2019 Podcasts

269: Can We Outsmart Our Cells?

269: Can We Outsmart Our Cells?

with Spencer Feldman

There are 3 animals that are very cancer resistant: elephants, ants, and the naked mole rat. How can humans gain the same advantage as these remarkable creatures?

My guest today, Spencer Feldman, has done amazing research on the topic and we'll be discussing how our our bodies can actually build up defenses to repair and even stop mutated cells from replicating. This is one fascinating episode!

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Transcript:

Ashley:
Hello, everyone. Welcome to Cellular Healing TV. I’m Ashley Smith. Did you know there are three animals that are very cancer resistant: elephants, ants, and the naked mole rat. How can humans gain the same advantage as these remarkable creatures? Our guest today has done amazing research on the topic. He’s here to discuss how our bodies can actually build up defenses to repair and even stop mutated cells from replicating.

Our guest’s name is Spencer Feldman. He’s been formulating and manufacturing detoxification products for two decades, awarded two US patents. His suppository versions of chelation therapy, liver/gallbladder flushes, and coffee enemas have helped tens of thousands of people improve their health. This is one fascinating episode. Let’s get started and welcome Dr. Pompa and Spencer Feldman to the show. This is Cellular Healing TV.

Dr. Pompa:
This is a great show because you have a great interest like I do. We both do detox very similar. We believe it has to happen at the cell. Myself and my doctors, we have utilized many of the products that you’ve created because one of the challenges that we face with detox is people with bad guts. You’ve created some suppositories that we absolutely love. How I actually found your company was because some people—the darn coffee enemas which help detox so much. It opens up that liver pathway and gets the bile moving which gets toxic.

You found a simpler way. The product is Xeneplex. Now, we’ve fell in love with that product. It’s basically, folks, a coffee enema in a suppository. I use them all the time. A matter of fact, I turned my friend Ben Greenfield onto them because he—when he travels, he wants to do his coffee enemas. He absolutely loves your products as well. It goes beyond just Xeneplex, so we’re going to dive into that.

I want to have some discussions here about cancer and about how toxins relate into this big epidemic because that’s big into your heart. Then we’ll pull some of these really unique products that you’ve developed into this conversation. We’ll start there but start with your story, man. I always start there because always somebody that dives in as deep as you do, we all have a story. How did you get into this?

Spencer Feldman:
I wanted to be an emergency room physician, but my hands when I was in college were shaking so bad that I couldn’t drink soup. I went to the doctor and I said, “What’s up with my hands?” He said, “Here’s a drug.” I’m like, “Alright, but what’s up with my hands? Why is this happening?” He didn’t want to give me the time or an answer or maybe he didn’t have an answer. I traced it back probably to [00:02:59], a measles outbreak—or not an outbreak, one person perhaps got measles at my college, so the massed exited everybody. I believe my hand shaking started right afterwards in retrospect. I probably got a little bit of a vaccinosis reaction.

I went to acupuncture school. That wasn’t for me. I like it, but I don’t like needles. I think it was around the year 2000, but the internet became really available. You’d get onto PubMed and you could read published journals in 12 different languages around the world, any topic you wanted. I really feel in love with alternative medicine. I ended up going from making it a hobby to get my own health better to making a career as a formulator.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, no, and like I said, we really love the products. It works so amazing right along with my cellular detox. I have the same principles. Let’s talk about cancer. Let’s jump in. Today, I’m constantly lecturing on the fact that chemicals, neurotoxins are the biggest driver of why we’re seeing an explosion of cancers. Even kids, since the 1950s, it’s estimated that 67% increase in childhood cancers. When you look at the research, environmental toxins, neurotoxins are the driving factor. With some of this new research around glyphosate being sprayed on all our foods, oh man. Alright, what’s your take on it?

Spencer Feldman:
I came to some of the same conclusions. I was curious, have we always had cancer? They do find cancer and were traces of cancer in the bones of prehistoric people. When I came across some studies, I think they were out of Sweden, and they showed that cancer really started skyrocketing right about the 1950s. I started looking, well, what was happening in the ‘50s? That’s when we started doing atmospheric nuclear testing.

If you look at the number of tests that happened over time, and you look at the global worldwide production of plastics, chemicals, pesticides, and you lay them over the cancer graphs, these are identical graphs. Is it causing it? Is it causality? Is it correlation? I don’t know. I think it’s a pretty good smoking gun that the increase in the chemical toxic load that we’ve been exposed to is a prime driver for cancer tissue.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, well, so people are saying, okay, great. Give them at least a brief understanding; not too much science, but a brief understanding of how it happens. We’re very educated here on heavy metals. A toxin like a heavy metal which today, we’re—there’s science showing that glyphosate which they’re spraying on all our food actually allows these heavy metals to go deeper into our brain, into our cells which we know is driving cancer even more. Give them a brief explanation of this because I really want—I’m building the value here on why it’s so important to detox and do it right.

Spencer Feldman:
Alright, so cancer from what we think it is now is a dysfunction of the progenitor cells which is halfway between a stem cell and normal tissue. Stem cells can differentiate and become anything. Progenitor cells have already differentiated a little bit, but they can still change their state. They can still change to become other things. Then stable cells, they do the one thing they’re meant to do. It’s this intermediary cell that’s a progenitor cell that we believe is where cancers are coming from.

The main theory behind cancer is it’s caused by a mutation of the DNA. It’s estimated six or seven mutations is what it takes for a cell to become cancerous. There is another cause I believe for cancer. I would call it the adaptation kind of cancer. I’ll explain the differences between the two of these.

A mutating cancer would be someone who’s exposed to some type of toxic chemical. It damages the DNA enough. It has skipped surveillance of the body, starts replicating, and there’s cancer. An adaptive cancer I would say is negative epigenetics. In other words, some slow toxin, and I think it’s mostly metals in this case, gets into the system and changes the environment the cell is in. Rather than the cell genetically being mutated, the cell itself adapts to the new environments. That adaptation is cancer.

I think it’s important to understand both ways in which cancer form: an immediate toxic insult from chemicals and a more gradual long-term insult from metals for us to really be able to get a handle on cancer. Of course, what we’re going to need to do is detox the chemicals and detox the metals. I suppose the first thing we can talk about is well, okay, how do we detoxify the chemicals?

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, no, absolutely. You and I both agree that real detox starts at the cell. Our cells have natural abilities to get rid of toxins. The problem is they get overwhelmed. Cell membranes get inflamed, pathways, glutathione, all of it gets overwhelmed. Now, the cell isn’t able to get rid of toxins, even the toxins that it makes when it makes normal energy. The example I love to give, it’s like burning a fire. If you don’t have a chimney, you’re going to die. That’s our cells. They become chimneyless.

Then the second challenge is what’s getting it out of the body? You have to deal with both of those challenges. Talk a little bit about that.

Spencer Feldman:
Okay, let’s work with chemicals because metals is a different detox pathway. We can get to that in a minute. The chemical detox pathway, there’s three phases of it. As you know, there’s Phase One, Phase Two, and Phase Three. Phase One is where you attach an oxygen outer molecule to a toxin and make it more reactive. Phase Two is when you attach something else to that oxygen, glutathione, but there’s others. We can talk about those. Now, it’s able to be moved around. Then Phase Three is where it comes out urine, sweat, out of the stool. When you see people who are having detox reactions, it’s my belief that the protocol they did didn’t get all three of those phases.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s right.

Spencer Feldman:
Because what happens is Phase One will temporarily make a toxin more toxic, more reactive. If you have someone who gets a Phase One detoxifier, and they don’t have Phase Two capacity, they’ve actually just caused a worse problem. They’ve made their toxins more reactive, but—more capable of causing problems, but not necessarily more capable of leaving the body.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s right.

Spencer Feldman:
As you were mentioning, coffee enemas, this is the classic Phase One detoxifier. Were we living a more natural lifestyle, we would be eating a lot of bitter foods. Bitter foods in nature, that’s what stimulates the P450 enzymes Phase One detoxifiers. If you go to the grocery store, there’s hardly anything bitter left. It’s been breed out of our agriculture, so we get very little bitters to stimulate Phase One.

The other issue is the toxins we are exposed to. I call them stealth toxins. They’re not bitter; aspartame can actually be sweet. We are getting less bitter stimulation in our diets to upregulate our natural Phase One. The toxins we’re exposed to because they’re not bitter, they’re not what we—our genetics are used to seeing, are not triggering our body to get rid of them. They’re stealth. Phase One would be, the classic would be the coffee enema or in this case suppository. It’s how I like to do it.

Phase Two is the conjugation. That would be things like glutathione, sulfidation, so sulfur, methylation, acetalization which is B5, basically, it’s how we get rid of antibiotics, and glucuronidation. The goal behind the detox for me from my perspective is we stimulate Phase One at the same time we provide the raw materials or Phase Two. Because if someone doesn’t have enough of the Phase Two detoxifiers in their body and you give them a Phase One stimulant, again, the body will start mobilizing toxins incompletely and they’re going to feel terrible, so you give them at the same time, the conjunctive agents.

Then you have to make sure the last part, is the gallbladder full of sludge or is it a straight shot out for the bad subtle toxins? Are the kidneys operating properly? Are the main Phase Three exits open? I feel like that’s a really great way to get a handle on the chemical toxins. You Phase One, coffee rectally, Phase Two with the conjugators, and Phase Three with something that would flush out the kidneys and the gallbladder.

Dr. Pompa:
We built a product some years ago and it’s a G Cell. It combines that Phase One, Phase Two for that reason because you would follow with that. Of course, we love doing coffee enemas for that reason. Coffee enemas too you can consider part of Phase Three too because when you push that bile out, you just emptied that gallbladder which when that’s blocked up with hepatic biliary sludge, it’s magic.

Then one of the tricks that we do even with the Xeneplex, your coffee enema in a suppository, we take a product called Bind first, like 30 minutes, 45 minutes ahead of it. It has four different binders that just sit in the gut as a catcher’s mitt. We dump into that and pull it out which represents in that case Phase Three. You’re right; by stimulating that oxidative process in Phase One, you get both with that. That’s it. People have to understand that a lot of that, again, it starts at the cellular level. Obviously, glutathione at the cell, the liver, all of it plays a very critical role, methylation as well.

Spencer Feldman:
Taking fiber is a fantastic idea. I don’t recommend that often—as often as I should. In the same way that the Xeneplex was a modern recreation of the coffee enema, the Glytamins was my idea for a modern recreation of the liver/gallbladder flush.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I was just going to talk about Glytamins because we use it as well. It helps push out that bio-complex.

Spencer Feldman:
I’ve started looking at people with ultrasound. You look at someone’s carotid artery, and we can talk about that in another talk, how many people are walking around with enormous plaque in their arteries? You can also see all sorts of junk hanging out in people’s gallbladders.

There was one woman who I think she was in her 80s. It’s an interesting story. She calls me up to thank me because her headaches are gone. I said, “Oh, that’s very nice.” She had taken some Glytamins.

She goes, “No, thanks; the headache’s gone. “I’m like, “Well, ma’am, how long have you had your headache?” She said, “65 years,” something absurd. How do I say this? Is it possible that she had a gallstone for 65 years and that was what was causing all of her pain? Being able to flush out the gallbladder, I think it’s a great thing and especially because some people have, I believe mistakenly, gone on very low-fat diets. What that does is that can be a set up for gallstones.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, no doubt. The Glytamins makes it easier because really doing those gallbladder flushes, they’re worse than coffee enemas; we’ll just put it that way. It’s better to take the Glytamins myself. Yeah, both of those products really assist this process big time.

Alright, well, let’s jump into a new product that really excited me that I can’t wait to carry. It’s brand new. We’re the first to hear about it right here. This is more focused on a specific—specifically cancer. Talk about the new product—we’re going to be launching it—and how it works, and why it’s so different.

Spencer Feldman:
Do you think we could talk on metals first?

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, absolutely.

Spencer Feldman:
Okay, great. The other half of the equation for toxicity I think is metals. I think that we have to treat metals differently than we treat the chemicals because they cause different problems and they have to be addressed in so many different situations.

Dr. Pompa:
I agree from a standpoint you need different chelators and binders because they’re a bitch to get out. The glutathione doesn’t hold on and pull them all the way out.

Spencer Feldman:
Let me tell you what I’ve come—my thoughts on metals and in this case cancer. The cell membrane which you and I are so mindful of helping for our clients has—its job is to let certain things in and out, control the intracellular environment. It wants to have a lot of potassium on the inside, and it wants to keep the sodium on the outside, and let calcium in only under certain conditions. The way it does this is with three types of machines you might call them.

There are pumps, transporters, and channels. The pumps push things in and out. It takes energy; it takes ATP to do it. The transporters, they don’t take energy; what they do is they’re like a revolving door.

Let’s say here’s the membrane. This is something they want to get in and this is something that they want to get out, they might switch them. That would be an antiporter in opposite directions. A symporter would be they want to get both of these things in. This is going to pull in this one and they both go through. Then the last one is channels which is just a hole that things shoot through really quickly. These three things, the pumps, the transporters, and the channels are what allow a cell to maintain its housekeeping to bring in and out what it wants.

Now, here’s what happens; here’s the problem. Toxic metals can through molecular mimicry get stuck in these transporters. As an example, mercury and sodium both are 1.02 angstroms-ish. Atoms have a bit of wiggle to them; they’re not like billiard balls. They both are 1.02 angstrom in size which means that the all-important sodium channel or sodium pump, the mercury can get in there.

Now, in order for a pump, a channel, or a transporter to work—and mostly, a lot of what it’s doing is moving ions, moving metals. Let’s say it wants to bring in some potassium from outside the cell to inside the cell. It will grab onto the potassium and then pull it in and let it go. The let it go part is important. If it grabs on too tight, it can’t let it go. Now, you’ve got something stuck on that transporter, that pump; it doesn’t work.

This is what happens with the metals. Mercury or divalent mercury, in any case, has a +2 charge and almost identical in size to sodium. When the mercury gets into a sodium channel or a pump, the same size, the charge is different; it can get stuck there. Now, that particular pump can’t work. It can’t move things the way it wants.

Another example is barium and potassium. I think barium is 1.35 angstroms; potassium is 1.38. They’re very close. Again, barium with a +2 charge, potassium +1. The barium gets into the transporter for potassium. It grabs on and it just jams up there; it doesn’t let go. Think of metals as membrane glue. They sludge up the machinery that pumps the transporters, the aquaporins, the channels that are required for a cell to function properly.

Now, here’s something interesting I read in a study. It said that all known carcinogens decrease intracellular potassium and raise intracellular sodium. What they’re really saying is all known carcinogens damage membrane pumps, transports, and channels because that’s what’s keeping those things at the right levels. Also, you find a lot of calcium inside the cells of cancer cells because the pumps can’t get it out. Calcium is the on switch for a cell and a cancer cell is constantly on.

What I think metals do is they get into the membranes by looking like the ions that the transporters, and pumps, and channels want to move. They get there and jam things up. The cell is unable to regulate itself. Then what happens is over enough time, the cell epigenetically, it changes. It says, well, I can’t function in this environment with this high calcium, high sodium, low potassium. How do I stay alive? Cancer is that adaptation.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, no, it makes sense. There’s many theories obviously. This is another theory, but I believe it’s plausible because I know, it really is the membrane. Here’s the other factor of that. I draw that out how the metals attach to these membranes. The problem is the membrane is the critical component of changing the epigenetics. Literally, you don’t change a genome; you don’t turn on a gene, a good one on and a bad one off unless you fix the membrane. Vice versa, when the membrane’s fouled up, now all the bad stuff starts turning on in the epigenetics.

It’s a multifaceted problem just even the cellular energy component because now all of what you just described is happening in the mitochondrial membrane as well. Now, you’re not making ATP. Now, you’re driving inflammation pathways feeding back into positive feedback loops. Oh my gosh; there’s a zillion ways that heavy metals drive cancer and other unexplainable illnesses including autoimmune. It is all a cellular issue.

This CytoDetox, it has the small enough particles to get into these membranes and grab onto something strong enough to pull it out. Otherwise, if you don’t free the membrane, you’re not detoxing. I love to say everyone’s doing all these detox protocols that make them poop more, but ultimately, what you just described is the big problem. This is the area that nobody is really paying attention to in the detox world.

Spencer Feldman:
Yes; one way that you can check the health of the membrane would be with phase angle. We typically go from a phase angle of eight when we were young, peaks when we’re say 24, and then it drops down to 5.5 when we’re 70 or 80. You’ll see lower phase angles in people that are precancerous and then, of course, it’s the lower the phase angle, the worse the prognosis and shorter the survival time. I think testing phase angle is fantastic because what you’re testing is the voltage of the cell. That’s being driven by the pumps which is creating the gradience.

As an example, cancer cells usually have a voltage of between -5 to -38. I think the prostate’s a little bit lower, but that’s the rule. Then normal cells are between -38 and -93 with the exception of I think fibroblasts and some other things. As a general rule, 38 is the cut-off. If a cell goes below 38 millivolts, that’s cancer; and if it goes above, it’s not. That’s a generalization. What we know from studying is that you can take a cancer cell and stop it by raising its voltage. You can take a normal cell and make it cancerous by lowering its voltage. It’s a huge thing.

In terms of the idea of whether or not metals are associated with cancer, there was a study, there was an 18-year study following up—in Switzerland where they followed up people that had done 20 chelation treatments, so clearing out metals. There was a 90% decrease in cancer deaths. Yeah, the metals are an enormous problem, but they happen slowly enough that they’re not—it’s very stealth. If someone is at a worksite and gets solvent exposure, they’re sick right then and there. Someone gets some fillings in their mouth or has something metal exposure, slowly drains them out because it’s this other thing; it’s the voltage dropping; it’s the cells; it’s a membrane going down.

I guess what I would say is being able to get rid of metals is just as important as chemicals. Metals are more like the time bomb. The perspective I have is very close to yours. We both come to a lot of the same conclusions in terms of getting rid of things. The way I see it is the kind of things that can go inside the cells, glutathione, it can pull out metals and such, but they don’t make an incredibly strong bond.

Dr. Pompa:
Exactly.

Spencer Feldman:
It may be necessary for them not to make a strong bond because otherwise, they might get stuck in the channels. They can go in; they can grab onto the metals that can come out, but once they’re outside, they can under certain circumstances redeposit, let go of the metal and now the metal just finds its way to another bit of tissue. The perspective I have is to mate or to join to different kinds of metal remover agents at least. One, something like glutathione and the products that you carry to go inside the cell. Then once it goes in and comes out the membrane, EDTA or something with a really strong charge—

Dr. Pompa:
That’s right.

Spencer Feldman:
—to pull the metal off the glutathione, take it out the body. That functionally recycles the glutathione. It can then go back in the cell and get more. That relay system I think is a fantastic way to go and get metals out of the tissue.

Dr. Pompa:
I couldn’t agree more. Just taking something like EDTA, DMSA, or one of these really good chelators by itself, there’s more to it than that. Taking them correctly is part of what we just described. It’s key because you need those type of chelators and binders to actually move something like heavy metals out of the body. Again, where we started the conversation, keeping it moving through the liver, and the bile, and out through the gut, a critical component in Phase Three.

Exactly, we see the same. I’m going to be honest; when I look at the functional medicine world, most people are doing detox incorrectly. I’d have to say even the top names in this industry, and I’m not going to point fingers, but it amazes me that they violate the very principle that you and I just described. We’ve never had this conversation. Obviously, we’re reading literature and going, okay, well this makes sense. Now, I have an incredible advantage of doing this over many years, training doctors figuring out what works, what doesn’t. What you described is what works. I believe it’s backed by the science.

I do want to talk—I’m very excited about your cancer product, so I tried to pull you into that earlier, but I’m glad we had the heavy metal discussion. Talk about this new product that we’re going to be carrying. I think it’s going to be healthy for everybody but talk about the product.

Spencer Feldman:
Okay, so caveat, I’m not calling it a cancer product.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, okay, well, I didn’t want to mispronounce it, so that’s why. First of all, I’d of went mito and pinol. You said, “Oh, it’s Mitopinol.” I was like, okay, I’m going to mispronounce it. I’m dyslexic, so I figured.

Spencer Feldman:
Let’s say we have taken someone who we’ve pulled out as many metals as we can and they’re still staying with it. They’ve pulled out the chemicals; they’re staying with it. Remember, it’s the six or seven mutations before a cell becomes cancerous. There are numbers thrown around that the average person creates and destroys a thousand or so or ten thousand cancer cells a day with a good immune system. Those are the cells that have got six or seven or more mutations.

What about the people—what about all the cells that have four and five mutations? They’re not cancer, but boy are they close. When we detox someone, and they stay on detox, we’ve gotten rid of as best we can the causes, the drivers for the two types of cancers that we’ve discussed. We have done anything—there are all those time bombs sitting in their body waiting to go off; all of those cells that have been exposed to environments that are inappropriate because the pumps and transporters have gotten jammed up and that have mutated because of the chemicals. My perspective is that we also need to do something to deal with the cells that are problematic.

What I did is I looked into the animal world and said okay, millions of species, a lot of them get cancer; most of them do, even plants. Have any other animals—raise your hand, if you’re an animal that’s figured out cancer, please raise your hand. I’d like to talk to you. Three animals raised their hands. Okay, we’ve got ants, we’ve got elephants, and naked mole rats. Let me tell you about these three because they are the basis of the Mitopinol products.

Elephants very rarely get cancer. The idea is that it’s because they overexpress a gene called TP53. They have 20 times more TP53 genes than we do. It’s a very important gene in cancer protection. What it does is it—if a cell is getting a little wonky, that gene will cause that cell to stop, cell arrest, so it doesn’t grow anymore. Then what it does is it will fix it if it can and destroy it if it can’t; very important gene for protecting against cancer. Fifty percent of all cancers are associated with a mutation of the TP53 gene in humans.

Now, we only have one copy of this gene. If this copy goes bad, we don’t have 19 more like the elephants to back us up. What we can do is we can simulate the TP53 gene. I think the best thing for that is ellagic acid. Ellagic acid does the same things as the TP53 gene. I believe it causes cell arrest. We know it can repair genes. The reason we know this is because there are 95% less DNA atoms after someone has been taking ellagic acid.

A DNA atom is a bit of a genetic code that’s gotten damaged in getting out of the system. If you’re decreasing the number of DNA atoms, what you’re functionally doing is you’ve shown that your DNA is a healthier state. It’s got less things being removed from it. Again, ellagic acid has shown a 95% decrease in DNA atoms. Then finally, ellagic acid is fantastic for apoptosis which is getting cells to commit suicide. From what I can see, ellagic acid is a near complete replacement for a TP53 gene. I’ll be taking ellagic acid to the last day I’m alive. It’s an amazing ingredient.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, no doubt. It does something. It happens in fasting; it actually stimulates autophagy where the body just simply—you know apoptosis is a part of autophagy. Yeah, it will stimulate that cell eating process getting rid of the bad cells. The innate intelligence knows. It just helps that pathway which is incredible. We’re excited to carry that product as well. I think it’s going to be a fantastic product.

I do want you to say a word about your process. You’ve been doing suppositories for 20 years. There’s a lot of other people who have come along now and are doing suppositories. How is your process different? Why is it better? I chose your product, but you tell the story.

Spencer Feldman:
Let me just finish the ants and the naked mole rats and then I’ll answer that question.

Dr. Pompa:
Okay, I thought you were done with that. I figured the naked mole rats and the ants have more.

Spencer Feldman:
No, they’ve got their own things. If 50% of cancer is associated with the TP53 gene and 50% of us die of cancer, that means in our lives, a quarter of us are going to need some help with this gene. That’s the elephants’ world. That’s how we can be more like elephants. How can we be more like ants? Ants very rarely get cancer and they have virtually no immune system. What they do have is a spectacular genetic repair system. They basically said, we’ll repair ourselves so fast, it doesn’t matter what you throw at us.

There’s an ingredient, it was discovered by Hans Nieper, a great physician from Europe called iridodial if I’m pronouncing it right and I might not be. Basically, it’s an ant extract. Iridodial is an aldehyde. I would love to see some chemical pharmaceutical house make this stuff by the kilo; as far as I know, they don’t. Until then, if we want to have this kind of ant defense mechanism, we’re going to have to eat concentrated ants, ant extract. Fortunately, it doesn’t taste very bad.

Third thing: the naked mole rat. The naked mole rat as opposed to the elephant, the naked mole rat is actually immune to cancer. You cannot create cancer in a naked mole rat in a laboratory condition or at least that’s what I’ve heard. It also lives seven times longer than its most similar sized say house rat or mouse. It lives longer by seven-fold and is basically immune to cancer. I wanted to understand why this was. What the naked mole rate does is it creates a different kind of hyaluronic acid than we do; I think it’s five times bigger. That’s the connective tissue that we’re built in. I believe what happens is the hyaluronic acid is the first thing that cancer has to get through to become invasive.

Now, the naked mole rat Number One makes an enormous amount of hyaluronic acid of a slightly different kind that we do. It has very downregulated hyaluronic acid enzymes. Meaning the enzymes that would break hyaluronic acid down, it doesn’t really make it. If we want to be more like the naked mole rat, then it would be increasing our hyaluronic acid intake, but at the same time, suppressing our own endogenous enzyme production for that enzyme which breaks down hyaluronic acid. The Mitopinol product was based around these three animals: the elephant, the ant, and the naked mole rat.

Dr. Pompa:
I’d argue it would be good for your joints as well potentially because hyaluronic acid plays such a key role in your skin as well.

Spencer Feldman:
Yeah, sure. That was the intention. What I said is okay, what are the ways in which we people typically die is heart attack and stroke. That’s the same thing, just in a different location. Then cancer. I said okay, what animals if any have dealt with cancer? The whole cancer angle from my perspective is detoxify chemicals and metals and then take a lesson from these three animals that have such amazing cancer defense systems.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s beautiful, Spencer. We’re going to be carrying your new—you mentioned heart disease and strokes as the Number One killer. We’re going to be carrying that product. We don’t have time to talk about it today, but we’ll have you back for sure. Just give them the name of that product, so they will see it here on—at least Revelation Health will be carrying it.

