Dr. Mark Gordon and Andrew Marr critique mainstream mental health treatments, exposing how inflammation—linked to TBI, autoimmune disorders, and even mRNA vaccines—drives depression, PTSD, and cognitive decline, with 50 million Americans affected by untreated depression and rising suicide rates. Gordon’s TriPak protocol (16 anti-inflammatory components) achieved 78% improvement in veterans (2019) and 42% in active military, yet faces resistance from UK psychiatrists and FDA crackdowns on peptides like BPC-157, despite proven efficacy. Marr’s personal recovery from severe TBI-induced disabilities underscores the need for lab-guided hormone optimization (e.g., DHEA, pregnenolone) over subjective therapy, while Gordon warns vaccines may exacerbate inflammation in vulnerable populations. Their grassroots Warrior Angels Foundation aims to bypass institutional barriers by offering accessible protocols, but funding gaps (e.g., $1.5M for homeless/incarcerated programs) persist, highlighting systemic neglect of biological solutions. [Automatically generated summary]
Becky snuck up while I was sleeping, put the clippers right under my nose because I'm a light sleeper, and then turn it on, clip my mustache just like that.
Yeah, they had five people in the house or something like that, and people ratted them out.
As soon as you make something a law, and then you send cops out to enforce that, and the cops think they're justified, and you get a few dumb cops, and then they do something like this, it just lets everybody know, like, oh, this is why it's dangerous to have too many restrictions.
Because then you have people that have to enforce those restrictions.
The sheriff and the head of police in California or in Los Angeles came out and said they wouldn't uphold the restrictions that Newsom was putting in, I think in San Francisco also, because it would take them away from their ability to do the real work, protecting the citizens, not arresting them.
You know, what happened in Staten Island is just mind-boggling with that restaurateur was arrested and given a $10,000 a day fine for having his restaurant open.
He was social distancing.
He had the shields and protection.
Everyone was wearing a mask.
But because they had locked down Staten Island so tightly, you know, they're devastating all the businesses there.
It just seems to me that the amount of money that it would have cost to open up new ICU rooms and figure out a way to staff them would have been far less than the amount of money that it's costing all these people to lose their businesses, all these people to stop working.
It just seems rational.
The amount of money, you could have figured out a way to tax people and say, We're going to let everybody open up, but we need a temporary tax on sales of whatever that'll just go to help this.
And people probably would have said, okay, it'll just keep...
And give people the opportunity.
You have your options.
You have your rights.
You can choose to go to work, choose to go to these restaurants, choose to go to these bars, and we'll figure out some way to open up more...
At least they have outdoor dining, which is hilarious.
New York has it, and it's fucking freezing and snowing.
L.A. doesn't have it.
And then the woman who votes...
It's one woman who decides to shut everything down...
Goes to dinner outside the day she does it and lied and said the reason why she was doing it is because her favorite restaurant and she wanted to say she was sorry to the staff and apologized for what they had to do.
Didn't talk to anybody there.
Full on lie.
The people who work there going, she didn't talk to us.
It's not good, but, you know, someone pointed out that the CDC website has finally got information on it about vitamin D and some other things.
They just put it on there, just in December.
We're just like, Jesus, guys, nine months into a fucking pandemic, and you just started putting things on about vitamins and the importance of nutrition?
And that's one of the issues that they're really missing is nutritional.
I think I was sharing with you earlier about in India, which has four times the amount of population as the United States, they've only recorded 167, I have a slide up there, 167,000 people.
And it's because in their nutrition, they have things that carry the protective zinc into the cell, which are called inophores, which is hydrochloroquine is one of them, Quercetin, EGCG, which is the green extract from green tea extract.
Quercetin, as I said, and bismuth.
We need to have a carrier to bring charged particles into our cells like zinc, magnesium, and so forth.
So zinc, Dr. Saluth out of Johns Hopkins did a beautiful dissertation where he showed that when zinc is inside the cell and you get the COVID virus, Genome being injected.
There's a protein which is replicase.
Well, zinc inhibits the replicase's ability to take over our cell's mechanism for generating more viral genome particles.
So zinc is what stops it.
I mean, for the past 25 years in our practice, we use zinc as a means of slowing down the conversion of testosterone to estradiol.
Well, it turns out that that has protected our patient population.
With our population being what it is, we've only had one person get COVID out of the entire group, and that's because they've all been on quercetin, which is a means of increasing energy production.
And I'll tell you honestly, I didn't know that it was an inophore until just a year ago, but it carried the zinc that they were taking.
The reason they were taking quercetin is because it upregulates ATP, the energy molecule of the body.
You know, the way that we lose our cognitive ability is by inflammation.
And that's the whole premise of what, you know, Andrew and I are doing relative to treating our veterans as well as civilians, is quercetin as well as zinc itself has the ability to drop inflammation in the brain.
You drop inflammation and you get improvement in cognitive ability.
The use of vitamin K, the story behind it is, if you take vitamin D, the main function that we've thought about vitamin D, though right now it's this unbelievable hormone.
As you know, vitamin D is not really a vitamin, it's a hormone that comes off of cholesterol.
So if we do anything to diminish our cholesterol levels in our body, we lose not only All the hormones that are generated off of cholesterol, but we lose vitamin D. Does that happen when people take statins?
Well, the regulatory system, the hypothalamus, is like a sensor.
And it says, okay, what's in the blood right now?
It says low level of testosterone sends a signal to the pituitary, the master gland, to release LH or luteinizing hormone that goes to the gonads, whether or not it's male or female, to generate more testosterone.
And then that level of testosterone, the rise of testosterone in the blood, goes back to the hypothalamus, and the hypothalamus says, oh, we've got enough testosterone, let's shut down the stimulation of the pituitary, drop the stimulation of the testicles.
So any kind of trauma, like we've had guys who had IED blow up underneath their vehicle, and the blast wave was enough to destroy the testicles, so they could not, even under appropriate stimulation, generate testosterone.
So that's called primary hypogonadism, where it damages the testicles.
And they're high levels of luteinizing hormone because it's trying to get the testicles or the gonads to make hormones.
And it doesn't.
Those are the ones that you need to give injectable testosterone to or topical or pellets or whatever they agree to.
