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28:01And then I really like elderberry, some really cool studies looking at elderberry for flu. So I just don't think people need to use the cough syrups. And it's so funny. I actually saw it the other day. Robitussin is like marketing their new honey Robitussin. And I look at the ingredients and of course it's a drug fact panel. So it doesn't tell you what's in it, but I sent it to our lab and I was like, cool, cool, cool. There's some pasteurized sugar, a little flavoring. So you can skip the cough syrups, everyone. They're doing the health washing, right? They know that honey has all of this peer-reviewed data and health implications, and in particular, in this cough suppressant format.

28:44And so they're like, we'll put a little honey in here, or maybe sort of honey. Yeah, yeah. Now, just really quickly, and I've mentioned this study before, but looking specifically at viral lung infections, and this was in the peer-reviewed journal, Antiviral Chemistry and chemotherapy, looking at propolis, significant antiviral effects, specifically in reducing viral lung infections. And there are study after study after study affirming this. And I went because, you know, having you here, I went and looked this up because I knew, of course, we got to talk about cough syrup and looked at the ingredients for NyQuil.

29:19All right. It's hard to find. It's hard to find the ingredients make it hard to find yeah on in the age of the internet like it i had to like do a couple it wasn't easy to find so of course you mentioned the active ingredients some of the non-active ingredients which are active ingredients fdnc blue number one fdnc red number 40 flavor high fructose corn syrup propylene glycol saccharin sodium these are just some of the other ingredients that are just not necessary in a cough syrup. Don't do anything for our health. There are some of them are hurtful. It's not, not what you want. That's an important thing.

30:02So drug fact panels, if it has a drug fact panels, not inherently bad, but people think with a drug fact panel, it means no sugar, no calories, no anything. Drug fact panel legally, if you put a certain drug in there, even if it's like a really mild thing like pectin, you don't have to disclose that information. So if something has a drug fact panel, you have to email the company. You have to find out what's in there because you don't know. All right. I hope that you enjoyed that segment with Carly Krimmer. And by the way, that study that she referenced in regards to honey versus dextromethorphan versus no treatment, That study was a randomized controlled trial published in the journal Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.

30:48And in this study, it was a single dose of high quality honey versus honey flavored dextromethorphan versus no treatment. And this was administered for participants 30 minutes prior to bedtime. Now, here's what the study actually found. I'm going to give you some more of the details. The study found after compiling all the data, significant differences in symptom improvement were detected between treatment groups with honey consistently scoring the best. In paired comparisons, honey was significantly superior to no treatment for cough frequency, but dextromethorphan was not better than no treatment for any outcome.

31:33The ingredient that's supposed to be this glorified cough suppressant and conventional medication and conventional cough syrups doesn't even work better than nothing. This is insane. This is insane. The comparison should stop there, but it's also asking why do they see any benefit? Because comparing honey with dextromethorphan, we saw that both of them got some potential benefit when compared to each other, but honey was better. What's going on here? There's gotta be a placebo effect to be able to take something, right? It has that honey flavor. We know that it's medicine. That speaks to the power of our mind, but also we don't wanna just be based on the power of our mind.

32:20We want to be based on practicality, but do not negate the power of the mind, which we'll get to shortly. But just keeping this in context, this is why there's this big shift, as she mentioned, like you got these other cough syrup brands like thrown out there. Here's their honey-based formula. They're trying to get onto the honey train. They're trying to get onto that sweet train, that bzzz train. But they're so far behind the ball in their ethics. We need to say no. All right. Avoid, avoid. When you see that conventional honey at the medicine counter, skedaddle. All right. Get out of there. For our intents and purposes, what do we keep on hand in our cabinets, especially during this time of year for ourselves and our families?

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33:57And they're dedicated to regenerative beekeeping and just their level of testing, third-party testing. They just check all the boxes to make sure that you have the best products possible. So definitely check them out, beekeepersnaturals.com forward slash model for 20 % off. And now moving on in these seven scary things to avoid, we want to address the mind. Because unfortunately, in conventional medicine, the mind and body have been separated. But that is, it's a farce. It's not real. You can't separate the two. In particular, when it comes to treatment, when it comes to medicine, when it comes to healing of the human body, all right, our mind is incredibly powerful.

34:42and affects our complete biology instantaneously. Our minds, our thoughts create chemistry in our bodies every single microsecond of every day. The chemistry that's going on that every one of your trillions of cells is being exposed to is based on our thinking. And there's nobody better to share a powerful insight about something to avoid when it comes to having a healthy system in regards to this mind-body connection than a true pioneer in epigenetics, cell biologist, and the author of the mega-hit bestselling book, The Biology of Belief, Dr. Bruce Lipton. And in this next segment, he's going to be sharing why we need to be very cautious.

