2021 Podcasts

379: The Truth about Crowns

Bringing back this incredibly important episode because if you missed it, it's important for you to hear this. It’s said that 80 to 85% of disease starts in the mouth. You’ve heard me say that in many past shows on dentistry. I get this question all the time: what about crowns? You’re going to get that answered. You’re also going to hear about a word that I’d never heard of: biomimetic dentistry. This episode will be a game changer for you. You’re going to get a lot of questions answered about oral toxicity. Please share this show with anyone who needs to hear this.

More about Dr. Paul O'Malley:

Dr. Paul O'Malley is a 30-year Master of Biomimetic Dentistry who is on the cutting-edge of rebuilding the teeth back to the specifications of Mother Nature. He is the inventor of oral probiotics and enamel-remineralizing toothpaste, IAOMT certified to remove mercury fillings properly, and has a record of over 10,000 veneers and over 10,000 dentures delivered.

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Dr. Pompa:
One of the things that I always say, folks, is at least 80 to 85% of disease starts in the mouth, and so this is a passion of mine. I’ve done so many shows on dentistry. Today’s show is actually something we haven’t really talked a lot about and that’s the dangers of crowns and something else that, really, probably most of you haven’t heard of, and it’s biomimetic dentistry.

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Dr. Pompa:
Dr. Paul, thanks for joining us.

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. Pompa:
That was a good response.

Dr. O’Malley:
Thank you. I said, “Let me research it.” That time I reached out to Hal Huggins, and Hal Huggins was a pioneer in safe dentistry and this whole thing about root canals and crowns and amalgam mercury fillings, etc. Hal said, “Yes, it can contribute, and it depends where it’s at. It depends if those are weak organs in the first place.” Then I went back to the patient. I said, “Yes, it can contribute to it,” but I still didn’t know what to do with that.

Over the next several years, I started studying about those things, and in 1993, I stopped—in my practice, I have the biggest practice in all of west Texas and eastern New Mexico. I told all my associates, I said, “We’re not doing amalgam mercury fillings anymore.” They said, “Well, the people are going to be upset. We don’t know about this.” I said, “Trust me. They’re ugly anyway. It’ll be an easy sell.” We did that at least. We still weren’t protecting ourselves nor the patient when we were removing them, so my journey began at that point in time.

Then we fast forward to about 1997. I personally wasn’t physically feeling well. I was ready to sell my practice. I just wasn’t feeling good at all. No idea what, went to all the different docs. Could it be this? Could it be that, tested for mercury, did the traditional blood tests, [00:04:37]?

Dr. Pompa:
Of course.

Dr. O’Malley:
Everything got missed. I said, all right, I got to take care of myself. Oddly enough, I’d had a root canal in my front tooth for about, oh, since I was 13 from a baseball accident. It had been reworked two times. I had severe sinus troubles that would come and go, and so at that point, I’d done enough research. I told my associate at the time, I said, “Pull that darn thing out of there.” He said, “Are you sure? That’s your front tooth?” I said, “I don’t care. I want it out,” took it out.

We cleaned the bone up. We put a temporary little flipper in there to replace it, and within four to six months, without even knowing how to detox properly my body started recovering and feeling better.

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

Dr. O’Malley:
Yeah, all the time. I had an 18-year-old girl that came in I recall a few years ago, and she had several molars that were really bad, including a couple wisdom teeth. She had chronic fatigue so bad she couldn’t get out of bed. She made it to the appointment. I looked at her. In those days, you would say—some people would still say—even though they’d think they could make them sick, or they weren’t sure they’d want a root canal, etc., I said, “Listen, in your case, go get those out, and I’m sending you to this person that knows how to clean the bone and clean the periodontal ligament out and get all the infection out.” She was another success story that was within 3 to 4 months she was completely back to a normal activity of an 18-year-old woman.

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

All right, so let’s talk about crowns because I find a lot of problems here. People have a lot of crowns, and if somebody’s not getting better, I often times—I get suspicious of these crowns. Number one, there can be mercury underneath them. Number two, there’s a lot of other problems, even with galvanism with these crowns, but you talk about some other issues.

Dr. O’Malley:
You’re right on the money with that. First of all, when you do a crown, you have to reduce and remove about 75 to 85% of the enamel. You’re basically destroying a tooth to—it’s almost an oxymoron. To rebuild the tooth, you have to destroy the tooth. Usually, the person’s coming in, and they have a lot of decay to begin with. The dentist looks at it, and it’s what we’ve been taught. If you go see a carpenter, he’s going to fix things with a hammer. I mean, you go see the dentist. They’re going to fix things with crowns because that’s what we’ve been taught. For 150 years these things have been around.

Then it depends who you go see. Someone’s going to be more conservative in their preparation, and someone’s going to be more aggressive. It depends on their philosophy and school of thought. My thought processes and also through the Academy of Biomimetic Dentistry—for your listeners and your audience, they can all tune into these different academies. That’s a great one, and it gives basic information. Also, a little something, I offer a free course. For anybody that’s interested, they can sign up. It’s FreeHolisiticDentalCourse.com, and maybe we can mention it later. Because I don’t have all the visual aids to go over things here, on those courses, there are about 18 small courses that go over all these aspects of dentistry.

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

Now, for years, it’s all we had. Today, with biomimetic dentistry, we have all the science behind us. They’re based on 15 and 20 year studies of the types of materials that flex the same as the dentin and types of materials that mimic the hardness of enamel. Envision someone comes in with decay. All we do is remove that little bit of decay. We can even leave half a millimeter of decay behind. We can seal around and build that part of the tooth up, and the body will then re-mineralize and heal that little bit of decay. These are huge paradigm shifts. There’s only about 4 or 500 of us trained in biomimetic dentistry.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s little.

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

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

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

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

Dr. O’Malley:
There may be a rare instance where the destruction is already so bad that you’re going to be covering the whole tooth and building it up. However, it’s still ideal to build the tooth up on the inside with a more flexible material and put the outer part with the crown if we had to. The other time that we’ll do a crown in my office, for example, is if I’m replacing old crowns. A lot of the old crowns have metals under them.

Dr. Pompa:
Of course.

Dr. O’Malley:
They’ve had teeth destroyed under them, so we take the old crown off. We can rebuild that tooth and reseal it, so you’re actually making a double seal or a sandwich. You seal that tooth, and then the crown that you make is an all porcelain type crown. People can be tested which one they’re most compatible with. One of the most compatible ones is a material brand name called E-max. It’s a beautiful porcelain, and it can be bonded to the bond of the tooth. Literally, if that thing leaks underneath it, it can’t—you still can’t decay that underneath part of the tooth. It’s impervious to decay, so it’s a fantastic thing.

The bottom line is the minute we start getting into root canal we get into a severe gray area when it comes to the health of the individual. Anybody in holistic dentistry, holistic medicine that’s connected with holistic dentistry knows, okay, this is a real gray area. Will it make that person sick? Will it not make that person sick? We want a cause and do no harm, so the best way to do that is we test the tooth first. Does it respond normally to cold? If it does, I don’t care how bad the decay is. We can generally restore that tooth completely, and it’s going to last and be predictable for us in the practice. We find that with all the biomimetic dentists that are practicing this.

Dr. Pompa:
The cold is saying, hey, there’s some viable nerve left here.

Dr. O’Malley:
Yeah, life.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, right, you have nerve. You have life, right?

Dr. O’Malley:
Yeah.

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

Dr. O’Malley:
That’s right. I mean, typically, you’re only laying something over one surface or maybe two surfaces of the tooth. Let’s say, when it comes to a front tooth, it’s just barely laying something over the front and a little bit over the edge so they can get the proper strength. That’s minimal prep. A lot of times it can be done—you can do ultra-thin veneers. It’s harder on the lab, but it’s better for the individual receiving the veneer. It’s a little harder to block colors out with it if we’re changing dark colors, but it can be done. Then you’re not cutting through the enamel of the tooth.

I think a lot of this came from—in dentistry, for example, years ago they—they’ve been doing hip implants for a long time. When they first came out with the hip implants, they would—they were doing them on 70-year-old individuals. They would only last 10 to 12 years, and most of the people will die before it became a problem. Now people are getting them younger, earlier. You know all the reasons behind because of the diet and the Coca Colas and the sodas and the—all kinds of stuff, but they had to figure out a way that it could last longer.

It’s the same way in dentistry. The average crown is replaced on insurance every five years. The average traditional filling that is just a big glob of white stuff stuck in a tooth, they put the blue light on. They all shrink. Based on electron microscope studies, all of those shrink unless you do them in small layers, and it just takes time. The dentists are programmed to go fast. They don’t know this. If they knew that, they wouldn’t do it. I mean, it’s not like they’re bad people out there, right?

The whole bottom line is, even through the safe mercury removal, we want to take mercury out safely and do these things. You’re left with a hole in the tooth, and a lot of the safe mercury removal docs, they don’t know about biomimetic dentistry. They’re sticking big globs down their tooth, or they’re crowning the teeth, and now they’ve put that precious nerve at risk.

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

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

That’s also the beauty with the veneers. The veneers are just on one surface, not all the way around, so the minute we bond on there, it’s not going to pull against all the different bond strength. It’s going to actually seal to the tooth.

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

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

Dr. Pompa:
Got it, all right, yeah, that’s the first time I’ve heard that. All right, yeah, so are you a believer in metal in the mouth at all, I mean, absolutely no metal?

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

Dr. Pompa:
That was my next question.

Dr. O’Malley:
Oh, it was? Go ahead. Tell me your question.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, what’s your feeling on dental implants? We’ve [00:19:18] them from titanium, which I wasn’t a fan, post that is, to ceramic. Do you do implants, and can they be safe?

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

Dr. Pompa:
It does.

Dr. O’Malley:
Yeah, right, and so on the ceramic ones, they’re calling them ceramic ones, and a lot of your audience should know that these are—they’re actually zirconium implants. The periodic chart, chemistry periodic chart, it’s listed under transitional metals, so it’s literally still a transitional metal. What the heck that means I haven’t fully cleared up myself. I think it’s that it means it’s not a ceramic. It’s not a metal, but it’s kind of a metal. If it is, that means it could transmit some type of a current. The other negative part of the zirconium is it’s rock solid. There’s no forgiveness. That thing is so rigid, so I’m just watching those things.

In my practice, if someone’s zirconium, no problem, we have the surgeon that can do that. Otherwise, if they’re going to do a metal, they have to make sure spend the extra money. Get the good implants because there’s about 200 knockoff companies out there that are mixing all these different alloys. You’re not getting a pure titanium, and you’re not getting a really decently machined tolerance. They start fudging on the tolerance. It gets cheaper. I hope that answered your question, but on occasion, I’ll…

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

Dr. O’Malley:
You’re absolutely right. I mean, that’s why I talk about the biomimetic with so much passion. For example, a lady came into my office last year, and she had been to two other dental offices. The one said she needed nine root canals. Another said she needed five. I tested all of her teeth. We fixed everything, basically built everything up. She’s had no root canals, everything with veneers that we were able to cover without ruining her teeth or grinding down the good part of her tooth structure.

It’s actually a miracle, and you feel good. I feel good as a dentist when I’m like, okay, I’m not opening up Pandora’s box by having them have root canals. I really watch it carefully with my patients. Are they sickly? Are they not? Is something going on in their life? Okay, we better do a Clifford test, the blood test to see what can they tolerate materials-wise, etc.?

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, no doubt about it, I mean, I had—when I was getting my life back, I had a root canal. Researching root canals, it’s not what made me sick. I’m like I may not get well with it, so it’s gone, took it out. I just was really unsure. I didn’t like what I was finding out with titanium. I found immunosuppressive studies, this. I didn’t go with an implant. I just went with a zircon bridge. That was years ago. It’s done really well. I had it touched up.

Again, that’s these areas of would I do an implant done differently today safe? I probably would. Back then when I got this done, it was impossible to get done safe. I mean, these are the things. I mean, the mouth is a very serious thing, and it has to be done right.

Dr. O’Malley:
I agree. Something else for your audience is that a lot of times—see, dentists are more and more trained. Now everything is implant, implant, implant, so a tooth can become a little bit expendable. They can build it up. They can put the crown on it, or they can put a big filling in it that breaks down. It ends up needing a crown five, eight years later. Then it needs a root canal. Then the thing breaks.

I know there’s people listening right now that this has happened to them, right? Then they end up and the doc says, oh, well, let’s just pull it and put an implant in there. Wait a minute. I just spent all that time, money, misery fixing the darn thing, so they’re quick to do that. Now, there’s another alternative to the implant. If you’ve lost a tooth between teeth, you can actually construct a bridge that bonded between the two teeth.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s what I have.

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

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

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

I was talking on another show. I had another patient when I was in Northern California. He had burning sensation, fibromyalgia from his neck down. I asked him, I said, “On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the worst, how bad was it?” He said, “It’s an11. I sleep about ten minutes at a time at night.” I said, “Wow!”

He’s been all over the world. He’s a wealthy man, so he could go all over the world, a German guy. He went to Germany, went to the Mayo Clinic. He did all kinds of stuff, nothing—but he had a mouthful of mercury fillings. Through a healthcare practitioner who sent him in, was already detoxing him, I took out one side, got it all out safely. I saw him a few weeks later to put the little onlays in that are a little flatter inlays, let’s say, and bonded all those in.

He reported. He said, “Doc, the burning now, I only have it from the waist down.” I said, Wow! That’s great.” He said, “You think it could be from the mercury fillings?” I said, “Could be.” “Maybe we should continue.” I said, “Yeah, let’s go for it.” Then we got the other side all out. Then when he came back, the last report that I got from him, he only had burning in his—the tips of his toes. I mean, those are amazing, amazing stories.

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

Dr. O’Malley:
That’s fantastic.

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

Dr. O’Malley:
Absolutely.

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

Dr. O’Malley:
Oh you did, great.

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

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

Dr. Pompa:
Dentists don’t have time to research real detox. Look at all this information. I don’t have time to research what you just taught me, right? It’s critical. Most of them are doing the typical, the cilantro, the chlorella, the weak binders, and of course, they get sucked into all the scam type detox products. You have to do it right. You have to use chelators and binders in their half-life correctly. You have to use real ones, and you have to pulse them correctly. You have to support it around the correct—so much to it.

That’s my goal is to get more of you all doing the detox right or at least recommending the detox right. I mean, I have doctors trained in this—in these protocols around the country, so that’s why we got to team up. We need safe dentists, and we need doctors doing detox right.

Dr. O’Malley:
A hundred percent and I love that. Some of the things that I do is not only do I have the oxygen on my patients. They‘re covered from head to toe. People can go on my website, just DrPaulOmalley.com, and even I have some [Instagrams]. I show them covered. Then not only that, the rubber dam goes on. There’s what’s called a liquid rubber dam. I can place it around areas that I feel like could have some small seepage, so we do all that.

Dr. Pompa, I agree with you so much. If we’re working with the healthcare expert in this area, it’s so much better. Even the stress of the procedure can make them sick because they’re so loaded with this mercury that it’s like the garbage can is just spilling over. There’s no room for anything. I love that there’s—again, though, it’d be great. Actually, I’d love to have you come out here. I could put a few of the folks together.

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

Dr. O’Malley:
Oh, yeah, I’m in Encino, California. My website is Dr, just D-R, PaulOmalley.com. The free course, I welcome them all to it. It touches on all these things. It’s FreeHolisiticDentalCourse.com.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s fantastic. Yeah, no doubt, I want to see what you’re doing. This is exciting work. It’s sad that there’s only—it’s like what I do. There’s just a few hundred of us around the country doing cellular detox the way we do it. Unfortunately, it’s the right way. We just need more people doing it, like you. There’s not that many people doing this work.

I mean, I think one of the cool things is you’re treating that tooth like it is. You’re treating it like a living organism and not this little—this mechanistic head of a dial, a wooden dial. There’s a nerve. There’s a life. From the nerve are these microtubules that feed in. Obviously, if you interfere with that, you’re going to have a problem that probably won’t occur for 10, 20, 30 years down the road. Is that what you see?

Dr. O’Malley:
Yes, 100%. When you grind a tooth down and put a crown on it, there’s some studies that’ll show there’s a 33% chance it will need a root canal within 10 years, so you may not see it now. Each year, it’s 3.3% chance, and it keeps expanding, whether it’s from it’s leaking underneath, the exposure. The only hard part about the tooth is the enamel. That’s the part that’s essentially minimum live, let’s say. It’s inorganic. It’s a really cool mechanism the way our teeth are. That’ll be the cool thing with implants in the future if we can regrow our own teeth, which they’re working on.

Right now, they’re re-growing them in a petri dish. They can make them, and then they’d have to implant them into a socket area. First they have to do a root canal to do it. They’re not quite there yet.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s interesting. The future of medicine is stem cells. In my show that I did with Dr. Gerry, we talked about cavitation and how they’re—we’re putting, well, PRF, which is essentially—it activates stem cell production in there so we don’t reform cavitation. For years I’ve watched people get cavitations done, and that was a great thing, or I should say decavitated. They went in and did the procedure. A few years later, they have another infection because it just kept—their immune system is low. They’re sick people. It heals over, and they end up with another infection. With the PRF, the stem cell technology is—it’s definitely a big breakthrough in dentistry.

Dr. O’Malley:
Oh, that’s great. I mean, I have a—one of the surgeons I use, he uses PRF all the time. They’re now able to lift—if a gum is receding, they can lift the gum up and place some PRF. It looks like a little Gummy Bear. They can wiggle it up in there and bulk the tissue out, and it’ll turn into that healthy tissue again. It’s so nice. Then they don’t have to graft it from the palate. It’s so much more comfortable for the patient.

Dr. Pompa:
I think there’s two big breakthroughs in dentistry recently, that and then the laser, which you’re an expert in too. Tell us about how you use laser in dentistry. I think laser in dentistry is a big deal. Let me tell you something. It made a big deal for me. I mean, I got laser procedures done. It’s no pain. I mean, as far as later, I had no inflammation, so there’s a lot of benefits to this.

Dr. O’Malley:
Absolutely, I mean, the main one that I’m using in the practice is a diode laser, and it’s a heat type laser. It’s for reshaping tissue and sterilizing teeth if we need it. Before I got heavily into biomimetic dentistry, I use—I’d use it all the time to sterilize. When you’d remove decay, I would sterilize with the laser because it’ll penetrate a good millimeter or so into the tooth, but now with the biomimetic dentistry, that’s all—we don’t have to do those things. It’s really nice. We don’t even have to blast with ozone or anything like that. The laser in my hands is basically to help clean up infected tissue without them going through a huge surgery. My gosh, nobody wants that.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, it made a big difference. I mean, the old days, we would have to—you’re right, I mean, a lot of ozone because it was tough. With the laser, it really simplifies the procedure. I’ll tell you, like you said, the postop, if you will, is a big deal too. I’ve had it done with and without, and it is a big deal.

Dr. O’Malley:
Yeah, I mean, the laser itself, I mean, it’s beautiful. It has a healing wavelength. I think it’s somewhere in the 400 nm or something. Anyway, it penetrates. You can take someone that has a sensitive tooth and just put the healing wavelength on it for about 30 to 40 seconds, and then the sensitivity goes away. We found that to be a short-term handling and then a longer—and that’s a good short-term handling until you can get maybe some bonding to seal that area.

Dr. Pompa:
Right, yeah, well, I mean, it—dentistry, we’re talking about this topic today. Then there’s the pitfalls of fluoride. Then there’s the pitfalls of bonding. I’m sure you’re against both bonding—not bonding. I’m sorry, sealing, sealants that they’re doing on children, sealants.

Dr. O’Malley:
I was hoping you weren’t going to say bonding.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, no, I meant sealants. They’re sealing kids’ teeth to prevent cavities. I can see, obviously, the problem with that, but you can talk more about it. Then fluoride, that’s a whole ‘nother subject.

Dr. O’Malley:
Yeah, I mean, fluoride, wow, that’s like we can almost go into a whole show here.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, a whole show.

Dr. O’Malley:
I can have a friend, Dr. Kennedy, on that show. He’s one of the—probably the foremost experts.

Dr. Pompa:
I’ve done a show. I’ve interviewed Dr. Kennedy on fluoride. Folks, if you’re more interested in the whole story of fluoride, google—or not google but in the Cellular Healing TV, on the topic, search topic, put fluoride. You’ll find Dr. Kennedy’s show.

Dr. O’Malley:
Yeah, I mean, it’s an interesting thing. In 2004, the American Dental Association came out and said there is no systemic benefit to fluoridation in the water. Now, in 2009, I think, in the city of Los Angeles, all the waters of the municipalities approve putting “fluoride,” although it’s [hydrofluorosilica] that they put in the water, which is a byproduct of the aluminum and the fertilizer companies. When you look at the brilliance of things, it’s brilliant. These companies have this waste product that it would cost them millions and millions to get rid of it safely. They said, hey, let’s put it in the water supply and get paid for it instead.

The big thing is the ADA, American Dental Association, even came out and said no known benefit from it systemically. Okay, there’s reasons why on how the studies were flawed. We can go over that at another time. I’ll bet Dr. Kennedy goes over that, but the other aspect is it’s a poison.

Dr. Pompa:
It is.

Dr. O’Malley:
People watching this, if you have fluoridated toothpaste, it’s 300 times more potent than drinking water. If your small child gets a teaspoon full of it and they eat it, you got to take them to the emergency room because they can technically die. They have to get their stomach pumped, unless they’ve changed that now. Why are we doing that? Essentially, the reason that it can help prevent cavities—and it does. There are studies that show it that it does. It’s a pesticide. It kills bugs and it can linger. It can stick around the teeth and hang there so there’s a long-term effect. The only problem is we’re ingesting the stuff.

Mercury fillings, fluoride, they’re all funny, sadly funny things. Could you imagine, Dr. Pompa, if I had you come in my practice that we’re going to put a tooth colored filling in? Oh, by the way, it has a little bit of arsenic in it. It comes out a little bit, but don’t you worry. It won’t make you sick. We have some studies that show you’ll be okay. You would probably easily say no thank you.

When you look at the toxicology of arsenic, fluoride is way worse. Then you look at mercury. It’s up in the ionosphere in toxicity. You go, wow, that’s a sad thing that happened in our profession, unfortunately. I will say this, the dentists out there, they believe that they’re doing safe things with their whole heart because our teachers and their teachers’ teachers told them this was safe, and we honor these people. It’s a tough one to bring about, but when I first came here in, oh, 2001 or so, 2002, there was only a handful of us doing holistic and mercury-safe metals removal, etc. Now there’s several hundred in the area, so it is starting to grow.

Dr. Pompa:
It is.

Dr. O’Malley:
Now it’s up to your audience. If you decide who you select and who you’re going to choose, do your own research. Make sure they’re not just someone that did a little course. They put it up on a website. Make sure that that’s really their philosophy.

Dr. Pompa:
Believe me, I warn people. I’ll say go to the IAOMT.org, and you can find a safe biological dentist. I caution it. A lot of them join that organization just because they get patients. I say ask these questions. Many times it takes a few of those dentists to find the right one, so good.

Dr. O’Malley:
It’s so true. I just had a lady in the other day, and she went to—a year or so ago went to a biological—biologic dentist, an IAOMT, I think, dentist. She went in, and she had her mercury removed, no rubber dam. He did bring the suction up underneath, the big outside suction, and he had the high-speed suction, no rubber dam, no oxygen, no isolation. You just go, okay, I guess he’s just a member.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, doing the things that were pretty easy to add on, right? Some of the big things, forget it. I think, dentistry, obviously, it brings it full circle, love-hate relationship here. I love dentistry done right and dentists who do it right, but I’ll tell you, I hate dentistry done wrong. Why? I see all these sick people. I have story after story. I’m looking down at these files of just one story after another of just people who lost their life to this. I was one of them. It’s so upsetting.

I mean, believe it or not—and you’re right what you’re saying, though. I shouldn’t say I hate the dentist itself. I hate dentistry for deceiving the dentists because they believe that amalgam fillings are safe. They believe that these root canals are okay, and they believe what they’re doing. It’s not the person, man. It is dentistry and what they’re teaching, and it’s in every profession, I mean, honestly.

