—

Dr. Pompa:
How do I get the other tests because if we do another show on this, which we will because I’ll retest my things to Ash? I want to know what my levels are and we’ll share that.

Dr. Collins:
Definitely, it’s the same way you can use the food test. You were asking how to test if one type of—a place that you get beef or fish from is lower in one place than another place. It’s really quite convenient. It may sound silly, but there are differences. We measure the difference in cattle for instance that have a difference of 15 parts per million in the cattle. You’re eating cattle with high deuterium levels. It’s not good for you. It’s like, don’t do it, but you think you’re doing well.

Dr. Pompa:
Are kids’ levels generally lower than adults?

Dr. Cooper:
No, because children and teenagers need deuterium to grow. I’ve actually also used this for women trying to get pregnant, having difficulty getting pregnant, very successfully. We do watch the mom’s deuterium levels because she needs enough deuterium to pass on for her fetus to grow properly. Also, past a certain age, under a certain age, your children are using that deuterium to replicate and grow.

Dr. Pompa:
Again, just so that people understand, it’s a heavier hydrogen. That’s how your body can actually utilize this. Is there a supplement that someone that you have discovered helps this?

Dr. Collins:
We’re working on not per se a supplement. We know that most medical—well, we wrote a paper, a couple papers now. We know that most medications for instance like Metformin and [barrbaroot],that they actually act by helping to deplete deuterium. That’s really what they work—that’s really what they do.

We actually discovered that one of the—not Lipitor, what’s the one from—Glivec. We published a paper two years ago about Glivec, the miracle CLL, miracle drug for chronic leukemia. We found out after they’ve been charging $10,000 per treatment that it was simply a combination of Lipitor and Metformin. They were busted. They simply both act—they have nothing to do with genetics. They have nothing to do with being able to make something on and off in your gene. They simply remove deuterium and work through the metabolism.

Dr. Pompa:
Obviously, there’s much safer ways to deplete this.

Dr. Collins:
Oh, yes. That is just that. What I was just saying, all these things that try to say is magic about these medicines, they’re not.

Dr. Pompa:
Right, I got your point, yeah. What about molecular hydrogen, these new molecular hydrogens?

Dr. Collins:
The molecular hydrogen is an interesting thing. It is what you put in. If you make these molecular hydrogens from the way they make it depending on—the ones we’ve tested don’t lower—they have the same amount of deuterium in it as tap water, the tablets do. They don’t lower anything, but there may be some out there that are better. The three or four we’ve measured, they all have measured anywhere from 145 to 153 parts per million of hydrogen, same as water.

Dr. Cooper:
Also, as a herbalist, I’ve always loved to used herbs. They’re natural, God-given green plants, but then I’ve had to really rethink about how these herbs are processed or where they were processed. If it was processed in a place with really high levels of deuterium in the water, I have to rethink it. Eventually, all of these companies as they learn about these, in order to keep in the game, in order to say they have really high-quality products, they need to get their products tested. This is the way it’s going to go.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s what I was just thinking. We test every herb, everything for heavy metals which is a toxin, but deuterium not being a toxin, we need to test for it just because we—again, there’s levels that can—

Dr. Cooper:
The impact it can have.

Dr. Collins:
We actually do this for a lot of different people including the FDA. Right now, the FDA and the toxicology department there is actually using deuterium depletion as one of the factors for their safety studies. That study is going on right now that we’re helping with. We’re hopeful that what they’re trying to get to is say if this allows your deuterium to go up and hurt your metabolic pathway, that drug can’t go from—they can’t pass a Phase One safety study. We’re hopeful that ends up happening, that they test the deuterium.

Dr. Pompa:
You think this will hit the mainstream to the point where—

Dr. Collins:
I do, five years, no doubt about it. Because this is [00:54:46] on—scientists and medicine, all they want is science, is can you prove it? Yes, we can. More importantly, our cancer patients are getting such better clinical outcomes doing this with standard of care, doesn’t make a difference. Their results are so much better. We’re getting anywhere from eight to ten years of their main—of extra life on Stage Four patients. It’s changing cancer already. Already, it’s changing big time.

As I said, we’ve already had two clinical trials on cancer in Europe. We’re going to have one here for cancer for both glioblastoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia. We’re very excited. We think once you handle cancer and the things we’re understanding about sleep and depression and all these things that are coming out of our studies, it’s going to affect everything because it makes it work better; it makes insurance cheaper because you can keep people well. That’s really what we need to do in this country.

Dr. Cooper:
Dr. Que has actually encouraged a lot of our cancer patients here the second time around. They’ve already been through the center of care and they’re concerned. He’s encouraged them, yes, you’re going to go through this again. You’re going to do all this.

We’re just going to make you a much stronger, robust person so that you can get through this without all the—and we have many people call me and tell me, Anne, it’s my second time. I have no chemo brain. I have no fatigue. I’m at work. People tell me I look great. It’s nice news for people who are so concerned, or worried, or just I don’t want to ever go through this again that they can through everything at it and come out with a much better outcome without feeling miserable.

Dr. Pompa:
Wow, so—

Dr. Cooper:
I just love it because they have patience with all this.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, what did I miss, Ash? This is such an amazing topic?

Ashley:
Yeah, it really is. I really think you hit it all. I was going to ask about children and if you thought that they should be tested and you answered that. Do you feel like a whole family should be tested or maybe start with the parents, or start with the children?

Dr. Collins:
Yeah, when we look at it—we tested entire families. Again, it’s so interesting. While your spouses are different—are the same, your children are completely different than you are. They hold on to this stuff. They use it for a reason. No matter what, they use it.

We really try to say when we think—we know there’s a lot more chronic illnesses in younger children. Ten years ago, I would have said no, but now, you’ve got to be even upfront and proactive with younger children because they’re being destroyed; they really are. Just such simple fixes and that’s what’s so amazing. There’s such simple fixes.

Dr. Pompa:
Would there be different levels for testing kids because they need—they use more?

Dr. Collins:
When you look at that test, we still try to get them below 4130, but we don’t try to drop them into the 118 and 116 to 112 level. We keep them below 130. It’s amazing; they lose weight. Most parents love this because they become easily—their discipline gets better. They’re not moody teenagers.

Dr. Cooper:
They do better in school with cognition and focus and things.

Dr. Collins:
Yeah, so it’s great.

Ashley:
That’s nice.

Dr. Pompa:
Fascinating topic. I think I heard this word a year ago. I know you’ve been in it for longer than that, but just to show you though, how—and I’m hearing more and more of it, but still, we need to get the word out about something—

Dr. Cooper:
Thank you for sharing it.

Dr. Collins:
I appreciate it because it’s you guys that are leaders in this that are going to help people understand. That’s all we’re here for.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I want to do a Part Two. I want to remeasure. I want to look at my water. We’ll take it to another level. Ashley will get her’s done. Let’s look at how—

Dr. Cooper:
Have all your clients send in their questions what they feel they—as they feel they want to.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, great.

Ashley:
Yeah, definitely.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, exactly. I think we’ll get a lot of questions. Share this show, folks, as best you can. People need to know this information. Ask some questions and Ashley will forward them onto you all.

Because again, I want everyone to know everything. There’s so much here. It’s such a new topic, but such an important topic. Thank you for bringing this information. Thank you for offering the tests at a discount for our viewers and listeners. Let’s keep getting the word out.

Dr. Collins:
Thank you guys very much. You guys keep being the warriors that you are. We appreciate it.

Dr. Cooper:
Great questions, thank you.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, awesome. No, I loved it. Thank you.

Ashley:
Thank you, bye

Dr. Collins:
Bye-bye.

Dr. Cooper:
Thank you.

Ashley:
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295: The Best Olive Oil In The World

Episode 295: The Best Olive Oil In The World

with TJ Robinson

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In 295 episodes, this may be the most fun I have ever had recording Cellular Healing TV. You're about to find out why!

I'm excited to introduce my friend, TJ Robinson, who is also known as ‘The Olive Oil Hunter.'

TJ is delivering access to one of the best superfoods in the world, and you will learn why cold-pressed artisan olive oil can be one of the greatest game changers you can incorporate into your health routine. You will also learn how to properly taste, purchase, store, and utilize olive oil for the most health benefits.

So grab a small glass, a slice of apple, and the best olive oil you have in your kitchen, and you can play along too! Need to upgrade your olive oil? No worries. We've got you covered in the link below.

More about TJ Robinson:

T.J. Robinson is one of the world's most respected authorities on all matters olive oil.

Known for his “platinum palate,” he is one of the few Americans invited to serve as a judge in prestigious Italian olive oil tasting competitions.

He is dedicated to importing rare fresh-pressed olive oil, the most flavorful and most healthful extra virgin olive oil on the planet, until now virtually impossible to obtain year-round in the US. All his oils are independently lab tested and certified for 100% purity.

Transcript:

Dr. Pompa:
Maybe the most fun Cell TV ever. You’ll get to see me with this, with this, with this, and the rest is a secret. Let’s just say I got a little tipsy on this show, but no, this show is about the best olive oil in the world. I believe the biggest game changer which I’m asked all the time. If finances are an issue and I want to make a huge change in my health of myself and my family, what is it? You better watch this show because really this is it. It goes beyond olive oil, trust me, into, I believe, it is the greatest game changer you all can make in your health. Stay tuned for a really fun and exciting show. I learned so much. I had so much fun. I’ll see you on the show.

Ashley:
Hello, everyone. Welcome to Cellular Healing TV. I’m Ashley Smith and today we have a really fun episode. We are joined by TJ Robinson who is one of the world’s most respected authorities on all matters olive oil. He’s going to walk Dr. Pompa through a special tasting today to help you learn the difference between artisan olive oil and mass-produced olive oil. There is not only a huge difference in taste, but also in your health. TJ will share why his adventures have landed him the nickname, The Olive Oil Hunter. I cannot wait to hear why. I’m excited to get my taste buds educated. Let’s get started and welcome TJ Robinson and Dr. Pompa to the show. Welcome both of you.

TJ:
Thank you, so happy to be here. It’s a real pleasure. Thank you, guys. It’s an honor.

Dr. Pompa:
You know, I fell in love with you and your olive oil at the Mindshare seminar, and I’ve just been a consumer ever since. Italian is my blood and I use absolutely olive oil. I put it on everything, so a little bit here and there. I grew up that way.

TJ:
Love it.

Dr. Pompa:
I’ve become a connoisseur of really good olive oil meaning I know whether it has really good polyphenols which you’re going to explain more.

TJ:
Excellent, excellent.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. I get all the health benefits of it so I seek out the best oils. I have to say this right up front, you provided me with the best olive oils I’ve ever tasted.

TJ:
That’s so sweet. Thank you. That’s so kind.

Dr. Pompa:
I also mean that. There’s a reason for that. Just give our viewers a little background of how the heck you became The Olive Oil Hunter. What that means? Then we’ll go from there.

TJ:
Sure. I was living and working in New York City a little over a decade ago, and working as a food, wine, and travel writer. I had the opportunity to visit Sicily and when I visited Sicily, it was right at harvest time. I’m just a Southern boy. I don’t live in Northern California where there are olive trees. We only produce about 5% of what we consume in the US which mean we’re forced to import about 95%. Anyway, I was never—of course, I love fresh apple cider and fresh tomatoes and peach juice and that stuff, but I had no idea what fresh olive oil tasted like.

Anyway, I’m there. I hang out with this family, this very sweet Sicilian family. The guy’s name was Mateo. He invited me to his family’s harvest party. I’ve never been to a olive harvest party and didn’t know what this culture was all about. This type of olive culture. Anyway, that evening, we visited the mill. We harvested olives all day and we took them to the local mill. I stood there in front of the centrifuge where I had a small tasting cup similar to this and I plopped it under.

Dr. Pompa:
I’m ready, man.

TJ:
Yeah, I love it. You’re prepared. I stuck that cup under there and I put it under my nose and my life was changed. It was just immediately changed. I had never smelled an oil of this quality or freshness in my life. I was like, hmm, I feel like as an American I’ve really been duped here. I really feel like being a chef, my background as a chef and a pastry chef and culinarian, and I really thought that I understood the quality markers in olive oil, and even as a professional I had no idea. Anyway, that for me started this mission of educating, and I brought bottles back for my friends and family and my New York chef friends. They were obsessed with it.

What happened was, after this harvest happened in November and everyone got their oil in December and folks loved it, but the problem was, March came and everyone was running out of oil. They were like, hey, TJ, I want some more of that fresh oil. I’m like, dude, you got to wait. The harvest doesn’t happen again in the Mediterranean. It’s a one time a year thing and it’s happening next fall. Anyway, I like, just early days of the internet, started to do some research and I find out that immigrants had taken cuttings of olive trees and hidden them in their ties and actually sown them in their clothing like in the seams of their pants. They had hidden olive tree cuttings.