35:34and even again, we might want to skedaddle when we're exposed to network news and other programming, quote, programming with constant messages of fear. All right, it's good to be aware of things, but we do not want to be inundated and we've got to make sure that we are standing guard at the door of our minds. All right, so enjoy this next segment with the one and only Dr. Bruce Lipton. Well, let's come down to a fact of science so we get this clear. Less than 1%, less than 1 % of disease is connected to genes. So I say, where the hell is all the disease coming from? And it goes, it's coming from stress.

36:20And I say, what's stress? Now, this is really important because stress is anything that gets in the way of your destination. I wanna have this, I wanna go there, whatever. And then something gets in the way that provokes stress. And I go, so why is it relevant? Because stress is the cause of disease of 90 % of the people. And I say, why is that relevant? Again, that's not genetic. That's a perception. I am stressed because I believe I'm stressed. And therefore, my cells are going to respond to my stress. Whether it's real or not, the cells can't see it. They only are based on what I believe. So stress interferes with the immune system.

37:05Let's do stress right now because the whole world's in a stress situation. So let me give you the three fundamental things that happen when you're in stress. Why do we recognize stress for? And I go, because we're being threatened. That's what stress means. Something's threatening you. Let's go back, you know, thousands of years. And I say, what was the stress? I say, saber-toothed tiger. I go, oh, okay. I say, well, what happens when the saber-toothed tiger is chasing you? They say, you got to run like hell. I say, well, what organs in your body do you use to deal with stress? I go, arms and legs escape.

37:43So I say, now here comes the next point. If I'm going to need those organs to escape from the tiger, then here's the most important thing. I need to give them energy because without energy, the muscles aren't going to work. So I say, what provides energy? I say, blood. So I go, oh, why is it relevant? Now, here it comes. When I perceive a stress, stress hormones function is to provide as much blood to my arms and legs as I can get because I need all of that energy to run away from the tiger. So I say, well, where's it getting the blood from? I say, well, the heart's pumping the blood. Yeah, but it's pumping it all over the body.

38:19So I say, well, when the blood is in my gut, what is the function of the organs? lungs, you know, gut, all those organs in there. I say, maintenance of the body, health of the body, fixing the body, and all that. And I say, well, if you're running away from a saber-toothed tiger, do you think it's good to invest in taking care of your body at this point? I go, what a waste of time. If the tiger catches you to hell with the body, it's not going to exist anyway. So here's number one. When stress is perceived, stress hormones released into the body cause the blood vessels in the gut to squeeze shut.

38:55I go, why? Because when they squeeze shut, the blood is pushed to the outside, arms and legs, okay? So I say, yeah, but net consequence, you shut down the blood vessels in the gut and you shut down the maintenance and health of the body. I say, yeah, but for how long? How long does it take to get away from that tiger? 10 minutes, 15 minutes, you're away from the tiger, stress is gone, everything's back in condition again. People can experience this when you get that stress moment. It's like, they call it butterflies in the stomach. They feel like a queasy. I say, what's the queasy? It's the blood vessels squeezing shut.

39:31You can feel them. It's like fluttering. Okay. So number one, stress shuts down blood flow to the gut because it's going to make sure the blood goes preferentially to the arms and legs. Number two, and this is critical now, the immune system uses tremendous amount of energy. Most people, when they get really sick, don't even have the energy to get out of bed. So I say, well, let's say I have a bacterial infection and a saber-toothed tiger is chasing me. How should I split my energy? Again, the hell with a bacterial infection. If the saber-toothed tiger catches you, the infection doesn't mean anything anymore.

40:10It's the tiger's problem. So I go, okay. So what does it mean? fact, stress hormones shut off the immune system to conserve energy to run away from the tiger. Okay. And I go, wow. So stress hormones shut it down. I go so much. So listen, medical doctors use stress hormones therapeutically, meaning if they want to transplant an organ from person A and a person B, and you put that organ in the foreign organ into the recipient, the immune system, the recipient is going to say, that's foreign and try and destroy it. And I say, well, what good is the operation if I just take the organ and put it into somebody else and the immune system messes with it?

40:53And I go, this is why medical doctors give patients, they're going to receive a transplant. They give them stress hormones because when they give them the stress hormones and then do the transplant, the recipient's immune system is not going to be working and it will sustain the transplant. How effective of shutting off the immune system? It's used therapeutically to shut off the immune system. Okay. So that's number two. We compromise growth and health. We shut down the immune system. I call the third consequence adding insult to injury. And I go, what do you mean? Well, the brain has in the forebrain, this is conscious part of the brain.