Spencer Feldman:
Sure, that one is Rubeplex. I’ll tell you a little bit about it just as a teaser. What happens is we—when the blood starts to get too coagulated, it starts to erode the arterial wall. Plaque is basically a failed healing process of an arterial insult. More on that one later. That one is called Rubeplex.

To answer your earlier question, what got me into suppositories and how are we different, there’s a lot of ways into the body: powders, capsules, injections, transdermal, intranasal, and suppository. The reason I like suppositories is a couple of things. One is some of the best ingredients don’t survive digestion or don’t survive it very well, so we bypass the digestive tract. It’s not mixing up with a bunch of foods, and liquids, and getting worked on by acids and enzymes. It’s in the rectum and it goes—suppositories go right through into the portal vein right into circulation, so we get a much higher absorption. Take something like serrapeptase for instance or ETA, perhaps these are 5% absorbed orally. You can get a lot more into the body as a suppository.

Another thing about it is location. It’s right there against the prostate and the portal vein to the liver. If you want to work on those two organs, that’s a great way in. Another thing I like about suppositories is they’re sealed from light and from oxygen when they’re made, so they’ve got a decent shelf life.

What makes us different? We are the longest running suppository manufacture in the US that makes things for the alternative community, the alternative health community. We’ve been doing it for 20 years. We make everything ourselves. In terms of ingredients, we don’t put in a lot of the things that other people do to make their equipment run better. What’s not really spoken about is all the fillers, and lubricants, and binding agents, and chemicals that are used in a manufacturer of supplements.

As an example, a lot of suppository manufacturers will use [00:41:13] which is a synthetic base which is mildly toxic. We use cocoa butter. It’s more difficult to use cocoa butter. Ask anyone who makes chocolate who’s a chocolatier, they’ll tell you cocoa butter is a little challenging to work with, but it’s clean. We make everything ourselves in our own lab. There’s nothing in it—everything that’s in it is on the ingredients. We don’t use anything that—we don’t use solvents to clean equipment. Everything is done in a way that I would want for the things that I’m taking for my family that I make for other people.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s why we use you as well. Spencer, thank you. This is a great show. It’s really putting the word out. I think it was great explanations on cancer. Your products are great, too. Thank you for being part of what we do.

Spencer Feldman:
Thank you, Dr. Pompa.

Ashley:
That’s it for this week. I hope you enjoyed today’s episode. You can read more about Spencer Feldman and his line of supplements in our show notes. 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.

268: Is Your Mattress Toxic?

268: Is Your Mattress Toxic?

with Robert Rasmussen

Are you sleeping on a mattress laced with toxic chemicals? Has it been worn way passed its warranty? And let me guess… it couldn’t find and relieve a pressure point if your health depended on it.

Today's episode is all about sleep, mattress technologies, and the toxicity of mattresses. I am joined by Robert Rasmussen who is one of the foremost authorities on how important your mattress is to getting deep, restorative sleep.

Additional Information:

As a special for our CHTV audience, please visit https://intellibed.com/pompa/ to take 10% off Intellibed’s Organix line of beds with free shipping and a free mattress protector.

Practitioners, please visit https://intellibed.com/practitioner/ to open an account for your clients and patients. You can mention that Dr. Pompa sent you for special pricing.

Prefer to speak to someone? Please call Intellibed at 801.876.5704 if you have questions about these incredible mattresses.

Transcript:

Ashley:
Hello, everyone. Welcome to Cellular Healing TV. I’m Ashley Smith. Are you sleeping on a mattress laced with toxic chemicals? Has it been worn way past its warranty? Let me guess. It couldn’t find and relieve a pressure point if your health depended on it. Today’s episode is all about sleep, mattress technologies, and the toxicity of mattresses. Dr. Pompa is joined by Robert Rasmussen, who is one of the foremost authorities on how important your mattress is to getting deep restorative sleep. Robert is an engineer, and he’s the founder of Intellibed, which is the mattress that Dr. Pompa uses himself.

As a special for our CHTV audience, please visit intellibed.com/pompa to take 10% off Intellibed’s Organix line of beds with free shipping and a free mattress protector. You can also call the phone number in our show notes if you prefer to speak to someone about these incredible mattresses. Just say that Dr. Pompa sent you. Practitioners, please visit intellibed.com/practitioner to open an account for your clients and patients. Okay, so let’s get started and welcome Dr. Pompa and Intellibed’s Robert Rasmussen to the show. This is Cellular Healing TV.

Dr. Pompa:
Bob, welcome to CellTV.

Robert:
Thank you.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I’m really excited. I just explained how excited I am about this interview. Listen, those watching, you’re in for a treat because this changed my wife and I’s life. It really did. I don’t say that often. I have to say I was more than pleasantly surprised, and my wife attributes your creation to literally solving her hip pains and back pains.

I also told you this too, we literally—I can’t tell you how many times. I wish my wife were here. We get in bed, and we say, oh, my God, I love our bed. We love our bed. I also told you this. I came off of probably the industry’s top mattress, the Royal Pedic, all organic. I mean, this thing is a Ferrari, and so we didn’t come from something junky. We went from that to your mattress, and I’ll tell you, it has been absolutely beyond my words, I’m telling you.

In this show, folks, you’re going to figure out—you’re going to at least learn why Merily and I both had such a dramatic experience, honestly. I cannot wait to share this with our viewers, but we have to start with your story, though. You’re not just this business guy that fell into the mattress business. You, actually, 30 years as an engineer developing these, literally, cushions that changed people’s lives. I mean, that was what you did before you got into the mattress business, and that’s how you ended up in the mattress business. Explain that story because I think it’s really important for people to know how this bed was actually created.

Robert:
First of all, thank you. I am thrilled to be here as well. I hear that story. I try not to take your story for granted because I hear it all the time. This is revolutionary technology, and you’re going to understand the reason why by the time we get done. It’s very, very gratifying to me to hear your story and to hear stories like that. It’s the reason that I’m in business.

You’re right. I spent 30 years in high-tech cushioning. I started my high-tech cushioning career by working with medical professionals all over the country to try and understand the difficult challenge that it is to properly comfort and support the human body, and it is a lot more difficult than you think it is. Our shapes are irregular, right? Our hips stick out further than our waist. Our shoulders stick out. What ends up happening is when we lie down most of our body’s weight is being supported by those two small areas on our hip and your shoulders, and that creates pressure points. That causes us to toss and turn.

The difficult challenge that everybody in the mattress industry has is how do we create a surface that’s going to give you proper back support and not be so firm that you’re tossing and turning all night long? You’re always in a state of compromise with these other technologies. In the past, you could buy—well, let’s just talk about what the body needs, right? The reason that you need a firm bed is because you can’t allow your hips to sag into the mattress. That misalignment is the leading cause of lower back destabilization and back pain. To prevent that from happening, you need a firm surface that keeps the hips, the heaviest part of our body, our lower torso, from sagging into the mattress farther than our other body parts.

Dr. Pompa:
Bob, I’ll say right here you come from an engineering background. I kind of do too. Before I ended up in functional medicine, I was in structural correction chiropractic, so I get the position. I can’t tell you how many postures on X-ray, etc. we would look at that weren’t correcting or got there. Immediately, we started going what’s your bed like? How are you sleeping? We realized that was the biggest factor on people’s posture and how they presented structurally. It became the biggest challenges often times for fixing spines, so I totally understand what you’re saying. That is a huge challenge.

Robert:
The challenge is actually getting worse, doctor, because what the trend in the industry has been for beds to get softer and softer. For example, 10 years ago, probably, well, maybe 15 years ago, 80 to 85% of the beds that were sold had a tempered steel innerspring in them. Innersprings give the best back support because they don’t sag. They don’t give under the hips and shoulders. What happened was companies like Sleep Number and Tempur-Pedic came along and tried to convince the consumer that the problem in mattresses is the innerspring. They’re hard, and they’re uncomfortable to sleep on. The incident of back pain has increased substantially since these mattress manufacturers stopped putting innersprings in their beds.

Dr. Pompa:
Logically, with the air mattress that everyone’s—the dial in your number, the number, sleep number, I mean, again, it doesn’t take an engineer to realize the pressure is going to be the same under air whereas at least with a spring you’re going to have some alteration.

Robert:
See, that actually is part of the problem with these technologies is they cannot support you correctly because of the fact that our bodies are—we have irregular densities throughout our bodies, right? The hips are the heaviest part of the body, so gravity is naturally trying to pull that area further into the bed. The bed needs to prevent that from happening, and so if you’re looking at an air mattress, for example, you equalize the pressure across the body. The hips are naturally going to sag further into the bed unless you pump that thing up really firm. The latest trend in the mattress industry is these beds in a box, right? Those are primarily foam core mattresses, but they compress down to a fraction of their height, and then they roll them up like a sleeping bag and ship them UPS. Those systems like that are incapable of providing proper support because they just are too soft, and they’re too giving. They allow the midsection to sag too far into the bed, which creates back pain.

We’ve talked a lot about positioning, but it’s not the only consideration. Equally as important is the need to relieve the pressure points off the hips and shoulders, so here is the challenge of the mattress industry. The challenge is how do you apply pressure to the hips to keep them level in the bed because you have to apply more pressure there than anywhere else on the body to keep that level, but then how do you relieve the pressure point that’s caused by giving you proper support, right? That’s the challenge.

Dr. Pompa:
That is the challenge.

Robert:
You can solve your back problem only to create another problem, and that other problem is now you’re tossing and turning all night. If we talked about the human sleep cycle, it takes about 90 minutes to complete a sleep cycle, right? As we dive into this sleep cycle, we start at Stages 1 and 2, and then the most beneficial stages of sleep come in Stages 3 and 4 or delta sleep. That’s where the brainwaves slow way down, and that’s where the body heals itself. It consolidates our memory. It strengthens our immune system against disease states. If you are sleeping on a bed that is too firm and causing these pressure points, then what happens is the body knows that a pressure point is going to cause a bed sore, and so it will arouse you from the deeper stages of sleep and cause you to move and thus interrupting your sleep cycle.

Dr. Pompa:
I have proof for you, okay? My wife and I both wear these rings. They’re called aura rings. It’s the most advanced technology in looking at every level, the four levels of sleep, how much deep sleep, kind of sleep. Then you can go to—we have an app, and then it downloads the app. It will tell you my sleep score was a 93. Then it told me, okay, I had REM sleep, 2 hours and 33 minutes. I had an hour and 13 minutes of deep sleep. In other words, we’re able to look at every level, how much lighter sleep you had and when. It even shows when you get the deep sleep and the light sleep, right?

My wife, who is a horrible deep sleeper, since she’s been on this bed, she is now averaging an hour of deep sleep because of the bed, because of what you’re saying. She’s not tossing and turning as much, so it had a major impact on her deep sleep. Obviously, it had an impact on her hip and low back pain.

Robert:
Yes, let me just summarize what we’ve been talking about. In the past, you could get a firm bed, which was great for your back and would help you eliminate your back pain. It’s going to posturally support you correctly so that your hips aren’t sagging into the bed, or you could by a softer bed that was better for your hips and shoulders. You weren’t tossing and turning as much, but you would compromise your back support. The truth of the matter is that our bodies need both firm and soft [00:11:32]. The whole notion of that is crazy. How do you have something that’s both soft and firm at the same time? That’s like saying it’s hot and cold at the same time.

Dr. Pompa:
By the way, to your point as a structural correction chiropractor in the past, we actually would recommend this bed back then that had different spring strengths in the hips and the shoulders for this reason. We identified the problem was what you said, right? We needed firm and we needed soft at the same time. One of the problems there is people wouldn’t hit the zones [00:12:08] and people had different sizes, so it became a little problematic.

Robert:
Yeah, it’s difficult. I mean, it’d be much better if you didn’t have to think about it at night. You just want to be able to lie down and not have to worry about whether or not you are being supported correctly, whether or not you’re going to have these pressure points and so forth. When I got into the mattress industry 20 years ago almost now, it’s like there’s—the solution to the problem in bedding is that you’ve got to come up with a better material than foam. Every mattress manufacturer relies on foam to cushion the human body, and there’s been some minor advancements in foam. Memory foam came out nearly 50 years ago now, back in the 60s, and that has become the staple in the mattress industry, this conforming foam.

The problem with foam is really that it’s neither firm or soft. You can get a harder foam, which is technically more supportive, or you could get a softer foam, which is technically more pressure relieving. None of them really function very well, and I have this little demonstration that I want to show you.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, all right, let’s do it.

Robert:
Let me just grab this weight. This is a piece of Plexiglas. It’s 12 inches by 12 inches, and if you put that on this sample of memory foam—this is the most common foam that’s used in the mattress industry. What happens is, under this 15 pound weight, this Plexiglas sinks about to the level of the foam itself. Without bottoming out, this material will support about 15 pounds, right? To demonstrate firm, let me show you that this is our Gel Matrix material, and we knew that, if we were going to come up with a better bed, we needed a better material than foam.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s what’s in the Intellibed right there, the blue.

Robert:
This blue material replaces most of the foam in our bed, and so to demonstrate how firm it is, I’ve got this 50 pound weight that I put on here. The way that this material functions is that under broad surfaces of the body, these support members are designed to be very firm. You need firm support, so under broad surfaces like this, this will support about 50 pounds of weight.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, you can see the Plexiglas isn’t going in at all.

Robert:
Right, it’s about four times more supportive, four times firmer than the traditional materials that are used in bed. The way that this material behaves that’s totally different than traditional materials is that instead of just compressing—so when something compresses and then bottoms out, it gets firmer and firmer, right? That’s when you get the pressure points on your hips and shoulders. They stick out further. Most of your weight’s transferring into the mattress through your hips and shoulders, and so you’re compressing those materials further, building pressure on those areas.

Dr. Pompa:
The opposite of what you’re trying to do.

Robert:
Right, and that’s where Gel Matrix is different. These vertical support members will stand firm under broader surfaces, but under concentrated loads, what happens is they collapse. As they collapse, they’re not capable of supporting the weight that they could before. Firm support is what you need. This is about four times firmer than traditional foams. In fact, if I move that weight over here…

Dr. Pompa:
Oh, my, yeah.

Robert:
What happens is it just bottoms out. Now, when it bottoms out, then you are on a rock hard surface.

Dr. Pompa:
Right, that pressure is very great because it’s hitting the bottom, basically.

Robert:
Right, so you’ve bottomed out here. It’s neither firm or soft. It’s the opposite of what you need. It’s firm when you bottom out on your hips and shoulders causing your pressures to spike and causing you to toss and turn. What you want is something that’s going to be firm on the broad surfaces of the body but soft on your protruding body.

Dr. Pompa:
By the way, that’s what I noticed night one. That’s a challenge for me. I’m fit, so I’m cut like this. I have wide hips for a thin person, so it was always a challenge. What would happen is my hips would sink, but I would get no support when I was on my lumbars, either on my back or on my side. It was like either one, I would get no support in my lumbar region. If I was on my side, my lumbars would bend, which is the worse.

Robert:
It is worse.

Dr. Pompa:
When I was on my back, it would get no support, and it would create almost like a sag. It was like a lose-lose for me. I always thought, gosh, if I could just stuff a pillow above my hip to support my lumbar. Of course, that’s not realistic, but I find myself wedging blankets in at night. Since I got the mattress, it’s zero. It’s so different.

Robert:
Yeah, and that’s really the breakthrough of Intellibed, this Gel Matrix material. I turn this weight on the side now to show you that…

Dr. Pompa:
Back the camera up again.

Robert:
Yeah, if you have concentrated loads…

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, back it up just a little more. Okay, right there, yeah.

Robert:
Yeah, if you have concentrated loads like the hips and shoulders, these support members just collapse allowing those areas to sink in deeply, and everything else is supported horizontal.

Dr. Pompa:
Like you said, if the one side of the weight was my shoulders and the other side was my hip, they’re sinking in, and now I’m actually getting support in between in my spine, which I wasn’t before.

Robert:
In terms of what a mattress needs to do for you, the fact that you need both firm and soft simultaneously, because we use a material that is exclusive to Intellibed, there’s nobody in the industry that can provide the level of support that you need for your back and the level of comfort that you need so that you’re not tossing and turning all night long than Intellibed. There’s nobody that can do it.

Dr. Pompa:
By the way, you developed this because you were solving hospital solution or problems, meaning that people, obviously, were developing bed sores. You had to relieve pressure. I mean, isn’t that really how it came into existence?

Robert:
Yeah, I worked for the company that developed this. It’s a research and development company that I had worked for five or six years with these guys, and the two main inventors were really genius inventors. I worked with them and then licensed the technology from them, and Intellibed was born. I saw immediately the benefit of this and so acquired the exclusive rights to it and began building beds. I engineered all the beds and designed them. Really, what I learned is it’s not just about the Gel Matrix material. You have to combine that material with other materials that are more traditional to the mattress industry in order to really solve all these problems.

One of the things, for example, that all of our beds have, we don’t have any beds that have foam core in them. What I mean by that is most of the latex beds, most of the organic beds, the Tempur-Pedics of the world, they all have—instead of an innerspring, they have a polyurethane foam core, and then the memory foam is on top of that. The problem with those materials is the foam breaks down so quickly. You lose support after two to three years. Our testing shows that those beds are incapable of giving you the back support that you need. What happens is, as the foam breaks down more in the center of the bed because that’s where the heaviest part of your body is, as it’s breaking down, then your hips are sagging further and further into the bed so that after just a couple of years that bed doesn’t feel anything like it did when you first brought it home.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s what happened to us, I mean, no doubt. We were flipping it, rolling it, spinning it, I mean, because the material is broke down. I could even see it.

Robert:
Yeah, well, all of us have experience with the body impressions in the top of our bed. That’s just the materials that are in the bed breaking down. In an effort to make the bed softer and softer, that impacted the durability of the products. That really leads in to the next thing that’s really important in a bed, and that is the durability issue, right? When you go buy a bed at the mattress store down the street, it’s so frustrating and so difficult because it’s impossible for you to evaluate really the most—some of the most important things that you need to evaluate. One of those is how long is this bed going to perform like new, right? If you buy a bed and after just a couple of years it’s lost its ability to support and comfort you, then, obviously, you’ve made a mistake, and you can spend easily $10,000 like you did and have the bed not be able to function for you after just a couple of years.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I mean, of course, they say just flip the bed, and you gain another two years.

Robert:
You know that it doesn’t work like that, right?

Dr. Pompa:
Oh, I was flipping all right. I was trying everything.

Robert:
All of our beds, we use a tempered steel innerspring because innersprings give you the best back support. They’re the best system out there at preventing your hips from sagging into the bed, but the problem is innersprings are uncomfortable, right? They will create pressure points on the hips and shoulders, and that’s where the Gel Matrix material comes in, right? The Gel Matrix takes advantage of the innerspring’s ability to give you good back support. Then it relieves the pressure points that the springs would cause if the Gel Matrix weren’t there, and just totally relieves those pressure points so that you get a very even distribution of pressure. The reason that your wife is sleeping so much better than she did before is because you relieved her pressure points, and less pressure means that the body—your brain is not waking your body up to roll over and relieve those pressure points.

Dr. Pompa:
There’s two health components here that people have to understand. We briefly talked about, when people aren’t getting enough restorative deep sleep, they’re not recovering. You need recovery to recover from illness, just to recover even if you’re perfectly healthy. Athletes, they do everything to get deep sleep, everything. Deep sleep is how you recover fast, and if you’re in a diseased state, it’s the same thing. You lack deep sleep, so therefore, recovery becomes problematic. People don’t understand how important it is not to toss and turn and how that affects that knocking you out of that deep sleep, so this is a health issue.

From another aspect, from a toxic issue, beds are some of the most toxic things on the planet. You mentioned the memory foams. They’re made from very toxic chemicals that release something called a VOC, a volatile organic compound that you’re breathing for eight hours a night. Hopefully, you’re in bed for eight hours. You’re breathing that, and it is absolutely devastating to your health. Talk about the toxicity component or nontoxicity component of your bed.

Robert:
Yeah, you’re exactly right. When we designed these beds, there were several considerations that we factored into the design, and certainly, one of our top priorities was to create a nontoxic bed. Usually, when people look for a nontoxic option, they do what you did. They find an organic bed, right? The problem with organic beds is, yeah, like so many other beds out there, you solve one problem but create another problem. The problem that you solved is now you know that there are no dangerous VOCs coming off of the bed. Our experience shows that the organic beds are just not durable enough, so then after a couple of years, you lose your support. You lose your comfort, and you’ve solved a problem but created another big one. You spend a ton of money on that thing, and all of a sudden, after just a couple years, you need to replace it.

Every component that goes into our Intellibed mattresses have been carefully vetted for toxicity. The beautiful thing about this Gel Matrix material, it’s been one of the most heavily tested materials in terms of toxicity that’s ever happened in the mattress industry. We’ve done cytotoxicity tests and hemolysis tests. We’ve used VOC meters to determine what kind of VOCs are coming off there. Even used them on our production line to determine what kind of VOCs we’re producing. The fumes, if we can call them that, that comes off the production line itself when this stuff is being produced is lower than the VOC readings that I get in my office.

It’s completely nontoxic. We use a food grade mineral oil material as the main ingredient in the Gel Matrix material, and so it’s edible. You could ingest it without any health benefits. One of the beautiful things about these Gel Matrix mattresses when you get an Intellibed is there’s almost no odor.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, there was zero.

Robert:
You take the bed off, and the first night you’re sleeping on it. There is a slight odor from the—it is from the water-based adhesive that we use, but that very quickly dissipates. There’s nothing toxic on the bed, and so it’s among the safest mattresses that are out there. We like to say that it’s going to be as safe as your organic bed. It’s not traditionally the organic material because mineral oil is a highly refined nontoxic oil, so it doesn’t fall under the category of organic in the traditional sense of the word. Our focus has been on nontoxic.

Dr. Pompa:
Look, I don’t need to eat it, but I want nontoxic. I want no VOCs, right? That’s really what the problem is with modern day mattresses.

Robert:
That’s right.

Dr. Pompa:
I mean, they’re loaded with toxins, the VOC. I mean, you could smell—walk in a mattress store. When I was sick, I couldn’t—I would sleep on mattresses. I would have to put things down when I would travel in hotels because I couldn’t deal with it if there was a new mattress, and I knew right away. I was very chemically sensitive, so it was a big deal for me.

Robert:
Yeah, so the toxicity issue, it’s a big issue. You’re right. I mean, if you’re trying to detoxify your home, one of the first places to start is with your mattress. It’s a serious source of…

Dr. Pompa:
Then there’s another component to that surface is, when you look at what happens at night, you sweat. You have another ingenious thing that helps protect, but basically, mattresses become more and more contaminated from a biotoxic standpoint, meaning our biology starts to really affect it, and it becomes a toxic bacteria, a fungus problem whereas you don’t face that with this.

Robert:
No, yeah, well, the beds themselves are completely nontoxic, and we have options. We have a mattress protector that is designed to work in harmony with the Gel Matrix material so that it keeps all of that bad stuff out of the bed. You just pull that off every once and a while and throw it in the washing machine. It keeps the dead skin out, so you don’t have problems with dust…

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I love that. That’s a big issue, like I said, from a biotoxic standpoint. The other things to is that people might be thinking that, oh, isn’t that material hot, etc.? It’s the opposite we’ve noticed. There’s actually a cooling affect. Why is that?

Robert:
The reason is is because foams are insulators, right? Insulators will trap your body heat against your body, and that’s why you sleep so hot on some of these, especially a really dense foam like memory foam. You sleep hot on those because it just reflects the heat back to your body.

Dr. Pompa:
By the way, people don’t understand. This measures body temperature at night, that app I was talking about, the ring, because that’s a big deal. If your body temperature raises during the night, that affects your deep sleep.

Robert:
Oh, yeah, you’ll wake up. You’ll wake up sweating. There are a lot of what I call sleep robbers out there. Temperature is one of them, right? You sleep too cold. You sleep too hot. Then it’s going to wake you up and rob you from the deep restful sleep that you need, and so another important consideration is this notion of being temperature neutral. That’s what I like to say. It does sleep cool. If you’re a hot sleeper, you won’t sleep as hot on this. If you’re a cold sleeper, you won’t sleep as cold on this material because it’s very, very temperature neutral.

That’s because it doesn’t—first of all, it’s massively ventilated, so you have all the holes in there. It does a great job of dissipating the heat and building airflow within the bed itself. Then the other thing is is that the material itself is a natural conductor of heat. Instead of being an insulator, it’s a conductor, so the heat will travel away from you and maintain a very constant temperature when you sleep.

We’ve talked about, really, the five key things that you need to take into consideration when you’re buying a new bed. First of all, is it going to support my back properly? Secondly, am I going to get the pressure relief that I need so the notion of both firm and soft at the same time? It needs to be durable so that in two years it’s still giving you this consistent level of comfort and support that you need. Ours is the only bed in the industry that offers a 20-year non-prorated warranty, and the reason for that is because the materials that we use have been carefully vetted for their durability. This Gel Matrix material over 20 years will change less than 5% whereas most foams will change over the first 2 to 3 years as much as 40 to 50%.

Dr. Pompa:
Look, even the best mattresses say get a new mattress every five years. Some people lie and say ten, flip it, that whole thing. Yeah, I mean, it’s ridiculous. You’re right. It breaks down after two years, even the best ones.