Dr. O’Malley:
It is. I think it gets engrained, and it’s so big. It’s like how fast can you turn a speedboat right around? This is like a barge, and it’s almost packed side to side turning them around to a different philosophy. It’s just taking some time. With people like yourself and others that are out there on the airwaves, the TV waves, etc., it helps raise the awareness. When the public goes out and they demand for this, the dentists have to go get trained.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, you know what? You all need to share this show with as many people as you can. Rate us on Google, etc. That helps too when you rate the show. People need to hear this, man. You’re right; the ship is turning so slowly. It’s like people watch the show, but if you don’t turn your other people on to it, the message doesn’t get out. We have to get the message out.

Dr. O’Malley:
Can I add one thing to the show? What I wanted to say is that to bring a little hope to your audience, those people listening, if you’ve had crowns, you’ve had root canals, now you’re aware. Those crowns, if they start giving you troubles, they can be safely removed. The teeth can be built up and sealed properly underneath. You have to find a biomimetic dentist that really does that and believes in it, and they’re out there. I have people travel and things like that.

The other thing is on the prevention side there’s really good news. If a person gets decay and the decay is removed ultra-conservatively, and then the tooth, the bonding that’s laid in is laid in with precision layers. It takes some time for the dentist. That’s a biomimetic restoration layer by layer. That thing will not leak under it, will not breakdown. It’s one and done. I’d like to say it’ll last 100 years, but we don’t have 100 years of studies out there. We know it’s going to last.

I have eight in my own mouth from the year 2000, and they still look brand new. I had the mercury removed, and they were safely built up in layers, no sensitivity, no issue, and they were deep. I experienced it myself. I see it with my patients. I see it with the profession. That’s a bit of good news for people. If you have your children, your family out there, they can watch this show.

The main thing is there are three things besides an accident and only three things that cause people to lose their teeth. My goal is to help people save their healthy teeth for a lifetime of great health. How do we do that? We have to analyze those three things. One is cavities. One is gum disease. Those are both caused from an out of balance that happens with the bacteria in the mouth, nutrition, all these things that you’re well aware of.

The third one that is a harder one to control and you just have to have a good dentist look at it is a bad bite. That’s clenching, rubbing, grinding of the teeth, etc. That can destroy the teeth as well and cause gum recession. It can cause the teeth to break along the gum line, and then you have no enamel there. There’s a lot of—people listening right now, you can put your fingernail in these little grooves along your gum line and go, oh, I feel these grooves. That’s generally from clenching so three things: gum disease, cavities, and a bad bite. If you have those three things looked at and you get them all under control, you can save your teeth for life. Again, you can visit my website and go on FreeHolisticDentalCourse.com for information.

Dr. Pompa, lastly, I never discussed this with you before, but I also have several patents on products that help rebalance the bacteria in the mouth. One is a patented—my patented formula, all natural. It’s oral, an advanced oral probiotic for the mouth. It’s real simple. You chew two at night when you go to bed. It doesn’t replace good cleaning and brushing and flossing, but it can put the healthy bacteria back. We were able to find out 2% of the population never gets decay, and they don’t get gum disease. We were able to isolate. What kind of bacteria do they have? They have a predominantly high number of a certain type of bacteria that’s in my formulation, so by seeding that back in, it gives them a chance to bring about a balance. Trying to kill everything doesn’t work.

Dr. Pompa:
No, that’s another issue.

Dr. O’Malley:
You get rid of the bad stuff. The bad stuff’s involved in—it actually helps detox the heavy metals. It gets rid of the junk in there, so the harmful bacteria play a role. When they get out of balance, they cause damage and destructive [00:48:34].

Dr. Pompa:
Let me ask you a question because the bite being the third thing and it’s so important. Number one, what are symptoms that your bite being off? Number two, do you do something special to make sure the bite is right?

Dr. O’Malley:
There’s a couple of things. One of the symptoms to know if your bite is off is you could’ve been to a dentist, and you’re getting recession with your teeth. The dentist says you’re brushing too hard. That’s typically not true unless you are brushing with a hard toothbrush. You always want to use a soft toothbrush.

Dr. Pompa:
You’re saying gum recession.

Dr. O’Malley:
Gum recession. Now, a little bit of that can be genetic, but if it’s there, you want to make sure that there’s not a clenching problem or a rubbing problem at nighttime. It’s easy for a dentist that has some understanding of the whole joint anatomy and things like that. They’ll check. You can go in and say I want you to check my bite. I think I’m grinding, and if that’s the case, they’ll make you what’s called a night guard. Something you can wear at nighttime. You have to make sure they can make you one made out of nylon because most people don’t react to that, and then they’re not chewing on plastic. They can make them out of nylon now, so that’s good news. Then they can chew all they want on that thing, and you’re not going to hurt your teeth. It acts as a shock absorber.

Oh, by the way, some people have asked me, well, why don’t I just buy that online or something like that? It has to be really precision fit. Then the dentist should adjust your bite to make sure it’s guiding in a happy way so that it’s not causing further joint trauma.

Dr. Pompa:
Is that one of the signs too is people can get clicking, I mean, pain in here?

Dr. O’Malley:
They call it TMJ pain. T stands for the temporal, around the temporal. You have the M is the mandible, and then you have the joint. You have TMJ. I know you know this. This is just for the audience out there.

Dr. Pompa:
Oh, of course, yeah.

Dr. O’Malley:
This is one of those things that if there’s clicking, popping, pain, ear pain—sometimes ringing in the ear can be a contributing factor. All those things are signs and symptoms. Neck pain, going to the chiropractor, you get adjustment after adjustment. It won’t hold. A lot of times the bite is off, so these are some of the things to look at. Visible things are a person can look, and honestly, we want to catch it well before that. They can start seeing they’re chipping the edges of their teeth, or they can see a little wear on their front teeth. That one you want to handle right away because you might be chewing all the way through that protective enamel, and once that happens, it goes—the wear continues fast.

Dr. Pompa:
Man, we hit a lot of topics here. Dr. Paul, man, you’re a wealth of knowledge. I appreciate it. My viewers and listeners, this is a big deal. This is a big topic. When I heard and saw what you were doing, I said this—we got to have this guy on the show. Thank you for being on the show. Thank you for the wealth of information. I hope people visit your site. I know they will.

Dr. O’Malley:
Thank you so much. I really enjoyed it.

Dr. Pompa:
Absolutely, so thanks, man. All right, we’re going to cut. Then I’m just going to do a—you can hop off, Paul. I’m going to do a prelude here to the show.

Dr. O’Malley:
Great, and Dr. Pompa, can I ask you a question? You might be interested.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, man.

Dr. O’Malley:
I have a really big passion prevention-wise to help prevent cavities and gum disease around the world. I have a company. It’s called Great Oral Health, and I have all natural products and things like that. If you’d be interested, I could send you some samples so you can see it yourself.

Dr. Pompa:
Please.

Dr. O’Malley:
I’m just trying to get the word out there. We’re a small organization, and we’re slowly growing. We’ve had these products out for five years. Everything I do I thoroughly test them, and everything is GMP rated companies out here in the US and things like that. The whole goal is to make it a global company because I want to handle this amount of decay that’s on the planet. The only invalidating point I came up with was, well, yeah, but Paul, you’re just one guy. There’s seven and a half billion people. I said, well, I’m going to try, so that was why I started this.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s awesome. This is a big deal for me, as you know, so send me some products. My email is drpompa@drpompa.com. I’ll send you my address and let’s go from there.

Dr. O’Malley:
That’s great.

Dr. Pompa:
I’ll come out and visit you. What are you near? Where in California?

Dr. O’Malley:
I’m in Encino, California, so if you came out to LAX or Burbank, I’m not too far from—20 minutes from Beverly Hills. I’m near Woodland Hills.

Dr. Pompa:
I can make it out there. I had an inlay myself. I’ll tell you my story. I have such a dental story, and it’s a good one now. He did put an inlay in, and I did get sensitive, man, around the tooth. I guess now that I have to watch it because if it pulls…

Dr. O’Malley:
I mean, I have to see. If he first put a lining of what we call flowable composite, then you’re fine. If it leaks, nothing will happen. It sounds like it was probably competing with the walls, and it just de-bonded in one area.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I’ll just say it was…

Dr. O’Malley:
[Ionics].

Dr. Pompa:
It was barely sensitive, honestly, and then I bit down on—I was chewing some meat probably too aggressively, and then after that, it was killing me. I think I traumatized the ligament.

Dr. O’Malley:
Yeah, oh, there’s no doubt. Not only that, if it was—I mean, that’s negative. The bond strength can be so strong it pulls the tooth on itself, and then you’re chewing down. Everything’s sore, and then, boom, it finally sprang back because the bond broke. It doesn’t mean everybody’s going to get decay. All I could say is that we know, every single globbed in filling, restoration, etc., they leak unless they’re laid in there with layers. Unfortunately, I wish I had a better story. What if it leaks? Are you at risk (maybe not because you probably have tremendous hygiene)?

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, exactly, and if it does, I’ll get it done a different way next time. I learn everything, and I do things better. It is what it is. As long as the ligament calms down, I mean, it was just—it’s only been three weeks maybe, not even.

Dr. O’Malley:
Oh, you only had it three weeks?

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, a month. I’m just trying to think now. Time flies, under one month.

Dr. O’Malley:
Go and do a quick little bite adjustment with the thing. It may not be hitting this way straight up and down. It can be a little bit lateral.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, it’s not straight up and down, but when I move it, it’ll start—like if I grind, it’s…

Dr. O’Malley:
Yeah, that’s real easy. The dentist loves you to go back because then we can go zip, zip, and we’re like a miracle worker. It’s like, aw, that feels so much better.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, exactly, yeah, it probably is that. I actually took a little file and went er-er-er on a little part that I could see was hitting.

Dr. O’Malley:
No you didn’t. Did you really?

Dr. Pompa:
I swear to God, the next day 50% of the pain went away. I’m like, okay, I’m not going to mess with it beyond that. I think that is the problem.

Dr. O’Malley:
You know what? I had a patient that came in. This guy was 90 years old. He came in. He had a denture on top, and he had a denture on the bottom with a hole in it. He had this one long tooth. His eye tooth stuck out and was real pointy. He said, “Doc, can you smooth that down?” I said, “Well, I’ll try.” He goes, “I’ve been smoothing it for years.” He pulled out a metal file and started showing me how he was doing it on that one tooth so good stories.

Dr. Pompa:
Hey, I have a reason to come out and see you, so I’ll look forward to it. Send me that stuff. You have my email. It’s my website twice, drpompa@drpompa.com.

Dr. O’Malley:
Okay, good. I’ll send that, and if you come out this way, if you’re ever interested—I don’t know. Do you do lectures anymore or seminars other than the…

Dr. Pompa:
I do big seminars. I do two big ones a year. My next one’s in Vegas. I’ll have probably about 400 doctors there, so I do East Coast, West Coast. Then I speak everywhere. I spoke at Bulletproof. Dave Asprey’s seminar was the last California seminar I spoke at, but I speak everywhere.

Dr. O’Malley:
Oh, wow, that’s great. All right, well, good, hopefully, I get on your newsletter. I got a few of the young physicians and stuff out here, and they’re trying to learn. Some of them are just jumping into the IV clinics, which whatever, but they’re trying.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, you should come to my seminar in November, 2nd through the 4th.

Dr. O’Malley:
I think it’d be great. Hey, something I’ll throw your way. There’s an all-natural product. It’s called POTABA, P-O-T-A-B-A.

Dr. Pompa:
Never heard of it.

Dr. O’Malley:
It’s important enough, if you have a pen to write it down. It’ll cure Hashimoto’s.

Dr. Pompa:
P-O-T-A…

Dr. O’Malley:
P-O-T-A-B-A.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s easy, okay.

Dr. O’Malley:
It’s a PABA concoction, but it’s gotten through a prescription kind of thing, and the POTABA for sure worked. The PABA, through this one guy’s hands, he said it was not working with the same efficacy, but he’s been doing it. This is a 70-year-old guy. He’s been doing all natural kind of clinic for a long, long time. It’ll take people that have this Hashimoto’s and bring it down—bring their numbers back down to almost 0 within 90 days, sometimes 120.

Dr. Pompa:
All right, well, I’ll check it out. All right, we’ll talk, Paul, nice to meet you, and we’ll talk again, for sure. I’m keeping Matt here. He wants to go home, so let me record this little preview here, all right, Paul.

Dr. O’Malley:
All right, bye-bye.

Dr. Pompa:
All right, Matt.

Matt:
Okay, yeah, he’s off so go ahead.

Dr. Pompa:
All right, so let me get a thing here, all right. It’s said that 80 to 85% of the—let me start again. It’s said that 80 to 85% of disease starts in the mouth, and you’ve heard me say that in many past shows on dentistry. I get this question all the time. What about crowns? You’re going to get that answered, and you’re also going to hear about a word that I never heard of, biomimetic dentistry. Listen, this could be a game changer for you. You’re going to get a lot of teeth questions answered because we’ve been having so many because of the show that I did with Dr. Gerry.

This is a show that you’re going to want to share, and please, rate us on Google. Rate us on there because that helps and, obviously, share it. When you look at this show and the last one I did, these shows should really be put together because this is how people are getting their lives back, so check it out. Okay?

Matt:
All right.

Dr. Pompa:
All right, man.

Matt:
All right, have a good one.

Dr. Pompa:
You too.

Matt:
Bye-bye.

Dr. Pompa:
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378: Healing with UBI: Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation

All new! Today I welcome back a special guest, Entrepreneur and inventor, Tom Lowe.

Tom has pushed open the door to healing with Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation, otherwise known as UBI – an important therapy tool for chronic disorders. His new book Invisible Cure explains the details of how UV light therapy may bring healing to thousands of hurting patients. We always love sharing the newest therapies here on Cell TV, and this one is nothing short of exciting.

More about Tom Lowe:

Entrepreneur and inventor, Tom Lowe has pushed open the door to healing with Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation. His innovations and research have validated this therapy that has a 90 year history. Now his new book Invisible Cure explains the details of how UV light therapy may bring healing to thousands of hurting patients.

He is a solid Christian, father to 11 children, husband to one wonderful wife – going on 50 years. In the 18 plus businesses that I have started this is favorite as it helps hurting people.

“After running a clinic for a year – just to test UBI, I was a believer. Helping people is a great privilege. Supporting those physicians who are on the front lines is another honor.”

My organization SOPMed also teaches over 500 physicians and medical personnel each year in UBI and ozone therapy. We have seen over 750,000 therapies completed in the last 10 years.

BSc -University of Wisconsin – Science and Education
Environmental hazmat mitigation and consulting for over 25 years
Designed and manufactured HEPA systems
Software company used by National Association for Pupil Transportation, Michigan School Business Officials and the Michigan Association for Pupil Transportation
Designed software on Blood Borne Pathogens, Right to Know, Haz waste, Pesticides.
Developed software for Hospital preparedness for Bioterrorism
Co-founded an alternative health clinic in Michigan
Developed Physicians UBI Awareness Center www.DrsUBI.com
President of SOPMed – Society of Progressive Medical Education
Developed a top alternative medicine conference for 5 years – SOPMed
Co-developer of the CE certified medical device for UBI – Ultralux UV
Taught physicians in Japan, the Philippines, Ukraine, Mexico, Cuba, Spain, Guatemala, San Salvador and around the US.
Currently working with over 500 physicians of alternative and Integrative physicians and clinics around the US and world. As they develop their UBI and ozone programs.
Author of the definitive guide to all things UBI called Invisible Cure.

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Dr. Pompa:
I tell you what, this is an episode. I find the new stuff, whether it’s for helping specific conditions or anti-aging. Well, this combines it all, a good friend of mine, Tom Lowe. This is one of my favorite therapies that I have done. You’ll hear my experience.

You’re going to hear a breakthrough about something that I’ve been trying to get the word out on this. It’s a combination of two treatments you may have heard of, but I’m going to leave you in suspense because there’s so much here. Tom wrote a bombshell book about this with more evidence and scientific research than probably one topic that I’ve ever seen. I even wrote a review of the book because of how powerful it was. Look, if you’re someone that’s seeking to get your life back or someone who’s trying to live longer healthy like me at this point, watch the episode. Check it out.

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Ashley:
If you’re listening to this podcast and want to access the amazing CytoDefend product Dr. Pompa just mentioned, please visit freeimmunity.com. Again, that’s freeimmunity.com. Hello, everyone. Welcome to Cellular Healing TV. I’m Ashley Smith, and today we welcome back a special guest, entrepreneur and inventor Tom Lowe.

Tom has pushed open the door to healing with ultraviolet blood irradiation, otherwise known as UBI, an important therapy tool for chronic disorders. His new book, Invisible Cure, explains the details of how UV light therapy may bring healing to thousands of hurting patients. We always love sharing the newest therapies here on Cell TV. This one is no different. Let’s welcome Tom Lowe and, of course, Dr. Pompa. Welcome, both of you.

Tom:
Hey, glad to be here. Thanks, Dan, I appreciate that, and Ashley. I’m ready to go.

Dr. Pompa:
Tom, I love you and your family. It’s just always a pleasure. I look at you all as the—if I have a question on ozone, it’s coming to your family. This is very different. This is taking it to a whole other level.

I love finding these really unique therapies. For me at this point I’ve got my life back. Many people watching it or seeing this are looking to get their life back. Listen up. Pay attention.

This is a very unique therapy. However, for me it is about living longer healthy now at this point in my life. Every time I see Tom, I want this. I spoke at your seminars. I’m in line. I want it every day I’m there because I walk away from this treatment, and I feel like cloud nine.

I’m telling you, there’s a few treatments that I would speak that about where I actually feel—that’s not against some other treatments where I don’t feel amazing right after. They’re still good for you, but this is one where I walk away and I feel it, honestly. I really do. I’m energized. I feel different after I do it. Let’s give our viewers and our listeners just an overview of what this unique therapy is and why it’s different than other ozone therapies because the word ozone was in there. This is different, so give us an overview.

Tom:
Both ozone and the UBI, ultraviolet blood irradiation, has been around for 70 years, 80 years; UBI a little bit farther, 90 years. They are two separate therapies, but they’re synergistic. When you’ve got a good therapy like ozone and you’ve got a good therapy like ultraviolet blood irradiation, combining those has this effect. They’re both immune modulators.
People are sick. They want to get over this, and they just don’t know what to do. It’s chronic. They’ll go get an ozone treatment or possibly a UBI. The two of them together—and most of our docs do that. They put it together. This is a combined therapy.

Ultraviolet blood irradiation can stand on its own and should. It’s the idea of taking a small amount of blood, 60 cc, a quarter cup, something like that, putting it with saline, and then letting that drip by a specialized light, UV, A, B, and C. We’re adding now some other [05:27] spectrum [05:28] in there. The light is absorbed into the blood and travels around the body and actually causes immune modulation.

The book that I wrote, Invisible Cure, is just about UBI. It’s needed. Twenty years ago a guy named William Campbell Douglass wrote on this, and he called it Into the Light. For that time, it was fine.

I’ve been able to do a year’s worth of research and 12 years of working with this and finally did the brain dump on pages and put it into a format that almost anybody can read. It starts lighter in history and what happened and how things worked. Everybody finds that very interesting. Then it gets a little deeper.

Dr. Pompa:
By the way, I wrote a great review of the book. You can get it on Amazon. It’s loaded with information. Sorry to interrupt. I just wanted to [06:25].

Todd:
No, that’s okay. Your viewers just need to know there’s tools out there for the alternative physicians. One of them is UBI. They can ask for it. Do you do ultraviolet light therapy?

It needs to be a doctor that pulls some blood out. Then ozone is added to that. The emphasis today is just the UBI and looking at that. In its own right it is then—you probably don’t know after all the research because you know I taught and teach on ozone. We teach about 500 doctors a year now and physicians and medical people.

Dr. Pompa:
I’ve been to your seminars and your [07:07] is amazing.
Todd:
UBI actually has a better record with infections and getting rid of infections. In the [07:18] it was used in about 50 hospitals, but it was all clinical. These were doctors—women dying from the different infections that occur and people coming in and not knowing they would be moribund or near death. This thing would pull 40%, 50% back from that. If it was any other kind of infection, it was a 98% cure.

This is just the ultraviolet light therapy. It was more complex. They had to have different machines. They had to cool the light bulbs down with water. They had gears on it. It’s all in the book.

In fact, on our website we’re going to have a link there. You can watch one of the old Knott machines. We were up at Robert Rowen’s, and we filmed one of those old machines. You’ll hear me talk about it in the book a little bit. It was kind of fun. I tried to add a lot of variety, the old stuff, the new stuff, and then the studies that we were able to nail down and come up with. It’s all kind of put in this 300-page book.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. It’s just loaded with information. I don’t want to get us shut down here nor do I want you to make claims, but there’s been a lot of evidence. You’re saying the UBI is even better than ozone for certain things. There’s been a lot out there about ozone with COVID.

People are very angry because it was so effective. Again, it’s not you making these claims, but others at how effective it was. How does the UV compare to even ozone with this relevant virus?

Tom:
You just have to go back in the studies, Dan. That’s the one thing that UBI has is a lot of studies on viral infections. Whether it’s hepatitis or is an influenza, any kind of viral infection, it had extremely good effect with. I had some anecdotal doctors use it and say it really works well.

Again, we were slated to potentially do a study, and we went through the rounds that many places do. It was a hospital that wanted us to do it with the UBI. It just didn’t go anywhere because it was shut down. It just is not the favored type of therapy. Now that I see all the stuff that’s been going on, you kind of go why would they listen to UBI?

It’s got history, and it’s got the studies to it. It’s good if people have any kind of viral infection.I tell people just—who don’t know anything about it, I say it will kick shingles in two days.

Dr. Pompa:
Wow!

Tom:
If you have a shingles flare-up, you’ve got the virus, the herpes virus. It flares up. You’re immunocompromised, so you’ve got a problem with your system. UBI, it’s like a slam dunk of quieting down that rash, and you’re not going to get the neuropathy, the pain from it. It’s not going to last for months. Two days, usually one, maybe two treatments and it dries right up.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s awesome. By the way, there’s a link here, InvisibleCure.com. We’ll put the link in where you can learn more. People are visualizing what this actually looks like, awesome pictures there. Your whole picture of your family, that was what I was impressed with, and you’ll see this massive family. That’s Tom’s family. I mean, it’s pretty vast, all world changers, by the way. Anyways, you’ll see how they do it. It’s just how they’re combining these two incredible therapies. It might answer your questions.

Also on that site for many of you is find a doctor. I asked you that right away. I’m going to have a lot of viewers who want this. Like you said, I mean, 400+, maybe 500+ practitioners that are trained in this around the country and maybe even more units out.

Tom:
Trained on the machines and active, yeah, mm-hmm.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, and so find a doctor. By the way, we have a lot of doctors of all types watching this. I’m a believer. Man, this is the way to go in your clinic. Even from a time perspective if I was a physician. You get it done pretty quick. Quote me if I’m wrong. I’m just basing on my own experience. It seems to turn around in about 30 minutes. Am I right? Okay, 45 if it’s a…

Tom:
Yeah, you’re about a 30 to 40 minute by the time they set up, hook up, do the drips, get back, and clean it all up. Forty-five minutes is pretty easy to do.

Dr. Pompa:
I know some things—look, anything ozone related, light related, I do them. Again, the research around it even from antiaging standpoint let alone infection and other problems, it’s pretty vast. I love the therapies, but some of them are very long and—this is so simple if I was a practitioner looking to put it in my office. It doesn’t bog down your staff and your office, and it’s highly effective, obviously.

Tom:
Right, and there are different levels too as you had at our last conference. We have a higher dose level that combines a higher dose of UBI. Ten-pass was popular. We made it simpler, faster, easier, cheaper, and just as effective. That was a combination therapy, and that’s probably an hour therapy, a little more complex, but there’s choice if you come in…

Dr. Pompa:
Ten-pass can be an hour and a half, two hours.

Tom:
Oh, yeah.