41:34And in the conscious part of the brain, that's creative. Okay. And I go, that's great. and I say, what about the hindbrain? I go, oh, the hindbrain is reflex reaction. And I go, if you're being chased by a saber-toothed tiger, do you want to have consciousness running the show or do you want to just have reflex reaction carry you away? And the answer is consciousness too slow. I always say, oh, you're in a car, it just starts to get out of control. I say, if you stay in the conscious mind when that car is going out of control, here's my model. oh all you're gonna do is get you're gonna just get lost i say the moment the car goes out of control guess what stress hormones shut off that immune system push it the blood when i squeeze the blood vessels in the forebrain it pushes the blood to the hindbrain where reflexes are going to work so i said what i go we become less intelligent when we're under stress because consciousness is too slow.

42:33And when you're running, so I go, so what's the issue? Historically, the stress response was to be used for a short period of time, 10 minutes, 15 minutes. You escape the tiger, no more stress. And I go, and what about today? And I go, oh, got a little problem here. 24-7, 365 stress. The system was not designed for that. And this excess stress is responsible for up to 90 % of disease on this planet, not genes. Genes, less than 1%. And all of a sudden I say, why is this important? Because if you tell somebody genes cause that, then that gives them, oh, I'm not responsible. The genes did it. I go, no, because if you feel you're not responsible, you shut off your control.

43:19And that's the point. I am in control. Man, this is so powerful. What really struck me the most was when you said we become less intelligent when we're under stress. And I think this is one of the most well-seen things right now with people infighting. There's a big lack of intelligence and even empathy and compassion and these higher order things are going to get put on the back burner. Yeah, let me give you an example about the difference between growth and protection, because that's what it comes down to. A stimulus provokes us to do something. If it's a good stimulus, you move to it, like love, food, something you want.

44:00That's a stimulus, we move to that stimulus. And then I say, but when you move to it, you go open-armed. Why? I want to take it in. If it's love, I don't want to close myself down. I want to assimilate it. If it's food. I got to open myself up, take it in. So growth means you go to the stimulus open. Okay. But what if the stimulus is negative, a threat of any kind? I go, oh, I don't go to the stimulus. I go away from the stimulus. Do I go away my arms open? I go, no, you close yourself down because of protection. So I say, so what's the difference? Growth, go to a stimulus, arms open, protection, go away from the stimulus, arms closed.

44:45I say, why is it relevant? Here's a simple conclusion. You can't move forwards and backwards at the same time. You can't be open and closed at the same time. So basically it says, if you're in a stress mode, you've shut your system down and growth shut down. And, you know, that's okay for a very short period, but if it's chronic, you've killed yourself essentially. And I say, so why is it relevant? I go, look at today's world. Every time you turn on TV, be afraid, be very afraid, go hide in your house. And I go, wow, that's as scary as hell. I say, why is it relevant? I am getting stress hormones dripping into my system every time I watch that damn TV.

45:28I'm getting stress hormones when I read a paper, go and surf the internet. And I go, and what is that doing for you? And I say, it is compromising your health. I go, oh, I say, that's where disease comes from. Not from the genes, but you shut yourself down. And then, as I said, you become less intelligent. Then what do you do? Defer to the boss. Who's the one that's going to protect me? Whatever they say, I'm going to do. Why? I'm not thinking. I'm just going to do what they say because they know, I don't know. I go, oh my God, have we just screwed the world big time? I go, why? Because the planet is on 24-7 stress.

46:12Quantum physics is the most valid science on this planet. It's the one that's been tested the most and verified to be more truthful than any other science. I go, so what? Because what's the first principle of quantum physics? The mind is the creator of our life experiences. And it says your consciousness is creating your life. I go, why is that relevant? Because if you change your consciousness, you can change your life. It's like you don't have to wait for life to change from the outside. It's you on the inside. And so we have been systematically disempowered. You have been manipulated by a belief system and then belief controls genetics and belief controls your biology.

46:57And if you start with a negative belief, you only end up with a negative biology. It's the only way it happens. I hope that you enjoyed that segment with the amazing Dr. Bruce Lipton, who's definitely one of my greatest mentors and one of the most special moments here on the Model Health Show to be able to connect with Dr. Lipton. And we've had multiple conversations over the years and just incredibly valuable. He changed my life long before I had the opportunity to speak with him and to work with him. And it's just such a blessing. And so moving on, on our list of these seven scary things to avoid.