That you eat a good amount of vegetables, fruits, legumes included in it, but what's happened is our soils are being depleted of all the nutrients that you need, so you need to supplement.
So, staying away from glutens, all the artificial glutens, inflammatory diets...
If you're looking at viral protection, because there's a study that was done where it showed if you were at the less than 30, less than 30 nanograms is the deficiency state.
You looked at the occurrence of COVID and the death or the illness that's generated or that occurs It's like 85% of the people who have low, less than 30, have it.
And as you move up the scale to the higher level, greater than 60, you see 90% of the people have nothing.
They have no symptomatology for it because what it does is it protects the body, stimulates the immune system and protects the body from the inflammatory cytokines, which is the inflammatory chemistry that COVID turns our cells, our immune system to produce.
And it's these cytokines that get into the brain that are now causing all the psychiatric problems we're seeing in New York.
Well, they had that before that.
But psychiatric problems relative to post-COVID recovery.
So people are developing depression, cognitive impairment, intonation, no energy, and it's all because these cytokines.
Once you turn on the cytokines, like we see in our blast trauma veterans, it'll cause these inflammatory chemicals to start leaching or eating away at pathways in the brain, alters the chemistry of the brain.
See, that's so confusing to people because a lot of times you hear about cytokines, you hear about like cryotherapy and things along those lines, and you hear cytokines used in a positive way.
Same thing that we use steroids for autoimmune diseases before we had these selective medications that selectively diminish Certain of the cytokines like tumor necrosis factor alpha, there's a product called Embril that specifically suppresses it.
And we use it for people with psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and Crohn's disease.
And it's interesting that the people with autoimmune diseases who are producing these cytokines that create the physical manifestations, they all have depression.
And when you treat them for the inflammation, the depression subsides.
For someone who's like a CrossFitter or someone who does something crazy, high-intensity, burns a lot of calories, do you think then they could handle shit like pasta easier?
I wonder if, I mean, and this is not talking about people that have had traumatic brain injury, but I wonder if people that are suffering from depression, have they ever done a study on changing their diet and eliminating inflammatory foods like sugars and pasta and processed carbohydrates and see what kind of an impact that has on before they give them SSRIs?
I don't know if before SSRIs, I'd like to say yes, but there have been studies, and you go to Google Scholar and look it up, but they have looked at the different diets and how it affects their emotional state.
So depression, anxiety, ADD or ADHD, that we find that high inflammatory nutrition makes it worse.
High inflammatory or gut inflammation from dysbiosis, not having the right bacteria, having been on antibiotics or certain medication that disrupts the balance of bacteria in the gut, which alters the way that we absorb our food.
And it also generates inflammation, creates depression.
Well, what we started off just for daily use because the benefit of quercetin is it drops the inflammatory cytokines.
It increases mitochondria, so you produce more cells, so you produce more energy, ATP. That was what we were using for, and it was 500 milligrams twice a day.
And zinc was 15 to 30 milligrams twice a day.
And in the past 20 years, I've been sick 13 days.
And what I started seeing in our population, because we do a monthly questionnaire to our patient population, and we have two questions about allergies and about infections or colds.
And we started seeing years ago that the number of colds people were having were dropping and their allergies were improving.
And honestly, I didn't understand why until COVID and I started looking at how the immune system is influenced by things like zinc and certain of testosterone.
Testosterone stimulates the CD4, CD8 cells, which are the immune cells that help to defend us against infections, viral, bacterial, innate immunity.
As well as it increases something called intralukin-10, which is an anti-inflammatory product, and it drops the inflammatory intralukins.
These are the cytokines produced by our immune system to help fight off infections by sending out an attack against them, which is a biochemical attack, other than just antibodies.
Treatment, and we've had to treat patients outside of our practice, is a thousand milligrams twice a day with a thousand milligrams twice a day of quercetin and 30 milligrams twice a day of zinc.
And this is for someone that has COVID? That's someone who's active.
Yeah, there are negative aspects to high levels of vitamin D, but not due to vitamin D, due to what it does.
What vitamin D does, as I said earlier, is it brings calcium in from your nutrition and takes phosphorus in so it can build bone.
Calcium, if it's too high, hyperkalemia will cause the nausea, vomiting, and can cause the irregularity of the heart.
So if you're taking high dosing of calcium for whatever reason, and you take high dosing of vitamin D, you would be at risk for developing nausea, vomiting, and toxicity.
A study that was done, which is also on the paper I gave you, they did 113,000 hospitalized people And they looked at their vitamin D level.
They all had been taking vitamin D. They only found, I think it was four people who had toxicity from elevated levels of vitamin D. And it turned out it was the liquid form of vitamin D that created the problem.
So from that standpoint, vitamin D is very safe.
And I'm talking up numbers that are 60 to 100. I try to keep my range at 80 to 100 because of studies that are shown.
You know, I get ridiculed by my colleagues because I'm giving everybody a baseline of 10,000 units.
And they say, oh, that's toxic.
You go and do the blood test and you see giving them 10,000, they get a, you know, still suboptimal level of vitamin D. It's because they're not absorbing it.
So I can't assume that 10,000 is going to give them toxic levels, you know, calcium absorption.
So I start at 5,000 to 10,000.
10,000 seems to be the amount.
And then their calcium they get.
They have a prescribed product which has calcium and vitamin D in a balanced combination already.
And then the level of absorption, which will indicate in their blood, will indicate what levels are shown in the blood, is directly related to their diet as well?
Look, why did we develop this whole system of vitamin D? The vitamin D receptor stimulates hair growth to cover our body with hair to avoid the ionizing radiation that our ancestors Neolithic ancestors used to have.
They were getting cancer.
They were getting exposed to high levels because the air was clear.
There was no smog back then.
So they were getting full strength of the radiation from the sun and they were dying.
And the only way they got the air clear there was shutting down all the manufacturing that's in one of the inner circles.
See, Beijing grew so rapidly that they have 10 rings around it.
And I think in the fourth or fifth ring is where they have all the manufacturing.
So when the financial summit happened, they shut them all down, air was clear.
Absolutely clear.
And the silliest thing, I was there for New Year's one year in February, and they shot off $45 million worth of rockets and fireworks and firecrackers and all that added pollution.
