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Joe Rogan Experience #438 - Dr. Mark Gordon
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joe rogan
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joe rogan
My friend.
This, ladies and gentlemen, this is my friend Dr. Mark Gordon, and Mark Gordon is, you're not just a doctor, you're a fascinating dude, and when I first met you, one of the first things I said was like, this motherfucker needs his own podcast, because you can just talk.
Nobody can spit out information.
I've never, I've been alive for 46 years, never met a guy who can spit out as much impressive information as you that quickly when it comes to, like, the body.
dr mark gordon
It's my escape.
At home, I have four women.
So who gets to talk at home?
joe rogan
Right.
dr mark gordon
Not me.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dr mark gordon
So outside the world, I get to share what I do.
joe rogan
Inside, you get shut down?
dr mark gordon
I get shut down.
joe rogan
Wow.
But you have a lot of information, dude.
Every time I talk to you, I wish I had like a notebook or I wish I was recording it.
I always try to remember as much as possible, and you've given me some great advice as far as health and fitness and exercise and all sorts of different things that you know about, but I always walk away from every conversation and go, I know I forgot something.
I know I didn't remember something.
Like the last time we were talking, you were telling me about some shit that helps your liver after you drink and you take this...
dr mark gordon
What is this?
joe rogan
What is it?
dr mark gordon
Unbelievable.
Glutathione.
joe rogan
Pull that thing closer to your face so people hear you better.
Glutathione.
dr mark gordon
Glutathione.
joe rogan
And that helps your liver when you drink alcohol?
dr mark gordon
Well, it helps you with just about anything that the liver is responsible for digesting or metabolizing.
As you metabolize certain drugs, chemicals, and so forth, the liver uses up its ability to continue the process, so it spills over into the blood, and that's how you get, you know, drunk, because your liver can only deal with a certain amount.
So if you replenish or replace the glutathione in the liver, you get incredible benefits of it.
Not only does it help with metabolism, but it's an incredible antioxidant for the brain and for the eyes and for the heart.
joe rogan
What is it made out of?
dr mark gordon
It's three amino acids that are together.
It's in our body, but we don't have enough of it to really generate the metabolism that we need if we're drinking.
joe rogan
Now, where do they get that?
Where do they get glutathione?
Because I know Dave Asprey is really into that stuff, too.
He has a version of it.
dr mark gordon
Yeah, it's manufactured.
joe rogan
But how do they make it?
What is it?
dr mark gordon
Well, it's three amino acids that they put together.
And the products that we interact with are...
It's a delivery technology where you wrap the vitamins or you wrap the supplement in what's called a liposome, which is like a cell wall.
It's from lecithin.
It's from soy.
And it protects whatever it is that you're ingesting because a lot of the things that you take, like I think I shared with you, if you take a thousand milligrams of vitamin C by mouth, you only absorb nineteen percent.
The rest of it's destroyed by the acid that's in the stomach.
But if you wrap it in this protection called the liposome, you'll be able to absorb ninety-three percent.
So taking something like glutathione, which normally when you take it in its Natural form, it's destroyed.
Most of it is destroyed and then absorbed and then remanufactured in the blood.
But if you wrap it in this protective outer coating, a liposome, you can absorb it more readily.
And the effects are unbelievably positive.
For instance, a gentleman who went out drinking three highballs and five shots of tequila went home and subsequently was very dizzy, nauseous.
He forgot that I gave him a sample of this glutathione.
And he used four puffs under the tongue, held it for 30 seconds, and then 30 minutes later, clears the bell, woke up the next day, went out partying again, couldn't get drunk.
joe rogan
What?
That sounds like nonsense.
dr mark gordon
It isn't nonsense.
joe rogan
I wish I was smart enough to call you on your bullshit.
dr mark gordon
Talk to my office.
Aaron will tell you everything.
joe rogan
That sounds crazy.
Maybe that guy was lying.
Maybe he wasn't that drunk.
dr mark gordon
Well, I can't tell you who it was if I told you who it was.
joe rogan
You would know?
He's a hammer fist?
He knows how to throw him down?
dr mark gordon
He knows how to throw him down.
joe rogan
Well, you're giving people some false hope, man.
You're telling them to take glutathione and don't worry about you drinking.
dr mark gordon
Well, no.
Everything in moderation, but if you go across that line, you need to have something to fall back onto.
joe rogan
I need to try that now, but I don't want to get drunk enough to try it.
I'm scared to get drunk enough to try it, but...
But it sounds like a smart thing to try.
dr mark gordon
You know, for years, I take the kids to Mexico every year, and I take a bottle of scotch with me, and I sit and read a book and drink the scotch over a period of a couple hours, and I turn the bottles empty, my kids go and get me some mojitos, and I continue drinking.
I don't get drunk.
It turned out that one of the products that I was taking had a very high amount of reduced glutathione in it.
So when I got exposed to the glutathione world, which was just last year with Dr. Christopher Shade, who's one of the gurus in the area of glutathione technology and absorption, he introduced it to me and it made sense, reading the literature on how it functions in the liver.
joe rogan
That's pretty fascinating.
It's great stuff.
There's also the dehydration that comes from alcohol consumption.
What's the mechanism behind that?
dr mark gordon
Well, alcohol is a diuretic.
It causes you to go to the bathroom.
And since you used all those colorful words earlier, I'll use the word that makes you pee like a horse.
joe rogan
You mean like bad words I use?
dr mark gordon
Yeah, bad words I use.
I was going to interrupt you and say, you can say those words on this?
joe rogan
Yeah, this is just the internet.
unidentified
This is just the internet.
joe rogan
Well, it should be that way.
I mean, if you and I were sitting down just having a conversation, we would talk like two normal people.
dr mark gordon
Absolutely.
joe rogan
We're not vulgar, awful people, but occasionally the word fuck is the right word.
dr mark gordon
Absolutely.
It's the right word in about every tense of the English language.
joe rogan
We're robbed of that freedom by television because people are pretending by not saying fuck on television that people don't say fuck in real life.
So you're never going to really believe what you see on television.
There's always going to be this bridge that you're not willing to cross over because these people never swear.
dr mark gordon
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's silly.
We're the same people.
We're all the same people.
The people that say fuck, the people that don't say fuck.
You don't like to say it?
Don't say it!
It's no big deal.
dr mark gordon
Thank you, George Carlin.
joe rogan
Yeah, Jesus Christ.
It should have been figured out a long time ago, but it's not.
So yeah, you can say fuck on us.
dr mark gordon
To anal retentive.
Well, I use words like anal retentive instead of assholes.
joe rogan
That's not a good word.
dr mark gordon
It isn't?
Okay, fine.
joe rogan
Anal retentive means a totally different thing.
You can't call a person an asshole if they just fucking like to clean their hands.
dr mark gordon
So anyway, alcohol has a couple of things that it does.
Alcohol is a sugar.
So what happens is it causes your blood sugar to go up and then drop because insulin is turned on and you become irritable because you need sugar to run the brain.
And then dehydration.
You need hydration.
joe rogan
Is that why people get hungry for pancakes?
They want maple syrup?
You want that syrup?
Butter and maple syrup?
dr mark gordon
The more carbs, the better.
joe rogan
Brain food.
Brain food.
Yeah, the more carbs, the better for the brain after you drink, right?
dr mark gordon
It's a diuretic, it's a dehydrator, and it's a hypoglycemic dropsy blood sugar.
joe rogan
It's an aminosuppressant too, right?
dr mark gordon
It is.
Actually, it shuts off growth hormone production.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's not good, but damn, why does it make things so fun?
dr mark gordon
I know.
joe rogan
What a crazy thing.
Something that makes you so happy for a little while, just so fucking, and so stupid and dangerous and impossible to control.
Like, that's the craziest thing about the alcohol.
It's impossible to regulate how many people.
You just put it out in the market and people drink whatever they want.
It's not a lot.
You drink a glass like this of whiskey and you're fucked.
What other thing do you have that you can just buy like that that literally will kill you if you drink too much and you can get it everywhere?
It's pretty ridiculous.
dr mark gordon
Yeah.
joe rogan
It's unbelievable if you really stop and think about it.
dr mark gordon
I think what's even worse is the fact that they've restricted marijuana use for so many years when you look at the stats on people who cause accidents.
I mean...
joe rogan
You're only saying this because you didn't watch Nancy Grace's piece last night.
dr mark gordon
No, I didn't watch it.
joe rogan
If you saw Nancy Grace's speech last night, you would understand that marijuana makes you lazy.
dr mark gordon
Oh, yes.
joe rogan
It makes you fat.
dr mark gordon
I've seen that.
joe rogan
And it makes you just want to sit on the couch and eat chips.
That's what Nancy Grace says.
She needs weed so bad, that poor sweetie.
She needs a pot cookie.
Just one of those pot cookies that makes you just go, oh, why was I fighting this?
Well, someone would rub her feet.
If she could just sit back on a really comfy couch after a pot cookie and some dude who was really good at it rubbed her feet, she'd be like, why was I saying that this is bad?
dr mark gordon
I'm going to take my shoes off now.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Poor Nancy.
She needs a hug.
A lot of people are angry at her.
Not me.
She needs some love.
She's crazy.
She's talking nonsense about weed.
You're a big fat lady, and you're talking about people being lazy.
That doesn't make any sense at all.
And I know she's not lazy.
I mean, she was a judge.
She was running this TV show forever.
Being on a TV show is hard work.
Being on a successful TV show for a long time, that's hard fucking work.
But come on, you're talking crazy about weed.
No one's listening to you.
That's nonsense.
You're the exact thing that young kids want to avoid.
They want to avoid an angry, yelly, preachy person on television who's yelling at them and telling them some shit that they know is not true.
It doesn't make you lazy.
If you're lazy, you're already fucking lazy.
It has nothing to do with weed.
dr mark gordon
But don't you think the kids nowadays, they listen to that and they say...
Interesting and they just do their own thing.
They know it's a bunch of shit.
joe rogan
I think she's just out of touch.
She's completely out of touch.
And it's not just out of touch.
Foolishly ignorant as to the consequences of what she's saying.
Because people are just going to, if you really believe what you're saying, you're doing it in such a foolish way that people are going to immediately discredit the message because it's coming from you.
unidentified
The marijuana makes you lazy!
joe rogan
No, it doesn't.
Stop it, dummy.
That's a ridiculous statement, and she's only saying it because she's just missed the boat.
dr mark gordon
She missed the internet.
I think Colorado, Washington, and eventually Arizona will be great test areas to disprove all that bullshit that's being said about marijuana.
joe rogan
Do you know what they're doing, though?
It's a really sneaky thing.
The Colorado dispensaries, they have dispensaries that they've had for a long time.
They had them back when I lived there, but they have actual retail stores, but they're not allowed to have bank accounts.
So they have massive amounts of cash, and the government literally will not let them put it in a federal bank.
They can't put it in a state bank.
They can't put it in a bank.
They don't allow them to put their business.
So they've got to have a safe somewhere and put stacks of fucking paper money.
They've got to remember to count it.
What are you talking about?
This is the stupidest idea ever.
You can make money, but you can't put it in a bank.
dr mark gordon
Here's even worse.
You've probably heard about in Denver.
Where they have outlets for picking up marijuana, but there's no place legally designated to smoke it.
joe rogan
That's hilarious, too.
Yeah, they even have these sniff machines.
Have you ever seen them?
They've developed these things to pick out nanoparticles in the air, and they put it over their nose like you're watching a fucking movie.
They're sniffing to smell if they could smell marijuana from your home outside your home.
And if they can, they will give you a ticket.
It's a new way to make money with a giant electric, looks like a cartoon nose.
This guy's got like a space nose on.
Have you seen it?
dr mark gordon
No, I haven't seen it.
joe rogan
Jamie, pull a picture of that shit up.
It's hilarious.
dr mark gordon
It's called a sniffer?
joe rogan
I don't know what the fucking technical name for it is, but they're literally standing outside of people's houses trying to smell weed.
You made weight legal!
Of course it's in there!
You can't have a backyard party?
You can't pass around a joint in the backyard or you go have to get a ticket?
Come on, assholes.
That's ridiculous.
What's the big deal?
It smells good.
dr mark gordon
It's an awesome smell.
joe rogan
It smells good.
It just does.
Like, there's some things that don't smell good when they're burning.
Like, cigarettes smell like shit.
dr mark gordon
Yeah, if hemp oil was legal, I'd be using it.
joe rogan
On what?
dr mark gordon
On my body.
joe rogan
Well it is legal.
You can get hemp oil.
What do you mean?
dr mark gordon
You get detoxified hemp oil?
joe rogan
No, because hemp oil doesn't necessarily have THC in it.
It's not necessarily psychoactive.
It depends on whether it comes from the hemp plant or whether it comes from the female, the marijuana.
I mean, marijuana is not even a real word.
Marijuana is the slang for a Mexican wild tobacco.
That's where that word came from.
When the whole Harry Anslinger and William Randolph Hearst, when they were trying to make marijuana illegal, that's what they started calling it.
They couldn't call it cannabis.
There's a thing.
And when they made it illegal, half the people in Congress didn't even realize that they had made marijuana illegal.
Look at that nose, the electronic nose.
It's got a compass on the end of it and shit to tell you where the smoke is coming from.
This is so stupid.
Look at that.
That's a giant electric piggy.
That's a pig with an electric piggy.
That's what that is.
And by the way, you're a pig.
If that's what you do, if you stand in front of people's houses with a fucking electronic sniffer, not even your own nose, you're a pig.
Are you trying to arrest them because they're smoking something that's now legal inside their house, but they left a window open?
You're a pig.
That's a pig.
dr mark gordon
Awesome.
joe rogan
You're disgusting.
dr mark gordon
I love technology.
unidentified
Electronic fucking fake nose.
joe rogan
The guy who made that must have been laughing like a motherfucker.
unidentified
He was stoned.
joe rogan
He was probably so high when he entered that patent, he didn't even realize he fucked us.
dr mark gordon
Hey, man.
joe rogan
He's one of us, and he fucked us with his stupid electric robot nose.
dr mark gordon
But he made lots of money so he could go to Colorado, have his own condo, and smoke all the weed he wants.
joe rogan
Imagine the irony.
Imagine if he just started his own pot-selling business after he sold those things.
Imagine if he was like the banks betting against themselves.
dr mark gordon
Hey, we all need a cash cow.
joe rogan
That's the move.
That's what you do.
You develop shit to help the cops while profiting off weed.
And it all eats itself.
Yeah, it is legal to smoke marijuana on your front porch in Denver.
unidentified
Yeah, they voted last month 10 to 3. Good.
joe rogan
Yeah, you can smoke on your front porch now.
Powerful Denver!
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
Fuck yeah, Denver.
Denver's strong.
But there's going to be a lot of blowback from all this.
And the first blowback that we're seeing is the blowback.
It is.
How's your doing here, Mark?
The first blowback is the bank thing.
They're not allowed to put their money in banks.
dr mark gordon
So what are they supposed to do?
benjamin jaffe
They have to fucking stash money places, man.
joe rogan
It's really crazy.
You're going to have to buy cash houses and shit and cash boats.
dr mark gordon
Maybe that's the point.
joe rogan
Yeah, they're trying to get it so that they can't get rich.
Which I'm all for, man.
I think that if people want marijuana, they should be able to grow it.
And it's not hard to grow.
And I think that one of the reasons why it's so expensive and been so expensive for so long is because it's illegal.
Once it becomes legal, it should all balance out.
craig jones
It should be really easy to get, super easy to access, easy to grow.
joe rogan
You don't really need to pay for it.
It's just the fear of having somebody come and find your little collective that you and your buddies have set up on some little piece of property somewhere.
dr mark gordon
Well, they've been doing that up north.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dr mark gordon
They've been busting houses, million-dollar houses with the entire...
Basement, first floor, second floor, with all the hydroponics and marijuana.
joe rogan
They go by your house with a special machine now, and it checks the amount of electrical, whatever the fuck is going on in your house.
So if you have a lot of lights on, they might just storm your house.
There was an old couple that was like, I believe they were former FBI or former CIA, and they got arrested.
The fucking, the DEA arrested them, came into their house because they thought they had to grow up when they were just growing vegetables.
So they broke...
I mean, they literally went...
I forget whether it was a former FBI or CIA. I forget who it was.
But the DEA literally went into their fucking house because they thought they were growing marijuana.
And, you know, like, Jesus Christ, guys.
Like, do you not check who the fuck these people are?
dr mark gordon
No.
joe rogan
No?
They don't care.
unidentified
Gotta go in there and get those plants.
joe rogan
I wish I remembered the exact specifics of the story, but it was hilarious.
Denver, though, they don't give a fuck.
They say, come get us.
dr mark gordon
That's right.
joe rogan
We're cowboys.
We got fucking ranches up here.
We got wells.
We got water wells.
I think we're good.
I think we're going to keep our weed now.
unidentified
And it's all this fucking crazy blowback.
joe rogan
Crazy blowback.
dr mark gordon
Well, I'm expecting the Chinese to come here.
They just dropped $4.7 billion into the American economy buying businesses.
Let's see if they go to Colorado and buy some weed farms.
joe rogan
They're gonna do it.
dr mark gordon
They are.
joe rogan
Chinese, they're gonna go off.
dr mark gordon
You were right, Coach.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Can you imagine how much the world would change if Chinese people came over here and started growing weed?
They're very ambitious, folks.
It would be over real quick.
They've got a lot of money these days.
dr mark gordon
Too much.
joe rogan
It's a fascinating thing, isn't it, how these nations look at each other over time?
You know, sort of the character of the nation sort of shifts back and forth, and now China...
The character has become, instead of one of just total communism, of this rampant capitalism.
This new feeling of China being like, you know, producing literally every fucking cell phone known to man, except for the Samsung ones, which are made in Korea.
All the top cell phones and laptops and shit.
China is just making so much shit.
dr mark gordon
Yeah, Lenovo bought IBM ThinkPad, and it's now the number one business computer in the world under the name Lenovo.
joe rogan
Wow.
dr mark gordon
Yeah, I work in China.
I have a contract in China with the second wealthiest guy in China for wellness centers, and I'm watching what he's buying up.
Unbelievable the amount of money that they're dumping here.
joe rogan
I bought a ThinkPad just because I'm dumb, and I figured that would be a way to really inspire me to be less dumb.
I'm going to do some writing on my ThinkPad.
You can't write total nonsense when you have a ThinkPad.
It's too pretentious.
But I like that little nipple, man.
Nobody ever stuck with that nipple.
The nipple for the mouse?
Yeah, the nipple for the mouse is pretty sweet, man.
I don't know why it never caught on.
They nailed that shit with IBM. A couple other, like, PC laptops had that little nipple.
Yeah, that's my baby.
I had one of those.
That thing was the shit.
I was riding on a ThinkPad, son.
I'm obviously thinking.
dr mark gordon
You were just playing with that little red nipple.
joe rogan
I wasn't playing with it.
I was working.
dr mark gordon
That's what I said.
joe rogan
I was going to work.
There's no playing involved.
I don't play, dude.
I don't play games.
Yeah, so that's all made in China, right?
Foxconn, of course, which makes all the Apple iPhones.
I wonder who makes the nets outside of Foxconn?
Imagine if they were American nets.
That would be really ironic.
We sent American nets over the Chinese factory to catch the workers as they jump from the building.
Imagine that?
It's weird, man.
It's weird when you find out how much shit China makes when they duplicate cities and stuff like that.
Like they duplicate Paris and all these other European cities.
dr mark gordon
Yeah.
One of the funniest, not funniest, but one of the most necessary towns that they just got finished doing...
Was a geriatric, old-age town for 200,000 elderly Chinese.
Well, you think 200,000 elderly when there's 1.3-plus billion people there.
So the town has everything.
It's got, you know, stores where you can buy diapers, you can buy, you know, liquid drinks and protein, hospitals, their own ER, everything.
Just for, I think it's 60 years of age and older.
And they're building town after town just to take care of the elderly.
joe rogan
They have a really weird thing going on with their children, too, obviously, the one-child thing.
dr mark gordon
It's now unlimited, or it's two.
It's no longer one.
joe rogan
No, it's actually just a slight variation.
The slight variation is if you came from a single-parent household, if you were an only child, if you were an only child, either the male or the female was an only child, you were allowed to have more than one kid.
Then you can have two.
It's not much of a change.
It's not, like, unlimited.
It's still, like, they're really trying to restrict...
They have too many people.
I mean, they know it, everybody knows it, and it's craziness.
And so their solution was to only have men, which is a crazy fucking solution.
I mean, then you have, like, this crazy setup where 70-plus percent of the people are men, and the men are lonely and sad, and they can't find women, and they have this...
Real despair because they might not ever be able to find a woman.
It's a real possibility.
There's just not that many.
dr mark gordon
That's right.
joe rogan
And the chicks must just be running shit.
They're so powerful there in China.
They must be so powerful.
It's so hard.
Get one.
dr mark gordon
But their culture hasn't allowed them to be that way.
joe rogan
You've got to keep them down.
dr mark gordon
Not like a valley woman.
joe rogan
Sees a few to say white man.
You've got to keep them in their place.
There's only 30 of them.
You can't let them know how valuable they are.
It's too many people, man.
Whether it's China or India, you get to a billion.
I wonder how long it's going to take for us to get to a billion.
dr mark gordon
With the immigration, that's happening fast.
joe rogan
You think so?
dr mark gordon
I think so.
joe rogan
All through Mexico, is that what you're saying?
dr mark gordon
No, there's...
No senor.
joe rogan
That's what I heard.
dr mark gordon
No senor.