47:35Next up, you're going to hear from the world's leading biological dentist and someone who served as the vice president of the International Society for Metal-Free Implantology. and you're about to find out when it comes to general root canals and metal implants, you might want to bustle left or bustle right and hightail it out of there. All right, so we're going to find out what's going on. This very common practice for decades now, what does science really say and what you should be thinking about and doing instead. So enjoy this next segment with the incredible Dr. Dominik Nischwitz. Yeah, so a root canal is a classical conventional dentistry treatment, and you need it as an acute pain treatment.

48:24So the tooth has, in the middle of the tooth, there's the life part, which is called the pulp. There's blood supply, lymph supply, the autonomic nervous system. And if you had a tooth decay that goes till that nerve, you have the massive pain. It's neuralgia pain because it's directly into your brain. And so we have to help you then as a dentist. And that's by doing a root canal. Basically, what it does is taking out the vital parts of the tooth, filling it up and keeping the tooth as a dead shell for biting, which works. It's not a question about it. You can bite on that tooth for 20 years, 30 years, 40 years even.

48:58But it's a dead organ now. And I say it's never been a good idea to leave something dead in your body or dead tissue in your body. And no other medical department would ever allow it. Like if you had a gangrenous foot being a diabetic, they'd cut it off. If you have anything that is decomposing, you know that it spreads throughout the body within a minute and it can be septic. So as a biodentist, we see it a bit more critical because our focus is not just biting on the tooth, but how can we help patients overall health? And this is and root canals are one of the three health killers that I'm always talking about because they oftentimes become a chronic, silent inflammation.

49:36And maybe you know that chronic inflammation is stressor number one is trigger for all the chronic health issues. And we're living in a pandemic of chronic health issues. So in this case, we just look at it a little bit more open minded and see, okay, maybe you're already optimizing everything, like, especially in our realm where we're talking about, we have the nutrition on point, we have our sleep is tracked, we go out in nature, we do everything, but we're still not feeling superhuman. then maybe this is the splinter holding you back because it's an ongoing stressor in your autonomic nervous system causing chronic inflammation and therefore we see it differently but this is still the one like the the one thing that you get attacked most from your dental colleagues because that's not what you taught in university for biting it works no doubt about it it's a fine out for dentists out there but maybe your patient's suffering from it and you don't even know because it doesn't hurt here usually.

50:28Yeah. Wow. Oh my gosh. So obviously this is something that is incredibly common, you know, having this procedure done. And what I'm hearing is this is more or less a kind of a bandaid treatment for, it's like an acute thing. Somebody wants to get out of pain. They're dealing with whatever, fill in the blank, but we're not really addressing the root pun intended, the root issue here. And just jumping right to that without proper lifestyle change, without proper preparation, without proper post-recovery, I would imagine it's going to lead to a lot of damage. And here's the thing I want to share with you.

51:05Sitting right in this chair, we had somebody who's arguably the leading expert in the world in the treatment for dementia and Alzheimer's. And he has several now published peer-reviewed trials, major scientific journals on reversing patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's and dementia. And he shared of these really kind of primary risk factors. One of them was issues with their teeth, dentition and inflammation coming from the mouth, contributing to brain dysfunction. Yeah, completely correct. Who is it? Dr. Dale Bredesen. Yeah, of course. I think, yeah, Dr. Dale Bredesen, I actually read his book.

51:43Yeah. So the real good integrative medical doctors, they understand that oral health is a huge contributor, especially the dental repair root canals also the metals in the mouth can become a huge problem and these so-called cavitations which is chronic silent inflammation in the jawbone is all connected i mean we are working in your brain like this is an it's really an extension not if you have an inflammation on your arm you see it but your arm is not so important for your body it's just a limp but this is central nervous system so whatever happens there it's usually is the problem is chronic therefore you have no pain because the root canal brings you out of pain and this is where the cascade starts and yeah it can lead to all to various sorts of symptoms you could tell me any anything any symptom there's always going to be a connection not definitely a hundred percent causation no but correlation always so you have to have this as foundational work in a optimal health journey definitely what right at the start you have to know how to diagnose someone's mouth not just by the normal dental stuff which is tooth decay the bleeding gums and the periodontitis, but you have to look into dental repair from metals, root canals, and these removed teeth.

52:53Those are actually the three questions that I usually ask on any keynote that I'm giving, especially, for example, on the Health Optimization Summit, when I think these people are already optimizing everything. I ask specifically any metals in the mouth. Stand up, remain standing. And then I ask the root canal question. Still stand, and then have you had your wisdom teeth removed? And if I ask this question, 90 % of the audience stands. Like also when I gave this speech to dentists, it doesn't even matter. They all stand. So I know instantly there's something to optimize to make you even more superhuman or back to health, because that's the part you cannot biohack.