If someone doesn't have a good place to go, they don't have a good doctor to go, how do they find a doctor that could read their vitamin levels on their blood work?
What do you look for?
If someone's listening to this, I should get my blood work done.
And in functional medicine, they're looking at your amino acids, they're looking at your vitamin levels, they're looking at your mineral levels, which need to be done.
We're not getting our minerals anymore because we're getting bottled water.
I mean, this is all we're talking about like during this COVID pandemic where everybody's really concerned about their immune system and protecting themselves from...
DHEA, you know, studies that came out of Massachusetts, male aging study, showed that DHEA is extremely important for protecting the heart.
When they looked at, you know, quartiles, the lowest 25% of the range versus the highest, you saw a significant loss of heart attack deaths and a significant decrease in hospitalizations due to heart attack, and that's DHEA. It also stimulates the immune system, so it upregulates the ability of our system to defend itself.
So it's a higher quality of defense.
And another issue with vitamin D I mean with DHEA is DHEA is important for allowing DHT, dihydrotestosterone, into the cell.
And why is that important?
DHT is a byproduct of testosterone because it's the combination of DHEA getting DHT, dihydrotestosterone, in the cell that allows for sugar to be brought into the myocytes, into the muscle cells.
So there are articles out there talking about if you want to get the optimal benefit for muscle growth, You need to make sure your DHEA levels are optimal to get the DHT to increase glycogen in the muscle cells.
The Post Finasteride Foundation, or Post Finasteride Syndrome Foundation, we're in the top of providers of care, because the The problem that happens from finasteride is that it inhibits two very important pathways in the brain.
One that gives you the ability to grow muscles, the other one which is emotional.
So traditionally, the approach for treating the side effects has been just improving DHT. The Propecia, what's the other name?
You take testosterone or you take DHEA, which will generate testosterone to generate DHT. So DHT in our brain is what gives us our energy, our libido, our activity level, our cognition to some degree.
And then another pathway, which has totally been ignored, is the one where the 5-alpha reductase, which is the enzyme that the propecia of finasteride kills, is important for generating something called allopregnanolone from pregnenolone.
Allopregnanolone just came out as a drug last year, or excuse me, two years ago, For $34,000 a year called brixanilone is the chemical name for it.
And brixanilone is being used for anti-depression, anti-anxiety, and postpartum depression, which tells us how important pregnenolone is to become progesterone, to become this thing called allopregnanolone in giving you mental stability.
So what happens is inflammation that we see in our head trauma cases, it disrupts that pregnenolone, which is also called the mother of all hormones, because it gives rise to all our hormones.
And how much DHEA? DHEA, we start at 25, and we take DHEA at nighttime, not in the morning, like a lot are saying.
The reason for taking it at night, it has a side effect of upregulating growth hormone production by up to 15%.
So if you take it based upon...
The biological clock in the body, you can get benefits in other areas, not just DHEA. But DHEA also helps stabilize glucose and insulin interaction, stimulates the immune system, wound healing, and drops inflammation.
There are a lot of products out there that are used for when you get sick.
You know, as a means of, it helps stimulate the immune system.
It also, I believe that because it's acidic, alkaline acidic, when it gets into the system, it helps to kill the virus, okay, by changing the pH, but you have to take a large quantity of it.
You know, they have for cancer therapy, 20,000, 50,000 units of vitamin C. And it's usually IV, right?
And it's IV, correct.
You can't absorb more than about 10,000 units from the gut, not unless it's nanoliposomal, because the vitamin C is actively transported, meaning that it has a mechanism to transport it into the system.
Well, this is how, you know, I met Andrew, you brought him in here, and we got a chance to discuss this incredible work that you guys are doing with veterans, and really giving people hope that have been suffering from TBIs, these traumatic brain injuries, and when there's no real clear treatment, you guys really found a great path.
So anyway, long story short, he and his brother write this book, A Tale from the Blast Factory, and the editor hands it to a girlfriend of hers, Jerry Shearer, this incredible producer, director, writer, screenwriter.
And develops this project, which is called Quiet Explosions.
And it looks across the spectrum of not only military, but Professional football players, gymnasts, and regular folks.
And the impact of the science that we've been able to extract from the science that already exists and its application and proving that addressing these inflammatory cytokines and the loss of hormone production in the brain was capable of improving their quality of life.
So we started looking at things that I'd used in the past.
Mostly guys would come to me for rekindling their hormone production because they were on an incredible amount of steroidal hormones that shut their system down.
So they came to me to get their system back up and running.
And someone that I had worked with- In my inception of treating them, which I was totally against use of anabolic steroids, because if you ate well, exercised, and you should be able to make your own hormones, and I learned different, certain people that just didn't.
So we started using beta-HCG, using things like Clomid to try and turn their system back on.
So I was exposed to it.
And then 2014, we started a project trying to find the lowest possible dose of Clomifin citrate that would stimulate their own production of luteinizing hormone to stimulate their testicular functioning of testosterone.
And we found a pattern that seemed to work best.
And the beauty of it was, it wasn't a daily tablet.
If you look at the studies in women who were on daily tablets, they had, you know, complaints of mood swings and bloating and some ocular kind of problems.
But that was daily dosing of between 50 to 200 milligrams of Clomid.
We used 25, 50 milligrams every 72 hours.
That's what we were able to define, that that was the dosing that worked very well to get optimal levels of testosterone.
Well, what happens is you're constantly driving the pituitary.
To make luteinizing hormone, which could put you at risk for developing enlargement of the cells, which we haven't seen yet, because we space it every 72 hours.
Well, it took three years to come up with this pattern, and we have tons of laboratory results to show the benefit By pulsing it, we did every day for five days a week.
We did every other day.
We did Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
And then we came to this every third day, 72 hours between it.
What we believe, what I believe and how I practice is if they're on anabolic steroids and you give them Clomid concurrently, not at the end, you give it concurrently, what it does is it keeps the tone of the circuit between the hypothalamus pituitary and the gonads still working.
When you give testosterone alone, what happens is you shut off the brain's sensing, and you shut down the pituitary, and you shut down the testicles, because the testicles, the cells called latig cells, they need to be stimulated, otherwise they scar or atrophy.