When they arrived in Chile and Argentina and Australia, they were actually able to plant olive trees which reminded them of their home in the Mediterranean, and of course, they use them for religious ceremony and all those important rituals that they were accustomed to. Anyway, I discovered that I could get fresh oil from the Southern Hemisphere and the Northern Hemisphere which allowed me to invent the Fresh-Pressed Olive Oil Club. Now we source from the Southern Hemisphere which is opposite of the Mediterranean also twice a year. Four time a year I deliver fresh-pressed oil delivered by jet directly from the harvest.

Dr. Pompa:
Yes. That’s the point is the only way to get fresh-pressed fresh harvest, I should say.

TJ:
Yes.

Dr. Pompa:
You can get fresh-pressed, but it is fresh harvest.

TJ:
Exactly, exactly.

Dr. Pompa:
Is to do it from different hemispheres, I mean, literally from different parts of the world. I guess, the challenge then was—by the way, the fresh-pressed fresh harvested olive oil is your healthiest and you’ll explain all that.

TJ:
Absolutely.

Dr. Pompa:
The bottom line is you can’t duplicate that unless you’re getting it, and it was impossible otherwise.

TJ:
That’s right.

Dr. Pompa:
Most of the oil that we’re consuming isn’t in fact fresh-pressed fresh harvest.

TJ:
Right. Around the time that I really started digging into this, UC Davis—again, this is about a decade ago. UC Davis did some testing. They took olive oil samples. They went to three places in California, I believe. They pulled samples from grocery store shelves and sent them off to a lab. The lab, when you’re certifying something as extra virgin, it goes through two different tests. One is a lab panel test. You have a team of professional tasters who certify it to be organoleptic, that’s nose, palate, of having no defects, and being of the quality standard of extra virgin. That’s one.

Then two is chemical analysis where they look at the actual healthy helpfulness of the fruit that went in to making that oil and the quality of the oil now. Anyway, they took these samples. They ship them off to Australia to an independent lab and they discover that almost 70% of them were not extra virgin at all.

Dr. Pompa:
Wow.

TJ:
Even though they were labeled as such. That was like whoa, the slippery business of olive oil really started to get out there. We were the dumping ground for bad olive oil.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, and that’s actually in the last few years it’s geared up even more. Most olive oil that’s coming in even from Italy. They blame the mafia. Who knows?

TJ:
That’s right.

Dr. Pompa:
You bet. Anyway, the point is, is it’s being cut—if you go to any grocery store, you’re hard pressed not to find an extra virgin olive oil. Meaning, they’re all extra virgin olive oil, but I would argue that it’s even higher than 70% that’s in fact not.

TJ:
It’s really hard to say. They’re trying to do a better job. Honestly, they are. They’ve gone from mostly clear bottles to darker bottles. It’s still plastic, but at least it’s dark. Light damages olive oil. Time damages olive oil and heat also damage olive oil. They’ve made strides, but when you look at the back of a bottle from the supermarket and there’s eight different countries of origin. Honestly, how much control do you think that they had in that product? It’s not single estate. It’s not single varietal. It’s not flown in by jet. It’s not hand procured and sent directly to your door. Where the polyphenols, because they drop in the first six months by about 50%. There’s not really a chance honestly.

Olive trees, they actually produce higher quantities every other year. One year it will be low production. The next year high production. The next year low, etc. This is especially true when there’s no irrigation involved. What this means for the consumer is they actually hold the oil from the larger production years because they know next year what they need to sell. They hold that oil for a year and the labeling on the bottle is actually based on when it’s bottled, not the actual harvest date. It’s just honestly a bit of a nightmare for a consumer.

Dr. Pompa:
You’re out there ahead of us finding the best oils that aren’t cutting corners.

TJ:
That’s right.

Dr. Pompa:
Not cutting your product and most importantly, it actually really is a fresh harvested product. We’re getting the polyphenols. We’ve got a lot of goals here. I can’t wait. My mouth is salivating. As I’m looking down at my oils.

TJ:
I love it. I love it.

Dr. Pompa:
I have a little apple here and I have my cups already. Okay. I said that there’s obviously a taste benefit when you taste real oil.

TJ:
That’s right.

Dr. Pompa:
Fresh harvest oil in particular. You go, holy cow. I don’t even know if I’ve had anything like this before. Talk about the health benefits. Why are we after these things called polyphenols in high level?

TJ:
Sure. You’re more medical than I am. I’m more chef, but I can tell you that many of the experts I work with work in the gut biome. They say olive oil is incredible. Dr. Sarah Ballantyne says it’s incredible for your gut, brain health. It’s the ultimate in brain health and of course fight things like dementia and Alzheimer’s and all that sort of thing. Of course, cholesterol, heart health, that’s important. When you have high polyphenol oils, what’s really cool is—a scientist who was visiting Sicily—again, another Sicilian epiphany by this guy. He was visiting Sicily and tasted fresh oil for the first time.

He was actually a scientist who studies ibuprofen. He discovered the sensation in his throat was very similar to ibuprofen. It was like akin to the ibuprofen he was testing in the lab. Anyway, he went home. He took the fresh oil. He started to do some research and he discovered that in fresh olive oil, you have the same compound, nature’s version of ibuprofen. You get all those antioxidant and cooling for arthritis and any type of inflammation. It’s like mother natures miracle tree. Really, it’s pretty amazing stuff.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, exactly. You’re going to teach us how you know when an oil has high polyphenols or not.

TJ:
Absolutely.

Dr. Pompa:
I know. Our viewers would like to know. You can provide obviously—let’s get people in your olive oil club. Let’s do that now. I think as you go through the show have even more of a reason [00:13:00] to the olive oil club.

TJ:
I’m really excited that you mentioned that. To me, the epiphany is the proof is in the pudding. I’m a chef. I like people to taste the oil. What I do, everyone who comes in to my club comes in with a $1 offer. That $1 buys them their—the bottle is free. It’s just a dollar to help me offset shipping. That bottle goes direct to their homes and let’s them evaluate the oil for themselves. I invite them to take their bottle out of the cabinet, grab your espresso cup or shot glass like we’re doing and do a side-by-side tasting and see for yourself.

The number one thing you can do is get educated. That’s part of our corporate mission. We work with small family farmers. They’re all on board with this because they know that people who try the oil are just converts and can never go back to putting rancid, old, mediocre, low-yield—we can talk a little bit more about that. Olive oil in their system. Anyway, do you want to run through a tasting or you want to talk a little bit about the three oils?

Dr. Pompa:
Let’s do that, but let’s start with—okay, we have three oils. Now from the club, these oils are not from Italy because the harvest hasn’t happened in Italy. It’s about ready to happen right now.

TJ:
That’s right.

Dr. Pompa:
These are from Australia because I’m assuming that was where the last harvest was.

TJ:
That’s right. That’s right. The club members received these in September. There’s a mild, medium, and bold. What I’m going to do, I’m going to take for you guys that are just listening and not watching video, I have about a three-ounce white solo cup. You can use an espresso cup or a glass shot glass. I’m putting in about a tablespoon. I would say approximately a tablespoon of oil just so you can see that. Yeah, perfect, perfect. We’re going to do a sensory analysis before we taste the oil. We’re going to do a smell test.

Dr. Pompa:
I’m going to show them the color.

TJ:
Yeah, I want to see that. Look at that color. That’s insane. That’s insane. I already smell it. It’s already coming…

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I know I smell it.

TJ:
I know it’s coming out of the glass.

Dr. Pompa:
I want them to see that color.

TJ:
Yes. That’s insane.

Dr. Pompa:
Because the color is part of the magic. I mean, just so you know.

TJ:
Yes, yes. We’ll see the…

Dr. Pompa:
I hope you saw that. Can you see the…

TJ:
Yeah, I can. It’s beautiful. Thank you. The color, it’s not a true test that color is the be all, end all because in competitions, professional tasters actually taste out of blue glasses because they wanted to take that out of the equation because it’s not necessarily a quality marker.

Dr. Pompa:
Got it.

TJ:
Some producers, let’s say the bulk ones have realized they could add chlorophyll to low quality olive oil and consumers think, ooh, this is good. This is obviously not what’s happening here. What’s happening here is we harvest the fruit at a very early stage, so the yield—okay, so the olive itself is, once it’s pressed for my quality standards has about 10% oil yield, 10%. 90% goes away as pit and paste and water. Just the oil is about 10%.

Dr. Pompa:
It sounds like a bad business model already.

TJ:
It is. You got to pay. Exactly. If you have a mortgage, you leave the same green fruit on the tree for an extra month or so, maybe two months, maybe three, depending on where you are, and you can get up to 30% of the oil. The oil will be totally different from the health perspective. Your polyphenols are going to be miniscule. The quality flavor markers, health markers, all will be cut. It is like American consumers who want these super low prices on olive oil and don’t want to pay for high quality stuff, that’s just what they’ve done.

They said, okay, we can supply that market. Let’s just leave the olives on the tree three months. In fact, we don’t even have to pay to harvest them. We just let them fall to the ground. We don’t have to harvest them and then let’s run them through the mill and get 30% yield and then ship them off to the US or China or wherever else. Yeah, it’s one of those situations. All right. I’m actually going to pour all three oils, guys. The mild, the medium, and the bold.

Dr. Pompa:
All right, I’m going to keep mine in order then. I’ll just share it because you shared with me.

TJ:
Yeah, thank you.

Dr. Pompa:
The mild has 204 polyphenol level.
TJ:
That’s right.

Dr. Pompa:
You could tell us how that’s measured. This one has 493. Holy cow that’s [00:17:57].

TJ:
Yes, yes.

Dr. Pompa:
Then the last one is much—it’s even higher. I wrote it down, 551 on that one. The color looks about the same.

TJ:
Yeah, yeah.

Dr. Pompa:
Maybe a little greener but…

TJ:
The [00:18:16] is a little greener, but that’s…

Dr. Pompa:
This one smells more like fresh cut grass, I would say.

TJ:
Yeah, yeah. What we’re going to do is first we’re going to go through and do a smell test.

Dr. Pompa:
I’m going ahead of you, sorry.

TJ:
Okay, okay. Yeah, yeah. Okay. The first one we want to do is Leandro since this is mild. We’re just going to do a smell test first. For me, I get things like green tomato, tomato leaf. I get banana like green banana and apple. It’s fresh. It’s green.

Dr. Pompa:
I do like I do wine. You give it a little…

TJ:
Yeah, exactly, exactly. I’m going to hold this cup up here. What I do, I put my hand under the cup and that warms the oil. When you warm the oil, that is what brings out all the aroma. It’s just like when you’re putting on warm food. It comes alive. Yeah, [00:19:08] like green tomato, some lime zest. It’s just a really beautiful—it feels like you’re in a garden, right? It feels like you’re in a garden. That’s what the first one smells like. Let’s smell number two which is AuLife. AuLife is a wonderful oil, and it’s T, totally different.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, totally.

TJ:
It’s got a lot of almond and baby lettuce, romaine and arugula. That’s a beautiful oil.

Dr. Pompa:
You had mentioned lettuces, I smell the lettuce’s smell.

TJ:
Yeah. It’s like fresh chopped salad or something in that one. Of course, it’s got basil and thyme and all that on the nose. Then the last one, let’s smell the last one. If you can smell it’s a little more intense. You can almost smell the polyphenols in there.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, yeah. I attune it to freshly cut grass.

TJ:
Yes, yes. Wheat grass, yes. That’s right.

Dr. Pompa:
Wheat grass is actually what I’m…

TJ:
Yeah, yeah. No, it’s perfect. Now we can actually go back and do the tasting. I’ll explain what we’re looking for as we’re going through. When I take an oil in my cup, I first warm it and smell it. That’s step one which we’ve already done, but we can do that again. Step two is we take about a teaspoon, half a teaspoon and we put in our mouth.

Dr. Pompa:
You said tomato on the—I’m sorry.

TJ:
Tomato leaf.

Dr. Pompa:
I smell that now.

TJ:
Tomato vine, right?

Dr. Pompa:
I went back to it. Now I smell that completely, yeah.

TJ:
It does change when you go back which is great. That’s one reason I just set my nose, so I kind of, I don’t know.

Dr. Pompa:
Got olive oil all over me.