There's, what, 21 million coming from China?
joe rogan
21 million?
dr mark gordon
21 million.
joe rogan
A year?
dr mark gordon
21 million between now and 2020. There'll be 21 million people, and they predict there'll be someplace between 6 to 10 million coming just to California.
joe rogan
How do they all get in?
Is there like a number that the United States won't let anymore in?
dr mark gordon
If they bring a company here, they can get a green card.
joe rogan
Would it say 2,100?
unidentified
Yeah, but this was five years ago.
joe rogan
Oh, expert.
U.S. population to hit 1 billion by 2,100.
Fucking crazy, man.
dr mark gordon
Not too far off.
joe rogan
That's not too far off.
dr mark gordon
Mm-mm.
joe rogan
That means that conceivably, Jamie could still be alive to see this.
You and I would be gone.
Unless some new shit comes along.
But Jamie might see this.
dr mark gordon
Always new shit coming along.
joe rogan
Yeah, there is always new shit coming along, right?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's crazy.
A billion is a scary number because it represents chaos.
Not just chaos, but also represents...
There seems to be a lack of appreciation for life when it gets to that level.
And that's when you find these crazy rapes in India and these horrible stories of...
People doing terrible things.
China, people selling their kids.
Not to say that people don't do terrible things over here.
They definitely do.
People do terrible things everywhere.
But it seems like life is not as valuable when there's too much of it.
True.
dr mark gordon
There, you know, the China and the black market for organs, Middle East for organs and children.
I mean, these aren't my favorite topics to go through.
I read about it because I am across an international marketplace.
And it's extremely scary, you know, with three daughters and having to look at that one can be pulled off the street, you know, and sold as in slavery, which is very, very common.
You see all the cases that have been coming up with Middle East and with China.
joe rogan
How about with Ohio?
You know, wasn't that fucking guy, where did he live in Ohio?
unidentified
Cleveland.
joe rogan
Cleveland, yeah, the Cleveland guy.
They found he had a bunch of women living in his basement.
Kidnapped them and locked them up in his basement.
There's been a few of those over the past few years.
So it's not just there.
You know, it's not just China.
A woman has to be worried about that here, too.
dr mark gordon
It's all over the world.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dr mark gordon
It's all over.
I'm just talking about, you know, the venues that I travel in and here, the stuff going on, the thing that happened in India.
unidentified
Fuck.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's so much rape in India.
dr mark gordon
Pakistan.
joe rogan
It's insane.
dr mark gordon
Pakistan.
joe rogan
These stories.
And the other thing is also the perspective.
Because, I mean, without a doubt, any of those stories about gang rape in India, they're horrible and disgusting and terrifying.
I think the reason why we're hearing about so many crimes from there, though, is that we can't even realize what it's like to have an extra, like what we have now, plus an extra 700 million crimes.
Like, that's out of control.
And, you know, that might be the problem in itself.
This insane psycho behavior might be that there's so many people that when it gets to that level, the life just gets devalued.
dr mark gordon
Well, fortunately, in China, they have lots of places to spread out to.
But they're all concentrated, you know, in areas like Beijing and Shanghai and Guangzhou and Canton and so forth.
But it's wall to wall.
joe rogan
That's insane.
dr mark gordon
It's like Japan.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dr mark gordon
Sardines in a can in the trains.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Yeah, they push people in.
dr mark gordon
They actually have the guards there that really push you in.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's so fucking crazy.
dr mark gordon
When we look at California with the expansive horizons that we have in Texas and Alaska, I mean, we're very blessed to have these beautiful places that, you know, my fear is that we have so many people coming in that it starts crowding us.
In the cities, we're already having the crowding.
Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego.
So you have to look for bumfuck Iowa or Coeur d'Alene.
Beautiful places.
joe rogan
Yeah, they might be the last bastions of hope.
You know, it really seems like if people keep expanding the population at this rate, it's almost inevitable that the whole country...
It gets dragged into the same situation that we've seen in these other countries.
It's almost inevitable numbers-wise, right?
You're just going to run into an uncontrollable, unmanageable size of humans, whether it's 500 million or a billion or whatever the number is.
dr mark gordon
Yeah, the ACLU will get in there and say, what are you trying to restrict to one child per family?
They'll never do that.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, I hope so.
But still, somebody's got to do something.
It's just the question of, you know, you don't want to really let nature take its course.
Because what nature will do is say, oh, there's too many fuckers.
Let's just give you a horrible disease.
You know, let's just give you some ruthless shit that you'll never recover from and kill 99% of you.
And that's what nature would do.
Nature would just figure out a way to fuck you.
So, if we don't fix it ourselves, nature fixes it.
dr mark gordon
You hope.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dr mark gordon
You hope.
And you hope we don't accelerate it with all our genetic engineering.
joe rogan
Are you worried about that?
dr mark gordon
I'm extremely worried about it.
Since, you know, GMO has been around, we've been seeing an increase in celiac disease.
We've been seeing autoimmune diseases like lupus.
The article's now starting to confirm what we thought, that there is an association with gluten From breads, from grains, and lupus and rheumatoid arthritis and Hashimoto's, which are all names for diseases that create inflammation and start, you know, destroying our own cells, our own tissue, our bones, rheumatoid arthritis.
And there are articles now coming out showing that there's this relationship to it.
And then you look back of when GMO started with Monsanto and some of the other companies, and you start seeing the trend, the increase in these diseases.
Why didn't we have these diseases in the past, like autism?
Why is autism at such an incredible level, what is it, 1 to 20, 1 to 50, when it used to be 1 to 400?
Is it relative to the immunizations?
We went from, you know, a small amount of immunizations.
Now we're giving, what, 30 in a year to the kids between, you know, up to five years?
I don't remember really what the numbers are.
I stopped pediatrics years ago.
But when you inject all these inflammatory chemicals, I mean, that's what happens when you do an immunization.
It creates inflammation.
joe rogan
This is a hot topic.
And it's a very, like, when you start talking about it, like, there's people that are immediately going to dismiss you.
dr mark gordon
Absolutely.
joe rogan
You start talking about, oh, he's one of those anti-immunization guys.
But if you realize the statistics, if you start looking at the statistics for the vaccine court, what vaccine court has had to pay out, they've had to pay out numerous large settlements with people, millions and millions and millions of dollars, because they connected the immunization shots to their kids getting autism.
dr mark gordon
Correct.
joe rogan
That's a weird thing.
People don't want to hear that fact.
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
I mean, they could say, well, they just lost in court because it was a misinformed judge.
I mean, there can be some variables, but the reality of the situation is...
You're not supposed to give a baby peanut butter.
A fucking little tiny baby shouldn't even get peanut butter because it could kill them.
If that kid is allergic to peanuts, if she's got that allergy, you could literally kill a baby with peanut butter.
Why is it okay to just shoot chemicals in and assume that everyone's going to have a uniform reaction to these chemicals?
Are most people going to be okay?
Yes.
Is it good that we have vaccinations because they prevent us from diseases?
Abso-fucking-lutely.
I've had a bunch of vaccinations in my life.
I think they're very important.
Should you give them to babies?
I don't fucking know about that.
I don't know about that.
I don't know.
Maybe we should look at that real quick because what are you shooting in there?
You know it's a baby.
It's a day old.
You're going to shoot chemicals in it.
Maybe let it sit around for a while and grow and get stronger maybe.
And that's what a lot of doctors think.
They think that there should be a protocol where you don't give them any shots until they get to be about two.
And then you slowly start introducing them to the essentials.
You avoid, like, when they're babies, you don't give them things to prevent VD. You know?
But people want to do that kind of shit.
There's a lot of money in fucking vaccines.
And as soon as a corporation gets behind the bottom line, they're just trying to sell more.
They'll try to figure out a way to make it so, like, look, the fucking kid can take it.
These kids are strong these days.
They're eating our GMO corn.
You can give them a hard vaccine.
Come on, we've been making a lot of money, Tommy.
Come on.
dr mark gordon
Well, one of the recent ones for adult females or adolescent females is a product for HPV, human papillomavirus, which can cause cervical cancer.
It's a product called Garnicel.
And there are reported cases of healthy women who get the Garnicel and end up with problems with their brain.
And the issue is, you know, from the young and also for adults, Any age really is the protection that our body has is this wall, this barrier called the blood-brain barrier that stops things that are caustic and harmful to our brain from getting in.
It doesn't fully develop to maybe five years of age in the average child.
So when you're giving an overwhelming amount of inflammatory...
It creates an immune response, and it goes into the brain.
Well, it passes that inflammatory process into the brain, and that's probably, and they'll deny it, you know, part of the reason why it happens.
They were talking about the theol, which is mercury that used to be in or is still in some of the immunizations.
They thought it was mercury toxicity, and, you know, my partner in This is all scientific fact, right?
joe rogan
This is all scientific fact.
Yes.
And that alone, there's the people that are automatically dismissing you right now.
And I'm sure there are a bunch.
And me as well.
And they should dismiss me because I'm a fucking idiot and I don't know what I'm talking about.
I'm just repeating a bunch of words that I've read online.
Dismiss me away, please.
But recognize that this is not as cut and dry as you think.
And it's not that immunizations are bad.
Everybody wants to say, oh, someone's anti-vaccine.
Oh, she's causing the deaths of thousands because she doesn't endorse giving babies vaccines.
No, that's not the case.
But what the case is, is you've got to realize it's a fucking chemical.
And the idea that just shooting a foreign chemical into a baby is totally safe.
Like, are you sure?
Are you fucking sure how the little baby body is gonna react to a needle being shoved into it and you inject some man-made chemicals that just might have mercury in them?
Everybody's gonna be okay?
dr mark gordon
Well, I agree with you that we all need immunizations.
unidentified
Yes.
dr mark gordon
I think it's the timing that we need to reassess.
joe rogan
I think you're correct.
And I know nothing.
You're correct, sir.
I've done the studies.
dr mark gordon
Well, you're correct.
You've done your reading.
joe rogan
Well, I've done a lot of reading about people much smarter than me figuring things out.
And one of the things they figured out is that babies are fucking genuinely sensitive.
dr mark gordon
Correct.
joe rogan
They're really small.
They're not really developed yet.
It doesn't mean that, like, vaccines are bad.
Vaccines are awesome.
Vaccines are the reason why we don't have polio.
Vaccines are the reason why there's a million things, like mumps, which is actually starting to make a comeback because people are not vaccinating their kids for mumps and measles, you know?
So it's not entirely good to not vaccinate either.
It's good.
It's just it needs to be done at the right time probably.
And we need to figure out why there's so many of them.
I mean, are they all necessary?
Are we sure that that's a good idea?
And I don't think there's any way to do it until they clone fake people, headless people, or use them as prisoners.
Prisoners.
That's what they should do.
Give them vaccines.
But you can't do that because you've got to test them on babies.
You need to make fake babies.
It's the only way to do it.
But then there would be a lot of people that are convinced that they've made a real baby.
Because it would have to be so perfect in order for my experiments to work.
dr mark gordon
Write it up as a thesis.
joe rogan
It's a good TV show.
It's like one of those CSI shows, but it's all about fake babies.
Yeah, man, I think that a lot of people want an either or in that case, and I'm glad that you have the courage to talk about that because you know as well as I know that it's such a hot topic that immediately even discussing the possibility that occasionally there could be problems when you inject kids Correct.
People assume you're like a 9-11 truther.
You believe the towers were broken down by thermite.
They put you in that nutter category right away.
You're a chemtrail believer.
You're a fucking UFO fanatic.
You know where Bigfoot lives.
Boom.
dr mark gordon
I've got his address.
joe rogan
You know what I'm saying.
dr mark gordon
Absolutely.
You know, they think that...
I mean, you made a comment about it.
We're all the same.
We're not all the same.
And you give the same products to 90 different people and you get 90 different reactions.
You hope you get a couple of them that have no reaction.
But they think that we live in a perfect world.
And that's the problem.
They don't take into consideration that the genetic, you know, uniqueness of each person.
joe rogan
Unquestionable genetic uniqueness.
But that's not convenient if you're just trying to turn a profit.
dr mark gordon
Correct.
joe rogan
And that's why it's weird that we just allow that to happen.
I mean, it's not anti-science.
It's not anti-medicine.
It's common sense.
It's very simple.
Who's waiting?
unidentified
Hold on.
joe rogan
Is there profit going on here?
Wait, you guys are profiting.
How much money?
Holy shit!
You find out how much money is in vaccination, like, that much?
First of all, why does it cost that much?
Why are you making that much money?
And second of all, does that have anything to do with why they give so many vaccinations?
Is that possible?
And if you think it could be, if you think that people are sneaky and slimy enough that that could be, it has to be something that we all take into consideration.
It doesn't mean that you're a nutter.
That seems like a writing on the wall kind of a thing.
dr mark gordon
It's all about profit.
I'll give you an example that you might have heard last week.
The company came out with a new drug for hepatitis C. Hepatitis C is a chronic process, a viral infection.
We don't really have very good treatment for it.
They use alpha interferon.
It doesn't work that well.
They came out with a drug, one capsule a day for 84 days.
It costs $1,000 a tablet.
It cost them $2 billion to get it to where it is right now.
There are 4.1 million people in the United States with hepatitis C. It'll only take 250,000 to pay off everything, and they've got 4.1 million people with hepatitis C. So the argument is, why doesn't the company lower the cost for it so it'll make it more available to more people?
Because they have, you know, a program for hardship cases, and the CEO was on this radio program that I was listening to, and he says it's not our model to lower the price.
unidentified
Whoa.
joe rogan
It's not our model to lower the price.
dr mark gordon
It's not their model.
joe rogan
We want $1,000 a pill.
dr mark gordon
$1,000 a pill.
joe rogan
Is it because the research and development costs were so high?
Is that what they're saying?
dr mark gordon
It was very high, and they bought the technology from another company.
But you do $250,000 times $84,000, and that's the amount of money that it cost them to do everything that they've done.
joe rogan
It just seems like if you give people the opportunity to make more or less money, it's up to them.
dr mark gordon
Well, that's what it is.
joe rogan
Some people that go fucking crazy.
dr mark gordon
It's like gasoline.
Why is gasoline 47 cents in Abu Dhabi?
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
But you can't limit it either.
That's what's weird about being a person.
You can't tell people what to do either way.
You know, it's hard to tell them what to do.
I mean, it's hard to say, well, how can I say that, you know, your shit costs too much, your pills cost too much, when maybe I'm not willing to work for less either.
And everybody goes, ah, we'll just leave it alone.
dr mark gordon
Well, the economy of scale is, if you're making $7.50 an hour working 40 hours a week, how can you afford to pay $1,000 a pill?
joe rogan
That's craziness.
It's so much money.
It's an insane amount of money.
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
joe rogan
But how is research and development funded when they do something like that?
How long does stuff like that take?
Like if they're going to develop some sort of a crazy pill?
What's like a high-end figure?
dr mark gordon
High-end could be, you know, 10, 15 years on the short, which is the fast track that they have with the FDA. It's three years.
And the only problem with that, if you look the past 5, 10 years, the drugs that went through the fast track, there were a number of them that were taken off the market because of the side effects that they didn't see in the first three years.
Well, they were there.
There was one drug that was for a form of leukemia that was just taken off the market where it caused your blood vessels in your limbs to shut down so your leg would lose, ischemia is the term, lose blood supply so it would go dead and they'd have to amputate your limb.
joe rogan
Oh, fuck.
dr mark gordon
And this is what was going on.
There was another drug that was for ovarian cancer, which is a very...
Drastic thing.
Gene Wilde's wife from Laffin died of ovarian cancer.
Anyway, and they had it out for a year.
At the end of the year, the FDA took it off the market because they found that it had no statistical benefit.
People didn't get better.
joe rogan
Wow.
dr mark gordon
So how was it that they were allowed to have this drug marketed?
I don't know how many thousand dollars it was per treatment, but it was just phenomenal.
And the drug for diabetes, which was taken off the market after a year because of liver failure.
You know, the anti-inflammatory medication Vioxx with the cardiac problems.
joe rogan
I was just going to bring that up.
I know a dude who had a stroke because of that stuff.
Guy Metzger is his name.
He's a former UFC fighter, like a really elite fighter and one of the pioneers of MMA. Handsome guy, too.
Fucking beautiful head of hair.
He does commentary now.
And he was apparently taking it because he had arthritis in his knees.
He had real bad inflammation in his knees.
And then his family, people around him, started saying, like, what's going on?
Are you slurring your words?
Like, what's happening?
unidentified
Stroke.
joe rogan
He realized he had had a stroke.
And then it turns out that a bunch of people that took this stuff and had strokes...
He's made a full recovery.
But, you know, it's because he's a young, healthy guy.
But that's fucking scary shit.
dr mark gordon
Yeah.
So, basically, not everybody has a side effect of medications.
Medications generally are very good.
You just have to be cautious when you start putting into those little...
Five-pound, six-pound critters we call kids.
Babies.
joe rogan
Well, yeah.
I mean, and even fucking MMA fighters.
205-pound guy Metzgers.
I mean, it's pretty much everybody's got to be careful.
It's not totally figured out yet.
Not with every single human being.
There's a lot of variables that people have to work with when they make drugs or solutions.
Just the variables.
Just the different amount of places where people came from.
Of course there's different things that they were exposed to in their ancestors' genes.
dr mark gordon
Yeah, have you ever had genetic testing?
joe rogan
No.
I think I'm a chimp.
I don't think I'd qualify for being a person.
dr mark gordon
You definitely would have about three and a half Neanderthal.
joe rogan
I might be a missing link.
dr mark gordon
No, they'll find Neanderthal.
joe rogan
Yeah, I know someone in my family fucked a monkey.
Someone down the line totally fucked a monkey.
I don't want to find out that I'm more Neanderthal than a regular person.
But then they say, Neanderthals are looking up lately, by the way, I've been reading.
Healthy, strong.
No, no, no.
They're starting to think they may have been a little smarter than when people are giving them credit for.
Might have been able to talk.
Might have been able to, they use tools, they know that.
They think that Neanderthals were very similar to human beings, but just not quite.
dr mark gordon
It took the alien genetics to bring them up to homo-hung.
Habilicus and Homo sapien and Homo erectus.
joe rogan
That's what I was just going to tell you.
dr mark gordon
Go ahead, tell me.
Go ahead, tell me.
joe rogan
I was just going to inform you about the process.
dr mark gordon
Yeah.
You know, they still haven't figured out how Neanderthal jumped all the way up to, you know, Homo erectus, Homo habilicus, and Homo sapien.
And the distinction was the frontal cortex or the neocortex, the new brain part, which is how we get our language skills and we get our thought processes and integration of our emotion and, you know, control frontal lobes with command and executive functions.
And, you know, they're still looking for that missing link.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, it's a fascinating thing, the whole process of trying to figure out our past with fossils.
Because fossils are really difficult to create.
You have to get caught in some sort of a natural disaster, a mudslide, or something's going to happen to preserve the body.
Because normally the bodies will get eaten by scavengers.
I mean, that's what scavengers are there for.
Especially in those days, man, I'm sure there was a lot of death.
Things were just dying.
People weren't living this long.
So the idea that...
We could figure out our entire fossil record just by finding bones.
Boy, that's a fucking shitty record we're dealing with.
dr mark gordon
They just found, I think, a partial skull, which is the oldest, 100,000 years old or 100 million years old.
I don't remember how many zeros were after it, but they're finding a new ancestor.
joe rogan
Yes, yes.
dr mark gordon
Did you see that article?
joe rogan
Yeah, I've seen several of them.
There's been a lot of new discoveries over the past, like about, say, 10 or so years ago.
Whenever it was that they discovered that Hobbit man, Flores...
Do you know about that?
dr mark gordon
No.
joe rogan
Homo floriensis, I believe, is the term.
The hobbit people.
They were three foot tall, little, like, chimp-like people.
Bipedal, little elves.
I mean, they lived on a fucking island, and they think that they might have even preyed on human children.
They think that they might have been...
I don't know why that was even theorized.
But they thought that maybe that might have been one of the reasons why they killed them off.
That there was some predation between the two species.
That's just a theory.
And it's not mine, by the way.
But they think that that has occurred in some places where chimps have got in and stolen babies.
And they eat the babies.
dr mark gordon
That's chips.
You're saying they're little people.
joe rogan
Yeah, but what they're saying is that primates, yes, sort of for people like, I mean, they were very, very, very primitive, but they lived as recently as 10,000, 15,000 years ago.
So if 10,000, 15,000 years ago, humans were in this exact form, and we were dealing with these weird little chimp people like this, look at these things.
Like, they have the various forms of humans.
That little tiny thing, that's it.
That's the Homo floreensis.
Jamie, see if you can pull up a better picture of it, because there's some interesting drawings that they did, like individual ones, like one of the ones you showed earlier.
dr mark gordon
What does Homo erectus look like?
joe rogan
It's the dude with a big dick.
It's erect.
Homo erectus.
dr mark gordon
That's it.
joe rogan
And he's gay.
unidentified
Bad.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's a terrible joke.
But this Hobbit person thing, I mean, this absolutely, without doubt, walked alongside with people.
So if you see that person there, and...
Well, that guy's yoked.
Who is that guy?
That guy looks like Gleason Tebow.
Look at him, he's stacked.
But that's a rare person.
Don't compare that size.
But the little Hobbit guy right next to him...
It's really fascinating stuff, man.
So that means that all those stories that the Indonesian people would tell, and there's like the Orang Pendek that jungle people say is still alive.
They still think there's a small population of these things that still exist.
And they call it the Orang Pendek.
It's a little chimp-like tiny person that lives in the forest.
It's fucking crazy, man.
If there was a small amount of those people that are still actually left, living in some crazy rainforest somewhere, that's not outside the realm of possibility.
Much more likely than Bigfoot.