So if you've been on injectable testosterone for long periods of time without taking a break or giving your system something to stimulate the production, what will happen is they'll be gone and you can't recover it.
And I've seen, you know, I've had some guys in the past that there was nothing we can do to recover their testicular functioning, the cells, because they burnt out.
But also topical testosterone, that's because dihydrotestosterone, I said it was four times more anabolic than testosterone, is three times stronger at shutting down your regulatory mechanism in the brain.
So that's why I haven't used topical testosterone for 10, 15 years, 10, 12 years, because it's so damaging.
Isn't it also a problem like if you have a partner and you start getting frisky, you might get it on them and then your significant other grows one of them porn stasters?
It's because they too will have the secondary effects of testosterone.
Our skin has the converting enzyme that converts it to dihydrotestosterone.
And that's the reason why women who used to be given topical testosterone to put on their wrist would accidentally smear it onto their arms and they'd get darkening of their skin.
So if they're light skin, light lanugo hair, it would get dark and they'd get a patch.
Also, DHT can cause them to grow hair behind their knuckles on their hands.
I have over 8,000 studies in my collection on Mendeley, where I keep all the articles.
And, you know, I go through 10-15 articles a week right now, and every Sunday I send out to our journal club one of the key articles that he reads every Sunday, right?
1,600 that I documented, but there were a lot of articles that I read, just the abstract and the introduction and conclusion and not the gobbledygook in the middle that were added.
But as I said, all the science that we're using has already been written about, has already been documented repetitively.
So there were waypoints in my...
Maturation to the point that I'm at right now.
In the beginning, it was hormone, hormone, hormone.
But it turned out that inflammation is the real key, is the real problem.
The hormones are shut off by the inflammation.
So in the past, we were only giving hormones.
And yes, we did find that things like estradiol, pregnenolone, DHEA, and DHT dropped inflammation.
So it wasn't right out there obvious that that's what we were doing until...
Andrew and I got together, and that was a point where natural transition, looking further into this issue of inflammation.
The ones that we did a study last year on was tumor necrosis factor alpha, Interleukin-1, 1B, and tumor necrosis factor, excuse me, interleukin-6.
These are the four key ones.
And we've now narrowed it down to interleukin-6 and tumor necrosis factor alpha.
And the reason why is that tumor necrosis factor alpha is linked to autoimmune diseases, as I said earlier, and people who are put on to a blocker for tumor necrosis factor alpha, an expensive medication, their depression disappeared.
Well, what we found is natural products which will regulate cytokines and regulate these intralukin-1, 6, and tumor necrosis factor alpha.
And that has become the core of our treatment right now.
We do laboratory testing.
We look at their hormone balance.
We look at their inflammatory parameters.
And then we put them onto this kit, which is called the TriPak, which has in it 16 components.
And a lot of what we've already talked about is in there.
And we're seeing improvement in the guys and gals that are on it that's more rapid because it addresses the inflammatory component.
Yes, we do testosterone.
Yes, in the women, estradiol, progesterone, and pregnenolone.
And they do get better.
But with this product, and we're doing a study right now with three different groups of active military in the United States, obviously.
And in the first month on one group in California, active military, they had a 42% improvement.
The only thing we did was we gave them this kit.
And in the kit, it drops the inflammation.
One of the guys sent in his report.
They fill out a report which has 18 questions on it on how they're doing different areas.
Now, when you talk about all these different things, should someone take something like this along with that stack that you described earlier with the quercetin and the zinc and the vitamin D3? They don't need to take this unless we're dealing with somewhat traumatic brain injury.
This, what you're talking about with this is just, but if someone is taking this stuff, do they have to adjust?
Like if they have a traumatic brain injury and they're taking these various concoctions, do they also, if they're trying to protect themselves from COVID, do they have to take into account how much quercetin is in this as well as how much ascorbate palmitate is in this and not overdo it?
If they were on that stack, yeah, if they were on the stack and didn't have an issue relative to traumatic brain injury, I'd tell them, you know, to hold off on this.
But the one which is called Brain Care 2, my youngest daughter that you met, Rochelle, had a situation at her job where her work partner developed COVID right there, you know, when they were working together over that week.
And after he got out, this is the second part of the story I didn't tell you, after he got out of the hospital out of Kaiser, he got into a fight with my daughter and with his best friend.
And I talked to him over the phone, and he was angry.
He was explosively irritated.
So we put him on the Brain Care 2, and three days later, his personality came back to being normal.
That same page, if you go COVID letter and pull up the third one, which is number seven, you'll see that in New York, they're now reporting, and this is in May, they started reporting that people that are recovering from COVID are developing these personality mood swings, not only cognitive impairment, but irritability and depression.
A couple have also developed strokes.
Young 20-year-olds developing strokes because of another system called bradykinens.
They can do an academic approach, which is go back to their doctor and have the doctor draw their levels of those inflammatory cytokines, tumor necrosis factor alpha, interleukin, 6, 1B, and 1, and look at it.
If they're elevated, you need to reduce it.
So the study that we did last year, it was a three-month study.
The testing can be expensive.
Is we saw guys who were having difficulties coming into the practice.
We added on these tests and we saw the elevation in the level of these inflammatory cytokines and then we treated them on our protocol and then we looked again three months later at how well they were doing and then at the levels.
The correlation was those people who had initially had elevation in cytokines who were put on our protocol And then came back and had their subsequent follow-up lab at three months, and they were feeling better, their levels of the inflammatory cytokines were down to normal.
We had a guy that had five and six times the level of his levels, and they came down.
It's like the guys in the military who are exposed to blast trauma, they receive treatment, and then they're let to go because a lot of them are medically discharged.
So a lot of this is preventative as well, because you can stop the inflammatory mechanism from going to becoming chronic by implementing this as a regular protocol.
Before we had, or at the time we had Brain Care 2 come out, we had some of our patients who had gotten better, the civilian population, who had gotten better on our protocol, and then they get into a subsequent automobile accident or motorcycle accident, and they freak out because they're back to where they were two years earlier.
So we have them go on to the brain care, too, taking a teaspoon in the morning before breakfast, 30 to 60 minutes, and a teaspoon before dinner.