Robert:
Durability, nontoxicity, and the fact that it’s temperature neutral, those are really the five top considerations when you’re buying a bed. The beautiful thing about what we’ve done with these Gel Matrix beds, these Intellibeds that feature this Gel Matrix material is we’re really the best at all of those things. It is the best at firm and soft simultaneously. It is nontoxic. It is durable. It sleeps cool. The other thing that we’ve done is we’ve created a bed that provides almost no motion transfer.

Dr. Pompa:
I was going to say that. We noticed that difference, for sure. I can bounce around on my side. She doesn’t move.

Robert:
Exactly, that’s another sleep robber, right? If every time your spouse turns over you’re waking up, then you’ve got this sleep robber that’s keeping you from getting the deep restful sleep that you need.

Dr. Pompa:
There’s actually another benefit. This is an option that you sell, but man, I totally recommend it. We have the, what do you call it, thing that holds the mattress?

Robert:
Adjuster, yeah, adjustable base.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, obviously, we can push it up at night. We’re actually in our bed a lot more. I can tell you that. We watch movies, or we read now before bed. We pick it up and read. You can raise the feet up, which actually helps people that have inflammation and edema. You can raise the head up. Now, one of the cool things is—and this is one of my wife’s favorite things is you hit flat. Then the bed goes down, but it decompresses your back. I mean, it’s like I’ve used a lot of decompression units, and I’m telling you, it’s remarkable.

Robert:
It’s surprisingly effective.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s really effective. It’s just using your body weight, but it decompresses your discs. I mean, it’s really effective, and I absolutely love that aspect of it.

Robert:
Yeah, you’re exactly right. Every one of our beds will function well on an adjustable base. The beautiful thing about an adjustable base especially if you have some type of an ailment that is preventing you from getting good sleep at night is now you have an additional set of adjustments that you can use to find the comfort and support that you need, and it’s going to support you correctly in any of those positions. That’s a beautiful thing about it, right? If you like to read in bed for example, you prop a bunch of pillows up behind your back. Now you’re slouching down for that period of time that you’re reading. You’re not being supported correctly. It’s not the case with one of these adjustable bases. Regardless of what you’re doing, if you prop yourself up, you’re still going to get the proper support that you need so that we eliminate stresses on the spine.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, it’s great. I have to say this for my viewers. One of my concerns was the EMF component because there’s an electrical component, if you choose that option, and I wanted the option. With my instruments, I couldn’t pick anything up, and then we had someone else do a measurement with it on. Of course, you can—I have it so I can turn it off anyway. I can turn it on and off if I desire to, and it was a minimal reading with it on. You can measure electrical current. Anyways, I still have the option to turn it off. Anyways, that’s just something that people will ask. Is there more of an electrical EMF component to it? I looked at that.

Robert:
Yeah, we had the same thing. We had a study that we came across. People were worried about the fact that you have innersprings that are coiled inside the bed. Is that generating EMF? There was absolutely no indication of any EMFs from these innersprings. We’re pretty confident that that is not an issue with these beds. The benefits that you’re going to get from these far, far outweigh the very, very minimal if any risks that there would be from any EMF.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, no, I mean, it’s not producing. I think their concern would be that it’s picking up an EMF and making it higher. I measured it. I mean, it’s just not—it’s not there. Have you done any studies with the bed? I mean, I did my study, my little independent study, but I mean, have you done any studies with larger groups of people like measuring the deep sleep, restorative sleep?

Robert:
We had a study done by a Stanford trained sleep doctor down in Los Vegas. His name is Dr. Robert Troell. We talk about this study quite a bit, but he’s been so busy. He hasn’t had a chance to publish it. What he did was he took in his—he’s got a typical sleep lab. Any of you who have sleep apnea have gone in for evaluation. You sleep on the bed. They wire you up with all the wires to look at your brainwaves, and then they measure the number of times that you’re waking up at night.

He did this where he would—he had Tempur-Pedic, a Sleep Number, and one of our Gel Matrix beds in there. He would actually wire them up and evaluate how much time they were spending asleep and in deep restful sleep. He calls that sleep efficiency. The amount of time sleeping compared to the amount of time down in the delta stages of sleep. He said categorically that the Intellibed proved to be the best bed that he tested in terms of providing the deep restful sleep compared to these other sleep systems.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, you could do your own cheap—get ten people with these rings and do the same study. It’s very accurate, the ring, so it would be interesting.

Robert:
Yeah, I have not done that yet.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s fantastic. I have to say all of my good friends in this industry, I mean, it’s like my CEO, Warren, my partner in my seminar business, I mean, we all have these beds, the guy who does business coaching for us. We all love them, man, and so many of our doctors now are getting them. Once one of us gets one, then we all start posting. There was just a thing on our chat thing, the doctors raving about your beds, by the way. Then Ben Greenfield who’s a good friend of mine has been on this show and me on his. He has one. Who did you mention also, Drew?

Robert:
Drew Manning.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, Drew Manning but who else, oh, Kathy Smith? I could go down a list of people who have been on this show who now have Intellibed. You all have done a really good job of getting it out to us health professionals who care about their deep sleep.

Robert:
We believe in what we’re doing. Also, we want to be a research-based company. We want to work with professionals who understand like we’ve tried to do the challenges that people face, and if you’re not sleeping well, I mean, that’s the first thing that you should do to try to correct your problem is figure out how to sleep better. So many problems are just going to go away when you’re supported correctly at night, and you’re getting the Stages 3 and 4 of sleep that you need. Most of the autoimmune diseases, things like heart disease and diabetes are all linked to poor sleep at night and, specifically, the fact that we’re not getting the delta sleep that we need, Stage 3 and 4 of sleep. Anything that we can do to increase the potential for better Stage 3 and 4 of sleep, anything that we can do to increase that [00:40:07].

Dr. Pompa:
There’s a lot of talk about light before bed, screens. It depletes melatonin. People wear blue blockers, etc. There’s some truth to that, but I’m telling you, the mattress has a far greater impact on your deep sleep. It really does.

Robert:
Unfortunately and I don’t really understand the reason why, it’s one of the last things that people think of. Until they get to the point where they’re so broken down and so desperate that they start thinking, well, maybe it is my mattress. Most of the mattresses that we sleep on today, especially in my opinion, all of the foam core mattresses like the Tempur-Pedics, the air mattresses that allow you—you’re not adjusting your comfort. What you’re adjusting is your support. The less air you have in there, the less support that you’re going to get, and your hips are going to be the first thing to sag into the bed.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, it just does that.

Robert:
Most of the beds that we’re sleeping on cannot possibly give you the right sleep that you need in order to maintain your health. We think that’s the reason why so many medical professionals, they understand the importance of good sleep like yourself. They know that it’s the place to start, so as soon as they find a product that’s going to deliver that, then it’s not difficult to get them to jump on the bandwagon.

Dr. Pompa:
No, look, you gave our viewers and listeners a great opportunity, 10% off, which is a big deal for what you guys do and usually do and then also the free shipping. We’ll put a link below, and Ashley will make sure that that’s provided so everyone can get the 10% off. If worse comes to worse, you can’t find the link and you tell a friend, tell them you saw it here on Cellular Healing TV with Dr. Pompa, yeah, and they’ll give you the 10% is the point. Thank you for doing that. We always ask that people do that when we bring a product.

Robert:
Let me just mention also—you talked about the 10% off. We’re also going to throw in one of these free mattress protectors that we talked about earlier.

Dr. Pompa:
Like I have, yeah.

Robert:
If you just go to intellibed.com/pompa, very easy, intellibed.com/pompa, there’s a landing page there that explains the details. There’s a little more information on there. There’s our toll free number, and I want to really pump up our call center here. We have well-trained sleep experts that know—we offer three different models. We don’t often recommend our most expensive model. It might not be right for you, so you might have questions about which bed is right for you. These people are well trained to help, to understand what specific problems that you have, and recommend the right bed for you.

Then we offer a 90-day money back guarantee. You’re not going to get the bed and need to worry about the fact that if it doesn’t work for you, and honestly, it doesn’t work for everybody. Some people expect a miracle cure. I can say this without hesitation, though. If there is a bed out there that will help you, this is the bed.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I agree.

Robert:
Yeah, sometimes we have a medical condition, but it doesn’t matter what we sleep on. It’s not going to solve that.

Dr. Pompa:
Of course, yeah.

Robert:
I mean, the beds are—they’re not cheap, but they’re also very valuable because of the fact that these things are going to last for 20 years.

Dr. Pompa:
In the long run, it’s actually cheap for that particular bed, believe me.

Robert:
We offer financing, so we can help you with financing if that’s an issue. It’s no interest financing, so use our money and get the sleep that you need.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I mean, honestly, in the long run, when you look at how often you really need to replace mattresses, it is cheaper, and I think worth every penny. Again, I always put my heath first. That’s just what I do. Thanks, Bob. It was just great show. We’ve been doing a lot of shows about sleep, and so I had to do this show, so thanks for being here. I appreciate your wisdom.

Robert:
I really appreciate the occasion to do it.

Dr. Pompa:
Great, thanks.

Ashley:
That’s it for this week. We hope you enjoyed today’s episode. Don’t forget to check out intellibed.com/pompa to take 10% off Intellibeds Organix line of beds with free shipping and a free mattress protector. You can also call the phone number in our show notes if you prefer to speak to someone about these incredible mattresses, and practitioners, don’t forget to visit intellibed.com/practitioner. We’ll be back next week and every Friday at 10 a.m. 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, or sharing the show with anyone who may benefit from the information heard here. As always, thanks for listening.

267: The Spiritual Benefits of Fasting

267: The Spiritual Benefits of Fasting

with Shane Idleman

My guest today is someone who I became fast friends with, just moments after meeting. This special person is Shane Idleman, and he’s the lead pastor of the Westside Christian Fellowship in Southern California. Today, he’s here to discuss fasting – but not only the physical benefits, but the spiritual benefits too. Join us today for this engaging, lively, and motivating conversation dedicated to fasting.

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Transcript:

Dr. Pompa:
One of my favorite topics of all time on this episode of Cell TV, fasting, but it’s different. I promise you. I interview a pastor, Pastor Shane Idleman. Wait ‘til you hear the message. I’m telling you, fasting, you’ve heard the physical benefits, but spiritual, emotional, that’s how Fasting for a Purpose started. I don’t know if you actually know that story, but 20,000 people on my Facebook, we fasted, obviously, many times and growing. It was actually started for a spiritual reason. I tell that story.

I’m telling you, wait ‘til you hear the message. If you weren’t excited about fasting after this episode, you’re going to be even more excited, and I believe, if you’re on the fence of, hey, I want to fast but, this is going to change your views, no doubt. By the way, all religions have one thing in common. It’s not prayer. Fasting, I believe we’re called to it. The pastor makes the point and many more you’re going to want to hear on this episode of Cell TV. I’ll see you then.

Ashley:
Hi, everyone. Welcome to Cellular Healing TV. Today we welcome Pastor Shane Idleman, and he and Dr. Pompa are here to discuss the spiritual and physical benefits of fasting. Shane Idleman is the founder and lead pastor of Westside Christian Fellowship in Southern California, and he is an inspiration to his community on the topics of fasting, breaking plateaus, spirituality, and mindset. You can read more about Shane in our show notes. You can also find him at shaneidleman.com, and I’m going to turn this over to you two. I know you have a lot to talk about, so welcome, Dr. Pompa and Shane.

Shane:
It’s great to be here. I’m ready for the questions.

Dr. Pompa:
Hey, Shane, yeah, no, my viewers know, right? This is one of my favorite topics of all time. On my Facebook, we have over 20,000 people who we’ve led through several fasts. On my Facebook, I can’t help myself. Of course, I talk about the physical benefits of fasting, but I also on my Facebook talk about the spiritual benefits, the emotional benefits, the benefits from a different perspective that I never discussed here on Cell TV. This is a first. I don’t know who it was. It was one of my Facebook fasting group people that sent me an article that you wrote. I read it, and I said I’ve got to interview this guy on Cell TV so welcome. That’s why you’re here.

Shane:
It’s great to be here, and I stumbled on fasting like you did. It’s been about eight years now for spiritual reasons, and I was reading it throughout the Bible. I thought you know what? I better try this. It’s all over the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the spiritual benefits are enormous, which we’ll talk to, obviously, in a bit. I stumbled into it. I was 40 pounds heavier back then, so my preaching has changed. You don’t have that mid-morning nap. I changed my whole diet around, and just feel ten times better.

That’s I guess one good point is anytime you make spiritual benefits God has designed us in such a way that there will be physical benefits as well. Fasting not only spiritually, physically benefits us as well. You talk about autophagy a lot and cell regeneration and things like that. It even affects it at the spiritual level as well.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, there’s no doubt about it. I always say, look, you look at all the different religions in the world, and they disagree on everything, I mean, even prayer, except fasting. Probably people watching this don’t realize this. God, in the Old Testament, He really gave the Israelites, His people, very clear instructions on what they need to do to keep their health, regain their health. I mean, people don’t realize that unless you’re a student of the Old Testament. Fasting, I mean, it is the oldest therapy known to man. I mean, again, God gave us so many reasons to fast, and it was just part of lifestyle then. I mean, they fasted to make decisions. They fasted for many reasons.

I believe from a scientific standpoint—I just interviewed a scientist on this. Our DNA is set up to fast. The problem is, today, who fasts? I mean, we were forced to fast. It was cultural to fast. Ancient ancestors were forced to fast, but who fasts today? Scientifically, it’s missing, man. I mean, talk a little bit about what you learned here.

Shane:
When I started to dive into fasting, first, I obviously studied a lot in the Bible. You’re right; people used it for direction. They used it to seek God. It might be good to really sum it up really quick. From a spiritual perspective, what you’re doing and why all religions agree on this is because you are actually starving the flesh, the thing that wants to eat too much and drink too much, this nature inside of us that is hell-bent on not doing what is right, and so what you do is you actually starve the flesh. I know to some people it might not make sense, but you take away a lot of that strength that it has. For example, gluttony and alcoholism is often related. When you give over to one area of life, it takes you down another area because your flesh is in control. Everyone from, like you said, Muslims and Hindu and different religions, they will fast because they realize the strength of bringing the flesh, the carnal man, whatever we want to call that—and as a pastor, some of these terms might not make a lot of sense. Let’s just say the—I heard Billy Graham talk about analogy once where there was an evil dog and a good dog within us constantly battling, and whatever dog wins is the one you feed the most.

Fasting is a form of starving that flesh, and as a result, we are filled more with God’s spirit as believers, as a Christian. Obviously, I’m a pastor, so I started to see the spiritual benefits in the Bible and then also in my own personal life when I began the journey. Then I started to tie in the physical benefits like you mentioned, epigenetics with the doctor you just interviewed, and autophagy and cell regeneration and just the health benefits are enormous. We have food establishments on every corner. We’re not eating good as a nation. That’s our healthcare problem right there. It’s not more money. The healthcare problem in our nation is obesity and what we’re consuming. The benefits of fasting spiritually to sum that up would be—on a spiritual side is to starve that flesh that competes with what God wants to do in our own heart.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I mean, from a spiritual perspective and I talked about this on one of my Facebook Lives is we become weaker physically, right? I mean, we’re eating—like you said, starving the flesh. However, we become stronger spiritually. I can speak for myself. Those are the times in my life that we hear from God very, very differently because we become—He becomes stronger. One of the things that I brought in my message was, look, when you feel that physical weakness, just know this, it’s absolutely opposite. You’re actually becoming stronger, so reframe yourself on how you look. Literally, I mean, I get breakthroughs, even from just being able to solve problems when I’m fasting. I get thoughts. I get connected to God in a way that, again, it’s the distractions of life. I don’t what it is, but it no doubt happens when I fast.

I don’t know if people realize watching this. I just explained this to you that I was trained early on, in the early 90s, on fasting for a physical standpoint. That was a little over a year ago now that my wife and I decided to pray for our son or fast for our son. She just decided I’m going to do a Facebook Live. I decided, and she started a group called Fasting for a Purpose. Out of that was birthed this 20,000 people group that we fast with. Folks watching , if you haven’t gone to that, it’s dr.danielpompa. That’s my fan page. All the videos are actually still there, but Fasting for a Purpose, join the group.

Anyway, so that was birthed out of us doing this for our son and, by the way, breakthrough. Steve, from a biblical—I just called you Steve. I just interviewed a Steve. Shane, from a biblical standpoint, why do we get breakthrough emotionally, mentally, clarity, and even breakthrough for when we’re—like we were fasting for our son? What is it?

Shane:
It’s interesting. There’s no scripture that outlines exactly what happens when we’re fasting in the New Testament, but we do see Jesus even as a model. I mean, think about this. We don’t hear from Him for 30 years. He’s baptized in the river with John the Baptist. Then He goes into the wilderness for what, a 40-day fast? Then He comes out of that. The Bible says He was filled with the Spirit of God. Then He began His ministry.

Fasting for Him was a preparation. It starves the flesh, and it draws you closer to God. Anytime you starve what is taking you away from God, which is the pull of the flesh and the lust of the flesh—the Bible says the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, the pride of life. All these things compete against our relationship with God. Fasting actually starves all three of those areas, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, the pride of life. It’s humility. You know the verse. Many people like to quote II Chronicles 7:14, “If my people humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways.”

Fasting is incorporated in all four of those areas. It’s humbling. It’s praying. It’s seeking God. The quick answer is you’re actually starving the part of the body that is at war with God. It’s at enmity with God. If a person is a glutton and they’re drunk, they just had a six-pack; they’re not going to be real close to God because of that—feeding that carnal nature if there’s a good way to put that. Also, all the coffee, the sugar, the caffeine, I mean, it’s a drug you know that’s very—it’s a central nervous stimulant. It has a lot of adverse reaction.

What this does, it’s basically you stop feeding the thing that is pulling you away from God, and you say, Lord, I’m drawing close to you. I’m going to deny my flesh. Really, what is the value of something when it costs us something? To give up broccoli isn’t costing us much. That’s pretty easy to do, but when we say, Lord, I’m going to go without food for a day, or a couple meals, or a couple days—the longest I ever went is nine days on just water. You start to grow spiritually. The Bible comes alive. The prayer life is dynamic. Worship penetrates your heart, and you just feel so much closer to God. I think you’re starving to some degree that element that pulls you away from God, if that makes sense.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, specifically, what are the—God tells us, hey, fast. When? Give us some of those whens. If people watching us going, yeah, I need a breakthrough in my life, one of these times that the Bible urges us to fast.

Shane:
In Matthew, it’s interesting. Jesus said when you give, when you pray, and when you fast. It’s not really an option. I would encourage most people just step out in faith. Should I pray about praying, or do I just pray? Do I pray about giving or just give? It should be part of the Christian faith.

However, to answer your question, Ezra prayed for faith and fasted. He fasted for direction in the Old Testament. Esther prayed that the king’s heart would change in the Old Testament. Elijah prayed and sought God for direction on his life. Moses prayed. I mean, you see all these people praying. Usually, it’s for a breakthrough, like you said.

Dr. Pompa:
Fasting, fasting and praying, yeah.

Shane:
Yeah, fasting and praying, something—I need a breakthrough in this, financially, relationally. One of the Scriptures that some Bible translators are put in dispute but I think the principle is there is when Jesus said this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting, and He was talking about a demoniac, a boy being delivered from a demon. He told His disciples this kind, what you’re dealing with here is not going to come out except by prayer and fasting. What you’re doing is you’re holding onto Heaven. You’re pulling down Heaven. The famous Daniel fast, when he was praying, when he was fasting, the Bible actually records that God said, Daniel, I heard your prayer the very first day, but there is a demonic restraint holding me back. After 21 days of seeking God and praying, the breakthrough finally came.

I believe it’s part of warfare. It’s part of spiritual warfare, of contending and persevering. I would encourage people to do it just to draw closer to God, and also, if you’re needing a breakthrough, if there’s a demonic oppression, if you’re needing like you did with something to happen with your children, health issues, to me, it just brings in—I don’t like to say prayer on steroids, but that’s kind of what fasting does. It lifts us up to a much higher level. I mean, think about it. Is it easy for you to pray after eating a big Thanksgiving dinner?

Dr. Pompa:
No.

Shane:
No way. I mean, it’s like, oh, I don’t want to pray. I just want to lay on the couch. Fasting helps prayer in that way. There’s something starving physically but hungry spiritually, so you’re moving the hunger from one to the other.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I believe there’s something on brokenness. I think through one of my fasts God gave me that. It was like I was reading—it was a part. It was a few parts. Things were broken, and Jesus broke bread. When you look at brokenness, gosh, it was the—where they broke the jars. I’m drawing a blank right now, but anyways, brokenness is fasting, right? It represents brokenness before God, and when that brokenness happens, God now—it stimulates God moving in our life and healing.

Again, I think it was in Jehoshaphat. There was three big armies from the north. They were coming down. Every situation that was impossible in the Bible, sure death was coming upon Israel, what did they do? They called upon a fast, at least when they did it right. Jehoshaphat called the Israelite people. They fasted, and God showed up and gave mercy. Those stories touch my heart, right?

It’s like when the Israelites were going back from Babylon and crossing over. They had all this gold and silver, basically, that the Babylonians took, right, Nebuchadnezzar? They were like we don’t have protection. We’re doomed. They fasted. In the impossible, you fast, and I encourage everyone watching, same thing, right?

Shane:
Yeah, you know what? You had a great point at the beginning of this just a few minutes ago that God says I will not turn away a broken and contrite spirit, a broken and contrite heart. I look to that person. My eyes go to and fro to look to that—look for that person. What better way to be broken and humble before God than saying I’m not going to eat, God, until you answer, until I meet you, until I find you, until—because it costs something. It’s hard to go a few days without anything. I mean, you’re fighting that desire, that hunger. It’s really transferring a hunger for food to a hunger for God. You were right. A broken and contrite spirit, it’s humbling, Jehoshaphat.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I hear a voice. I don’t know if—I don’t where that—is it Ashley? Ashley, you might want to mute yourself. Anyways, it was actually Gideon that I was thinking about. Not Gideon, that sound I just heard. Gideon, it was interesting. Again, there was a situation there that it was desperate. They were outnumbered 300 against hundreds of thousands. How possibly could they win? God had them break the jars.

Again, it represents just brokenness. Here we are, weak. There’s no way we could win this battle. Again, to modernize it, whether it be cancer, whether it be your children, whatever it is, brokenness, it represented us coming to God. That was that word that God gave me about fasting is it represents…

Shane:
I think that’s good, and that’s what people should take away from this. Where do we get our olive oil from? The olive is crushed. Where do we get perfume from?

Dr. Pompa:
Broken.

Shane:
The flower is crushed. Now you know why I love A. W. Tozer. He said God will not use a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply, meaning broken before God. Like you said at the beginning, in our weakness, understanding I can’t do this without you, God. I need you, and through that weakness, you’re strengthened. For me, fasting should be an everyday part of our lives. Don’t get discouraged if you blow it. You get back on track.

So many people I think just aren’t prepared for the withdrawals. That’s what I’m seeing. I’m going to stop alcohol and cigarettes and processed food and sodium nitrates and caffeine. It’s like an addict going through withdrawals, and they get frustrated and defeated. You just taught recently or wrote the book on how to prepare to fast. That was so important. How do you prepare your heart? You break. You heart has to break.

Dr. Pompa:
Exactly, I mean, I believe, again, we’re meant to fast for emotional, spiritual, and physical reasons. Because of the lifestyle that we live today, it’s important to prepare for a fast. I’m sure you’ve seen it in your congregation as I have. People fast and their life falls apart. It becomes very impossible because they’re so stuck with today’s living from every aspect, constant stimulation, food, sugar, all of it. There’s preparation needed today to fast.

I believe fasting will change your life. It has yours, pastor. It has mine. When people say what is the most profound thing that you’ve ever done for your health, it’s fasting. My wife was diagnosed with a pre-cervical cancer, fasting. She fasted for 11 days. To the doctors’ surprise, they didn’t need her services. She didn’t need her services. When he said you’ll be back, wasn’t. I watched my 12-year-old son fast for 11 days, and it just transformed his addictions as far as food.

Of course, I mean, hundreds and hundreds of testimonies from very sick people, but I’ve watched people breakthrough from addiction. I’ve watched emotional things. I’ve watched people fast for their children. This last fast that we just did, we were fasting—a woman, her daughter was told that her baby should be aborted because it was maimed. Our fasting group started praying. The last report last week back was, well, it actually looks like things are good, maybe just missing one kidney. That baby was going to be aborted.

One of the things I had our group praying for and I know you upset everyone always but these late term abortions. We fasted, and we prayed for that. I believe that these decisions are beyond political. I believe there’s good people on both sides of the aisle that are really very against this, and I believe it could be the downfall for our country. Fast and pray for that, folks.

Shane:
Absolutely, without a shadow of a doubt. You mentioned the disease aspect. You would know this more than I do, obviously, but they’re finding that cancer is more metabolic than genetic, metabolic meaning metabolism, and our food converts energy and the toxic effects of what we’re consuming and glyphosate in all the Roundup and different things. Fasting, I mean, it should become a disciplined part of a person’s life. You know what helps? It helps you discipline your whole life. Paul said I bring my body under subjection. I discipline my body. Paul said through much travail and much fasting.

If you look at the early church fathers, Irenaeus, Polycarp, Ignatius, Justin Martyr, fasting was—it was just part of life. I know you’ve heard of probably John Wesley, Methodist. He wouldn’t ordain a person unless they fasted Wednesday and Friday. I mean, that’s a little hardcore. What he’s saying is, if a man can’t discipline his body, he’s not fit to lead others, and there’s a lot of truth in that. It is a discipline that I think helps. For me, it flows into all over, into all different disciplines. People are struggling with lust. If they fast, it kills it. Now, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t come back again, but there’s a discipline of what’s taking place in the body.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I mean, feast-famine and we’re stuck in feast mode. Our bodies are designed to fast for—again, our minds, we’re craving it as a nation right now I believe. As a people, as a human, we’re just—we’re stuck with abundance, really, and there is consequences to that. I believe by adding fasting into your world, I mean, your life will change. I’m telling you, it will. I mean, there is no doubt about it. How long ago was your first fast?