That there's this little hobbit man that's still alive.
Because that was always the legend.
And when they found this in the island of Flores, they're like, holy shit.
unidentified
Where's the island of Flores?
joe rogan
That's a good question.
Is it near Florida?
dr mark gordon
No, it's near Flores.
joe rogan
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know where it is.
I think it's like Sumatra or something like that.
Maybe I just made that up.
Isn't that like, what part of the world is it?
dr mark gordon
Probably all vitamin D deficient.
joe rogan
All those people?
dr mark gordon
Yeah, to be so short.
joe rogan
Okay.
unidentified
Indonesia.
joe rogan
Indonesia.
Yes, Indonesia.
Well, there's a term called island dwarfism, and it applies to primates sometimes.
It applies to elephants.
You get these tiny pygmy elephants that are on islands, but not to lizards.
Lizards get bigger.
If you leave lizards on an island, they actually grow.
That's why you have the Komodo dragons.
Like big fucking crazy lizards like crocodiles and shit.
They actually grow when they're on islands.
Yeah.
dr mark gordon
And the reason?
joe rogan
Because everything can't get away.
dr mark gordon
Yeah, so they just eat everything.
joe rogan
They just gang up on bitches.
Just take them out.
If you're on an island with a family of Komodo dragons, good luck.
One day they're going to find out they can eat you.
They're going to sneak up on you and find out they can eat you.
And if you can't go anywhere because you're on an island, the lizards are always going to win.
Strange, isn't it?
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
What are you looking at?
dr mark gordon
Oh, the Komodo dragon.
joe rogan
Oh, what about it?
dr mark gordon
I was expecting a picture up there.
He's looking for it.
joe rogan
Have you never seen it?
dr mark gordon
Oh, I've seen it.
joe rogan
You know what it is.
dr mark gordon
It was on...
007 had one.
joe rogan
Did he really?
Did he have a pet?
dr mark gordon
Yeah.
No, it was in the movie.
joe rogan
Which, the last one?
dr mark gordon
The last one where they were in...
unidentified
The Daniel...
joe rogan
What is his name?
dr mark gordon
Daniel Craig.
joe rogan
Daniel Craig.
dr mark gordon
Yeah, where were they?
They were in Hong Kong or at a casino.
unidentified
There they are.
dr mark gordon
That's it.
joe rogan
Evil fucking lizards.
unidentified
Ugh.
joe rogan
Could you imagine you hear that walking outside your tent?
You wash up on the beach like, don't worry, honey, we have a tent.
Look at that fucking creepy thing.
Probably hasn't changed in forever.
dr mark gordon
Neat.
joe rogan
Remorseless monster.
Fascinating to think that that was the entire Earth, isn't it?
dr mark gordon
Yeah.
joe rogan
I mean, that's essentially a dinosaur, right?
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
It's about as close to a dinosaur as you can get, them and crocodiles.
How much different is there from a crocodile to a dinosaur?
It seems pretty, pretty similar.
dr mark gordon
Narrow.
I want one of those.
joe rogan
You want a crocodile?
dr mark gordon
No, I want a Komodo dragon.
joe rogan
What would you do with it?
Would you stand out there in your underwear and take pictures?
What would you do?
dr mark gordon
No, I'm afraid to get bitten.
No, what a great watchdog.
joe rogan
Not really.
It's going to eat you.
Good watchdogs like their owner.
That thing doesn't give a shit about you.
You want a good watchdog?
dr mark gordon
Maybe I'll give it away to someone I don't like.
joe rogan
Yeah, get a bird.
Get something that squawks when people are outside.
Get a flamingo or something.
dr mark gordon
I've got two cats and two dogs.
That's enough.
joe rogan
Peacocks, I guess, make noises.
Hunter S. Thompson used to have them in his place in Woody Creek.
When people would come near, the peacocks would go, They make crazy noises, and I'll let you know that people are coming.
They're good guards.
Or at least alerters, good alarms.
dr mark gordon
Yeah, military macaw too.
joe rogan
Yeah.
So what other stuff do you think, besides this glutathione, what other stuff do you think that people should be taking on a regular basis that they're not?
dr mark gordon
That's an incredible question.
There are a lot of things that we're losing in our water, for instance.
We get bottled water.
What's in it?
Nothing.
joe rogan
Filtered water.
dr mark gordon
Filtered water.
joe rogan
No minerals.
dr mark gordon
Where are the minerals?
Where are the minerals?
We're probably all...
To some degree, mineral deficient.
And one of the ones that the federal government talked about back in the late 90s was C. Everett Koop talked about it, in fact, was chromium.
Chromium is an anti-diabetic because it helps insulin work better in your body.
It's called the glucose tolerance factor, chromium.
And we found that because of our farming technology that we haven't been burning the leftover crop to get the ash, potash, back into the soil, that we're losing a lot of the minerals.
Everything we get is filtered, so we lose all the trace magnesium, molybdenum, All the trace elements that we need for very important chemical pathways in our body.
So we're running around with a deficiency of function.
And the only way to improve upon that function is to replenish minerals.
And you can get trace minerals.
I mean, it doesn't really matter where you get it as long as it's a high-quality, bioavailable kind of product.
There are a lot of minerals that you can't absorb because they're cheap, sulfated ones.
Getting the citrate is a lot better.
The glucorate and the fumarate are much better forms of whether or not it's zinc or magnesium or so forth.
joe rogan
Do you think people should take them in a colloidal form?
Like how is that?
dr mark gordon
Colloidal is a suspended one so it gets absorbed a lot better.
Instead of taking it in a compressed towel, I don't use anything that's compressed.
I use only powdered, encapsuled powder.
With a vegetable outer coat on it.
joe rogan
When you take colloidal minerals, they collect them from some mineral-rich streams or something like that?
How do they do that?
dr mark gordon
If they're artificial, you know, they're making it to...
They're suspending it so that it's easily absorbed.
There's a cistern in New Zealand where it's about a 50-million-year-old cistern, which has a blend From erosion from the walls of the cistern with natural water, clean, fresh water.
And it has a balance in it which gives your water a pH of 8. I don't want to really get into the thing about acid-base kind of chemistry.
joe rogan
What does that mean by a pH of 8?
dr mark gordon
A pH of 8 is more alkaline, which is called alkaline water, and the benefits of alkaline water versus acidic water.
Acidic.
We have ionizers that take regular tap water and make it into smaller molecules.
Water is an interesting molecule because it doesn't stay singular.
It's just not one H2O water molecule.
It clumps together, and a lot of water molecules stick together because of the electrical attraction of it, of each molecule to the next.
joe rogan
That's what ionized water is?
dr mark gordon
No, ionized water puts a charge in it to separate it, so it's more absorbable.
I mean, I've had patients come into the office and say, Doc, I'm drinking, you know, my eight ounces every two hours, and I'm still thirsty.
And it's because they're drinking acidic water which clumps together and doesn't allow for bioavailable water.
And you'll start seeing some stuff that says bioavailable water.
And, you know, it's going to take some time for our brain to accept it, our position to accept these new trends because they say it's bullshit.
You don't need alkalinity.
There's no thing with acid alkalinity.
And there are articles that, you know, refute the benefits of it.
But I see it in clinical application with patients who have failed certain medication and they go on to an alkalizing protocol and they get better.
And I documented they shouldn't be better, but they're better.
There's symptomatic complaints of pain and swelling and all that's gone.
joe rogan
Why do you say shouldn't?
dr mark gordon
Well, it shouldn't because in my medical training, I don't see, you know, in my training, I've been in practice 32 years and had, you know, 13 and a half years of training with a year and a half of research.
It shouldn't happen, but it is happening.
So when you go back and you look at the fringe science, you start realizing that on the fringe, it hasn't come full cycle into the core of our belief system that the products have a means, alkaline water has a means by which it changes the acid base of our body, and our body does much better in alkaline situations.
Inflammation.
If your body is acidic, more inflammatory diseases occur.
But you can't prove it.
It's supposition.
It's, you know, speculation.
We don't have enough hard documentation to prove it.
And there's a lot of resistance to develop that hard scientific information right now.
And with everything that's on the fringe, everything that's new that comes into medicine, there's a lot of resistance.
Our cycle in medicine is about 30 years.
Because you've got 30 years, doctors who are in practice for 30 years who control everything.
And that's old school.
The stuff that I used to work on was 20 years old.
Doctors nowadays, I mean, I interact with training doctors.
And the information that they're running their practices on is so antiquated.
It's like, doctors still think that testosterone causes prostate cancer.
And there's not a single shred of evidence that proves it.
One of our docs from Harvard, Dr. Abraham Morgenthaler, wrote the book, Testosterone for Life, where he spends his academic life at Harvard and in Boston proving that there's nothing to substantiate that testosterone causes cancer.
joe rogan
What does cause testicular cancer?
Because that's a really common one with men.
dr mark gordon
Testicular is seminomas, testicular cancer.
You know, there's genetic predisposition for it and there's also thermal temperature.
There's an increased occurrence in men who have had what they call cryptorchism.
Crypto is hidden testicle, where they haven't had descendant testicles.
So if their pediatrician was on time and gave them a shot of HCG, which caused the testicle to drop, then it drops out of the 98-degree temperature that the testicle isn't made to function in.
That's why it hangs out in our testicular, in our ball sack.
joe rogan
What a stupid design.
dr mark gordon
Well, but there's a reason for it.
They want it to be degrees less so it doesn't induce cancer.
Our sperm are germ cells and germ cells have a chemical.
Germ cells like cancer and germ cells have a high reproductive rate.
joe rogan
What happens when you get fixed?
When a dude gets fixed?
They cut his cord.
dr mark gordon
Oh, when he cuts cords.
joe rogan
What is it called?
What's it called?
dr mark gordon
Visectomy.
joe rogan
Vasectomy.
dr mark gordon
Thank you.
I'm East Coast.
You're from where?
joe rogan
You say vi?
dr mark gordon
Vasectomy.
unidentified
Oh, vi.
joe rogan
I thought it was vi.
dr mark gordon
It's a vi.
joe rogan
The snip.
dr mark gordon
Yeah, the snip.
joe rogan
I couldn't come up with a word.
dr mark gordon
Right, for vasectomy.
Vasectomy.
joe rogan
Is that bad for people?
dr mark gordon
Yeah.
No.
It's not bad.
It stops having kids that you shouldn't have or stops having kids that you would like to have that you can't afford.
joe rogan
Right.
Absolutely.
But is there any medical concerns that someone would have?
dr mark gordon
No.
The uncomfortable nature of the procedure psychologically, I think, is worse than the physical aspect to it.
joe rogan
So do you think dudes lose, like, when they're shooting blanks, they lose, like, this psychological feeling of actually being potent?
Because they have just dead cum.
dr mark gordon
There's cowper's pouch and they have the prostate which generate fluids.
It's not just the swimmers.
joe rogan
Right.
There's definitely something missing to the batch though.
dr mark gordon
Volume is decreased, but there are ways of increasing volume.
There's volume that's decreased and you don't have as intense of a...
joe rogan
Orgasm?
dr mark gordon
Orgasm or ropes.
joe rogan
So they're not as good.
Orgasms are not as good.
dr mark gordon
In the majority of people, there's no effect on it.
joe rogan
The majority of people.
unidentified
There's no effect.
joe rogan
But what if you're one of those people and you already got snipped?
dr mark gordon
That's right.
joe rogan
And you're like, oh, fuck me.
What if coming goes from the greatest thing ever to like, all right.
Whatever.
dr mark gordon
Then we have to sit on the couch and talk about it.
unidentified
Ah.
joe rogan
Then you've got to reattach the plumbing.
They can do that, right?
They go in there and microsurgically reattach your pecker pump?
unidentified
Correct.
dr mark gordon
They could do that, or else they go in and they just suck out the sperm from your testicle with a needle.
joe rogan
Oh, hey!
That doesn't seem like anybody should have to do that.
dr mark gordon
It's an option.
joe rogan
So that's the option?
They do it every now and again?
Every now and again.
How long do they have to do that for?
That's like a male shot, right?
dr mark gordon
No, if a male has low sperm count and he wants to get his wife knocked up, they'll try with growth hormone, testosterone, zinc, and other ways of trying to stimulate increase in the sperm count.
But if they're not producing sperm for whatever reason, they can take a needle, put it in, and...
Aspirate to suck out.
That sounds crazy.
Aspirate is a better word.
It means suck out.
joe rogan
Yeah, I would have asked you what aspirate meant.
unidentified
Don't worry.
dr mark gordon
So yes, aspiration.
joe rogan
If you said you had to stick a needle in my thigh, I'd be like, alright.
The needle in my shoulder, I'd be like, alright.
But you're talking about pulling something out of my penis.
I'm really not comfortable with that.
dr mark gordon
How about out of your testicle?
joe rogan
Yeah.
That doesn't seem like a good idea.
That seems like there's got to be a way around that.
dr mark gordon
But that's how we fix infertility when it's not the woman's fault.
joe rogan
Jesus, though.
A fucking needle in your dick together?
Woo!
dr mark gordon
It happens.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dr mark gordon
The adult industry, they use Caberject.
They inject in the base.
joe rogan
I love how you say the adult industry.
dr mark gordon
Oh, what should I say?
Porn?
joe rogan
Well, that's what it is.
dr mark gordon
Okay, fine.
The adult industry...
joe rogan
What about the child industry?
Is it different?
Do you have a different industry?
You can't use the term adult if you can't use the term child in the same business.
dr mark gordon
Okay.
joe rogan
You know?
Like, what is the industry?
Is that all adults are?
They just want to fuck?
Like, that's the adult.
The real adult is just, like, living your life.
It's a bunch of bullshit, but this is what you really want to do.
You really just want to fuck.
So that's why we call it the adult industry.
That's a terrible message for the children.
That your life is based entirely on sexual pressure.
dr mark gordon
As you get older, what become the two most important things in life?
joe rogan
Food and sleep.
dr mark gordon
Okay.
joe rogan
Sexual pleasure, of course.
I'm just joking.
Just joking.
dr mark gordon
I know you're joking.
joe rogan
But it's just funny that you use that word, adult.
dr mark gordon
Adult.
joe rogan
People use that.
It's like urban for black people.
You know?
It's like they don't want to say black people, but they can say urban, and it means the exact same thing, and somehow or another people just let it slide.
dr mark gordon
So what should I use instead of the adult industry?
joe rogan
The porn.
dr mark gordon
Okay, porn.
joe rogan
There's nothing wrong with porn.
dr mark gordon
Yeah, in the porn industry they use a chemical which in fact comes from a woman, PGE, which is prostaglandin E, and they inject it in the base of the penis and it makes them have an erection that lasts for like two to four hours like a baseball bat.
joe rogan
That's such a strange thing.
They take something out of the woman, they inject it into the man, and the man gets rock hard.
Do you think that that is like there in a woman to make a man erect?
Like she has the ability to do that with a chemical?
dr mark gordon
And the man in his sperm, when he ejaculates in a woman who is pregnant, it can cause her to deliver.
joe rogan
Maybe you, not me.
I'm more careful.
So, what is this stuff that a woman has that they take out with a needle?
dr mark gordon
They don't take it out, but it's a chemical in her.
joe rogan
Well, how does she have it?
Where is it in her?
dr mark gordon
It's in her body.
joe rogan
It's in her body.
Can it come out in her sweat or anything like that?
dr mark gordon
You like pheromones?
joe rogan
Yes.
dr mark gordon
I'm not sure, to be perfectly honest.
joe rogan
Must.
Must.
Comes out of her vagina, for sure.
dr mark gordon
Absolutely, out of the vagina.
That's why we're all attracted to them.
joe rogan
Yeah, it comes out of vagina.
dr mark gordon
Pugina, not the woman, right?
joe rogan
Well, that's not true.
You could be attracted to both, Mr. Gordon.
How dare you?
dr mark gordon
Absolutely.
joe rogan
How dare you?
It's not an either-or situation, sir.
dr mark gordon
I thought this was a free-for-all here.
joe rogan
It is a damn free-for-all.
Yeah, but I mean, that only makes sense, why eating pussy gives guys hard-ons.
Sorry, I had to say it that way.
dr mark gordon
Right.
joe rogan
Look.
dr mark gordon
It's the pheromones.
joe rogan
Don't get upset at me, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm going to say fellatio, and you go, who are you?
dr mark gordon
I know her.
joe rogan
Felicio?
dr mark gordon
Felice, yeah.
So, Mark Gordon.
Absolutely.
I do.
You're a bad influence.
joe rogan
No, no, no.
You're a great guy.
dr mark gordon
I'm a semi-professional.
joe rogan
But it makes sense that a woman would have something in her body where the smell of it actually gives a guy an erection, because that absolutely works.
dr mark gordon
Look at the animals.
The guy gets horny during the estrus, which is the female cycle of an animal, and she's throwing out pheromones.
So obviously, gals are throwing out pheromones.
And when you meet, you know, you stand in front of a I'll tell you the man side of it later.
When you stand in front of a group of women, there are certain of the women that you're more attracted to than others.
There was a study done at UCLA where they were looking at this issue of pheromones.
And I apologize.
I forget the female doctor's name who did all this research and developed a product which guys can buy.
joe rogan
Of course it was a chick.
dr mark gordon
It was a chick.
joe rogan
Making money on that smell.
dr mark gordon
Absolutely.
What she found was that...
She took women and she introduced them to guys that were fat, that were lazy, you know, from smoking marijuana, right?
joe rogan
Yeah, those lazy, fat, fucking lazy potheads.
dr mark gordon
They didn't see them, but they had the shirts from these guys.
So they smelled the shirt to smell the perspiration that was on it.
And what happened almost 100% of the time was they were able to pick the guy that was healthy, that was physically active, that produced this pure pussy perspiration.
And they found that it was guys that were healthy that didn't have any medical conditions.
So women can sense through the pheromones or the pheromones transmit understanding about the condition of the person.
They picked the guys that were fat.
They picked the guys that were healthy.
So she took the chemicals or the synthesized the stuff that they found in the healthy guys, and that's her pheromone.
joe rogan
That's fascinating.
dr mark gordon
$150, I think, for a little bottle.
They make a perfume.
joe rogan
I think that totally makes sense.
I mean, if we know that pheromones exist and you know that when you're, like, really attracted to someone, the intensity, like, when you're touching them and just being near them, it, like...
It turns on something, and it absolutely could be pheromonal as well, as physical, as well as pleasure-based and sensitivity.
There could be some pheromone exchanges, too.
dr mark gordon
Right, but I think that the pheromones really set you up for everything.
Looking at, you know, in...
Neuroendocrinology, which is the way hormones work in the brain, which is what I spend most of my time doing.
Pheromones trigger pleasurable centers in the brain.
You know, we have centers in a libido area, which is another way of saying the sex area of the brain.
We have an area that's stimulated by not just testosterone, but estradiol in a recent article that came out of JAMA three, four months ago, and Dr. Abraham Morgenthau was on the news talking about it on Good Morning America or something.
And men need estradiol in order to have a fully functioning sexual mindset.
And women need testosterone.
joe rogan
I have a question for you.
Has there ever been anyone so fucking dumb they name their kid libido?
There has to be, right?
There has to be a guy.
unidentified
It's like, I'm telling you, this kid, all he's going to want to do is fuck.
dr mark gordon
When Jamie has a chance, you can look up, right?
joe rogan
There must be.
There's a libido out there somewhere along the line.
dr mark gordon
It's got to be.
You're looking at the names that are out there.
Shane, Shane, Starlight, Starbright.
joe rogan
Jesus fucking Christ.
What a mad, mad world.
Yeah.
dr mark gordon
Love that movie.
joe rogan
Yeah.
So...
When we were talking about different things that you do, one of the things that I didn't mention is that you're one of the, I don't want to say a pioneer, but one of the more prominent guys when it comes to understanding the effects of traumatic brain injuries and working with guys, working with boxers, and working with various athletes that have suffered.
I know you've worked with a lot of people that I know.
dr mark gordon
Right.
joe rogan
How did you get involved in all this?
dr mark gordon
Great question.
You know, I've been practicing hormonal modulation therapy since about 1995 and I myself was not feeling so great between the age of 34 and 46. In fact, I was on antidepressant and obese, losing my hair and just not a very happy camper.
So I went to a company in Las Vegas and paid him a lot of money in 97 and was diagnosed with having three hormone deficiencies, growth hormone, testosterone and thyroid.
And just thinking it was genetic, ended up going on to replenishment treatment.
And in my practice, I had started shifting over to hormone modulation that they used to call what they call anti-aging medicine.
I turned the coin called interventional endocrinology because I don't think the term anti-aging in medicine is a proper term.
For the general masses, it's a great buzzword to get an understanding of what we do in the area of interventional endocrinology.
So treating a lot of people with hormone deficiency.
In 2004, I'm reading an article out of Turkey about pugilists, boxers, where they had this uncanny high occurrence of growth hormone deficiency.
And that I call my epiphany article.
I read that and ah, it all made sense.
Head trauma creates a situation that leads to hormonal deficiency.
So I went back to my population from 1995 to 2004 and started interviewing them again to see who had had accidents.
And almost every single person had a very clear-cut motor vehicle accident.
In the first book that I wrote, Interventional Endocrinology, Chapter 5 talks about A 17-year-old kid who came to me at 21 with significant mood change, depression, anxiety, isolation.
He couldn't gain weight.
Turned out he was hormone deficient.
And when he was 21 years of age, I go back to him and find out that he had a motorcycle accident and was in a coma for three days.
joe rogan
Oh, wow.
dr mark gordon
So I've got kids right now that have had...
Motor vehicle accidents, slip and falls, blunt head trauma, assaults that have had developed hormonal deficiency.