TJ:
You’re going to have glowy skin, glowy skin. All right. Now I’m chewing on about half a teaspoon and I’m actually going drag some air through it like I would wine. I don’t know if you want to do that. I am a professional so be careful. I don’t want you to get to couching on here too much. That will be later when we get to the other oil. What you’re going to notice from the very green fruit is the bitterness in the fruit. That’s a set. Second thing we’re looking for in the olive oil as a quality marker, one is fruitiness which we’ve assessed. It’s green. It’s grassy. It’s got green tomato, lettuce, really nice.

Then the second thing we’re looking for is bitterness. We want astringency, a little astringency, like a green tea or a walnut skin. The reason we’re looking for that, that’s a quality marker that you know the olives were green. Then the third thing we’re looking for is a little pinch in the back of the throat of spiciness. This spiciness that you’re perceiving sometimes you feel it like a little white pepper on the tongue or Sichuan peppercorn depending on how much is in there. Those are the three markers you’re looking for.

Then you also want it to be harmonic in the end and balanced. That the fruitiness, the bitterness, and the spiciness are all in harmony. It’s like composing music. This is actually a blend of two olive oil varieties. In Italy, there are almost 600 varieties of olives in Italy alone. That to me is incredible. As a chef, I look at fresh olive oil as a sauce that Mother Nature made just for me. What I do I blend the oil to my taste as if I were making a sauce. In this one it’s made of [00:22:59] olive oil which is originally from Spain and also Koroneiki which is from Greece, originally from Greece. The two together I think just give you—it lingers. It’s beautiful, just harmony and grassy. Any particular things you’re noting, Dr. Pompa?

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, it lingers. No doubt about it. It stays with you, right? Let me ask you a question. This milder oil what would your cooking suggestions be? Straight on salad. Would you use it in any preparations versus the higher phenol oils that we’re about to go to?

TJ:
That’s a great question. I don’t only label them mild, medium, and bold just because it’s their profile. I also label them that way so you know what to pair them with. In this case, it would be milder foods. I think this would be great with zucchini and squash and butternut squash and sweet potatoes and pumpkins and like fall. There’s something about this oil to me that’s very reminiscent of fall.

Dr. Pompa:
I agree with that, but here’s the thing. In your olive oil club, people are like, oh dude, how am I going to remember that? I’m not going to know that. I’m just not a chef. Even myself, I’m the health guy. You point things out. I go, oh yeah, I see that, but my palate is not—it took me years to get a wine palate. Olive oil, I’ve never—I just go, good olive oil.

TJ:
Yeah, good olive oil.

Dr. Pompa:
Good. I know okay and I know trash.

TJ:
That’s right. That’s right. That’s right. I love it. I love it. No, it’s true. I mean, in general, lighter foods, lighter oils. I love this one for baking. I think this would be great in banana bread. If you made a homemade using a nut flour, this would be amazing in a banana bread. I would definitely consider that. Olive oil is fantastic for baking. It has incredible flavor. In the Mediterranean I’m sure you’ve had olive oil cakes and pastries and that sort of thing. They’re just really good.

Speaking of coughing, just to set this up as we move on to two and three, I have to tell you a story about a Tuscan family I was hanging out with. I was at their mill and tasting the fresh oil. They warned me. They said, “TJ, be careful of this oil.” I’m like, “Okay, I’m professional. I can handle it.” This was early in my career of olive oil. They said, “Now us Tuscans we will say, is it a one cough oil, a two cough oil, or a three cough oil.” I’m like, “Oh, that’s great. I love it.” That’s their quality marker when we talk about spicy, so fruity, bitter, spicy. Those are the three markers we’re looking for.

Dr. Pompa:
I almost coughed with this one.

TJ:
Oh, you did. Oh, [00:25:58].

Dr. Pompa:
I probably gave it a [00:26:02] if I wasn’t on the air, but I [00:26:04] off and went away.

TJ:
Okay, good. You’re a tough guy. You’re a tough guy. Be ready with your mute button so we don’t all have to suffer through.

Dr. Pompa:
Can I ask you something before we move on just on that subject of just your cough? I got a nice newsletter with my club membership and I was just going to say, yeah. No. In there you make recommendations, right?

TJ:
I do. I do. Absolutely. You get the full story. You see me with the families. This is a cool photo. I don’t know if you guys can see that very well or not, but it’s me hanging out with Lisa at [00:26:40] and she rescues baby kangaroos that have been abandoned by their moms because they’ve been hurt in car accidents and etc. Anyway, she rescues and holds on her olive farm a few kangaroos every year that she hosts and she bottle-feeds them back to life. I just have a lot of fun. I get to work with the most talented people in the world. It’s really, really special.

There’s a guide in Italy called, Flos Olei and they rank the top 500 producers in the world. It’s just really comprehensive. Anybody who wants to be a top dog in the olive oil world, they send their oil to Flos Olei. Every year, they have a competition called the Flos Olei Top 20. These are the folks who are in the guide book have the highest scores in the world. They go to Rome. It’s like winning the Oscars. It’s a big deal. Anyway, I was at Paleo f(x) and I noticed on the table I got to mentioning—because they were like, “How do you find your oils and your producers?” I’m like, “Well, I get to work with the best in the world.”

As an example, on this table from my March selection and my June selection, out of the producers, the six producers that were on the table, five of them were Flos Olei Top 20 winners. Not only the best of the best, but been flown in by jet and directly to your house, loved and curated from me. I’m quite confident in you being pleased if you have an appreciation for good olive oil.

Dr. Pompa:
I have been. Again, I’ve been all around Europe. I tasted the best oils. I go to the—food is my thing now. I go to the best restaurants that have the best oils. If they have a cut olive oil and they cook with canola oil, they could accommodate me or I’m out.

TJ:
Yes, yes. It’s funny. Usually, when in restaurants, we take a bottle of oil with us. We sneak it in in my wife’s purse because we want to combat—if we do have to eat in a restaurant, we want to combat the bad oils that we’re consuming. A little olive oil, we have a small little glass, dark glass bottle and we decanted in there, or I take a full bottle if it’s a group of friends.

Dr. Pompa:
You know what, actually, that’s an interesting thing because my wife and I are very particular. I won’t eat vegetable or canola oil because studies show, it goes in to your cell membranes for 132 days on average because the omega-6 is actually the challenge. It’s the key part of integrating into the key parts of the cell membrane. People think omega-3, omega-3. It’s actually the omega-6 and when you’re taking in these vegetable oils and canola oils, the [00:29:37], they go in and they replace the good omega-6 and now you have a dysfunctioning cell membrane for 132 days. That’s why I don’t give in. I’d rather eat sugar or white bread than I would bad oil.

TJ:
Yes, yes, yes. That’s really smart.

Dr. Pompa:
Taking good oil is a good idea.

TJ:
Absolutely. It really can be the backbone of your healthy cooking. In a restaurant, what we do, every restaurant has lemons. You can get lemons and limes all day long in 99.9% of restaurants. We take our bottle of olive oil in my wife’s purse and we ask for lemons and limes on a plate to go with our water and they’re on our salad right there. It’s quite simple. We’ve got our olive oil. We’ve got our acid. We’re ready to go. You basically have a great salad dressing and you don’t have to consume all the junk oils and preservatives.

Dr. Pompa:
I wonder if the high polyphenol would offset some of that dysfunction if you do consume some products with canola oil in them, if you can offset it with the high polyphenol oil because that would be up taken into the membrane much faster and better and protect the membrane from the bad oil. I don’t have a [00:30:56] on that, but I’m thinking…

TJ:
I think that’s a great theory, and I would love to see some research on that. In fact, they talk about when you cook vegetables in olive oil, you actually get more nutrients when you consume the vegetables with olive oil if it’s on a salad, etc. If it’s high quality olive oil because it just helps with bioavailability of the vitamins and nutrients in the vegetables. Talking about that backbone of healthy cooking, it’s really one of those things and I should say for people that aren’t able to taste this with us right now that I like to think of store-bought olive oil as dried herbs.

Dried herbs that have been in the shelf for a while. They’re old, dried herbs when you pull that one out of your—yeah, and this is fresh herbs. If you don’t like fresh herbs then this is probably not for you because this has got a lot of antioxidants, a lot of polyphenols, and a lot of flavor. That’s I think a good way to explain. Number two, lets go on to AuLife. AuLife is a beautiful oil. It’s my medium selection. I’ll read to you—I don’t know how we’re doing on time or how much time we have but…

Dr. Pompa:
We want to get every bit out of this.

TJ:
Okay, okay, okay. For this oil, I’ll give you my organoleptic description in the pressing report that my members get. The aroma of fresh-cut grass and again, we’re doing the AuLife, the medium. The aroma of fresh-cut grass is evident in this marriage of two Cortinas. It’s one olive variety pressed in two different ways followed by chopped culinary herbs, green pear, green peppercorn, arugula, lime zest, kiwi and celery leaf. We sense a minty freshness and the subtlety of artichoke and green almonds. In other words, this oil is a green dream. The verdant theme continues on the tongue with walnuts, endive, fennel, arugula, green apple, artichoke, dandelion greens and fresh thyme. Well balanced exhibiting both fruitiness and bitterness with a spicy kick of Sichuan peppercorn on the prolonged finish.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s a mouthful but…

TJ:
That’s a mouthful.

Dr. Pompa:
My [00:33:38] is, I actually do taste the sweet notes of it.

TJ:
Awesome, awesome.

Dr. Pompa:
I do taste the stronger polyphenol level for sure.

TJ:
Arugula.

Dr. Pompa:
More in the back of my throat I can feel it sharpening down. I feel it tight.

TJ:
Definitely arugula, watercress, lime zest. I’m going to cough. It’s definitely a one cough oil. I can probably cough more.

Dr. Pompa:
That was two coughs.

TJ:
It was, it was.

Dr. Pompa:
That was two coughs.

TJ:
Yeah. Look at that lingering. You can taste the olive fruit. You can taste that bitterness. You can taste that spiciness. You just feel it’s alive and you just feel it in your cells. The fat make-up of olive oil is the same as human breast milk. Our bodies are dialed in to bring it on board. It really…

Dr. Pompa:
In between bites, you told me to have some apple, so here I am.

TJ:
Yes, please do.

Dr. Pompa:
I’m chewing some apple in between like a wine. I actually went and got cheese like a wine pairing, but you said professionals use apple, so I quickly ran and got an apple.

TJ:
Yeah, you’re a pro. I love it. I love it. When you’re testing a lot of oils in a row, and trying to make—this bitterness starts to build up. You get bitter build-up. The apple cuts through that and really helps a lot. Now a lot of people think olive oil ages like wine. It’s the complete opposite.

Dr. Pompa:
Opposite, yeah.

TJ:
The minute it’s pressed, it starts to deteriorate. When you think about cooking with olive oil or you think about how long an olive will last, if you start with an olive oil that’s higher in polyphenols and antioxidants literally antioxidant, think antioxidize. It keeps the oil fresh longer. Even if you’re heating it. My morning eggs. My wife is an amazing home chef and that comes from me, who’s a classically trained chef. She’s really a great home chef. I’m very spoiled and very lucky. Megan’s amazing, but anyway, she fries my morning eggs. I love fried eggs for breakfast and she fries my morning eggs in olive oil. Now she does it at a medium low heat.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, she doesn’t….

TJ:
Exactly, but the oil itself actually tastes really green, really vibrant, really fresh on my plate after the fact because we’re heavy users in this household. There’s no like, just a little bit in the pan. One of the tips is, put the pan on the stove and get the pan hot. Then add your oil, then add your food in that order because you don’t want your fat sitting in a pan getting rancid. That’s no matter what kind of oil you’re using. Heat your pan first then add the oil.

Dr. Pompa:
If it smokes, you blew it, start again

TJ:
Yeah, exactly. Honestly, it’s easier to go up in heat a lot of times than it is in down depending on what you’re putting in the pan. I’m going to grab a little water before we move on to [00:36:52].

Dr. Pompa:
Okay.

TJ:
The one we just tasted I think could go with almost anything. If I’m thinking of fall soups like vegetable soups, I would pour this on that. I would definitely like this on—if I had some cheese and baby tomatoes with some mozzarella.

Dr. Pompa:
No matter what I’m cooking I almost always use olive oil and then I like to garnish my olive oil especially with a stronger phenol. I like to add it on top of whatever I do.

TJ:
Yes, it’s the sauce.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s like adding a pepper to the end.

TJ:
Exactly, and you just feel it when you use oils like this.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s my hang up with—my wife and I have walked out of Italian restaurants because they’re using an oil that’s cut. You know how we find out by the way?

TJ:
How?