Dr. Pompa:
It depends on how fast it moves through. I think that was one of the questions I originally had asked you. Hey, the 10-pass has been world renowned for getting rid of infections and making your feel amazing. How does this compare to 10-pass? One of the which is it’s way shorter and easier if you’re a practitioner to put in your office because you don’t have someone there constantly moving the blood around. Talk to us about from a patient or a client standpoint.

Tom:
Yeah, ozone is more popular than UBI because it’s got more practitioners and more organizations, and worldwide, it’s been out there a little bit differently. Really, 12 years ago I picked the ball up of the older units for UBI and made that work and made it better and more intense. It’s been my area of study, so I’m pretty familiar with it. If you’ve got a niche you’re good in, it’s only that big, but it’s okay, half the size of a sugar cube.

Consumers, the ease of doing the UBI and the UBI ozone together is so—it’s so easy for a practitioner or for a patient. It’s 60 cc of blood in a syringe, a little bit of ephedrine. Put it in a bag of saline and let it drip back through the machine back to the patient. The next step up is that HD, and that’s where we actually pull out 300 cc with a pump, and we add a massive amount of ozone, 70,000 micrograms. Now, a normal one would be 3 to 4,000, so we really bump that up. It’s safe. We’ve done over 12,000 of those now in the last year and a half, and it’s been very, very successful.

Dr. Pompa:
You’ve done several on me.

Tom:
Oh, yeah, we have and Joe Mercola and some others. Then that next level up of the 10-pass, they put in 140,000 micrograms, but they don’t have any UV light. If you say compare them, I say better than 10-pass because we’ve got the UV light therapy along with the high-dose ozone therapy, so we’re pretty excited about that that we’ve got these two different levels that consumers can have and physicians too. We train in this. Every week we’re training, five, six, seven trainings. A lot of it’s been remote with COVID and stuff, but it’s been really good. We were just primed to switch to the remote when COVID hit. When it hit, it’s like we’re ready, and we went.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s awesome. If I have a practitioner watching, where can they go for the trainings?

Tom:
They go to SOPMed, S-O-P-M-E-D.org. It’s Society of Progressive Medical Education but SOPMed.org, and it’ll have everything there. It’ll talk about what trainings you can get. I think we’ve got six or seven different trainings. We can do one-on-one Zoom in your office. We’re starting to resume some in-office training also, which is all we used to do, and then it went it remote. It’s just so much better now. They don’t have to leave their office. They can bring their staff in and be one-on-one with [Kim] and work with it.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s great. You mentioned a few others. What have you seen this treatment work so well for? I mean, obviously, you mentioned shingles, viral infections. What else have you seen?

Tom:
In the book, I’ve got a whole list of the studies. There about 210 studies. Now, I have to thank a guy named Ken Dillon, who’s in Washington DC, a researcher, and he has written two books on UBI. He also wrote reviews on this, but he did all the Russian and German studies. He spoke both, and he said, “Yeah, I only live three stops down from the library.” He spent a lot of time putting his books together and graciously allowed me to use his data in there too.

We’re talking cardiovascular. If you’ve got issues with your heart, this is a therapy that you should really look at. Again, in the book, they can go right to that section and read the studies, boom, boom, boom, and go through those things. The bacterial and viral infections are obviously one that’s pretty clear. You can just go back—you imagine, Dan, this is before antibiotics. I mean, they didn’t have anything, and this thing rolled in and was curing patients left and right. In 1940, the AMA had a full newsprint ad, and I actually restructured it and did it and put it on the website. They were promoting this like mad as, hey, this is the next cure for infections.

If you go past the infections, then you get to the autoimmune. Now, autoimmune can work with—you’re talking rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, allergies, asthma, rash, any of these things where you’re reacting, and again, what you want to do is quiet down the T cell activity that’s occurring. Sometimes ozone works, but sometimes it’s five, six, seven treatments. I had a number of doctors call me that said we found that UBI alone works better for autoimmune. They’ll mix it with the ozone. I’m not saying they can’t or they shouldn’t ever. Doctors do what they want to do, but I think UBI is quite powerful for the autoimmune of quieting the system. Immune modulating, too high, brings it down. Too low, brings it up. That modulation is really an important issue, and I think UBI does that well.

An interesting one out in Idaho, we had a doc who was OB-GYN. You might know him, but he did a lot with working with pregnancies, pregnant mothers. We’ve talked about some serious things that occur in pregnancy, and he’s found really good effects. Then I found the studies on it. You take a look at it and go you’re concerned about your baby and your health, and you don’t want drugs? Look into that chapter and read that on OB-GYN.

Surprisingly, of course, pulmonary, any of the tuberculosis, lung infection, COPD, very good results and then one I wouldn’t have expected but in my studies is mental issues. They’ve done UBI on schizophrenics, depression. We’ve got the studies on it, and you’re dealing with basically a nondrug therapy. You start to go through these things, and you go it’s too good to be true. I’m not trying to say silver bullet for everything. It’s not, but man, it’s a great tool for any doctor to have in his office; kidneys, mental disorders. Cancer, it’s an adjunctive therapy. Many cancer clinics use this. It helps with immune modulation, anti-infection, just the whole detox situation.

Like I say, it’s covered in the book. When I got done with it, Dan, it was like—and you’ve written a number of books. You go, oh, now what do I do? Everything’s dumped into the book, but at the same time, I’m glad to talk about it here. Thanks for letting me.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, no, listen, it’s an amazing resource, honestly. As you said, I mean, so many conditions that people are suffering with today. I mean, it’s so relevant, oh, my gosh. I think it’s great because you have backed it with the studies. I mean, that’s how relevant the topic is. At least there’s more than anecdotal evidence when you resource the book, and it’s in one place in your book.

Yeah, how about senescent cells? I said in the beginning here that my interest is antiaging. Obviously, senescent cells, aka, zombie cells, cells that live too long, especially immunosenescence cells, immune cells that live too long, they drive problems in the body, inflammation, autoimmune, food allergies. I mean, when we look at these cells that live too long, obviously, more common as we age, does it—is the research showing that it knocks down those senescent cells?

Tom:
That’s a good question. I’m wondering if ozone may do a little bit more with that with their ozonides and their peroxides and their mixture within the blood. The energy that goes into red blood cells—now, this does have a stimulation to create new red blood cells in the bone marrow, so there is some stimulus there. We know there’s a little bit of knock out of the red blood cells that aren’t up to what they should be, so there is some infusion of new red blood cells. Antiaging, again, it’s one of those tools in the toolbox. I have docs who just—they’ve got it in their office. Once a month they just do it. Why not?

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I would.

Tom:
I’m here. I’m going to do it.

Dr. Pompa:
Honestly, I want to get it myself, and I just have to put it in this local clinic. I’ve stuck myself before. It’s not easy when you’re hooking up all that stuff.

Tom:
Yeah, it is not easy when you go into that kind of stuff. The fun part of the book was digging into the history. Now, very few people get this advantage as—these are pioneers like Rebbeck and Knott and Miley and a host of others and these are the guys that were promoting it. They formed a society, the International Blood Radiation Society. They had their minutes, and they had their members. They met once a year and they promoted this thing. Rebbeck’s office kept all those files, and a guy called me a couple years ago and said, “Hey, do you want to buy all this?” That was before I writing the book. I said, “Nah, that’s okay.” Then I go, “Wait; yes, I do.”

We worked out a deal, so I probably have 2,000 letters of correspondence between these guys talking about what’s going on. I have all of their sales brochures. I’ve got all of their notes from their meetings, who was all involved. When I wrote the history on this, I talked to Emmett Knott III, who’s the grandson, and I talked to someone close that I know who talked to Emmett Knott II, which was the son. We got some of the deals. The AMA and Morris Fishbein, you probably heard that name, made him a deal. You either sell us the machine for $1 million or we’re going to cut you out. You’ve heard this before. It’s in the book but Harry Hoxsey and the cancer and Raymond Rife and what happened in the ‘40s and ‘50s with the AMA. It’s maybe akin to today; a little cancel culture going on.

Dr. Pompa:
I know.

Tom:
That’s all in the book, interesting read. I saw where he got married and how he found his wife and what he did and how he moved into this realm. It’s quite an interesting story. Time magazine had two articles on him in 1940 and then in 1949, so you put all that together, a consumer can go, oh, wow, that’s neat.

Dr. Pompa:
Robert Rowen, modern day, I mean, many of my practitioners know who he is, right?

Tom:
Yeah, sure.

Dr. Pompa:
I know he’s had a role in UBI. Explain to our viewers about that.

Tom:
I met him years ago. I met Robert when I first developed the new machine. He said, “Wow! Look at that. That’s really good. It’s got the bigger bulbs, and it’s got more energy to it.” We struck up a friendship, and I went up and trained at his place in Santa Rosa for a number of years. I mean, Robert wrote the first cure that time forgot 20-some years ago which combined the studies of Miley and Rebbeck and these other guys and tried to make the case for UBI, which he did at that point in time.

Michel Hamblin, the Head of Harvard Medical Photobiology Department, wrote three years ago “Is it time to remember the cure that time forgot?” He did a review that was published, published review on UBI. Robert wrote the original one. We still talk, and he did write a review in the book here for me. I mean, you guys are very gracious looking at this and saying is this something we can review and say thumbs up and had a lot of good reviews? Robert was a friend and, again, writing that review. He uses UBI. It’s fairly part of his practice.

Dr. Pompa:
Robert was one who convinced me of the effects of cavitation, hidden infections in the mouth some years ago. Oh, gosh, it was a long time ago, but I watched him inject someone’s infected root canal. They didn’t know. He pulled the person from the audience. They didn’t know he had it infected, and he did some muscle testing and said, “All right, we’re going to do this to your root canal.” He put some procaine in the root canal, and the person was like—their knee pain was gone. I mean, it was like—now, he explained it won’t last, but he was proving the connection of infection here to a systemic body problem. He did that probably three or four times from randoms, and then people wanted to come up. It was like, okay, that was it. I took it to a whole ‘nother level of my research and how infection affects the body.

With that said on that topic, how does it work with chronic infection, so many people with Lyme today, so many people with chronic infections from other multiple reasons? We can look at acute infection as one thing, but I can tell you chronic infection is another. What’s your take on that? A lot of it gets in the biofilm. Does it help?

Tom:
Yes. Somebody just wrote me the other day, and doctors do write me. I’m more than willing to take their questions, whether it comes to info@SOPMed.org. Somebody asked me on the biofilm issue. Lyme is complex. There’s a lot of things that go on. It depends on the time and the length of time and the history of the person, and it’s so debilitating sometimes for people. They get this chronic infection. How do you get rid of it? I don’t say either ozone or UBI get rid of biofilms and take care of the virus and bacteria. In fact, it’s one of the just…

Dr. Pompa:
Biofilm is normal. Biofilms are normal in the body too, right?

Tom:
Yeah.

Dr. Pompa:
I mean, it helps our—so it’s these infectious biofilms that become problematic.

Tom:
Yeah, and people have the idea that you can either take ozone or UBI and it’s going to kill the bacteria or virus in the body. It doesn’t do that. Ozone combines immediately with the blood.

Dr. Pompa:
That’s right.

Tom:
You have ozonide. UBI combines with the hemoglobin and the red blood cells and travels around. They’re modulators. They’re going to help the system. They start a cascade. Let’s start here, move here, move here, and they start to work systemically in the body. Yeah, ozone can be shot into one area and have that kind of effect. UBI ozone is a systemic issue. You need probably with Lyme six, seven, eight treatments, but after three or four treatments, they know there’s a difference. It’s not like I’m guessing at that point.

You do it, and your body’s starting to get better and better and better. There’s other tools to use too, obviously. You’ve got exercise. You’ve got diet. You’ve got detox. You’ve got these other areas, some of your stuff. It just has to be part of the total practice that goes into this thing.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, it has to be a multi-therapeutic approach. I want people to hear that again. I think the old—even now, some of the thinking is, oh, I’m doing ozone or UBI to kill., and it really isn’t. It’s an immune modulator. Believe me, if I injure a joint, I put some ozone in there, and wow, it stimulates healing. That’s really what’s happening here. You answered the question. We can improve the body’s systemic immune system, upregulate. I look at it as even almost acts like redox where it improves communication. It activates the body into healing, and there’s probably a lot of things we don’t even know, Tom.

With my next question, when you wrote the book, did you discover anything that surprised you? Did you holy cow? I know when I write books it drives me deeper than I normally would’ve went. Was there any shocks?

Tom:
Yeah, that’s a good question. Every chapter I wrote, I’d write one at a time and then go, “There.” Then I do research, research, research, write that chapter, and go, “There.” Yeah, I think the personality of Emmett Knott was interesting just to see—can you imagine hauling around something the size of a file cabinet to show people in hospitals that this thing is going to kill infection? He did that tirelessly for about 15 years, and I thought good for you Emmett Knott. I’m standing on his shoulders.

Dr. Pompa:
What were the dates of that? When was that?

Tom:
They first discovered 1928. He had this idea. He was an X-ray technician. They knew that UV light killed bacteria and virus. He said, “What if we put UV light in blood?” He’d take a dog. He had this apparatus. They put a patent together, he and another guy.

They tried it on dogs, and they’d infect the dogs with a staph infection and do UBI. About five days later, the dog died. They did it over and over. He had a vet friend. I don’t know where these dogs are coming from. The machine broke down when they’re part way through it, a third of the way through. He said, “Oh, okay, forget it.” That dog lived and cleared up the staph infection.

Dr. Pompa:
Interesting.

Tom:
They found out they were over—they were taking all of the blood and irradiating it, running all the dog’s blood through and irradiating it.

Dr. Pompa:
See, they thought that that’s what—they thought they were killing, so they were running it all…

Tom:
Yeah, they thought they were killing.

Dr. Pompa:
Immune modulating, yeah, exactly.

Tom:
Yeah, later on they found out, hey, what are we going to do? Do we either cut the light or do we cut the amount of blood? They cut the amount of blood, and they found out it was very effective. A year later, before it was ever accepted for humans, his friend, Lester [Edblom], his sister was dying of sepsis from an abortion. They didn’t have anything. They knew she was going to die. They said, “Go ahead. Do it.” She lived and had two children after that, a successful life, and that started it.

It was the dogs, then right to humans. Then you started getting it into hospitals and doctors saw. There’s 151 studies on just the Knott machine. We’re talking 20 different authors, about 30 different maladies, in 15 different publications over a period of 20 years. It’s there. It validates it. These are clinical studies. They’ve got all of the data.

We look today. We can’t do that kind of thing. How expensive would that be? It’s all there.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I could ask—this is a great question. Have you seen The Knick, K-N-I—like the Knickerbocker Hospital in New York? It’s on Netflix, The Knick?

Tom:
No, I haven’t.

Dr. Pompa:
Okay, you got to. You have to. You’ll love it and my viewers too. I’m talking to you all as well. It’s the history of medicine, and it’s very accurately done. After each episode, they talk about how they found that history and how they kept it so close. It’s amazing. I mean, I could go on and on. Syphilis is a great example and how they treated it.
The first successful treatment, he heated people up to this ungodly temperature, I mean, between life and death, and they were putting arsenic in with it. I mean, the woman survived, and it was pretty remarkable.

You talk how the whole big thing, and they were X-raying people back then for two hours, radiating them for two hours. You look where it was in history and where we’ve come. I tell you, one thing you gain is you go, oh, my gosh, we should really question some of these things that we’re doing. Like you said, this was safe then, and it’s gotten even better. Some things, you question its origins. It’s crazy.

Tom:
If people want to know, I mean, just—let’s talk about validity, and I started this 12, 13 years ago. We’ve seen three-quarter million treatments since that time, so it’s ongoing. Every week we’re seeing about 1500 treatments done around the country, very successful. It’s not that it’s, again, silver bullet, cures everything, but these doctors use it as part and parcel of healing people. Dan, you know this. They get the worst of the worst. They’ve gone to the hospital. They went to the doctor. It didn’t help them. They’re still sick.

What are they going to do now? They walk into an alternative doctor and say help. I go hats off to you guys. You guys are doing it. We’re just here to support you, and you’ve got a really tough job. They do it, and they do it successfully in so many cases.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, Tom, man, it’s a great topic. You’ve really led the way so much with UBI, ozone, I mean, all of it, you and your family, your son. Just like my family, we have a legacy, and we’ve taken cellular detox, my kids. I’ve watched the same parallel in your family. We’re grateful, honestly. I encourage people. The links are here to check out what we’re really talking about here with UBI. Also, if you’re a practitioner, I’ll tell you, it’s a no-brainer putting this in, and you can get the training at SOPMed.com. We’ll put that link here as well for the practitioners. Any final words, Tom, that you feel everyone needs to hear?

Tom:
You’re in charge of your health. Don’t let it just sit there. I mean, I was years, Dan, four o’clock in the afternoon, I was so fatigued. I’d get my blood tests, nothing. Everything’s fine, conventional medicine. Finally went to an alternative doc, tied three things together, mainly hormonal, and all of a sudden, boom, I was back. People have to take charge of their health. They know that. They’re listening to you a little bit.

Yeah, these guys are out there trying to do a good job. I know it gets expensive, but it’s your health. Go for it. Try these different things out. Try Dan’s stuff and all that he’s supplied and worked with. I just feel privileged. The SOPMed conference was—and that’s SOPMed.org, by the way.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, SOPMed.org, yeah.

Tom:
It got me in touch with guys like you and so many brilliant doctors out there, so I feel like I’ve been the recipient of so many things. If I can give back a little bit with this book and promotion of new ideas—hey, we got new ideas. I’m not telling them. I’ll tell you in another podcast sometime, but we keep trying to find new things. I love having my kids work, and they spun off their own businesses that are tied to this. It’s the next generation.

Dr. Pompa:
It is.

Tom:
Every 10 years, 20 years. I just won’t be here. That’s okay. They’re the ones that’ll take down…

Dr. Pompa:
I think you’ll be here. All right, maybe I’ll be interviewing your son. I don’t know.

Tom:
Maybe.

Dr. Pompa:
You’ll be here. Actually, you brought it up, so I’m going to run with it, the average cost of a treatment of this because when you said it gets expensive, all the treatments, but this is pretty reasonably priced. What’s the average cost of the treatment? Now, it’s different for everybody.

Tom:
The average is about $250 per treatment. Now, a lot of times they have to go in the doctor and have an appointment and talk to them for an hour, half hour, whatever they do. Then after that the treatments are 250, around in there, and it depends if you’re in Berkeley or you’re in Idaho Falls.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, or New York City or LA.

Tom:
New York City.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s not like when you’re utilizing it for a specific condition. It’s not like you need a lot. In my mind, the money that I spent on different treatments that didn’t work when I was getting my life back, it’s inexpensive. Thanks. Thank you.

Tom:
Yeah, just a quick—yeah, a quick anecdotal, I had people travel all the way to LA from—they were out in New Jersey. She had EBV. The husband did, the chronic, couldn’t even get out of bed hardly, had to quit work and everything. She just saw a doctor that advertised. They went out and spent $20,000 out in LA that they could’ve spent $2,000 in New Jersey, but they were healed. It was a he, and he was healed after that. She’s quite a proclaimer. She’s actually in the book. I got her picture in there and her little story of how that worked.

People will spend money for what they need to. There’s sometimes a little bit less expensive way to do it, but now we have doctors all over the country. This is one to try, no question. Thank you.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, thanks for your contribution. Thanks for being here on Cellular Healing TV, Tom. Thank you.

Tom:
Yeah, same here. Thanks, Dan. We’ll see you soon. Okay, take care.

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377: The Art and Science of Emotional Wellness

Today I bring back an interview with Dr. Eva Detko, who is a mind transformation and holistic autoimmune specialist.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. Eva Detko:
Yes, at the moment, yes. There are plans to move to Poland, so south of Spain at the moment, a bit nomadic.

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

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

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

Dr. Eva Detko:
So I apologize in advance if I'm not completely with it, so yeah, it's a bit late.

Dr. Pompa:
We had to get you before you went to bed. Alright, but that's good. I'm glad—thank you for making the time. This subject, I actually have been just fascinated. I always say look, I'm not the expert when it comes to emotional detox. That's why I have you here. I'm the expert when it comes to chemical detox and how that affects our lives, but when we look at traditions, which this is another area of your study—it's autoimmune. This is a big topic for me because so many people have it unknowingly. I talk about it as a three-legged stool meaning that one leg, certain gene gets triggered of autoimmune. It's different for all of us. We—all of us have these weaknesses or susceptibilities, but the center leg is the stressors that turn on that gene, and it could be physical, chemical, or emotional.

In my doctor training the other day, we all were in agreement that we see this combination of chemical and emotional traumas that take place in a perfect storm and boom, we have the autoimmune condition or whatever condition it is. Then the gut plays a role here as well as part of that three-legged stool. Today, emotional trauma, I think that it doesn't really get the attention that it really deserves in that trapped emotions are no different than trapped toxins in that the body doesn't know the difference. I want to give some solutions for people, and that's why you're here. Let's talk about the problem as it relates to conditions like autoimmune but how do traumas cause the same type of thing that a chemical would?

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

I remember when you gave me an interview for one of my [04:43] and we got to talking about biochemical detox. You were talking about the fact that some people can approach the biochemical detox in a superficial kind of way, just taking a supplement that says oh, this is a detox supplement. Just take that and a few days later, I'm considering myself detoxed. I have to say that I find the same problem with emotional detox. This is why I really encourage people to delve a little bit deeper into the subject because when we have a lot of emotional toxicity and believe me, anybody with chronic physical symptoms, whether it is autoimmunity or something unidentified, which a lot of people go through maybe they don't have a diagnosis by they have a whole host of physical symptoms that they've had for years. If there's anything like that going on, obviously anything that—cancer obviously falls into that category as well. We're really talking about you're not going to get to that point, that the body manifests physically in that way without having a level of emotional toxicity.

In all honesty, I haven't seen this myself yet. Perhaps there's somebody out there who has seen this, but I have not seen a person with physical issues that wouldn't have complex emotional stuff going on. They may or may not be aware of how much emotional complexity there is because actually, that's part of the issue. Part of the issue why people treat it so superficially is because it's not so easy to understand for people. It can be quite confusing. It can be quite overwhelming, not people who specialize in biochemical stuff won't necessarily at the same time be experts on emotional stuff. If you go to a functional medicine doctor, they will tell you manage your stress, but that may mean that you will occasionally do a meditation and that is just not going to do it, is it? It's just not going to do it, right? I just wanted to just put it out that we really need to—we talk—when we're talking about cellular healing, when we're talking functional medicine, natural medicine, we're talking about root causes when it comes to healing. We want to really go after the root causes rather than treat symptoms, which is obviously what conventional medicine tends to do.

With emotional healing, it has to be the same. We can't just treat the symptoms We need to go after the root causes. Of course, we're going to go into more detail, early childhood events, emotional trauma. There's obviously other layers to that. That's another thing that I want people to think about when you're thinking about your emotional healing. You need to be—rather than think oh, how do I maybe numb the bad feeling that I have, that being frustration, anger, sadness. You need to be thinking why is it that I'm experiencing this feeling on a regular basis. Obviously we're talking about the chronic stuff if you occasionally get angry. By the way, this is a normal human response and there's nothing wrong with that. I'm talking about symptoms, which I will hopefully get to that in a moment.

What sort of symptoms are we talking about when we're talking about emotional healing? We're talking about stuff that goes on chronically, day in, day out, and the issue with that is that a lot of people are not even aware that that's happening because—why is that? Because we desensitize. If we're exposed to something day in, day out, and we experience something day in, day out, very often people will get to a point where they will desensitize to the fact that they may be chronically angry or chronically anxious or chronically fearful, upset, whatever it is, sad, because that's been with them for such a long time. They will say well, that's just how I've always been. They won't even go to question why they're feeling this way in the first place. They just accept it as part of who they are, which then causes other problems because it becomes part of their identity, and that's [0:09:21], right?