53:31This is so unnatural. It has been done by a dentist to help you in the first place, but that's not how you came out of your mom. Right. Right. Right. We weren't deficient in a silver filling, you know. So now with this being said, I'm going to ask you about something that, again, a lot of people have right now. And on the track that many people are on, they're going to be faced with this in the future. And that is fillings. Yeah. All right. So I want to ask you about fillings. You mentioned no metals in the mouth several times. So let's talk a little bit about that. So metals are used in conventional dentistry.

54:08That's completely normal for the, let's say, for the last hundred years. Various different metals. And none of these metals that we're using are part of the human body. They're just completely foreign. Could be nickel. Could be mercury filling. So if you have a silver black filling in your mouth that was marketed as a silver filling for 100 years, that is called a mercury amalgam filling. It contains 50 % mercury. And we know that mercury is the most toxic, non-radioactive element known to men. And this made me think, like, right at the start, I cannot place this in the mouth of patients. not possible but you still have it because it's subsidized by the insurance it is to be fair it is a simple to use very cheap working material so you just basically put it in and it lasts forever but it also comes with a lot of side effects so but then also other people have gold crowns and maybe in the 90s gold crowns were not a problem because your immune systems weren't as stressed out as these days with all the emfs we also use titanium for the if you have lost the tooth then you need an implant we use the gold standard is still titanium implants even though personally i'm a specialist in ceramic implants for more than a decade still not there yet so various different things and then even even palladium nickel like anything like that's usually alloys and we don't want to have anything that disrupts the immune system so all these metals come with three challenges the mercury one is just super toxic so toxicity is one challenge it just puts your body in let's say your liver or your detoxification system has a higher burden for it on a daily basis then there's the immune system your immune system can basically become become allergic to every single metal in your body because it's just a foreign body part and then number three is and this is in the medical world is still a little bit woo-woo unfortunately any metal in your mouth will become an antenna in this lower world we're living in 3g 4g 5g it's loaded we don't have a chance without so if you have now metals in your mouth they will interfere with your cell phones and anything and this can cause electro hypersensitivity can cause again a myriad of problems or putting you out in in fight and flight mode all day long and you you cannot get out of it some people can even hear radio stations and fine tune in because of these metals there so it's really not woo woo even though it's not what you learn in university so So that's the three challenges, immune system, detoxification, and antenna.

56:45All right, we're getting close to the finish line here in this very special episode dedicated to seven scary things that you need to avoid. And next up, you're going to be hearing from a medical doctor who specializes in internal medicine and toxicology, quite a combination. And she's going to be sharing some insights about this very strange and very influential impact that plastic and our food have when they are exposed to each other and the impact that it's having on our biology. So enjoy this next segment from the incredible Dr. Vivian Chen. Most people think that plastic cutting boards are better because they're advertised as antimicrobial and you can put it in the dishwasher.

57:36But that's probably one of the worst things you can do. Because when it's advertised as antimicrobial, it's often coated with something called microband. So that's a solution of antimicrobials that can contain endocrine disruptors like benzalconium, quaternium products. And then secondly, studies have shown if you put plastic into a dishwasher, you're increasing the likelihood of leaching of microplastic into your food. So you're increasing the ingestion of microplastic when you're putting the food on that plastic cutting board and cutting it. and thirdly a study just published last year showed that if you are using a plastic cutting board you can be ingesting anywhere up to 50 grams of microplastic per year so that's about 12 credit cards worth of plastic up to that so it depends on what type of cutting boards what you're doing with your boards what you're cutting that all kind of contributes to how much you ingest in but But yeah, that's a pretty crazy amount.

58:49Holy moly. All right. So the alternative for the plastic cutting boards, which again, it's very just kind of integrated into our culture. What should we be using? So studies have shown that wooden cutting board is actually more antimicrobial just naturally compared to plastic. So you don't need to be coating it with microband or anything. just wood straightforward wood is naturally antimicrobial and what i suggest people do because the first question people ask me is well i cut meat on my cutting board like how do i disinfect it keep a board for me and one for your veggies and fruits um and i would suggest wooden for both but if you really don't like the idea of wood and you must use a plastic then don't put it dishwasher, hand wash it and don't cut so hard.