And you can develop the hormonal deficiency because the head trauma can interrupt areas of the brain that regulate hormone production by the pituitary called the master gland in the brain.
There's a regulatory sensor that tests the blood every Microsecond to see if there's a balance of growth hormone, testosterone, estrogen, and all the hormones in our body.
And if there's a deficiency of it, it sends a signal to the master gland, the pituitary, to tell it to increase the production of whatever hormone it perceives as being deficient or low.
On the other hand, if it's too high, the same area of the brain called the hypothalamus tells the pituitary to shut down or decrease the production of hormone.
So if you're making not enough growth hormone or not enough IGF-1, which is the marker for growth hormone, it'll tell the brain to produce more growth hormone.
And the same thing with testosterone.
So I started looking at this area since 2004, and the literature was just starting to burgeon with a lot of documentation research that had been done Showing that people who have head trauma have testosterone deficiency number one, growth hormone deficiency number two, thyroid number three, cortisol, which is the adaptive kind of hormone, the stress hormone.
And I had one, two, and three.
I had growth hormone deficiency, testosterone deficiency, and thyroid deficiency.
And in 2007, I had been seeing a lot of people, retired NFL football and rugby and a lot of sports players and boxers like, I can say, James Toney.
And they were documented as having hormone deficiency and we went on to ESPN Outside the Line in 2007 and showed their lab results and they talked about how much better they felt when they had their hormones returned to normal levels.
Replaced to physiological levels.
Not bodybuilder levels, but physiological levels.
Which is like 60 milligrams a week versus something like, I hear, up to 400 milligrams a week.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's something that people really need to...
It's something that people need to understand that if you look at what a bodybuilder is...
That's impossible without ridiculous, insane numbers of chemicals that you shoot into your body.
It literally is impossible.
And I think people have a bad taste in their mouth or a bad idea about the idea of testosterone because they think, well, if you take testosterone, you're taking a steroid and you're going to become a big giant monster person.
Like, you can't become a big giant monster person unless you're fucking dedicated to crushing your body.
dr mark gordon
Correct.
When I started doing hormone replacement using testosterone, a lot of patients said, that's a steroid.
That's a steroid.
joe rogan
They picture you like Dorian Yates, just standing out there on your front porch, flexing.
dr mark gordon
And my response to them was, steroids are what you buy in the corner from Bubba.
What I'm giving you is a medication called testosterone.
joe rogan
Why is it always Bubba?
dr mark gordon
I don't know.
joe rogan
Bubba gets a bad rap.
He fucks guys in prison.
Bubba's always the first guy to fuck in prison.
dr mark gordon
Well, I've got a limited vocabulary for, you know, the guy selling stuff on the corner.
joe rogan
Yeah, let's call him Lou.
dr mark gordon
Okay, Lou.
joe rogan
Crazy Lou.
Lou's got the good shit.
He'll get you swole.
dr mark gordon
So, in the beginning, it was the hormone deficiency and not feeling as...
Able, psychologically, physiologically, and physical.
Diabetes increased, and we're now seeing out of the literature, starting in 2000, that if you're low in free testosterone and 50-year-old male and above, now 50-year-old female and above, you have a higher occurrence of diabetes.
So testosterone serves an incredible function, also pain.
We found that testosterone also stops inflammation.
So people who have joint aches and pains, they go away when they replace your testosterone level.
Growth hormone and cognitive function.
The real bottom line is we know that head trauma causes hormonal deficiency.
We know that hormonal deficiency is associated with depression, anxiety, and all those suicides that we're seeing in the NFL and in the military.
In 2012, there were more, there were 364, almost one a day, 64, people in the military who committed suicide.
They all had PST, you know, post-traumatic stress syndrome, which is just another form of TBI, traumatic brain injury.
joe rogan
Yeah, I believe at the very least it mirrors the amount that are killed in action.
It's scary.
I mean, that's a scary, scary thing.
dr mark gordon
Well, in 2012, there were more people committed suicide than were killed in action.
joe rogan
It was more.
dr mark gordon
Yeah, it was documented by the DOD. But, you know, so the issue is that we do great at diagnosing traumatic brain injury.
There are CTs, our PET scans, all these high-tech things, but we fail at treatment.
The reason why we fail at treatment is because we haven't put a good composite together of laboratory testing for traumatic brain injury.
So what we've developed over the past 10 years is this testing to allow for someone to have their hormones checked To determine if there's a brain source for the deficiency or if the gland, like, you know, the testicles are gone.
Of course, you're not going to make testosterone.
But if you have healthy young testicles, you should have a chemical in the brain that's directing them to produce testosterone.
It's called luteinizing hormone.
joe rogan
Well, here comes the big question, if this is all the case.
If traumatic brain injuries and concussions and whatnot are causing this decline in the function and...
The operation of glands in the body that produce hormones.
Should the people who take that stuff be allowed to continue whatever they've done that's made them deficient of all these hormones?
So the argument is, like, there's a big issue, I'm sure you know, about it in mixed martial arts.
And the big issue in mixed martial arts is testosterone replacement therapy.
That a lot of these guys are legitimately showing up where they test low enough where doctors prescribe them testosterone.
So the question is, they need this when they're young for one of two reasons, right?
Either there's a medical issue, like they could have taken steroids and the steroids could have shut their balls down, or if it's not that, they could have a disease that lowers their testosterone, or if it's not that, it's head trauma.
If it is head trauma and their business is head trauma, should they still be engaging in head trauma?
dr mark gordon
Great question.
The answer is obviously no.
joe rogan
So, if you were, like, say if they had you running the Nevada State Athletic Commission, if you were the guy that had to oversee boxers and mixed martial arts fighters, if they came to you low with testosterone, you would say, well, we're going to get you some testosterone, but...
No more fighting.
dr mark gordon
Well, you have to go and do some assessment to see what the damage is.
You know, we have some technology that is phenomenal.
I mean, if you look up on the internet, DTI MRI, where you can actually see the interruptions of nerve conduction in the brain, of the nerve fibers.
You can see the interruption of the axons is what it's called.
You can also see scarring.
I had a DTI MRI done.
It's called tractogram or diffusion tension.
That's it.
joe rogan
Oh my god, that's insane.
dr mark gordon
Unbelievable technology.
I had this done.
joe rogan
Oh my god, that's real?
dr mark gordon
That's real.
joe rogan
Holy shit.
That image looks like a crazy flower from Avatar.
dr mark gordon
Yes.
joe rogan
So what is this called again?
What is the technology?
dr mark gordon
It's called MRI with DTI, Diffusion Tension Imaging, and it follows the flow of water through the neurons.
joe rogan
I found my new desktop.
dr mark gordon
Okay.
joe rogan
That's my new desktop.
dr mark gordon
I'll send you some.
joe rogan
That is incredible.
That image is fantastic.
I don't even want to see what my stupid fucking brain looks like.
dr mark gordon
So anyway, you have a DTI done, and you can actually see calcifications or scars.
unidentified
Oh my God.
dr mark gordon
And based upon the amount of damage to the brain, you make a decision whether or not the person is at great risk for continuing what he's doing.
joe rogan
Wow.
dr mark gordon
There was University of St. Louis, I think, just got another $8 million grant to do DTI, fMRI, And one other study of the brain, which are very definitive for showing deficiency of blood flow from head trauma.
You can have areas of the brain lose their blood supply.
You can have nerve damage.
I've got some great pictures I'll send you where you can actually see the severing of the nerves that connect the frontal lobe to the cortex.
So you lose...
Decision-making, the ability to do more than one thing at once, multi-taxing.
joe rogan
I don't even want to look.
My brain is like a messy attic.
I don't even want to go in there.
It smells like a body.
dr mark gordon
But there are things you can do to bypass the areas of damage.
joe rogan
To fix everything?
What can I do?
dr mark gordon
There are things you can do.
joe rogan
What can I do?
Because I'm definitely damaged.
dr mark gordon
We have a new product that...
joe rogan
The more you talk, the more I'm thinking.
I've got a problem.
dr mark gordon
We have evoked potential, which is like an EEG of the brain where it follows.
You're sitting in front of a computer reading, you're looking at flashing lights, you're looking at things, and it causes electrical patterns in the brain.
And there are, quote, normal electrical patterns, and then there's abnormal.
The abnormals correlate with different areas of the brain because you've got this net over your head and it's sensing it.
It's being used in the military right now by Dr. David Hauger.
joe rogan
Crazy Dave, right?
dr mark gordon
Dave.
But they're going to be sending me one of the units, so I'll have it in the office so we can see how wonderful your brain's functioning.
joe rogan
I'm scared.
I don't want to look in there, man.
dr mark gordon
Yeah, but there are things we can do to try and help it.
joe rogan
It's done.
unidentified
It's over.
dr mark gordon
Brain transplant?
joe rogan
It's crazy.
I would like to see what my brain looks like after three shots of tequila.
Okay.
It probably turns to the Batman logo.
Would you like to see what your brain looks like when it's completely fucked up?
dr mark gordon
It is right now.
joe rogan
Drown it in vodka and just take a good look at it?
dr mark gordon
Absolutely.
joe rogan
Would the fMRI look different?
Would you be able to tell if someone was intoxicated?
dr mark gordon
Well, let's see.
The one that does the blood flow follows the red blood cells, is the fMRI.
The electrical patterns would be interesting to see because alcohol is an anesthetic, so you'll see drop-off in the electrical charge.
joe rogan
Is it possible that this technology will evolve to the point where cops could use it to tell if people are fucked up when they're driving?
They don't even have to, like, check your breath or any of that.
They just scan you with this little thing real quick, and they look at your brain.
dr mark gordon
In 2100, possibly.
joe rogan
Probably, right?
dr mark gordon
Right now, it's a huge piece of equipment.
joe rogan
But so was a cell phone.
Right?
Used to be a big suitcase.
Used to have a carry in your car.
You remember those days.
dr mark gordon
Oh, this is huge, too.
joe rogan
What do you got?
HTC. Yeah, see?
Good, smart man.
Go Android.
Keep your money on the winners.
Apple done fucked up.
Fucked up this cell phone game.
I love Apple.
Don't get me wrong.
Because Apple people go crazy when you start talking shit about Apple.
dr mark gordon
Stock was up today.
joe rogan
It's great.
It's a great company.
They make awesome operating systems and computers.
However, their phones can suck it.
How about that?
I was with them for a long time.
People are tired of me talking about this.
I'm sorry.
dr mark gordon
You're getting that anger off your chest.
Do you need some couch time?
joe rogan
It's not.
It's not off.
It's still there.
unidentified
Okay.
joe rogan
Apple made me go Android.
You made me leave with your little skinny screen.
Sons of bitches.
unidentified
This is the DNA. Yeah, those are sweet phones.
joe rogan
There's so many cool phones.
I mean, obviously the Apple phones.
I'm just bullshitting around.
They're still great, too.
iPhones have the best camera, I think.
I've never seen a camera that's, like, as easy to use.
And when you get, like, megapixels, you know, some people say, you know, this has more, that.
At a certain amount, you just want it to look good, right?
I mean, when you get into, like, 8 megapixels, how big do you want that picture?
Like, what are you doing with that thing?
dr mark gordon
If you want to make a poster.
joe rogan
Yeah, you're going to put a billboard up.
dr mark gordon
Yeah, a billboard.
joe rogan
Then you need like a high megapixel.
But for the most part, a little cell phone camera will do it for you, kid.
dr mark gordon
Yeah.
Two megs.
joe rogan
You guys, in studying all this stuff, exposed a really sort of a dirty secret in the NFL, in the world of boxing.
For a long time, people were able to look at damage that was caused by athletes, whether it's a boxer being punched drunk, and they looked at it almost with a willful ignorance.
They're like, oh, you know, I guess you stayed around too long, you know, and so...
No one touches it.
No one describes it.
It becomes pugilistic of dementia, and then that's it, and the guy just fades away.
When you start talking about this as a very real cause and effect, how much blowback is there from that?
Do people get upset at you for that?
dr mark gordon
They don't get upset at me.
They just don't talk to me.
joe rogan
Is that what happens when it comes to certain businesses like football players or football teams or hockey teams or something where people take a lot of impact?
Do they get upset about these findings?
dr mark gordon
Of course they do because the American pastime is what?
Football.
Sports.
We love sports.
joe rogan
Baseball, right?
They love it.
dr mark gordon
They're afraid of changing the way the game is played.
So, look, you can't do, what is that, Rule 49, where you can't do any side impact?
joe rogan
No side impact anymore?
dr mark gordon
Yeah, there was a rule that came out.
Rule 49, I don't remember exactly what it is.
joe rogan
Well, that just fucked up the YouTube clips.
Because those YouTube clips were dudes getting hit from the side flying through the air.
That's such a brutal thing when you get hit from the side by a giant man.
dr mark gordon
They're afraid that it's going to change the way the game's played and it won't be as exciting anymore.
joe rogan
It most certainly will.
dr mark gordon
I think we have a gladiator mentality.
We love seeing people getting hurt.
We love seeing the sports that are rough.
I took my daughter when she was 11 to a hockey game.
It was the New York...
What is it?
The Raiders?
No.
The Islanders and...
joe rogan
Islanders?
Jersey Devils?
dr mark gordon
No, no, no.
The ones from New York.
The hockey team.
Anyway, so she was cheering at 11 when they were checking against the...
joe rogan
What is it?
unidentified
The Devils.
dr mark gordon
It's the Devils?
joe rogan
That's the Jersey, but there's a New York one.
Is it the Islanders?
unidentified
The Rangers.
dr mark gordon
Rangers.
It was the Rangers.
It was the Rangers.
Great game.
Absolutely great game.
And she was cheering when someone was checked against the wall.
joe rogan
Right.
dr mark gordon
Unbelievable.
And that's what they do.
And then in the middle of the game, they pull off their gloves and they got into this huge fight.
It was unbelievable.
It was my first time at the rink.
joe rogan
Well, the weirdest thing about hockey fights is that it's really assault.
Like, you're allowed to assault each other.
Because you're not wearing boxing gloves.
You're not wearing MMA gloves.
You're beating the shit out of each other bare knuckle.
Like, why is that legal?
I mean, all they do is, like, they penalize you a little bit.
But you know what's going on.
Everybody knows what's happening.
The guy's not going to play after he fights anyway.
So he has to sit in a box for a little while and cool off.
Whoa, you really showed him.
You didn't show him shit, man.
He just got in a fight.
He wants to take a break right now.
The guy just probably broke his fucking hand.
dr mark gordon
People jump up and they're cheering when the fights occur.
joe rogan
They're so crazy.
It's Rule 48. Yeah, we like to watch people try to win.
Guilty of assault.
jamie vernon
Yeah, during a game a couple years ago, this guy, he was known as a badass, but he got charged and suspended for a long time.
unidentified
Marty McSorley is his name.
joe rogan
Oh, yeah.
dr mark gordon
Sure.
joe rogan
Wow.
Holy shit.
I think that guy was going to do MMA at one point in time.
Sounds like a crazy man.
Yeah, man, it's just very weird how that's sort of like, I mean, if baseball players go at it, it's not, you know, it becomes a big deal.
You know, bench clean brawl, that becomes a really big deal if baseball players fight on TV. But hockey players are expected to.
dr mark gordon
It's par for the course.
It's the game.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's a fucking man's game.
That's why Canadians are so powerful.
That's why also they're so polite.
In their sport, a fight could break out at the drop of a hat.
It's allowed.
You can't talk shit.
If you're on a basketball court and you start talking shit, you're most likely not going to get punched in the face.
But if you're in a hockey rink, it's most likely that you're going to get punched in the face.
dr mark gordon
Who was it?
Kelly Rudy and the 501 winner.
They left Canada and came down to play here.
joe rogan
501 winner?
dr mark gordon
No, who was it?
Kelly Rudy.
joe rogan
Are you asking football questions?
dr mark gordon
No, it's hockey.
unidentified
Oh, I don't know hockey either.
dr mark gordon
Fine.
unidentified
Best one football.
dr mark gordon
Well, a lot of Canadians.
With what you're telling me, I would think the Canadians absolutely would come down to the States where it was a little bit more civilized in the brawling.
joe rogan
Yeah, but not as nice in the populace.
You know, you have a brawling populace that's a polite populace.
dr mark gordon
Which do we have?
joe rogan
We're not really brawling.
We're talking shit.
We talk a lot of shit.
dr mark gordon
And in Canada?
joe rogan
And then we get separated.
unidentified
We're like, what?
Let me go!
joe rogan
I mean, there's very rarely a bench-clearing brawl in our sport.
Our sport is baseball, right?
Our national sport, allegedly.
dr mark gordon
It's baseball.
joe rogan
Even football.
I mean, they hit each other full clip while they're running, but they rarely kick each other's asses.
It seems like you should totally be allowed to kick each other's asses in football, but they don't allow it because it would be too brutal.
Because you look at the size of some of these guys, they took their helmets off and beat the fuck out of each other in the middle of the field, and 80,000 people go, rawr!
It's too gangster, even for America.
So football players are not allowed to fight.
That's a pretty interesting thing, if you really stop and think about, like, it's just something we culturally accept as being a rule, but it makes no sense that hockey players are allowed to fight, but football players aren't.
That's so stupid.
That's a really dumb rule.
If they both play in the same country, this is retarded.
It doesn't make any sense at all.
dr mark gordon
It's in the rules.
joe rogan
That's what football's going to do.
They're going to take out all these crazy side hits and put in brawls.
dr mark gordon
That was 48. It was side hit, side tackle.
joe rogan
Take that shit out and take the helmets off and start throwing down.
If they added to that, football would go through the fucking roof.
dr mark gordon
What happened in the beginning?
Would they use the leather...
What do they call it?
joe rogan
Leather helmets.
dr mark gordon
Leather helmets.
joe rogan
Well, those are good too because you can't hit each other as hard.
It's really fucking dangerous.
It's hard to do and you realize you can't run into each other full clip and use your head like a battering ram.
There's pads too.
There's actually less instances of brain damage in rugby than there is in American football.
Look at that shit they used to wear.
That's hilarious.
Those little funny, silly pads.
It'd be better if people played like that.
They would get more hurt, for sure, but honestly it would be better because they would realize they can't play the game that way.
The way they play it is completely unreal.
unidentified
How dare you.
joe rogan
You would realize that you can't just run into each other.
That's so preposterous.
You think you could just crash into each other and everybody's gonna be fine.
Like, that's a recipe for danger.
That's a recipe for disaster, just running at each other full clip.
But if you force people in a situation where they were bare head, bare head to head, the idea of colliding with another person's head does not seem that cool.
dr mark gordon
Yeah, understood.
They think they have some veneer of protection by wearing the helmet.
joe rogan
But do you have less protection, actually, when you're wearing a helmet?
Because your brain gets rattled around more often because you can take it?
dr mark gordon
That's the point.
You've got...
I had a patient who...
Who was driving a motorcycle up to 405 at 70 miles an hour and he's clipped by a car.
He goes up, catapulted, ends up stopping in the fast lane.
joe rogan
Oh my god.
dr mark gordon
So I'm sitting there talking to the guy and I said, so what happened next?
He says, I woke up in the hospital.
I said, so you had head trauma?
He said, no.
I said, why would you tell me you didn't have head trauma?
He says, his helmet wasn't broken.
joe rogan
Oh, hilarious.
dr mark gordon
Yeah.
His helmet, but he was in a coma for, you know, 12 hours or whatever.
Woke up, his legs up here.
He's got a broken leg, six broken ribs, broken arm, clavicle broken.
And he ended up developing this incredible anger and depression.
And the word is anhedonism, which means no sex.
He just didn't desire anything.
A-N? Anhedonism.
joe rogan
Anhedonism.
unidentified
A-N-H-E-D-I. I'm going to use that from now on.
dr mark gordon
Thank you, sir.
joe rogan
Anhedonistic.
Anhedonism.
So he developed this no need for sex.
dr mark gordon
And his testosterone, we tested him.
His testosterone was zero.
joe rogan
Whoa.
dr mark gordon
He was just shut down.
joe rogan
So he was ready to die, probably.
dr mark gordon
Well, there's a lot of problems with not having enough testosterone, depression, kill yourself, suicide, suicide, and suicide.
joe rogan
Well, you say zero, but what was his actual level?
dr mark gordon
It was probably 130-something.
Really, really low.
In the literature, they look at anything less than 320, 400 by some others.
joe rogan
Now, when you see the science that goes behind the athletic commissions where they have to do certain tests for drugs and do certain tests for various performance enhancing substances, do you think that they should be testing people's free testosterone?
They should be making sure that people are healthy enough to compete?
dr mark gordon
In 2006, I was on ESPN to answer that question.
It's very difficult to give someone an elixir of youth and say, don't use it.
So if you give someone the opportunity to use testosterone, they're going to tend to abuse it.
joe rogan
Right.
dr mark gordon
So it means monitoring them before they play the game.
But look at football.
How old are you when you start playing Pop Warner?
joe rogan
I never played football.
I'm too smart for that shit.
dr mark gordon
Oh, good.
So the bottom line is...
joe rogan
Too little.
dr mark gordon
Too little.
At what point do you start testing to make sure the hormones are in a normal balance?
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
When do you know?
dr mark gordon
As soon as you possibly can to test them, and then every year you check them to see if they're dropping.
Also, you know because they've had documented head-to-head injury, or they've been dinged, and they've got their bell rung.
Yeah.
It's really—that's the difficulty.
The commissions won't allow it.
You know, look what happened to Lance Armstrong.
Aside from everything else, he had a seminoma cancer of his testicle, and he was put on replacement levels of testosterone, and he was allowed to.