Dr. Pompa:
It's similar to—gosh, I didn't realize I was angry but they have mercury in their brain. It's like oh, gosh, I just respond that way. With these emotional toxins, it's the same thing. How do we identify it? I'll use myself as an example. I mean, I had dyslexia as a child and got through it. As a matter of fact, I would argue it's part of my gifting today, what makes me special in the sense that I can remember things the way I do and put—so I wouldn't have even the influence that I have if it wasn't for my dyslexia. However, when I dug deeper here, I realized how many things that I do, react certain ways because of my insecurity, was developed thinking I was dumb because I couldn't read because I was—all of that. I literally had to go through that.

I would look at it and say well, I wasn't abused. That's a real trauma, meaning that that's real stuff. I didn't have that, so I always put myself in the camp of well, I didn't have these emotional traumas. Well, I did, and arguably my brain could perceive it as traumatic as being abused. The point is how do we identify it? That was me looking back and identifying something that I didn't think affected me but did.

Dr. Eva Detko:
So yeah, you've made a good point there about the severity of trauma that is very interesting. People often think of trauma. They will hear a term PTSD, and they will assume that in order to consider themselves traumatized they would’ve had to go through something really major, perhaps be in a war zone, or somebody dying, or even a divorce, or something like that, being abused. That, obviously, is an issue. Something like this has happened to somebody. Then that is one of the adverse childhood events we talk about. However, people really do underestimate the trauma that doesn’t necessarily happen as a one-off big event but rather is an accumulation of small, not even events but this daily—perhaps daily maybe teasing at school. Something like that.

I had that. I was bullied at school for four years. It wasn’t necessarily that one big thing happened. That was highly damaging. That was highly, highly damaging because it was something that happened over a long period of time. In addition to that and this is the biggest one that I see when I work—I predominantly work with people with chronic health issues and highly complex emotional issues, and the one that I see as most underestimated is the developmental trauma. The developmental trauma I think is more interesting because it’s not about one big thing that happened, although it obviously could be, but it’s really about lack of bonding. That’s really what developmental trauma is about and the first years, the 0 to 4 in particular, extremely vulnerable years for any human being, and in those years, if there isn’t enough human contact, if there isn’t enough, basically, kisses, cuddles, connection that every human being needs, then that could result in a person actually being traumatized. In fact, that sort of trauma will usually affect people’s identity, so it’s not so much that it will just affect their behavior. No, it will cut much deeper. It will go right to the core.

Why is that important? This is important. When dealing with emotional stuff, the behavior also—for instance, somebody could have a phobia, so they’re doing this phobia. Phobia is really a behavior. When they’re doing this phobia, it may be that they see a spider and they freak out. Every time they run this path over and over, but that is actually fairly easy to deal with. A straightforward phobia I can deal with with a client in a matter of half an hour and maybe sometimes not even that, and that phobia is gone forever. That’s actually an easy if it’s a straightforward phobia, obviously not a complex one.

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

Dr. Pompa:
How would you know? Just like a toxin, like I always say, when we look at toxins, there’s so many parallels here that the number one source is actually what we inherited from our mother and father. You don’t know that, especially mom gives lead and mercury through utero. You don’t remember that, of course. You don’t remember not being cuddled or kissed, or you don’t remember what happened or the stresses in that time which can create that. I just taught a Mastermind to my doctor group. I was talking about—really, about functioning from your true identity. I’m trying to help these doctors, and when I see them not functioning from a true identity is when they don’t build rapport with patients, whether they’re speaking from stage or one-on-one. It’s because they’re not coming across as authentic in a sense. Really, the key is is they’re not functioning from their true identity.

What you’re saying is when you’re not in your true identity that affects your life in many ways. Here I am training professionals, and the ones that are having trouble functioning just from who God made them, who they should be, the gifts they have, they’re not. They’re struggling. It could be all the way back from 2 years old.

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

If you’re not comfortable with who you are and you—maybe you self-criticize. You beat yourself up over various things. You tell yourself that you’re not good enough, that you’re too stupid, too fat, too thin, too this, too that, right? When you do all that on a regular—a lot of people have this negative self-talk that just goes on every hour of every day, and they don’t even know that they’re doing it. Of course, rapport with other people will be difficult because you will always project. In sight of that, we will call it projection, when you project your own emotional crap onto other people, basically. That will, for instance, manifest. Let’s say somebody feels—they’re self-critical. They’re critical of themselves, and they don’t feel good enough. Immediately, what they’re going to do is they’re going to assume that other people are critical of them, so that’s what I mean by projection.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. Eva Detko:
A lot of people overcompensate. You’re right; you can spot that from miles away, right? You can sense when somebody is truly comfortable with who they are, and they’re a confident person. They’re an assertive person, which assertive is a positive thing. It’s good to be assertive and assert yourself in life. There’s nothing wrong with that, but there is that line that some people cross. It’s quite true, and they go out of their way to appear confident, or they always have to prove that they’re right. For instance, they would—if somebody questions them, they would go and research on the internet and dig out the encyclopedia, whatever. That they will just go out of their way to prove that they’re right on this particular point. Stuff like that is overcompensation.

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

Dr. Eva Detko:
Yeah, and so part of it is actually personality trait. Part of it is personality trait. I use different personality profiling tools, but one of them is Enneagram, which people may be familiar with. There’s nine personality types, but what’s interesting is it’s not necessarily that you—one thing or the other. It’s just that you just dominate in one area with your personality, and we all do. What’s also interesting is that across each type there’s—it’s a spectrum, so you can be at a high expression of that personality type or a really low expression of that personality type. That narcissistic type person would be actually the lowest expression of Type A, for instance, yes.

However, you see, if that person ever comes out of their narcissistic bubble, which—obviously, with narcissism, isn’t that the whole thing? They just don’t see the wood through the trees. Occasionally, that may happen that people decide to embark on self-development or whatever else they’re going to do. They may actually recognize that, even though their safety is in always being right and always being superior or whatever else that they need to do to feel important, when they step out of it, they understand that they can actually be more balanced and still feel good about the world and about themselves. That’s a journey that is very, very difficult for somebody who isn’t actually skewing in that direction. Yes, a part of it is actually a personality thing. Yes, we have a lot of narcissists out there. That’ true, but most people and particularly people who have chronic health issues, they will be on the other side of that. They will be more inclined to do the negative self-talk. That’s what we think.

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

Dr. Eva Detko:
Another sign is anything such as not feeling deserving. Something happens and you feel, oh, yeah, this is nice, but I just don’t feel like I truly deserve it. Again, just feeling like you’re worth less, and everybody else around you is somehow more worthy than you are. That’s a big identity issue as well. Chronic guilt and shame, this is quite a bit one because that will come out from early childhood as well. We’re not talking about healthy shame because there’s such a thing, but most people these days—because the society shames us in so many different ways.

I mean, it’s nuts. It’s nuts from the word go, particularly in the West. I’m talking Western society, obviously. Children are shamed for all sorts of things, and particularly when they’re shamed around the toddler age, preschool age, that could cause big problems later on. That is something to be aware of. Just going in and thinking, well, do I feel guilty all the time? Do I feel ashamed all the time? It’s something that people may actually be aware of, right?

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

Now, that is highly emotionally toxic. You’re winding up. You’re basically stressing your nervous system constantly, so you’re constant fight or flight. Of course, you can’t heal and you can’t detoxify if you’re constantly in fight or flight, as we know. Those things could be all sorts of things. It could be fear of failure. A lot of people have that, fear of failure, fear of losing control, which are connected, fear of criticism, fear of rejection. That’s a big one. Of course, even things like fear of death or fear of illness. Let’s not forget that illness itself is a trauma. When somebody is being chronically ill for a very long time, often time I—before I even get to any other trauma with them, I need to work with them on the trauma of the illness itself, and some people actually do have fear of the unknown, which leans back to fear of not being in control.

There are also other things, people who over-analyze or overthink a lot. What that means, that means that they live in their head so much that they almost lost the connection to their feelings and to their body. Why is that? Why does that happen? Usually, this happens as a result of a bad experience, and this is a protective mechanism. Some people think that if they’re able to rationalize and analyze the hell out of everything they feel safer if they can do that, but of course, it’s not exactly possible to do that all the time. Sometimes we need to accept that there are things that we don’t have control over and there are things that we cannot analyze or understand. That would make somebody that way inclined very, very uneasy. When people have this, often people say I’ve got a monkey mind. I can’t meditate because my mind is so busy. We know there’s something majorly toxic going on at the emotional level if you can’t make your mind go quiet and that you’ve got those constant thoughts and they’re usually negative coming into your mind just constantly so the monkey mind, obviously, as well.

Dwelling on anything that happened in the past, how many people do you know who can literally—who will still go over today something that happened 10 years ago, 20 years ago, and they just can’t let it go? It’s like that inability to let go of stuff, inability to forgive, that resentment, that chronic resentment that some people hold, the chronic grudges. That’s obviously highly toxic, and that definitely points that—to the fact that there’s been—that something went on earlier in life, some level of trauma must’ve occurred in order for you to have that chronic resentment.

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

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, no, I mean, you give us literally nine things there that people need to look at. I mean, it's not like you'll have all of them, so how many of those would you say yeah, okay, you need to really look deeper, that you have some emotional toxicity from your childhood?

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

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

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

Dr. Pompa:
Right, again, the parallels with chemical toxicity—we want to know what we're up against. It's like okay, great, now we've identified that mold and mercury are prevailing here, so now we know what we can do about it. We've taken the test; thank you for that. Then okay, great, now what can we do about it? Now what do we do? This is the—now this is the detox question. How do I detox these emotions out of me so that I can live a happy, normal life.

Dr. Eva Detko:
Right.

Dr. Pompa:
Again, we're talking about turn off this illness that I'm dealing with. We know just like the chemical toxins, it can keep these symptoms there, no different. I need this next level of detox so I can get where I want to with my health or my emotions, whatever it is.

Dr. Eva Detko:
Yeah, that certainly was the case for me. I had chronic fatigue nad fibromyalgia nad I was really, really sick and couldn't get out of bed at some point. It was not so much the diet because I had already been gluten-free at that point anyway. I was quite careful about what I was eating. It was actually doing the trauma work that got me out of chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia. It definitely—and I definitely see that with many of my clients because what ends up happening is I get a lot of inquiries from people who have already done a lot of work on the biochemistry front. That's what people tend to go to first because it's just easier. Then the emotional stuff is left til the end, usually. What I'll say here don't leave it til the end. Just do this work alongside each other because really when you get—

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

Dr. Eva Detko:
We've got the awareness, and that is really, really important because you can't deal with something you don't know what you're dealing with. The trauma work, there are a number of superb modalities these days, and the goal of the modalities for me, havening techniques and brainworking recursive therapy.

Havening techniques is actually psycho-sensory modality, which means that you simulate the receptors on the skin and that acts directly via the nervous system connection on the amygdala part of the brain, so the part of the brain that is responsible for processing emotions, and this is a very incredible method because you can use it for severe trauma, but you can also use it as a management tool. For instance, you go into a meeting and you have to give speech or whatever; you have to speak or give a presentation and you're a bit anxious. You can actually use it to manage the symptoms of anxiety. Of course, I always encourage to get to the root of the anxiety and you can use that method for that.

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

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

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

Dr. Eva Detko:
Yes, [35:08] tapping.

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

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

There are three sides, and it's really simple. The first one is the face, and all we're doing essentially is strokes like this. You can go from the top of the forehead or you can go even from under the eyes. That's the first one. The second one is the arms, and you can do it through one layer of clothing. Of course, if you have lots of layers, you need to remove some of them, but you don't need to do it on the skin; you can do it through one layer of clothing like I've got now and you've got now. We're going from the top of the shoulder, and we're sweeping all the way down to the elbow. Obviously I'm just doing this now; you don't need to hold your arms up in the air; I'm just wanting to show this. You're obviously keeping them down here so that you're comfortable That's more or less the speed and the tempo of it, so it doesn't need to be too slow or too fast. It's just moderate. Then the third one is your hands, and it goes like this. It's basically almost like washing your hands, very easy.

Here's the thing with this modality: you can actually work on a specific traumatic memory with this. You can have the memory of something that you experienced that's still causing an emotional response, so that's the key one. You still need to have an emotional response You go to that memory, close your eyes and go there, and then the moment you bring that feeling up, because of course you remember something and immediately, you've got that emotional response You start havening at that point straightaway. We don't want to re-traumatize, so we don't necessarily want to go over and over what we experienced.

What we do with havening is we start stimulating the brain in a variety of different ways. We use humming, we use counting, and we use spacial awareness For instance, you would imagine that you're walking on the beach, or in the forest, or something like that. You imagine yourself walking or skipping or skipping rope or something like that so there's movement involved.

Then finally, we also use the eye movement. People may've heard of EMDR. This utilizes the eye movement also as well as the havening touch; you're doing that and at the same time, you're moving your eyes sharply right and sharply left. You can go over your own—obviously I want to have it here. If you have complex emotional trauma, don't try and work on this yourself because you could bite off more than you can chew, obviously. If you maybe had a family gathering and somebody really got on your nerves and then you're still fuming a week later, go back to that in your mind, bring up the emotional response, and haven on that. In a matter of ten minutes, sometimes even less, you could get rid of that emotional response.

What then happens is you still have the memory but it does not upset you anymore. Essentially it's the emotional response that's going to put the stress on the nervous system. If we just have a memory of something and it causes no emotional response whatsoever, then fine. That's not toxic. What's toxic is the negative emotional response that that memory will induce. That can be addressed with havening. Of course, if people know tapping then they can tap on those things as well, on those negative memories.

That is one way of using this modality. I mix it with all sorts of things. Like I said, I work with really complex emotional trauma. I bring all sorts of other things into it. I bring NLP, hypnosis, Gestalt therapy, all sorts of other things in a child work because of course when you were—if you had issues in those first formative years of your life, then we need to do some work around that. I obviously use havening alongside other techniques to do that. Definitely this is a self-help tool that anybody can use. It's really amazing because sometimes—okay, so maybe you're in a meeting and you're a bit stressed. Okay, fine, you're not going to start stroking your face, but you can still rub your hands and nobody is going to know any better because people just do that, don't they? Nobody's going to question why you're rubbing your hands. You can even do it in the heat of the moment while you're going through something stressful, so that's really, really excellent.

Then another one that I use is brainworking recursive therapies, actually psychotherapy techniques. There's no sensory stimulation, that it's actually a set protocol of steps and just to describe what we're trying to do is we're trying to inter-wrap the pattern. For instance, people know that—may know or may not know; I don't know, but a conscious response is much slower than instinctive subconscious response. For instance, if I were to throw something at you, you immediately would either try to catch it or you try to get out of the way, right? It will be something that you just do and a moment later, you'd be aware that you've done it. It's that consciousness only catches up a couple of seconds later.

Dr. Pompa:
What's this called? What's this technique called?

Dr. Eva Detko:
Brainworking recursive therapy, BRWT, for short. The idea here is that we want to almost interrupt the pattern. When people have emotional responses, it's usually that they have a memory and then that emotional response comes in. We want to interrupt—we actually almost injecting something else in between the original memory and the response. We actually work with pre-fed response and we work with future memories. We're replacing the original memory, if you will. That's sort of what we're trying to do with this one. Your mind doesn't actually know reality from fiction, so the alternative memory work is actually really, really effective. That's another great technique that people can do if they have memories that are seriously disturbing to them.

Dr. Pompa:
Give us an example of how you would interrupt that.

Dr. Eva Detko:
The protocol has got about 14 steps in it, and you follow those exactly. Basically what you do is you recall the original memory and with that, usually there will be an emotional response. Even if there isn't that immediate emotional response, we can still work with the memory. Then we want to then think about how we want it to be instead in that moment. We know what we did or didn't do, but how could you change that original memory to be more positive, more empowering so you're more in control. We want to keep it positive, so we don't want to be vindictive in it or anything like that, just keep it nice and clean. Keep it positive.

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

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

That's another—that's more of a psychotherapy technique, but another one that I really, really want people to have a go at is in their child work because that's huge. As I described, we have those different stages of child development. We've got infancy; we've got toddler, preschool. John Bradshaw was the one who described this really well. If somebody wants to know a little bit more about this, John Bradshaw's Homecoming is a great book to read. He talked about infancy, toddler, preschool, and school child. We have different emotional needs through those different stages because as we develop, our needs change.

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

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

We can create that imagery around the child, and then we can bring our adult self into that memory and we can be the protector for that child. This may sound like something really weird, but people have incredible emotional releases and responses when they do this exercise. Again, if you know that you had loads of trauma as a child, then maybe you do need to be guided through this process. If you feel that your childhood was okay but maybe there was some wounds there that you want to heal, okay. If you know that you had a lot of trauma, then potentially that exercise could bring up a lot of stuff that you may feel completely overwhelmed by. If you're in that camp, then it's better to get two, three sessions with somebody to guide you through this process and then you're done.

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

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, wow, and I agree. Some people are going to need a coach. That's what they hire me for, right? You're too toxic; you can't do this alone, although I encourage people. I teach people all the time. This is what you should be doing in your life. However, many people are far too toxic physically, chemically to do it on their own and they need a coach, and that's what I do. Same with this; you made great suggestions here, but many people watching and listening, you need a coach because you could end up in great doo-doo just like chemical toxicity. Hire a coach; that's the point. You have her information here and the quiz even to take as a starting point and even some things you can start right away, but I'm sure it's much deeper than that, Dr. Eva. Some people need you, no doubt.

I'm so [50:42] this because you gave us really good tools, from an understanding, a testing—is this me—to start here right away to start some of this emotional detox work. I think it was the most useful show that we've had on this subject, really. You gave us great, great tools, set tools but yet it's still a starting place. We have to identify this stuff just like a toxin. Otherwise, you're not going to get well. It's the hidden toxin of all hidden toxins, frankly.

Dr. Eva Detko:
Yeah, and there's one thing that I didn't mention, but there's definitely a place here to mention values and beliefs. Sometimes people can have very negative response to live, not necessarily as a result of trauma but as a result of something that I call social engineering. This basically happens to all of us from the word go. We come into this world and immediately we're being passed on other people's values and beliefs because quite honestly, without them we would not be able to survive because you need to know that you don't stick your hand in the fire because this is a bad thing to do. There's obviously a lot of positive beliefs that our caregivers, our parents, our guardians give us when we—at that young age when we need to learn, but at the same time they have their own hangups, and they have their own insecurities. They're going to end up—a lot of it will end up being your stuff just because it was their stuff.

That is another thing to pay attention to. One of the things that people—that I didn't mention earlier as a symptom of emotional toxicity is emotional conflict. This is huge. How do you know you have emotional conflict? Because you've got that constant eh-eh-eh-eh going on in your mind. It's like ugh, I want to go in this direction, but ugh, oh, God, and you're questioning yourself and going back and forth. You're feeling conflicted because maybe you think that your biggest value in life is making a lot of money but at the same time, you've got your family and you want to spend time with them. Do you see what I mean?

Maybe that value isn't even your value. Maybe that's something that somebody said to you when you were young, and they said, “Oh, in order for your life to be worthwhile, you need to be making lots of money.” Do you know what I mean? You just take it on.

Dr. Pompa:
One of the things that I had said when I was coaching my [53:22] is look, you have to go back on a timeline. Of course, look at these potential trauma that occurred, things that really changed your views and also evaluate not just the events in our life but the people, teachers, friends, impact—that had—that gave you certain premises. We carry these false beliefs and premises that set up certain values that aren't right. Yet it defines our life, possibly for the negative. You have to look at these premises and evaluate them because you're right; sometimes they're given to us and it's not even who we are. We're living our life in conflict.

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

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

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

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that's good. That's great stuff. Thank you so much. Gosh, wealth of knowledge on this subject. I can't wait to visit your site; I'm going to take the quiz. That's awesome.

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

Dr. Pompa:
This is important I think I'm going to have you come to one of my seminars, so when we can get you to the US, let's get you here. Thank you, Dr. Eva, appreciate you.

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

Dr. Pompa:
Hey, I want to tell you about one of our sponsors, CytoDetox. Look, podcasts cost money. There's a lot of production going around this, but we are grateful to have CytoDetox as one of the sponsors. It's so easy for me to talk about the product because myself and my family use it constantly as we practice what I preach. For over 15 years, I've talked about and taught doctors and the public about cellular detox. I'll tell you, Cyto was a breakthrough for us. It's changed so many lives. We're grateful that they sponsor Cellular Healing TV. It makes sense, doesn't it? They should.

Ashley Smith:
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376: How the Microbiome Relates to Disease on a Global Scale

Today I want to re-air this interview with the brilliant Dr. Zach Bush, who is an internationally recognized educator and thought leader on the microbiome as it relates to health, disease, and food systems. This is an enlightening conversation about how a global health crisis requires global immunity, and Dr. Zach will offer solutions that can be implemented now.

More about Dr. Zach Bush:

Zach Bush MD is a physician specializing in internal medicine, endocrinology and hospice care. He is an internationally recognized educator on the microbiome as it relates to health, disease and our food production systems. Dr Zach founded *Seraphic Group to develop root-cause solutions for human and ecological health and extend his passion for educating the world on topics such as the state of our soil – including the need to eradicate toxins such as glyphosate from our farming chain – and the importance of gut/brain communication as a vital part of our overall health/wellbeing.

Dr Zach is a respected speaker and authority in the health and wellness space. He travels the world speaking to medical and farming communities as well as consumers who are interested in taking proactive control of their health.

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Dr. Pompa:
Without a doubt, we are in a global health crisis. I think you would all agree. Well, what’s the answer? I would argue global immunity. What does that mean? You’re going to see.

I’m interviewing Dr. Zach Bush in this episode. We hammer out the two biggest problems and solutions. Wait until you hear what Zach has going on and what you’re going to absolutely be loving being a part of. It is a huge game changer and a unique answer to this massive problem. Check out this episode.

I want to give thanks to one of our sponsors, CytoDefend. Look, at a time like this, I think that our immune system and keeping our immune system up right now is more important than ever. I could also tell you that I pay attention to the things that keep my immune system on par and healthy; so glad that CytoDefend is one of our sponsors here on Cell TV. It’s a product that I use, my family uses, and hopefully you’ll check it out.

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Ashley:
If you’re listening to this podcast and want to access the amazing CytoDefend product Dr. Pompa just mentioned, please visit freeimmunity.com. Again, that’s freeimmunity.com. Hello, everyone. Welcome to Cellular Healing TV. I’m Ashley Smith, and today we welcome the wonderful Dr. Zach Bush, who is an internationally recognized educator and thought leader on the microbiome as it relates to health, disease, and food systems.

This is going to be an enlightening conversation about how a global health crisis requires global immunity. I cannot wait to hear where this goes. Let’s get started, and welcome Dr. Zach and, of course, Dr. Pompa to the show. Welcome, both of you.

Dr. Bush:
Thanks for having us. I so appreciate it. It’s wonderful to be on with you and the audience. It’s going to take a global community to realize a global solution.

Dr. Pompa:
You know, it’s funny, we always try to do timeless shows on Cellular Healing TV because we have so many people who have downloaded the recordings later on. I think this is. We are in a global crisis right now. Actually, we’ve been; I think that with COVID, the rioting that’s going on as the time we record this show, of course, the global crisis has risen to a new level. You have such a unique perspective on this.

We also have a global epidemic going on in our bodies right now. Zach, you bring us together better than anybody. Global immunity, I think, we need to create. My goodness, this show could not be more important right now because of the crisis, the epidemics that we’re facing, the pandemics that we’re facing. This is an important show. Thank you for being here. Your message is really relevant right now, Zach.

Dr. Bush:
Thank you so much for having me on. It’s an exciting time to take a step back and reframe the conversation after many months of looking at the health and socioeconomic collapse that’s happening around a pandemic. We have to understand that it’s revealing symptomatically a much deeper problem that pre-existed the current awareness. That is a crisis of chronic disease epidemics. That’s been brewing for decades now.

Despite so many people from WHO to Harvard to our little tiny laboratory, everybody is screaming this is the end of the species if we don’t change this. It’s not a pandemic. It’s epidemic chronic disease that’s going to end our species. When we start to reframe this, again, we need to remember that at least 66%, and it’s probably more like 76%, in most years of death around the world is not from an infectious disease. It’s around chronic disease.