Three to four weeks later, they're back to where they were before the injury.
And that's because they had built up something called biological resiliency.
This is a topic that we're developing where...
This treatment protocol is like putting on Keflar.
It gives you added protection.
It's like the book I gave you from Colonel Michael Lewis, which is...
The acosinoids, which are the fish oils, and how they upregulate two proteins, survivin and protectin, and drop the inflammatory cytokines.
It functions on an area called NF-kappa B, which is a translational.
When it's turned on, it tells the cell to make these inflammatory components.
The cosenoids, the fish oil, are extremely important.
High dose, 10,000.
He talks about it in there.
10,000 units, 20,000 units.
And if you're already on it, and he tried to get this into the military, and if you're on these protective things, it's preventive.
It's, you know, proactive, as opposed to waiting until the trauma has.
Already occurred.
So there are things that you can do.
Good vitamin E, good fish oil, dropping alcohol consumption because alcohol destroys growth hormone.
And articles that have been coming out shows that growth hormone helps with repair of the brain.
There are studies that are done on Alzheimer's patients where the destruction of the tubules and the tau protein and all that, it gets better on growth hormone.
Also anti-inflammation.
Also a study in 2017 out of England showed that In people who had treatment-resistant depression, meaning that they were on antidepressants but they weren't getting any benefit from it, 61% of the people had growth hormone deficiency.
And when they put them on something to raise the level of growth hormone, what they saw in one to two months is their depression disappeared and they ended up with four benefits.
They slept better, they had brighter brains, they had better interpersonal relationships, and they weren't fly off the handle.
Flaxseed is beneficial, but for the brain, I'm so focused on things that I don't look outside that box, and I probably should.
But in the mission that we're on is very focal, and therefore DHA turned out to be the best.
Also, tocopherols, which are the vitamin E, gamma tocopherols, the keen, is the one that really helps down-regulate.
And when you mix the vitamin E tocopherol with NACL cysteine, The two of them together drops the NF-kappa B, which is the inflammatory trigger in the brain or in the body.
So we've had patients who have improved with below the neck, improving in orthopedic or joint-related arthritic kind of complaints.
If you can, just so that we make this stand alone, tell me about your own personal experiences, like what you experienced overseas, what kind of impact that had on you, and what kind of impact going through this treatment had.
I just want to take a second and kind of soak it in here, man, because...
What we're about to convey will no doubt alter somebody's life for the better.
It will save lives.
And I don't say that because I think that this is based off the last two of what's happened.
This information will come out and people's lives will be turned around.
And so it just touches me to know that.
And to be where I was in 2014 When I was pretty sure that I was going to have to take my own life because the negative effects that I was having on my family seemed to be outside of my conscious control.
So high level, I spent about a decade in special operations.
I was exposed to a lot of explosive blasts.
So, you know, those guys were elite performers in situations of life and death.
And that's pretty consistent with my entire life up until a certain point.
So I went from this high-level performer without a scratch on my body, you know, no physical impairment.
To being on 13 different medications, I was labeled with 30 plus disabilities, and I was just an absolute nightmare.
I was plagued with anxiety and depression.
My cognition had just gone by the wayside.
I couldn't remember anything.
It was just an absolute disaster.
Going back to the film that we have out now, Quiet Explosions, I remember watching a documentary film, and I won't give the name of the film, but I remember watching it and just crying because it was showing all these NFL guys and WWE wrestlers And that had CTE, which is, you know, neuroinflammation.
And it's showing, hey man, here are all the effects that are coming with CTE from secondary to head trauma.
And there's nothing that you can do about it.
Once that clock has started, you have about 10 years until you're in full-on dementia.
And you just writing it out, hopefully we can make life comfortable for you until you're in full-on dementia.
And I can remember being 32, 33 and just thinking like, there's nothing we can do.
So the information that we're about to convey, it didn't exist in the public domain like it does now.
I mean, it was one foot in the grave, no doubt about it.
And, you know, sometimes we need a wake-up call to wake up.
And I got, you know, it was like I lost my identity.
You know, I thought the system was mistreating me.
You know, my boy became very sick.
I'm forced to medically retire.
I'm on the street.
I can't put two and two together.
Our source of income has just gone away, and I don't know what we're going to do.
But I got to this crossroads.
I was at my son's hospital bed, and I realized if I traveled on that same path that I was on, that same trajectory, I kept blaming all the things in my life that it was going to kill me.
But worse than that, I realized at that point that I was of zero value.
To my son and to my family.
So I made a promise at his hospital bedside.
Three things.
One, that I would return to the man in my pre-injury status.
Two, that I would get off all that medication that I was on because it just turned my life from a very difficult situation into a disaster.
And I did not care what had to be done to make that happen.
Insomnia, uppers, anti-convulsion, what was the word you use?
Yeah.
So multiples of each of those, you know what I mean?
And it just completely turned me into a different person.
And that's where I really started to contemplate like, man, I think it would be better off if I just ceased to exist.
And I just made my mind up.
I was like, after those two things are accomplished, number three is I'm going to turn around, I'm going to spend the rest of my days helping somebody else who's in the exact same position as myself.
So I started at that point looking for different alternative modalities because the only thing that we do, the status quo treatment for traumatic brain injury still, Psychotropic medication and talk therapy, which in my case did not do anything to identify nor treat the underlying condition.
It just made things incredibly worse.
Through intuition, I said, this obviously isn't treating whatever it is.
There's got to be something to do that.
So I started to go outside and look at alternative means, started talking to other operators and looking at whatever else could be out there.
And the movie kind of chronicles this.
That led me and Mark to get together.
I was down in a functional neurology place getting treatment down in Dallas, Texas, and it got some press, and Mark saw it, and he wrote to me.
And that's how we linked up.
But the point being was we were able to institute, you know, what he's talking about here, lab test, identify neuroinflammation, identify deficiencies.
Correct those deficiencies.
Drop the inflammation.
And I'll be damned I didn't turn around almost instantaneously.
That's not special or specific to me.
We've now replicated that over 400 times within the military and veteran population, and Mark's done it over 3,000 times.
So the point being was, he said we wrote Tales from the Blast Factory, and it was kind of too chronical as a how-to for somebody that was navigating this.