Shane:
You know what? It’s funny. I look at the videos, and I’m 40 pounds heavier back then. I think it was 2011. I just got up in the morning, just going throughout the day, and I could feel my blood sugar. I thought I was hypoglycemic, borderline hypoglycemic, but come to find out, I was really addicted to sugar. So many people are misdiagnosed. I mean, the body’s designed to fast. Your body will regulate its own blood sugar levels. It will release hormones at the correct level at the correct time.

I actually barely got through my first day. I had a little bit of orange juice. I had ups and downs, tremendous downs, and then I started to get into a little bit more and encourage people. The first couple days can be really difficult because your body’s going through some serious cleansing, so you want to make sure that maybe it’s a vacation day. You’re not working. You’re not around people if possible. That’s when I really started was 2011. I started to teach on it on our website, westsidechristianfellowship.org. We’ve got about 12 sermons on fasting, the spiritual benefits of fasting from a biblical perspective.

Dr. Pompa:
You put it all in one book, too. What is the name of the book and where do they get it?

Shane:
Yeah, it’s called Feasting & Fasting: What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why. Actually, it’s a free eBook at westsidechristianfellowship.org. They can just click the eBooks, and it’s right there. It’s one of the free eBooks. Many years ago, I was a district manager for 24 Hour Fitness. I don’t know if you have that in your area. We merged and became a big corporation. You didn’t talk about fasting in the fitness industry, bodybuilding. It was, man, no way.

Dr. Pompa:
It ruins your metabolism, I mean, the whole thing. Everything’s the opposite. It ruins your metabolism. It fixes your metabolism.

Shane:
Exactly, and you know fasting—I mean, easting consumes—it takes what, 50% of our energy? It’s very taxing on the body and trying to assimilate and then get rid of the junk we’re eating. I think it’s a great discipline that we should incorporate. If people are wondering how, I would suggest starting with a meal or two if you haven’t done it before and then building up. You can chime in even more so. I think that the benefits—you’re going to have to probably plan on a three-day water fast to really start to get benefits, but the longer you go, the more benefits they’re seeing.

Dr. Pompa:
Exactly, more autophagy.

Shane:
I will tell people, well, here’s what you need to do because it also—what you’re trying to accomplish will also determine how long you’re fasting. In your wife’s case, you could’ve went weeks, or she could’ve went weeks to get rid of that cancer. When autophagy takes place and the body begins to consume the cancer cell, the cancerous tumor, that’s not a quick process sometimes.

Dr. Pompa:
No, exactly, and longer fasts, you can dial into that autophagy at a much greater—yeah, in my new book coming out, Beyond Fasting, we take people. We get them fat adapted, so it’s a seven-week program. We talk about how to move into a ketotic state, and then we start skipping meals. Actually, first thing we do is take snacks away. Believe it or not, the average American is eating between 17 and 21 times. Now, I know people think they’re not because they’re not sitting down to a meal, but they’re heating a handful of nuts, the kombucha, the boom-ba-boom. It’s all of that. Every time you raise glucose and insulin, it’s a meal.

Shane:
I heard you say that a month ago, and I was like I don’t know—I watched, and you’re right. You grab some cashews. A little bit later a KeVita drink. A little bit later grab this. I was up to 12 times after lunch. It’s amazing. I’m sorry, yeah, I cut…

Dr. Pompa:
People think of that as sitting down to a meal. I’m like, no, it’s not really how it works, anyways, and then the next week start. We miss a meal. Then we start intermittent fasting, that fat adapted. Then I imply my diet variation principle where we’ll go one day with one meal. Then we add a feast day in there because the feasts are actually as important as the fast days because it reminds the body it’s not starving. Then we enter into the fast, and then the last week is how to break the fast.

Yeah, so it really is—to your point, there’s a way to prepare to get fat adapted, so when you get in—here’s the whole thing is you can benefit—once you become very metabolically flexible and fat adapted, what takes people four days to start benefiting from a fast, you can actually start benefiting one day in a fast.

Shane:
Yeah, you’ve got the body ready. I should throw this out there too just in case. If a person feels that God is leading them to a fast, I would say do it. Even go cold turkey and deal with it. I’ve known people who said, “Shane, it wasn’t that bad at all.” I’m like, “You stopped Crispy Crème and coffee and fast food?” She goes, “Yeah, I’m sleeping great.” I’m like, “That’s a miracle.”

Dr. Pompa:
I believe that too, man. If God puts it on your heart, just do it. We prepare people to maximize the physical benefits. I think you’re talking about, when God puts it on your heart, you just fast.

Shane:
Yeah, He’ll be able to see you through.

Dr. Pompa:
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said fast for yourself.

Shane:
You might want to clarify too what you mean by fat adaptation. Adaptation is when the body’s adapting to burning calories in a certain way.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, so using fat, your cells can use two things for energy: sugar or fat.

Shane:
Ketosis.

Dr. Pompa:
When you become adapted, now you’re able to use fat as an energy. Most Americans are stuck hormonally as sugar burners, meaning they can’t go back and forth. What happens when they’re not eating? They either crave sugar or carbohydrates, or it’ll break their muscle down into sugar, right? I mean, it has to get sugar. It’s either craving, and if you’re strong enough to do without the craving, it’ll break your muscle down. Becoming fat adapted is to get the cells to actually use fat for energy when you’re not eating.

Shane:
What’s the easiest way you’d recommend people do that? Basically, by cutting out mainly the complex carbs, a lot of the sugar?

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I teach on ketosis. I’m not a believer in staying in ketosis.

Shane:
I’m right there with you. Overall, it’s not a good spot for the body to stay.

Dr. Pompa:
Our bodies are meant to be in and out of that state. It’s survival.

Shane:
I just met somebody this week, or not this week, last month. His cholesterol was at 400. He’s eating butter and turkey and bacon. He said I’m never touching beans. I’m never touching fruit, but they forget about the antioxidant properties in the fruit. The beans, look at the bacteria, the probiotic benefits and the…

Dr. Pompa:
Absolutely, yeah, it feeds your good bacteria. See, when we look at our ancestors, they were forced in times of eating beans and legumes and all kinds of vegetables and fruits. Then there’s times when they ate lard for three, four months, I mean, because that’s all that they could do, or there was times of famine. Our bodies need those different times. Yeah, so to get fat adapted, you could drop someone’s carbohydrates under 50, and it’ll force them eventually into a ketosis.

Shane:
Ketosis state, yeah.

Dr. Pompa:
Again, so fat adapting and then starting that fasting principle, you will get more out of you fast. I mean, there’s no doubt. You’re basically putting yourself in the way our ancestors were, very metabolically flexible, meaning you can go back and forth from sugar burner to fat burner. That’s a very healthy place to be. For me, if I’m not in ketosis and I’m eating just even a plant-based diet, if I go without food for—maybe I don’t eat ‘til 3 p.m. in the afternoon. My ketones will be .9, 1.0. I’ll go into ketosis that quickly.

Shane:
That’s really good.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s being metabolically flexible. It’s because I fast a lot, so you train your body.

Shane:
Are you trying? Your carb storages are low in your liver and your muscle then. You’ve depleted your carbohydrate storage, and you’re going into fat as your fuel much quicker.

Dr. Pompa:
Absolutely, and you can train your body to do that. Basically, it’s what our ancestors—they were able to do.

Shane:
Have a grocery store on every corner where they could pick grapes and bananas and beans and potatoes. It was selective based on seasons, really, what was growing. If you go back to the—people ask this a lot too. If you go back to creation, I believe God created us to be primarily plant based. The life-giving elements, the enzymes, the phytochemicals in the plants are to give life to us. Now, I’m not against meat, but you don’t see meat introduced until after the fall and after the flood. Sixteen hundred years after creation or so, if you take the Bible literally on the dates, which I do, then God said, okay, now it’s permissible to eat meat, but is that because vegetation was sparse and now it’s…

Dr. Pompa:
Then you’ve got people arguing. I mean, our genetics changed. No doubt, we became omnivores, to your point, actually. Then add from that plant-based diet in times of what our ancestors did, times of ketosis where you’re eating higher fat, higher meat, and there’s massive benefit there. If you stay in those times, there’s no doubt it could be detrimental. Again, my argument and I make the argument in the book is we have our camps. We have our vegans. We have our Paleo. We have our ketosis people. We have our vegetarians.

Shane:
Then the raw crowd, no cooking anything.

Dr. Pompa:
The raw crowd, there’s [fruititorians]. I don’t know what the heck you call them. I forget.

Shane:
You just eat all fruit.

Dr. Pompa:
The point is though is the beauty. When you look at ancient culture is the magic is not one of those diets.

Shane:
No, it’s all of them.

Dr. Pompa:
The magic is the variation. Speaking of the scientist I interviewed, he talked about why our DNA is set up for that variation and why these shifts actually make more sense. When you look at studies on just something as simple as weight loss, you can compare every diet, plant, just vegetarian, vegans, Paleo. Nothing works better than a diet that actually varies.

Shane:
You know why too, though? You’ve talked about his before is your hormonal balance, your growth hormone levels, your testosterone, cortisol, even feeling better, dopamine. What you’re doing is the body doesn’t become used to a certain diet and then it adapts. It has a reaction. It adapts to what you’re doing, and you can stay stuck in this area. Our bodies were meant to change and our hormone—more growth hormone is released during fasting. You have more of—cortisol is released here, testosterone. Then it’s declining. You see this wonderful balancing act, and it goes back to how we were created. We were not created to go and open a refrigerator and eat whatever we want as much as we want. We’re definitely paying the price now.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, there’s no doubt. I think the best example is just exercise. If you go in the gym and you do the same exercise all the time, in the beginning you got results, but then it just—the results stopped. Oh, and then you go to a new gym or someone comes along and shows you the new thing and you’re like, oh, my gosh, all these results again. It wasn’t the new thing. It was the change.

Shane:
People, when they shape their body muscle, it doesn’t really grow while you’re working out. It grows as you’re sleeping, after it’s been torn and worked out. If your body gets used to the same press machine day in and day out, it becomes—it adapts to it. If you begin to change that angle, you add more stabilization, training where the body doesn’t know how to adapt, you’ll see remarkable results because the body as a whole. Now your core is engaged. Your abdominal muscles are going to get stronger. Your legs are engaged. Your chest is engaged so mixing things up.

Isn’t that how we were designed? You’re out in the field. You’re farming. You’re working. You’re moving. To me, it’s commonsense. Look at how the Creator created us.

I go back and forth sometimes now that I’ve released some videos on this. Look at the human body. How can you believe it just happened on its own? I mean, that takes more faith to me. Look at a birth of a child. The placenta knew how to connect to this, and the sperm and the egg met and then the creation and then the heart and liver start to form. I mean, it’s just mindboggling. It just screams Creator.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s amazing. God put in our bodies that ability, that innate intelligence to survive. By the way, everything that you were talking about is driven by survival, the growth hormone rise, when you change exercise. It has to adapt, so it raises up hormones. Hormone optimization, it’s one of the benefits of fasting. When you shift your diet, you literally have to adapt to that food change. It uses the same adaptation principle it does with exercise. You get stronger. Your microbiome gets stronger. Anyways, yeah, that’s the…

Shane:
Wait, no, a hormone that not many people are talking about—I think I probably heard a few of your videos but glucagon, which opposes insulin being released. People have insulin being released all the time. Type 2 diabetes is skyrocketing. We don’t know what to do. It’s diet related. As you’re fasting, glucagon, this hormone increases substantially. What does glucagon do? It’s very supportive in fat loss and weight management, not storing fat. Insulin is the fat store because it pushes into the cells, and it causes the body to store this fuel where glucagon during fasting teaches the body to remove these items and burn these, this stored energy, instead of storing it so just incredible how we were designed.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, it’s opposite of insulin. It’s stored fat. Glucagon, let’s release fat. Yeah, we got to burn it up. Yeah, it is. It’s amazing design, right? It only points to God in my mind. How do you ignore that? You can’t. As a pastor, I’m sure—have you done any fasts with your congregation, like group fasts? I mean, obviously, your congregation must be educated in this topic more than most.

Shane:
Yeah, we tried it. The hard part with corporate fast, we’ve grown quite a bit as a church, so it’s hard to have everyone involved because you  have working moms, working men.

Dr. Pompa:
You invite them.

Shane:
Yeah, we’re expecting our fifth child, and that will change some things for my wife fasting, obviously. You don’t want to—I don’t really recommend that. Pregnant moms and breastfeeding, you obviously need that fuel. Yeah, corporately, funny you said that. We started a 40-day fast, and people can do water throughout the time. They can do a Daniel Fast. I don’t really call it a Daniel Fast because you’re not fasting. It’s really a Daniel eating program, but you are starving that fleshly element of wanting meat and dairy and sugar, so yeah, we have seen—we could talk for the next hour on the benefits we have seen for people, which marriages being restored, the prodigal sons and daughters coming back to God, health issues, everything from inflammation to diabetes to heart disease. You see tremendous results, and that’s why it’s so hard. I believe that those things in the spiritually speaking that are the most important, praying and spending time with God and fasting and seeking Him, that’s why they’re so difficult because they’re so important.

Yeah, we’ve seen some amazing results. We actually have people that have just fasted from caffeine, coffee. It’s debatable on this topic, for sure. If you’re going to have caffeine, I would suggest maybe some green tea. When you’re having a pot a day and all these energy drinks and people with tremendous results just coming off of caffeine, they’re calm. They don’t fight and argue with their spouse as much. They don’t get upset in traffic. Fasting, I would encourage people to take it to God and say what area do I need to work on? What do I need to remove from my life?

Begin removing those things and plan. I tell people plan for Hell but pray for Heaven when it comes to withdrawals. Lots of times people give up because they don’t—they’re not prepared.  Oh, I’ve got a headache. I feel lightheaded. I better eat. Not necessarily. You might need to lay down and let this fast work its way through, but we do encourage medical support and consulting with—throw that disclaimer out there. Many people know they just need to breakthrough. They need to get through that difficulty, especially if they’re coming off of medications.

Have you seen the opiate crisis now? So many people are addicted to Vicodin and Xanax and oxy and trying to get off of those things. You don’t want to just come off Xanax, for example.

Dr. Pompa:
No, there is a warning there. If you’re on it, you’ve got to talk to your doctor about it because certain diabetic medications, psychotropic medications, all the medications you were referencing, pain medications, you need to speak to your doctor because it’s a game changer.

Shane:
It’s a weaning off process because you’re re-stabilizing the brain chemicals, and there’s a process of walking the body back through and back down to a healthy state.

Dr. Pompa:
Give some viewers like, okay, I’m going to—this time, hey, I want to fast for spiritual reasons. I want to fast for my husband, daughter, whatever. It could be someone else. It could be you for spiritual reasons. Give some people some advice on what you would recommend you do. How do you pray? What do you do? How do you set up? You really want to maximize your time with God. Do you have any recommendations?

Shane:
Yeah, actually, that’s great question, and most people should start out just praying and seeking God. Okay, Lord, what do you want me to do? I think it’s important to have some type of timeframe, a goal to shoot for. Anytime I say you know what? I’m just going to fast. I’ll see how long this goes. Your body, you’re the—we call it the defense attorney within. He talked you out of that fasting as quick as you got into it. I’ll start Monday. It wasn’t a good day, and then I start fasting. Oh, let me start after this potluck.

I would say, okay, I’m going to do this for a week. I’m going to use this first couple days to get off all the junk food, processed food, caffeine. I’m going to cleanse my body. People don’t realize how hard of a fast that is. You know. That’s not an easy venture at all to starve yourself of all these things you’ve been addicted to, so I would encourage people to get with God. Set up a commitment, 7 days, 10 days, 21 days of maybe using the first week to get healthy. Then start, like you said, adaptation, getting the body ready. I think there’s wisdom in that. I think it’s wise to prepare.

Then you set the goal, and you pray, and you fast. We don’t want to forget about praying and fasting. Now, ironically, you’re going to find that you have a lot more time when you’re not eating. I was shocked how much extra time—I mean, you’re talking what, two, three hours extra a day that you have? Set that time aside and pray and seek God. Let’s say after four days you just snap and you grab some cashews like I’ve done in the past. You get back on track.

Now, you might lose some of the benefits of the autophagy and ketosis and things, but we’re doing it for spiritual reasons. God doesn’t look at perfection. He looks at your heart. It’s the heart that’s set and going in the right direction. Not that it’s perfect. Now, I don’t want to give people permission to just indulge, but I want to encourage them. I mean, my  first one week fast, I had a scoop of raw protein powder with a little rice milk at night just so I could get to sleep because the growth hormone levels were high, cortisol release, and I could not get to sleep. I had a speaking engagement the following morning, and I just got back on track the next morning. I fell forward.

I hope that answers your question. I would have a plan. Whether it’s one day, okay, I’m going to miss breakfast and lunch, and I’m going to go into this slowly, or whether it’s two days or three days, just have a plan in place. Then honor that commitment. Try to honor that plan, and ask God what He wants you to do. I believe we’ll get this sensing. We’ll get this direction of what we need to fast—I know there’s people in our congregation who have fasted 20 to 40 days, water only, and it can be done. You don’t die. I mean, you know the record is what, over a year and a half?

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah.

Shane:
They monitored him at the Scotland University. He was taking supplements during that time. We don’t recommend it, but the body can go into—because you’re not starving. If you’re 20, 30 pounds overweight, you’ve got a good month’s worth of caloric intake there, of caloric reserves that you can burn. Starvation is when your body starts to burn critical organs and things. Very few people reach that because your body also tells you, okay, it’s time to eat.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I mean, it does. I mean, you get hungry. The innate intelligence knows, right? I mean, it really does, and there’s some other manifestations. We had a guy at one of my past seminars. He was on a 120 days of just water. Now, he was obese, but he had lost 100 pounds at that point. He was off 14 different medications, with his doctor, and his blood work went from you’re a dying man to spot on.

It was funny because I spoke about how you know when to break a fast. It was one of my topics. He was like, oh, my gosh, this just started happening to me. His tongue was like—it went from white to yellow to green to black. Then a week ago it had started turning pink again. I was explaining how that’s one of the signs to break a fast and how hunger comes back and thirst changes again. Anyways, he ended up breaking his fast I think a week later. Yeah, so the body is capable of doing some amazing healing during that time.

Shane:
You know what? You mentioned the medications. This might be a good thing. If somebody’s on a blood pressure medication, for example, and it’s lowering their blood pressure, fasting in and of itself is going to lower your blood pressure. You don’t’ want to be medicating on top of fasting. That’s why you want to talk with your physician. You want to make sure—and here’s what I found. You need to tell your physician here is what I’m doing. Will you monitor me? Don’t say what do you think about fasting?

Dr. Pompa:
Right, no.

Shane:
No, I mean, my cardiologist has a pot of coffee. I go every few years. I had myopericarditis when I was a young—in my 20s from steroid use, testosterone [enanthate], proprionate in the bodybuilding. I had strep throat. It went to my heart as a viral infection, so I’ve monitored it. They’ve got this huge pot of coffee. It says do not take at a stress test. He’s overweight. They don’t eat healthy.

Another doctor wanted to put me on high blood pressure medication three years ago. I asked him, “Did you use the large cuff to measure it?” He goes, “Oh, no, I don’t think we did. We used the small one.” Then they put the large one on. “Oh, you’re fine.”

It’s just there’s things like this they want to prescribe. Hey, take this antibiotic. It’s Ciprofloxacin. You know the box warnings on Cipro. They don’t know how the body works. We need doctors. I love physicians. They’re friends of mine. When it comes to how the body works, many of them have—they don’t know how the body—they know, hey, here’s what’s wrong. This pill will fix it.

For example, you go to a physician. They’ll prescribe statin drugs for your high cholesterol. Why not look at the diet? Cholesterol is good. HDL, LDL, both of those are—cholesterol overall, our body needs it. Cholesterol is not bad. It’s the inflammation that’s causing it. It’s the damage that we’re doing to our own body. I think sometimes we throw out the baby with the bath water.

Dr. Pompa:
I have a big smile on my face because I’m thinking, my gosh, this guy is the most educated pastor on health that I think in history. I’m really happy.

Shane:
It’s by God’s grace. I think He’s shown me a lot of this. Actually, when I listen to you and doctors speak on this area, I feel very inadequate. I’m more of a jack of all trades, trying to get a little bit here and there from all different groups. I think God has called—I think pastors should be not only voicing spiritual truth in our culture. Don’t get me going on that, the direction of our culture and the pulpits being silent, but we also need to help people in their—shepherd their body. A lot of pastors are addicted to coffee. We’ve got doughnuts in the lobby. We love the big potlucks, and if we don’t have this area under control, it’s hard to preach on what you yourself are not practicing.

Dr. Pompa:
Listen, I have been to a lot of churches where, oh, we don’t discuss that here. Meanwhile, they’ll talk about all these off ramps in relationships. I mean, they’ll go through all the thing, money, relationships. I’m like where’s nutrition here? Where’s diet? I can tell you, I’ve been sick, and you become very selfish when you get very sick, right? You become very self-focused. My mind was not focused on God. I was surviving. I can tell you, you better add it to the pulpit, no doubt about it.

Shane:
This might help a lot of people. Many pastors think and this was brought in in early Christianity where the flesh is bad, so anything to do with fasting, go live in a monastery out in the desert. We’ve came to the other extreme where now we think that—we put fasting with the monks, and we’re works-based religion. I’m abstaining. I’m doing works. Really, it’s about feeding the spirit and denying the flesh. It’s very biblical.

Also, a lot of pastors think bodily exercise profits nothing when, really, the Scriptures say bodily exercise profits a little, but don’t put that above spiritual benefits. It’s a matter of putting—I’ve seen this so many times. When a person is disciplined spiritually, it helps physically, and when they’re disciplined physically, it can help spiritually. They run parallel. They’re not distinct compartmentalized. They run together. Discipline in all areas, spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally. You need that.

I hate to talk down on pastors because I know it’s a hard job, but we have to look at this topic and look at our own bodies. I’ve prayed with so many people about anxiety, panic attacks, angry outbursts, and in my heart, I know a lot of this is diet related. Get off the energy drinks and the caffeine. Stop snapping at your children. I’ll pray for your heart disease and your diabetes, but you have to lose 70 pounds. That’s just wisdom. That’s wise. We’re actually reaping what we’re sowing.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I mean, it’s amazing. Pastor, pray for me. Pray for my heart disease. Pray for my diabetes. Then you see them eating the doughnut. I’m like, oh, man, we’re dying from a lack of knowledge often times, pastor, right?

Shane:
We do, yeah, and I should interject that people—God does answer in spite of their lifestyle choices. I mean, I’ve seen Him…

Dr. Pompa:
Thank God.

Shane:
Yeah, thank God, but we are called to be good stewards of this wonderful gift that He has given us. I think we forget that. This is this wonderful gift, and we know.  I mean, ask anybody, should I eat an apple or a Snickers bar? We know. They know they need to be eating God-given, God-created food. I think there’s some disobedience going on too when we choose to continue to eat in a destructive way.

My heart breaks for the children. Look at what we’re feeding kids, I mean, from Doritos and energy drinks. That’s the most popular thing right now, Doritos. You look at the ingredients in them, monosodium glutamate, food coloring, GMO processed. I mean, it’s not good, and so we’re giving them candy and cookies. Why are cavities? I mean, when I was younger, you’d get cavities, but now it’s like some kids have five, six, seven each time.

Oral health is so important. I mean, oral health really affects our whole body. What are we doing to our kids? People say, well, they’re not overweight. No, but they’re malnourished. Just because they’re skinny doesn’t mean they’re healthy. I mean, they could be living off caffeine like a crack addict lives off that addictive substance. I know it’s a little hard to hear for people, but I think we need to start telling people what they need to hear and not what they want to hear.

I’ve got some videos on YouTube, The Pantry Pastor. I’ve went through people’s homes and go through their whole pantry. You have to throw out 90% of what is in our pantries and in our refrigerator. Ninety percent of what is in there is not good. What we mean by that, is it God given? You know this. Is it how God designed it, all the enzymes, the phytochemicals, the antioxidants, which take the—what are they, free radicals? They fight the free radicals. You’re eating God-given, God-sustaining, life-giving food, or you’re eating dead food from a factory. I’m just surprised we’ve made it this long with this type of…

Dr. Pompa:
I hope your congregation grows to beyond your expectations. You’re speaking some stuff that not many pastors are speaking. Let me tell you something. What a balance you are, I have to say, and balance is the key.

Shane:
That’s the key.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, when we look at why people are sick, I mean, beyond even physical, mentality, spiritually in every aspect, it’s this imbalance, lack of homeostasis in their spiritual well-being, their physical and their emotional well-being. Look, I mean, fasting’s a part of it. All of these other topics that you’re hitting on is a huge part of it. One last word, advice for people on this topic, fasting, I mean, if you had one last word for them, what it be?

Shane:
You mean good leaving question?

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, here I am watching this show, right? Here I am. Think about the person watching the show going I’m worried about fasting. Should I fast? What would your advice be?

Shane:
Number one, overconsumption is killing us. Fasting doesn’t. I would encourage people to fall forward. I don’t know too many people who said you know what? I’m going to fast, and they’ve actually accomplished a three-day water or a four-day—I mean, there are people. I know them. The majority of people I’m seeing, they start out, and it’s so hard, so difficult, that they just give up. I want to encourage that person. That was me years ago. Sometimes now it’s still a challenge to fast.

I do intermittent fasting like you do. I haven’t eaten yet today. It’s 3:30 our time. I’m going to go and eat a nice, huge, big salad and get—I usually get my protein from bone broth shakes and things. To fall forward, hey, learn—I like your new book coming out. I recommend that they read that. Get their body adapted. Unless God is saying, no, do something now.