Worldwide the biggest chronic disease in the world is kidney disease, chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal failure. Not surprisingly, if you look at the pandemic death toll, it hit the chronic kidney disease population harder than anyone else, really. The number one chronic disease creates a vulnerability for a short-term acute event, which is simply one of the milieu of things that will take the lives of people with end-stage renal disease, end-stage cardiovascular disease, all these different conditions that have become at least at any given time 70% of mortality around the world. We need to really keep in mind that when we see trillions of dollars being pumped into a problem like a pandemic, we better keep in mind that that’s less than 6% of the current issue. The 94% is not there.

Dr. Pompa:
I think this show, I always want to avoid being politic, right? I always recognize half of my audience believes this, half the other believes this. Why even bother with that? Sometimes it’s a little difficult. There are so many political pressures around this. I get it.

There’s so many other big agendas. We have literally people trying to usher in a new world order and a one [05:50] government and doing it through health, the global vaccines, and all these damn agendas. What is the explanation right now for—when we look at it just from a logical perspective, just the statistics you said about chronic kidney disease, then you have heart disease. Then you have cancer. Come on, we’re not shutting down economies because of these condition.

Maybe we should because these conditions kill so many people unnecessarily. Dang it, there’s something we can do about it. What’s the difference here? Why do you think that COVID has all of this attention versus all these chronic conditions you just touched upon?

Dr. Bush:
It’s social programming, really, more than anything. How many Hollywood movies have focused on Ebola and pandemics and epidemics and contagion and all this? Hollywood itself has programmed fear into our mentality around infectious disease. It’s extremely antiquated when it comes to the science. We now know that the microbiome, the virome, these are critical to human health. We wouldn’t have human genomics without the virome and the involvement of the bacteria building who we are today.
It’s a very old, antiquated concept of science that we’re somehow being attacked by a microbiome or these viruses. It’s not the case. It’s old science. Yet, it’s the current paradigm. There’s certainly that social programming that allows the fear button to be pushed.

It’s very hard to push the fear button on something like childhood cancer when most of the wealthy people in the country that are making the financial and economic decision making at the policy level all the way to our day-to-day operations of large corporations, their children are not at risk. Their children are grown up. It’s maybe their grandkids that are starting to be affected. It’s hard for them to believe that there’s a true epidemic of childhood cancer right now.

Cancer is such a—the word cancer induces massive fear. The risk of cancer doesn’t induce fear because people still to this day believe that it’s some small risk when, in fact, 50% of American males will be diagnosed with cancer before they die. That’s a flip of a coin. Yet, we aren’t trained to fear that 50% likelihood. In fact, the likelihood of getting COVID is less than 0.1%. It is a psychological, not a scientific [08:25] that we’re dealing with.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah. Look, we have struggled to get people to change their diet, which basic diet changes, Zach, what do you think the percentage is of avoiding most of chronic disease, whether that’s heart disease, cancer? A huge number, right, just changing your diet and avoidance.

Dr. Bush:
Cardiovascular disease, you’re at 98.5%. Cancer, you’re somewhere around 96%.

Dr. Pompa:
Big numbers.

Dr. Bush:
The numbers are obscene. They’re ridiculous.

 

Dr. Pompa:
Yet, they’ve got people to wear masks, which you and I did a show. We did a Facebook Live, which got millions of views, about the dangers of masks and the fact that the experts themselves really know they don’t work, yet because of fear, managed to get people to wear a mask. We can’t get them to change their diet to prevent the true number one killers.

When you look at the numbers of people who are going to die from just those conditions we just mentioned, it’s 0.1% of COVID. I don’t get it, Zach. Honestly, I say it with love in my heart because I know the fact if they just can understand the fear should be here and not here. It’s misplaced. How do we get them to understand?

Dr. Bush:
It’s challenging. I think it’s our children that have to teach us the path now because we now have 52% of American children with a chronic condition by recent Medicaid screening test. It would suggest that every single household is either influence by one degree of separation from a child with a chronic disorder. That can be mild disorders like eczema, asthma, and food allergy, or it can be childhood cancer, autism, attention deficit, hyperactivity disorders, major depression, precocious puberty, major depression, anxiety disorder, suicide. These are all rampant under the age of 15 now.

When you start to look at that, I think that’s my only hope is that if we’re going to build cities to house our sick children as we have, if you go and look at Children’s Hospital in Houston, it is a dozen massive skyscrapers down there that are built to house children with cancer and chronic disease. If we’re building cities that run multi-billion dollar economies out of those sick children, the only entry point that I can imagine that can touch the heartstrings enough to say we are completely going about this the wrong way. I’ve given up more or less on the concept of a healthy dinner plate and have to go to a healthy kid. Nobody thinks they can make sense of all of the information out there online about what is actually healthy nutrition because there’s paleo, there’s keto, there’s this, there’s that.

The advantage of being a microbiome guy is I’ve been invited to speak at all of those different conferences. One week I’m at Grassfed Exchange for the beef producers. The next week I’m at a vegan conference. The next week I’m at Paleo Universe. It’s like in the end I just keep trying to preach the message there’s only two types of food, real food and chemically-driven, processed, and artificial food.

Until we get everybody organized to that reality, we’re going to keep failing because we have a multi-billion dollar consumer industry that’s pushing, advertising behavioral modification and behavior programming on our children. We have this fractured real health, real nutrition message, which they’re all bickering back and forth and fighting on. I think for us to get forward, why did COVID win the game as far as PR is because there weren’t a bunch of factions. There weren’t a lot of people saying it’s actually fungi that are bad for you. It’s actually bacteria that are bad for you. It’s actually [12:17] that are bad for you.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s this one thing. By the way, I’m in agreement on you with the diet. It’s like that is the glaring message. Just stop this processed food. Eat real food. I’m a believer.

I’ve lectured all those things too. Low Carb USA, they don’t want me back because I’m like this isn’t the only diet. I believe the variation is really the magic. Our DNA is set up to be times of feast, times of famine, times of low carb, times of high healthy carb. Some people don’t like that message.

Like you, I don’t camp in any of those things. Like you, my gosh, if we just got people to take the processed food out of their diet, now you’re dealing with a healthy child as opposed to trying to change the plate, to your point. I love it. We’re looking at two ecosystems here where there’s a problem. It’s like this ecosystem [13:14].

Again, remaining un-political, we have two different problems. Today getting good, healthy food is a problem. The ecosystem out here that they’re spraying a zillion chemicals on and destroying, that makes it harder for this ecosystem to function with true immunity. You and I agree that it’s not running from viruses and bacteria. As a matter of fact, that’s detrimental to our immune system.

That’s why when I see people with masks on, it breaks my heart. I want to run up to them and just give them a lecture. It’s impossible. We don’t run from these things. We embrace them. That’s a message that’s just not popular right now. The point is that we really need to change these ecosystems, and that’s been a part of your passion, so start there.

Dr. Bush:
Yeah. I think as we start to look across the ecosystem of health to agriculture, food is obviously the primary intersection there. It really boils down to air, water, and soil. All three of those ecosystems have been destroyed and are very responsible for the perfect storm that created COVID. In a nutshell, our conversation down to 17 seconds, if you put Roundup and glyphosate and chemical herbicides into an environment in protein production around pork and chickens and all of that and then spraying the food directly, you create a huge microbiome stress.

You are literally causing extension events. Within the microbiome the response is genomic adaptation, which is expressed through viruses. The viruses are being sent out by every species saying we have to adapt quickly because we have a toxic environment that’s threatening life on earth. The virome expands and—

Dr. Pompa:
Wait, I want people to understand that point. What you just said will gloss people over. What you’re saying is viruses carry protein messengers, messages, where species, bacteria, can communicate with one another. Everyone understands that.

Viruses aren’t your enemy, according to Zach. Viruses are actually really important for the communication within our ecosystem in our body and in nature. That’s your major premise where you’re coming from. It’s not the enemy. It actually helps [15:41].

Dr. Bush:
It’s very important in that message to realize that viruses are not alive. We mis-categorize viruses as microbiome. They’re not microbiome. Microbiome is living entities. The biome says it has to be a living organism.

Viruses are not living organisms. They are dead particles of genomic information that traffic through air and other systems. The viruses are not microbiome. The microbiome communicates via the viruses for genomic adaptation. All of the species diversity that we see on the planet is the result of intelligent design from trial and error, if you will, through the viruses.

Every species on earth is constantly sending out adaptation signals. Those adaptation genes are constantly reorganizing every species to find niches and opportunities for life to emerge in more and more bio diverse sectors, more and more bio diverse ecologies, and environments. The virome is helping build life. Fifty percent of the human genome was built by viruses. Ten percent of the human genome was built by retroviruses like HIV.

We vilify the very things that built us. If we keep vilifying that, we will destroy ourselves because like we see in Japan and China and South Korea, Italy, even parts of New York right now. They’re spraying insecticides and herbicides into the air as if we’re going to kill this thing that’s out there somewhere. It’s literally being made by humans. Humans are generating the virus.

It’s not coming from out there. It’s coming from within us because we need genomic adaptation and movement. We are so backwards on this thinking that we’re trying to kill something alive. It’s not living tissue. You’re not trying to sterilize viruses.

We would kill the planet instantly the moment we sterilize viruses because viruses are critical in genomic adaptation and communication. It’s not just viruses. Viruses are very long RNA strands or DNA strands that code for a whole protein. Smaller than the viruses are the micro RNA that don’t code for a protein but instead are the signaling system for the protein manufacturing within our bodies. The micro RNA actually govern what a single gene is going to produce.

We now know that a single gene doesn’t make a single protein. That’s what we thought in the 1990s. We now know that a single gene can make over 2,000 different proteins, depending on its micro RNA and co-repressor, co-activator functions.

The information from the whole ecology around a single cell in your body is conducting and determining what that cell is going to produce today. If you start to wipe out the genomic information in the air in the form of micro RNA and viruses, you’re going to kill life on earth even faster. We’ve been doing it systematically. The virome produces this huge genomic adaptation because there’s huge herbicide, pesticide pressure.

The biggest herbicide and pesticide dump site in the world is Hubei Province. Harder spraying there than anywhere else in the world, more toxic pork industry than anywhere else in the world, which is amazing because the United States has an extraordinarily toxic pork and agricultural system. China has outstripped us in the last ten years with even more toxicity. If you’re going to pick a place where this is going to happen, it has to be Hubei Province.

Then Hubei happens to have the perfect carrier for the genomic information globally, which is air pollution. PM2.5 is a tiny carbon particulate in the air. PM2.5 binds the virus. It binds influenza. It binds COVID. All of these genomic carriers of information bind PM2.5 in abnormal clumps.

The earth before air pollution was very good at distributing viruses very systematically across the surface of the planet. This is long before humans ever existed, long before airplanes. The CDC wants you to think that airplanes are carrying this virus from place to place. I don’t even have a word for a how stupid that concept is.

Viruses flew around the world just as every other virus has always moved. It moves through the air through [19:48], not respiratory droplets. [19:50], meaning binding to small particulate in air, before air pollution. It can bind dust, pollen, all kinds of things in this tiny particulate, and it travels around the globe over just a couple of weeks, months’ time. That’s the normal.
When you put PM2.5 in the atmosphere, you get abnormal clumping of viruses, and you deliver way more genomic information than the species should have been exposed to. We’ve created that situation. The viruses are not attacking us. The viruses are trying to create adaptation, yet we create an artificial and toxic clumping of the virus.

Then the virus with COVID binds the receptor in the lung that’s called the ACE2 receptor. The ACE2 receptor binding the virus pulls it into the bloodstream appropriately. That’s how we’re supposed to absorb this genomic information to get the genetic update. This is just like a software update. Our genome needs to evaluate this new information, see if this is an important new protein.

COVID-19 happens to have a new RNA strand slightly different than SARS and MERS did in 2002, 2012. We’ve got a new opportunity for an update. We know that every time we get exposed to a new virus, we don’t develop immunity for that one thing. We develop a homogenous kind of equilibrium with all different types of viruses by exposure to the one. The opposite is seen with influenza vaccine. If we give an influenza vaccine, we increase the likelihood of you having something like COVID-19. That was proven in a military study that was just done two years ago.

Dr. Pompa:
In 2017.

Dr. Bush:
In 2017. We have this wrong model. We vilified the information. That’s ridiculous in and of itself. Then we created an environment where the information gets into the bloodstream abnormally.

We’ve up-regulated ACE2 receptors in our lungs through pharmacy. It turns out the two drugs you have to put chronic kidney disease, chronic cardiovascular disease, and diabetes patients on is an ACE inhibitor and a statin drug. When you put those two drugs on any of those populations, the up-regulate the ACE2 receptor for a virus that’s now clumped around PM2.5. Now you’ve got this load of virus dumping in that’s bound to PM2.5 that carries cyanide.
Cyanide is a natural part of air pollution, and it causes histotoxic hypoxemia, which is exactly how a patient presents who is dying of COVID. They’re not dying of COVID. They’re dying of cyanide poisoning or 32 other toxins, heavy metals, etc. that are on the backside of that virus that was just trying to give a genetic update, but it’s tagged with this Trojan horse of human toxicity.

Dr. Pompa:
You have people dying at 40 or 45. Rarely, nonetheless, but still what you’re saying explains why. They have those conditions. According to Judy Mikovits, if they’ve gotten a lot of flu shots since 2015, to your point they’ve already had some of these coronaviruses from that influenza shot.

By the way, that 2017 military study you mentioned showed a 36% increase of when you get hit with these types of SARS viruses, you get this [23:04] reaction. She calls it a firestorm. Again, this explains that it’s not the virus. It is these other things that are happening with these conditions. You have a 45-year-old that’s on an ACE inhibitor or on a statin and has more of these [23:24] reactions going on. It’s a firestorm.

Dr. Bush:
Yeah. It’s the accumulation of toxicity of soil, water, and air systems that’s creating this thing. As we start to talk about the solution, which is regenerative agriculture, decoupling the chemical industry from everything that we do, how we allowed chemical industry to take over our ecosystems in farming agriculture is dumbfounding. It’s a story of extraordinary complacency among consumers. We are so lazy now.

Dr. Pompa:
Ultimately, though, for me it’s not too puzzling. You can patent these things. If you can patent it, there’s billions to be made. For you and I who lead with our hearts it’s puzzling, perhaps, but when you look by people who are lead by the financial end, it’s not so puzzling.

Dr. Bush:
I think also beyond the money it points to human behavior that can be unified under the word convenience. Because we were all willing to—okay, yeah I’m sure high fructose corn syrup isn’t so good for us. You know what? The kids have got this birthday party and we don’t want to look like the weird granola people. We’ll go ahead and have the gross icing on top of it with all the artificial stuff and everything else.

We rationalize toxifying our children literally. We rationalize the poisoning of our children through social norms and through social behavior and through convenience. Okay, I think it’s only been twice that we’ve eaten at McDonald’s this week. I’ll go ahead and pull into the driveway. In fact, it’s probably four or five [25:09].

Dr. Pompa:
We do better than most.

Dr. Bush:
Yeah, exactly. We eat healthier than 90% of people that I know. Of course, when you actually survey that, you find out everybody’s eating pretty crappy. There’s this cognitive dissidence between reality and the reality. The reality is we are poisoning our children systematically through our food, water, and air systems.

As consumers we are not taking the hard stand against this and we are not taking the fundamental challenges of adapting a different lifestyle for our families. This is not to throw the baby out with the bathwater here. There are a lot of families that are making these difficult decisions that are selling their houses in New York or L.A. and moving out to rural Idaho, buying a piece of land, starting to homestead, learning how to grow food; hats off to everybody who’s making those extraordinary leaps.

What our company and our nonprofit are really working on is now how do we go between the heroes among us that are out there doing that extreme lifestyle shift and the reality of somebody who is not ready to make those leaps? How do we move that whole organization of people forward? You can do that through a couple different ways. We found that the biggest leverage we can push on is actually to change the agricultural system itself. Then the person even making poor decisions actually has healthier decisions to pull from. We have compounds going into feed lots and protein industry to reduce the stress and toxicity of those animals, the antibiotic exposure, everything else by improving their gut function, their respiratory function, and all of that. By changing that side of the spectrum, anybody who is out there buying a piece of meat, I’m a plant-based dude, love teaching vegan diet, but I’m recognizing that if I could make all of the meat less toxic, the transition would start faster where we can heal the earth and we can heal the people quicker as we’re waiting for the cognitive psychological willingness for those big cataclysmic psychological shifts to happen.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s a big, tall order. I think what you’re saying is we’ve tried to change the behavior of human in the foods, but if we changed the food and if we could change a big part of the food, then we could change the person without changing the behavior necessarily. That’s a big, tall order, but a noble one at that, I would say. That’s going to trickle down into generations is the point. If you get one person to eat well, that’s one person. If you can change the soil and the animal and the plants, then you’ve changed epigenetically generations to come.

Dr. Bush:
We’re very excited about what we’re seeing in the nonprofit and we’re in the process of launching an impact investment fund, global big impact investment fund to bring a bunch of capitol to rebuild the infrastructure and tech around the universal adoption of regenerative practices. What we’re seeing with that capital investment fund as well as our nonprofit is that as soon as you start making those right decisions on changing the food system to improve the consumer, you also radically improve life for the farmer. It happens to be generational again.

The biggest problem we have with the stability of small farms in the world, especially in the United States and western countries is the succession. The younger generations are not there because they went and got degrees in dentistry or whatever. They’re not on the farm anymore. There’s nobody to hand that agricultural practice and lifestyle and care for the land to. They end up selling to a Bayer or Monsanto or an international land owner conglomerate or to residential [28:59] developers.

We’re losing 6,000 to 8,000 farms a year in the United States. The biggest chunk of that is for lack of succession. The second largest is bankruptcy due to insoluble status because their soil is dead and they can no longer produce, and they’re producing an artificial economy that has stacked the cards against them, thousands of things.

We’re excited that the solution is the same for both the consumer and the production system. I feel the same way as a physician. My patients want health and aren’t getting it from a Western medical allopathic system. The doctors increasingly want to deliver health and aren’t getting the opportunity to do that through an allopathic training. We see things like functional medicine, integrative medicine, all of these holistic medicine and naturopathic, all of these rising between the pillars to fill in the gaps.

We need to accelerate all of that because it benefits the physician who now has a high calling to heal people and gets to start to do that through understanding nutrition, exercise, fasting, breathing, all of those, the fundamentals of hydration, all of these things. Then on the other side of the equation, you see the customer, the patient that’s now engaged in a lifestyle reform that’s going to lead to a real regenerative health within their bodies. Instead of palliating their disease process, we heal their disease process through a supportive system in the same way the consumer, the mom is trying to feed these five kids in the inner-city healthy food. We start to change the environment there by bringing inner-city above-ground soil systems in like this socks box that we’ve been working with at Erik Cutter in LA, an incredible example of how you can grow tons of tons of food on old parking lots. They’re producing sweet potatoes and kale. We’re doing a dinner table dinner out of a parking lot.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s incredible. My viewer watching this, it’s like, okay, well, I want this for my family. Zach, where do I send them? How do they learn more about what you’re saying?

How can they do that? You know what I’m saying? I’m always thinking of my viewers. They’re in agreement with this, but what action step do we give them right now?

Dr. Bush:
Yeah, right now, you can go to farmersfootprint.us and get involved there. We’re building the infrastructure around this, around awareness and education. Film is one of our main tools that we’re developing a production house to flash out the whole documentary series that we launched the first segment, a 22-minute film on a farm in Minnesota that’s done extraordinary transformation. We’re supporting awareness, and activation, and education to both consumers and farmers through Farmer’s Footprint.

Farmer’s Footprint is the first little project within a much larger non-profit that we’re launching visibly to the world. It’s been around for a year and a half, but it becomes visible in the next few months. Farmersfootprint.us was the first big project, but excitingly, Non-Toxic Neighborhoods is our second project started by Kim Konte, a concerned mother in Irvine, California, who moved in from overseas with her young children and realized that all of their playing fields were being sprayed with Roundup. She was horrified.

She’s like, this isn’t allowed overseas. Why is this happening in my progressive Irvine, California neighborhood? You can go to Non-Toxic Neighborhoods. You’ll find it through Farmer’s Footprint as well. There’s links through that, but nontoxicneighborhoods.org.

That’s got a whole tool kit there for your county and city to ban Roundup in parks and playing fields for your children. I would love to see Park City, Utah jump on this, actually. It would be a great community that would be low-hanging fruit for us.

We’ve gotten over 36 counties that have completely banned Roundup, including San Diego just popped, Houston is underway, Miami popped already, LA banned it. Irvine was the first. We’ve got a number of Midwest, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh underway. Cities all over America are transitioning.

We have 60 cities teed up from the coming 12 months and attracting a lot more. We’re raising money actively through Farmer’s Footprint for that whole project. Farmersfootprint.us will support both the ag side and the city municipal side.

We went after that because in our work to understand where is all the Roundup coming from, why are we poisoning our water systems so thoroughly with this? It’s not just water; it’s air and rainfall as well: 75% of the air we breathe contaminated with Roundup, 75% of the rain that falls is contaminated with Roundup. It’s a global problem.

As we went into this, it turns out the third largest crop grown in the United States behind corn and soybean is lawn. The grass in your playing fields, parks, and backyard are the third largest crop grown in the United States. That’s why Non-Toxic Neighborhoods became such an important piece.

It’s more important than wheat, it’s more important than alfalfa, and sugar cane, and sugar beet, and all these other ones we know are a problem. Lawn is the third biggest problem we have, so Non-Toxic Neighborhood became this important thing. First of all, if you’re not a farmer, you can change your environment with this. Second of all, it’s going to change the water systems dramatically for LA, New York, and all these other cities.

Dr. Pompa:
Imagine the health of children and adults as well if we just did that, if we just got glyphosate banned because what we’ve seen since the ‘80s, especially the ‘90s, is this massive escalation in the use of Roundup and a massive drop in health, an escalation of autoimmune conditions, gut conditions, you name it. Imagine if we could just do that. Check it out, farmersfootprint.us, nontoxicneighborhoods.org. Man, I want Utah cities where I live, come on. How do I get my Park City to be?

Dr. Bush:
Yeah, Non-Toxic has the entire kit there. You can reach out to us through Non-Toxic Neighborhoods. Our team will pick up the baton for you. We have a bit of a backlog, so if you don’t hear back immediately, give us a couple of weeks. We will get to you.

The exciting thing is we start a relationship with you or through you to your city council, to your school boards, and all that. We show them the data; we show them the soil science in their area. It’s pretty amazing. You go and take a soil sample from a park in your city and realize, oh my gosh, we’ve got a disaster here. It’s very easy to take it.

It’s an important piece for your elected officials because they want to show that they’re cleaning up the environment. It’s a win-win scenario where you can show elected officials how this is going to be a great piece of their running again in four years or whatever it is that they want on their dossier of things. It’s a win-win scenario that we help show them the pathway.

Importantly, on Non-Toxic Neighborhoods, you’ll see the whole tool kit of alternatives to Roundup. There are lots of organic products that can be used at scale. LA county is using alternatives to Roundup that are organic. This is something you can do in your backyard.

If you have Roundup sitting in your garage right now, please think about destroying that. You can go online and figure out how to destroy Roundup. You don’t want to dump that down your sewer system.

Dr. Pompa:
Oh, God, no.

Dr. Bush:
Because it just ends up in the drinking water for the children downstream. Go through a digestive process, a fermentation process to destroy the Roundup in your garage. Then in the process, replace that with these organic solutions that you’ll find there.

Dr. Pompa:
I want to back up a moment because I feel like we have viewers that are like, yeah, that glyphosate. Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Roundup, folks. We have a lot of viewers we just reach. They’re going, what’s so wrong with Roundup or this chemical you’re referencing?

First, I’ll let you tackle that in a brief thing of why this is causing so many health conditions. I’ll say this; imagine, we have everybody running. I see kids with masks on. My heart breaks there because what are we teaching them Number One. They’re running from something that has no harm to them, a child, but yet, to your point, they’re playing in playgrounds and schools. They’re being exposed to this chemical, which this threat is setting up chronic disease, cancer, and everything. It’s not our opinion; this is proven. Go ahead.