Dr. Pompa:
We say, “Oh, we’re allergic to canola oil or vegetable oil.” They come and go, “Oh, our olive oil actually has some vegetable on it.” Bingo, I’m out.

TJ:
Wow, that’s a great—I’m going to use that line. I love it. Can I steal it?

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah.

TJ:
I love it.

Dr. Pompa:
The good oils bring out—good olive oil brings out flavor of other food. I’m telling this to the chef, but the point is, if you’re using vegetable or canola, it doesn’t bring out the flavor at all.

TJ:
No, no. It’s a lubricant. It’s lubricant. It’s a lubricant. It doesn’t do anything culinary-wise. It doesn’t take it to the next level, bring it all together, and lift it into this amazing dish. Because you can take something super simple and I think for healthy cooking, the key is simplicity. Focus on steam some beautiful green beans. Take them off of the steamer, put them on a plate, a little great salt, I’m a real fan of high-quality salt. Then a little drizzle of olive oil. That’s all you need. Your kitchen is going to smell amazing like you’re in an olive grove, and then you’re just going to be so happy. The same with broccoli. The same with sweet potatoes.

Dr. Pompa:
[00:39:06] vegetables right there.

TJ:
Yeah, exactly. It’s just one of those foods that, once it’s in your toolbelt, you can’t go back. It’s one of those things.

Dr. Pompa:
I tell you it takes your cooking to a whole other level. People are like, wow, you’re an amazing cook. No, man. You start with amazing ingredients.

TJ:
That’s right. My wife, she said after we were married about two years, she’s like, “You know, my cooking has really improved. Hanging out with you, you’ve given me great feedback.” How to use the word feedback [00:39:35]. Feedback on my cooking. I was like, oh. I was like, “Do you think the olive oil has anything…” Oh, no. That’s what it was. It was just my olive oil.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s it. That’s all it was. Look, I cheated on you. I sniffed at some of these.

TJ:
Okay, okay, okay.

Dr. Pompa:
I took a small sniff and I went…

TJ:
Oh, you’re already coughing. I love it, okay.

Dr. Pompa:
I was going to say, salud, chindon which is, in Italian, it’s obviously cheers, right?

TJ:
Love it.

Dr. Pompa:
A healthy hundred years is the chindon, but anyway, this is Australian oil so I think they would say cheers.

TJ:
Yes. They would. Now this is actually made by a Sicilian Calabrian family who were immigrants to Australia. When I enter the gates of this farm, they only speak Italian. Of course, they speak some English, but it’s like I just have gone through a portal. Sit down. Have a coffee. Let me make you espresso. We got you these pastries. Yeah, I’m like, I just want to see the oil. I wanted to know what’s going on.

Dr. Pompa:
In that case, it’s salud, chindon.

TJ:
Salud. This is a Tuscan blend actually. These are Tuscan varietals, so harvested very green. You’re going to get big bitterness, big spiciness, and a lot of this goes away on food. It’s there, but it’s not in your face. When you hear us talking about all these descriptors, this is—uh-oh, there he is.

Dr. Pompa:
That was the first one that got me.

TJ:
That really got you. We’re up to 551 now.

Dr. Pompa:
Oh, man.

TJ:
I got to have…

Dr. Pompa:
Let it be known that over 500 somewhere I will actually cough.

TJ:
Yes, yes. I love it. I love it. I got to take a sip now too. It’s just so green and bitter like radicchio. It’s got radicchio.

Dr. Pompa:
This is way up.

TJ:
Yeah. Radicchio, Belgian endive, watercress, arugula, a lot of arugula. I feel like I’ve just been biting on some spicy arugula.

Dr. Pompa:
You know that thing in salad. I don’t even know the name. Oh, it’s endive.

TJ:
Endive, Belgian endive. Yes, that’s it.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s really bitter, right?

TJ:
Yes.

Dr. Pompa:
I don’t take it myself because it’s so bitter, right?

TJ:
Okay, okay.

Dr. Pompa:
It has endive qualities to it.

TJ:
It does.

Dr. Pompa:
This isn’t one that I like. The other two I actually could keep sipping. This is almost so bitter that for me, on food would it would blossom the flavor.

TJ:
That’s right.

Dr. Pompa:
By itself, I’m like, [00:42:16].

TJ:
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s cool. What I would use this one on would be like a grilled steak. Let’s say you’re like someone who loves to grill, where you got to char like bistecca Fiorentina with this on it, oh man, or make a pesto out of this would just be incredible. I mean, it’s like pesto in a bottle already. You can even use fresh oil as a stand-in for fresh herbs if you need to.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s the most powerful oil I’ve ever had. I mean, phenols on that are like just absolutely amazing. I mean, the health benefits of polyphenols it’s through the roof. It lowers blood pressure. It just shows you what it does to soften the arteries. By the way, it’s not just soften your arteries, it’s softening basically all of your elastic tissues in your body making them more vibrant.

TJ:
Wow.

Dr. Pompa:
Yes. It helps the skin, the hair, all of those things. Your collagens, your elastins, every bit of it. It’s an antioxidant for your cells. It down regulates inflammation. These are the things that studies show.

TJ:
Yes, absolutely. I appreciate you hitting all those important notes because I know the cellular science is so important part of your teaching. Really, using a key ingredient, something that you can just—like make very simple food, drizzle this on, a little bit of good salt, and that’s really all you need. This is like a hat. I think of this as a kitchen hat. You can just…

Dr. Pompa:
It’s a food hack. It’s a biohack all in one because the biohack is the hack that it does to your cells. That attracts fat. These fats go right in and around your cells and they protect the cell from the bad. That’s my theory of saying, go to a restaurant, bring in one of these little bottles. I actually have one of these little, smaller bottles. Your oils and sneak that in and protect your cells.

TJ:
I love it. Do you want to give your listeners a few takeaways? Let’s say they aren’t able to join the club on what they should look for when shopping for olive oil?

Dr. Pompa:
Absolutely.

TJ:
If I’m on a desert island—no, there would be no store there. Anyway, something along those lines. A, I would look for something in the dark bottle. That’s key. Two, it has to have a harvest date, harvest season, year—you want pressing date. All those sorts of things are really important. If you don’t see that—not expiration date. I said harvest date. You want to look at the back of the bottle and make sure that it’s got a harvest date. For example, this one says Australian harvest season 2019. This gives you the season. Sometimes it will be the actual date. May or whatever the date was for that particular selection. Dark glass, harvest date, freshness, and single estate. If you can find oils, it just gives the producer a lot more control.

If you’re buying a bottle, a big one that’s filled with air which causes the olive oil to die essentially, it makes it go rancid. Buy small containers, that’s another rule. Harvest date, small containers, freshness. If you see something that says it’s going to expire next year on the supermarket shelf, no way because it’s probably two years old already, maybe three. Pick a store that has high turnover. Pick a store where you can taste the oil before you buy it. That’s also a good idea. You want to look for that fruitiness, the bitterness, and the spiciness. If you don’t’ get those things, it’s not fresh and high quality. Sometimes they’ll put on a bottle like the polyphenol count. I don’t do that because it changes over time. It’s not a static thing.

Dr. Pompa:
True. Yeah, you said in six months it’s 50%.

TJ:
About six months, exactly, 50%. Just using Chile is a great example. They’re in the first two weeks of May and then the first two weeks of June about four weeks later. My club members have the fresh-pressed oil from Chile and will be the same…

Dr. Pompa:
What are the four regions? Australia obviously and then there’s Chile. There’s Italy. I’m sure Italy, Spain, France are the same harvest.

TJ:
There’s different customs in different areas that do different things. In Spain, the harvest can last as long as March or it could start as early as say even October. Believe me, if I could send—most of my club members are probably not consuming—there’s two sizes. There’s the 250 ml size and the 500 ml size in most families. A smaller family will use—who cook at home will typically use a small bottle a month. A larger family will go through the 500 quite easily. Probably if you lived in your house or mine, you would go through it more faster than that. You get friends around the dinner table and you put this on it, it’s like, what happened to my oil. Then you have to guard it.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, yeah. I pour heavy.

TJ:
Yeah, yeah.

Dr. Pompa:
What do you expect to pay for a good bottle of olive oil? You’re not going to get a good olive oil for ten bucks. Let’s face it.

TJ:
No, no. Especially if you’re going high quality, low yield which is called early harvest olive oil. That’s another thing you can look for when you’re shopping is early harvest. You can expect to pay roughly $30 and that really has a lot to do with the yield of getting it from really green fruit and only having about 10% of oil versus the 30% that’s closer to the number for commercial quality.

Dr. Pompa:
People would be accustomed to paying ten bucks and getting it on sale, who knows in Costco or wherever else. That may sound like a lot, but it’s a huge investment in your health. It really is.

TJ:
Yes, it is.

Dr. Pompa:
Nothing means more than the oxidation and formation of your cell membranes. These polyphenols are a protective factor here and so invest in your health. How much is it for your membership?

TJ:
Sure. It’s always an introductory offer. We set it up for your folks at pompaoliveoil.com, so it’s P-A-M-P-A oliveoil.com.

Dr. Pompa:
P-O-M-P-A.

TJ:
Then that will be there at the end, and that’s for your $1 bottle. Everybody signs up there, that starting point, and then what happens depending on when they join, at least three weeks to a month later, they get their first three-bottle shipment. Depending on when they entered, there are two different sizes. There’s the 250 ml size and that is 99 a quarter. That’s 33 bucks a month essentially. That will do a lot of plates of food and a lot of meals. I think about a bottle of wine in a restaurant, I easily spend $30 to $50 and it’s gone on one meal. I’m not ordering wine all the time, but I’m just saying I can improve a lot of plates of food and the healthfulness of my food with one expense a month.

Dr. Pompa:
I look at it as the number of cells. I’m thinking how many cells could actually improve upon and therefore feel better and therefore produce more. Be happier. Sleep better. Less pain. Yes, my mind goes there.

TJ:
Yeah, I love it. I love it. Then the larger set which is double the volume is 139 a quarter. If you’re a heavy user, it’s always great as a gift around the holidays. People buy. They love my Italian selections. I’m working on one this year, a very special one from Greece, a charitable organization that I’ve been working with who produces an amazing oil in Northern Greece. I’m working on one Greek oil and most likely two Italian oils is what I’m thinking of for my December shipment. Mother Nature will dictate. She owns 51% of the company.

Dr. Pompa:
Dominant share.

TJ:
Yeah. I’m in there with the farmers on the ground, supervising the harvesting, supervising the milling to make sure our temperatures are really low because you don’t want to cook the oil. That’s how you get more yield from the oil. You cook the olives and you extract more off flavors and aromas and all that sort of thing.

Dr. Pompa:
You’re killing all the good stuff doing that.

TJ:
Exactly. I’m there. My producers are already amazing and then I just retool what they do a little bit which we get and take it to the next level. We’ll produce several batches and then I’ll taste the different lots and I’ll be like that’s for me, that’s for me. That will blend perfectly with that one. It’s a lot of fun for my culinary background.

Dr. Pompa:
I mean, we want you to do our homework for us hence The Olive Hunter, right?

TJ:
That’s right.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s The Olive Oil Hunter.

TJ:
That’s right.

Dr. Pompa:
I just said The Olive Hunter. I’m like, what am I missing? Oh, the oil.

TJ:
Yeah, it kind of is the olive—you got to find great olives to make great oil. For me, yeah. No, it’s perfect. For me, one important point of the fresh oil is that these families—this is the oil that’s celebrated in their local communities. This is the oil they keep for their families. They make a small amount of this oil. This is not how they pay their bills. This is a passion project for them. This is love. It’s really a lot of love.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s your reward getting in the club. That’s cool, dude.

TJ:
It’s cool. It’s really cool. It’s an adventure.

Dr. Pompa:
Where is our next three? This is from Australia. Where is our next three bottles coming from?

TJ:
Now, when will this episode air? Just so I have an idea.

Dr. Pompa:
Oh, yeah. That’s true.

TJ:
Do we have an idea on that?

Dr. Pompa:
Ashley’s the only one.

TJ:
Okay, okay. I assume it will be in the next month or so, but Ashley, you have an idea for us?

Ashley:
Yes, I can tell you the exact date. While I’m looking, I just wanted to give the link for this olive oil club. It’s pompaoliveoil.com. That will just take you to the link in order to order this great…

Dr. Pompa:
I have my own club. Not really. It’s just…

Ashley:
Right, it’s just a special link so you guys can…

Dr. Pompa:
Be a part of my part of the club, right?

Ashley:
Yes.