Then the direction our nation is going, like you mentioned with abortion, with calling good evil and evil good, the direction we are going now is not a good direction. More than ever, we’ve got to wake up. We’ve got to humble ourselves before God, and we’ve got to just start. That thousand mile journey starts with the first footstep, so I would really encourage people to fall forward. You might not master it your first time, but you’ll start to educate yourself. You’ll start to discipline your body instead of your body disciplining you.

Last word of thought here is maybe start with one meal. People say, oh, that’s pretty easy. It’s a lot harder than you think. Try to go six, seven, eight hours without eating nothing but clean water, and you’ll see just how hungry your flesh is. Don’t give up, though. There is a breakthrough right around struggling. To me, the struggle, the difficulty just confirms how important it is.

Dr. Pompa:
Pastor Shane, you’re a wealth of knowledge. Just give your website again, where your church is, and all that information one more time.

Shane:
You got shaneidleman.com. They can go to shaneidleman.com, or the church website is westsidechristianfellowship.org. Also, we just purchased four radio stations, so they can find us at WCF. That’s WCF for Westside Christian Fellowship, wcfradio.org. We’re trying to get some of these health messages on the radio as well because it’s so important, especially for believers to really steward their bodies.

Dr. Pompa:
Absolutely, where’s your church located exactly?

Shane:
We’re in Southern California. Most people don’t know where Palmdale is, Lancaster. We’re in Leona Valley, which is about 15 minutes west of Palmdale in Southern California. I just tell people an hour north of Los Angeles.

Dr. Pompa:
I’m going to be up in—for a wedding, I’m going to be in Laguna Beach. How far are you from there? I might come see you.

Shane:
About two hours if you don’t hit traffic.

Dr. Pompa:
If you don’t hit traffic, that’s funny. You’re funny.

Shane:
I’m going to be on foxnews.com tomorrow with Lauren Green. If people put in Fox News—Shane Idleman on Fox News, they can see some of the recent debates I’ve did on Fox News. I’m heading down there tomorrow. I’ve got to take into consideration the traffic. We’d love to connect sometime and get you out here to just speak to our people about the benefits of—you take it to a whole new level in regard to autophagy and the body consuming itself and epigenetics and how the DNA works. We’d love to get some resources on that.

Dr. Pompa:
I’ll do it. I love the topic. Because of your knowledge base, I’d love to do it for you. Pastor, thanks again.

Shane:
Let’s do it. I’ll see you guys later. Thank you.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah.

Shane:
All right, bye-bye.

Ashley:
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266: The Hidden Dangers of Tap Water

266: The Hidden Dangers of Tap Water

with Ryan Kuypers

Today we’ll be discussing the importance of the quality of water you use in your home, and what kind of water treatment system I personally recommend.

Our guest today is Ryan Kuypers, and he’s an engineer at Dime Water, which is his family business specializing in water treatments. He’ll discuss the current state of our water quality and explain why it’s critical to treat the water in your life. And we have a bonus guest today too! Warren Phillips is back to join in on the conversation, which we are really excited about.

Warren, Ryan, and I will all discuss the treatment options available to you, and please be sure to check out our show notes for links to find out more about Dime Water.

Additional Information:

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Dime Water – DRO-100-NV 4 stage RO Water Saver

Dime Water – DRO-1-NV 4 RO Water Saver

Dime Water – Aquafer Plus- Whole House Filtration (Home size 5000)

Transcript:

Dr. Pompa:
One of the main questions I get is, “What about my water? Dr. Pompa, what water filtration unit that you get” —you get that question answered in this episode and more. We talk about whole-house filtration, why that may be the key for your health, and also point of service units. What do you have in your kitchen, what you’re drinking every day? I talk about why your water is different than my water and what you can do about that in this episode. This is the water episode. This is what you asked for, so stay tuned to this episode.

Ashley:
Hello, everyone. Welcome to Cellular Healing TV. I’m Ashley Smith. Today we’ll be talking all about water quality and what kind of water treatment system Dr. Pompa personally recommends. We have an extra-special guest today, too. Warren Phillips is back to join in on the conversation, which we are really excited about. Our guest today is Ryan Kuypers. He’s an engineer at Dime Water, which is his family business, specializing in water treatment. He’ll discuss the current state of our water quality and explain why it’s critical to treat the water in your life.

Dr. Pompa, Warren, and Ryan will all discuss the treatment options available to you. Please be sure to check out our show notes for links to find out more or to purchase. Okay, so let’s get started and welcome Dr. Pompa, Warren Phillips, and Ryan Kuypers to the show. This is Cellular Healing TV.

Dr. Pompa:
Ryan from Dime Water, it’s about time you made this show. Welcome to Cell TV.

Ryan:
Thank you for having me. I appreciate it.

Dr. Pompa:
We even have Warren here as a special guest, and you’ll find out why, folks. Warren, welcome.

Warren:
Yeah, it’s good to be here. I just want to bring some entertainment and some science on one of my favorite topics.

Dr. Pompa:
You know what, Warren? Actually, one of your number one YouTube videos was the water video. Ryan, he was showing the water units that we have in our homes. By the way, this show is long overdue because how many people ask me, “Show me your whole-house water system and your water systems.” Here we go. This is the show today, so stay tuned. This is the show you guys all asked for. This is going to be a lot of fun.

Let’s bring the problem right at it here, Ryan. It just amazes me that people don’t have water systems in their home. I take it from point of service, and I have a whole-house. I’d go out to dinner with some really prestigious doctors, and I watch them drink tap water.

Warren:
I can’t stand it.

Dr. Pompa:
Warren, you’re there, right?

Ryan:
It drives me batty.

Dr. Pompa:
[00:02:41] won’t do it. I think that if they just really knew what was in the water, I don’t know that they would do that. Ryan, let’s talk about it. What is in water? I know there’s a difference of city water [00:02:54], but let’s start there with the problem.

Ryan:
Okay, for the most part, if we look at what is flowing in our water supply, cities—first of all, we live in America. For the people that are listening from America, our [00:03:07] is tremendous. Our government requires that municipalities bring it up to a certain level, so we’re incredibly lucky, at least, to have potable water coming out of our sinks.

Dr. Pompa:
True.

Ryan:
They do a great job to ensure biological growth isn’t there, but there are some things that they just don’t have the time, money, or energy to take care of. One is pharmaceuticals that pass through people’s systems. Obviously, over the decades, we, as Americans, have used so many more drugs. We’re prescribed to a greater extent, and our bodies—there’s not the magical drug that gets dialed in to your specific weight. That passes through your system not completely utilized, and then it moves into the water supply.

Look at the back of your toothpaste. Look at your deodorant. All these components and chemical compositions that we use in our day-to-day life end up in some way, shape, or form getting passed back through. As I said, a lot are dealt with, but a lot just linger in there. If we don’t see situations where people are becoming ill from them, it’s generally ignored. Occasionally, you have these flare-ups. Everyone knows about Flint, Michigan. That’s a whole different situation because that was just a lack of foresight in terms of a water supply affecting old plumbing.

Once again, aging infrastructure, intensive use of chemicals to a greater extent year after year after year, limited treatment of that, and the result is greater problems. It’s impossible to consider the fact that a university out there will do a 40-year study to determine how much drinking X, Y, Z over the years will affect you, but there are reasons, obviously, that Alzheimer’s is on the rise. Allergies are on the rise. Things are occurring because of our environment and the fact we’ve been an industrialized nation for well over 100 years now. I mean, aggressively industrialized.

Part of that challenge is then you trust the city up to a certain point, and you have to take the ball the last five yards, if you will, and get it into the end zone from the perspective of a safe, drinkable water that you can control. That is one thing you know you can control. You can have a system under your sink that you maintain that guarantees you quality water. You can’t control the air you breathe, and food is questionable, whether or not organic, by no means, creates a situation where you’re protecting yourself from whatever may be in your food supply.

Dr. Pompa:
You actually mentioned drugs. I don’t know if you all saw this. It was just in the paper up near Seattle. They’re finding drugs, Prozac, caffeine, cholesterol meds, ibuprofen, bug spray. This was all found in the fish up in that area. They’re testing the fish and realizing that all these things are in high concentrations. I don’t know if people realize that. When you’re ingesting your water—you had said that they don’t have filtration sophisticated enough to remove these drugs. We’re all being exposed to these things unknowingly.

Warren:
Let me add to that. That brings up a point. I remember a study back when I just got out of graduate school. I studied toxicology and low-temperatured aqueous geochemistry. That’s why I love water filtration. We found Kyle Kuypers, Ryan’s brother, the other scientist here and his dad, who’s a chemical engineer, correct?

Ryan:
Mechanical.

Warren:
Mechanical engineer who founded the company that they have, Dime Water. Anyway, I remember reading this study from the University of Montana where I went to graduate school. That’s where I got my master’s. They showed the infertility of a large animal, an elk. These are big, thousand-pound animals. They found infertility, and not only infertility, but only males being born because of the contraceptive drugs being found in the Bitterroot River. I believe it was the Bitterroot. Don’t quote me on that.

The elk population that they studied were becoming infertile and only have, I believe, male offspring. This stuff, if it can affect a thousand-pound animal, what is it doing to your daughter, your son—hormonal system? It’s crazy.

Ryan:
Yeah, I completely agree. It’s a weird example to give; however, the Pill has been available for many decades now and has a tremendous amount of usage. With estrogen not being taken out of the water supply that comes from the Pill on a regular basis, anybody that has a set of eyes can see that the average 18-year-old looks like the average 15-year-old, or the average 15-year-old today looks like what the average 18-year-old did 30 years ago. Why is that?

There’s a lot of other factors that can come into play, but there are chemical effects of what’s passing through the water system and then what’s being ingested by the average person on a day-to-day basis that does affect our health.

Dr. Pompa:
You brought up Flint, Michigan. I had the privilege of going there and actually teaching doctors, really, how to get the lead out of the kids—not the just kids, but everyone who was affected by the water. One of the saddest parts is they didn’t realize that the lead went deep into the tissues, so when the blood samples started becoming normal, they thought the problem was over.

One of the points that I make at my seminar is that Flint, Michigan, when I first heard of it, I said, “Oh, boy, that’s not just a Flint, Michigan problem. That’s a national problem.” It’s because we have doctors that we train all around the country, and we test people. We see massive lead levels. It wasn’t shortly after that that it started coming out. Pennsylvania waters near Pittsburgh, higher than Flint. California waters, higher than Flint. It went through all those things because they started testing water.

Again, it was a mistake made there in Flint, Michigan. However, we have high lead levels in many parts of the water from the piping, the soldering, and it’s very difficult to filter out. Heavy metals are another massive exposure.

You all, actually, at Dime Water test a lot of the water because that’s how you design some of the filters. We’ll talk about that in a moment. What other types of chemicals do you see or even contaminants, heavy metals, etcetera in some of the water you’re testing?

Ryan:
We want to stick with municipal supplies because well supplies become exotic and all over the map. Heavy metals are, as you just mentioned, a major concern. What’s happening, too, is chlorine has traditionally been used. Chloramines, way back in the turn of the 20th century, were used heavily, and then they were pulled back because of the war efforts in World War I and World War II. Chlorine became king, so to speak.

The problem with chlorine is it’s a tremendous killer of biologics. It does a wonderful job getting rid of biologics, but it doesn’t have a lot of staying power. Now, because we’ve had these incidents here and there with Cryptosporidium or other outbreaks throughout the country, municipalities are starting to add ammonia to already chlorinated water to create chloramines.

The difference between chlorine and chloramines is the fact that the chloramines aren’t quite as powerful in terms of being biological killers, but they have great staying power. They’re a headache for us in the industry because we want to remove them as well as the chlorine, but chlorine as a compound is much simpler to deal with.

Then, essentially, what happens, if you’re able to break the chlorine and the ammonia free, then you have to worry about independently dealing with the chlorine, which we know how to do easily, but then getting the ammonia out of the water is another challenge in itself. Municipalities are doing what they can to make sure that the treatment is as aggressive as possible as cheaply and as effectively as they can do it. At the same time, they’re pushing pH up in the water tremendously, too, which is a good thing to some extent.

However, it becomes problematic when just putting that—because they want to minimize the risk of any type of corrosion and any type of ripping away, especially with that older infrastructure we’re dealing with. As the country ages, all the infrastructure ages with it.

Dr. Pompa:
By the way, that’s what happened in Flint. The acidity actually dramatically changed. Then what happened was it started taking what was corroded on the pipes right into the water supply. They didn’t put the additive in, just as you’re saying.

I think one of the problems—we have a lot of people here seeking their health and people looking to get healthy. I really, truly believe that if you’re not cleaning your water, you’re going to have a very difficult time. What you’re saying, that would have a dramatic effect on the microbiome, which we’re realizing controls your immune system, how your brain works, all these factors, and yet people are spending all this money on bacteria, good bacteria, probiotics, etcetera, and paying attention to their diet, and yet your water is literally killing not just the bacteria in your water, but the bacteria in your gut. It’s a big deal.

Warren:
And on your skin.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s true. With that said, I think—gosh, Warren, it was one of the videos that we did, right? We were talking about the other exposures. Our argument was why we believe whole-house filtration is a must. We were talking about—I think the statistic was 11 glasses of water—or, no. One 10-minute shower is equivalent to drinking 10 or 11 chlorinated glasses of water. I don’t know how accurate that is. Obviously, chlorine levels are different everywhere. The point was you breathe in chlorinated water. Ryan, what is the truth around that? Is that still kind of accurate?

Ryan:
That’s an incredibly valid point. I can’t compare the drinking the water to what it is in terms of shower length, but chlorine is less of the concern to drink. Nobody recommends it. Everyone has their experience at some point in life. When they were a child that played at the pool all day, and then by the end of the day, your throat is sore and you’re a little bit hoarse because you were drinking chlorinated water in some way, shape, or form the whole day.

When it comes to the drinking, though, where that water is going is into a pit of acid called your stomach. There’s less of a concern there than when you are in a warm environment with hot water that’s being aerosolized or put into an aerosol form, and then you’re breathing it. Your lungs are much more susceptible.

There’s a reason why mustard gas was so effective in World War I. It’s a lot more dangerous in terms of in a gaseous form than it is in a liquid form. Taking that chlorine out and not giving it the opportunity to become an irritant is incredibly important.

Dr. Pompa:
I don’t know that—how much water today, Ryan, has fluoride still in it? I know there’s been now a push to take fluoride out, but the aluminum industry and other industries want to keep it back in. Fluoride, unlike chlorine, extremely dangerous. Linked to bone cancer in boys. Obviously, even some neurodegenerative conditions. What’s going on with fluoride in water?

Ryan:
It really hasn’t changed in terms of the levels even with the push-back. I don’t really understand the reasoning behind putting it into the water supply. The argument historically has been health of teeth. It keeps your teeth stronger because bones suck up fluoride and make them stronger.

Our take, primarily on fluoride, is it’s less of a concern from a whole-home perspective or worrying about it getting—passing through the semi-permeable membrane called your skin in the shower, but much more of a concern if you’re ingesting it. That’s exactly why dealing with the chlorine from a breathed in whole-home treatment and then having the fluoride removed by our own membrane for point of use is really the best [00:14:37].

Dr. Pompa:
The RO, it does remove the fluoride, which—

Ryan:
Yes, nothing is 100% guarantee. It probably is in the range of 80 to 95%. If you’re already dealing with fluoride levels below one part per million—so somebody has problems trying to visualize that. Imagine a football stadium of a million people. One person is a fluoride molecule. If you take 85% of that person out, you’re getting into the part per billion level, even the part per trillion level. The potential of it being a carcinogen is very minimized on that end. Our own membranes are not perfect, but they’re the best we have out there to deal with [00:15:17].

Dr. Pompa:
I don’t want this is the show to just talk about fluoride. I’ll let Warren speak to this. Fluoride is extremely toxic. You mentioned it hardening the teeth. It’s really a misnomer. It actually creates a softening and a temporary hardening. There’s so much information now on the dangers of fluoride. I guess the question is why are we still putting it in the water? Warren, you can talk about the origins of how it even got in there and why it’s still in there.

Warren:
It comes back to the environmental consultant days. Some environmental consultant like me went to an industry. I’ve done this, personally. I’ve taken old Bunker C oil, and I resold it to be burned in a pulp mill plant, which was contaminating the air quality up in Missoula, Montana. That pulp mill is now out. I just talked to my pastor, who lives there, and said, “How’s the inversions?” He said, “Well, a lot better since the pulp mill’s gone.”

What they do is they go in and say, “Hey, look, if I can take your waste and sell it, or give it away, or ship it to a water treatment plant—which is what I also used to do. I’d take contaminated water, if it was below a certain level of contaminants, I would ship it by a truck to a—this is going down a road, but it’s cool information. I would try to sell that to a water treatment facility—not sell it, get rid of it for free instead of paying a dollar per gallon. You’re thinking hundreds of thousands of dollars it would take to do that.

This is what they did. They went to the aluminum industry—it’s one of the industries—there’s lots of industries that use fluoride. This comes out as a waste, either as a waste or a byproduct, and they went—they created this false pretense, because of this one study, that it hardens your teeth, the one that you both spoke of.

Dr. Pompa:
Just because it hardens something doesn’t mean it’s not more brittle, which is actually the case. It could be harder and more brittle. Go ahead.

Warren:
On that one study, they said, “Look, this is safe, and this will help out.” They sold it bill of good to the dentist. They sold bill of goods to the water supply. They made a mistake because they didn’t—they saw the hardening, but they didn’t have the foresight to think further down the road of the effects it has on the thyroid and other things. There wasn’t a long-term study. This is just what we did back then.

We didn’t think it through. We haven’t thought it through with amalgam fillings. We didn’t think it through on asbestos. We’re not thinking it through on fiberglass. We just don’t think it through. We’re not thinking it through on vaccines. We’re not thinking it through in a lot of areas. Then there’s this history. Then when they figure it out, they try to back up, and they really don’t get there.

What we did is we dropped it into the water supply, and now we’re trying to back it back out. Again, it’s a constant battle, but they got rid of it for free. These companies, which had spent a buck a gallon to get rid of it are getting rid of it for free, and that’s how it happened.

Dr. Pompa:
Because it’s so toxic, it was expensive.

Warren:
Yeah, it’s just like amalgam filling. It’s a Class 3 hazardous waste.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, it’s incredible. All right, so let’s talk solutions. That’s why we’re here. Both of us just absolutely love your units, and you’re going to find out why we love their units. You all are building some of the best—I believe, the best units out there for the best price. Let’s talk about that.

Warren:
Let me preface this, Dan. This was a long—this was a six-month find.

Dr. Pompa:
I was just going to say Warren has done more homework. I lean to him on this—around this water filtration than anyone I know. Go ahead, Warren.

Warren:
There’re some decent units out there. What I’d looked for is someone who actually knew the science and someone could actually produce a product that could remove fluoride from a whole-house perspective. I was living in Cranberry Township at the time, and there was tons of fluoride in the water. I just didn’t want to deal with it, whether it was in the shower, drinking.

That’s one thing that I do not compromise is drinking water when I’m out, as well, GMO, my gut microbiome. Those are just uncompromised. Will I eat a little bit of sugar every once in a while? Sure. Will I eat some non-organic food? Sure. Get a few pesticides at a low level, I’ll risk that. I won’t risk GMOs. I won’t risk water, especially in Park City. Holy cow, super toxic.

Dr. Pompa:
Heavy metals.

Warren:
Yeah, heavy metals. Researched these guys, and the things that I loved about them, they could do everything I wanted to do. They sent the water sample in for me to make sure that—they can do some bench chemistry and stuff to figure out what’s going on with my water. Really worked with me. Then their units, you didn’t have to replace the cartridges. I was looking at these things. They sell them to you cheap, and then the ongoing replacement or the ongoing care of your filter when they come in every six months, it became highly expensive.

Their units last. They use the best technology that lasts. It’s not ripping off the customer on the maintenance of the units and buying more filters over and over again. I loved that about their units. Your dad, quite honestly, Ryan, Mike, is quite the genius. I talked to him the other day again. This is a company that—I haven’t found anybody that brings high-quality, science-based water quality.

From my background in toxicology, and chemistry, and water filtration, using activated silica beads, and all this stuff, we were able to talk about the chemistry. If you know the chemistry, you can really develop great systems. They wrote the book on it. That’s how we came to find these guys. It was literally—Dan, it was 2006? Yeah, 2006, something like that. We’re pushing 12, 13 years since we got your first unit.

Dr. Pompa:
I took the same whole-house along with me. I move every three years. You know that.

Warren:
Yeah, we’ve never done a podcast, and we were like, “Oh, my gosh!” I was talking to Ryan and your mom just jumped on here before. We talk on the phone all the time. Our listeners just don’t know, one, the importance—they knew the importance, but they don’t know the resources, and they’re buying units—let’s take, for example—Ryan, I’ll just set you loose.

They go into Costco. Now, it’s better than not, but they’re buying an RO system for X, Y, Z—three, four hundred dollars from Costco. Let’s talk about some of these other units and some of the science behind why yours are, let’s just be honest, a little bit superior.

Dr. Pompa:
First with the point of services that you offer, Ryan, and then we’ll—that means your drinking water, point of service. Then we’ll move into whole-house. We already said that we believe everyone should have a whole-house. I believe you guys made it affordable to do so. Why is your point of service unit different than the one you can buy at Costco or anywhere else?

Ryan:
Now, Costco, as you just said, or as Warren just said, the price point is incredibly enticing. You can get into those units for under $200 under normal situations. I actually pulled a picture up on my camera. I was looking through some of my old photos and saw it was on sale for $139 once. That’s crazy inexpensive.

However, this is the catch: It’s very much like printers. There’s a general quality—to sell something that cheaply, you need to cut corners on quality in terms of the components themselves, whether or not an elbow will break, or something will leak, or just from the stand of how long the membrane will last, or the quality it provides while you’re using it. Here’s where they really get you. They want to deal with a point of sale, and then they want you to [00:22:29].

They don’t provide service. There’s no company backing on it. They don’t want you to really bother them on their customer service number. It’s a snap and click type system, where the replacement cartridges will snap in easily, are very user-friendly. The difference is you’re paying five to six [00:22:43] on that snap-in cartridge. Like a printer, they’ll give you the printer for cheap, and then they’ll get you on the ink over time. Your breakeven point will easily be somewhere within the three to four year range.

Then you’re dealing with a system that, if you’re lucky enough to have it still functioning properly, you’re replacing all the components on it at a six to twelve month clip, generally six. Our systems have more common, user-friendly components that can be replaced on an annual basis. The membranes generally last five years as opposed to them recommending you replace it at two or three, something along those lines. That’s something to take—there’re are some other efficiencies associated with it.

We came up with, to our knowledge, the first one-to-one ratio. Most of these systems that come out of Home Depot, come out of Costco put four gallons of water—essentially, what we call concentrate water or drain water, where the contaminants are taking the drain down the drain to one gallon of water as you’re creating the drink. Ours are one-to-one, and you can get it as efficient as three gallons of product water to one gallon of drain, which makes a huge difference to some people in certain places.

Being in southern California, water’s a greater concern here. This is a coastal desert. People seem to forget about that when they want lawns and palm trees, but that’s just the aura of it all. In some parts of the country, it’s not as important, but it is wasteful. Water is going to become more critical as it becomes more contaminated and becomes more expensive. People just don’t feel the need to send more water down the drain.

Dr. Pompa:
Where’s your unit cost, point of service? Where do you start?

Ryan:
Point of service start—a unit that would make 36 gallons per day of water. That seems like a lot of water, but it’s mainly about recovery rate. If you use up a two-gallon tank, how long will it take to fill—is somewhere in the 400 range, and our high-end system is 1,200.

Dr. Pompa:
What’s behind you there because that’s a [00:24:35]?

Ryan:
Yeah, so this is our newest and—just let me know if I’m getting too off kilter here. I’m trying to use the tablet to make it work. This is called our DRO-100 HE Plus. This is that one-to-one ratio. This is also a system that the —the black pump you see in the, I guess would be top right corner for the viewers, is a permeate pump. That is essentially what does a couple things.

It creates that three-to-one ratio of product versus drain. In addition, it improves the quality of the water coming out. When you don’t have back pressure from your storage tank, you get even better quality of water coming out of the membrane because it’s not fighting a pressure dynamic from what’s coming out versus what’s pushing back.

In addition, this system has higher-end pre-filters. Most pre-filters on standard units will have a five micron to take out debris, dirt, and a carbon block to deal with chlorine to protect the membrane. This has a system—it has enhanced carbon, but also has a media we use in our whole-home systems called KDF that deals with the heavy metals. It makes life easier for the membrane on that end.

What you see with the clear container is actually—this is where we get into the pH adjustments. This is an alkaline-based unit where you can raise your pH after the fact. A lot of the [00:25:56] —go ahead, Warren.

Warren:
I was going to say, because RO units, they become weakly acidic, right? You don’t want to drink weakly acidic water, so you put a little bit of the alkalinity back into it. The alkalinity capacity, it’s not going to be like super drinking alkaline water, but it’s going to bring it up to—there’s a big difference between alkalinity and buffering capacity.

You can have alkalinity, but it can be changed really easily back and forth from six to eight just with a drop of water. It makes it a lightly buffered alkaline water, just to make that clear. It’s not going to drive your alkalinity—like Dr. Pompa would say, you don’t want to drive your alkalinity in one direction. It’s lightly alkaline. Just [00:26:35].

Dr. Pompa:
Right because there’s all these new alkalinity units out there that are making people’s guts alkaline. That’s a negative. This is just to bring it back to where a normal water [00:26:43].