59:45So in this study, they showed that if you're cutting carrots on the plastic board, you're generating more microplastic. And that makes sense because if you're cutting something really hard, you're making deeper cuts, right? Like if you hold up a plastic cutting board, you see all the scratch marks. That's all the microplastic that's now in you. Yeah. We think if we're not seeing like a bunch of shredded pieces of plastic, it's not there you know but in reality when we're cutting into that that cutting board that plastic cutting board is absolutely getting into our yeah so it's the nano plastics that you can't even see that's a thousand one thousandth of a millimeter you can't see that you can maybe see the micro plastics that's you know less than five millimeters yeah um but most of it you're just not seeing so again you know this is about being informed and next time you buy a cutting board get your yourself a wooden cutting board you know just phase i'm a big fan of phasing out because we still have like a larger plastic cutting board and a small one but we also have multiple wood ones too you know minus the her favorite one that got broke because it was like a little one that she cuts like fruit on for my son i'm very attached to my cutting board so i know how she feels yeah all right let's talk about another very common kitchen favorite and just leaning more into these plastics is plastic storage ware.

1:01:07So I saw recently, there's some data that came out about microwaving our food in these plastic containers and how much microplastics was getting into our food. Yeah. Pretty mind blowing how much is released during microwaving. Because you'll see on the bottom of these plastic balls or boxes, it says microwave safe. But what it means that it It just won't melt in a microwave. But in that particular study you're referring to, they showed that per cubic centimeter, the box is releasing hundreds, no, sorry, millions of microplastic and billions of nanoplastics per cubic centimeter. So how big is your box usually?

1:01:55Much bigger than that. So, and that's for microwaving three minutes only. Right. Right. That's not even that long. So whatever you do, if you have to store your food in plastic, then transfer it out onto a plate before you microwave it. All right. I hope that you enjoyed that segment with the incredible Dr. Vivian Chen. And by the way, she's also the inventor of the FDA registered leading portable red light therapy device called the Lume Box. and I recently did a powerful masterclass episode on all of these science-backed benefits of red light therapy and light therapy in general because there's other spectrums of light that are being utilized in medicine to a high degree with great benefits.

1:02:42So we talked about the impact that it has on reducing pain and inflammation. We talked about the impact that it has on autoimmune conditions and helping to, and reducing the damage that can be caused by autoimmune-related hypothyroidism. The list goes on and on and on. But one of those studies that I shared was a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study that took 76 patients with notable wrinkles and treated half of their face with red light therapy, near-infrared therapy, or both, while other patients received a fake light treatment that was used as a placebo. Because again, it can appear as a red light to us, but the irradiance needs to be there.

1:03:26The actual certain lux or luminance or irradiance needs to be there to have these therapeutic benefits. And so participants received two light therapy treatments each week for four weeks. Now here's what happened. With just four weeks of treatment, participants had up to 36 % reduction in wrinkles and up to a 20 % increase in skin elasticity. There is nothing else remotely close. So powerful what red light therapy can do. And speaking of having that science-backed irradiance, the Loon Box has a 58 % greater red light irradiance than the quote leading portable red light devices. 58 % better. 80 % greater near infrared irradiance and 25 % more body surface area coverage.

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1:05:03And Dr. Chen has generously provided myself, my friends, my family, and my community with$260 off of the Loom Box. All right, so this is an incredible opportunity to take advantage of, head over there right now, take advantage, go to theloombox.com forward slash model, and you're going to get$260 off. Now, moving on to the final one of our seven scary things for us to avoid in our world today, to protect our health and wellness, to support the health and wellness of our family and our friends and our community. Number seven, this one is incredibly powerful and it really speaks to the broader mindset when it comes to health and wellness in our world today.

1:05:55And in particular, in our association and our relationship with conventional medicine and understanding the real, when you look at the data, the real results that have been seen when it comes to our healthcare system that some people call a sick care system. And there's nobody better to inform us on this situation than the author of one of the biggest peer-reviewed studies ever conducted looking at the real results of our treatments from conventional medicine. He's a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, medical doctor, and he's the newly confirmed FDA commissioner. my friend, Dr. Marty McCary.

1:06:42And in this conversation that we had just prior to him being aware that he'd be nominated for this position and looking at what can really be changed in the FDA when it's been essentially governed by the power of the pharmaceutical industry receiving about 75 % of its scientific review budget has been coming from payments from The drug companies and 50 % of their budget overall is largely funded by drug companies. May have started with good intent, but it's really guided policies. And there's been this revolving door of FDA commissioners leaving the FDA and going to work with pharma and vice versa.