Dr. Bush:
No, you’re absolutely right. I think if you look at the threat or the potential of threat here, it’s literally you’re going down an avenue of the elephant in the room here is not a virus; the elephant in the room is toxins. Our children are suffering under carcinogens and the rest. Roundup is the gatekeeper as far as our lab is concerned. We’ve been working on it for eight years. I’ve seen thousands and thousands of experiments done under the microscope showing the effects of Roundup on gut, on blood-brain barrier, on renal tubules, vascular cells, the whole thing.

What you see over and over again is it destroys the fabric of life, which is self-identity really. It destroys self-identity through the disruption of tight junctions. It’s the Velcro that holds each cell to the next. When you destroy tight junctions, you create isolated, lonely cells, which are cancer cells.

When you isolate a cell, it becomes cancer quite quickly. In fact, we can show that these cells in the gut lining once exposed to Roundup start to look like cancer cells in six minutes. You can take what was just moments ago a healthy-looking small intestine cell and it looks now like a fibroblastic cancer cell within minutes of exposure.

It’s because of its isolation. Isolation always breeds an increase in chaos. That’s the second law of thermodynamics, most tried and true law in physics. Isolate any system and it increases its entropic chaos. That definitely happens inside of a cell. Isolate a cell and you destroy it.

It goes deep than that as well. Not only are you creating this whole possibility of cancer, you’re also exposing the human system to inflammation. Now, as you destroy the barrier between the outside world and your bloodstream, your body is constantly in a food fight; it’s in a water fight; it’s trying to combat everything coming into the body because it’s not filtered anymore. You’re supposed to have an intelligent barrier, gatekeeper type phenomenon with the gut, the skin, every membrane in your body, lungs being a good example.

You pharmaceuticalize that and then you chemicalize it with Roundup and it blows apart the whole protection system. Now, your body’s in constant overwhelm. Self-identity starts to get confused and you drive autoimmune disease. Your immune system starts reacting to everything, not just there.

It starts thinking your thyroid is the problem. One and four girls in the United States has antibodies to her thyroid based on a study done in 2004. I can’t even imagine what it is today. That study hasn’t been repeated. By 2004, as we had 85% of corn and 95% of soybean on our GMO crop by 2004, by that time, we see one and four girls with an autoimmune thyroid condition.

To say that it’s an epidemic is—just doesn’t even start to scratch the surface. One of the fastest-growing cancers right now in all ages is what used to be a very unusual cancer, which is lung cancer, a specific type of lung cancer. One-point-eight-eight million people will die of this lung cancer this year around the world, 1.88 million. Nearly two million people will die of this single lung cancer this year.

Dr. Pompa:
More than COVID.

Dr. Bush:
COVID will kill, may be involved in the death of—again, I don’t think the virus is killing anybody. That’s a part of the puzzle. Again, even if we blame COVID, we’re up around 300,000 or something like that, maybe 600,000, but we are at a fraction of just one chronic disease caused by the toxicity of our environment. If we’re going to create literally trillions of dollars of economic redirect, economic loss, 250 million jobs lost, we’re doing it for the wrong reason. We’re doing it for a tiny sector of what is the threat to humanity.

The real extinction event that we are facing, we can map out human extinction to be somewhere out 70 to 80 years from the future. That’s one human lifespan. A child born today will—may be the very last human to live out a normal lifespan; 77, 79 years, depending on what country you live in is an average lifespan. We could be in the very last generation of humans on the planet if we don’t radically change direction, and yet, knowing that, we didn’t change direction. Your original premise, which is how do we create the knowledge that would create the lifestyle transformational change, and the answer is, I don’t know.

Recent events around the crisis of civil liberties is giving me hope. Tens of thousands of African American men have been killed under completely illegal, abusive circumstances over the last hundred years, and probably in the millions of people at the minority level that just in this country have been either killed or tortured under a suppressive system. Yet, we saw with George Floyd a spark that we’ve never seen before. The system responded differently. That gives me hope that as a population, 7.8 billion people are carrying a collective conscious that we’ve never had.

You showing up right now is part of the future. You are part of a movement of consciousness on the planet that we should really hang our hope on because whatever was impossible, whatever failed to create change in the past isn’t failing now. We need to go in with that blank slate belief, this new canvas of what are we going to create so that there is not a mass extinction event on this planet? We’ve wiped out 50% of life on Earth over the last 50 years; how do we prevent the last 50 going over the next 70?

We can do that over the next decade. Amazingly, if we improve soil carbon by 0.4% per year around the globe each year over the next ten years, we completely reverse our global warming climate change footprint. In ten years, we can fix that.

It turns out that with regenerative agricultural practices, we don’t do 0.4%; you can do a 400% improvement in soil active carbon in three years. The opportunity for a solution is ten years away if we do incremental tiny, but if we do radical change, we could in the next three years not just see the reversal of climate change, and global warming, and collapse of ecosystems, we could see the reversal to that, a creative, regenerative, co-creative new Mother Nature creating the Garden of Eden on this planet with a deeper microbiome, with a deeper biodiversity of human and other species than we’ve ever seen in human history over the next couple hundred years. We could set into motion the very first generative human culture on the planet if we really do regenerative at its foundation.

Dr. Pompa:
Is part of that process—I know you’re experimenting with a product that you founded, Ion, aka, Restore, for some of my older people. You’re using that as part of putting it back into soils. Now, again, myself, my kids, my family, we utilize that to keep our tight junctions closed, especially if we’re traveling or something. I use the nasal; I use the drink to keep the tight junctions closed because, to your point, we—even though we eat 100% organic, we’re still being exposed to this darn chemical because it is in 75% of the rainfall; and therefore, you’re going to be exposed. Your product for human has really transformed, is part of the answer to how do we protect ourselves, but are you experimenting with that in soil as well?

Dr. Bush:
Yeah, we started with that same concept, these tiny, little carbon molecules. We discovered that we were making a much bigger impact with large organics on that sector. We draw our human product and animal products out of fossil soil. That fossil soil’s about 60 million years old. It’s like a young coal. It’s called lignite.

We do a water extraction process. Then we put it through mineral baths and catalysts to get the oxygen-hydrogen binding right so that you get a redox molecule. Once you get a redox molecule, you have a communication network between species. That’s had a very exciting, revolutionary impact on human health.

Animal health, we have a pharmaceutical coming out by next year for veterinary world. It’s been going in large-scale clinical trials up in Canada. We have 12,000 cattle on it right now. We’re in our last dosing schedule. We already proved efficacy and all of that, or safety. Now, we’re just moving towards rolling that out. That’s all human-animal on the small molecule carbon side.

For soils, we’re using the other half of the equation, the yang to that yin that we’re putting into the human system. The yang is what we use for the soil’s amendments. These are very large carbon substrates that build coil structures around minerals and heavy and light metals and everything else to balance the micronutrient environment of the soils.
We have that going in very large-scale trials in the hemp industry in 120 farms around the country right now. We have vineyards going on it; we have corn, soybean going on it up in Minnesota. It’s very exciting to see the reality that Mother Earth actually planted in her soil 60 million years ago an antidote to toxins that we would dump in her.

Dr. Pompa:
Isn’t that cool, yeah.

Dr. Bush:
Talk about grace there.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, no doubt. I’ll have Ashley put a link to the product that I mentioned that we’re taking in humans to protect ourselves. Everybody should be utilizing this product.

With the time we have left, which is very short, I think that if we identified the two biggest problems for everything that we’re talking about, the threat of human existence, we talked about this problem. The next one is the vaccine issue without risk of getting the show shut down; that’s serious. You and I would agree that this is a major issue.
Now, we’re talking about COVID.

We hear this comment: we’re not going to open up completely or this problem’s not going to be solved until we get a vaccine. Zach, what’s the reality of that? I think I know your answer, but I want people to hear it from you. Also, what is this vaccine agenda doing to this problem that we’re addressing?

Dr. Bush:
Yeah, a vaccine has never been created for an RNA virus like COVID. They don’t work over and over again. They increase mortality every time we try to do it. The early experiments done on the leading two vaccines that were attempted already returned early data to show that we were increasing mortality, and having severe reactions, and unfortunately, we were creating what is called superantigens where the vaccine itself creates a hyperreactivity. If the individual is ever exposed to COVID or a similar virus, they can actually have an extreme version of reactivity, and cytokine storm, and rapid death from it. All of that happened just like it’s happened with every other RNA vaccine that we’ve ever created. Our track record is dismal.

That said, I’m not even an anti-vax guy. I would appreciate your protection for me. If you would go to my website, at the very top banner of my website is a petition for you to sign through change.org for Healthy Childhood Immunity and Vaccination. What our point is, you can read the whole intro that I wrote for that petition, but our point is we need to rethink human health in the context of the last 20 years of science that says we are built by the microbiome. Our health is intrinsically empowered by and reliant upon the health of the microbiome and its biodiversity within us. That needs to be the next model for child health and immunity and our concept of vaccination. If we’re going to have a vaccination mentality or model, then we have to understand it in the context of microbiome; it’s for us, not against us.

If you could sign that petition—we already have 10,000 signatures on that. If you could push us to 50,000, 100,000 signatures on that, we’re going to have what we need to bring to governments around the world. Right now, I’m working with the International Tribunal for Natural Justice and launching a science arm that we’re hoping to build an international science board of international scientists working for by volunteer to process data for public health and safety in all categories: chronic disease, acute respiratory, etc. These are the big systems that I believe we need to put in place is we need independent science voice to return. The WHO is bought; the CDC is too entrenched in special interests around the allopathic model.

Dr. Pompa:
I agree.

Dr. Bush:
Governments are desperate for an independent scientific voice. I’m trying to help foster that and create that. Very excited about the people that are being brought towards that. Very excited about the leaders around the world that are being led towards this project.

I think that people like the King of Morocco are going to have a huge influence on this. The King of Morocco is a Ph.D., multiple degrees from London and elsewhere, brilliantly educated man. He sits really at the crossroads of the Middle East, Mediterranean, and African unions. He, as an individual leader, as he adopts a much more holistic cutting-edge science approach, could change all of those sectors of the world.

My hope is not in the United States. We are going to be the last to change because we have the biggest economic loss to experience or we have the biggest economic shift in reorganization before we can join something like that. I have great hope and confidence that are indigenous and native leaders around the world are going to be able to really change this dialogue radically because they are much more thinking on the cutting-edge of what does public health look like now that we know the microbiome is real? What does public health look like when we are non-pharmaceutical in our model and start to believe in the indigenous health system within our bodies?

Indigenous to us is a microbiome. Indigenous to us and intrinsic within us is an ecosystem of health that can be—that is not reliant on anybody in the pharmaceutical, supplement, anything. Ultimately, we need to refocus our whole scientific venture there.

Dr. Pompa:
I agree. Ashley will put up a link for that. Let’s sign that because that’s great. I also agree with you. I’m for health freedom. Educate yourself.
I want to keep our freedom to vaccinate, not vaccinate, whatever you think is right for your freedom. That’s where my stance is as well. I’ll be interviewing Bobby Kennedy here coming up. That’s his stance as well: health freedom.

To your point, educate, man. You’re right; a healthy microbiome is the answer. Zach, man, some big issues here. Imagine if we just changed that and this glyphosate problem.

Come on, man, we don’t even have to teach people how to eat anymore because that’s not working. It’s like that’s not working; that’s a fail. All right, I agree with you on these topics. Yeah, thank you, Zach. That was wonderful.

Dr. Bush:
I appreciate you having me on. [52:48].

Dr. Pompa:
Yep, and check out those links. We’ll provide them all for you. Thank you.

Hey, I want to tell you about one of our sponsors, CytoDetox. Look, podcasts cost money. There’s a lot of production going around this, but we are grateful to have Cellular Detox as one of the sponsors. It’s so easy for me to talk about the product because myself and my family use it constantly as we practice what I preach. For over 15 years, I have talked about and taught doctors and the public about cellular detox.

I’ll tell you, Cyto was a breakthrough; Cyto was a breakthrough for us. It’s changed so many lives. We’re grateful that they sponsor Cellular Healing TV. It makes sense, doesn’t it? They should.

Ashley Smith:
If you’re listening to this podcast and want to access the amazing CytoDetox product Dr. Pompa just mentioned, please visit detoxoffer.com. Again, that’s detoxoffer.com.

 

375: Heal Your Gut By Healing Your Brain

Are we focusing too much on gut health? Probiotics, pre-biotics, enzymes, elimination diets… everyone these days seems to be “healing their gut.” but what exactly does that mean?

One thing I love to teach my doctors is that you have to fix the brain to fix the gut. Many of us know that your gut is your second brain, and the gut brain connection is very real. Are we doing this whole “gut healing” thing wrong?? You bet.

You'll hear why in this episode!

More about Dr. Pompa

Dr. Daniel Pompa is a global health leader and innovator on a mission to educate practitioners and the public on the origins of inflammation-driven disease, cellular detoxification, fasting strategies, and diet variation principles. Although trained as a Chiropractor, his authority comes from the victory within his own battle, having overcome neurotoxic illness that was rooted in heavy metal poisoning.

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Dr. Pompa:
Hey, I want to tell you about one of our sponsors, CytoDetox. Look, podcasts cost money. There’s a lot of production going around this, but we are grateful to have CytoDetox as one of the sponsors. It’s so easy for me to talk about the product because myself and my family use it constantly as we practice what I preach. For over 15 years, I’ve talked about and taught doctors and the public about cellular detox, and I’ll tell you, Cyto was a breakthrough. Cyto was a breakthrough for us, and it’s changed so many lives. We’re grateful that they sponsor Cellular Healing TV. It makes sense, doesn’t it? They should.

Ashley:
If you’re listening to this podcast and want to access the amazing CytoDetox product Dr. Pompa just mentioned, please visit DetoxOffer.com. Again, that’s DetoxOffer.com.

Hello, everyone. Welcome to Cellular Healing TV. I’m Ashley Smith, and today we have a special episode that is focused about the gut. Are we focusing too much on gut health? From probiotics to prebiotics and enzymes, everyone these days seems to be healing their gut. What exactly does that mean? One thing that I have learned from Dr. Pompa is that you have to fix the brain to fix the gut. Many of us know that your gut is your second brain, and the gut-brain connection is a very real thing. Dr. Pompa, welcome. Are we doing this whole gut healing thing wrong? Can you please educate us?

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, it’s remarkable how many people have gut issues today. It’s practically everybody. It’s really caught on. It’s in vogue right now. Fix the gut, gut, gut, gut, especially in our alternative space. It’s become the microbiome. The gut has become all the talk. You can’t do this unless you fix the gut. You can’t do that. You can’t detox until you fix the gut. It’s all gut.

Now, look, I will be the first to say how important gut is. It’s part of my three-legged stool how important the microbiome is. However, I can tell you from experience that the pendulum shifts all the way too far when somehow it has to come back to a medium where we forgot about something so important in this conversation. This is still the first brain. The gut is the second. My point is this, when we look at all of the failures right now and I’ve talked about, if it were just so simple to take a probiotic and fix your gut and affect your immune system, hey, we wouldn’t be here. We would all be better. It’s not so simple, so that’s one message that I put out there a lot lately. The other one is that we can’t fix the gut until ultimately we fix this brain, the first brain, and I think that’s what people forgot about.

Look, my profession, a chiropractic profession gets it. The innate intelligence, this runs everything through the central nervous system and out to every cell in the body. This intelligence that God put there, we call it innate, meaning inborn intelligence, and this controls it all. As a matter of fact, when we look at the cells, this brain was the first thing – divide into a cell. The spinal cord that runs down our back and all the nerves to every organ and tissue in the body carries that innate intelligence, but this brain was the very first thing to form. That little tail came off of it. All the nerves came out, and from those nerves, all the organs grew. Those cells were ultimately being developed, created from the intelligence that the very first cells made, the brain.

Ultimately, if you just think of that, then we would go, well, ultimately, then if that’s what created—if God designed it that the brain forms first and then it grew a little tail, which is our spinal cord, and all the nerves grew and then from the nerves developed the organs, that’s—honestly, that’s how it happens. Then, ultimately, the healing must happen here first too. The innate intelligence is here. The point is, unless we fix this and we’ll talk more about that, how do you fix your gut? I argue that you can’t.

Ashley:
That’s fascinating. What if people are like but I don’t have brain issues? It’s just my gut. I am bloated all the time. I can’t digest food, but my brain feels fine.

Dr. Pompa:
See, again, the brain has no pain. Literally, we can cut your skull cap off. They do this, by the way, open it up, and we can probe areas of the brain. You’d go, oh, I feel that in my left toe. I feel that here. Oh, I have pain in my liver. Okay, so every part of the brain represents things, and you wouldn’t feel it.

Literally, we can then—I can poke your brain. You don’t feel it, so you don’t know you have brain toxicity. You don’t know you have brain inflammation, well, unless you hit your head so hard your brain shifts and it inflames. Now it’s pushing on all of the vascular, all of the nerves, and now you might know it. Then it would create maybe a headache. The brain itself doesn’t know when it has a problem, but yet, it controls every bit of healing in the body.

Look, when you cut your finger, you don’t put eyeballs—you don’t re-heal it with eyeballs there or eyeball cells. No, the innate intelligence knows exactly what cells because it’s in constant communication with every cell and tissue in the body organizing, fascinating. Here’s how fascinating it is. If you take these two fingers and sew them together—okay, I don’t recommend trying this at home, but this is a study that was actually done. Okay, at first, when you touch this finger, you feel, oh, that’s my ring finger. Okay, that’s my middle finger.

It has separate nerves that run to separate parts of the brain. After a while, your brain, you touch this finger, and you go, oh no, that’s just this finger. Now, they still are running separate nerves to the brain. However, it’s so darn smart that it rewires in the brain that this is now a finger. See, nerves that fire together wire together, meaning the brain re-circuits it, reorganizes it, so now you’re operating one finger is two. I mean, that’s how incredibly smart it is.

Another great example, if you chop your arm off—don’t try that at home. Better to talk about amputees, right? Let’s say you got your arm or leg amputated because of cancer, and it was horrifically painful. Take the arm out. It’s called phantom pain. Your brain is still registering that there’s a pain and there’s a problem. Here’s the good news. You can literally rewire your brain to not feel the pain anymore, and they’ve learned to rewire the brain by literally—it’s a crazy thing by putting the arm in a box and letting your brain know that that arm’s not there anymore. Anyways, there’s different things that they do so we can reprogram the brain, rewire the brain. Then the pain actually goes away, crazy, but that’s how it works.

Ashley:
That’s fascinating. People at home, they’re thinking, well, but I have SIBO. I have candida, and I have leaky gut. They’re maybe taking some supplements that might sort of be helping, but they’re not getting all the way there. What would you say the next step for them would be?

Dr. Pompa:
Look, I think we have to examine the biggest epidemic of why people don’t feel well today, and that is neurotoxicity. These are certain toxins that attack our nerves, our nerve system. The biggest group of nerves is the brain, so ultimately, they make their way into the brain, whether it’s mercury, lead, other heavy metals. Biotoxins affect the center of the brain. All of these types of toxins affect the brain. When I talk about detox, I say, look, the goal is to teach somebody how to do a proper brain phase. That’s different for everybody, the doses, what we do, and that’s a big part of obviously what I teach, how to detox the brain correctly. I would never say I have all the answers. However, we are utilizing a system that is I believe the only system that truly does it effectively and safely, but if we can remove the neurotoxins, remove the interference, the very intelligence that made the body will heal the body.

Now, there is a nerve that comes from the brain called the vagus nerve, and it doesn’t go in our spine like a lot of the other nerves. It bypasses and goes straight to all of our organs, including the gut. It runs what we call the parasympathetic nerve system, and that’s how you digest. That’s how your gut has mobility and moves and pushes things through. What more and more studies are showing and they’re literally calling it vagal nerve toxicity is that, yes, your brain is toxic, but so is the vagus nerve. Now, probably at the source—and there’s new research being done on this, but if we don’t remove and free that intelligence traveling through the vagus nerve, you don’t have normal gut motility. You won’t ever fix your gut. It will continue to inflame.

As a matter of fact, all of the toxins—because it shuts down your detox pathways when this nerve is poisoned, now you build up more toxins. Oh, and guess where they end up? Via the liver dumped into your gut, creating more inflammation, more leaky gut, which is causing the food intolerances and everyone’s taking food intolerance tests, running from different foods, nightshades, oxalates, lectins, all those anti-lectin diets. They’re in vogue right now when we should be running from these things. We should be fixing the problem. When we look at this connection of the brain to the gut via the vagus nerve, we realize that we’re not getting normal peristalsis. Yes, constipation’s a factor. Yes, SIBO’s a factor, but we only can improve that peristalsis by improving the brain connection to the gut. You’ll never fix the microbiome when your detox pathways are backed up, and you’re dumping toxins in the gut. How are you going to fix the microbiome? You see, we have it backwards instead of we need to be focused here first, and then our strategies here will work.

Ashley:
That’s fascinating. Would you say that doing—taking gut supplements let’s say somebody claims is making them feel better. Would you say stay on them if they’re helping but also address your brain, or do you just say maybe just cut out all of the gut supplements for a little while and focus [00:11:19]?

Dr. Pompa:
That’s a great question. I would say if you feel they’re helping stay on them. Look, I am a big proponent and this is one of my gut principles as well is you have to rotate bacteria. People stay on the same probiotic, and you end up causing something called monoculture where you build up too much of that, and you end up with a new problem. You don’t think it’s the probiotics that were the—are the problem because they helped you, and you’re still taking them. It’s like when people get on a diet, and they’re rock solid in their vegetarian diet. It helped me in the beginning, yes, but now it’s actually hurting you.

The fact is is that you may need to rotate those bacteria, but if something is working, stay on it. Ultimately, I think you would agree if you’re listening and you’re that person that I don’t have a lasting effect here. I’m still not ultimately better. Ultimately, we know that, fixing autoimmune, we have to fix the microbiome. It’s part of my three-legged stool, for goodness sakes. I’m making the argument that we have to think different.

It’s one of my goals this year is to reeducate doctors, bringing them back to this has to be the focus and, of course, upstream, getting rid of the toxins. Getting rid of the toxins here, getting that vagal connection back to the gut ultimately will bring the innate intelligence, and ultimately, that can heal the gut. That can reduce the inflammation. That could stop the leaky gut instead of having to avoid lectins and nightshades. We want to go above that to the big problem. Your body knows how to heal. We just don’t give it credit. We just forget it can, but we have to remove the interference.

Ashley:
It’s great. You always know how to bring it back to the brain, which is why you’re so good at what you do. I know you mentioned cutting—people, to have them cut out lectins and nightshades. There are people doing carnivore diets, and they’re claiming it’s healing their gut. How do you feel about elimination diets when it comes to the gut?

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, look, I mean, I think that there’s a time and a place to eliminate things. I mean, come on, if something’s irritating you, avoid it. I don’t want people to look at that as the solution. It’s like you don’t look at crutches as the solution to why your leg’s going to heal. No, you’re just getting around so you can function while your leg is healing. I ask the question, what’s healing your leg? Is it the cast? No, that’s just keeping you from irritating it while the innate intelligence heals it.

See, your brain knows exactly what cells stimulate stem cells, things called exosomes. All of the healing takes place. It folds proteins in your cells. Those proteins are shipped on out to the healing injury, and it starts to remodel calcium. It starts to remodel the tissue around it, all of that innate intelligence that no doctor can create that, but we only wanted to use the crutches while our innate intelligence was healing the fracture or whatever is wrong with the leg. No different than the gut.

I think that elimination diets can be crutches. I think probiotic can even be crutches to some degree, but it’s okay. The point is is that to have a lasting result we ultimately have to get this to heal this, and that’s the missing link.

Ashley:
Yeah, that’s fascinating. Getting back to the vagal nerve, which I love that topic, we’ve done a few episodes on the vagus nerve, and I think it’s just—it’s fascinating. It really is. There are some exercises people can do to strengthen their vagus nerve. There’s essential oils that we actually really like that we’ve used before. Do you think that that can be really helpful when trying to turn on that gut-brain connection again?