That's the whole reason we did it.
My brother was like the force behind that.
And, you know, these things I just couldn't believe how well it did.
And it ended up getting to this director, Jerry Shear, and she said, hey, we got to turn this into a documentary film.
And we were thinking, you know, we were just focused on specifically veterans, military, you know, athletes.
This is a much big societal issue or problem.
And we'll probably go in that direction and explain why.
But we said, hey, is there a way that we can encapsulate and communicate these very advanced neurological concepts into a compelling story for the first time ever on the big screen and counterbalance some of the information that's out there with actual heart-based scientific evidence and show people going through this process and actually coming out better on the other side.
So that's what it's about.
There's ten different stories there.
We have some of the top medical doctors, clinicians, neuroscientists, researchers in the film as well.
Film Chronicles, former NFL Super Bowl MVPs, top big wave surfers, operators, and everybody in between.
And that's what we wanted to show and provide answers.
Whereas before, in 2014, you are relegated now to a psychological box, and here's all the medications that you're going to be on.
There's no alternative to that.
So this is an alternative saying, hey, this is real.
The evidence is real.
The science that already exists is real.
Here's these people's real stories and here's what's going to happen.
So it takes all these very advanced things and this beautiful story that Jerry did and it conveys it in Quiet Explosion.
So, you know, that's the beauty of that.
And it continues to show like, hey, everybody, no matter if you're an NFL MVP Operator or an accountant.
Rock bottom looks the same for everybody when you're overcome with this.
And here's the answers.
Here's the hope.
Here's the healing that can come out of it.
And here's how you can get more information on it.
So, you know, that's the project that we're currently...
Well, we've been engulfed in the last two and a half years that finally just...
It came out last month.
We only got to put it in two film festivals, but it won both film festivals that it went into, and it's just been doing magnificent.
So we're just excited to bring this information out to the world so now it's out there.
They can go out there now and say, okay, well, if I want more information, you can find it.
But it didn't exist before.
For the first time ever, not only do I identify a problem, we show an actually, scientifically, and evidence-based solution To improve quality of life.
And I mean, that's just so incredible.
We're so excited about it.
If you're out there, I mean, you don't have to be an operator or even have had a head injury to enjoy this film.
You're going to find it incredibly inspiring, compelling, educational, you know, all at the same time.
In 2015, I released the book, TBI, Clinical Approach, Diagnosis, and Treatment, which was the foundational literature with 1,600 articles in it to start the process of training doctors to replicate what I've done.
And what happened was a lot of the doctors found that the information was too overwhelming.
So about four years ago, started writing a program and a software package, which is an expert AI system for not only TBI, but for also TRT, HRT, wellness, age management, anti-aging medicine.
So that you put in all the parameters that you would do with a patient sitting in front of you, their laboratory results, medication they're on, and it would analyze the information for you.
So it took me, you know, 30 years to get all the algorithms together and then four years to consolidate it into a software package.
I hired...
Wonderful program, Sam Nee, who has taken it to build the interface so that it's available.
So launched it, what, three months ago, launched it in the cloud.
And right now it's free for doctors to get access to it, to play with it, to see how it works.
And it's preloaded with all the information.
Building this system, like my daughter Allison took over all my civilian patients in January last year so I can focus with Andrew and I can focus on just the military.
It took me about 18 months to train Allison to become proficient.
Now she's become really, really great.
And the software package does it in 15 minutes.
So we can get more doctors on board who don't have to go through the training program that could take six months.
I think I gave you a copy of the book, and it steps you through a progression.
It's a training textbook, really.
But there's so much information that the...
It's ideal that they know so that when they have a case in front of them, they have the flexibility of knowing what to do correctly as opposed to being a knee-jerk response.
So they brought us there, and the reason why we were there, Joe, is because we had helped a number of SAS guys, and they had phenomenal turnarounds, and they said, we've never seen anything like this before, and that kind of started the dialogue to bring us over.
So the point being is, there is, like, in the UK, it's run by the National Health Service, and all the major decision makers were in this room, which we were at, and I spoke, Mark gave his long presentation, And then kind of the establishment would get up and talk.
And there's kind of a line here.
And the line is they had this, their kind of thesis is that all the issues, the psychological issues one has after they have head trauma has nothing to do with their head trauma.
It has to do with them being psychologically, having a psychological duress in distress.
And it says, yes, we know they've had a head injury.
All the issues that you're having, anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress, you know, all the other things, is due to psychological duress.
And therefore, what he's practicing is pseudoscience.
And so we were able to present our case.
Mark gave a beautiful presentation.
And then, I shit you not, for two hours, these two sides went back and forth.
And the...
The animus and the hate that was coming out of that room directed at Mark for applying what he's doing here was absolutely mind-boggling.
I couldn't believe it.
And to think like this is the way that science and they're making decisions there on the policy that's going to be influence a lot of people.
And it was shocking to see how it's done behind the curtain.
Which is not science-based, because you're talking about...
Different people have different experiences, or different reactions to similar experiences.
There's a lot of operators that I know that have seen some horrible shit, and it doesn't fuck with their head.
They sleep good.
The real issue seems to be that some people don't.
And some people don't have the same reactions psychologically.
But when you're talking about physical manifestations, when you're talking about real physical reactions that you could track with measuring inflammatory markers in the blood, measuring the decrease in those markers through these therapies and showing the positive impact it has on people's lives, the fact that that's disputed could only be ego.
It's because this thesis was contrary to theirs, which means money would go to us to do a big project over there, which was in the works, and it means money would go away from them.
So the minute you know, same thing that happened 2012 here with 410,000 vets who came back or military came back to the United States, 380,000 of them were declared as being PTSD. And then a year later, they found that those that were diagnosed with PTSD really were post TBI. They were traumatic brain injury related.
And it means that if you look at the cost for doing an assessment for someone who has PTSD, let's say, is less money than someone who has a traumatic brain injury.
It's more money to put them through traumatic brain injury.
So like $16,000 a year, I think, is what the Congressional Budget Office said.
Yeah, that same $16,000 when Andrew and I were invited to spend three days with number 43 Bush, you know, we shared with them that we can take that $16,000 and use it for three years.