TJ:
You are. You are. You are. You help us get the word out there and that’s so important. It just supports our mission. They’re the rebels in their communities. Really, who else is—most people have a lot of bills and a mortgage. They want all this stuff and they have to—they’re forced to produce the lower quality stuff to get to the bulk market. No, I was going to say most producers don’t have access to the American market either. I walk through their door and I’m like, I have 15,000 passionate lovers of olive oil. I want your very best. You just see them light up like it’s birthday and Christmas all on the same day. It’s a beautiful thing.

Dr. Pompa:
We’re glad to be a part of it, honestly. I was just thinking, people ask me this question all the time. It’s like the one thing they can do on a budget to really move the needle for their family’s health. You know what my answer is, change the oils that you’re eating. Honestly, I say that. Change the oils you’re eating. Just make no exceptions. Be a good consumer. Get rid of everything, canola oil, vegetable oil because you go to Whole Foods, it still has it in it.

TJ:
Yes, yes.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s like replace that, add this, join the club, man. Watch what happens to your family’s health. This is like on a scale. This is a big massive deal. People focus on the little things. Oh, we’re going to take gluten out of our diet, but they’re going to [00:54:31] that are loaded with crap. It’s super sugars. I do shows on that. This is a big deal, man. Your oil.

TJ:
I really, really appreciate the support. It’s my life mission and my plan. When I see people taste it just like I did, I saw you taste fresh oil that I handed to you. One of my selections. I’m part olive oil concierge and part olive oil sommelier. Not only do I weed through the 9,000 that are out there to get the three for you and then rush them to your door—it’s like people say, well, what do you do? I’m an olive oil taster. You could say I’m an olive oil sommelier and a concierge. I get you the access to the great stuff and then I select it and I get it to your home directly. No middle man.

Dr. Pompa:
Let’s have some fun here for one second. Hey, Merily.

TJ:
Don’t give her the big one, please.

Dr. Pompa:
She ignoring me. She’s ignoring me.

TJ:
Don’t scare her. Don’t scare her.

Dr. Pompa:
She always hears me. No. She’s ignoring me. She knows where I’m at. I want her to come in. I want to give her a taste sample because I want to see her cough reaction. Here’s my dog. [00:55:41] go get mama. Go get her. There she is, okay. All right. Here she is. Bringing her on. Cell TV.

Merily:
Oh.

TJ:
Come on in.

Dr. Pompa:
This is TJ.

TJ:
Hi. Nice to meet you.

Merily:
Hi. How are you?

TJ:
Olive oil sommelier right here.

Merily:
I met your wife.

TJ:
Yes, you did, Meagan. She’s a great chef. I love her.

Merily:
[00:56:00].

Dr. Pompa:
Taste this one.

Merily:
[00:56:04] with my rice.

Dr. Pompa:
Ashley should be testing them.

TJ:
Yeah. You’re looking for fruitiness which should be green and grassy and fresh. Maybe something like…

Merily:
Very, very, very fresh.

TJ:
Herbal, right? Very herbal like fresh herbs and grass. It should be bitter on the palate and also a little spicy. You might even cough a little bit or get a pinch on your…

Merily:
Not with this one and I’m used to good olive oil so I…

Dr. Pompa:
I didn’t cough with that one either.

TJ:
Awesome. Okay, we’re going to dial up the polyphenols with you.

Dr. Pompa:
I’ll just give her a little apple.

TJ:
Yes, yes, yes.

Dr. Pompa:
Give her a little apple to cut that.

TJ:
Yes, yes. Clean the palate. Clean the palate.

Dr. Pompa:
She came ready to taste.

TJ:
That will work. I like it.

Merily:
I haven’t eaten yet today.

TJ:
I don’t know if you guys eat much dairy at all but things like yogurt, cottage cheese.

Dr. Pompa:
This is grass-fed, 100%.

TJ:
Yeah, fantastic.

Merily:
This is just slightly peppery, just slightly.

TJ:
She’s tough.

Merily:
Based on my palate.

TJ:
She’s tough.

Merily:
I like it.

Dr. Pompa:
By the way, I have to credit her. You said can you borrow the line. It’s actually her line. She discovered when she says I have an allergy too that that’s when they get serious and come back and go, our olive oil has some vegetable oil on it. We’re out of the restaurant. We [00:57:21] restaurants like that. Okay, now this one.

Merily:
I’m serious about my oil.

Dr. Pompa:
Hold on. This one has 551 polyphenol level. What does that mean 551?

TJ:
It’s actually a total polyphenol count. First of all, all my oils are—I forgot to mention this. All my oils are independently third party certified to be extra virgin by the best lab in Italy. By not only the tasting panel, but also the chemical analysis. It’s a total polyphenol or actually biphenols. I’m going to butcher these, but there’s total polyphenol as tyrosol. There’s a hydrotyrosol. There’s tyrosol. There is another one called OLEO European and [00:58:15]. I don’t know what that one is. Essentially, the total polyphenol count is when you add all of these different plant sterols. These are the things in the olive. Olives are very bitter if you’ve ever tried one directly off the tree. Actually, you may have done that.

Dr. Pompa:
Oh, yeah.

TJ:
They’re very bitter, but those are the protection of the fruit. That bitterness that you’re tasting in the oil, you’re getting all these plant sterols that are exactly what you were saying about cellular health and how it helps protect oxidative stress. They’ve really dialed in the benefits of the Mediterranean diet not being solely the healthy olive oil fat, but the real key being the polyphenols. They’ve done research studies where they take groups of people who don’t consume much olive oil. Let’s say a group of Scandinavians. They will put them on a low polyphenol, medium polyphenol, and a high polyphenol. About three different groups and look at all of their testing. It’s very impressive. The differences of the high polyphenol oil, the lower cholesterol, lower triglycerides, more healthy in general.

Dr. Pompa:
[00:59:31] are actually mild binders as well of things of things like heavy metals. One of the things that we are—I said this. I said we’re going to start carrying our own olive oil at every restaurant. I said this like…

Merily:
This is the perfect size.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, yeah.

TJ:
I love it. Yes, yes, yes.

Dr. Pompa:
I said that recently.

Merily:
Send a few more.

TJ:
I love it. I love it. Thank you.

Dr. Pompa:
Here’s the thing, it’s protecting you from a lot of the toxins in the food. The toxins make their way just like bad oils to the cell. They drive inflammation and then you have dysfunction for over three months. That’s why we don’t make exceptions, but the protective factors are the plant sterols, the polyphenols. It’s acting completely different than eating other healthy fats. There’s many different healthy fats. None of which have these really high levels of these polyphenols.

TJ:
How do you feel about grapeseed oil? Are you a fan of grapeseed oil? How do you feel? I don’t know so much about it.

Dr. Pompa:
Grapeseed oil it actually can take moderate heat. We’ll cook with almond oil, avocado oil. They take real high heat without [01:00:37] at all.

Merily:
Ghee, we cook well with ghee.

Dr. Pompa:
With ghee.

TJ:
Ghee is great, yeah.

Dr. Pompa:
This all have different benefits. None of which—and grapeseed oil. None of which have the really super high protective factors of the polyphenols that the olive oil does. I think you get more benefit from that than like you said even the fats themselves.

Merily:
I’m sorry, I have to go and make dinner.

TJ:
Oh, thank you. Take some olive oil with you, please.

Dr. Pompa:
Tell him what you’re…

TJ:
Yeah, what are you making? Tell me.

Dr. Pompa:
He’ll tell you which one.

TJ:
Yeah.

Merily:
I’m making actually basil—I want to make a chicken with pesto—a basil pesto.

TJ:
Ooh, I would go with AuLife. I think I would go AuLife because it’s beautiful and it works super well with all those things you mentioned. Just think of this is a sauce Mother Nature made for you.

Merily:
I have to tell you, they’re all very good. I can’t necessarily say I like one more than another. Maybe it just depends on the mood you’re in.

TJ:
Yeah, absolutely. It’s like wine. You can have red wine with fish. There are no rules. Really, there are not a lot of rules. Have what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Merily:
Yeah. It’s a pleasure. Thank you so much.

TJ:
Thank you. Take care.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s an olive oil party.

TJ:
Good luck.

Dr. Pompa:
I think I’m getting a little buzz, man. I’m getting a little olive oil buzz.

TJ:
Your cells are happy. They’re dancing.

Dr. Pompa:
We don’t know what’s going to come out next.

TJ:
You go to the Mediterranean and you see these people. They use olive oil for everything. They fry in olive oil and they actually—it’s very stable. I can send you research studies on olive oil and frying. In the Mediterranean, that’s all they use.

Dr. Pompa:
I want to see that because I know certain temperatures, I educate people, don’t go over with olive oil, but if there’s a reason with the higher polyphenol oil that potentially—I want to see that please.

TJ:
Absolutely. I will more than happily share that with you. That’s not just for any oil. It is a higher polyphenol oil. Again, you can use it as a marinade if you’re going to grill something like some shrimp or chicken, marinade in olive oil. That’s great before you put it on the grill. There’s just a lot of culinary uses for it.

Dr. Pompa:
I want people to understand too, I’m not afraid to go into a place and spend $40 to $50 on a bottle of olive oil, but even when I do, none of them compare to these oils. Obviously, I’ll never do that again.

TJ:
Yeah, thank you.

Dr. Pompa:
I love it, honestly. It’s like when I discovered Dry Farm Wines. I was so excited. Todd was out there.

TJ:
I love Todd. I love Todd. Yes, I love it.

Dr. Pompa:
You put these two things together, your life changes.

TJ:
I know, exactly.

Dr. Pompa:
Olive oil and good wine. Come on.

TJ:
Life is really good at that point. If you can manage to get both of us in your lives, you’re going to be really happy. Yeah. When you join the club, there’s a member’s only Facebook group. I just started two weeks ago. I’m behind on social media, but we already have about 800 members in the private group of the 15,000 club members. They were sharing lots of recipes, videos from the road. How to use the oil. People are sharing their ways to use it. There’s always creative and interesting ways to use the olive oil. Share your opinion on which one you like best and what you like it with.

It’s just a lot of fun. It’s like a lifestyle change. It’s a lot of fun. One thing I didn’t mention about olive oil is I work with a lot of people who are into keto, paleo, that sort of diet. The research on the satiety level of olive oil and how it helps your hunger hormones is insane. When you start to read how full it keeps you, a high-quality olive oil will keep you full and just so satisfied deep to the core, people are using this like crazy for weight loss. I’m like, olive oil for weight loss? Really? I got to looking at the studies and I’m like, heck yeah. I love this.

Dr. Pompa:
What’s funny about that, with some of the clients that I coach, I do fat, F-A-T, fast, F-A-S-T.

TJ:
Love it.

Dr. Pompa:
One of the key is that they do use different fats because they have trouble controlling their appetite. They have trouble fasting so we do a fat fast. Many of them have said, you know I think the olive oil because I have to insist on really good olive oil.

TJ:
Yeah, of course.

Dr. Pompa:
More so than the coconut, more so than the ghee, the butter, the olive oil curves their appetite the best out of all the fats to your point. To your point.

TJ:
Absolutely. I love it. I love it. I’m glad you’re on board and you actually have road tested the idea because I see these studies, I’m like, that makes sense because I really am hardly ever hungry between meals and I’m a high user of olive oil. Yeah, it’s great that you’ve road tested it.

Dr. Pompa:
I fast four times a year and I bring this fast coming up. We have 25,000 people in our group.

TJ:
Whoa, that’s incredible. Congratulations.

Dr. Pompa:
Anyway, not this fast because I’m doing pure water. The next one I’ll be doing a partial fast. I’m going to try something for the first time. I’m going to do your olive oil only for the fasting.

TJ:
Oh, I love it. I love it.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. I’m going to do an olive oil, early harvest fast. We’ll bring you on the Facebook live. It will be a lot of fun.

TJ:
I love it.

Dr. Pompa:
Thousands of others with me on it. I’ve never done just an olive oil fast. As I said, I do the fat fast. I want to just do the olive oil and I just want to see.

TJ:
It will be fun to do the markers, to do some testing of before and after, a blood panel. That would be so interesting to see oxidative stress and all that stuff at the cellular level. That would be so cool. Now, two of your boys are in Europe right now? Is that what I understand?

Dr. Pompa:
Yes, right. My son Isaac is there with some of his friends and then my son, Daniel, who broke his back…

TJ:
Yes, I’ve been following it.

Dr. Pompa:
They said 12 weeks without walking. He’s going to Europe and here we are at…

TJ:
Oh, I love it. Oh, so cool. Now will they be in Italy at all?

Dr. Pompa:
As a matter of fact, they want me to find a job for that. Some place that’s harvesting.