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I mean, we know that, for example, there are certain gut symptoms when happening. If you gargle, literally, it’s a vagal stimulation. It can be very helpful. The oils, we did a show. They make a parasympathetic blend that works fantastic, especially when you rub it right over the vagus area, which is right about here. However, again, it’s all for nothing if we don’t deal with the big problem, and that’s the neurotoxic issue in the brain that drives this message through the vagus nerve, and again, these neurotoxins make their way around something called myelin sheath. It’s a fatty covering on the nerve to protect it. They go around it, and they cause dysfunction. Again, the innate intelligence is here. It can heal, but we have to get that innate intelligence down to the area, in this case the gut. Then it will bring intelligence into those cells, and then those cells will absolutely start to heal and regenerate.

The question always needs to be asked what is the interference? That’s when we look at these big neurotoxic sources that people aren’t considering. Heavy metals, typically, we go—people go, oh, yeah, I did heavy metal detox at three months when, meanwhile, there’s mercury, lead, who knows, aluminum deep into their brain tissue creating massive interference in this innate intelligence. Biotoxins I mentioned for mold, different pathogens in the brain, hypothalamus. It controls your hormones, totally disruptive, typically not dealt with correctly, hidden infections from the mouth, this microbiome, crossing the blood-brain barrier, driving more inflammation in the brain, more dysfunction, not being able to heal the rest of the body, and then symptoms stack on symptoms.

Ashley:
Yeah, I mean, you’re known for cellular detox. Your audience knows that by now, especially based on even the title of the show. I know everyone else has heard of your multi-therapeutic approach, so it’s not just about the cell detox. What else should people be doing in conjunction with that?

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I mean, we did a really helpful show. You’ll put the link here for that show as well. I think from this show—going from this show to watch that, you’ll go, oh, this is why we’re getting sick. It is a multi-therapeutic approach that ultimately—I describe it in that show, but ultimately, I describe it as a three-legged stool. Certain genes do get triggered epigenetically, but we could turn those off if we remove the stressors. That’s another leg of the stool. Of course, that’s what I’m talking about here. What are these neurotoxic sources that trigger genes, create all this nerve dysfunction? Then we also have this microbiome communication with the brain that is an issue. What I’m saying is is, hey, part of fixing that gut is fixing this.

Ashley:
How do you feel about gut testing? You briefly mentioned it earlier but just gut where they tell you what foods you can and can’t eat or just if you have certain bacteria. What is your take on [00:18:34]?

Dr. Pompa:
Again, I wish it were so simple. I think we’ve done a lot with these tests over the years, but one of the things I can honestly say is—I don’t know. It is one of—it’s not so simple to identify these set of bacteria when we have identified maybe 3,000 bacteria in the gut. I think we’ll identify 3,000 more in the next 5 years, but it’s way more complicated than we thought with—how viruses work within the gut is a very important role, funguses, candida. All of this is just absolutely beyond our comprehension still.

My point is this, we run a test. We go, oh, these guys are too high. These guys are too low. Ultimately, see, we’re taking the intelligence out, and it’s not so simple to say, oh, okay, according to this test, we’re only really testing for a fraction of what’s in the gut. Let’s give you this. Let’s kill these guys. It’s not so simple. The bottom line is I can tell you clinically that we really haven’t changed, moved the needle in how we have healed the gut because of the microbiome testing. I wish it weren’t the case, but we’re just not there yet.

Ashley:
Right, I know. I wish it were so simple. I know people sometimes want a test just so they have a metric to gauge. How about testing the brain? Do you like heavy metal tests? Do you like mold tests? Say I live in a—I don’t know, maybe a flooded home a few years ago. Should I test to make sure I should even proceed with detox, or should I just detox?

Dr. Pompa:
Look, I mean, there’s some testing to give us ideas. You can do a visual contrast sensitivity test that gives you an idea if you have a biotoxic illness from mold. There’s rows A, B, C, D, and E. Not to teach this right now, but rows C and D are very specific for mold. Row E is general toxicity. When people fail that miserably, it typically eludes to a heavy metal toxicity. You can go to—and it’s not as accurate as the one that doctors do in the office, but you can go to VCS, stands for visual contrast sensitivity, VCSTest.com, and it at least gives you an idea. Look, heavy metal testing, it gives you an idea of what’s in the body, but it doesn’t reflect what’s in the brain. The only way to really do that would be biopsy, and I’m not recommending it. The point is is there’s no perfect test for that either. It’s very, very difficult.

You know this; one of the things I train my doctors to do is be very clever as really sleuthing out these hidden sources, being a detective and really asking the right questions. If you put a very good history together with someone’s symptoms, usually you can say, okay, I think you’ve missed this, and then maybe we’ll run this particular test to verify. Again, you can’t just rely on a test, again, if it were only so simple. It’s just not. It’s just not.

Ashley:
Exactly, so you hear a lot. Even in this space, you might listen to somebody on a podcast, and they say, if you have seasonal allergies, it’s about your gut. If your kid is misbehaving, it could be their gut, and you just have to do gut healing. They never really say what that means. They just say heal your gut. Maybe they’re putting you on colon cleanse or telling you to take an enzyme or a probiotic, but it’s fascinating that, really, it’s not totally about the gut directly. It’s about the brain.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, 100%, and again, I don’t dismiss any of those comments. I agree that the gut will affect ADHD. I agree that the gut affects your immune system, of course. What we’ve learned in the research on the microbiome is these bacteria are communicating with our cells, changing epigenetics of it, can change our DNA. Here’s what you have to understand, that although that’s true and although it is absolutely true that the gut plays such an important role in immunity, in how the brain works, all of it, the point, though, has to be taken that we don’t fix that until we fix this. That’s the point.

Now, if you take these bacteria out of the gut, away from this innate intelligence, put them in a petri dish, now—with your cells, now what good is this? No good at all. Now they can’t even do anything with those cells. The intelligence isn’t there. This intelligence isn’t there. The life force that God put in our bodies isn’t there. It’s not the bacteria, the bacteria working with our cells at our DNA in our body only because the intelligence is driving it. We forgot about that when we realized, oh, my gosh, these bacteria, they’re doing so much. They’re communicating with our cells. They have this function. They make certain peptides and amino acids that our brain needs to make neurotransmitters, and we can’t make neurotransmitters without these bacteria.

All that’s true, but the fact is is it’s—the bacteria in themselves, it’s not the case. It’s the innate intelligence telling, directing the bacteria, using them as it may so, again, the innate intelligence, not the bacteria. The bacteria, yeah, they have an intelligence, but it’s ultimately our intelligence that’s superior. If we can open up that God-given innate intelligence, I’m telling you, I believe the body can heal from anything. When we hear these miracle stories that that shouldn’t heal, that shouldn’t, what did it?

I mean, listen, my son—I tell a story. My son shattered his spleen, literally, I mean, gone. I saw the scan with the doctor, and he showed me the pieces. I said, “Well, we’re going to have to take it out.” He said, “No, it’s a grade 5. The body just absorbs them. That’s it.” I said, “Is there any way it could regenerate itself?” “Oh, no, it can’t. It’s gone, everything.” Okay, so I was like, “All right.”

Here’s what happened six months later. We went in. Now, there’s a lot of prayer over this, so I give God the credit and the glory for this, no doubt. We went in six months later, and they were doing the rescan to see how his organs healed. My son was in ICU. They Life Flighted him off the slope so a lot of trauma. They redid the scan, and the doctor comes out. He has a look on his face.

I say, “Is everything okay?” He said, “Yeah, he has a full spleen.” I said, “Is it functioning?” He said, “Yeah.” My next question was, “Are you sure you looked at the right scan?” We’ve all done that as doctors. It’s like, oh, this is your X-ray. That’s not my X-ray. He said, “Yeah, checked three times.” They check all their facts to make sure it’s not labeled wrong. There’s little things you look for so you know it’s the same person.

“Yep,” I said, “How did that happen?” “I have no idea.” Now, again, God did it. I believe that. He said, “That’s the only thing I can see explained.” My wife said we had all these people praying. The point is is that there is an innate intelligence that God put in our bodies, that God utilized and activated that healing, the body’s innate intelligence through the nerve system. It grew another spleen.

Ashley:
Yeah, it’s unbelievable. In another unbelievable fashion, you have another son who went through a major traumatic event where he was pretty much told he was never going to walk again because he broke his back.

Dr. Pompa:
Most of you know the story, but he jumped off a cliff 50 feet, hit rock. He should’ve died. That was the first miracle. Second miracle, he should’ve been paralyzed. The bones moved forward, not back into the cord, but they shattered completely. They looked at it and said, “He needs surgery. We need to do it within this many hours,” dah, dah, dah. I asked for 24 hours to research it.

Long story short, we decided, Daniel and I because he was an adult, that we’re not going forth. They thought we were nuts. They’re coming from the anterior. They were taking two vertebrae completely out, taking the bones, putting them in metal cages, fusing six vertebrae. I mean, imagine this for life, and I know this causes autoimmune later, etc., etc. They didn’t understand our paradigm, and the impossible that they said would happen happened. His innate intelligence healed it.

Now, listen, a thousand of a thousand people I’m sure would’ve listened to the doctors because of the fear. What made us not? Number one, I mean, I did have the ability to get into some studies, and that’s another story. The difference is is I know the body’s incredible ability to heal itself. That’s why even with the whole thing that’s going on right now—not to get us shut down by using words, it begins with a C. The fact is is that we as a family were like, hey, we need to be exposed to this, sooner the better. Our innate intelligence will build natural true immunity, and because this will be around for years to come, we will be able to absolutely deal with it from our innate intelligence down.

I function and I teach my children this and my doctors, function, major premise, God designed our bodies to heal. Let’s give it some more credit, and that’s what we’re not doing today.

Ashley:
Absolutely, yeah, it’s fascinating. It really is. A lot of people know that the gut can be damaged, of course, even by things like antibiotics. We go on lots of antibiotics as children or glyphosate and environmental pollutants. I mean, how many grown adults would you say walk around with leaky gut, whether they know it or not (pretty high percentage)? Just in the interim, what are your favorite things to nurture the gut and to help seal that leaky gut while you’re also addressing the upstream?

Dr. Pompa:
I think you’re right. I think that’s a great idea. Number one, as far as bacteria goes, some bacteria that most people have never experienced are things like spore or soil organisms, which act more like prebiotics to stimulate even your other bacteria to come alive. Prebiotics, feeding your existing bacteria often times work better than probiotics. Rotating any bacteria is another big clue, a product called LGUT that seals the gut, a product called ION that helps seal the gut and decrease inflammation. Butyrate, butyric acid helps lower inflammation and act as a prebiotic feeding the gut. I’m just throwing out some of my favorite products to answer your question. I’m sure I’ve missed some. I’m not giving an exhaustive list, but I mean, those are some things that I think are extremely helpful and maybe some things that people haven’t done that will be a big help.

Ashley:
Yeah, and fasting, fasting [00:29:38].

Dr. Pompa:
Again, I was thinking product when you asked the question. One of the big things that I teach is diet variation. Changing your diet adds a stress to the microbiome that actually creates diversity in your bacteria. We could never fix a gut without that and fasting, feast-famine. We fast. We feast. That stresses the gut, stresses how we change that diversity in the microbiome. I think we talked about that more on that other show when we broke down that multi-therapeutic approach.

You know what? I want to mention one more thing, the upper cervical. A lot of chiropractors watch this show. When you get severely physically misaligned—and again, part of my multi-therapeutic approach, adjustments in the upper cervical spine can transform the communication between this intelligence, this brain and the rest of your body. Look, we’ve watched miracles happen when people get that upper cervical adjusted, open up that innate intelligence, so that is absolutely a part of what it takes too to fix a gut. Check your physical misalignment. You could’ve been in an accident, had a head trauma, birth trauma, any of it. You could be physically interfering with that innate intelligence. It’s huge.

Ashley:
It is huge. It’s just a piece of the puzzle, for sure. Then we’ve had other shows even on neurofeedback, and there’s a brain tapping device. How do you feel about implementing stuff like that as well?

Dr. Pompa:
I think it’s huge. I said that, how the brain rewires itself. Through thought, we can rewire the brain. I’m going to be teaching more on this, but it’s a whole different show. We’re going to do a whole different show on that. There are so many techniques and I’m studying them now to how we rewire the brain. Literally, I’m going back into history, reading some of the forefathers of what we call neuroplasticity. That means that the brain can change. In the old days, they thought it couldn’t change, but now we know that it actually goes around. If someone has a stroke and damages even huge parts of the brain, through different strategies, we can actually go around and regain what we thought was never to be regained, and it’s fascinating. Yes, it could get someone to walk again, and there’s story after story, or reuse their arm, or whatever it is, but we can also use the same strategies to fix things that were unfixable.

I had chemical sensitivity and mold sensitivity in the past, but I had to learn how to rewire my limbic system. That’s the system that keeps us alive. It was cross-wired into this survival mechanism, driving sympathetic and symptoms. I had to re-cross—I had to basically rewire it, and I fixed the problem. Now, that wouldn’t have been possible if I didn’t get the neurotoxins out of my brain first, but then once I did, then I was able to rewire that. That’s a missing part of a lot of people’s puzzle into their journey into healing.

Ashley:
Yeah, that’s great. This is fascinating. I could talk about the gut and the brain all day with you. I think this is going to be really helpful for people. Yeah, this is wonderful. We’ll definitely link to some of the other episodes we referenced and some of the products that Dr. Pompa mentioned as well. Do you have any final words?

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, no, look, always the—we have to think about things differently, and therein the solution lies. What makes me do it is when we’re going, gosh, we’re just getting nowhere here. Maybe, just maybe we’re thinking about it wrong, and I love thinking about it differently and, God willing, coming up with a new answer. Stay tuned for the brain rewiring because I think it’s a big part of this, even the gut healing, so stay tuned for that show.

Ashley:
Absolutely, well, thank you so much, and I’m excited for everybody to hear this amazing information. All right, bye-bye.

Dr. Pompa:
I want to give thanks to one of our sponsors, CytoDefend. Look, in a time like this, I think that our immune system and keeping our immune system up right now is more important than ever. I can also tell you that I pay attention to the things that keep my immune system on par and healthy so so glad that CytoDefend is one of our sponsors here on CellTV. It’s a product that I use, my family uses, and hopefully, you’ll check it out. By the way, you can check it out with the link right here below. If you want to try a free bottle, you can actually get a free bottle. Just pay the shipping. I think you’ll reorder after that, but check it out.

Ashley:
If you’re listening to this podcast and want to access the amazing CytoDefend product Dr. Pompa just mentioned, please visit FreeImmunity.com. Again, that’s FreeImmunity.com.

That’s it for this week. The materials and content within this podcast are intended as general information only and are not to be considered a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. If you would like to purchase some of the supplements mentioned on this show, please visit the site AsSeenOnCHTV.com, and use the code CHTV15 for 15% off. Again, that’s AsSeenOnCHTV.com. Use the code CHTV15 for 15% off. As always, thanks for listening.

374: The 3 Legged Stool: The Autoimmune Answer

This is an episode for so many of you! Many of you know autoimmunity is when the body’s immune system attacks itself. So could the reason why you still have symptoms, why you're not getting better… could it be autoimmune?

From eczema, to celiac, type 1 and 2 diabetes, hashimotos, leaky gut, lupus, IBS… all autoimmune related, and all way too common these days.

In fact, autoimmunity is one of the fastest growing epidemics on the plant, and most people just live with it, or spend thousands on “solutions” that don’t help them improve, or even make them worse…

When you get to the cause, your body can heal, and I begin to explain that with my 3 Legged Stool analogy. Please share this episode with anyone who will benefit from this info.

More about Dr. Pompa

Dr. Daniel Pompa is a global health leader and innovator on a mission to educate practitioners and the public on the origins of inflammation-driven disease, cellular detoxification, fasting strategies, and diet variation principles. Although trained as a Chiropractor, his authority comes from the victory within his own battle, having overcome neurotoxic illness that was rooted in heavy metal poisoning.

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Dr. Pompa:
I want to give thanks to one of our sponsors, CytoDefend. Look, in a time like this, I think that our immune system and keeping our immune system up right now is more important than ever. I can also tell you that I pay attention to the things that keep my immune system on par and healthy. So glad that CytoDefend is one of our sponsors here on Cell TV. It’s a product that I use, my family uses.

Hopefully, you’ll check it out. By the way, you can check it out with the link right here below. If you want to try a free bottle, you can actually get a free bottle; just pay the shipping. I think you’ll reorder after that but check it out.

Ashley Smith:
If you’re listening to this podcast and want to access the amazing CytoDefend product Dr. Pompa just mentioned, please visit FreeImmunity.com. Again, that’s FreeInmunity.com.

Hi, everyone. This is an episode for so many of Dr. Pompa’s audience. You all know that autoimmunity is when the body’s immune system attacks itself. If you’re unsure why you still have symptoms, could it be autoimmune? From eczema to celiac, Type I and II Diabetes, Hashimoto’s, leaky gut, Lupus, IBS, all autoimmune related. In fact, autoimmunity is one of the fastest-growing epidemics on the planet. Most people just live with it or spend thousands on solutions that don’t help them improve or might even make them worse.

Dr. Pompa, welcome today. You have always said when you get to the cause, your body can heal. You have an amazing analogy that you call the three-legged stool. I want you to share more about that with our audience today. What is the three-legged stool? Let’ start with the name first of all. What does that even mean? Why is this so important?

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, just a word on the autoimmune intro. So many people watching this, like me years and years ago, they just have bizarre symptoms. They’re not sleeping; they know their hormones are disrupted, anxiety, brain fog, don’t have energy for the day, need caffeine. Whatever it is, it’s most often, it’s your own body causing that mischief, hence the word autoimmune.

Most people, they might look at this name, and say, oh, this show is not for me; it’s autoimmune. No, it’s because most people don’t know they have it. The testing doesn’t show it because it’s not until you get the big thing in the test which is 20 years down the road. Then you get the diagnosis of Lupus or rheumatoid arthritis.

The three-legged stool is—it is that analogy of why we have this explosion of people who have unexplainable illness are getting sick, can’t get well. What’s going on? How did I get here? Everybody human wants it to be that one thing. They definitely want the cause to be that and they want the answer to be that, too.

You know this. Every Tuesday we train our doctors. We have seminars. I teach a multitherapeutic approach to this multitherapeutic problem. It’s not one thing, but it’s this clever way. I always never want to take credit for it because God literally allowed me to go through certain things to discover it, but it’s putting these things together, and we’ll talk about that on this show, that is the magic. It’s the answer. It’s how I got my life back and thousands of others.

The three-legged stool gives life to that whole concept. It gives life to the why you got sick and it gives great explanation to how to get the heck out of this situation, the solution. With that said, I think most people—and that’s the question you asked, what is the three-legged stool. It’s the analogy. All the legs have to be there.

If they’re not, one of the legs isn’t there, it falls over, meaning that there’s three if we start with cause. There’s three main things that happen to why all of a sudden, you don’t feel well, can’t figure it out, or you get the diagnosis, whatever it is. It could be cancer; it could be other diagnoses. The fact is it’s not one thing that everyone is looking for; it’s typically three things that happen. When that happens, boom, that’s it.

When you look at cause, we look at absolutely this perfect storm of stressors that come together. It’s not just one stress; once again, it’s typically three stressors that come together, whether it be physical, chemical, or emotional, or two chemical, moldy home, heavy metal toxicity, this emotional thing that happened. Boom, perfect storm happens, triggers your gene of susceptibility. All of a sudden, what the heck happened to my life? Sounds familiar.

When we look at the stool, I actually drew it ahead of time just so I don’t have to bore everybody. There is my stool. There was a day where I didn’t draw the middle leg shorter so you could see it was actually three-dimensional, but my art has gotten better.

Let me start here, actually, in that little, short leg. I don’t know if you can read it, but it says stress; it really should say stressors. I drew it too short. Stressors, meaning that physical, chemical, or emotional that typically happens in threes. That’s that perfect storm. If you remember the movie, George Clooney. Did you actually see that movie?

Ashley Smith:
The Perfect Storm? Yes, a long time ago, but yeah.

Dr. Pompa:
Okay, yeah, because it was an ‘80s movie. It was a great movie that really portrayed that well. It’s a real thing. The three storms come together, not two. If two storms merge, it’s a bad storm. When three storms come, it’s catastrophic. That’s exactly what happened in that movie.

That’s what happens. That three stressor comes together. What happens is you end up getting a gene that gets triggered. Once that happens, now, it’s tough because your body’s expressing an illness.

Now, the old days, we used to think, okay, you just had a thyroid condition because your mother did or father, but it’s not true. Those genes are triggered, but what triggers them? Stressors, physical, chemical, or emotional, but more specifically, it’s the perfect storm. The gene gets triggered.

Now, when you understand genetics, you can’t talk about—you can’t not talk about the microbiome, at least in today’s science, meaning, the bacteria in our gut actually interplay with our genes. We know that when certain bacteria are in too low of number or the diversity decreases with these bacteria, now we’re susceptible to getting genes turned on. Again, it’s a causative factor.

We know the gut today is playing a big role in autoimmune disease and all these conditions. I’ll make this argument in a little bit; the way we’re approaching the gut is all wrong. It’s not what you think. I’ll just leave it to that. I just want you to know this. The bacteria in the gut also play into the genes.

Now, I said this is why people are getting sick, but it’s also the answer. I’ll quickly and then I’ll let you ask questions, but the five R’s is my road map of how we fix and detox the cell. That is really the magic for turning off bad genes. If you look at Bruce Lipton’s work and he talks about the cell membrane which is R2, regenerating the cell membrane.

We don’t have to get into all of the R’s specifically today, but they all mean something at the cell. It’s what happens to so many people today that their membrane gets disrupted, the cell energy, which is R3 gets disrupted, inflammation of the cell membrane gets disrupted. That’s R4. Methylation gets disrupted which affects detox and genetics. That’s R5.

When we look at the DNA, we can’t not have a solution. The solution is these five Rs that I put together some years ago. The stressors, removing them is obviously part of the solution. The biggest one that most people do wrong, incorrectly, or don’t identify is the neurotoxic component. That’s where cellular detox comes in. If I just put CD for cellular detox, that is the answer for this leg of the stool.

Then the microbiome, the answer you would think might be, oh, all the gut work. I watched all the summits on the gut. It’s these bacteria. Take this and do that. It’s not so simple.

You’ll see that the answer is these ancient healing strategies that I teach: changing your diet, forcing change. Most people are stuck on the same diet that “worked” for them. Forcing dietary change, fasting, feasting, feast/famine cycling, and really a premise that is known in science called hormeses. I taught my last seminar on it. Hormeses means if we add a stress to the body, the innate intelligence, and in this case, the gut, we actually can create diversity and change the microbiome.

I’m just going to put ancient healing here. It’s too long. I should have just put AH or ancient healing as an abbreviation as these strategies that we use to actually change the microbiome. We specifically do detox at the cell. We approach the cell with a logic of what’s broken in the cell. This is what I call a multi—and I’ll do it this way. I can’t write like that. Okay, MTA, that’s the—what I abbreviate to what I teach, a multitherapeutic approach.

The approach means that you can’t just take certain supplements; you can’t just do things for your genetics; you can’t just run fancy tests. You can’t just detox with a sauna, a colonic, a foot bath, that 30-day cleans, whatever it is. I wish it were so easy, not true. Oh, and you can’t just take probiotics, not so easy. Most people are doing one or two of those approaches, but the fact is, putting it all together in this multitherapeutic approach addresses the three-legged stool: why you’re getting sick. Getting to the cause is the key.

Ashley Smith:
That’s important to know because a lot of people contact us. They want to address the hair loss, or the skin rash, or the leaky gut. They’re like, what can I take for that? What could I take to make my gut better? What could I take to make my skin clear up or make my hair grow back? There really is no one thing you can do; it’s a multitherapeutic.