And hopefully at the end of three years, they'd be able to stop their treatment or diminish their treatment down to very minimal products to help them to maintain their quality of recovery.
But it's uphill, and it's also because I opened my mouth and said, I don't really believe in PTSD. And the reason why I don't believe in PTSD is because we've now found A chemical called fractalkin, which is part of that immune system, that if you have chronic stress, this chemical fractalkin disappears from the brain.
And when it disappears, the inflammation shoots up.
Fractalkin has control over a cell, the white blood cell in the brain called a microglia, that stops it from dumping these cytokines.
But under chronic stress, so you don't need blast.
You can just be in a household where someone is abusive or in a relationship where something is chronic stress-producing.
It's called a chemokine for anyone who wants to look it up.
And it causes the inflammation.
And that inflammation Without contact trauma will cause the exact same scenario, biochemically, someone who's had blast trauma and develops depression.
Okay, but there's not just a chemical reaction going on in certain people's brains when they have PTSD. There's also memories of horrible things that have happened to them.
That's what people consider when they think about PTSD. Like, a woman has been abused by a man, she gets near men, she panics, she tightens up.
Could it be that the lowering of fractalkin, if you were able to put that back into an optimal state, it's not that they have the ability now to see the past more clearly in order to move past it?
No, I believe that there is, if you want, a small percentage of people who have this pure PTSD. We'll use that terminology.
And other people who have the appearance of PTSD, because I think traumatic brain injury is a continuum, or PTSD is a continuum of brain trauma or trauma that has been missed.
And there are different forms of trauma.
Finasteride, as we talked about earlier, is a form of non-contact trauma to the brain.
We have four or five people that had brain surgery, craniotomies for tumors or for cysts in the brain, who developed all the symptomatology of someone with head trauma from an auto accident or being clumped on the head, put them onto the protocol, they're better.
So what you're essentially saying is there's a ton of people out there that are experiencing, whether it's depression or PTSD or all sorts of brain fog and various ailments of the mind and of the mood, really a big culprit is just inflammation.
I heard that there was a topical version of it, as I touched my bald head, a topical version that they were coming out with that eliminates the side effects.
Well, they've had a topical one, and they mix it with retinoic acid, vitamin A, and they mix it with the blood pressure medication, and it helps to generate hair regrowth.
But the real key is a peptide called thymocin 4-beta.
The article's up there.
They had nude mice.
Nude mice are genetically bred to have no hair.
They used this product called thymosin 4-beta, and they grew hair.
There's an organization, Dr. Edwin Lee in Orlando, Florida.
He's an endocrinologist.
He wrote a book on, I think I might have sent it to you, on peptides.
You did.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And he has the Clinical Peptide Society.
I'm a consultant to them because of the work we do with peptides.
But right now, there's savepeptides.org, which is they're trying to get a million dollars, and they need $300,000 in order for a compendium to be written about one of the peptides to present to the FDA to get them to change the ban.
Right now, there is a banned FDA law that's now taking away all our compounded peptides Inclusive that is beta-HCG. Why would they do that?
But the response, I mean, more and more articles are coming out, research being done outside the United States on BPC-157, IGF-1, LR3, which is long-acting IGF-1.
IGF-1 is extremely important in upregulating The protein synthesis of our cells, so healing, repair, anti-inflammation in the brain.
At the end, I basically said to my colleagues across the aisle, or across the pond, That if they continue on the paradigm that they're working, they're going to have as many suicides as we have in the United States.
Because there was no rationale.
It was a psychiatrist.
What's the scientific evidence a psychiatrist used before he puts you on, not you, but puts a person on antidepressants?
Isn't that always the case in a movie, where you have these stiff British intellectuals who just don't buy all this new research, and they do whatever they can to stop it?
It's in my book, my first book, Interventional Endocrinology.
I talk about these cases because they talk about the paradigms and how difficult it is to get one generation of medical caregivers to change what they've been indoctrinated in and fixated on to something more modern that maybe solves a problem that they weren't able to resolve.
So it would be admitting that what I've been doing all this time has been wrong if I don't wash my hands.
If I had a Harvard degree or if I had a Stanford or I had some of the other degrees behind my name instead of just MD, F-U-C-K, what would happen is they might listen to me.
One of our admirals, rear admirals that has been with us for about eight years, connected me with another admiral who got me to the Fort Detrick Army Medical Research and Development Group to share with them what we're doing.
And they were interested in it, but they didn't understand it because they asked me, where's the antidepressants?
Where are the anti-anxiety medications?
They're looking for maintaining the status quo.
The only way we're going to improve this is for people to open up and look at the science and say, huh, I didn't know about this.
And every week that I send out one of the articles with a little summary of it, I get docs come back and say, you know, this changed the way I'm looking at things.
Because it's an article that's vetted by peer review on a major, you know, Research.
You know, I look at psychopathoneurology research, articles that aren't JAMA, or they're not Lancet, or they're not, you know, New England Journal of Medicine.
And most doctors look at these key journals to get all their information, but all the information is filtered.
The narrative, the narrative of, okay, let's keep these paradigms going because they serve a purpose for other entities.
And I send out articles that refute some of the things that we do, but I also send articles that support it.
It's like I have up there about testosterone, the great battle of testosterone and cardiovascular disease.
The article that I shared with you there actually shows how important vitamin testosterone is for protecting the heart, how incredibly important it is.
And if you look at the three articles that were the negative articles that made the FDA put a black box warning on testosterone distribution, stating that it can increase cardiovascular risk, the real issue was the group that had the increased occurrence of death were people who already the real issue was the group that had the increased occurrence of death were people They already had bad functioning hearts.
So what's the negative?
In some people that are put on testosterone, it causes sodium and chloride to be retained, and that causes fluid to be retained.
So fluid overload puts the heart at risk.
Not everybody has this effect.
It's called mineral corticoid effect.
So if you find people who are on testosterone who find that they have a little puffiness, suprapubic fingers or on the legs, it's because they're one of the people that, individuals that retain sodium.
And what you do is put them on a Lasix or some diuretic three days a week, you know, cycle for a couple of weeks to get rid of the extra fluid.