Ryan:
Right, what we’ve experienced for the most part—what we’re experiencing is we’re at the mercy of the delivery water from the city, wherever that city may be. If some cities are trying to push their pH up a little bit to deal with those corrosion issues—we’re in situations now where these alkaline units are still useful, but when a city once upon a time, let’s say, delivered at neutral, 7 pH, and then the RO unit itself would [00:27:08] it down to 6.5. You’re weakly acidic. You don’t necessarily want to drink that.

You prefer to be a little bit above neutral or neutral. Then these units were great to then bring that up, but you were only getting about one pH adjustment upward with a sacrificial cartridge like this. In order to get more aggressive, which we don’t recommend because the magic point seems to be about 8.3. That’s when you get to the natural point of pH.

When you start getting above that, especially when you get into the 10 range, you’re dealing with hydroxyl OH, which is way too aggressive. It’s too much of a good thing. I’m not going to call it a craze by any means because it’s definitely more beneficial than more acidity, but—like Vitamin D many years ago.

The more Vitamin D, the better. Too much of anything is going to be a problem. A system like this allows you to adjust. Let me try to point this out for everybody. There’s a dial here in this spot. That allows you to adjust it. It’s not just purely about the pH. It’s about taste.

We’re all unique, and we all have different tastes. Some people love alkaline water; some people don’t. Some people feel as though there’s a chalky taste when there’s too much. You can dial it in and out however you want it to adjust pH from a number perspective or taste desire from that perspective. That’s what makes it so user-friendly to the public.

Dr. Pompa:
You mentioned something that I’ve never seen a unit have like this. It has the KDF in it, which you taught me because my concern—I had a concern that these units have got more efficient, but it can, at times, create bacteria in the tank, either from the back end or the front end. The KDF actually, from the front end, eliminates that because there’s a natural antiseptic in the KDF. Explain that a little bit.

Ryan:
Yeah, KDF is essentially a biocide. It does kill any biologics that get through, which, obviously, is applied in our whole-home units and on this end. There’s two sides of an RO. ROs aren’t closed systems. They are from a standpoint that you’re getting the water from a city, and then you’re sending the water through a unit, but remember, at the end of an RO system, you do have a faucet that sits on your sink.

Individual customers have to have some care of that. They have to ensure they don’t sneeze on it or touch it with raw chicken hands if they’re cutting up raw chicken, things like that. There is potential [00:29:29] —

Dr. Pompa:
They put their mouth—

Ryan:
Yeah, or don’t have your cat lick it. Our cats love our OR water. It’s like have them love it in a bowl, not out of the faucet.

Dr. Pompa:
[00:29:37] sterile—

Warren:
Love it in a bowl. That’s good. You’re witty.

Dr. Pompa:
Cats are [00:29:42] my children.

Warren:
I’ve seen Simon. I’ve seen him. Simon’s done it. Everybody loves Simon. That’s his son, anyway.

Ryan:
I thought that was his cat. I’m sorry.

Warren:
No, they have two cats, but Simon’s kind of like a cross between a dog/cat and a boy.

Dr. Pompa:
He’s right.

Warren:
He’s Superman.

Ryan:
Childhood, we all miss it to some extent. Anyway, so the KDF does play that role with killing any biologics that may get in. Biologics on the front end can contaminate the membrane. Biologics on the back end going backwards can contaminate the tank. We have solutions for both of that if people have concerns with that.

The main concern about tanks—I’ve been with the company for years. I joined the family business in January of ’16, and I’ve dealt with hundreds of ROs. Obviously, the company and all the people in it have dealt with thousands. There are rarely occasions where systems do get contaminated, so I’m not trying to fear monger by any means about these. You just have to be diligent about how you treat that faucet, knowing that there’s pure water coming out.

Germs don’t know up from down. If you put a germ in any spot, it’ll grow in the direction it can grow. We rarely see it as a problem. Generally, when it becomes a problem, algae forms, and it’s noticeable. The one customer I’ve ever dealt with that did have an issue, they just said, “Don’t even sanitize the tank. Just replace it.” Never had a problem since. That was a relatively new system, not something that was five, seven, ten years old that had that issue. I have a feeling that they accidentally contaminated it.

Dr. Pompa:
Your units are taking care of it anyway. The KDF is amazing for pulling heavy metals out. You have, of course, the membrane, and of course, you have a pre-filter, charcoal, but the KDF is one extra step.

Ryan:
Yes, absolutely. The amount that KDF cleans, based on their testing, is 98%.

Warren:
Wow!

Ryan:
People want to say, “Well, what’s 100%?” Let’s look to those funny commercials where they say, “Hey, this drinking water has an acceptable amount of lead.” It’s funny, and it’s true, but we’re already talking in the part per billion level. When people say, “Ooh, if there’s any lead, it’s problematic.” If you turn part per billion into part per trillion—go back to the example of how many people are in a football stadium. Now you have one person in a trillion.

The only time we use that number is when we’re talking our national debt. That’s a tremendously small amount that has very little risk there. We’re honest about it. We don’t want to make any claims that anything is ever going to take 100% of anything out. There’re certain things you can measure, and even measuring devices have their limitations.

Warren:
Can you walk through this particular unit and just show what each thing takes out and why?

Ryan:
Step by step?

Warren:
Yeah, I think that would be really great to just—

Ryan:
Okay, yeah, step-by-step. Let me get this thing working.

Warren:
I think this is important. We gave them the cat licking tip. They’ve never heard that before.

Ryan:
That’s kind of a strange one that—yeah, it’s unusual.

Warren:
That’s a huge tip. The viewers are going to love this, and listeners.

Ryan:
Is that a good position there for visual?

Warren:
That’s perfect. That’s perfect.

Ryan:
Okay, so we actually color code our lines, too. What we have is a situation where—okay, so you’ve got—your feed water is essentially coming in here. We don’t have a connection here, but this would be where it’s coming from your cold water line from under your sink. This is the sediment filter, taking out the sticks and stones, so to speak. There’s dirt in water. People generally don’t see it, but if you took hundreds and thousands of gallons of water and let it all settle out, there is dirt in your water. They ever have to do work on streets or whatever, they have no way to flush it out. It gets sent to the customers.

From the sediment filter, you get into the KDF, as we discussed, and then enhanced carbon here, which is a higher level than standard coconut carbon. Removes VOCs. Does an excellent job with chloramines, also. From there, this is just an auto shutoff valve to make the system automated. You don’t have to turn the RO system on or off. Once the water gets to a certain pressure, as opposed to what’s being stored in the tank, it auto shuts off so you don’t perpetually have water going in the drain and waste water.

From there, this is a little, mini ESF. ESF is a system in our whole-home system that deals with calcium scale, the hardness, the effects you have on your plumbing. If anyone’s ever experienced that white buildup around their faucets and their shower heads, that’s calcium. That’s a natural component of water ripping away at the earth as it passes through the earth in the natural ecological cycle. That helps put the calcium into suspension and then makes the membrane easier to deal with.

Then we’re coming up to the bottom of the membrane. This is essentially the heart, or more specifically, the brain of the unit in the fact that the RO membrane is what’s doing all the removal of dissolved solids, about a 90%, 92% removal that is then sending the drain water—

Warren:
That takes out all the pharmaceuticals and most—like 90% of the pharmaceuticals and stuff like that, right?

Ryan:
Right, right. For the most part, what comes through these RO membranes—when you get in the commercial level, you’ll be dealing with 99 to 100 percent removal, but that’s very high-pressure pumps and bigger systems. This does about 92%. What gets through here are generally monovalent ions. You’re talking about chloride and sodium, essentially elements that have one electron floating around them for those that want to take a trip down memory lane back to their chemistry class.

Bigger compounds, such as pharmaceuticals, such as chloramines get blocked, and they essentially get sent to the black drain, which comes in this direction. The drain and the product, which I’ll get to in a minute, is what drives this permeate pump. I’m trying to get an angle here.

The blue lines are then—that’s essentially considered a pure water. At that point, a blue line comes off the membrane, off the product side, it splits off. One goes into the alkalinity cartridge, and one goes around it to allow you that bypass if you’re choosing not to push all the water through, or you can choose to push all the water through. It’s a personal choice on that end.

From that point, it goes into the permeate pump. The way this allows the much higher ratio is water will flow to the drain more aggressively on standard reverse osmosis units, but in this specific example, water fills voids on either side. Then it essentially actuates. It essentially only will let 1/3 on this side go to drain while three parts, essentially, are going to product.

Then from there, you’re on the other half of the shutoff. Once again, diaphragm piece. There’s a spot here that is tough to see, but this is where the tank would normally be attached where there’s a storage tank. You’re either coming off the membrane through the system, or you’re going into the storage tank.

Then over here is what goes up to the faucet. You have enhanced carbon filter on the back end. That is purely a polish. It’s not doing any heavy lifting because all the contaminants, all the chlorine is already gone. Carbon is a beautiful polish device, and that’s why it’s used on the back end to just put a polish in case there’s any tastes that come up, anything from storage in the tank, or what have you. Then you’ve got a clean, delicious water at your faucet.

Warren:
Yeah, and that’s what helps me deal with the polypropylene bladder. I’m going to go to that level. They’re pretty inert. Polypropylene is a very inert material, but there might be a plastic that comes off on there, and the carbon is going to grab those organic compounds that would come off of there. It makes me happy knowing that there’s nothing left.

Ryan:
I completely agree. It’s the nature of the beast. It’s still a man-made material that we have to store water in. We need some kind of a storage device because the speed at which this makes water, even with a 100 gallon per day membrane—nobody wants to sit for 35 seconds to watch their eight ounces of water fill. They want their glass of water so they can walk away, and let the system refill the tank, and move on.

It’s the same concept where that carbon is put in place to deal with anything that could come off of that tank bladder. That’s where there’s short-sightedness when it comes to bottled water. Water sits inside of a plastic bottle. I don’t care if it’s BPA-free and whatever other chemicals it claims not to be there, but water sitting in a bottle that goes through hot/cold cycles throughout the supply chain.

Then by the time you get it, and bring it back to your house, and then cool it in your refrigerator, or have it get heated up in your garage, who knows what that plastic is spitting into that water at that point? There’s no way to do anything about it at that point. The last time it was cleaned was when the company bottled it for you.

Dr. Pompa:
This unit’s one of your better units, and it’s still under a $1,000 unit, correct?

Ryan:
Correct, yes, 995 right now. It’s our newest unit, too. We wanted to create a slightly different setup. Traditional systems as you’d see from a Costco system—I’ll just glance quickly at this—are generally in this configuration down here with this one, something along the lines of having housings on the bottom. This is another system that we sell that’s even a little bit—few bells and whistles, a little bit higher end. As I had mentioned to the two of you before the video, that the bang for your buck on this one is what I consider to be [00:38:47].

Dr. Pompa:
Warren, are we offering any special for our viewers?

Warren:
Yeah, you can go to our website, RevelationHealth.com\water and then you can use the code WATER10 to take 10% off of any units that we sell. We sell all three of their lower quality, if you will, but still way better than Costco RO units, plus that new unit, and then the—what’s that one called, the really fancy one?

Ryan:
You talking about the one I just displayed or the one on the bottom?

Warren:
Yes, the one on the bottom.

Ryan:
Nature’s Balance.

Warren:
Nature’s Balance, okay, and the other one’s like DRO or something.

Ryan:
DRO-100 [00:39:29] —

Warren:
That’s actually the one—that’s the new one I had in my other house, but I just put in that new unit in my house for my new one. Just so you know, those other units, I’ve changed the filters out twice because that Nature’s Balance lasts a long time. Some of those membranes are like two to three years. Lots of water have to move through there. There’s a little counter on there.

Man, I’ve had those units now for, I have to estimate at 11 years, and I’ve only had to change the filters out twice in 11 years because I only had, at one point, just my wife and I. Then when I had one kid—for a bigger family, you use more water, and that’s just how it goes.

You can also call—this will move into our next part where we look at a whole-house unit. They can actually test your water and see what you need. Is it contaminated with fluoride? They can do that in bench chemistry for you. You can actually give Kyle, his brother, a call. It’s a family business. You can call him at 760-734-5787. Tell him you’ve watched the Cell TV podcast, and they’ll give you 10% off the units, as well.

Dr. Pompa:
Actually, we’ll put the number because Warren said that pretty fast. We’ll put the number on the screen.

Warren:
Yeah, 760-734-5787, it’s showing up right now on the screen. I can see it happening. The other question is the KDF does more than just heavy metals. Let’s get into the whole-house units because they use a lot of KDF, and they do some—your dad has, I don’t know—how many patents does your dad have?

Ryan:
There’s just one patent.

Warren:
On that particular—

Ryan:
Yes, on that system. It specifically is what makes it stand out from other systems. I’ll walk through the details. Let me try to get this within the shot here. It’s difficult because it’s a—let’s see if I go up and down a little bit.

Warren:
Yeah, there it is.

Ryan:
Yeah, let me try to keep an angle here. This is a whole-home system. This reverse dynamic [00:41:26].

Warren:
No, it looks good. You’re good.

Ryan:
This is the type of system that goes on your point of entry on your home. Generally, people have their point of entry in their garage. Older homes have it outside somewhere. That’s the norm. This system then treats every drop of water coming into the home, so your showers. Affects all the water going into your appliances, your sinks, etcetera.

The couple things that make this stand out—just as a quick little history of whole-home treatment, traditional water softeners where somebody is putting salt into a brine tank were developed to deal with hardness scale. Primarily, the fact that that calcium that I had mentioned earlier was problematic for plumbing, problematic for fixtures, problematic for appliances. Softeners were developed to deal with those. They’ve been around for well over 100 years or at least pushing 100 years.

Those systems essentially do an ion exchange. They will take sodium that comes out of NaCl that’s created in that brine solution in that secondary tank, and they will coat a resin with that when it goes through that cycle. Then the calcium knocks the sodium into the water, and then the calcium’s captured. It’s essentially an A and B process. Every X number of days the system will regenerate and put new sodium on there, knock the calcium in the drain, and then it captures, and it regenerates, and captures, regenerates on, and on, and on. Those systems last a decent long time.

The downside is you have to lug the salt in. You have to bring it in. You’re putting a lot of sodium into the water supply. You’re putting a slight amount of sodium into your drinking water supply in a house. This is long before ROs became popular. You have to waste the water when the system regenerates and backwashes. Once again, water waste. There’s a valve on it that has to change the direction of flow. Those break. They need to be replaced and repaired, and the cost is high.

In this day and age, most of the companies out there are competing at a level where they’re putting carbon filters, large carbon filters. Pretty much everybody’s dealt with Brita, or something small, or a Pur filter that goes on a faucet. Just scale that up, essentially. Just scale it up. In the case of the point of use system like a Brita, you just use it up. They give you a capacity, 300 gallons in a certain amount of time, and then you throw it away, and you put a new one in.

The systems that go on whole homes essentially do have to backwash in a similar fashion to a traditional water softener, and that carbon needs to be lifted up. In that environment, people think of water as soothing, but it’s a pretty aggressive environment. Carbon, if it was never backwashed, would be pulverized and turned into powder and, essentially, your plumbing at some point.

Once again, valve, power, water, and drain. Carbon has about a 50% capacity of KDF in terms of chlorine removal. An average carbon system of roughly the same size will have to be rebedded in five to seven years. Our system, being the Aquafer, is all KDF. That is the primary and the only media we have in there. Deals with heavy metals, is a biocide, kills any biologics that may get through.

That is unusual because cities, once again, do a great job chlorinating and chloriminating the water tremendously to ensure there’s no biological problems, but there’s never a guarantee of anything, especially people that may get surface water. Certain times of the year, there’s growths around areas that pull from lakes, etcetera. The KDF has, as I mentioned before, 2X capacity.

This system has—we conservatively give a 10+ year estimate on its life. For the most part—an example for 2018 is we had two customers come back. They had their first generation Aquafer they had purchased in 2002 and 2003. They noticed something with the water after 15 and 16 years, respectively. They called. We’re like, “Yep, it’s showing a little bit of chlorine, and the media’s exhausted.” They went on the generation two, and they bought their next one.

Fifteen years, the system got installed and didn’t need to be touched. They forgot about it. No maintenance. No wasted water over that period of time. The portion of it that is patented is called the ESF. It’s environmental scale-free. That is the system that makes it compete with traditional softeners. Those carbon filters don’t deal with calcium scale in any way, shape, or form. Calcium scale will eat away at your copper.

There are plumbers that replumb homes after 20 or 30 years, and copper walls are paper thin sometimes. It’s just a matter of time before a pin-hole leak occurs, and you have a leak behind a wall, and your drywall gets destroyed or even worse if it’s a slab leak or something, depending on the area of the country in which your home is built.

That calcium is essentially put into suspension. It’s not removed. It’s put into a crystallized form. As long as it goes to drain within 72 hours, it has no effect. You don’t get that calcium buildup and that scaling on your faucets or on your shower fixtures. It makes your appliances generally last about 50 to 100 percent longer than they normally will because they’re not getting glommed up with that damaging calcium.

Warren:
Let me give you a testimony to that. I have very hard water here where I live. The house that I had, we ran our dishes without one of your units. We installed the Aquafer, and the amount of—I mean, our dishes were white. I’m taking white, ruined. We had to put them in vinegar to just fix them. It was a absolute mess.

We didn’t put any vinegar into the washer, did nothing. There was just a little bit of spotting left on the dish using your unit. That’s how effective it was. Now, what I also did is I put a teaspoon—or more than that—probably a tablespoon of—my wife does. I actually don’t load the dishes very often, every once in a while. When I do it, I dump the whole thing because more is better, right, Dr. Pompa? More is better. More vinegar, yeah! That got rid of the rest.

This is real. It really does work. It’s amazing technology. You mentioned a KDF, which is very, very expensive raw material. You have to know that. They put that into their RO unit, the one that they explained, so that it’s not only getting out the heavy metals, but it’s taking out—what percentage of chlorine does the KDF take out again?

Ryan:
Ninety-nine point nine percent. We don’t say 100 because there’s the chance that drip of water got past everything without touching media, but [00:47:50].

Warren:
If you’re dealing with the RO unit, you’re that 99.9999 chlorine out. Between the carbon, the KDF, the RO, you’re laughing when [00:48:01].

Dr. Pompa:
I can’t live without my unit, man. I’ve traveled, like I said, with every house. I have the old, black one, remember? It wasn’t not nice looking. [00:48:09]. I want that one. How much is that whole-house unit? What do they range?

Ryan:
This is a standard eight, which would be roughly in the—as a list price, in $2,400 range, and then, obviously, [00:48:24] —

Warren:
That’s a deal.

Ryan:
Plumbers love these systems because they don’t have to run a drain line. They don’t have to worry about where they’re going to find the power to plug into it. It’s just an in and out, and it’s done. These systems are sized based on how many people live in the house and how many full showers are there.

We want to ensure that systems will support the hypothetical situation where you are maxing out everything in the house. You have family visiting over the holidays, and you have three showers going at once, and the dishwasher’s running, and the washing machine’s running, and there’s four sinks running. Every drip of water coming out of all of those is treated. We scale it appropriately that way.

We won’t oversize them, either. There’s plenty of examples where some of the people in southern California live in these areas with 10,000 square foot houses and two people, and they say, “Give me the biggest—best thing you got.” We’re like, “We can’t oversize this because you will not get proper water left just through your usage. We don’t want to create a system that in five years isn’t as effective because it’s channelized, and water isn’t passing through appropriately.” We’re very diligent about that.

Dr. Pompa:
My cry for everybody to get a whole-house unit is—Warren, remember in the video that we did, the most toxic appliance in the home is your dishwasher because all of the toxins actually end up on the dishes that you drink and eat off of. People don’t realize that that’s a hidden source of contamination. The only way you’re going to filter that is a whole-house system. The KDF units that you guys have are the best.

Talk just a little bit about—last thing here—just about why some people might want to test their water—that you would build a unit specifically for their home, which is definitely really good, especially for well water. Tell them about that.

Ryan:
Yeah, we refuse to give anyone any kind of recommendation for a unit on a well supply unless we do a test. As I said, there’s exotic dynamic that plays up at wells. When it comes to cities, actually, we don’t test people’s water. Going back to giving some credit to municipalities is they do any water reports. We can take those water reports, look at their test samples. This system will handle 99% of the water supplies out there. That’s why there’s really not much value to it.

We know the cities are bringing it to level X of quality, and we just bring it the last mile in terms of improving it from there. There’s rarely a situation where we need that. Some people have unique situations where they live in community wells or something where it might be a mix of city and a mix of well water. Then we will look at it from that perspective. This system is meant for municipal supplies. We don’t put it in well supplies, obviously, because it doesn’t deal with things that are coming out of the well.

Dr. Pompa:
If you have a well, then you’ll build it specifically for the water [00:51:14].

Warren:
I remember talking to your dad the other day. They even work with—they’re putting a unit in and they don’t have much pressure, so they put pressure pumps in. They’ll work with you to make sure that your toilets are flushing, your showers are good when—because there’s a pressure drop. More complicated systems like that with your well—his dad’s an engineer, so they really know this stuff.

They’re the best-kept secret, Dr. Pompa. Everyone else is out there talking about their water filters on Facebook, and putting up Facebook ads, and saying, “Get this.” It’s a must-have. Save up. Get that. You’re eating organic food, and you’re polluting yourself with all this stuff. It makes no sense, none at all. Give these guys a call. We got the phone number. Cell TV, 10% off on that $2,400 unit. You save 240 bucks. That’s awesome, and it’s going to last 10 to 15 years. I don’t want to do the math, but it’s 100 bucks a year or something like that.

Dr. Pompa:
Actually, so many people watching this, they think, oh, I can’t afford that. They’re buying bottled water. We’re not going to have time to get into that, so many issues.

Warren:
You’re drinking out of plastic. My kids—and you’re the same way, Dan. You threw away all their plastic. They’re drinking out of glass, breaking glass. Water is a non-compromisable thing. Feminization of boys, and girls and hormone issues, and behavior problems, and autism, and you can just go on and on how sensitive children are today, and we’re feeding them this water. When I hear someone, “I’ll just have tap,” I cringe. I’m not the most anal gal out there. I said gal—guy.

Dr. Pompa:
I judge them—

Warren:
I’ve been feminized, Dr. Pompa. I just called myself a gal for drinking plastic as a kid.

Dr. Pompa:
I have to end with this: Thanks for your service. You’re a military guy. You’re an Army guy. Appreciate that.

Ryan:
Oh, yeah, I was a long time ago. It’s been quite a few years, 13 years, since I separated, but yeah. It was an honor to do it.

Warren:
That’s awesome, Ryan.

Dr. Pompa:
More people need to appreciate that. Ryan, thank you. Just a wealth of knowledge, you and your family there. Family-owned business, man, we love supporting you guys. We love your units. Thanks for being on the show finally.

Ryan:
Yes, thank you so much for having us. You made a good point. Our Achilles heel is the fact we are too much of a well-kept secret, and we’re trying to change that.

Warren:
Thank you. Send our love to your dad, and Ryan, and your mom, and just, really, thank you guys. Thank you.

Ryan:
Thank you so much. Appreciate it.

Dr. Pompa:
You got it, man.

Ashley:
That’s it for this week. We hope you enjoyed today’s episode. Don’t forget to check out our show notes if you would like more information about the Dime water treatment systems. We’ll be back next week and every Friday at 10 AM Eastern. We truly appreciate your support.

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265: CHTV in Mexico: Revolutionizing Cancer Treatments

265: CHTV in Mexico: Revolutionizing Cancer Treatments

with Dr. Dr. Antonio Jimenez

I am excited for this third and final episode of my Cancun Mexico health series. This week I'll be featuring a returning guest, and one of our favorite Cancer docs, Dr. Tony Jimenez.

His Seven Key Principles of Cancer Therapy utilize innovative, non-toxic treatments to treat all stages and types of cancer.

Dr. Tony owns Hope4Cancer centers, which is leading the charge in holistic and integrative oncology offering more treatments under one roof than any other integrative treatment center in the world. And today I will be taking a tour in this world class facility and bringing you along.

Additional Information:

Learn More about Dr. Antonio Jimenez or the Hope4Cancer Treatment Centers:

CHTV Episode #229: Hope For Cancer with Dr. Jimenez:

Live it To Lead it is here! Join us via livestream

Transcript:

Dr. Pompa:
I know you've been waiting for this episode. This is the third of the three-part series bringing you alternative treatments in Mexico that you haven't heard about, possibly, you need to hear about, and that's why I traveled to Mexico. This is the third of the three-part series, and, yeah, this is the one you've been waiting for because I'm going to tour you around the top cancer clinic. You're going to see an interview that I did with Dr. Tony Jimenez, and he is the brains behind a lot of these alternative therapies that he's brought together in two clinics in Mexico. I actually show you the actual things that they're doing. Really exciting.

By the way, it is a two-part series on Dr. Jimenez I did interview him on another lecture, but this one I think is the most exciting because you're going to see this clinic, Hope4Cancer. Man, can't wait. This is going to be one you're going to want to share. You're going to want to share this whole series. People need this information, so please share. I'll see you on this episode of Cell TV.

Ashley Smith:
Hello, everyone. Welcome to Cellular Healing TV. I'm Ashley Smith. We are so excited for this final episode of our Cancún, Mexico series. This will be featuring a returning guest and one of our favorite cancer docs, Dr. Tony Jimenez. Dr. Tony owns Hope4Cancer centers, which is leading the charge in holistic and integrative oncology. Today, Dr. Pompa will be taking a tour in this world-class facility and bringing you along.

You can read more about Dr. Tony and his Hope4Cancer treatment centers in our show notes, and we'll also put the last episode he was on in there as well so you can check it out if you missed it. Everyone, this is our final chance to invite you to watch the live stream of our Live It to Lead It event in Nashville. You can go to DrPompaLive.com for more information.