Dr. Pompa:
That is such a great—because you every day talk to those people. They do; they have that one blink of light; they want the one solution. Again, if it were only so easy.

Most hair loss is hormone-related. Yes, it could be deficiency-related, but today, typically not; hormone-related, autoimmune-related most of the time. Again, without the diagnosis, just unknowing that your body’s own immune system is attacking the hair follicle or it could be your immune system attacking thyroid receptors, not diagnosed with “Hashimoto’s,” which is autoimmune, but yet it is autoimmune. It’s affecting the thyroid which affects the hair or the skin.

Typically, again, people aren’t going upstream far enough to realize, oh, it’s this. You said a lot of people call and I just want to fix my gut because they’re—today, there’s this massive attention, even different than five years ago; it’s the gut. I think one of the big mistakes, too, is they’re forgetting this: the brain. This is the first brain; the gut is called the second brain, but yet, this was ignored for a long time. Now, this almost has more attention. Now, everyone’s forgetting about this. This is ultimately what heals and runs your body every day.

When you’re looking at fixing the gut, most often, you will not fix the gut until you approach what’s going on in the brain. Neurotoxins, they make their way to nerve tissue, the brain being the most important of all. It’s where you house the innate intelligence in your body. That’s where healing is. Everything operates from here down, above, down, inside out. That’s where health comes from.

The approach in medicine has always been outside in where we’re going to give you something. I fear to say that the approach in functional medicine now is outside in instead of, wait a minute, the body can heal, but when the brain is poisoned, I will argue you’ll never fix your gut; you won’t. You won’t fix your—turn off your autoimmune; you won’t change your genes. All of that is impossible until you actually get this back up on board.

Most of the neurotoxins affect it, whether it be mold, whether it be heavy metals or even these infections that I talk so much about. They cross the blood-brain barrier. They drive inflammation and toxicity of the brain. Many people listening to this are going, why aren’t I better. It’s because your brain’s still neurotoxic. That’s a big part of my multitherapeutic approach.

Ashley Smith:
Absolutely, and you can’t just—you can’t heal things in order that you want. Your body, your innate intelligence, dictates what needs to be healed first. Sometimes it’s things you don’t even see. You might not feel like you’re necessarily getting results quick enough, but it could just be a lot of internal things happening before the external things get better.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, no, exactly. One of my phases in the detox that I teach is the brain phase. I always say we work to get to the brain phase. It’s years, not months.

Getting the neurotoxins, nerve toxins out of the brain is a system you learn. It’s different for everybody: the doses, the cycle, the cycle nights, the chelators, all of it. That’s obviously a lot of if you’ve been following me for years of what I teach. Most people do it wrong, unfortunately. That’s my passion.

Again, I’m not saying—look, the only reason I know it is because I’ve been through it. I can tell you in helping many people around the world, coaching them through their challenges, I can tell you Number One, they typically—if you’re someone listening that’s not feeling well yet, or still not lasting, you feel a little better, but you’re still not well, you still have an upstream cause somewhere. Most likely, it’s in the brain. Most likely, you didn’t do something long enough to matter or you didn’t identify it, a stressor that’s still there.

Ashley Smith:
These people listening who feel like their identifying with this, do they need a diagnosis? Do they need to take a bunch of tests to tell them that they’re—that this is the right approach or what is the first thing somebody should do to know that this is right for them?

Dr. Pompa:
That’s a great question because I think that testing can be a big pitfall. For example, people go, okay, you mentioned heavy metals. Let me do a heavy metal test. Look, we both know that we’ve been doing this long enough, you and I both, that there’s no perfect heavy metal test, meaning that most mercury is so—it goes right into the brain and the nerve tissue. We don’t see it even on a challenge test. That’s the test I do like for heavy metals where you challenge it out of the tissue and look at what’s in the urine. It’s not a blood test, it’s not a hair test, and it’s not just a urine test without a chelator; however, even with a chelator challenging it out, you still won’t show what’s here and what’s in the deep tissue, so no perfect test. There’s a pitfall there.

With mold, we can do things like visual contrast tests, which is a great beginning test. There’s a couple blood tests you can do, but not perfect. That’s the problem there. Infections, oh, there’s nothing. Then I think the other caution is everybody is running into the expensive tests of testing the microbiome because there’s so much attention there. It’s not very useful at all; I wish it were, but it’s not. Genetic tests—

Ashley Smith:
Those tests are so popular right now, these microbiome tests that they tell you what’s going on and what probiotics you might need. Why are you not such a fan of those?

Dr. Pompa:
Look, if it were so easy to fix the gut and the microbiome by probiotics—look, Ashley, you meet with more people than I do every day. How many out of ten are taking a probiotic?

Ashley Smith:
Probably ten, yeah.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, I know, right, especially the ones that come to us. If that were the answer, then we wouldn’t have this epidemic every year of more and more gut problems. It’s not the answer. Again, I’m not saying it shouldn’t be part of the—your arsenal. We have a very unique way that we teach on what to do with probiotic, but it’s not the answer in itself. It just can’t be just that. What was the point that I was making before that, though; well, anyway.

Ashley Smith:
My guess, microbiome.

Dr. Pompa:
Oh, the testing. The testing, ultimately, it hasn’t gotten us anywhere. Like you said, if anything, people wanted the test to be like take these bacteria and take these killers because you have too many of these bacteria. We’re not even clear on that because the killers, they’re realizing that actually, you need these guys. It’s the balance of them.

What is out of balance? What should this be? It’s nowhere near. I think the only thing we really got out of the gut testing is the fact that people that are very healthy seem to have a diverse, meaning all types of different bacteria, and people unhealthy not. That’s really about it.

Then the genetic testing I think is even more dangerous that people are doing because we wanted it to be—and I got caught up in it for a while. We wanted it to be, oh, here’s how we treat this person. We’re going to be able to customize our treatments and our diets based on the genetics. It is so far not true. MTHFR just in the last how many years, that’s the famous one.

Ashley Smith:
Everybody has that one.

Dr. Pompa:
People are, oh my God, I’m MTHFR positive, I’m MTHFR homozygous. Now we know just in the last few years there’s all these pathways around it. It virtually means nothing, honestly. I like to give it some credit, and all right, it gives us some clue. If we’re on a treasure hunt, it gives us some clues. That’s about it. Do we want to pay for clues I guess is the question? Not a fan. The reason I discuss this test is because they’re very in vogue right now.

Look, I think that there’s—testing has its place. I’m not saying it doesn’t. There’s a time to do it. You know what the best thing to answer your question now is a really good history. You know that I train my docs on that. If I look at these cases that other people weren’t able to help and what I did different is I really sat down with them, or at least virtually, I should say. I don’t sit down with people anymore.

I listen to them for an hour and a half, two hours. I got their story. I listen and I look upstream to the actual causes putting it together. The history, to my point, is better than any test. Then at least from the history, then we can make some decisions whether maybe a test is appropriate. If it’s going to change what I do, then I would say it’s appropriate.

Ashley Smith:
Yes, absolutely. Back to when someone is—they don’t have a diagnosis, but they just know something is off. They know something is wrong. They have not been diagnosed. Their gut is a mess. Their brain, they have brain fog. They have fatigue. Their hormones might not be functioning, weight loss resistance, all of this. What should be the first thing they do at this point?

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, that’s a good question. I think that if you’re the average American person, hey, change your diet. You can pick up my Cellular Healing Diet book for—which is some very basic things that everyone should do. Okay, start there. Now, most of our viewing audience, listening audience, has already done that. Would you agree?

Ashley Smith:
Yeah, that’s so true.

Dr. Pompa:
Not necessarily the starting place for them. It is different. Look, I think that the starting place, looking back to when you got sick is a really good place to start. Then I think working with a coach is critical. I think that once you get to that point, it’s very difficult to be thinking yourself.

Honestly, I always say if I got sick again, one of the things I would do different—I’ve answered this on interviews. What are one of the things you’d do different? I said hire a coach. My wife became my coach, meaning, oh my gosh, you’re making irrational decisions. You just did that.

She became my rational—and that’s never good. The point was is she was always thinking more rational than the doctor because when—it’s emotion; when you’re sick, you’re emotional. You think you have it figured out, and you think you know best, and you think, and you think, and you think. The fact is you can’t think yourself out.

Honestly, I think the only reason I got my life back is because God had mercy on me and he had a plan. My wife was right. God spoke to her, not audibly, but in her heart over and over again. I’m not only going to get your husband well, but he’s going to take a message to the world. That’s why I’m leading him out of this. It wasn’t even for me. Yeah, I think a coach is a valuable thing. Obviously, that’s what I’m passionate about.

Ashley Smith:
Right, because you could be dealing with viruses, mold, candida, all kinds of things. You just don’t know what to go—you can’t go after everything at once. There’s a system to how you have to approach the body. Yeah, a coach can definitely help with that.

What’s good to remember too about the perfect storm is you can have even siblings. One might be eating healthy, doing everything right. They’re the one who get that perfect storm. Maybe they’re just dealing with more stressors in their life.

The other sibling might have the same DNA, same genetics. They might not even eat as well. They might have some lifestyle habits, but they’re—you use the bucket analogy a lot, too. Their bucket just might not be as full.

I sometimes get clients go, why is my sister in a much better place and she doesn’t even eat as healthy as I do? She doesn’t do all the things that I’ve been doing. A lot of it is just—it’s that perfect storm. It’s just all of it.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, and the bucket theory, it’s not my theory, but it’s been around for a long time. In utero, we’re exposed to certain toxins. When we’re born, we start getting our good ol’ vaccine schedules. Then maybe they let you live in a moldy house. Then you have emotional traumas. Then you start accumulating more heavy metals on top of what you got here in utero.

Then one day, boom, the bucket overflows. That’s Ashley’s point. Then what happens is the stressors accumulated. Then the gene got triggered, you see. I like to call it the stress bucket. Once that overflowed, then the gene gets triggered. Then the symptoms start.

Then people are down here for a while, sometimes starting with medications. I’m getting my view here. They’re down here chasing the symptoms with medications. Most people learn, okay, that’s not working or they’re getting more sick. Then they go to chasing it with natural things. A lot of people, probably more of our viewers, are in the natural world chasing it around.

Again, to answer your question. You asked a really good question, what would be the first thing that you would do. I said get a coach. Now, let me expand on that because I think the three big ones—and those of you who watch me for a while, I always talk about these three. Could it be beyond these three, yes, but the reason I get passionate about these three is 20 years coaching people, these are three that I see that are not only just missed, but they’re also mistreated.

Okay, so what are the three? Obviously, if I start with my own story in heavy metals. When I went online once I figured out that my brain was filled with heavy metals, then I started looking at the contradicting information on the Internet. By the way, it’s worse today than when I was doing it. That was back when the Internet just started. Anyway, but it was unbelievable.

Ashley Smith:
Yeah, even today there’s so much info out there that’s just false.

Dr. Pompa:
When it comes to detox, bad stuff doesn’t go away. Once there’s a bad thought in government, it doesn’t come out like low fat, low calorie. It will always be there. You’ll never ever change it. I just threw my pen. Oh, here it is. Anyway, sorry, I just went like that and lost my pen.

It just doesn’t go away, same in natural health. These philosophies don’t go away: corella, all these detox things. It’s like, they’re still out there. It’s hilarious to me.

If I didn’t go through what I went through, I wouldn’t have discovered where the actual truth lies. In heavy metal toxicity, a lot of bad, crazy stuff. The products out there that—and people will say, I’ve done that. You hear it now, Ashley. It’s like, oh, I’ve done that. What have you done? It’s like, oh God, it’s always the same.

Ashley Smith:
People say, oh, I did a two-month detox and I didn’t get better. We know that it takes a lot longer than two months to fix it.

Dr. Pompa:
Absolutely, and people are, oh, I’ve done that. Meanwhile, they still have amalgam fillings putting mercury into their brains. It’s like, what? Anyways, that’s one pitfall. The other is mold. We’ve done a lot of shows on it because it’s deadly. Mold is one of those things that—listen, I’d be the first to say, small amounts of mold, I’d argue it’s good for you.

Ashley Smith:
In your shower, someone seeing a little mold in their shower, should they be freaking out?

Dr. Pompa:
No, right. Even walking into a moldy building if you’re healthy, arguably, hey, a little mold helps your microbiome. It’s actually healthy. That’s my attitude now. It’s like, hey, mold’s good for me.

Ashley Smith:
It’s not going to bioaccumulate for one hour in a building.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, exactly. Again, because everyone’s always like, well, mold’s everywhere. They’re right, but when you’re living in an amplified moldy building, it changes everything. We’re not as human—we’re meant to be around mold as humans. Arguably, it’s good for you, but we’re not meant to be in a building with one species mold being dominant like stachybotrys or another one. Then all of a sudden, it triggers the brain to protect itself. Now, you’re in this massive inflammatory state.

I would say mold is always missed in some respect because people go, I don’t see mold. It’s like, well, it’s because it’s behind your wall; of course you don’t. Then, of course, there’s a very specific strategy to get rid of it.

Then the last one is hidden infections. I would say this is the one that’s missed the most because these hidden infections most often are here. People had wisdom teeth or teeth extracted. They have something called a cavitation.

Look, the test you can take that you should is called a cone beam, C-O-N-E B-E-A-M. It’s a 3D scan of the jaw. You don’t see these things on x-ray. That’s why they’re missed by most dentists. Most dentists aren’t trained in identifying them on cone beam or they don’t even know about it. They definitely don’t know what to do to get this infection out safely or even post-surgery to get it out safely. Ashley, how many people do we see that are just so sick? Autoimmune won’t turn off because of one of these infections?

Ashley Smith:
Absolutely, yeah. A lot of dentists like you said are just not skilled at identifying them or they’ll tell them, oh, I did an x-ray. I didn’t see any infections. It really has to be a cone beam. There’s nothing else that identifies it.

Dr. Pompa:
Then their dentist will order them a cone beam. Then they take it to the dentist. He looks at it as a plain film or he doesn’t even know what’s he’s looking because you need special software. You definitely have to— “Episode 274,” I interviewed Dr. Gerry Curatola about cavitation. My wife, you’ll see her in the dental chair there and what we discovered. You’ll see her cone beam in that episode.

Again, what we do after this is critical because these infections are typically systemic. By the way, when we talk about people not being able to fix the gut, the oral microbiome is critical to the gut microbiome. You can’t fix this without addressing this. You could do all of these, the best therapies, treatments in the world for the gut, but if these pathogens are hiding in these caves, these infections—and by the way, they have no pain most often. You don’t know they’re in there.

Ashley Smith:
They’re hidden, yeah.

Dr. Pompa:
You had them. As a matter of fact, tell your story very quickly.

Ashley Smith:
Yeah, I had four cavitations. I didn’t feel anything. I never noticed anything was wrong. I never felt puffy, or inflamed, or anything like that, but looking back, I had four wisdom teeth pulled when I was probably 19, 20 years old. At the time, I was really infected. I went on major antibiotics after my surgery back then.

I just knew that there was no way that they were healed properly. I just knew it, so I got a cone beam. Sure enough, I had four really deep cavitations. Went to a very skilled dentist and got them taken care of. The pathology report came back. You saw it. There was definitely some mold and candida.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, by the way, that’s it. We can take a pathology report and look at the different pathogens. As a matter of fact, I don’t even think we’ve had this conversation because this is actually recent that you just got that. How long ago was it now, two months?

Ashley Smith:
Two months, I think. Yeah, not that long ago.

Dr. Pompa:
Looking at your history that you could speak to a little bit, how do you feel that applied? You have your own passion of why you’re in this phase.

Ashley Smith:
Perfect example, I’ve always had gut issues, always. I could never figure—I’ve done all the fasting. I do lots of rotating of different diets. I eat gluten-free; I eat grain-free. It’s like what is—why is my gut always a mess?

I really think everything was just up here. I remember you saying once, you can’t heal the gut if you don’t address infections in your mouth. That’s when the light bulb went off. I was like, I know that’s it. I know that’s why I can take all of the gut supplements and nothing’s getting to my gut.

Dr. Pompa:
I literally haven’t even asked you this question yet because you and I are so busy. We’re always back and forth on a—

Ashley Smith:
I know; we don’t talk about ourselves. I know. My gut, even in the two months since I did an amazing infection protocol, your infection protocol after my surgery. Seriously, just in two months, my gut is so much better.

I’m just not getting the bloating. I just don’t feel the dysbiosis anymore. It really feels like I have done a lot of healing just in a couple of months of just clearing out. Clearly, it was all stemming from my mouth. It’s crazy.

Dr. Pompa:
You went to a really good guy. This surgery has to be done. Now, they do it with lasers. It’s pretty amazing what they do.

Ashley Smith:
It was in and out. It wasn’t terrible.

Dr. Pompa:
See, I was walking around New York after mine, honestly.

Ashley Smith:
Yeah, I didn’t take any medications. She just gave me a tiny local anesthetic. I was home within—I was home, back home within two hours. Yeah, it was easy. It wasn’t bad.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, but yet it’s so critical and missed. When we look at drivers of autoimmune, I would almost put infection at the top. Again, you didn’t know you had those. I didn’t know. Many people in the “alternative” health space, they never even were checked.

Then you have the opposite. It’s like dentists, they may do proper amalgam silver filling removal but yet know very little about how to do that process right. Caution, folks, make sure you go to someone who does this. Laser is one of the new treatments, but also there’s something called PRF where they take your own blood.

It’s a plasma-rich fiber where they put in there to actually make sure the bone heals again because in the old way of doing it, 50% of the time, you’d end up with a cavitation again and not knowing. Then most people are going, oh, I did that. They still have an infection driving their autoimmune, so big. Then post, you have to know what you’re doing post because these bacteria can go systemic. They want to survive. That’s a problem as well.

Ashley Smith:
Yeah, you can’t really treat an infection until you remove the source, right? You can’t just say, I think I have infections. Let’s do an infection protocol.

Dr. Pompa:
You just beat it back. You may go, yeah, but I do that. I address my parasites and I feel better. I just saw a path report this week. It had parasites in it. It’s like, no wonder you can’t get rid of them down here.

Candida even protects itself even around heavy metals. I could never get rid of my candida until I got my heavy metals down. Exactly, I think it’s very in vogue also in our space to do these pathogen protocols, but if you have one of these upstream sources, it’s just—I don’t want to say it’s a waste of time because sometimes you just have to knock back the infection, but it’s not going to be a lasting result is the point.

Ashley Smith:
Right, absolutely. We’ve had full episodes about this, but even breast implants, too. You can have a lot of fungus and mold in your breast implants and infections. It could just be a major source that is—

Dr. Pompa:
You bring up two—you just brought up one other big problem today. It’s not one of the three, but breast implants house all three of the things I just said, meaning they have hidden infection as another source beyond the mouth. By the way, if it’s here, now it’s going to be here because they can hide from the immune system. They have heavy metals. If you get your—the company that makes your implant, look at the ingredients. Heavy metals will be there. It’s bizarre, but it’s loaded with mercury, lead, arsenic, all of these bizarre heavy metals.

Then it also has mold. These things produce mold around them in the capsule. We’ve done several Cellular Healing TVs. If you’re someone sick wondering could this be it, watch those because don’t hear it from me; hear it from a woman who had breast implants and discovered it was literally killing her.

Ashley Smith:
A lot of the time, we see a quick turnaround when people—when women get their explants where they feel—they can sometimes feel better within a couple of days, even just post-surgery. They know that was the thing.

Dr. Pompa:
Yeah, it’s remarkable. It’s like cavitations. Some people have that immediate response. In a chair, some people have. Likewise, with breast implants, some people on the recovery table are like, they start having their period again.

Ashley Smith:
It’s true.

Dr. Pompa:
It’s like these breakthroughs, not always, though. Sometimes it’s until we get down the road because they have so much bioaccumulated toxin. Until we get down the road with getting the toxins out of the deep tissue, until they get their life back, but sometimes when you just remove a source, get out of a moldy home, whatever it is, you just immediately take that step of like, oh my gosh, I’m reconnected to my body again.

By the way, this is I think the problem even with alternative healthcare today is that they’re not looking for cause. They’re doing all the expensive fancy tests, putting people on more supplements, but it’s like you don’t—we didn’t get our life back by taking supplements. Again, I’m not knocking supplements; I give them, for goodness sake. The point is it’s about the cause, isn’t it?

Ashley Smith:
Absolutely, and something to remember too, there are things you might make some progress. You might have the right kind of surgery or you might address—remove some sort of source. You might start to feel a little bit better, but detoxing—healing isn’t linear. You’re not going to just start feeling better and better and better. There’s definitely a zigzag as you reach your goal. Doing your multitherapeutic approach, you’re never going to create new issues by going through your healing protocols, but you might expose existing issues, things like candida and other things that have been hiding. You might uncover things as you’re healing along the way. Then you have to address those, too.

Dr. Pompa:
Absolutely, yeah, and I think you’re right, though. It’s like when we look at all of the things people are doing to get their life back, I would say most people are saying, I changed my diet. I’m still not well. All right, okay, well, I always say that the perfect diet today, most peoples’ conditions, won’t get you well. You might not get well without a perfect diet and whatever we call “perfect diet” because I preach diet variation.

The point is that diet change, yes, important, but it’s not enough today. In the old days, it was like that’s how people would lose weight. That’s how people would help their X, Y, Z symptom or condition, but today it’s not enough because the level of neurotoxicity. When something else has happened in our environment—I would say two more things have happened in our environment that’s why this is the case.

Number One, okay, people aren’t getting to the cause. We just discussed that, but there’s some other complicating issues. EMFs today, the electromagnetic fields. This introduction is new to our body. Again, I believe our bodies one day will adapt to the level, but the point is that right now, it’s just that extra stressor. Now, again, think about what I said. Is EMF affecting you? Maybe not, but when your bucket is almost full or overflowing, now EMF becomes that, okay, it’s one more stress that your body should adapt to, but it’s not.

It’s the inability to adapt to stress that once your bucket is full that now becomes the issue. Once your bucket gets like this, now, you don’t even adapt to emotional stress anymore, even physical stress. When you start doing hard workouts, you’re wiped out for days or EMF. All of it’s stress to your cells that your body, if it adapts to, you get stronger. It’s better. If you don’t, you get weaker, and you end up more sick.

There’s more and more science around these infections, why so many people now are being affected by infections. We believe it is this EMF connection. Now, if you have silver fillings in or metal in your mouth, this is now an antenna to electromagnetic frequency. These infections can literally survive and hide there from your immune system that’s avoiding this thing. The EMF has made this infection problem worse. It’s made people just even one more step into the perfect storm.

There’s one more problem today: glyphosate. It’s a chemical being sprayed on our food supply that according to studies is allowing these neurotoxins that we’ve been speaking about to cross deeper into the brain. If you have infection, it becomes a bigger problem. Heavy metals, 2012 study, Stephanie Seneff, showed that glyphosate opens up the blood-brain barrier and these toxins go right into the brain. That’s why I said in the beginning if we don’t get the neurotoxins out, we don’t fix this; we don’t fix us.

EMF, glyphosate, and these hidden sources, this is why America, the world, is so sick. Oh, now we add another component of what’s going on today. At the risk of getting this shut down, if you’re someone who’s question getting the—I’m not going to say because I don’t want to get it shut down. We’ll just say a jab or something of that sort.

Ashley Smith:
We know what you mean, yeah.

Dr. Pompa:
Do your homework because we’re altering immunity; we’re altering the way the human body’s immune system works. When you violate that, I’m telling you, not yet—not me, but the experts are saying what’s going to happen a year from now could be catastrophic. Autoimmune could go to a level that could change humanity. That’s what’s disturbing.

Ashley Smith:
It is. It’s scary. We are so blessed to have you because we need this information now more than ever. Yeah, well, thank you so much, Dr. Pompa. This has just been really helpful. It’s always good to just go back to the just your core of just your amazing knowledge and what—where everything stems from that you do.

Dr. Pompa:
Awesome, well, no one brings me through the interview better than you because you know it.

Ashley Smith:
Yeah, I do, but I still love hearing about it. I learn something new every time. Thanks so much. Thank you, everybody, for joining. Have a good one.

Dr. Pompa:
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