1:07:24And so this is a new paradigm. Now, obviously, we have a very crowded and noisy health care system and system of government. and it can be difficult to make change, but some significant changes have been put in place. Now to see the follow-through, we're yet to see, but I'm glad that the conversation is being had. And also individuals who've demonstrated a real dedication to integrity and honesty and him being somebody who's passionate about medicine and believes in conventional medicine when applied correctly, but also in his published study, him and his colleagues, and this was very difficult to put the data together, found that conventional medicine, treatment from conventional medicine was found to be the third leading cause of death in the United States.

1:08:22So just above heart disease and cancer, you would find iatrogenesis or physician created illness or death. And so this is not in any way to disrespect or to negate or to downplay or downgrade our incredible physicians. We need our doctors. We've got to understand that this data isn't there for no reason. The way that our incredible physicians have been trained in applying medicine has not led to the best results. And it's just about us being honest and looking at the results. Are we okay? We are not okay. And enough is enough. We've got to do better. We've got to do better. And in his data, as he'll share, you know, the extent of it, it could be somewhere between number three and up to, you know, number 10, but it is definitely one of the leading causes.

1:09:18And it's not just the application of conventional treatments, but it's also the non-application of things that actually work. And so that could potentially bring it to number one. And so we've got to do better. We've got to, in this instance, and why I add this to the list, we want to avoid innocently or ignorantly handing our health over to conventional medicine or anybody for that matter. And so my advocation for you is to have a healthy amount of skepticism, ask questions, and if it's a real challenge or it's an emergency situation, make sure to have someone to advocate for you, to ask those questions, to have that healthy amount of skepticism, because it is a dangerous terrain right now, and we've got to do better.

1:10:12And so this final segment, again, former professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, current FDA commissioner. Enjoy this segment from my conversation with Dr. Marty McCary. We work on the big topics in medicine that we're not talking about that we need to talk about. And one of those has been people who are harmed, not from the illness that brings them to care, but by the care itself. Falling through the cracks, medical errors, people not being properly informed about their options, medical mistakes. And it's not that doctors are bad people. Every doctor I know is trying to do the right thing.

1:10:56We're always trying to do the right thing. It's a broken system. We have good people working in this bad system. It's not a system we designed. It's a system we inherited. And it's broken. It's a joke. Healthcare is a joke. And so we've got to take a step back. In that study, the BMJ study, we actually reviewed the literature to find out what is the best estimate of people dying, not from the disease or illness that brings them to care, but from the care itself. And we found that the estimate was somewhere around it being people dying of, let's call it medical error. The third leading cause of death down to the ninth leading cause of death.

1:11:38It's somewhere in that range. The estimate at the time put it closer to three. We don't know where it It really is because we don't have great studies, but we don't do any research on this topic. We don't talk about it. We ignore it. It results in mistrust. People don't trust us. And so we had a debate in the medical field. Well, that debate was going on and on. And then a year later, it comes out that the number one cause of death in the United States for people under 50 is an opioid prescription from a doctor. And that kind of ended the controversy, right? Because there are all these unmeasured things that can actually harm patients.

1:12:17And it's, again, dogma. The dogma that opioids were non-addictive ignited the opioid crisis. The dogma that you had to avoid peanuts in the first few years of life ignited the peanut allergy epidemic. The dogma that the food pyramid, you know, co-authored by the food industry was healthy, helped usher in this refined carbohydrate addiction. So we got to take a step back and actually ask one big question. Sometimes in medicine, we don't ask. Could it be that many of our major health crises have been caused by or hastened by the hubris of the medical establishment itself? putting things out there with such absolutism when it's just an opinion or a gut feeling of a small group of people at the top.

1:13:07And so we're starting to see that change now. It used to be the medical elites, a small group of people at the top could make the decisions for everybody. Everybody needs to do this and you must obey. Now we're seeing smart doctors on podcasts. They're out there. They've got Vinay Prasad, Peter Atiyah, Casey Means. We're seeing other people now saying, hey, wait a minute, you're saying this? I got another opinion. Here's a blind spot that hasn't been in your calculation. And that's healthy, right? This is good. This is the civil discourse we've needed. And people are starting to see it. After COVID, some people feel like they've been lied to by public health officials.

1:13:48And so now they have some distrust. And other docs are saying, no, look, I'm proud of the profession. It's a great profession. You heard one opinion. Turns out there were two opinions. Yeah, yeah. You know, it's very interesting because there are other researchers that were finding it difficult as well to track what are the leading causes of death because it's not accounted for in the same way that other things are, right? And one that jumps to my mind was the EJS Center for Ethics at Harvard. they, again, the researchers disclosed it was very difficult to come upon these estimates, but they found it was somewhere around 100 ,000 to 128 ,000 deaths per year, largely from properly prescribed medications, right?