TJ:
Okay, I can give a job. I know a lot of artisanal farmers.

Dr. Pompa:
For two weeks and I can stay longer.

TJ:
I love it. I love it. Yeah. There’s a good organization that pairs people who want to work on farms and they stay in [01:07:25] most which are like farm hotels or bed and breakfast in Italy. We’ll connect you offline about that and I’ll be happy to hook you up if you need it.

Dr. Pompa:
TJ, it’s been a lot of fun.

TJ:
Hey, it has.

Dr. Pompa:
We’ll do a Facebook live before this airs so we could bring—I want everyone to see it. I think this is a really huge game changer for you and your family, folks. Share the video, please, and like I said, I’ll do a Facebook live before so we can bring as many people to it as we can, TJ. You deserve it.

TJ:
Thank you so much. I appreciate it. It means so much. Thank you again, Ashley for setting this up and for taking great care of us, making sure we were organized with our tasting cups and ready to go and looking good and sounding good. I know that’s very important. Thank you again for your time.

Ashley:
Of course.

TJ:
We really appreciate it. Thank you, Dr. Pompa. Let me know if you need anything. Take care.

Dr. Pompa:
All right.

TJ:
Ciao, ciao. Arrivederci.

Dr. Pompa:
All right.

Ashley:
That’s it for this week. We hope you enjoyed today’s episode. This episode was brought to you by CytoDetox. Please check it out at buycytonow.com. We’ll be back next week and every Friday at 10:00 AM Eastern. We truly appreciate your support. You can always find us at cellularhealing.tv and please remember to spread the love by liking, subscribing, giving an iTunes review and sharing the show with anyone you think may benefit from the information heard here. As always thanks for listening.

294: Beat Autoimmune with Palmer Kippola

Episode 294: Beat Autoimmune

with Palmer Kippola

Additional Information:

Palmer's ‘what to eat' autoimmunity guide
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Brain Fog? Lack of energy? 90-95% of us have autoimmune conditions and we just don't know it. Today we welcome Palmer Kippola, who is an author, speaker, and Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach who specializes in helping people reverse and prevent autoimmune conditions. Her new book is called “Beat Autoimmune” and contains the science, stories and strategies to help people heal and thrive. She developed a framework to help others heal from autoimmune conditions based on her 26-year battle to overcome multiple sclerosis. Her mantra is “From The Mess To The Message” and hopefully this episode will offer tools to help you better navigate autoimmune conditions.

More about Palmer Kippola:

Palmer is a Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach (FMCHC) who has done coursework with the Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM), the HeartMath ® Institute, and the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy. In addition, she has studied under leading experts in nutrition, holistic health, energy, and Functional Medicine. She founded Transcend Autoimmune, a growing online community of people proactively seeking to reverse or prevent autoimmune conditions naturally.

Prior to her health transformation, Palmer worked in the corporate world for 25 years and held a variety of sales and marketing leadership roles in the high tech and telecommunications industries. She also founded a literacy program that continues to serve children in local, underserved communities called Reading is Freedom. Palmer is deeply grateful to have found her calling in empowering people to reverse and prevent autoimmune conditions and live their most vital lives.

Transcript:

Dr. Pompa:
Perhaps you’ve heard me say that 90% to 95% of us in America have autoimmune, meaning our own bodies attacking itself, and we just don’t know it. You could be out there with brain fog and just lack of energy and it could be autoimmune. We examined that much further with my guest, Palmer, who wrote, Beat Autoimmune, great book. It’s a great strategy. She was diagnosed with MS at age 19. Wait until you hear her amazing story. You know how I say pain to purpose, hers is, from the mess to the message. In this case, she’s the messenger bringing an incredible message, so stay tuned for an amazing show. You need to share autoimmune, more people than you think.

Ashley:
Hello, everyone. Welcome to Cellular Healing TV. I’m Ashley Smith. Today we welcome, Palmer Kippola, who is an author, speaker, and Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach, who specializes in helping people reverse and prevent autoimmune conditions. She developed a framework to help others be autoimmune based on her 26-year battle to overcome multiple sclerosis. Her new book is called, Beat Autoimmune, and contains the science stories and strategies to help people heal and thrive. Hopefully, this episode will offer tools to help you better navigate autoimmune conditions. I’ll let you two take it from here. Let’s welcome Palmer Kippola and of course, Dr. Pompa. Welcome.

Palmer:
Yay. Thank you so much, Ashley. It’s an honor and privilege to be here.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. We’re glad to have you. Gosh, I love this topic. I say love not because I love autoimmune, but I love bringing people this information because so many people, Palmer, have autoimmune. They’re sick. They have symptoms. They don’t feel well. They just don’t know it because the testing for autoimmune is so primitive compared to how many people are actually being attacked by their own immune system.

Palmer:
That’s absolutely right. I’m so glad to be here to help shine a light on things that people can do for themselves.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. Your story, I think we just have to start there. MS, maybe just a lot of people watching or listening don’t even realize that that’s autoimmune. I’ll tell you, it’s one of the horrible diagnosis. When someone gets that diagnosis, the doctors are basically, hey, this is a life disease. Ultimately, the prognosis is not good. Will you beat it? Which gives you the greatest authority of all in my book. The authority of from—well, I say from pain to purpose. You said from a mess to message which I absolutely love. You have authority because you were in the mess and no doubt speaking a great message also. Yeah, tell us the story, and it was a long one.

Palmer:
Yes. It’s a long journey and I need to take you back in time just a few years because I was 19 when I was diagnosed. Here we go. I was 19 years old and I was a happy, healthy, well-adjusted 19-year-old young woman. I just finished my freshman year of college and I was home for the summer with my parents working a summer job. One morning, I woke up and the balls of my feet were all tingling and I thought that I maybe had slept on my legs funny. You know that feeling when the blood flows back.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, yeah. Before that, not one symptom that you can think of.

Palmer:
Nothing.

Dr. Pompa:
Wow.

Palmer:
This is what makes this a little unusual because a lot of people are like, yeah, it just happened out of the clear blue. We know that these things take time. In fact, autoimmunity builds over 5, 10, 20 years. For me, maybe I just wasn’t paying attention. I’m really clear that I might not have been tuned in enough to my body.

Dr. Pompa:
What teenagers are by the way. Anyway, another subject.

Palmer:
Yeah, totally, totally. I figured the tingling is just going to go away. I’m going to go off to work and it’s just going to go away. Over the course of the morning, the creepy tingling just crept up my leg like a vine. By the time it got to my knees, I knew something was really wrong. I called my parents who called the family doctor, who said, “Take her to the neurologist at UCLA.” That afternoon, we’re sitting in the neurologist’s office. This is a long time ago. It’s before the internet, so I just want to set the frame of reference. The neurologist does some cursory exam. She has me walk heel, toe, heel, toe, eyes closed, touching my finger to my nose, testing reflexes. Literally, within five or six minutes says, “I’m 99% certain you have multiple sclerosis, MS. If I’m right, there’s nothing you can do except take medication.”

I learned later that she had told my parents right before we left her office that they’d better get ready for me to be on a wheelchair because that was the prognosis. That it was just going to go downhill and that was going to be my life. We left her office with very little information, with very little hope, and by nightfall, the tingling had reached right under my collarbone and had turned to complete numbness. I couldn’t feel anything literally from the neck down for a full six weeks. It was an absolutely terrifying time. We just didn’t know what to expect. I was relegated to the couch that summer for those six weeks. I’m so grateful, I have to say, that my family was there for me and my mom was quick to empathize and even cry with me and plan for whatever future we could try to plan for. Could I switch schools and attend in a wheelchair?

My dad, you’ll appreciate this. He would say, “Honey, you can beat this thing. I know you can.” He would inspire my can-do attitude which was amazing, very motivational. I’m also grateful that there were friends that weren’t too scared off by this mysterious disease. We didn’t know what this was. Nobody had heard of this. There was no internet. This was pre-MRI. We used to call it the magnetic—excuse me, it was called an NMR for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance image. That’s the scary name for the precursor to the MRI. That’s what we’re talking about. This was in the ‘80s. Friends came by and brought gifts and the usual stuff like cookies and books and watch movies with me. This one friend, a family friend, who was into things metaphysical came and she had brought a gift that didn’t seem at all like a gift at the time. She asked me, “Palmer, why do you think you got the MS?” What do you mean why do I think I got the MS?

Dr. Pompa:
That was a great question though. What was in your head? What were you thinking? Whatever. Did I do something to cause it?

Palmer:
Right, right. First, I was completely offended, right?

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah.

Palmer:
How dare she. Then she left. I didn’t have anywhere to go. I’m lying on the couch for six weeks, and I started chewing on that question like a dog with a bone. All of the sudden, in a flash of insight, I had a sense of why I got the MS. I have to take you a little bit back in time farther because I had been adopted as a baby at three days old by very loving parents My dad had been a fighter pilot and his way was invariably the right way. We butted heads quite a bit. My earliest memory that came to me in that flash of insight lying on the couch was really the first thing that I can remember. My dad is yelling at my mom who’s locked herself in the bedroom, probably crying. He’s yelling at her because she’s gained a lot of weight and he doesn’t like the fact that she’s overweight.

I’m standing up in the hallway to my dad with my little fist up, my little dukes up. You call my mom names and I’m going to sock your lights out. I realized that I had become a child warrior. I had become hypervigilant. I was always on. I was scanning the horizon for safety. I became an insomniac. It was really something that—it was just an amazing flash of intuition. I thought, and I didn’t know anything about the immune system, but I imagined in that flash of insight that my immune system had somehow or other become a proxy for that hypervigilance. That if it didn’t have a real battle, a real virus or bacteria or whatever to fight, then it would result in friendly fire with me as the victim of that attack. That initial hypothesis of chronic stress being at the root cause of the MS was—it still rings true for me today even though I know there’s more to the story.

I’ll just put a bow on this by saying, the numbness thankfully retreated enough for me to go back to college for my sophomore year. It would take a full two years for the numbness to fully retreat, but I was well enough to go back to school. Thankfully, I had the type of MS called relapsing-remitting meaning symptoms come and symptoms go. Off I went on my 26-year journey of relapsing-remitting MS. Over the years, I did see six neurologists. Each of them took MRIs of my brain and agreed that that’s what it was. There was no question of whether or not I had the MS. That there was very much consensus that that’s what I was dealing with, but that there was nothing I could do and that there was really no hope.

Dr. Pompa:
With that diagnosis, okay, it comes, it goes, it comes, but eventually, it doesn’t leave. Was that what they were telling you?

Palmer:
For many people it doesn’t leave and that’s very scary. I think for those people that have MS, there’s just no telling what’s going to happen. I think people who see neurologists are often put in a greater state of fear because the neurologist is saying the only thing that you could do is take medication. If you don’t take medication, it might shorten your life and there’s a really good chance you’re going to wind up in a wheelchair. The unpredictability of something like MS is really scary. Now I have another whole layer of stress on top of the reasons you get the autoimmune conditions in the first place.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. Just so people listening—I always say it’s a perfect storm. It’s a physical, chemical, and emotional stress are these nasty triggers that turn on a gene oftentimes that—then these autoimmune, we get one of our genetic weakness unfortunately. It’s a really weird thing. As you were telling the story, I remember back. This is early in my career. I didn’t really know much about autoimmune at that point in my life let alone MS. Except this woman came in and she was in a wheelchair, debilitating MS for many, many years. I had just got done reading an article about how NutraSweet, this artificial sweetener that was on the horizon at that time, can cause MS or at least at that point they said a false diagnosis of MS, right?

Palmer:
That’s right.

Dr. Pompa:
It can look like MS. Anyway, of course this woman was diagnosed, but I gave her the article. I said, “Hey, you should just look into this because the reason it triggered it is because she was this massive diet soda drinker. One after another.” I remember asking her, and she was like, 20 a day or some ridiculous number plus all these other things because she did it for weight loss. That was her sweetener of choice. I was like, “You need to read this article.” I don’t remember but I hadn’t seen her in a long, long time. As it turned out, she walked right up out of that wheelchair after getting rid of all of that sweetener in her life. Now I wish it were so simple for everybody. It’s not.

The point I’m making actually, is my gosh, when you get rid of the cause, the body has a miraculous way to heal itself. That emotional vision that you gave knowing that emotional charge was there. Your body attacking itself. Like you said, okay, we don’t have anything to attack, we’ll attack ourselves. Amazing. Looking back, did you have any other triggers that you could have thought about? You were adopted so you’re not sure even of your—health of your mom, I’m sure.