Let's get started and welcome Dr. Pompa and Dr. Antonio Jimenez to the show. This is Cellular Healing TV.

Dr. Pompa:
We are here live at one of your Hope4Cancer clinics. You have one in Tijuana and one here in Cancún.

Dr. Jimenez:
Yeah, the Tijuana clinic opened in the year 2000, and beautiful Cancún in 2015. We're able to diversify the area where patients come from. This would be easier for some people from the East Coast, or for patients that are at later stages. Earlier stage cancers come here to Cancún.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, it's a hub, as I found out, this airport, Cancún. [Who'd have known?] People are flying from everywhere. It's a direct hub.

Dr. Jimenez:
That's right!

Dr. Pompa:
And it's beautiful here! Gosh, I really enjoyed myself. Amazing interviews while I'm here, and just seeing the lay of the land. It's been amazing. Yeah, I love it. This is actually part two, and, folks, we're going to link part one of an interview that we did some time ago, but I actually wanted to come and experience the clinic myself, especially because you're teaching at our March event, it has a focus on cancer, and that's a big deal because what you're doing here is a big deal.

We also got to interview Dr. V, who comes here quite a bit, and hear her story. If you didn't watch that one—it most likely is the Cell TV right before this—please do because there's a lot of lessons learned about cavitation, and her breast cancer survival—twice!

Dr. Jimenez:
Twice!

Dr. Pompa:
What a story, gosh! And you hooked me up with that [03:32], so I appreciate that.

Dr. Jimenez:
Yes, and now she's bringing people within her group that have breast cancer—mainly, a few with other types of cancer—regularly on a retreat. We do a really good integrative consultation, her and I, with the patient.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, it's amazing. I want to bring my work here, the cellular detox. It's just putting it all together. Nobody's doing it.

Dr. Jimenez:
We'll look forward to that!

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that's very good. I have to say, just even being here in this clinic, what a professional clinic. I haven't been to the Tijuana one, but wow. We're sitting here in an amazing IV room that looks out over this amazing bay! It doesn't get any better than that!—and some amazing chairs! I have to say this story. We came in, and the first thing, she's, okay, let me give you a tour. The very first thing they showed me was the juicer! It was amazing! It's this big! I thought our juicer was impressive! This thing was incredible! I thought, okay, this is a really good start!

Dr. Jimenez:
It's interesting, because in Cancún there is hundreds of restaurants and hotels, and I believe we're the only one with this juicer! It's a cold-pressed juicer. It can pump up to 50 gallons an hour, cold-pressed. I think it's 6,000 pounds per square inch of pressure. You just put everything in, skins—

Dr. Pompa:
I could never [04:53]. I must put a picture up. I took a picture just to show you this juicer! It was unbelievable. By the way, you have a restaurant—a kitchen I should say, not a restaurant—a kitchen here. I see healthy food in every room. You all do it right.

Dr. Jimenez:
Yes, that follows the seven key principles, and of course nutrition is foundational. That's one of the challenges with the conventional medical world, they don't focus on nutrition, they don't focus on detox.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. One of the things that we talked about in Dr. V's interview was the statistics 20 years from now, it's going to be one in two people with cancer. I try to realize that everybody watching this, this applies to you. People, I think what's put in their minds is, well, it's not in my genetics. My mother didn't have cancer, my father didn't. India, you don't get cancer because of genes. Nor because you don't have the gene or have it does it go the other way either.

Dr. Jimenez:
Exactly. Statistically it's about 2.5% of all cancers are genetic in nature, the rest of them are small. The rest are epigenetic—lifestyle and everything that—

Dr. Pompa:
Stressors. Physically, chemically, emotional, turn it off.

Dr. Jimenez:
What you just said is very important because when I started working in oncology, which was in 1988—a few years ago!—we saw older patients with cancer, in their 60's and 70's. Now we have 18-year-olds with breast cancer, 20-year-olds with colon cancer. Before, maybe it took 15/20 years for cancer to develop; now that is shortened because of all the stressors, and toxicities, and everything you know of.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, your approach here I love because you don't just do amazing treatments, you talk about how important it is to [06:45]. Dr. V is a great example of that. It's so important to remove these stressors from your life, otherwise the genes [06:54]. It starts expressing these bad genes and bad cells, and cells that don't function normally in a normal environment.

Dr. Jimenez:
It is a process because according to what we know about cancer development, the works of homotoxicology many years ago, it's really six phases of development from patients having problems with excretion, excretion of the toxin. Then after that there's a reaction, which is the inflammatory reaction. Then what happens, there is deposition. These toxins, these stressors, begin to entrench themselves in the extracellular matrix. Then we have impregnation—that's when these toxins leave the extracellular matrix, they go into the enzymatic system, they go into the cells, they impregnate themselves, and then they start causing damage. Then that leads to degeneration, which is now cellular function is being affected, and then that's the cancer process. [07:59]

Dr. Pompa:
By the way, what he just described, most of which you're symptom-free along that [08:05].

Dr. Jimenez:
Exactly.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that could take 10/15, even 20 years. Now all of a sudden you get the diagnosis, and unfortunately western medicine teaches basically that, oh, that's when your cancer starts.

Dr. Jimenez:
The beauty about knowing this, is that the excretion, the reaction, and the deposition phase, before it gets to the impregnation phase, those three are reversible. We can be proactive. Start now. Don't wait until you're diagnosed with cancer.

Dr. Pompa:
Let's pick up on that thought because people here today, okay, early detection, early detection, but a lot of the early detection I think is problematic!

Dr. Jimenez:
It's not early at all!

Dr. Pompa:
Right, it's not early at all! It's mammograms and other things that could cause problems. Let's talk about some issues. In this clinic—we're going to talk a walk around, folks, so we're going to put you on pause and take you to some of these things to show you, that's why I'm here. You're doing some early detection that I think started in Germany perhaps, but you can get it right here in Cancún.

Dr. Jimenez:
That's right, that's right. Early detection is really we're talking now before the tumor, or the lump, or the nodule is found on a mammogram, ultrasound, because at that point—

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that's not early.

Dr. Jimenez:
It's not early detection. In one cubic centimeter, like if a nodule or a tumor is 1x1x1 centimeter, there's already at least one billion cancer cells in that nodule. At this point that's not early. When we talk about early detection, is really screening for circulating tumor cells. These are cancer stem cells that might be in the circulation before they settle somewhere—in the breast, in the colon, in the lung, anywhere. We can detect or screen for these circulating tumor cells, and treat them at the same time.

Dr. Pompa:
Oh my goodness. We'll show this device, but explain to them a little bit of how that works.

Dr. Jimenez:
Well, circulating tumor cells are rogue cells that have left a tissue or an organ and they're waiting to go somewhere. It's an opportunistic—like all cancer, an opportunistic disease.

Dr. Pompa:
Just like a pathogen.

Dr. Jimenez:
Yeah, the terrain is altered, and then they're going to settle in that tissue or organ. With this technology, called photodynamic infrared spectroscopy, we can screen for these circulating tumor cells in your total blood volume. The test takes 17 minutes. Before that, we infuse an IV infusion of a non-toxic substance that attaches to the cancer stem cells or circulating tumor cells. Then we use hi-tech infrared fiber optic laser technology to detect those circulating tumor cells. Then at the same time, if there's any, we can treat them, or zap them, if you will.

Dr. Pompa:
Then how you do that zapping?

Dr. Jimenez:
With the laser, intravenously—infrared.

Dr. Pompa:
Which I'm actually going to get done.

Dr. Jimenez:
You are, yes, yes! Also, we have an external device that also emits infrared light at a specific wavelength of energy, so it targets those circulating tumor cells. Minimally invasive, non-painful, no toxic effects, no complication, and light.

Dr. Pompa:
When you compare it to other cancer treatments, I hate to use the word—okay, I won't. It's inexpensive, when you look at it compared to all these other things, even the testing itself.

Dr. Jimenez:
Absolutely. This test screens for both types of circulating tumor cells. It gets a little more technical, but there's two types of circulating tumor cell. One are called epithelial cancer stem cells, which are the minority. They're only like 1% at most of all cancer stem cells. The majority are called mesenchymal cancer stem cells. Lab tests are limited in detecting mesenchymal, they can only detect the epithelial cancer stem cell, where this technology, the PDIS, detects both our cancer stem cells.

Dr. Pompa:
I was impressed, I was sitting in your waiting room, and a woman came out and she was just talking about, okay, you're going to get your coffee enema today, your green juice. It was very dialed in, you could tell, from the beginning [chat]. What are some of the other things you're going to show us today on our tour?

Dr. Jimenez:
Wow, all of our therapies are based on the seven key principles of cancer therapy, which is non-toxic cancer therapy, so we're going to show the use of sound and light to kill cancer stem cells, to kill cancer cells, but also to decrease the blood supply to the tumor. Because a tumor cannot get greater than 2 millimeters in size without increasing blood supply. This is called angiogenesis. It's one of the hallmarks or characteristics of cancer.

Sono-photo dynamic therapy—is doing sound and light—not only kills cancer cells but also impedes and shuts down the blood flow to the tumors. Thirdly, it has an immune effect. It upregulates both the adaptive and the innate immune system. We've been doing sono-photo—

Dr. Pompa:
Which is huge because in many people with chronic inflammation—cancer—that's opposite; that immune system's reversed.

Dr. Jimenez:
That's right, that's right. We know of course, everyone that comes here with cancer has an inflammatory effect going on, and their immune system is suppressed. Even if a standard blood test says no, everything is fine, your white blood cells are fine, and so forth, as you look deeper with some of the technology that we have using bioresonance energy, we can look more specifically at immune function.

Yeah, they're non-toxic therapies. A lot of ozone therapy. We use rectal. Sometimes we use a topical, it's [core/cold] plasma ozone technology, that we can deliver ozone and light over the—

Dr. Pompa:
Breasts, or maybe even—

Dr. Jimenez:
Liver.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah.

Dr. Jimenez:
You'll see the juicer, of course! You'll see that. You'll see a lot of happy patients!

Dr. Pompa:
I did, I really did, yeah.

Dr. Jimenez:
Because once they come through our doors, that's the first thing. We have to have faith, hope, love, and generosity. Those are our core principles. Once you have that, the body is in an environment where it can heal.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. I won't make you re-tell your story because you have to watch episode one where you hear your story. Yeah, you definitely broke me. You were called to this, I'll just leave it there. God himself, like he did in my life, he put you here. We're grateful for that.

Dr. Jimenez:
You know Dr. Dan, one of the characteristics of someone that developed cancer is separation from God, is spiritual brokenness. I think that's primarily a characteristic of cancer patients or chronically ill patients. Secondly, we have the emotional traumas. Thirdly, is the physical things—the immune suppression, the toxicity, the acidic environment, and so on.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, you put it all together and it's a perfect storm, as I said.

Dr. Jimenez:
That's right.

Dr. Pompa:
When we see any unexplainable illness, there's always a perfect storm of [structures] involved—and then the [gene] gets triggered.

Dr. Jimenez:
That's right.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I liken it to a three-legged stool. Every leg has to be there for the stool to stand up. That's the causative factor, but the solution lies there too. If you deal with all of those storms then the solution is there too.

Dr. Jimenez:
[Technically] put, that's body, mind, and spirit.

Dr. Pompa:
Absolutely.

Dr. Jimenez:
We could say—instead of mind we could say soul because the soul is the mind, the will, and the emotions. That's what the soul is. When we think about the soul, we're not thinking of something abstract; we're thinking of the patient's emotions, their will. Their will to survive, see themselves as living to live, not living to die because they have that diagnosis or that “prognosis”.

Dr. Pompa:
With that said, I think today it's in vogue to talk about more of the “soul[16:37]”! Our mind, please, it's an important factor, how we think, but yet the spiritual thing I think is pushed more to the side. Oftentimes, probably you and I would agree it's probably not in line with what you and I believe. I think the spiritual component is left out. I think it's a big player.

Dr. Jimenez:
It certainly is. I always say, in ancient times, in Greece, and in Egypt, when someone went to a clinic like this—well, I don't know if there was a clinic like this back then! When they went to a health facility, a clinic, the first person they saw was a spiritual adviser. Then they saw the emotional mental counsellor, and then they was us, the doctor. It was spirit first, emotional mind second, and then the physical part.

Dr. Pompa:
That homeostasis. When you're out of balance—and that's what the word means—disease eventually forms. Real healthcare brings back to homeostasis. I want to cover this before we take our tour. We talked a little bit about this in Dr. V's segment. Fear is used to drive people into treatments. I want them to realize that you don't just throw this alternative stuff out the window just because you ended up doing one of these treatments. In Dr. V's case, and many people, they don't choose that at all, they just [18:06] again. Talk about that, a balance of who do you see—how many people do both, how many people do just this?

Dr. Jimenez:
Well, first I'll touch on fear because I think the best explanation of fear in cancer is what a patient of ours says. She said, “Cancer is not the enemy; fear is the enemy.” It think that's very profound because in fear, we cannot heal. Cancer cells, healthy cells, are interchanging information—frequency, energy, resonance—and so when there's fear, it can't be in homeostasis, as you said.

Then, unfortunately, 92%, Dr. Dan, of the patients that come to Hope4Cancer are in Stage 4—92%.

Dr. Pompa:
Imagine if we could turn that.

Dr. Jimenez:
That means they failed conventional therapy—chemo, radiation, surgery, immunotherapies—or when they were diagnosed it was too late to even have those options available to them. That is one of the goals—for both of us.

Dr. Pompa:
That's why we're doing this show, and that's why I wanted to start with some of the early testing.

Dr. Jimenez:
Exactly, yes, because we want patients to come here at early stages. That being said, we did a third-party retrospective study, which is on-going, of 365 patients. One-year survival was 78.9%. Two-year survival, it dipped down to 77%.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, and we're talking the worst!

Dr. Jimenez:
We're talking the worst. If you compare that to National Cancer Institute SEER data—surveillance, epidemiology, and end-stage result data, which is the gold standard—they're about 20 to 25%.

Dr. Pompa:
Wow.

Dr. Jimenez:
Guess what?

Dr. Pompa:
What?

Dr. Jimenez:
That's not Stage 4; that's only Stage 2 and 3.

Dr. Pompa:
You're talking Stage 4.

Dr. Jimenez:
We’re talking Stage 4.

Dr. Pompa:
That's incredible. See, there's a choice. The fear—they make it seem like you have to do this.

Dr. Jimenez:
That's right.

Dr. Pompa:
Then the family even has a feeling of, well, we've done everything. If they feel like they've done everything—and that everything means everything that the doctors told them to do— but, really, have you done everything, because look where I'm at right now. This is amazing.

Dr. Jimenez:
That being said, if any of you are watching this and you are getting chemo, or you're going to start chemo or radiation soon, our advice, my advice, is that you're not doing everything. You must do the rest of it, which we believe is as or more important. Chemo and radiation—

Dr. Pompa:
Well, statistics say it's more important.

Dr. Jimenez:
Exactly.

Dr. Pompa:
What you just said, it's not my opinion or yours; it's statistics that show it's more important.

Dr. Jimenez:
That's right, so I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt! No, it is more important because we're addressing the root cause of the disease. We're not putting a Band-Aid. We're not zapping that tumor because cancer is a systemic disease. Very, very, very rarely, if at any time, is cancer a local disease. Removing the breast cancer—we have a patient who I'm going to see in a few minutes…

Dr. Pompa:
I had wanted you to say that.

Dr. Jimenez:
…Who I'm going to see in a few minutes. She had the best of the best surgery, and they said—what did they say? We got it all.

Dr. Pompa:
And they're happy, they're happy. Oh, they feel like they have a new life, but you and I know a different reality.

Dr. Jimenez:
Right, and it's a false sense of security because then they don't think that nutrition is important, they don't think detox is important, they don't know about their immune system, and so forth.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, it almost hangs death on them harder because then why would I do [21:41]; this worked for me. We're looking at it going, you didn't get to the cause, so it's going to be something else. Then the doctors will tell them that that's not related to this cancer. You are lucky twice, basically, is what they're saying.

Dr. Jimenez:
Then they call it recurrence or relapse. The fact of the matter is, the cancer cells didn't go away, so it's not really a recurrence or relapse, it's just the cancer cells are now forming another tumor, either in the same location or at a distant site—what we call metastasis.

Dr. Pompa:
The advancements in this area of “alternative”—I hate putting a word on it like that, but alternative cancer, is it's just expanding and yet so few people know. That's what brought me here. I also interviewed Dr. Rafael at the Stem Cell clinic because they're expanding natural killer cells. If you didn't see that one, watch that one as well. Just some amazing things that people just aren't being made aware of because of the drug company's hold on this area of cancer. It's a cash cow, and it's not going to go away any time soon.

Dr. Jimenez:
A few days ago I had an opportune meeting, a lunch meeting, with a gal in California who used to work for the FDA. She was a pharmaceutical scientist. A brilliant lady. Then she was an intelligence officer in the military, a data programmer, and a whole list of things. I say, well, why are you out of that area? She said, “I just couldn't do it. I was frustrated. I saw that when they do clinical trials they start from what they want to prove and work backwards.”

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, absolutely, and people look at that as proof that this is why they should do this particular treatment.

Dr. Jimenez:
Give yourself the benefit of the doubt. Do something really helpful for yourself, and let’s look at cancer from a fundamental perspective of what are the characteristics of cancer? The representation of the presentation of the tumor is a sign of what this regulation, lack of homeostasis, [23:45].

Dr. Pompa:
Absolutely. Let's show your book because this is coming out. Here's the seven principles.

Dr. Jimenez:
Well, this is a life's work, Dr. Dan.

Dr. Pompa:
It is a life's work, I was going to say that!

Dr. Jimenez:
It's my baby!

Dr. Pompa:
It is a life's work, yes!

Dr. Jimenez:
Hope for Cancer: Seven principles to remove fear and empower your healing journey. I was blessed that I have over 20 endorsers, including yourself, from over 12 countries. We have a number of oncologists. The forward was written by a hematologist-oncologist from Brazil, who studied bone marrow transplant in Paris, France at the [Marine Corps] University—well recognized. I met Dr. [Vivella] a number of years ago at an integrative conference in Arizona. I saw his name tag and I said what are you doing here? You're a hematologist-oncologist, bone marrow transplant expert? He says, “Tony, I'm frustrated. Forty percent of my patients are dying in the transplant [24:41] in surgery.”

Now Dr. [Vivella] is doing integrative medicine. He quit doing bone marrow transplant. He's happier, he's getting better results, and he wrote the forward to my book.

Dr. Pompa:
That's powerful. Get the book. By the time this airs, perhaps it will be much closer to—it's in print! It's in print right now. Yeah, I can't wait! I can't wait for it. It is your life's work. Coming from a guy like you, that's a powerful piece of work right there. I would call it the number one cancer book to get right there. First of all, how would they reach—before we back out of here, how would they reach you here at Help4Cancer?

Dr. Jimenez:
Very easy. You could go to the website, www.hope4–the number 4—cancer.com, Hope4Cancer.com. There you'll see videos, you'll see round table discussions with me and my doctors talking about the seven key principle. You'll see a lot of interactional videos. You'll see one called I Am Hope. Oh, please, watch that film, I Am Hope. It's life-changing.

The numbers are there. You could call our office, or send an email, and we'll get back to you.

Dr. Pompa:
I'm going to ask you to share the link here with many people, but you need to share this one because cancer's touching all of us, every one of us, and one out of two of us will actually end up with cancer in the next 20 years.

Let's take us for a tour. We're going to take you all for a tour. Let's see some of this amazing stuff that's going on right here, Cancún—one of the easiest places to get. All right, so we're going to put you on pause and come right back!

Right, Tony, so here's the first thing you wanted to show us.

Dr. Jimenez:
Yes, this is a unique technology. We're delivering light through lasers. The difference between this laser and typical lasers [26:33] is they're cutting lasers. This is a laser light that is not harmful. As a matter of fact, it's beneficial to the body in many ways because our cells thrive on light, the mitochondria thrives on energy and light, so with this technology we can deliver laser lights from the ultraviolet spectrum all the way to the near-infrared and red spectrum.

Dr. Pompa:
Each wavelength has different properties. Ultraviolet we know, killing pathogens. Infrared I've done shows on different red frequencies, how it helps the ATP production, [27:12] pathway. You take advantage of all of that?

Dr. Jimenez:
We take advantage of all of that. For cancer specifically [we're giving] [27:20] a non-toxic substance—[it's called a] sensitizer. This substance, like curcumin, or Hypericum, which is St. John's Wort extract, and others, bind to cancer cells selectively, but in and of itself, nothing happens, but when you wake them up, as you will, or activate them with a specific wavelength of light, then it liberates from the active oxygen [27:45], that's free radicals within the cancer cell, and causes the cancer cell [27:52] to die.

Dr. Pompa:
Got it. The people around here that are getting the treatment, they're like, wow, I didn't know that! That's really amazing! Yeah, so you're learning something! You're not on camera, don't worry! Is this also the—

Man:
This is a good example.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, we will show that. Yeah, that's amazing. Yeah, we're putting the light directly into the vein.

Dr. Jimenez:
We're putting the light directly into the vein, so it goes systemically. These photons of light travel through the venous circulation, and even go into the brain. We can treat brain tumors with intravenous laser [28:28].

Dr. Pompa:
That's incredible.

Dr. Jimenez:
In addition to that, we can put the laser directly into a tumor. If someone has a breast tumor, a tumor in the neck, or even in the lymph nodes, we could put a very small, fine needle, put the fiber optic light into the needle, and then direct it specifically to a tumor. There's many applications.

We've had great success with bladder cancer. With an ultrasound, we put a catheter into the bladder, we locate the tumor, and we put the sensitizers, the [agent], into the tumor, and then with the light.

Dr. Pompa:
Wow.

Dr. Jimenez:
We've seen up to [40 to 75]% reduction in the tumor just with one treatment.

Dr. Pompa:
That's incredible. I think that is incredible. How many clinics are using this technology, do you think?

Dr. Jimenez:
Well, in the western hemisphere there's us, and then there's us! In Europe there was about three clinics. This technology, as well as some of these sensitizers, were developed at Marburg University and Paderborn University in Germany. There's a few—[three] clinics in Germany, in Asia there's a few clinics using it, but in this part of the world we're [29:39].

Dr. Pompa:
Is this equipment that you talked about even for early detection, or is that [29:44]?

Dr. Jimenez:
We use the infrared and the laser light together with the early detection technology called photodynamic infrared spectroscopy. We combine the two.

Dr. Pompa:
What are you going to look at next? Let me just show you one of the people utilizing that there!

Dr. Jimenez:
Show them your light!

Woman:
I don't know that I have one yet.

Dr. Pompa:
Sir, could I show him yours? Because yours is glowing, yours is glowing, yeah. I don't know if you can see that.

Dr. Jimenez:
This is the green light, and green light is very good to oxygenate the body and increase nitrous oxide production.

Dr. Pompa:
That's awesome.

Dr. Jimenez:
And here—

Dr. Pompa:
And there's Tony's beautiful wife! My beautiful wife! What's going on over here? You, sir, you're on film. Are you okay with being on film?

Man:
Yes, I'm fine.

Dr. Jimenez:
Here you have the blue light. You can see it going right into the vein.

Dr. Pompa:
Oh yeah, that's blue light, yes.

Dr. Jimenez:
Yeah, blue light, very good also for pathogens, for mitochondrial function, up-regulating immune system as well.

Dr. Pompa:
All right, okay. Where are we going next, Tony?

Dr. Jimenez:
Let's see. Let's find something really fun to show!

Dr. Pompa:
All right, we'll see you there.

Okay, some exciting things happening here. Tell us what's going on here. I see two different machines going on.

Dr. Jimenez:
Right, so this is called ultraviolet blood irradiation. What we do is we draw some blood based on the patient's [rate], and we put it in the solution, in the saline solution—this is [what you see] [31:20], it's blood—and we add ozone to it. Ozone will further oxygenate the cells, and it [31:29] immune factors as well in the blood. You see the blood getting a brighter red.

Dr. Pompa:
I see that.

Dr. Jimenez:
Because now it's fuller in oxygen. Then it drips down, it goes through this technology here, it's an ultraviolet blood radiation technology. There is three volts in here. This is ultraviolet light A, B, and C. The main function of this, besides oxygenating with the ozone, is to cleanse the blood of [32:01]. Because we know that cancer patients, and a lot of people in general, are [32:08] with viruses, fungi, parasites, and bacteria.

Oftentimes patients just feel better [quality of life] [linked up to] this thing, feel that they can breathe better, their energy is improved. The benefits sometimes are that immediate.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I've had this done myself, and I can say that you feel the benefits pretty immediately.

Dr. Jimenez:
Yes.

Dr. Pompa:
Then there's another device here. What does this one do?

Dr. Jimenez:
Yeah, so this is a pulsating electromagnetic frequency technology. This is emitting subtle electromagnetic fields into the specific area of the body that you want to address. This has various loops. [32:53] this loop, you could put on your shoulder, like this. If you have someone who has a breast tumor, you could put it on the breast tumor [33:02], and specifically, Dr. Pompa with stem cells, pulsating electromagnetic field is very useful.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, it is.

Dr. Jimenez:
The other loop is this one, and you could put this here, or right by the breast [33:19] so that it can affect the breast tissue, the lymphatic circulation. This [33:25] to improve microcirculation, decrease [33:28], and it can improve [33:32], for example.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I'm a big fan of this technology, just by the way. This is fantastic. You're right, [33:40] stem cells [33:42] fantastic, but everything you just mentioned as well. All right, you have one more thing for us to see.

Dr. Jimenez:
Let's go!

Dr. Pompa:
All right, let's go! We'll see you there!

All right, Tony, we're in the hyperbaric room now. They look like some fancy, modern coffin but it's really not! It's quite the opposite, actually! Explain this technology.