1:14:36And so, of course, there were errors sometimes, there were overdoses, but largely from properly prescribed medications. And that should, even if the estimate is just an estimate. If it's even in that ballpark, it should immediately raise some eyebrows and for us to, like, let's look into this. And that's what you're doing saying, you know, like, we just can't sit by and let something like this happen without looking into it. And so can you talk a little bit about why it's so difficult to track deaths if they result from medical care? Well, first of all, the NIH in their wisdom has decided what's important for medical science to study and what's by default not important.

1:15:14Food, not important. Sleep quality, not important. It's just not on their radar. The old school belts and suspenders professors at the NIH established these silos of kidney research and coronary artery lipid research. And so we have not had good studies on these big topics that we need research on. So we're using estimates. We're using a survey of physicians asking them what they think. It's very hard to do research around some of these big issues. We did a study asking 2 ,000 U.S. physicians nationwide, what percent of medical care is unnecessary in your opinion? the average number, average response was 21%.

1:16:07It was like 26 % of the prescriptions, 24 % of the diagnostic testing, 11 % of the operations that we do. Now, when you have people on the front lines of the biggest business in America telling you that one in five services are entirely unnecessary, I mean, that is a that's a signal that is they're sounding the alarm. But again, you're kind of told, put your head down, do your job in subtle ways. Right. And we got too many people picking up their paycheck every two weeks, not speaking up. And that's starting to change. And that's good. That's healthy. Right. We've got to start to examine what are we doing?

1:16:55By any metric, we're failing. And we've blamed it on patients telling the public, you're not complying, you're not listening. Like the peanut dollars you saw, you're not complying with our guidance. You know what? No, maybe we've been giving them the wrong information. You know, in that research from the EJS Center for Ethics at Harvard, they denoted after they had that estimate of how many folks unfortunately lose their lives from largely properly prescribed medications, that the FDA does not acknowledge this number. because of how things are kind of coded in the billing. Can you talk just to share that particular piece?

1:17:30So here's the deal with the coding is that when you fill out a death certificate, you probably, I don't know if you haven't done this, but I've done this probably more times than I care to admit. You fill out a death certificate and it asks you, what is the primary and underlying cause of death? Well, you use your best judgment and whatever you put in that line has to peg to a billing code so it gets tracked in the national system, the National Center for Vital Statistics. Well, if you trip over the cord to the ventilator and the patient dies, what do you put in that line? So medical mistakes, and I'm not saying that's the primary form of mistake, but we have all forms of medical mistakes, undertreatment, overtreatment, normal complications from things that should have never been happening in the first place, People falling through the cracks.

1:18:19The opioid epidemic was a little peak. And that was 100 ,000 people a year dying, mostly from getting a prescription they should have never gotten or a dose too high. I was part of it. I'm guilty. I did that during the period of that dogma. So the problem with our National Vital Statistics and that rank order list of the most common causes of death is that it's using billing codes to populate those causes. And not everything has a billing code. And the reason that's important is that national list of vital statistics every year that's published informs all of our funding and research and public health priorities.

1:18:55So if it doesn't have a code, it's not getting the research dollars it may deserve. So a physician can't easily say it was something that I did wrong, potentially, or a colleague did, that the billing for that isn't something that's easy to do. What if you feel, and I've felt this in the past, this patient had a terrible complication Looking back, they probably never should have had that operation. They were too high risk. The indication was borderline and they were pushing for it, but we should have been firmer and saying, no, you don't need this. Antibiotics are given out like candy in the healthcare field.

1:19:33We're creating a massive superbug resistance epidemic. It's already started. And we're carpet bombing the microbiome. It's having all kinds of effects that we can talk about. But we have to recognize that sometimes the right answer to the public is we don't know. And that's good. That's okay. That's humility. That's what people are hungry for right now. All right. I hope that you enjoyed this incredible compilation of seven scary things to avoid. This, by the way, if Dr. Lipton was talking about this, he would say, okay, we can have a couple of scares here or there, but we need to reset. We need to have it in proper perspective because it's not really about being scared and running away.

1:20:22It's about awareness and it's okay. We have these incredible systems to be frightened, to be cautious and skeptical and all these different things. We have this inner compass for a reason. But today more than ever, that button is getting pushed down because we're outsourcing our awareness. We're outsourcing our potential. We're outsourcing our thinking. And so this is to empower you to think differently, to think more clearly, to tune into your inner world for some personal guidance because you know better than anyone what is best for you because you live in that body. You have this experience in this life.

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