But then he got greedy and started on a lot of other things, started embellishing his levels.
joe rogan
Oh, really?
dr mark gordon
Yeah.
That's what they say.
And, you know, a lot of the French Open people have, some of them have been nailed because they get tested.
Look what happened to James Toney after fighting Jose in Madison Square Garden.
They tested him and they found that his, they said deca, nandrolone teconate, which is a form of testosterone, was 13 and the cutoff was 9. But the testing that they do doesn't detect the drug directly.
It's indirect.
So our testing technology is really bad.
joe rogan
Still bad.
dr mark gordon
Bad.
Still bad.
joe rogan
But Olympic-level testing is really good, right?
But Athletic Commission testing is not quite at that level?
Is that what it is?
dr mark gordon
It's the difference between urine testing and blood testing.
joe rogan
So it should be blood.
dr mark gordon
It should be blood.
I don't care, you know, the, what is it, the league's...
The group, the league's...
What is it?
joe rogan
VEDA? Are you talking about, like, anti-doping?
dr mark gordon
No, it's not the anti-doping.
It's the leagues, the ones who protect the players from invasion.
Is that what it is?
Unions?
joe rogan
Players' unions?
dr mark gordon
Is it a players' union?
joe rogan
Yeah, I would call it a players' union.
dr mark gordon
Okay, it's a players' union.
You know, they protect the player from invasion of privacy by having it urine as opposed to blood.
The blood is more accurate.
joe rogan
Well, that's one of the things I was going to ask you.
I mean, how much of sports today really isn't possible without some sort of performance-enhancing drugs?
dr mark gordon
I think every sport is possible without any enhancement.
joe rogan
Possible in the level that you're seeing it today?
dr mark gordon
Yes.
I mean, eating right, I mean, if you really want to get critical, if you're eating really well, that should be illegal.
Because it's enhancing.
joe rogan
Right.
dr mark gordon
If you're taking vitamin supplements, that's illegal because it's enhancement.
joe rogan
Protein powders, enhancement, creatine.
dr mark gordon
Protein powders, taking creatine, you're taking ribose, you're taking magnesium, taking calcium, all these things that have benefits.
You're taking resveratrol, arginine.
It all helps in the body.
So these things should be illegal if you follow that trend of thought.
You should not be doing anything that puts your capabilities above what the normal level is.
joe rogan
But when you see something like the Tour de France specifically, I have heard that the numbers that they achieve in the Tour de France are literally impossible unless you're taking drugs.
dr mark gordon
Blood doping is very common where they take their blood out and they put it back in.
Rithropoietin used to be very heavily used, which stimulates your body to produce more red blood cells.
Growth hormone was great.
Provigil was great.
I know because in reading some of the documents that come to me to evaluate cases, you know, a lot of things were being used to enhance their capabilities.
Things like DHEA, Mark McGuire, you know, I only used Androstenedione.
Right.
Now IOC, the International Olympic Committee, doesn't allow for us to use or for the client patients to use DHEA, which comes from Mexican wild yams, natural source phytohormones.
Don't let them use pregnenolone.
Don't let them use androstenedione, which is now off the market.
You can't have androstenedione because it only takes one chemical reaction to make it into testosterone.
Terus tribulus, which is a plant-based testosterone natural, that's banned.
joe rogan
Tribulus is banned?
dr mark gordon
Tribulus is banned.
joe rogan
I thought tribulus was extremely mild.
dr mark gordon
It still has the ability to become testosterone.
Terus tribulus.
joe rogan
Wow.
But isn't it like bioavailability?
It's like very small, isn't it?
dr mark gordon
It doesn't matter.
joe rogan
It doesn't matter.
dr mark gordon
It's on their list.
You look at their list, they've got...
joe rogan
That's so crazy.
dr mark gordon
They've got decongestants.
They have asthma medication.
You have to get three cardinals and the Pope to sign off on you for asthma to use some of the rescue inhalers because they can give you a great energy surge.
joe rogan
Well, I know some guys who are on Adderall.
They were prescribed Adderall.
They were told they have to get off it to compete in MMA. Yeah.
dr mark gordon
So they have ADD. And believe it or not, there are articles that talk about testosterone deficiency and ADD. Wow.
Also in women with anorexia nervosa who have failed antidepressant therapy, checking for testosterone deficiency.
joe rogan
It's such a good point that you were making about that vitamins should be illegal, that food should be illegal, healthy nutritional supplements should be illegal, because they all make you perform better.
dr mark gordon
Correct.
joe rogan
So, at what point in time are we going to have something, like, what we're dealing with now is like they're injecting steroids and they're doing hormones, but when they start getting into genetic engineering of human beings, like, at what point in time are athletics going to be even valid anymore?
If you're engineering super people, Is there going to come a point in time, do you think?
I mean, you're a scientist, you're a doctor, you're a smart dude.
When you're looking at the future of human enhancement, and not just on a chemical level or hormonal level, like you're educated in, but when you look at it on a technological level.
dr mark gordon
Yeah, I think these genetic enhancements are for specific use, like military.
joe rogan
Like if you want to be the Hulk.
dr mark gordon
If you want to be the Hulk or you want to be Captain America.
joe rogan
Could you imagine if they decide to do that?
We develop an entire army of Hulk dudes that literally are built like the Hulk.
They're bulletproof.
They have fucking spider skin that's mixed with spider silk.
They're already developing that?
dr mark gordon
Spider-Man, yeah.
joe rogan
Well, they're developing an artificial skin that they're trying to create that's mixed with spider silk.
So it becomes literally bulletproof.
You'd have bulletproof skin.
Giant, huge Hulk dudes.
You tell me some guys in Nebraska, sitting on a farm, thinking about going over to Iraq and kicking some ass, and they go, listen man, I'm thinking about doing the Hulk program.
Man, you know that shit's permanent.
Hey man, so I'm a Hulk forever.
Whatever, I'll be bulletproof.
Fuck it.
If they offer that to soldiers, we're going to have a real problem on our hands.
We're going to have an army of Hulks.
dr mark gordon
Better do away with war.
joe rogan
Yes.
Do you think that would work?
That army of hulks would have everybody backing off?
It's like we haven't had nuclear war since 1947. Who hasn't?
Well, we haven't.
dr mark gordon
We haven't had nuclear war.
unidentified
47?
joe rogan
Yeah, wasn't it?
unidentified
When we dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
joe rogan
Was that 47?
dr mark gordon
No.
45?
joe rogan
45, yeah.
45. The Enola Gay.
If you stop thinking about that, that's a terrible thing to say.
You should have just kept it to yourself.
You're that guy.
dr mark gordon
Hey, I have to.
This is free-for-all.
joe rogan
It is certainly that.
dr mark gordon
I want a straw with some paper wads.
joe rogan
I mean, it's literally been the last time anybody used a nuclear bomb.
Against someone.
Yeah, and we all have them.
It's kind of, maybe that's what's going on with the genetic engineering.
We all become the Hulk and everybody just stops.
dr mark gordon
That makes sense.
joe rogan
The fuck it does?
dr mark gordon
That makes sense.
joe rogan
Do you worry, though, that there is going to come a point in time where there's not going to be natural humans?
Or do you think it's exciting?
Do you think that it could be in some way dangerous that we genetically engineer human beings to live to be a thousand years old and be able to jump over buildings?
Or do you think...
How do you feel about it?
dr mark gordon
I think that we've...
We've been modified already.
We've been modified.
And with what we eat, we modify ourselves.
What we've been injected with, we've modified ourselves.
And I think that there are, let's see, there's a center that's using stem cells to generate new heart valves.
So we're going to have natural artificial replacement organs.
So you go to the bank and you press new heart or you press a longer schlong.
Or whatever the situation is.
We'll have medications to make our heart work better, our lungs breathe better, to bring in more oxygen if we have any oxygen left in our atmosphere.
You know, it's dropped from 21% to, I think, or 22% down to 19%.
joe rogan
Our oxygen level in our atmosphere has dropped?
dr mark gordon
Has dropped.
joe rogan
Since when?
dr mark gordon
Millions of years it's dropped.
Over millions of years.
They found...
Oxygen trapped in ice that's dated back millions of years and they measured the amount of oxygen in it.
joe rogan
Wasn't that part of the theory why dinosaurs were so large?
dr mark gordon
Higher oxygen concentration?
joe rogan
Yeah, there's a higher oxygen concentration and that they were able to move through the atmosphere more easily because their considerable bulk would have been not so much of an impediment to movement with this different atmosphere.
unidentified
Yeah, I haven't read that.
joe rogan
Again, a theory that I fucking glanced over and then I'm spouting out as if I wrote the paperwork myself.
So, over millions of years, the oxygen level has been dropping.
dr mark gordon
And also, you know, we're killing down the regenerating sources in the Amazon.
joe rogan
Right.
dr mark gordon
Right?
We're killing all the, you know, the trees and everything to build houses.
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
The Amazon thing is really depressing.
I was listening to something on the way over here where it was a discussion of the Peruvian rainforest and their collection of rubber in the early 1900s and how this population of indigenous people went from 45,000 down to 3,500 in little over five, six years.
They made these people go out and collect rubber for them and they gave them a quota that they had to reach and every Ounce that they were under that quota, they would take out in human flesh.
So they would chop people's arms off or put them on a scale.
They slaughtered these people and scared the fuck out of them.
They're the same sort of techniques that Cortes used on the Aztecs way, way back in the day.
So it's literally the same sort of practice, but it happened in the early 1900s.
Terrifying shit.
The amount of, like, evil shit that goes on in the rainforest.
They just chop it down.
Make a profit.
Chop it down.
There's plenty of it.
Keep going.
Until one day they're going to get to a point in time where they realize they just hacked down a hundred million thousand-year-old trees, and it's going to take a thousand years for them to grow back, and now we're fucked.
dr mark gordon
Fortunately, people like Bono and Cher have been buying up large blocks of territory in the Amazon.
joe rogan
Could you imagine if the earth has to be saved by Bono and Cher?
Together they save the earth.
dr mark gordon
Who else?
joe rogan
With Google.
They get together with Google and they save the earth.
They've been buying up the rainforest?
dr mark gordon
Yep.
joe rogan
How cheap is the rainforest that they could just buy it up like that?
Who's selling it to them?
Who owns that shit?
dr mark gordon
The government.
joe rogan
The government.
Do they really own it?
Shit.
dr mark gordon
It's the earth.
joe rogan
Earth's place.
The idea that people are just going to keep doing that until they run out of forests is absolutely terrifying.
unidentified
Yeah.
dr mark gordon
Yeah.
joe rogan
Because it could happen.
dr mark gordon
And all the medicinal things that we're losing because they say there are species of plants and animals, insects and bugs and so forth that have been decimated, removed off the planet, extinct.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's terrifying stuff.
You know about the Brazilian wandering spider that they've discovered in the Amazon?
dr mark gordon
No, I've never seen it wandering.
joe rogan
They're doing research on it to try to convert it into a Viagra-type medication because the sting of the wandering spider injects a type of venom that causes you to have...
Insanely painful erection, and if you survive, which a lot of people don't, it's a very toxic spider, but if you do survive, your penis will be broken forever.
It'll never work again.
That it somehow or another interacts with your body's production of nitric oxide, and it just over floods your system with it, and your whole body goes into this incredibly painful, shocking state of muscle contraction, including your...
dr mark gordon
Really?
joe rogan
And then it breaks.
Like a ballpark frank.
You know, they plump when you cook them.
That's going to happen.
Pop!
Boom!
By just an evil spider.
So they're trying to convert this thing into some sort of a Viagra thing.
dr mark gordon
You just used two Sudafed.
joe rogan
Sudafed works?
dr mark gordon
To counter it.
joe rogan
Oh.
Are you joking?
dr mark gordon
Nope.
joe rogan
What do you mean?
dr mark gordon
Sudafed will counter the effect.
joe rogan
Of the Brazilian wandering spider?
dr mark gordon
Of like Viagra.
If you tell me it's working the same thing as Viagra, Levitra, Silas.
joe rogan
I don't think it works the same.
I mean, obviously, it's way more potent.
dr mark gordon
Yeah.
But it still blocks the same thing.
joe rogan
Okay.
So if you do that, what do you take?
And how much?
dr mark gordon
You take Sudafed.
joe rogan
But what is the...
dr mark gordon
I think it's 30 milligrams per tablet, and it's two tablets.
joe rogan
But what is Sudafed?
dr mark gordon
It's decongestant.
It reverses...
joe rogan
No, no, no.
I mean, like, is there a chemical name for Sudafed?
dr mark gordon
Pseudoephedrine.
Pseudoephedrine.
unidentified
Ephedrine.
dr mark gordon
Ephedrine.
joe rogan
Oh, okay.
dr mark gordon
So it's like a speed.
joe rogan
So Sudafed is like a speed, sort of?
dr mark gordon
Yeah, it causes the blood vessels to do this.
Viagra causes it to do this.
This causes it to do this.
joe rogan
Wow.
So if you take that sort of speed stuff after you take Viagra, your unbelievably painful erection will go down.
dr mark gordon
Correct.
And it's called priapism.
joe rogan
Those poor bastards.
Sometimes they have to get their penises drained.
Ouchie, wah-wah.
It's because they got crazy, right?
They went too nutty.
unidentified
Too much.
joe rogan
Too much.
You got too crazy.
You got that 10-hour boner, son.
Now you're not so happy.
People are so stupid, though.
They can order as many cheeseburgers as they want.
unidentified
I want five.
joe rogan
Five cheeseburgers.
If you just give them a bottle of this crazy Brazilian wandering spider dick pill and they take that shit home, they're just going to suck down the whole bottle.
People are nutty.
dr mark gordon
Who'd you read that?
Scientific American?
joe rogan
I know it because it's in my heart.
Because I'm very intuitive and I'm a healer.
I'm out there holding hands of people and healing them.
I met a dude once who told me he was a healer.
I walked away.
I was like, we're not talking anymore, dude.
You're not a fucking healer.
I'm a healer.
Basically a healer.
Have you ever had anybody try to heal you?
Mark Gordon.
No chick stories.
unidentified
No.
joe rogan
Settle down.
unidentified
It's not.
joe rogan
It's not that kind of show.
dr mark gordon
No, I never had anyone try to heal me other than an MD. Ah, well then you're a smart man.
And a psychiatrist and a bottle of scotch.
Scotch doesn't work.
joe rogan
As long as you have that glutathione nearby.
Glutathione?
dr mark gordon
Hormone replenishment?
Keeping my hormones.
I lost.
I was...
At the beginning of this whole sojourn that I went on from being diagnosed with a hormone deficiency, I weighed 178 pounds, 21% body fat.
18 months later, I was 214 pounds at 9 to 10 pounds, 9 to 10% body fat.
joe rogan
Wow.
dr mark gordon
Because the thyroid deficiency helped me to gain all this weight.
joe rogan
Do you think that the social stigma that's attached to people cheating in sports and steroids that keeps people from exploring the idea of hormonal replacement, there seems to be a stigma behind it, like the idea of taking testosterone or whatever the fuck you're taking, growth hormone.
dr mark gordon
I think it's a medical issue where the medical community as a whole has taken this position of demonizing Testosterone and growth hormone and all the hormone and also saying that they don't really need to be replaced.
7,000 articles in my library on this new book that I'm working on for head trauma, where almost every single one has a positive statement to make about how it improves mental functioning, how it improves depression, anxiety, and how it improves personal interactions, sexual drive, physical stamina, and so forth and so on.
And you get a number of articles that come out to refute it.
Because it just doesn't fit in the social, cultural design that is being made for us.
joe rogan
And the articles that come out to refute it, you're talking about scientific articles.
dr mark gordon
Scientific articles.
joe rogan
What's the basis of their argument against it?
dr mark gordon
Well, if you really read close, their scientific study, like the one that came out recently, you probably saw.
It was in, I think, New England Journal of Medicine, or the JAMA. Where it said that people who take testosterone after they've had a cardiovascular event, heart attack or something, or had a stint put in or had open heart surgery, that they die at a couple of percents greater than the people who don't use it.
But if you looked at the study, it was a flawed study.
It was a floss study, and it was spun so that it would put more fear into people about testosterone.
joe rogan
Do you think that that's done on purpose?
Do you think that this is something like they say, okay, what is the angle where we can attack testosterone?
Well, you have this angle.
You could say, we have this one test, and it could be interpreted erroneously this way.
So let's do that and pretend it's under good faith.
dr mark gordon
Correct.
So there are...
And academicians is one that I interact with at UCLA who were reviewed and wrote a little article, a little statement on how flawed this study was.
And, you know, there are people coming up that people can become famous for either developing something or refuting something that was developed.
You know, just an equal amount of people want to hear that what you developed is bullshit.
Just as mad as people, there's an equal amount of people who want to hear that what you developed is beneficial.
joe rogan
We don't want to hear that.
When it comes to science and medicine, we don't ever want to believe there's ego involved.
We just don't.
We don't want to hear it.
dr mark gordon
Yeah, right.
joe rogan
People fight that like they fight that daddy's an asshole.
If you found out that daddy really was an asshole, you know, you're like, God damn it.
I was holding out hope that daddy wasn't an asshole.
Why is that?
dr mark gordon
Human nature.
It's just human nature.
joe rogan
We don't ever want to think that companies would compete knowing that the result would be that you might take something effective out of the market just because you're trying to profit, but people could benefit from it.
dr mark gordon
I know that there are congressional laws behind growth hormone that makes it illegal for any doctor to dispense it for, quote-unquote, anti-aging.
joe rogan
Well, see, you know, why does it make it illegal for anyone to dispense it for any reasons if it's effective in enhancing health?
dr mark gordon
But a colleague of mine who sees a lot of people from the government in Washington, a lot of them are on growth hormone.
joe rogan
Of course they are, the old fucking creepy bastards trying to live forever and shut everybody else down.
dr mark gordon
That's right.
It's like the Constitution states that whatever Congress passes, they have to use, too.
But they've exempted themselves from the new healthcare laws.
joe rogan
Well, there's just a lot of really weird rules.
Like, there has to be something grossly wrong with you for you to be prescribed something that could be beneficial.
Like, you know the story behind ProVigil.
dr mark gordon
Sure.
joe rogan
You know, when ProVigil first came along, they were trying to make a drug that enhances cognitive function.
And the government was like, no, it's got to cure a disease.
And they went, okay, narcolepsy.
So they use it for fucking narcolepsy, but really what it is is a performance-enhancing drug for mental acuity.
But how crazy is that?
You can't say that.
You can't say, well, we've got something that makes you think better.
Are you stopping the disease?
If you're not, stop right now.
What you have is illegal.
dr mark gordon
Well, they found a use for provigil and nuvigil that's outside of narcolepsy, and it's called workplace fatigue.
And they gave it what's called an ICD-9, which is the International Classification of Disease Coding.
joe rogan
Dude, I got a disease.
dr mark gordon
Yeah, you've got, you know, because you work so late.
joe rogan
Yes, I have a disease.
dr mark gordon
The morning you wake up and you're fatigued.
joe rogan
I need a provigil.
dr mark gordon
How many scripts do you want of it?
joe rogan
Those are probably not good to eat every day though, right?
No.
Tim Ferriss was on the podcast talking about that, in fact, and he said there's no biological free lunch.
Correct.
That one seems...
dr mark gordon
You always have to pay.
joe rogan
It seems like it works a little too well to be safe.
dr mark gordon
Well, new vigil, cheaper, and also smoother.
joe rogan
Really?
Well, New Vigil is actually the only shit that I've tried.
But it's pretty shocking how well that stuff works.
You almost are reluctant to talk about it.
dr mark gordon
How much is each pill?
joe rogan
I don't know.
150?
150 milligrams?
Or money-wise?
I don't know.
dr mark gordon
It's like $20 to $25 a pill.
How much is Levitrocylis and Viagra now?
I used to buy it because I have a pharmacist's license.
Seven bucks, eight bucks?
joe rogan
Because you wanted a hard dick.
That's why you bought it, goddammit.
dr mark gordon
Absolutely.
joe rogan
Because you had a pharmacist's license.
Why didn't you buy birth control pills while you're out?
You didn't need those, all right, fella?
dr mark gordon
I personally don't take birth control pills.
joe rogan
Yeah, I wouldn't either.
I think it's a bad idea.
Just let nature run its course.
dr mark gordon
Absolutely.
Get pregnant.
joe rogan
If you get pregnant, be the first.
Absolutely.
There's a lot of reluctance to talk about ProVigil and NuVigil.
In fact, I had a guy that's from MAPS, the multidisciplinary psychedelic studies group, wasn't going to tell the audience that he was on ProVigil while the show was on.
I was like, why would you hide that?
He's like, well, it just seems like...
He goes, I flew here.
I was very tired.
I go, it's a totally legitimate reason to take it.
And it's not a bad thing.
You're obviously not, it's not like you're drunk.
It's not like you're out of control.
You're functioning totally normally.
Like, why be ashamed?
And he wasn't really ashamed, but he was a bit concerned about the, like, people would not take him seriously.
Oh, the guy wasn't even sober when he was on the show.
You know, oh, that's what it is.
You're doing scientific studies.
You're not just using it as an excuse or a crutch.
So he was a little bit reluctant, which I thought was really fascinating.
dr mark gordon
But it's not speed.
joe rogan
No, no, it's not at all.
dr mark gordon
It doesn't, you know, warp your cognition, your brain.
Talking rapidly and smoking cigarettes and, you know, tremors.
joe rogan
Yeah, that can be a real issue with people, huh?
dr mark gordon
This stuff doesn't do it.
joe rogan
I've seen people that have had real problems with that Adderall stuff, where they just get whacked out.
dr mark gordon
You know what it is?
joe rogan
They can't stop.
dr mark gordon
What?