Palmer:
Right. Now, looking back in hindsight I know there are multiple triggers which we’ll get into, but that was the leading hypothesis as I laid in the couch. One thing to take away from this is to ask yourself that question, why do you think you’ve got this blank. The blank because that question became my North Star for the next three decades, right?

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, right. I mean, you could see there’s multiple triggers, so to ask yourself the question—at least it says okay, I wasn’t just unlucky like the doctors make it sound, like oh you’re just not lucky. You’ve just got autoimmune or MS. Wait a minute, if I believe there’s a cause then I could believe there’s a cure. It gives you hope, I think.

Palmer:
Oh, it completely gives you hope, and it is multifactorial. We can go in any direction you like. Over those 26 years because there was no internet, I was left to my own devices to figure out this whole puzzle which doesn’t take people the amount of time that it took me. It’s far easier to address and remove these triggers and heal the gut. It was a process. I started doing stress reduction because if in fact, chronic stress was at the root of it, well then, I needed to figure out how to relax. We have this automatic stress response. That’s our primitive response to things. I wouldn’t even call it a response. It’s a reaction, but we have to train ourselves how to relax because that’s not automatic. That’s where practice is.

I started doing yoga in the late ‘80s. I started meditating in the early ‘90s. I found that the more I relaxed, the fewer exacerbations I had. Conversely, if I had stress at home, conflict with my dad, or school if I was overwhelmed and later in the workforce—and by the way, I didn’t tell anyone that I had the MS. I just soldiered through. My dad, the fighter pilot, told me, “Don’t let anybody know you have this.” When I needed to take time away from work with terrible optic neuritis that I spent two nights in the emergency room in pain and two weeks out of work. People thought I was on vacation because you just didn’t talk about this. The added stress of that was pretty huge. I found a really good cause and effect between relaxation practices and not having MS symptoms. That was a really clear cause and effect. That was a great experiment.

Dr. Pompa:
Actually, in your book, which is right here and just behind you. You can look behind you. I’m sure you can buy it on Amazon, correct? We came and put a link here. I know you have a gift for our viewers of some abbreviated version of this on what to eat for autoimmune, which is what everyone wants to know. What would I eat, right?

Palmer:
Absolutely. That’s a perfect lead into the next point that I wanted to make because there was no internet. There was no Dr. Terry Wahls. I didn’t know what to eat, and I figured that diet must have something to do with this, but all I had was my intuition and the public library. That’s where I went and the only book…

Dr. Pompa:
Microfiche. Microfiche.

Palmer:
Microfiche. Oh, my god. Now I’m really looking like a dinosaur.

Dr. Pompa:
I know, I used it too.

Palmer:
There was a book called, The Swank Diet Book or The MS Diet Book or something like that. He purported that the best diet for MS was low fat vegetarian. I already explained that my mom was overweight. We were already a margarine household. We were non-fat—do you remember ice milk, ice cream?

Dr. Pompa:
Oh, yeah.

Palmer:
We don’t [00:17:26] any lower fat. The only thing I could do is add in more healthy whole grains and I didn’t mention this before, but I also, for as long as I could remember had tummy trouble. Not like run the bathroom tummy trouble, but more like constipation. The neurologist told me that was just a symptom of MS and just to learn to live with it. When I started taking the meat and the fish and the chicken out and just adding more healthy whole grains, I noticed more tummy trouble. Not only did I not notice any improvement of MS symptoms, I noticed a worsening of tummy trouble, but I thought that was normal. I thought that everybody started having rumbling or whatever feelings after eating. I didn’t think anything of it because I thought it was normal. We know so much more now, but that was a fail for me that I did vegetarian, vegan, [00:18:17].

Dr. Pompa:
You actually start the book with your experiments, meaning the things that I did or the flaws. Obviously, that’s been one of them. I’m sure you might want to share some others because other people are going, well, I still believe that.

Palmer:
Right, right, absolutely. I’ll just touch on one more that was a flaw and then we’ll get straight to [00:18:37] in a moment. The next flaw for me and I’m not a doctor. I don’t pretend to be one, so I can only comment for myself, but I tried medication. Neurologists were so persistent that that was the only thing that was going to save me and keep me out of a wheelchair and extend my life maybe was to go on this injectable medication. The cost-benefit ratio was just out of whack. I ended up having way more problems as a result including a wound that didn’t heal for six months, including a heart attack, symptoms of a heart attack. Super scary. That just wasn’t for me.

I didn’t notice any improvement in symptoms. I was doing pretty well with the stress reduction as long as I stuck with it. This is something you have to do as a practice. It’s not something you just do yoga a few times and you’re done or you just do deep breathing exercises or neurofeedback once. It is something that you have to keep doing. Finally, the best experiment was right around the corner. In 2010, we had the internet by now. I knew enough about nutrition to know that maybe something that I’m eating is causing this tummy distress after eating. I found a functional medicine nutritionist, and everyone who listens to you knows about functional medicine. It gets to the root cause.

She did some tests and it came back that I had non-celiac gluten sensitivity. Not celiac disease, but non-celiac gluten sensitivity. Meaning I was highly sensitive to this inflammatory protein found in many grains. She educated me on what it was doing to my gut and how it was causing inflammation, leaking through, causing my immune system to react. She led me through this gut healing protocol where I removed things. People know it as an elimination diet. It’s the gold standard for holistic medicine, where we take the bad stuff out and we heal and seal our gut. After a week of removing the gluten, I stopped having tummy trouble after eating.

It’s no surprise because I have to tell you what my diet was at the time. I mean, I woke up and had cereal. As long as I can remember, I had Cheerios for breakfast. I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich every day for lunch so I’m probably getting mold from the peanuts as well as the bread. I’m having pasta or pizza or maybe sometimes beer for dinner. This steady stream of gluten over time was just keeping the gut perpetually leaky. Didn’t know that. After removing it, one week, tummy trouble stops. Within one month, no exaggeration, I stopped having any and all MS symptoms ever again. That was November of 2010 and I’m standing here today in 2019 and I have not even had a tingling baby toe. I call that one my Eureka experiment.

I also want to be super quick to add that this is not a disclaimer that my results might be different from yours. We all know that these autoimmune conditions are multifactorial and had I not been spending the last 26 years really doing that deep emotional healing work and forgiveness work and things that normally people do after they start with food, I did that first. By the time I removed the gluten and healed and sealed up my gut, that became the linchpin trigger for me.

Dr. Pompa:
Right, yeah. It’s interesting because most of these conditions are a perfect storm. You have this going on where you—I’m sure as a teenager you were already becoming activated to gluten. Then you have the emotional component to it, boom. I think that’s the thing is we all have to examine our life and ask the question that the woman asked. What do you think caused it, right? It’s like, ah, wait a minute, maybe it was this. Maybe it was that. I mean, you have to evaluate the chemical exposures, the emotional exposures and the physical trauma that we’re all exposed to and emptying the bucket gives your body a chance to turn off that gene and heal itself.

Palmer:
Absolutely. I’m thrilled that you said that about the bucket because I think when I reflect on, well, how did I heal? I really emptied or did my best to empty the bucket. That’s what we do. It’s our job to constantly take stuff out of the bucket, but it didn’t mean I was finished. I want to be really clear about this. My big, as far as I can tell, my big root cause up until that point had been the chronic stress and layering on top of that, the gluten and maybe other foods I found out later that I’m sensitive to casein protein and dairy. After I healed, I still had things. There was still work to be done. We don’t just stop having an autoimmune condition and say, okay, I’m done.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, no.

Palmer:
I mean, life happens, stresses occur. We have symptoms which are just messages from the body inviting us to dig deeper. I eventually found I had a mountain of mercury in my system. I did have mold. I have chronic Lyme, but we can live with some of these insults as long as our buckets are empty enough.

Dr. Pompa:
Absolutely.

Palmer:
It’s not necessarily about eradicating the Lyme and getting rid of it forever. I don’t know that we can.

Dr. Pompa:
No. I still have it. When I was sick, I was positive Lyme. If I do an IgG test, it’s still there, but my immune system is [00:24:12]. I’m not IgM meaning I don’t have an active infection. Epstein–Barr, had it. Cytomegalovirus, had it, and still do. You’re right. Our bucket just filled up with emotional, physical, chemical stress, poured over and then these pathogens became problematic as well, right?

Palmer:
Right, that’s it. That’s it. You’ll appreciate this story, I think. After I healed in 2010, I was so excited that I didn’t feel like I was plugged into an electrical socket anymore. Literally, 24/7 I always felt this humming in my body. That when I stop having that autoimmune attack, it was really clear to me. What did I want to do? I wanted to go share the good news with my neurologist. Hey, doc. I don’t have MS anymore. He just patted me on the head and said, “Palmer, gluten sensitivity is a fad and I want you to keep taking the medication.” I left his office and went on my merry way.

In a couple of years, Cyrex Labs was open, and Cyrex Laboratories does autoimmune testing to help prevent—to try to get ahead of things. They have an Array called 7X which is against neurological tissue. I had that blood test done. All the antibodies to my neurological tissue like myelin basic protein are in the normal range meaning there’s no more autoimmune attack. I don’t have an MS attack going on in my body. Then fast forward to last year. I just kept on my merry way with lowering things out in my bucket and having the cavitation surgery. We could talk about all that stuff.

I decided to go back and visit the neurologist that I hadn’t seen in eight years. I really wanted to understand how his thinking had evolved, if it had evolved. I thought it would be a good time to get a follow-up MRI. The lesions on your brain don’t go away immediately. I don’t want people to think that the only way to know that you don’t have an MS thing is the lack of lesions. There are scars, and if you have scars on your body, they take a long time or maybe you’ll always have the presence of some scars. It’s really a combination of your symptoms, a neurological exam coupled with an MRI is really the best way of telling. I went back and he wondered why I was there. He was a little taken aback, and he said, with his tail between his legs slightly, “Palmer, we now know that gluten sensitivity is real.”

Dr. Pompa:
I’m surprised he even remembered staying that it was a fad, but I guess he did.

Palmer:
I couldn’t believe it. I could not believe it. He said, “I bet about a third or more of my MS patients are sensitive to gluten.” Then he said now—he knows I’m a Functional Medicine Health Coach. He said, “I can’t give you my patient list, but maybe we can—I can refer people to you.” I followed up with him about three times and he never took me up on that. I thought, why not? Why not do a one plus one equals three. I’m not going to convince them to get off their meds, but maybe with diet and lifestyle changes these people will actually do better, but that didn’t happen. What did happen is we had another MRI done, and I sat side by side with him and he showed me how with the new MRI, the legions had faded or had disappeared. He just looked at me and said, “This couldn’t be a better story.” We finally got him to admit some things which was a nice vindication.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s awesome. You take people in your book through what you call the acronym F.I.G.H.T.S. because as we’re talking about the bucket being filled, we mentioned a lot of these things. I think it puts it in a nice little way of remembering. Hey, these are triggers, so give our viewers and listeners an example of what F.I.G.H.T.S. is and how they can remember that.

Palmer:
Yeah. If you don’t mind my sharing a tiny bit of something that precedes this is, I had no intention of writing a book to begin with. This was just for my own edification. I had this [00:28:26]. I couldn’t understand how I had healed when so many people had told me I couldn’t. That’s when I did the research and dove in and looked at the science to see what in the world enabled me to heal. I found out about epigenetics which literally means above the gene and that really disproves this idea that our DNA is our destiny. I encourage people, I’m sure your audience knows about epigenetics.

Dr. Pompa:
We’ve had amazing experts on this, but to your point, this gets triggered, of our susceptibility to get triggered, but it’s not your destiny. We all have these genes. Every one of us do. I have them. We all do.

Palmer:
I’ll always have the genes for the MS. I can just control the genetic expression by dealing with those environmental factors. That’s what I’ll get into with F.I.G.H.T.S. The second thing I just wanted to point out is, I don’t know if your audience knows that there’s actually an autoimmune equation. Have you talked about that much?

Dr. Pompa:
Give me an example of what you mean?

Palmer:
Alessio Fasano in the early 2000s, he’s a researcher. Now he’s at Harvard Medical School. He did research because we’ve always known that genes play a part in autoimmune conditions, and now we know that it’s only up to 5% to 10% of your health outcomes is genetic, but 90% to 95% is lifestyle, those environmental factors. What we didn’t know what brought those two worlds together. Dr. Fasano and his team found out that it’s intestinal hyperpermeability which is a leaky gut.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I know, we’ve talked about that. In my article on autoimmune I talk about it as a three-legged stool.

Palmer:
Fantastic.

Dr. Pompa:
[00:30:09] part of it. Here’s the stressors, the triggers, and then the gene that gets turned on is my analogy.