Dr. Jimenez:
It's very safe, contrary to what some people might think. Hyperbaric is a way that we could deliver oxygen to deep tissue under pressure.

Dr. Pompa:
Cancer cells hate oxygen.

Dr. Jimenez:
Cancer cells hate oxygen. They're hypoxic-type cells.

Dr. Pompa:
That's that other technology, the ozone [34:18] is using oxygen. This is just doing it with pressure.

Dr. Jimenez:
Exactly, with pressure. We have the patients here for one hour. We combine it with some of our other therapies because if we increase the oxygen uptake by cells, and then we do the sono-photo, we do the laser lights, then the effects are enhanced. Patients love it—they can read, they can meditate, they can pray while they're doing the hyperbaric oxygen. They also have nasal oxygen at the same time, so we're doing two different therapies, in a way, at the same time. [34:50]

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, many of our viewers have heard about hyperbaric, but I think the key is what you said, it's getting it all done in one day.

Dr. Jimenez:
That's right.

Dr. Pompa:
You go some places, they don't have this, they don't have the laser, but you're doing all of these things and people are moving from different sections.

Dr. Jimenez:
The combination of therapy, they have a synergistic effect. One plus one doesn't equal two when you're doing these therapies in sequence [35:17].

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. Well, we appreciate you having us here. Believe me, we haven't even touched on it. There's a lot more going on here, but we don't want to get in the way too much! You're doing a great work. I heard you might actually have an opportunity in Spain to open up another one, is that true?

Dr. Jimenez:
Well, I've been asked to speak in Spain at a very select [35:38] group of doctors. That's coming next. We are opening a clinic in Asia soon in [35:46].

Dr. Pompa:
That's what I heard. Well, here you go, this is the man. We appreciate you. We were walking around here, by the way, and all of the patients were coming up and just thanking him for all that he does and what you've done. We thank you as well. Thanks for being on Cell TV, and thanks for speaking at our next event!

Dr. Jimenez:
Oh, I look forward to that, thank you so much!

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, absolutely, can't wait to have you.

Ashley Smith:
Well, that's it for this week. We hope you enjoyed today's episode. Don't forget to check out our next HCF Seminar in Nashville, where we'll have a lineup up of top health experts who will explore the latest research and most effective strategies in the field of cellular healing. We now offer a live stream option. You can check that out at DrPompaLive.com, so you can enjoy the seminar from any location in the world.

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.

264: CHTV in Mexico: The Breast Cancer Conqueror

264: CHTV in Mexico: The Breast Cancer Conqueror

with Dr. Veronique Desaulniers

Welcome to our second episode in the alternative health series filmed on location in Mexico. Today I'm visiting with Dr. Veronique Desaulniers, who goes by Dr. V.

Dr. V is a true inspiration whose approach to healing is very unique because she has lived it both personally and professionally. She will discuss the modern advancements in holistic breast cancer care that she has successfully utilized in her clinic, which are some of the most hopeful treatments yet.

Dr. V. empowers women around the globe to live their best life through natural interventions into the mind, body, and soul, and she's sharing it all with me today.

Additional Information:

Heal Breast Cancer Naturally

Dr. Veronique's Website

Dr. Veronique Facebook

Dr. Veronique Twitter

Dr. Veronique LinkedIn

Livestream access for the Live it To Lead it

Transcript:

Dr. Pompa:
Interview two in our three-part Mexico series where I traveled to Mexico with the goal to bring you exciting alternative things that are happening in Mexico that you’re not hearing about; you need to hear about. This is Part 2. Look, I was blessed. You will see me at the top alternative cancer clinic I believe in the world where they’re doing some absolutely incredible things, and I got to interview a double survivor—you’ll see what I mean—of cancer who is a doctor. Wait ‘til you hear this story. You’re going to hear what she did, and she did it all natural. She was given a very short time to live. Wait ‘til you hear this story. Wait ‘til you see this clinic. I’ll see you on this episode.

Ashley:
Hello, everyone. Welcome to Cellular Healing TV. I’m Ashley Smith, and this is our second episode in the alternative health series filmed on location in Cancun, Mexico. Today Dr. Pompa is visiting with Dr. Veronique Desaulniers, who goes by Dr. VShe’s the founder of Breast Cancer Conqueror and the creator of The 7 Essentials System, which is a step-by-step educational program with a goal of preventing and healing breast cancer naturally. Dr. Vhas personally conquered breast cancer twice, which gives her an empathetic perspective to understand other women facing a healing journey. You can check out her book, her website, and her many contributions online and in print in our show notes.

Also, please stay to the end of the episode to hear about our livestream access for our Live It to Lead It event that’s coming up in Nashville. I’ll also put that info in our show notes, or you can visit drpompalive.com for more information. Okay, so let’s get started and join Dr. Pompa and Dr. Veronique down in Cancun, Mexico. This is Cellular Healing TV.

Dr. Pompa:
Welcome to Cell TV. I laugh because I said Ashley actually had the hardest job of introducing your name, and thank God because I’m a dyslexic. These people watching this, they know I botch names all the time, so that could’ve been a disaster. Thank you, Ashley, for that. We’re on a Cancun series doing some amazing interviews down here in Cancun, so many amazing health things happening here. That’s really why I came. Get a little vacation in while we’re at.

Dr. V:
Right, it’s a beautiful location.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, well, I really—this was an unexpected interview. Here we are at Hope4Cancer, this amazing clinic. I wish you all could see it. I’m going to interview Dr. Tony as well if I haven’t already, and you’ll get to see a little bit of this. You come here often, obviously.

Dr. V:
I do.

Dr. Pompa:
Lecture and teach.

Dr. V:
Yeah, I bring a group of women about once a quarter because they may be a little bit leery about coming to Cancun. They’re not sure. Is this something really legit? I’m so impressed with the work and the technology that Dr. Tony is using here. Women love it, and we have a great time. They get some therapies done. They meet Dr. Tony. Not only consult with them, we help them with a game plan for their healing journey. It’s a win-win for everybody.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I’m impressed, I mean, just seeing everything that they’re doing here. I’ve interviewed Tony in the past and just amazing. He’s speaking at my seminar, actually, for the first time, actually. We do doctor seminars, but this is the first time we actually have the public coming in a day because of the topic of cancer. You bring an exciting topic, well, I mean, exciting in the sense of you’re bringing some unique solutions. Not exciting in the sense that more and more people, women in particular, obviously, breast cancer, and that starts your story. From pain to purpose is mine. From pain to purpose is your story, so start there. Tell them your story.

Dr. V:
In my 25th year of being a chiropractor and bringing wellness to the world, I discovered a lump in my left breast, and so here I was, Dr. V, teaching everybody about health and wellness. How could I end up with breast cancer, right? That started the journey of what was I missing, and what could I do to reverse this and to heal my body? What did I learn? I started going down that path of research and figured out that there were pieces of the puzzle that I was missing, and so I created a system called The 7 Essentials System, which is basically a step-by-step guide.

Dr. Pompa:
You said a piece of the puzzle because you actually have a puzzle system.

Dr. V:
I do, yeah, seven-step process. Women that come to us now are so overwhelmed because there’s so much information out there, Dr. Google. We are able to put a process together for them. It takes the stress and the worry out of everything, and it’s a very systematic, very easy process to follow. An interesting part of my story which more and more people are starting to get to know is that in 2015 I had a recurrence, and that was a big blow because here I was the breast cancer conqueror helping women. It was one of those situations where I had to ask myself what is a gift? What am I learning here? How can I grow from this? How can I help my community go through this? The great news is I’m three years later happy, healthy, vibrantly healthy, cancer free.

Dr. Pompa:
You look amazingly healthy.

Dr. V:
Thank you so learned a lot and really made my message even more powerful because I recognized certain things that—I allowed myself to get sucked into the vortex of putting others first before myself and my health. I developed another cavitation that I didn’t know about, an infection in my bone.

Dr. Pompa:
I talk all about that in the show.

Dr. V:
Okay, very, very serious and, interestingly, it sat on the left breast meridian.

Dr. Pompa:
Always.

Dr. V:
Yeah.

Dr. Pompa:
I didn’t even expect that in the show because I didn’t know that part of the story, but that’s huge for our viewers. One of the things that I have—I get all the unexplainable illnesses that come my way, and I always say so much of it’s here, obviously, amalgams giving off mercury. These hidden infections, root canals, cavitations, let’s talk a little bit about that. It’s part of your story. That was, in fact—and you can do all these amazing things, but if you don’t get upstream to the cause, it will come back. That’s actually what I say in there. I mean, that’s what I always say, whether it’s cancer or whatever condition you’re battling. We know the link is so strong, these cavitations in cancer. Talk a little bit more about that, what happens.

Dr. V:
The first time around in 2004, I had a cavitation on the bottom left breast meridian. I didn’t even know what a cavitation was. Treated it and everything cleared up. This time around I had something called root resorption. It’s actually an autoimmune issue that attacked my tooth. It was empty. It was hollow from the inside out, and there was also an infection in the bone, sat on [00:07:13].

Dr. Pompa:
Most likely from the cavitation. They got that [decavitated], but there was infection in there unknown.

Dr. V:
This was on the top, yeah.

Dr. Pompa:
On the top, this was at the top.

Dr. V:
Different area.

Dr. Pompa:
You never had a wisdom tooth removed there.

Dr. V:
No, this is #14.

Dr. Pompa:
It just somehow got bacteria underneath near that one.

Dr. V:
Yeah, so I went to see Dr. Nunnally in Texas, Marble Falls, Texas, great cavitation specialist.

Dr. Pompa:
Great, good to have. We’ll put her name in the…

Dr. V:
Then I found out I had a cavitation in the wisdom tooth, an old wisdom tooth extraction, upper right, and so took care of everything. That was a big piece of the puzzle for me, for sure.

Dr. Pompa:
Same thing, I had a partially impacted wisdom tooth. He went in and found infection in the root underneath and said this thing’s got to come out. I was hesitant because I—wisdom teeth coming out means cavitation later, and I know all about it. He took it, and then three days later I had inflammation up here and pain. He didn’t touch up there, and I knew what happened. I had a wisdom tooth removed correctly 25 years before, and sure enough, those bacteria communicated with these bacteria, went to a safe haven, to their friends. It also went in the root of the—in the front, so I lost that tooth as well. I mean, it was—again, if that wasn’t found, I would no doubt have been in a different status of health anyway.

I mean, I’m so glad that we’re discussing this because this is—I really have talked about the breast cancer connection and root canals as well as cavitations. Here’s a real life story for someone that knows a lot, just like myself, right? I know a lot, but yet, it still got me, these hidden things. Did you get a cone beam done? I mean, that’s the best way to determine these things.

Dr. V:
Yeah, I had cone beam digital X-ray done, and of course, the dentist who did it in Atlanta said, “Oh, you’re fine.” I sent my films to Dr. Nunnally in Texas, and he said, “Yes, you’ve got four cavitations.” I went to see him, and everything got cleared up. I think the big story for me or the big learning lesson for me this second time around is no matter how healthy you think you are you always have to keep a pulse on your health and keep testing and make sure that you’re dotting your I’s and crossing your T’s because we’re under so much stress and assault in so many ways.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s unbelievable.

Dr. V:
As you know, the detox specialist here and not only from the physical point of view, but essential #4 is to heal the emotional wounds and to make sure that you’re managing your stress and that you’re managing your life every day, that you’re taking time to calm down your nervous system. You monitor that. There’s things that you can use like the HeartMath app or the Muse. Making sure that you’re parasympathetic nervous system is being activated, and you’re not in a fight or flight mode every day.

Dr. Pompa:
Let’s talk a little bit about some of these other upstream stressors. As we just pointed out, if there’s a hidden stressor, you’re going to get it in another disease, or another form of cancer, or who knows, a symptom. Bottom line, you won’t get well. Trapped emotions, emotional trauma, did you have—going back to your story, did you have some of that?

Dr. V:
Oh, my goodness.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, tell me. I want know all your stressors.

Dr. V:
How long do you have? As you can tell…

Dr. Pompa:
She looks so calm now so whatever she’s doing.

Dr. V:
As a child, I grew up in an alcoholic environment. Both parents were alcoholics. I found out later when I was almost 15 that I’d been sexually abused from the age of 3 to 5.

Dr. Pompa:
Talk about trapped toxic emotion.

Dr. V:
Yes, and this was by a convicted pedophile. We’re talking late 1950s, and he was our next-door neighbor. My family knew. I didn’t know until I did the work, and it started revealing itself. Yeah, so that was a big role in my life up until then. Then after that, I just learned that I didn’t have to keep my nose to the grindstone, that I could take time for myself, and it’s okay to chill. It’s okay to meditate. It’s okay to take a nap in the afternoon if I want to and just really being very conscious of my stress level and just recognizing that, hey, I need to dial it down a bit. I allowed that to get out of control in 2015.

Dr. Pompa:
The next question begs to be asked. What did you do about these trapped emotions from abuse? I mean, those are big, big things that we carry literally in our cells just like—the body doesn’t know the difference of chemical toxicity and physical and emotional. What were some of your strategies? Some strategies you teach now, I’m sure.

Dr. V:
Yeah, a lot of emotional work with therapists, counselors. I love EFT. I had to EFT coaches. I do a lot of energy medicine work.

Dr. Pompa:
We did a past show on EFT. Ashley could put the link in here. I used it.

Dr. V:
I love it. I got certified about 15 years ago when I had my brick and mortar practice. I mean, the changes I saw in people was amazing in just a few minutes. We encourage our clients now to use it. We teach it. There’s such a hard link with the psyche and the body, and we have to release those emotions because they become trapped.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, no doubt. We’ve done some other shows, EFT, EMD, which is very similar, EMDR. I’m sorry. It stimulates the thing as well as the tapping. Explain a little bit why that works. I mean, most people watching this will probably be like, okay, I go to a counselor. How does this psychotherapy differ than what I would normally hear about?

Dr. V:
Energy medicine basically ties the subconscious mind with your physical body. Our emotions get trapped in our body. There’s a little almond-shaped part of your brain called the amygdala in the center of your brain, and that’s our protector. It’s used to keeping us in the fight or flight mode and watches us and tells us when we’re not safe. Our brain is designed to not—to make sure that we stay safe, and so when we give our emotions, our negative emotions—sometimes we’re afraid to talk about them, right? When we give our negative emotions, our fears a voice, we say it’s okay while you’re tapping on these active acupuncture meridian points. Then you’re making that mind-body connection, and you can literally feel your body downshift.

We use the term on a scale of one to ten, how intense is this emotion? You start off. Maybe you’re at eight or nine. Then you do the tapping, and by the time you’re done, you’re two or three. The interesting thing now about EFT and all the research behind it, Dr. Beth Maharaj did a study on people tapped for an hour. She found 72 positive genes were upregulated when they did tapping.

Dr. Pompa:
Wow! That’s amazing.

Dr. V:
Everything from insulin resistance, blood sugar levels, anticancer genes turned on, detoxification. I mean, the list went on and on, 72 genes.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, in the interview that we did for EFT, I mean, it goes through what you just quickly went through in some great detail. We even did it on the interview, so that’ll be helpful to people. What else did you do in your battle maybe the first time different than the second time? You can differentiate that; that you felt, man, that was a game changer for me. That was a big deal.

Dr. V:
It’s interesting you use the word battle. That’s one thing that I learned. We’ve been indoctrinated to think we got to fight cancer, and so I’ve taken the position and this is what we teach our community as well is we don’t want to fight because that’s a stress response.

Dr. Pompa:
I stand corrected. Yeah, you’re right about that.

Dr. V:
That’s a stress response, and that’s what traditional medicine, the Pink Movement has taught, right? You got to fight.

Dr. Pompa:
Do you find more men try to use these terminologies?

Dr. V:
No, women.

Dr. Pompa:
Okay, all right. Yeah, I’m thinking, yeah, everything is like, okay, fighting me, but you’re right, it is a stressor.

Dr. V:
Yeah, they think they have this thing inside of them that they have to kill and destroy. Our approach is we really want to embrace where we are now and understand the root cause. If we keep doing the things we’ve always done, we’re going to the same results, right?

Dr. Pompa:
Of course.

Dr. V:
It’s about understanding what brought you to this point? What has allowed the cancer to develop in your body? We know what it is. It’s stress and toxicity and etc., etc., etc. When you become aware of those things, then we can actively take a stance and embrace where we are. Ask yourself what is the gift in this journey? What am I learning? What is my body trying to tell me?

Dr. Pompa:
I always start off reluctantly with that question, okay. I know it, logically. I have to ask, okay, myself. What do you need me to learn? What do I want to learn? It’s always this errr. Then I loosen into it. Words are so powerful because you have to start there.

Dr. V:
Yes, and it was tough. It was really hard for me because I was the face of breast cancer conqueror, and here I had this deep, dark secret, right? I had to continue to be the face, and at the same time, I was on my own journey. When I did my meditations and my prayers, I always visualized myself being at this point where I was on the other side, and I could share my story. I knew it would be even more powerful because I had done it again, and I’ve learned so much more.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s a really good testimony because it’s not like you did something wrong and what you were preaching before doesn’t work. You found another what we said. There was another upstream causative factor. It could’ve been me with the cavitation I had. Thank God, right? I mean, it shows you how important stuff is. Okay, some of the therapies that you used before and again and these were game changers.

Dr. V:
Yes, so the technology for dealing with cancer has improved light-years since 2006, nine years later. There was all kinds of blood tests that I could use like the RGCC, Greece test, [IBG] which measures free cancer DNA in the bloodstream. There were good things that I could use to monitor my progress. I did lots of high-dose Vitamin C, Poly-MVA.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I had one of those, yeah.

Dr. V:
I mean, the list goes on and on. I mean, I had a whole protocol that I followed. It was very intense, very intense.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, here they do a lot of coffee enemas. This time around, probably not the first time, the laser treatments with the putting the infrared and the different lasers, do you use that this time?

Dr. V:
I did, yeah. Coming here, obviously, was quite an incentive for me because I saw the technologies, and I had some of the technologies and the testing that they did here. One of the most innovative tests which I love is called PDIS, which they insert a laser into the vein and, live, can measure if there’s circulating tumor cells in your bloodstream.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I’m going to try to film that in Tony’s interview.

Dr. V:
It’s amazing. It’s technology from Germany. Why fly to Germany when you can get it done here? I had that done last fall, yeah, last fall, and everything was clear. It’s just so fun to be able to come to a place like this that is light-years ahead and doing things that is reversing cancer so that—my message to women is you never have to fear breast cancer again. There’s so many things that you can do that are at your fingertips that can empower you.

Dr. Pompa:
We’re working backwards in this sense, but I want people to understand how important this topic actually is. There’s many people sitting there watching it going, whew, thank God. My mom didn’t have cancer. That’s not my family. I’m okay. You didn’t get it because of genetics, and you’re not safe because without genetics it’s—so let’s talk about the statistics and the chances. They’re actually alarming right now of what’s actually—we are losing the war, the bad word. We’re fighting, but we’re losing it anyway. Tell us about that.

Dr. V:
Statistically, 1 out of 17 women are destined to develop breast cancer in their lifetime. One of out of three women and one out of two men are destined to have some form of cancer in their lifetime. Every year there’s over 275, 000 women in this country alone that are diagnosed with breast cancer, and the statistics are just going to get worse. World Health Organization says that in 20 years, it’s going to be 50% for everybody.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I mean, that’s what I heard. Yeah, that’s alarming statistics, 50—what did you say? What was the date exactly?

Dr. V:
In about 20 years.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, in about 20 years, 50%. Okay, so if you don’t think that’s you, I mean, think again. My big fear is what happened to you, meaning going back. Even when I was getting well, I would say to my wife, if I experienced a certain set of symptoms, I can’t go back there. It would be like it would just scare me because that was my biggest fear. It drives me to do this. It drives me to live my life at a very high level of practice what I preach. People are always like, oh, you’re so disciplined, and I’m like that’s what fear can do.

Dr. V:
That’s right.

Dr. Pompa:
I try to be more motivated now not from the fear, and it is happening where I’m more motivated to bring answers.

Dr. V:
Yeah, and to be passionate about vibrant health. Who doesn’t want to feel great?

Dr. Pompa:
I think, both of us, we could put ourselves in the person that’s sitting across from us very differently and know what that feels like to be scared out of your mind. Just living my life the way I felt was the scariest thing for me. It really was.

Dr. V:
You can relate. That’s what makes you so powerful and your message so powerful is because you’ve been there. I think that’s why I attract so many women as well. It’s because I understand. I’ve been there, and unless you’ve been there, you don’t really know what it feels like.

Dr. Pompa:
I hope people heard the message. We got our lives back by looking upstream. I think a lot of functional medicine today I criticize. They’re running a lot of expensive tests, a lot of genetic tests, all the fancy stuff, and they’re just giving a lot of supplements. Neither of us would’ve got our life back with a perfect amount of supplements or treatments.

Dr. V:
No, in the system that I’ve created, it’s nutrition, detoxification, balancing your energy, which means sleep, hormones, chiropractic, acupuncture, the emotional aspect, the dental aspect, then comes the supplements and some of the changes there. Number seven is adopting very early detection. Now, the big Pink Movement is all about early detection. What do they use, radiation and compression, which we know is very inaccurate? Interestingly, both times that I found the breast cancer was through a breast self-exam, which has made me very passionate about teaching women about breast self-exams, which brings us to my breast friend. Now, statistically, women under 50, 73% of them will find their own breast lump. Women above 50, 50% will find. The majority of women will find a breast lump, but often times, it’s by happenstance.

Now, there’s an organization called MammaCare Foundation, and they’ve used a silicone breast model to teach clinicians and nurses how to do a proper breast self-exam. Behind this you can see there’s lumps, various sizes and various depths, so this has been the training model for over 30 years to teach doctors. The company has asked me to take this to the general public so that women can learn how to do a proper breast self-exam and know what they’re looking for because women are afraid to touch their breasts. They don’t know what they’re feeling. When you’re trained in doing a proper self-breast exam—I don’t know if you can see this very well. Most women will find something the size of a ping pong ball. That’s typical size.

Dr. Pompa:
How do you miss that? I mean, even shower, wouldn’t you find those, no?

Dr. V:
You’d be surprised. When you’re trained in the proper breast self-exam, you can find it when it’s the size of a pea. We’re getting ready to launch this next week, actually.

Dr. Pompa:
Could I see something? Yeah, I just want to see how hard because there’s, obviously, bigger ones and smaller ones.

Dr. V:
There’s a whole training system that comes with this. You get the model. There’s a video training system.

Dr. Pompa:
Where do they get this?

Dr. V:
Mybreastfriend.com is where we are now, but we haven’t really launched it yet. It’s launching next week.

Dr. Pompa:
Tell them I think more importantly even how they get in touch with your material. Where do they find your website? Give them that.

Dr. V:
Breastcancerconqueror, C-O-N-Q-U-E-R-O-R.com and Facebook, Instagram. I do have a second edition, updated edition of my book. Prelaunch coming out mid-March and the paperback will be in—out in April.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, you’re truly a conqueror. That’s for sure.

Dr. V:
Thank you.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, and from pain to purpose, it’s no doubt your story. It was God thing that I even was able to do this interview, how it worked out with me down here and to hear the second part of the story on something that I had preached so hard on, on these hidden infections. They’re linked to beyond cancer. It’s a huge link. I have had several doctors who I’ve helped with cancer, thyroid, throat, and breast on the same side of these hidden infections. The old way that we would detect them is we’d just go in and explore, drill into the area. With cone beam today, it’s a different game. I mean, if you had wisdom teeth extracted, you have health problems, get a cone beam, and obviously, I mean, self-detection with this, it’s better. Are you a believer in some of the standard treatments like mammography, etc., no?

Dr. V:
I’ve never had a mammogram.

Dr. Pompa:
Mammogram, never.

Dr. V:
Legally, of course, I’m not going to tell women not to have one.

Dr. Pompa:
Right, of course.

Dr. V:
Regardless if you get one or not, don’t just rely on one thing. If you do thermography, get an ultrasound. If you do a mammogram, get an ultrasound. Back it up with your proper breast self-exams all the time. Now we have bloodwork, liquid biopsies that will detect cancer at a very, very early stage, so there’s no need to fear it. Just keep a pulse on your health and [00:26:42].

Dr. Pompa:
I think fear is really how the whole cancer thing was working, right? I mean, they drive people into fear with the treatments.

Dr. V:
Exactly.

Dr. Pompa:
Was that hard for you the first time? The second time probably wasn’t as hard for you, was it?

Dr. V:
The first time, I knew what I wanted to do.

Dr. Pompa:
Did you do any chemo the first?

Dr. V:
No, I did everything outside of…

Dr. Pompa:
I remember you telling me that.

Dr. V:
Everything outside of traditional medicine, no surgery, no radiation, no chemo both times.

Dr. Pompa:
See, there is another way, and we’re not telling anyone not to do any of these things. However, we’re telling you to educate yourselves, for sure.

Dr. V:
Yeah, and that’s an important point too. If you choose to do traditional medicine…

Dr. Pompa:
That doesn’t mean you throw this out the window.

Dr. V:
Exactly, there is so many things that you can do to support your body from the side effects as you’re going through it, and we teach women how to do that all the time.

Dr. Pompa:
Glad to see you again here. I think we saw—it was Dr. [Manny] Show, right?

Dr. V:
Detroit.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, in Detroit where I met you the first time. There’s a superwoman changing the world.

Dr. V:
Oh, thank you.

Dr. Pompa:
Thank you for being on the show.

Dr. V:
Thank you so much.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I appreciate it.

Dr. V:
Okay, you’re supposed to hug me back.

Dr. Pompa:
Oh, yes, absolutely, yeah, I only saw my one window. All right, we’ll see you on the next Cell TV from Cancun.

Ashley:
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