Methamphetamine.
joe rogan
Adderall is methamphetamine.
dr mark gordon
Adderall is methamphetamine.
joe rogan
Listen, I hate to interrupt here, but I have to pee.
I want to keep this show going, but I have to pee.
So, Jamie, please talk to him about meth.
dr mark gordon
Okay.
unidentified
I've taken Adderall before.
I took it once, and I wanted to do some art projects.
And I'd never taken it.
A friend gave it to me, so I took a time-release capsule, hoping that it would just give me a little dink.
But it kept me up for two days.
I felt like I was poopy all day.
dr mark gordon
Yeah.
You know, I... Restricted my own license, my own prescribing license.
So I only do Class 3. You know, they have Class 1, you know, heroin and Quaaludes and whatever else.
And two is Adderall.
And I restricted my license.
I had so many people coming in thinking that they can just get Adderall because they're asking for it.
And I'm very, very strict on how I dispense stuff.
I try not to dispense any medications that I don't absolutely have to.
And I find that a lot of times that when you correct the underlying hormone deficiencies that the person gets better, their cognition, their energy level improves.
In fact, in traumatic brain injury, the number one symptom across all the studies is fatigue.
And the minute you correct their hormones, the fatigue's gone.
I had, you know, initially a lot of people coming in from the military.
The military likes using things like Adderall and ProVigil and NuVigil.
NuVigil and ProVigil, they work very well without causing a lot of side effects, but methamphetamine, the silliest thing that I have is patients who come in on a multitude of anti-psychotic drugs like antidepressants and so forth, and because they're on so much to control how bad they feel, They're fatigued and so the doctors counters it with Adderall and then adds another drug because they can't sleep at night called Tracodon so they can sleep.
joe rogan
Here's the question though.
Is there ever going to come a point in time where they can engineer the perfect blend and you take something and everything just works perfect?
I mean and if we're enhancing our bodies in any way with new chemicals and new medical innovation Do you think there's going to be, I mean, maybe this is just, they're just not that good at it yet, but one day they're going to have this one pill and you take it and boom!
dr mark gordon
Yeah, I don't think there'll be just one pill.
I think there'll be one pill for people like you and one pill for people like me because we're so genetically diverse and biochemically diverse that it would be nice to have one pill fits all, but that's...
joe rogan
It's impossible.
dr mark gordon
It's impossible, right.
joe rogan
But do you feel that there will be some sort of conditions like that in the very near and foreseeable future?
dr mark gordon
Yeah.
You know, they're working on a, I don't know if you remember, I think it was Star Trek No.
2 with Bones is walking through the hospital in San Francisco and he hands a pill to a woman who's getting ready to have a renal kidney transplant and she takes it.
And our kidneys start functioning again.
We're going to be finding medications that turn the genetic code on for different areas.
And that's why I was asking about your genetics being tested.
We have products that are being studied to turn on the genetic matrix.
And we have others that stimulate what they call epigenetics.
It's not the genes, but it's the things that control the genes.
joe rogan
Mm-hmm.
dr mark gordon
So you can influence the genes directly and then you can influence the way the genes are expressed in epigenetics.
So I think they'll find once they finalize the...
We have the map, but we don't know where we're going with genetic coding.
We know that...
That's A, C, D, B, B, B, but we don't know what that piece does.
We don't know, you know, we know the BR gene for breast cancer.
We know this thing for that cancer and so forth.
And we're still trying to figure out what that coding means, what each piece of it means.
It's a piece of a puzzle.
joe rogan
And is it just because it's a new science and it's just an incredibly complex puzzle, but you're confident that eventually they'll have...
dr mark gordon
Eventually they'll have it, and once they learn how to master without creating zombies or something...
joe rogan
Fuck.
Zombies, man.
Come on, dude.
dr mark gordon
Yeah.
My kids got me into Walking Dead, so...
joe rogan
You're going to quit right after this last season.
You're going to get upset with yourself.
I already did.
dr mark gordon
Well, for watching it.
joe rogan
The first season was fucking spectacular.
The first season got everybody hooked, and it's just not like that anymore.
dr mark gordon
No.
joe rogan
But when you see something like World War Z or you see something like that, do you worry that one day there's going to be some sort of a...
dr mark gordon
Absolutely.
Jesus Christ.
Absolutely.
You know the old saying, don't fuck with Mother Nature.
joe rogan
I never heard that.
I grew up in New Jersey.
dr mark gordon
Oh, yeah.
Don't fuck with Mother Nature!
joe rogan
Boston and New Jersey didn't teach us that.
unidentified
Yeah, got you.
dr mark gordon
Sure, sure.
joe rogan
They didn't teach us that in Boston either.
dr mark gordon
No.
Don't fuck with Mother Nature.
You were in parochial school?
joe rogan
Mother Nature was a cunt that made it snow.
dr mark gordon
Yeah.
joe rogan
That's what it was.
dr mark gordon
Okay.
joe rogan
No, I wasn't in parochial school.
dr mark gordon
So, what's going to happen?
joe rogan
I'm not even sure exactly what parochial school is.
dr mark gordon
That's right.
unidentified
What is that?
dr mark gordon
You get paroched.
It's a religious school.
joe rogan
Oh, no.
dr mark gordon
For wayward boys.
joe rogan
Catholic school for one year.
dr mark gordon
No.
joe rogan
Sorry.
dr mark gordon
I did Loyola for two.
Good Jewish boy.
unidentified
Oh, wow.
dr mark gordon
That's where I got my graduate degree.
joe rogan
Congratulations.
You made it through.
That's like Nam.
dr mark gordon
Absolutely.
joe rogan
So tell me.
dr mark gordon
So, you know, my fear is that when we start playing with stuff we don't fully understand, we're going to have a lot of errors or a number of errors.
That's why up in Antarctica they have those little compounds so in case anything goes wrong, it's in one little area.
joe rogan
Do you listen to the Alex Jones show?
dr mark gordon
No.
I know.
unidentified
The FEMA camps in Antarctica!
dr mark gordon
No, this is biotechnology camps.
joe rogan
Oh, okay.
Oh, so they have, like, in case the shit hits the fan.
dr mark gordon
Yeah, cold areas.
You know, it's not like, what was that from, jeez, the zombie movie, the first one that started the whole series.
It was from a computer program, computer game.
joe rogan
Computer game?
dr mark gordon
Yeah, it came out of a computer game where the...
joe rogan
A zombie came out of a computer game?
dr mark gordon
No, no, no.
Back off.
joe rogan
Hey, easy.
You're the one that's shitty at explaining things.
dr mark gordon
I just can't remember the name of the program because I don't do games.
unidentified
Right.
dr mark gordon
I don't play games.
joe rogan
Oh, I know what you're talking about.
Milo Jojovic.
What's the name of that series?
Resident Evil.
Resident Evil.
dr mark gordon
Resident Evil, yeah.
That was a computer game, wasn't it?
joe rogan
God damn, she's hot.
She's like surface.
That chick is surface of the sun hot.
Like scary hot.
Like ruin your life hot.
dr mark gordon
She's matured.
So anyway, you know, they were playing with trying to enhance the quality of life and they came with a retrovirus that created the problem.
So if you look at probably Walking Dead, it's for retrovirus.
joe rogan
Well, rage was the stuff that they'd given the chimpanzee.
Oh, look at that.
God damn, that's a woman.
That shit makes me nervous.
Women like that make me nervous, man.
I know, man.
I'm too stupid to be around someone like that.
So that was in the movie 28 Days Later, that rage.
They had given it to these chimpanzees and they had developed some sort of a genetic disease, some creation, an artificial disease, and it got out and turned everybody into savages.
That was a realistic scenario?
dr mark gordon
Well, they're all potentially realistic when we start screwing around with genetics.
It's all potential.
It's like, you know, when they were making the atomic bomb, they were afraid to...
To light it off because they thought that the ionosphere would be ignited and the earth would burn.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
But they said, we'll see.
dr mark gordon
We'll see.
That's right.
But that's the attitude they took.
unidentified
That is the attitude they took.
dr mark gordon
They said, oh, retrovirus, you know, it can make zombies out of everybody, but we're not sure.
Let's see if it enhances them before it makes them into a zombie.
joe rogan
And it's not like we don't have massive amounts of examples of terrible situations when it comes to like animal life and like spiders and...
Tigers in Africa or tigers in Asia and lions in Africa.
There's plenty of examples of horrific hells on earth if you happen to be in them.
And if you're an antelope and you're running around and there was no lions and all of a sudden the lion was there, you'd be like, fuck!
Well, if we're running around cities and there's no zombies, and then one day there are zombies, that's gonna fucking suck.
And if it is one of those things where they bite you and then you have it and then you bite someone and they have it and it just spreads like in that fucking World War Z movie?
dr mark gordon
Yeah, but in Walking Dead...
What's the premise there?
That we all already have it in us.
joe rogan
That premise is whack.
dr mark gordon
How did it happen?
joe rogan
If I found out that I was going to be a zombie, I'd shoot myself in the fucking head.
What am I going to do?
This band of fucking scallywags they're trotting around the country with, they're going to fix it?
They're not going to fix that.
What season are they in?
dr mark gordon
What season are they in?
joe rogan
Season a billion.
Those fucks.
Try watching it on television and get broken up every five minutes with a Tide ad.
Try watching that shit on TV. So you're worried about genetic engineering?
dr mark gordon
Genetic engineering, yeah.
joe rogan
Are you worried about it with foods?
Do you eat totally organic and no GMOs and all that stuff?
What is this, sir?
dr mark gordon
I brought you one.
joe rogan
What is it?
dr mark gordon
No GMO. What is it called?
joe rogan
Ratio?
dr mark gordon
Ratio.
joe rogan
And is it a protein bar?
dr mark gordon
Yep.
24 grams of protein, 12 of net carbs, and 4 of fiber.
joe rogan
Nice.
dr mark gordon
And no GMO, no artificial stuff in it.
joe rogan
What's the source of the protein?
dr mark gordon
Cum.
unidentified
Cum.
joe rogan
Hey, easy!
What kind of fucking doctor are you?
There's people out there that are writing this down.
dr mark gordon
C-U-M for Common Used Materials.
joe rogan
Oh, that's rude.
dr mark gordon
Soy.
joe rogan
This is soy?
I thought soy made your tits grow.
dr mark gordon
Maybe on you.
Want to try one?
Here, Jamie.
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This is delicious.
dr mark gordon
Yeah.
The one that I didn't bring you was the peanut butter and chocolate.
joe rogan
No, I thought soy, for real.
I thought it made dudes go pregnant.
Doesn't it make your estrogen grow?
dr mark gordon
No, it has a light estrogen.
Genistein and diastein is found in soy, but you have to eat a whole bunch of that.
joe rogan
That's not true, because Brian Redband, you didn't meet him.
He ate like three edamames and he started crying.
dr mark gordon
Oh, jeez.
joe rogan
Yeah, he was watching a Meg Ryan film.
dr mark gordon
Oh yeah, that'll do it every time.
joe rogan
Fucking edamame will get you, dude.
dr mark gordon
Yeah, I love that stuff.
joe rogan
Soy sauce, that shit will get you.
dr mark gordon
Well, it's a premise that I have is why, and I apologize to any of my Asian brothers and sisters.
joe rogan
Something racist is coming.
It's like saying I'm not a racist, but...
dr mark gordon
Here, this is a theory that I'm working on.
Why is it that Asian women have smaller breasts than Western world women?
And the reason is, you look at their soy intake.
Soy has these two chemicals, genistein and diastene, which can block the estrogen receptors because it's a weak estrogen receptor, and the strong estrogen is estradiol, which causes breast tissue to grow.
So women who are in Asia who migrate to Hawaii have larger breasts, higher estradiol functioning, and they come to the United States even higher because we've got so much xenoestrogens in our food.
That's why we talk with a high voice sometimes.
We have a lot of hormones.
The federal government, thank God, just said we had to take out antibiotics from some of our poultry.
We can no longer use in livestock.
I think this year it starts or next year.
They can't use antibiotics because our resistance to antibiotics is possibly coming from the fact that a lot of our meat has antibiotics in it so that the animals are protected.
joe rogan
So it transfers?
When an animal gets antibiotics and you get the meat, you get that antibiotic?
dr mark gordon
What do you think it reservoirs?
It reservoirs in the tissue.
joe rogan
Right, and is it killed off by heat or temperature or anything?
dr mark gordon
You'd have to really cook it.
joe rogan
And that's not what we do.
dr mark gordon
No.
So, how do you like your...
Sorry.
How do you like your meat?
joe rogan
I like venison.
dr mark gordon
You like venison?
joe rogan
Yeah, I'm on a goal.
I have a goal.
In 2014, by the end of 2014, I want to be entirely game meat in my house.
dr mark gordon
So you're going to go out and...
joe rogan
Yes.
Shooting things.
I shot that thing over there.
dr mark gordon
You shot the skull?
joe rogan
No, I shot the whole deer.
That's what's left.
I shot another one this year.
They're delicious.
It's a thousand times better than any meat that you'd ever get at a supermarket.
And on top of that, it's way healthier.
It tastes different.
When you eat it, you feel energized.
That shit is good for you.
dr mark gordon
So it's free range.
joe rogan
100%.
That motherfucker was hanging out in Montana in the mountains.
We crept up on him and ganked him.
You shot him?
dr mark gordon
Or you bowed him?
joe rogan
I shot him with a bullet, with a gun.
But I'm going to start...
I'm shooting archery now.
I just started doing that to practice.
But I'm not even thinking about shooting an animal until I get really fucking good.
I wounded a deer because my scope was off because I'd fallen.
And when I'd fallen, I didn't know it was so easy to throw it off.
I even asked somebody if...
Could it be thrown off if you fell?
He's like, you'd have to fall really hard.
You could drop those things, they're fine.
But it turns out that the guy who installed my scope, he didn't tighten it down very much, so I wounded an animal.
It's a terrible feeling.
dr mark gordon
Did you chase after it?
joe rogan
For two hours.
We looked for it for two hours.
And then we came to the conclusion that it's probably wounded, but not mortally wounded.
It's a very fucking horrible, depressing feeling.
Especially when I put a shitload of time into marksmanship.
I went to the range and shot 90 rounds one day and then another at least 30 or 40 the next day before we went just to get everything tightened down.
And I was doing it with a.300 Win Mag, a really powerful rifle.
So I wanted to make sure that I was real.
So the first deer I killed, perfect clean shot.
But the second one, I missed it altogether and then I wounded in the second attempt to hit it.
dr mark gordon
So you're at the range with the full round, with the full loads?
joe rogan
Well, there's some rifle ranges you can go to.
They're outdoors, but they're rifle ranges specifically.
And they have targets set up at 400 yards, 700 yards, 900 yards, 100 yards, 200 yards.
The whole deal.
They have like fucking these little metal things way out in the distance you can shoot at.
dr mark gordon
Oh, the plates.
It's good you're going to either a crossbow or a longbow because you probably won't be able to get the bullets.
joe rogan
Well, you can use copper.
dr mark gordon
You can use copper?
joe rogan
Yeah, that's what's going on now with hunting.
A lot of ranches and things in California, they're trying to eliminate lead because lead is really dangerous to the environment, to the animals that eat it.
Birds put it in their gullet and they get sick.
Animals eat the birds.
People eat the animals that eat the birds.
dr mark gordon
I'm thinking more on the lines of Homeland Security buying up the millions and millions of rounds.
joe rogan
Is that true?
dr mark gordon
Yep.
joe rogan
That's not Alex Jones stuff?
dr mark gordon
No.
joe rogan
Homeland Security's buying up bullets.
What are they going to do with them?
dr mark gordon
They're buying up...
joe rogan
They'll give them away.
They'll have a giveaway.
dr mark gordon
Look, if they buy them, it means less for us to buy.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's true.
But people are always going to make bullets.
They're just going to help out the bullet industry.
People make their own loads, too.
dr mark gordon
Do you know that the U.S. government used to return the metal jackets to the United States to be smelted down and regenerated for bullets?
And it went into the general population to do it.
You know where it's going now?
joe rogan
Where?
China.
Damn it, I knew it was China.
dr mark gordon
China.
Now you've got aluminum jackets?
joe rogan
Yeah.
dr mark gordon
You've got aluminum jackets now.
joe rogan
Some of them.
dr mark gordon
Yeah, with copper, with copper bullets.
joe rogan
Well, some of them are still brass.
A lot of them are brass.
But either way, I mean, the federal government trying to take away bullets at this point seems pretty insane.
dr mark gordon
Unbelievable.
I was reading an article where it was in Alec Jones.
joe rogan
What are they doing with all that?
Unless they plan on killing us.
dr mark gordon
There you are.
joe rogan
There it is.
They're like the internet, these fucks.
We're going to shoot everybody's computer.
dr mark gordon
Go look at, I think it's called the.302 or.327, which is the sniper rifle rounds.
Look at how many they bought.
joe rogan
Oh my God, they're going to snipe us.
dr mark gordon
And this is for Homeland Security, not for the military going outside the United States.
joe rogan
Well, that's depressing.
Maybe they know about an alien invasion that we don't.
How about that?
dr mark gordon
Maybe it's already here.
joe rogan
Maybe that's why Obama's going gray.
They told him about the aliens.
unidentified
And he's like, fuck.
joe rogan
God damn it.
But just buy the bullets.
Buy the bullets!
We're going to set up snipers.
Everybody get practice.
dr mark gordon
The YouTube has something about lizard eyes, or the lizard people.
joe rogan
Oh, you mean David Icke?
dr mark gordon
David Icke.
Yeah, David Icke.
joe rogan
He wants to come on the podcast.
I don't know if I could have him on and not talk about the lizards, but I don't think he wants to talk about the lizards anymore.
What is he on now?
Well, he's got some actually interesting, valid points on corruption and, you know, the Illuminati and, you know, just the way of the world.
But at one point in time, he apparently, allegedly...
Was stating that there were certain people that are in control and positions of power in the world that actually are lizards.
Lizard people.
They're reptilians.
They're shapeshifters or some shit.
And everybody was like, okay.
Right.
So now he doesn't say that anymore.
dr mark gordon
What happens if all this disinformation is to refute people like David stating about the reptilian people and they really exist?
joe rogan
The reptilian people don't exist.
I'll tell you right now.
unidentified
Good.
joe rogan
Okay, here's a bunch of shit that's not real.
Ready?
dr mark gordon
Go.
joe rogan
Black people looking for Bigfoot.
Not real.
Not real.
That doesn't exist.
Let me think what else isn't real.
Unicorns, definitely not real.
Bigfoot, I gotta go with not real.
I know I want to go with real.
I wish it was real.
This is Pat McGee.
This is the guy who made the werewolf in the front yard.
He's going to make a movie on Bigfoot and he's crowdsourcing it and he's building all of the parts In his lab here, and he made this video and sent it to me today.
It's fucking sick.
If they wanted to do one of those Patterson-Gimlin movies now, boy, they could freak people the fuck out.
Because the artificial Bigfoots that they create now are amazing.
The work that they've done in special effects.
Look at this, they're doing this one hair at a time.
This is incredible.
The face looks too duck-like.
dr mark gordon
Not until I put the skin over it.
joe rogan
Yeah, no, it's incredible.
Look at this.
dr mark gordon
See, it won't get TBI. It's got a lot of protection on it.
joe rogan
That is so wild.
dr mark gordon
That's neat.
joe rogan
Wow.
And that's what it looks like when it's all done.
God damn, that's awesome.
That seems like something that would be in, like, a modern version of Twilight Zone.
Goddamn, that is amazing!
dr mark gordon
Primal Rage.
joe rogan
That looks really cool.
As long as it's all shadowy.
They make a big mistake when they try to make monster movies and make everything, like, real crystal clear.
Like, come on, stupid.
You gotta keep shit in the shadows.
Your CGI is not that good.
Stop showing off.
Stop showing off with your fucking fake Bigfoot.
dr mark gordon
So why is Bigfoot real?
Why don't you think it's real?
joe rogan
Well, I don't not think it's real.
I went to the Pacific Northwest actually looking for Bigfoot for the sci-fi show that I did, and I'm convinced that I talked to people that believed that they saw something.
What it actually is, who knows, but the reality of the Pacific Northwest is the density of the forest is incredible.
It's hard to imagine if you've never visited there.
I had an idea in my head of what it would be like, but the enormity of it all and how...
Insignificant and tiny I felt when I was in it.
That place is like a magical rainforest.
It's a true rainforest.
It's gorgeous.
And the inside is filled with bright green moss and the trees are filled with bright green leaves and it's only sunny like every other day or something like that.
Most of the time it's just raining constantly and it's Fucking lush, man.
Like a dense box of Q-tips is how I describe the trees there.
And you realize once you're there, like, oh, who knows what's out here?
There might be anything out here.
But the idea that it's gone this long with all these people looking for it, no one's brought back a body, nobody came across it, nobody shot it, most likely bullshit.
dr mark gordon
So you're basically saying because they haven't had more evidence.
joe rogan
There's not enough evidence that is...
Every evidence that they've ever found, whether it's DNA testing, whether it's...
That's me and Duncan in the woods.
Look at us.
We're looking around.
We're squatching with John and Steve.
Every piece of evidence that they've ever found has turned out to be bear shit.
This was a fascinating thing.
We found a teepee of trees that were ripped out of the ground and put into position.
You know, and some of them, like, were, like, literally ripped out by their root ball.
Like, the amount of strength that someone would have to have to do that and to do it that way.
dr mark gordon
So that was it?
joe rogan
That was another piece.
There was a broke-off branch that was broke off in the middle of the tree, and these guys were convinced that Bigfoot did that.