Palmer:
Yes. What’s so super exciting about that is that if you flip the equation, you can potentially reverse the autoimmunity.

Dr. Pompa:
Those three things, that’s where the treatments are as well.

Palmer:
This was dumb luck for me because I didn’t know that epigenetically I turned off the MS by following the autoimmune equation which is to detect and remove your triggers and to heal your gut and that’s what I had done. After I healed and I found this science, I just thought, this has to be shared more widely. I thought I really liked words and I wanted to come up with something that was easy for people to remember. I came up with F.I.G.H.T.S. which stands for food, infections, gut health, hormone balance, toxins and stress which is most if not all of them, triggers that we can control minus the genes, but if we addressed them, we could change our epigenetic inheritance. That’s what F.I.G.H.T.S. is and we can go through them in order.

We’ve talked a bit about food because that’s really the place to start. Because gluten was my big linchpin. It turns out, of all of the studies that I’ve read and maybe you’ve seen, gluten seems to be biggest baddy when it comes to autoimmune conditions. In fact, in 2002, I think the New England Journal of Medicine story publication, highlighted 55 diseases that were attributed into eating gluten. That was back in 2002. There’s more recent science that shows that gluten creates a leaky gut in anyone who eats it. If you have the proclivities for autoimmunity, it runs in your family or you’re dealing with something, it’s a really good thing to experiment with is put on your own lab coat and give that a try.

Right up there with gluten is dairy. It seems to be very inflammatory for people and people often think it’s the lactose, but it’s actually the casein which is inflammatory that has the biggest issue for people. Then the third biggest baddy doesn’t get talked a lot in the context of autoimmune, but it should, and that’s sugar. If you eat sugar of any kind including fruit, it could block your immune system from working for up to five hours after eating it. What do we do? We snack and the foods that we eat turn to sugar really quickly in our bloodstreams. When that’s happening, our immune system isn’t operating at full capacity. Autoimmunity is an immune system problem. It’s not a body part problem.

The MS doesn’t mean that I have a problem with my brain, I have an immune system problem. My weak link happens to be for MS, but if you have rheumatoid arthritis, the weak link may be your joints. It’s really important that people understand that this is not a body part problem. It’s an immune system problem. Whatever you can do to unburden your immune system is paramount for healing.

Dr. Pompa:
Infections would be next which we talked a little bit about, but you can expand.

Palmer:
We did. We did. Infections in my book come third because the gut actually comes second and that’s because when you remove the bad food like the SAD foods and the other things that are harming your gut, maybe unnecessary medications or just grabbing an antibiotic for a cold or something, with gut healing you take the bad stuff out. That’s why it naturally just follows the food. What we’re going to do first is remove the bad stuff, and then if you’re over 40, you might want to consider adding digestive enzymes. We tend not to produce as much stomach acid, so to really support yourself that way and adding in those probiotic foods like sauerkraut if you’re able to, and the prebiotics which is really just fiber, colorful vegetables that the probiotics eat.

If you don’t heal the gut, you don’t reverse the autoimmune condition. If you keep doing the things that are inflaming your gut—I often talk about this. We treat our guts like garbage disposals. I mean, we’re really just shoveling things down there and it may not suit us evolutionarily speaking. If those protein fragments continue to go through the lining of our gut, we’re going to stay in that autoimmune cascade. We can’t stop that until we stop putting the things in that are adding fuel to the fire.

Dr. Pompa:
A big one that scientists are pointing out is the glyphosate that is known to open up and cause the leaky gut which many of them like Stephanie Seneff from MIT has shown that look, it’s driving the leaky gut and a lot of the gluten problems. When you go to other countries like Italy, people eat the gluten and go, what’s the difference. Twofold. Number one, glyphosate is outlawed so it’s not opening up the gut. Number two, they definitely have a more ancient grain. Have a different grain than we do. It’s always what man has done to it. I was in a very ancient culture. They ate a lot of dairy, but it wasn’t the dairy that we eat. The casein was a lot different. We have definitely really changed the playing field. Oftentimes, it’s hard to fix the gut when you have silver fillings and leaching mercury disrupting the microbiome. You have hidden infections in the jaw, living in moldy homes. You point out a lot of that stuff in your book actually.

Palmer:
Absolutely, positively. One thing that I learned fairly recently that stress creates a leaky gut. I had no idea. They say that even public speaking, so me getting on your show to talk with you, my gut may be a little permeable today. We need to just tend to—it’s almost a moment by moment basis that we’re changing our terrain. That’s why doing things proactively on a day-to-day basis is so important. It’s not just you’re one and done. Absolutely, infections is right up on the third level where if you’re not better, which most people aren’t, there’s a lot more work to do although practitioners I interviewed for my book and my own experience, people typically heal between 60% and 80% of the way just by addressing those toxic foods, taking them out of their diet. Some people 100% of the time. You start with the highest leverage category and then work your way up. Which is why hormones is last because it’s downstream from everything else. If we can change our diet and heal and seal our gut, a lot of things just end up taking care of themselves. Does that make sense?

Dr. Pompa:
I couldn’t agree more. When I was sick—chase my adrenals, my thyroid issues to no avail until I got upstream on it. Yeah. Obviously, the F.I.G.H.T.S. get you to all the letters, but not necessarily the right order, but hey, it’s a great…

Palmer:
That’s right. That’s right. It’s just a way for people to remembered it. By the way, they don’t have to go in this order. If you want to tackle chronic stress first like I did, have at it. If you have the energy to do it because emotional pain sometimes it’s hard to dig in to those dark places.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s true. Like you said, some people can’t even fix their gut until they deal with some of these other toxic exposures in their life and may not be able to fix their gut until they deal with the emotional exposures in their gut .They’ll spend a lot of time trying different dietary things and wonder why they’re failing. It’s because they need to address more the stressor whether it be chemical, physical or emotional.

Palmer:
That’s right. That’s right. I think the lowest hanging fruit seems to be the best place to do it because people’s energy level may not be up to the task of having for example cavitation surgery that you would do with some of the lower hanging fruit. Talking about toxins, I’ve heard Dr. Pizzorno, naturopathic doctor. He founded Bastyr University. He wrote The Toxin Solution. Talk about how 70% of the toxins in our body are non-persistent, meaning, if we switch to an organic diet, we can really bring the body burden of toxins down in a really pretty quick amount of time.

There have been studies that show that children who have gone from eating conventional foods to eating an organic diet have been able to lower their body burden about 50% only within a few days. That would be a really low hanging fruit for people to consider. What are you eating? In particular, animal products. When you talk about concentration often of toxins, and I heard that sometimes the concentration of those pesticides and herbicides can be 25 times greater in animal products that it is on [00:39:15].

Dr. Pompa:
Again, that’s what man has done to it. If you’re eating real grass-fed meat that’s not given any chemicals or eating chemical grain which animals aren’t supposed to be eating. Cows anyway. No doubt biological concentration, you’re taking in a lot of poison at once. That’s for sure. That’s why when people get rid of it, they feel better. Dairy is another one. Holds a lot of toxins. I always say, if you start with just eating real meat, grass-fed and real dairy grass-fed, my gosh, right away you can reduce a lot of symptoms.

Palmer:
Absolutely. It’s such a good point. These are behaviors we do every day. We eat every day, so every day maybe two or three times a day, and if you snack maybe it’s more often than that. We have a decision. Do I add to my toxin bucket or do I take things out of my toxin bucket? I just want people to know, every choice we make is highly consequential. Just having your coffee in a paper cup once isn’t going to do anything, but did you know that paper cup maybe lined with a plasticizer. You’re actually going to be ingesting some plastic or maybe people are still using microwaves in heating their food up.

If you’re microwaving something that’s in plastic, you’re going to ingesting that and that becomes something that your body doesn’t recognize. That is something that perpetuates the autoimmune attack. Just every little thing that you decide to do is highly consequential. I’ve heard that the air we breathe, indoor air can be up to 90 times more polluted than outdoor air.

Dr. Pompa:
Wow.

Palmer:
We spend 90% of our time indoors. Some really simple things that we can do are just—if you live in a place where you’re not next to a highway or some chemical plant, open your windows, get some fresh air.

Dr. Pompa:
We do and I always cross ventilate all the time. When I was in a very humid environment, I had something called an energy return ventilator that brings stale air out and fresh air in. It runs it through your HVAC system just to bring fresh air in. You’re right. Air is a big problem. When you’re indoors a lot, you really have to pay attention to that. Water is another one. I can’t believe how many people still drink tap water. It’s ridiculous the amount of hormones and drugs and of course chlorine and fluoride and all the other things they purposely put in the water, but it’s poisonous. Something you can so something about this week. Fix it.

Palmer:
Right. Today. Your choices can change today. Even the thoughts we think. What do they say? We have 60,000 thoughts and most of them are repetitive and negative. To challenge some of those thoughts and that rumination of worrying and so forth that’s just extra stress that we’re giving to ourselves.

Dr. Pompa:
Absolutely. Today we’re surrounded by enough toxins unknowingly. Control the ones you can. I mean, we get it’s the low hanging fruit. We can control and put in our mouth at least. We could control for the most part in our home the water we drink and the air we breathe. Start there and then start evaluating. Do you have silver fillings that contain mercury? Do you have a root canal? These hidden infections in the jaw, cavitations. Work your way up to these big causative factors because they’re nasty and they turn genes on very quickly.

Palmer:
They do and as I’m listening to us, I’m just reflecting on the fact that this—it can seem overwhelming to people, but just putting one foot in front of the other, just taking one step, making one decision. Open a window. Maybe that’s all you can do today. If you don’t have the energy to exercise and get out there, just sit outside in the sun. Maybe barefoot to get some earthing in. You can make it much simpler. It doesn’t have to be all at once, and it doesn’t have to be quite so complicated. I have to touch on mercury because you mentioned it. There was a doctor in the UK named Patrick Kingsley. He was, I think an integrative physician. He saw 4,000 patients with MS over his career and he said of the 4,000 he only saw five that did not have mercury poisoning.

Dr. Pompa:
I believe it. It ruined my life for a period of time. That’s for sure. You made the comment and I agree with it. Just by changing your diet you can get out a certain percentage of the toxins whether it’s 50, 60, who knows. These big neurotoxic sources like heavy metals, they tend to accumulate in the brain where it turns to inorganic mercury. It’s stuck for life unless you do something really intentional about it. Aluminum, same way. There’s a lot of toxins that really, we have to be more purposeful about mercury being one of them. Just great stuff and I know you covered a lot in your book. Again, there’s the book behind you, but I’ll hold it up again. Remind them of the gift that you are blessing our audience with.

Palmer:
Yeah. This I spent a lot of time on because the biggest question I get from people is what do I eat if I have an autoimmune condition? I believe that you’re in the best position to figure that out. I created a little guide, an e-book if you will, to help you figure that out. It’s called the Optimal Food Guide, and go to palmerkippola.com/gift. Palmer Kippola, P-A-L-M-E-R, Kippola is K-I-P-P-O-L-A dot com, forward slash gift.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s great. Yeah, we appreciate that. Awesome. Do you have any other final thoughts or broader message that you want to tell my viewers?

Palmer:
Yeah, I do. I do. I think that autoimmune is really an invitation for us to wake up. I say that lovingly. That question of why do I think I got the MS is really a question that I really invite you to get quiet about, reflect on, and view it as an opportunity because often we folks with autoimmune conditions have adopted maybe a perfectionistic tendency or personality or we are big people pleasers. Those were all coping mechanisms. We have an invitation to become who we truly are. I think that is what this gift of MS has brought to me. That’s what I would invite people to do is to get really quiet and still and allow those hypothesis to come up for you.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s great. I’m going to leave it with this note. Many people watch our show. They’re health seekers just looking for why they don’t feel well. Simple. Autoimmune, it could be it. It’s estimated 90% to 95% of Americans have autoimmune. That means that just those of you just with some brain fog and energy issues, your body could be attacking itself. Don’t wait until you get the diagnosis because by then it’s been there a while. I would make these changes that we’ve discussed now. As if hey, my immune system is probably attacking itself. I want to stop it now because arguably the earlier you do the better. Palmer, thank you so much for your message and for your book and for your contribution no doubt from the mess to the message, and in this case, thank you that you’re the messenger. You’ve changed a lot of lives. You really have so we appreciate that.

Palmer:
I’m so grateful to you and you are just one of the most phenomenal health educators. We just must take control of our health. I think what you’re doing is fantastic. It’s just been an honor to be here and a privilege. Thank you so much.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. Love to team up on it with you. Thanks for being here.

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