Cool guys, man.
They had a cool attitude, too, because their attitude was even if there's no Bigfoot, they're still out camping and enjoying nature and indulging in this fantasy.
dr mark gordon
No footprints?
joe rogan
Well, they do find footprints, but the issue with this area of the Pacific Northwest is that what you see these guys walking on right here, that stuff is so soft.
It's so incredibly dense with pine needles.
They said that there's between five and six feet of compressed pine needles under your feet.
And then it eventually becomes dirt and, you know, breaks down.
But it's so soft.
You're walking on everything.
It's like a big sponge.
dr mark gordon
So you can't get footprints.
joe rogan
It's really fucking cool, though.
You see elk everywhere.
They're just running through that place like rats.
And this woman who was one of the people that lives up there in the mountain, up in Mount Rainier, she was the most convincing.
Because she just didn't seem like a bullshit artist at all.
And she said she saw these elk running, and she was looking to see what they were running from as she was on a hike.
And she turned, she's like, oh, there's a gorilla.
Oh my God, that's Bigfoot.
And she said, it's the only time she ever saw it.
She never saw it since.
But she said she saw this thing.
She saw it for about five or six seconds.
Maybe a little bit more.
Move in between trees.
You know, she's trying to estimate while she's freaking out.
And then she realized, holy shit, I saw a Sasquatch.
Maybe it was a bear that got hit in the face with a rock.
You know, who knows?
dr mark gordon
And the Canadian Indians, the native Indians of Canada, they have lots of stories on...
joe rogan
Not just they have lots of stories.
They have over 200 different names for it.
This is interesting.
Because it doesn't mean that people haven't made up, you know, mythical animals and things in the past.
They certainly have.
And if you wanted to think about some old man that lives in the woods and, you know, some...
You never know what the fucks are on any corner when you're in the woods, especially back then, the Indian days.
You know, it's probably a good cautionary tale to pretend there's some giant wild man living in the woods that's much larger than you and doesn't give a fuck and hides from cameras.
It seems like it's a good thing to tell your kids.
dr mark gordon
What was that movie?
Henry and the Hendersons?
joe rogan
That was most likely real.
That's what I was going to say.
dr mark gordon
I believe that movie.
joe rogan
I think that it's possible that there could be an animal that we haven't discovered.
That it's that animal?
Ooh, that's a tough one.
dr mark gordon
Oh, it's such a dense vegetation up there.
joe rogan
It's so big.
That's the problem.
This thing's giant.
It would need to eat a lot of food.
It would need to be fucking eaten constantly.
dr mark gordon
Has anyone set up either thermal sensors?
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Yeah.
dr mark gordon
They've set up everything.
And tremors, you know, the...
joe rogan
They've set up game cameras.
No one's ever caught a big foot on a game camera.
When you stop and think about how much shit gets caught on game cameras, that's quite shocking.
Because they're really prevalent now.
It's like the same argument about UFOs and cell phone cameras.
Well, why didn't you take a picture?
Why didn't you have a camera?
Everybody has a camera now.
dr mark gordon
Sure.
joe rogan
But there's still not like this massive influx of UFO videos that are legitimate.
They're still all horse shit.
So as these game cameras become more and more prevalent in the woods where people go out hunting or they go out sightseeing or looking for animals, you know...
dr mark gordon
Wasn't there a recent in the Northwest, or Midwest, there was a sighting with lights that were just hovering?
Hundreds of people took pictures of it?
joe rogan
Oh, you're talking about the Phoenix Lights.
dr mark gordon
Was that the Phoenix Lights?
joe rogan
Yeah, the Phoenix Lights.
I think that was in the late 90s.
dr mark gordon
No, there was something more, I think more recent.
joe rogan
Really?
Maybe, maybe.
The Phoenix Lights were, I believe it was the 90s.
dr mark gordon
Yeah, it was gas bubbles.
joe rogan
I talk to people that...
I go to Phoenix all the time.
In fact, I'm going to Phoenix this weekend.
This weekend, ladies and gentlemen, at Stand Up Live with the lovely and talented Tom Segura.
But I've talked to people that were there when that happened, and they were pretty convincing, man.
They believe they saw something.
But what it was, like, who knows?
They all described, like, a bunch of people described this giant, like, triangle that was flying silently through the sky.
And, you know, maybe.
Or they could have been just fucking freaking out.
unidentified
Area 51. Area 51. I think that's what it is.
joe rogan
Area 51, they launched.
They just said, let's just freak out Phoenix.
dr mark gordon
How do you think we went through such a rapid technological advancement since the late 50s?
joe rogan
Do you think it's because of aliens?
dr mark gordon
Where do you get our technology?
joe rogan
You're a full-on nutter.
Look at you.
You're anti-vaccine.
We believe in aliens.
You believe that alien technology has caused...
dr mark gordon
We're not alone in the universe.
joe rogan
Hey, you say that.
I feel really alone.
dr mark gordon
You do?
I'll give you a hug later.
joe rogan
So you believe that it's actually possible that someone has somehow or another kept people from the information that human beings have been visited and that we have actually received technology from aliens.
dr mark gordon
The possibility is there.
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Wow.
joe rogan
What would you say a percentage?
I agree with you the possibility is there.
dr mark gordon
I don't know what a percentage would be.
You know, what is the one that keeps me sane, percentage, versus, you know, crazy?
What's the percentage?
joe rogan
There is no.
dr mark gordon
There is no.
joe rogan
Well, I honestly, I mean, all bullshit aside, putting myself out there not worried about what I look like, you know, because if you start talking about aliens, you do look like an idiot.
Let's just accept that.
I submit to that.
I don't think we look like regular monkeys.
I think we look different.
It's weird.
It's weird how we look different.
And I know that there's been a bunch of different stages of us along the way.
I get all that.
But man, they seem like they were pretty recent.
Those fucking things seem pretty recent.
And when they find out that people's brain size doubled over a period of two million years and there's no logical explanation, I go, oh, what?
Wait a minute.
unidentified
What?
joe rogan
How did we start talking?
How did all that happen?
Is it possible that something came down and fucked with us the same way we fuck with virtually everything that we find in the wild?
Is that possible?
We inject fucking lipstick into rabbits to see if it kills them.
dr mark gordon
Guano.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dr mark gordon
Bad shit.
joe rogan
That's what they use for lipstick?
dr mark gordon
Used to be what it was used.
I think they're still using it in some manufacturing.
joe rogan
I heard the most horrible story about batshit.
These guys in Africa, these scientists, were doing some sort of an exploration on bats.
And there was one particular cave where these bats came out at night, and they came out in massive, massive numbers.
So these guys set up a camera, and they stayed out there to catch it.
So as the bats were flying out of the cave, they would take the shots of them.
They didn't realize or think that the bats shit when they come out of the cage.
So the cave, rather.
So the bats, these millions upon millions of bats all shit on them.
And they got deathly ill and were dead within weeks.
Both men died of just horrible diseases.
Horrible, like, hemorrhagic viruses.
Their eyes were fucking bleeding.
I mean, like, really terrible ways to die.
They got introduced to all sorts of terrible pathogens from bat shit.
Bats just shitting so much on them, like, inches of shit.
So they were covered in this horrible, toxic shit from these flying monsters.
dr mark gordon
Sounds like a great premise for a movie.
joe rogan
Team people, ladies and gentlemen.
dr mark gordon
Was it?
joe rogan
I'm on team people.
Bats can go fuck themselves.
That's wrong shitting on scientists.
Meanwhile, those guys could have been saved with an umbrella.
How about that?
unidentified
You know, an umbrella and a map of the territory.
joe rogan
Why didn't they set something up in advance to, like, let's see what happens first.
Let's not be there.
Can we set a remote camera?
I mean, what if something weird happens?
Like Dracula comes out with them.
That's a terrible way to die, though, man.
Death by batshit.
dr mark gordon
Virus is even worse.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's a lot of ugly ones, huh?
dr mark gordon
Mm-hmm.
Ebola.
joe rogan
Yeah.
Did they have that one under control?
How do you get Ebola?
dr mark gordon
It was manufactured.
joe rogan
Really?
dr mark gordon
Do you think so?
I think a lot of the viruses were manufactured.
There was a documentary on the HIV. Freaked me out.
joe rogan
That's how my uncle, who's a homophobe, uses it.
unidentified
Yeah, they all got the HIV. Those fucking...
with the HIV, you know, these guys.
dr mark gordon
The HIV. There was a documentary on HIV, trying to go through the history of how it developed.
And the way the story was told was there was a French, you know, one of the largest vaccine companies is a French company, starts with an M. And they were in Zaire and at a camp trying to grow a smallpox vaccine on a culture and they couldn't do it.
So what they ended up doing, because it would die, it wouldn't sustain it.
So they ended up getting simian, which is monkey liver or monkey kidney.
And they grew the virus, the smallpox virus, on it.
And what happened was they believed that the monkey's virus crossed over from monkey to human in this vaccine.
And who was the first case that was documented?
This French guy that came to the United States was the plague, the typhoid Mary.
You know, who brought it over to the States.
joe rogan
So a French guy came over here, and so he's patient zero in the United States?
dr mark gordon
He was patient zero, supposedly.
joe rogan
How many dudes fuck that guy, like a million?
dr mark gordon
Don't know.
He was gay.
joe rogan
He wasn't gay or he was?
dr mark gordon
No, he was.
joe rogan
He was gay.
dr mark gordon
Yeah, I'm trying to find this documentary.
It was like two hours long, and it was just awesome.
joe rogan
Is it substantiated?
Like, is it disputed?
Has it been debunked?
Do you know?
That would be the first thing that I would need.
dr mark gordon
Well, what happened was the people that were doing the project, the program...
joe rogan
Do you remember what it's called?
dr mark gordon
No, it was...
It's maybe almost 10 years ago that it was on.
And it was a documentary on smallpox and the smallpox HIV. And they went to the Louis Pasteur Institute in Paris.
And there was supposedly a sample of the original culture.
That if they would go through that original culture, they would see the simian virus.
Becoming, mutating over to being human.
joe rogan
Whoa.
dr mark gordon
The simian SIV. It was simian immune virus.
And then when it's a human, human immunovirus, HIV. Wow.
Yeah.
Someone gave me a book on experiments on viral.
And in it, it talks about HIV and Ebola.
I'll give you the book if you want it.
joe rogan
So, how come that's, like, hidden knowledge?
How come people don't know about that?
dr mark gordon
It's hiding in plain sight.
It's not hidden knowledge.
joe rogan
It's hiding in plain sight, but nobody talks about it.
dr mark gordon
No one talks about it.
No one reads it.
joe rogan
Because there was that old Sam Kinison joke about AIDS coming from a monkey.
And then Dave Chappelle had an even better joke, actually.
It was, like, talking about how hard it was to fuck a monkey.
Like, how can somebody fuck a monkey?
You tell me somebody fucked a monkey?
I don't believe it.
That's such a great premise.
Just thinking about that is so true.
It makes you laugh just thinking about a guy trying to hold onto a monkey while it's biting him.
dr mark gordon
Spider monkey?
joe rogan
I don't know if I buy that.
I feel like if that was the truth, that that would be out there.
Okay, let's try to do a Google search on it and see if there's a debunking.
Since you haven't done your due diligence, sir, before you come at us with this outlandish claim.
It was the smallpox virus?
dr mark gordon
Yeah, it was in Zaire, French company, French group, and I don't know if it was Origin of AIDS. Okay, there's a smallpox virus HIV documentary.
joe rogan
Here it goes.
dr mark gordon
What year?
joe rogan
AIDS linked to smallpox vaccine.
Let's see.
I think it's called The World's Most Dangerous Virus.
Hmm.
No, that's not it.
jamie vernon
I was seeing a NOVA documentary on it, but I don't know if that's the one.
joe rogan
Yeah, it seems like there's quite a few.
It's hard to tell.
Yeah, I don't know.
dr mark gordon
Yeah, but sitting there watching it, I was just glued to it, and I usually don't watch television if I can avoid it, except for Walking Dead.
unidentified
Yeah.
dr mark gordon
Which now I'm going to stop since you said...
joe rogan
Yeah, this...
Well, I don't...
I'm just kidding.
I'll still watch it.
I'm a bitch.
I'm just upset.
They're beating me up, my brain up.
Yeah, there's an article in here from the London Times about smallpox vaccine triggered AIDS virus.
An AIDS epidemic may have been triggered by the mass vaccination campaign which eradicated smallpox.
Whoa.
The World Health Organization, which masterminded a 13-year campaign, is studying the new scientific evidence suggesting that the immunization with smallpox vaccine, V-A-C-C-I-N-I-A, vaccine-ina?
dr mark gordon
Vaccinia.
joe rogan
Vaccinia.
Vaccinia awakened the unsuspected dormant human immune deficient virus infection.
dr mark gordon
In this program, they said it was...
There's a term for it.
It crossed species.
joe rogan
So is that their positive spin on it, that it awakened the unsuspected, dormant human immunodeficiency virus?
Instead, it created it.
dr mark gordon
It created it.
Simeon virus stay—viruses in monkeys stay in monkeys.
Human viruses stay in humans.
But when it crosses the species, which is a very difficult thing to do unless it mutates— So what happened in this premise of this documentary quote that I saw was that by culturing the smallpox vaccine, smallpox in on simian monkey kidneys, that whatever they were feeding it allowed it to cross the genetics of I see.
Got it.
joe rogan
I see.
So much like swine flu and things along those lines cross from cattle and livestock and birds, they cross over to people.
unidentified
Right.
dr mark gordon
They cross over.
joe rogan
That's a real issue, isn't it?
dr mark gordon
That's why they're manipulating or people manipulating genetic code and mixing things together.
It scares me.
joe rogan
Yeah, it seems like it should.
And it seems like, I mean, I joke around about it, but when people are concerned about that, they get labeled into that category.
Oh, you're one of those guys, huh?
Listen, if it wasn't for GMO food, if it wasn't for golden rice, it'd be a billion less people on the earth.
People will always tell you that.
That golden rice is a big one.
They always bring that one up.
Whatever.
Maybe the earth could use a billion less people.
How about that?
dr mark gordon
That's why we have diseases and why we have wars.
joe rogan
Do you really think that wars are for that?
That wipe out people on purpose?
Like the Illuminati get together and they work out a deal?
dr mark gordon
I think it's not specifically only about eliminating people and population control, but I think there's, if you look at the best financing, war machinery, war is incredible.
Financing, how much money have we spent in Iraq, in Afghanistan?
joe rogan
$50.
dr mark gordon
That would be great.
joe rogan
Yeah, it's a bargain when you really find out what the actual numbers are.
That'd be like the Super Colbert character.
A guy who just makes up numbers.
You know the truth about Afghanistan and Iraq?
They spent $50.
That's it.
Everything else was donated.
Donated from churches and good people.
They wanted us to go over there and kill those fucks.
dr mark gordon
Yeah.
And let's see, all the oil fields in Iraq were given to what, Gulf and Exxon as a gift for their humanitarian service to the military there?
joe rogan
I buy that.
Yeah, so do I. It seems totally logical.
dr mark gordon
And then the $20 billion that was sitting in the bank from all the oil being sold worldwide while the war was going on, and why didn't they use that for the war?
joe rogan
Because we were busy.
dr mark gordon
Yeah.
joe rogan
We had shit to do.
unidentified
We had to protect you.
dr mark gordon
We need to print money here.
joe rogan
Fighting for freedom.
Don't worry about...
You worry about your own shit.
dr mark gordon
Yeah.
joe rogan
Worry about us.
We're taking care of you.
If it wasn't for us, you wouldn't even be getting any freedom.
dr mark gordon
Yeah.
Well, it's a great argument.
joe rogan
Yeah.
As long as you're not going around creating the AIDS virus.
dr mark gordon
Yeah.
A few good men, huh?
joe rogan
Creating the AIDS virus in your spare time.
Is it possible that other diseases you think that have been accidentally created...
unidentified
Stupidity.
joe rogan
Stupidity, is that a disease or is that just a function of being a human and being allowed to be stupid?
If you give people the option to be stupid, they often...
dr mark gordon
Be on your cell phone all the time.
joe rogan
Okay.
dr mark gordon
Play stupid games.
joe rogan
I don't do those.
dr mark gordon
Watch television.
joe rogan
I have discipline.
dr mark gordon
Yeah, dumbing down.
joe rogan
Not me, buddy.
I'm up at 6 doing kettlebells.
6 p.m.
is when I get up.
dr mark gordon
I'm at 6 a.m.
joe rogan
I do like to get up early every now and then just to say, boy, this sucks.
I don't want to do this anymore.
dr mark gordon
What time do your kids get up?
joe rogan
They get up early.
I'm just kidding.
dr mark gordon
I know you're up with it.
joe rogan
I take them to school.
When I take them to school, most of the time my wife does, but when I do take them to school, I actually run with the five-year-old.
They're just like running track, run laps and shit.
They have a whole thing they're doing to try to introduce kids to exercise at an early age and they make it fun and exciting for them.
dr mark gordon
And cut out all the crap in their diet.
joe rogan
That's a problem, man.
I see some of the things her little friends have, and little five-year-olds are eating just shit for lunch.
It's just things that they think their kid will eat, and they're worried that their kid won't eat healthy food.
Your kids will eat healthy food, man.
Train them.
Yeah, give them the healthy food and then give them, you know, a little bit of delicious treats as a reward.
You know, give them something because they did their homework.
Let them have a little every now and then.
Don't make it a big deal.
Let them have a little cake.
Let them have a little ice cream.
But you've got to make sure that they understand that in order for their body to be healthy and not get disease, it's a communication thing.
And some people don't even want to do that work.
They're like, this fucking kid's not listening.
Give them the cake.
Give them the cake.
Give them the candy.
I'm tired of them crying.
I don't care.
Give them the candy, you little fuck.
It's terrible.
dr mark gordon
It's the passive way.
joe rogan
It's just weak people.
It's also people that aren't concerned about their own diets.
I know many people who never give any consideration whatsoever to the fuel that they put inside their body.
They just don't.
They don't think about vegetables.
They don't think about phytonutrients.
They don't think about minerals.
and they don't think about being hydrated, they treat their body like it's some rental car they're just pouring shit down into.
Like, oh, will it run on premium?
Yes.
Would also run on human shit?
Yes, it will.
Well, I'm just going to back my ass up to this fucking hose and shit into my car.
You know, that's what people would do if they could.
That's how they treat their body.
You could have a guy who works all day and forces his body to do very stressful computations And he's running on coffee and cheeseburgers from McDonald's and candy and a fucking protein bar that's filled with GMO corn.
That's all possible.
And you wonder what the fuck is wrong with us as a society when we can't get our mental shit together while our bodies are rotting apart, Dr. Gordon.
dr mark gordon
You got it.
joe rogan
Rotting apart!
dr mark gordon
Where's my cronut?
joe rogan
Literally!
dr mark gordon
Where's my cronut?
joe rogan
Cronut?
dr mark gordon
Is that a cronut?
joe rogan
What's a cronut?
dr mark gordon
It's a croissant donut.
joe rogan
Oh, a cronut.
Well, you're very specific.
How would you even expect me to know that?
If you said like a chocolate croissant, I would say I've had those.
dr mark gordon
This is a cronut where they have lines waiting for the people to eat them.
joe rogan
Oh, is this some famous thing or something?
dr mark gordon
It's relatively new, isn't it?
joe rogan
People line up to buy a special type of donut?
God, we're so stupid.
People are so dumb.
dr mark gordon
You should have seen the line of black and whites lined up.
joe rogan
Black and white people?
Cars.
Oh.
Jesus Christ.
I don't know what you're saying.
You mean cops.
So the cops are lining up to get these special donuts.
That's what you're saying?
dr mark gordon
Phenomenal is what I heard.
joe rogan
Did you just tell a cop donut joke on my show?
dr mark gordon
Absolutely.
joe rogan
How dare you, doctor?
That's like me showing up in your office with voodoo.
dr mark gordon
I compensate by...
joe rogan
Look at this line!
Oh my god, where is this?
Is this New York?
dr mark gordon
That's New York.
joe rogan
They're all in line to get a donut.
I fucking hate everyone in that line.
I hate all of you.
dr mark gordon
They're what, two bucks, three bucks each?
joe rogan
You are all the problem, you fuckheads.
You are all crazy and ridiculous.
That's a mile-long line for a fucking donut.
How dare you?
It doesn't fuck with Krispy Kreme.
I don't care what anybody says.
It can't.
Krispy Kreme donuts, when they're right out of the oven, there's not a thing that can taste better than that.
It doesn't get better than that.
dr mark gordon
Where's the Krispy Kreme place?
joe rogan
Santa Monica is the closest to here.
Burbank.
There's Burbank, yeah.
dr mark gordon
Most of them closed down, I heard.
joe rogan
A lot of them did, but that's just because of communism.
dr mark gordon
Ah, that's what did it.
joe rogan
That's what it is.
Socialism.
Trying to keep the man down.
They need to expand.
They should have Krispy Kremes everywhere.
If you want to do something decadent that's horrible for your body, why are you fucking around?
You need just a couple of Krispy Kremes.
You'll feel like shit after they're down, but when they're going down, it will be goddamn glorious.
dr mark gordon
I'm going to find some cronuts and bring them to you.
joe rogan
When you eat one of those maple ones, do you know those warm maple ones?
You hear Bon Jovi singing.
unidentified
When you bite into it, Shut down!
joe rogan
In a blaze of glory!
You feel it.
You feel it in your bones.
Your toes tingle.
You know you're giving yourself cancer and you don't care.
You don't care.
It's a million milligrams of sugar.
One million.
That's what I heard.
dr mark gordon
One million.
joe rogan
Yeah, I saw a documentary.
A million...
It's exactly the amount of sugar that you can eat and not die.
That's what's in a box of Krispy Kreme.
dr mark gordon
A Cronut burger.
joe rogan
Oh, that's ridiculous.
unidentified
Oh my god.
dr mark gordon
Have you tried it?
unidentified
No, I've had bacon on mine.
Bacon.
dr mark gordon
I don't eat bacon.
joe rogan
Look at that.
So it's a croissant donut mix with a cheeseburger and they smash it all together and put powdered sugar on the top of it.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
Wow, we hate ourselves.
unidentified
Wow.
joe rogan
Fucking humans hate ourselves.
We're crazy.
dr mark gordon
That looks almost edible.
joe rogan
Do you allow yourself cheat days?
I know you're really healthy for the most part.
dr mark gordon
No, I don't have cheat days.
joe rogan
Do you have cheat meals?
dr mark gordon
I don't have cheat meals.
joe rogan
Do you have cheat desserts?
dr mark gordon
Nope.
joe rogan
Do you eat dessert?
dr mark gordon
Yep.
joe rogan
So you just eat it?
dr mark gordon
I just eat it.
It's not a cheat.
It's part of the entire...
joe rogan
Diet.
dr mark gordon
Nutrition.
joe rogan
Dessert is a part of nutrition?
dr mark gordon
Absolutely.
joe rogan
Tell me more.
dr mark gordon
Apples.
With peanut butter.
unidentified
Oh, is that what you eat?
joe rogan
Oh, you fucking weirdo.
dr mark gordon
Apples with peanut butter.
joe rogan
Listen, that is not dessert.
How dare you?
Fucking dare you.
unidentified
That's great.
joe rogan
The balls on this guy.
That is not, man.
dr mark gordon
How about yogurt with acai, dark chocolate coated acai.
Acai.
unidentified
Acai.
joe rogan
You got to speak like a Portuguese.
dr mark gordon
And also with peanuts and walnuts and pine nuts.
joe rogan
I got a better idea.
How about a hot fudge sundae, you fuck?
dr mark gordon
I love that.
joe rogan
How about a brownie?
How about a brownie with hot fudge on it?
Just really...
dr mark gordon
When I get a coupon for 31 flavors, I'm there.
joe rogan
Yeah, so you'll eat those too.
dr mark gordon
I'll eat it.
joe rogan
But for the most part, you try to reward yourself with delicious things that are actually nutritious.
dr mark gordon
Better things.
I might have a carbonated drink once a month.
joe rogan
My friend Mike Dolce, he's a nutritionist to a lot of MMA fighters, helps them with their diet and losing weight.
He doesn't believe in cheat days, but he believes in reward meals.
Like you will reward yourself.
dr mark gordon
It's a cheat meal.
It's just semantics.
joe rogan
Hey, easy.
It's a reward for your hard work.
dr mark gordon
It's semantics.
Come on.
joe rogan
Why do you got to be negative?
dr mark gordon
Because cheat is a negative and reward is a positive.
joe rogan
Exactly.
He's a glass half full kind of a guy.
dr mark gordon
I got it.
joe rogan
That's what I said.
So you can't define it for him.
You're trying to break him down.
There he is, Mike.
dr mark gordon
Where is he?
joe rogan
Oh, that's The Rock.
Oh, The Rock's cheat days are epic.
Look at the size of that guy.
dr mark gordon
What is he eating?
joe rogan
Look at the size of that guy.
Who gives a fuck what he's eating?
He is goddamn huge.
He used to be a normal-sized big athlete.
But now he's fucking...
That guy's obsessed with working out too.
If you go to his...
If you're a guy that likes to work out, subscribe to The Rock's Twitter.
And his Twitter and his Instagram are epic.
Because this guy will fly into a city at like 4 o'clock in the morning and be at the gym at 6. Taking pictures, tweeting, and going crazy.
He just believes in like constant hard work.
Doing things that are difficult.
Making yourself work out when you don't want to.
And he's very strict with his diet except one day.
And that one day he has these fucking epic cheat days where he takes photos of stacks of donuts and literally like jugs of milk, like five gallon jugs of milk and this fucking giant savage.
dr mark gordon
See, to me, that's like injecting yourself with a thousand milligrams of testosterone in one day as opposed to taking 20 milligrams every day.
joe rogan
Well, I have I think he's mentally he's probably a crazy person.
Look at the size of him.
That's what he used to look like, that's what he looks like now.
unidentified
Wow!
joe rogan
Yeah, he's giant.
I think he is a crazy person, because I think he's in the good way.
I think he's a crazy person for success.
You know, he's a crazy person for achievement.
So he's just getting crazy for pumping his body up into this ultimate super athlete machine.
dr mark gordon
Gee, I feel small.
joe rogan
You should feel small.
dr mark gordon
I am.
joe rogan
Next to him.
We're both producing estrogen.
dr mark gordon
Speak for yourself.
joe rogan
We're both producing estrogen for standing next to the rock.
I met the guy, trust me.
He's too big.
Look at the size of that guy.
I mean, that's a big fella.
Jesus Christ.
So if you're looking for inspiration, follow him on Instagram.
For the average guy, What should the average person do if they want to find out what's going on with their hormones, where their hormone levels are?
What's the steps that they should take to find out?
dr mark gordon
Well, we have an automated system to make it easier.
If they have a traumatic brain injury or have had a traumatic brain injury, And I'll just interject this.
If they're with the military or with the police department or with NFL retiree, I have three grants to pay for their $2,100, $2,200 laboratory testing.
It'll be paid for by a grant.
So they go to the website and they fill out an application and within 12 to 24 hours, someone in our office calls to just confirm a couple of things and send them out about 20 pages worth of intake.
joe rogan
And in your experience, a lot of the people that are experiencing real bad results from traumatic brain injury, oftentimes it's hormonally related.
dr mark gordon
Correct.
Well, you know, I take care of what's called mild to moderate.
These are people who might not have lost consciousness in the mild.
Some of them might have a little amnesia that lasts for less than 12, 24 hours.
joe rogan
Is it shocking for you how easy it is to damage the brain?
dr mark gordon
Unbelievable.
One case that just finished, a gentleman was rear-ended at 5 to 7 miles an hour.
And ended up getting traumatic brain injury.
joe rogan
God, that's so crazy.
dr mark gordon
The brain sits, you know, in an envelope with fluid supporting it.
But there's the front part of the inside of the brain and the backside at the front part called the suenoid plateau.
It's a sharp area that...
All you have to do is stop short.
You just have to shake your head, shaking baby, working on a pneumatic drill or a pneumatic hammer or skiing moguls where you're up and down or doing water skiing where you're hitting the waves and you're bouncing up and down.
That's how simple it is and we've taken it for granted that the brain is Impervious to damage.
joe rogan
So water skiing can give you brain damage.
dr mark gordon
Correct.
It's repetitive.
It's a form of repetitive.
Think of it this way.
You're standing there in the ring, and someone's just tapping you, you know, a little bit.
joe rogan
Not me, bro.
I move left and right.
I'm slick.
I'm like Pernell Whitaker.
dr mark gordon
You're rope-a-dope.
So, anyway, if you were getting hit lightly, the damage accumulates over time.
joe rogan
That totally makes sense.
There was a...
There's been quite a few, actually, guys who realized after a while that they couldn't take punishment anymore.
That their brain just was simply not allowing them to take those shots.
They'd get hit, and their body would just give out.
When you see that, is that just like hurting a knee or hurting your back?
You're more likely to hurt it again?
If you hurt your knee and you tear your meniscus, there's a high probability of you injuring that knee again.
That knee has now been weakened.
dr mark gordon
Correct.
joe rogan
Is that how the brain is as well?
dr mark gordon
Well, it's...
The brain is just awesome.
There's connections from, you know, the different lobes of the brain, from the left to right, the front to the back.
And there are connections that can be torn, called shearing.
And if you tear enough of them, what happens is you lose cognitive ability, mental ability.
Your personality changes.
And over a period of time, you might have this slow progression towards depression or slow progression towards memory loss or fatigue.
So...
It happens over a long period of time.
There's a 30-year prospective study, which means they had people who had head trauma, and they followed them for 30 years.
joe rogan
That's creepy.
dr mark gordon
Stop following me, man.
joe rogan
25 fucking years.
dr mark gordon
I am your shadow.
joe rogan
You still following me, man?
dr mark gordon
So they found something like 48% of the people had a psychological problem.
28% of them had depression and 8% paranoia.
Drug abuse is a very large thing that happens.
And I'm starting to look at kids who are addicted to drugs, whether or not it's methamphetamine, heroin.
Oxycontin, narcotics, or whatever, that they have a history of having had head trauma.
And they've just been looking for medication drugs to help them feel better.
They're looking for their own cure.
You know, if you look back in the ADD, beginning of attention deficit disorder, you had kids looking for, they felt hyper, so they would take downers.
Well, what happens is called paradoxical.
If they take a downer, they get sped up.
They take an upper, they get sped down.
That's what Ritalin is.
That's what methamphetamine or the Adderall is.
joe rogan
Yeah, Adderall they prescribe for people who are too hyper.
dr mark gordon
Correct.
It doesn't make sense, but it's called paradoxical.
It does the opposite effect of what it should.
And it's only in certain people, like people with attention deficit disorder or AHDH, hyperactivity.
And...
You know, they're looking for drugs, alcohol.
A guy that came from Boston, I'll tell you a Boston story, J.R. came from Boston, a rugby player, five head traumas, three loss of consciousness, and one hospitalization.
unidentified
Pussy.
dr mark gordon
Yeah, really.
And between the ages of 23 and 35, he became an alcoholic.
At 35, he crashed and burned.
And he was institutionalized.
And he was put on three antidepressants.
And he flew out from Boston.
We did our testing.
And even though he was on three antidepressants, he was still depressed.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
dr mark gordon
Still depressed.
And this is one of the hallmarks of traumatic brain injury.
It's called treatment-resistant depression.
We're finding that people who are put onto one medication and it doesn't work or two doesn't work or get shifted around because they stop working, you need to look at the hormones.
You need to look at hormones.
And we put him on 60 milligrams of testosterone because his level of testosterone was extremely low.
60 milligrams of testosterone a week.
Six months later, his psychiatrist, he had to get a new psychiatrist, took him off his drugs.
He's back in Boston.
He's in investment banking.
joe rogan
Now, when a guy has an issue, if there's something, or a gal, or anybody...
If you call a girl a gal, you're kind of creepy, right?
dr mark gordon
What do you want to call a girl?
joe rogan
A woman?
Weird.
That's a woman you definitely don't want to fuck.
dr mark gordon
Female.
unidentified
Gal.
joe rogan
She's a great old gal.
Better call her a guy.
If someone has had enough of an impact on their brain that they have to seek exogenous hormones to fix whatever problem they have, what would you do if that person was still engaging in the very activities that caused them to have this issue with their body?
dr mark gordon
Absolutely.
joe rogan
You pull them.
So in MMA, when you see these people getting testosterone, what do you think about that?
dr mark gordon
Well, hopefully the doctor has done the relationship of his activity, MMA, and he's done the workup, which includes laboratory testing as well as the radiological evaluation to see what the damage is.
And if you see areas that are very classical for damage, scarring, axonal scarring, brain scarring, old bloods, I've got a case right now from the entertainment world where it's a stuntman who's been through a lot of traumas.
His last trauma, beginning of last year, Left him depressed.
He was in a coma.
Left him depressed and so forth.
And within five weeks, he's better.
And the question became, he's good enough to go back to work, but you don't want him to go back to work.
joe rogan
Right.
Because if he gets banged around again...
dr mark gordon
You lose everything you've gained.
joe rogan
Oh boy.
dr mark gordon
So this is why people don't want to talk about it.
You've got some great football players who've been dinged.
You don't want to go do that test that says, I'm sorry, but you can no longer play football.
You're 25 years of age and you've got scars in the brain, which mean you're at high risk for developing the CTE. Do you remember when that football player died because he fell out of the back of his truck?
joe rogan
His girlfriend was driving away in his truck.
They did a brain scan on him after he died, and they did his autopsy, and they found out he had the brain of an Alzheimer's patient.
dr mark gordon
That's right, CTE. And here's another thing.
joe rogan
And he was young, right?
dr mark gordon
He was young.
In...
I didn't bring my presentation.
I do.
joe rogan
What the fuck?
dr mark gordon
Sorry.
joe rogan
Come on, man.
dr mark gordon
I didn't know you had PPT available.
joe rogan
Why don't you be professional?
I have lava lamps here and rock salt.
dr mark gordon
I see that.
joe rogan
Lights.
dr mark gordon
Nice color.
joe rogan
And everything.
I figured you would be prepared.
dr mark gordon
So what they found is with head trauma, you'll develop Alzheimer's disease 19 times faster than if you don't have head trauma.
joe rogan
Jesus Christ.
dr mark gordon
19 times.
And I was in Vegas giving a lecture on traumatic brain injury, and there was a doc talking specifically about head trauma and Alzheimer's.
And his documentation was irrefutably supportive of the relationship, and they know it.
So they don't want to tell someone, look, keep playing football.
Likelihood is you'll retire and you'll develop Alzheimer's and die at 54. How old was Andre Waters?
joe rogan
I don't know.
Young guys, though.
dr mark gordon
He was young.
All the guys that have died.
Who was the last one in San Diego who died at 24 years of age?
joe rogan
I don't know.
dr mark gordon
Depressing.
joe rogan
So, in your opinion, as an expert on the subject, when a guy gets to a point where he needs testosterone because of this, they really shouldn't be engaging in whatever caused them to lose their ability to produce testosterone.
dr mark gordon
That would be a late case scenario.
joe rogan
So someone getting a testosterone use exemption for mixed martial arts, in your opinion, would be a bad idea?
dr mark gordon
Correct.
Especially if it was due to positive findings of damage by DT MRI or functional MRI or MRI. That's the thing about when someone has a testosterone use exemption, they don't have to specify the cause of testosterone being low.
joe rogan
They just find that it is and then supplement it.
How could they find what it is?
I mean, what are the various reasons why people, besides aging, why people don't have good testosterone?
dr mark gordon
Female?
No, females have high levels.
You know, having had testicular trauma, cooking your testicles...
joe rogan
I cook them.
dr mark gordon
Talk about greater than 105 degrees.
joe rogan
Saute with a little oil, a little basil.
dr mark gordon
Yeah, put the onions in it.
So...
Head trauma, it's the regulatory mechanism in the brain, and then you have peripheral, which is the testicle itself.
Any kind of damage, infections, mumps.
You're talking about mumps.
Mumps can cause the testicles to stop working.
Okay?
So just a viral infection, you can get loss of testicular function.
But in someone who is MMA, I would have to really think long and hard about, hmm, he has testosterone deficiency, he's been in MMA for six years, and he's had, you know, five documented loss of consciousness.
He's beaten over the head.
joe rogan
Who knows how many times in training?
dr mark gordon
Correct.
joe rogan
Yeah.
unidentified
Wow.
dr mark gordon
I have a guy that was in training and got KO'd.
joe rogan
Yeah, that happens all the time, and then guys wind up fighting just a couple of weeks later, and they can't take a punch.
We've seen it many times.
Marvin Eastman, Travis Luter is a famous fight where Travis Luter knocked out Marvin Eastman with a punch that looked like it barely connected, and it turned out that we had heard that Marvin Eastman had been in training camp and had gotten hurt in training camp, gotten knocked out maybe twice, at least once.
He's a great fighter, too, a really tough guy, so it didn't make any sense that he couldn't take a punch like that.
It was one of those weird cases.
dr mark gordon
What we're starting to see on the internet, which might be a backdoor type of self-analysis, are these cognitive testing programs.
There's one called IMPACT, which is out of Pennsylvania with the doctor who is the neurosurgeon for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
joe rogan
Watch this.
Travis Luter hits him with his punch.
It's crazy.
And he goes down like he got shot by a sniper.
It's really crazy.
unidentified
Watch this.
joe rogan
I mean, he kind of connected, but...
dr mark gordon
He's totally out?
joe rogan
Totally out.
Like, watch the punch again.
I mean, a pretty good shot, but man, it seemed like he was on the very end of it.
It just didn't seem like it should have that kind of impact.
I mean, Travis does hit really hard.
Very strong guy.
But then when you found out that he...
I mean, he definitely really got hurt by that punch, but going out like that seems unusual.
And I think it was because...
See, it like grazes him.
They said Marvin had gotten KO'd in training.
That happened also to Forrest Griffin.
Before he fought Anderson Silva, he apparently had gotten KO'd in training.
I think he said twice, too.
I'm pretty sure.
dr mark gordon
And they're additive.
joe rogan
Cumulative, right?
dr mark gordon
They're cumulative, additive, cumulative, and it just gets easier.
joe rogan
I hate to have to correct you in front of all these people, but sometimes you just fuck up, dude.
You think you're so smart.
dr mark gordon
Only you're the one who thinks I'm so smart.
Why do you think I spend five days a week reading?
Because I know so little.
joe rogan
Yeah, well, that's very, very humble of you.
You're also a martial artist.
So this is something that's not, like, alien to you.
You've practiced martial arts for a long time.
dr mark gordon
Yeah, I did Taekwondo, secondary black belt on the cover of Martial Arts Magazine.
joe rogan
Cover of a magazine, son.
Throwing sidekicks on bitches.
dr mark gordon
With my master, Byung-Yu's foot in my mouth.
joe rogan
Oh, did it taste good?
dr mark gordon
No, it didn't.
joe rogan
Yeah, I would imagine.
I was waiting for you to answer.
You answered correct.
If people want to know more about this, if they're fascinated by it, if they think perhaps they might have an issue themselves, what is the website?
dr mark gordon
The website is tbimedlegal.com.
joe rogan
That's very hard to remember.
Yeah.
dr mark gordon
tbimedlegal.com.
And it has about 100 articles that are abstracted, very short.
joe rogan
Oh, you put a link up for people that are listening to this podcast.
dr mark gordon
Right.
joe rogan
You crafty bastard.
You're so professional.
You make me sad.
dr mark gordon
I do?
joe rogan
Yeah, because I'm not that professional.
dr mark gordon
Go ahead and click it.
joe rogan
What happens when you click it?
dr mark gordon
It explodes.
joe rogan
Oh, thank you, Joe Rogan.
But that's not...
Did you sign up for this under my name or something?
unidentified
No, no, I just clicked it.
joe rogan
Oh, it just says that.
unidentified
There's a little office for people to read that.
dr mark gordon
Yeah, it's information which goes through it.
joe rogan
Oh, I see, I see, I see.
So if people are curious about their own issue...
dr mark gordon
Already 30 people have already clicked it.
joe rogan
Wait now.
It's going to get crazy.
This is just...
Ustream has probably...
I don't know what percentage of the actual...
unidentified
Very small.
joe rogan
Very small percentage.
Most people tend to listen to this while they're doing other things.
Like they listen to it on the subway or in the gym, on the bike or whatever.
The amount of people that actually watch us.
But the people that actually watch us are the most critical, crazed nerds.
In a good way.
In a good way.
Give me a hug, you fuck.
dr mark gordon
Before I leave.
joe rogan
TBI Medical.
dr mark gordon
Med Legal.
joe rogan
TBI Med Legal.
And they could find out all about it.
And is there anything else you want to promote or let people know about?
dr mark gordon
No, I'm not.
The only thing I really want to promote is the knowledge that there's this incredible association between head trauma, hormone deficiency, and change in personality.
And when you correct the underlying deficiency, you see people blossom.
You know, to end, I'll say that we have 30% Two-year post-traumatic brain injury gal, 32 years.
She cracked her carotid in an auto accident and partial stroke on the right side.
32 years, she's lived with incapacitation or suboptimal life on a multitude of drugs.
12 weeks after starting her program, she's off of everything.
joe rogan
Whoa.
dr mark gordon
And she started losing weight.
She's 53 years of age.
She started losing weight.
She's swimming again.
I was a swimmer in medical school and in undergrad.
And so she started back swimming and she's back in school.
Her life is just energized.
She feels phenomenal.
And they write their story to me and it'll be eventually posted on the website.
We have, you know, About 571, 271 patients with testosterone, then total about 500 plus people.
I've been doing this 10 years, just specifically traumatic brain, but overall 18 years with hormonal replacement, not knowing for those first years that there were so many people with traumatic, eight years, first eight years that there were so many people with traumatic deficiency.
joe rogan
The brain is very delicate, people.
Choose wisely, be safe, be careful, and get your dome checked out.
Right, Doc?
dr mark gordon
Absolutely.
joe rogan
Get your dome checked out, folks.
Thank you, everybody.
Thanks for tuning in.
And the website, one more time, is tbimedlegal.com.
Go, learn, enjoy.
Thank you.
dr mark gordon
Thank you very much.
joe rogan
Appreciate it, brother.
Always good.
Always cool to see you.
I knew you would be good at this.
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I got a lot of stuff coming up, folks.
Next week, I have Dr. Rick Strassman.
He's going to be here on Monday.
And then Dan Doty and Remy Warren.
Remy Warren is a guy who goes solo hunting and documents them on a show called Solo Hunters.
This motherfucker...
Is out in Africa hunting with a bow and arrow by himself and some cameras.
It's amazing stuff.
Brian Dunning's favorite and famous, both.
Skeptic comes in on Tuesday the 14th.
And then on the 17th, my brother Steve Rinella is going to be here again.
And we're going to discuss all kinds of groovy shit.
Alright, we love the fuck out of you people.
And we appreciate the fuck out of you people.
So appreciate yourself too.
And give yourself a big hug for me.
See you Monday.
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