We'll look at a micro, and then we'll kind of break it out macro.
But Special Operations Command just issued a study.
Suicide study that showed that special operators are committing suicide 30% greater than the regular military.
This just came out through Freedom of Information Act this last summer.
So they went back, they did a psychological autopsy because so many operators were committing suicide.
And they looked at 29 different suicides that occurred in a three-year time period.
And they went back, and I wrote an article on it as well.
But what they found was that everybody who committed suicide were exhibiting what they called signs that were synonymous with suicide.
So it's called isolation, substance abuse, purposelessness, anxiety, hopelessness, withdrawal, anger, recklessness, mood changes, okay?
So they said, hey, 62% of the people who committed suicide that we're looking at had at least one sign, and almost 50% had more than one.
And of the people that we looked at, one third were diagnosed with being clinically depressed.
And so then they looked at and they said, okay, here are the other risk factors that we're finding in these individuals that commit suicide.
Escalating conflict in relationships, financial issues, legal problems, lack of access to mental health care.
And then they said nearly all the cases suffered from some form of emotional trauma following their first deployment.
Interviewees typically saw changes in the soft member after their first deployment.
So these are the main things that they said, hey, these are constant in all these suicides that we're seeing.
And then they came out with like a nine step recommendation.
And the recommendations were the guys need to do active role playing when they get back, they need access to better mental health, need to take away their access to lethal means, things like that.
And the point I'm making is nowhere in here is it ever identified or addressed that there could be a neuroinflammatory condition That leads to these neuropsychiatric conditions that then leads to suicide.
And why that's significant in this population is they are selected, assessed, and cultivated to be psychologically and physically resilient in very difficult situations.
So the question I think we have to ask ourselves is, why is the special operations community, according to the Special Operations Command, committing suicide at a rate that's the highest in the military and 30% higher than everybody else?
The answer that we know is because they live in an environment that exposes them to neuroinflammatory conditions.
So that's a very specific thing right there that just blew my mind when I went into the research.
It absolutely infuriated me to realize, like, nothing is being done any different than it was six years ago, and the problems have even gotten worse.
So then you look at, okay, like we talked about, 50 million Americans, one out of every five, have a mental health illness.
50% of children It's absolutely mind-blowing, and we know, I don't think Mark is saying that neuroinflammation is the factor.
It is a significant contributing factor, and it's not even a main player in the conversation.
And I think that's criminal.
It doesn't matter what you're going to do about it.
And that's what our work has been focusing around, is showing, hey, there's actually an alternative to this, and we need to have an alternative conversation based in science, based in evidence, based in results.
And we should be able to discuss that and put these things forward so people can have access to them.
But when you learn this, it just infuriates you.
Here's another one.
What was it?
The Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report.
This just came out in 2020. Now, the suicide rate has gone up since 2005 in the veteran community by about 6%.
But here's the mind-blowing statistic.
In the civilian population, suicide has risen almost 50% since 2005. It was 30,000, roughly 30,000, 2005 a year.
Now we're over 45,000 a year.
This is insanity.
And if we're saying that neuroinflammation is a major contributing factor to this, then it's time to look at the research.
It's time to look at the evidence.
It's time to look at the clinical results and do something else.
This is what Quiet Explosions is built around.
This is what Warrior Angels Foundation is built around.
This is what our life's ambition is worked around, is to put this information out It's not to put anybody's condition down or say it's not real.
We're saying there's things out there that you didn't know about That could be contributing significantly to the negative state you're in.
And then you find out, okay, well, what can cause neuroinflammation?
Poor diet, certain chemicals, certain medications, my environment, lack of sun, poor water.
All these influences, all these factors.
So it kind of puts you back in the driver's seat is where you want to be.
Like, I need to do everything I can to get these things where they need to be.
First, and then start looking at what needs to happen second.
That would be my recommendation for anybody who's having issues to look at those things.
But I just wanted to highlight this to the audience because I think it's such a significant thing that's not even known or talked about.
And we know very clearly that there is real reasons why these things happen.
Again, and Mark can validate it better than I can.
When you have someone able to go to get dual masters at MIT and Harvard who couldn't go to school before that, or one of our guys who just graduated physician assistant school, number one summa cum laude president award, who couldn't do anything before that.
Or the seal who had multiple sclerosis, which is an inflammatory process.
In 60 days, he was 50% better because multiple sclerosis is an inflammatory process.
They give them an inflammatory blocker or they give them, what is it called, gamma antibodies.
They give them antibodies because it's an inflammatory process.
ALS inflammatory process, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's disease.
Now they're looking at Alzheimer's and asking questions.
Did you have any trauma in your past?
They're now starting to ask about trauma because the NFL did a study five years ago where they found that if you had one concussion on the field, one concussion on the field, you were 19 times more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease than in the general population at a younger age, 30 to 49 years of age.
We have people who have done well, and then after stopping it, they revert it.
It's really...
In my experience, Dr. Scheer would say differently because he does it daily.
I see it occasionally.
I don't see it being the key or a key, but I do believe that the combination of what we do with HBOT might be an accelerant, might be together beneficial to the patient.
We looked at it from the foundation's point of view because we wanted to do what was the most financially, you know, best solution fiscally, as well as the most bang for the buck, which is going to give the individual the best return.
And it wasn't because we just wanted to do marks.
We looked at everything, and I've put myself in everything.
It is the most sound thing you can do because it says, Drop inflammation, replenish what the brain's no longer making.
What we found is, over the years, that if you don't do those first two steps, all these other modalities, if there's any type of benefit, it's not sustainable.
So this is step one, and those other ones will magnify, could potentially magnify the effect.
Now, that's just my observation, but that's how we looked at it as an organization to put our money behind.
And the issue was they would do this electrostimulation, but it wouldn't hold.
They'd do, you know, 50, 60 sessions of it.
It didn't hold.
And the reason why it didn't hold is because the inflammation doesn't allow the neurons to function optimally.
So, in correcting the biochemistry of the brain, what happened was you were getting a better sustained benefit from the technique, from the technology.
And this is something that they're starting to look at.
You know, we're starting to see other entities that are talking about the neuroendocrinology that we started doing back in 2004, starting to see it's a key player.
The only resistance that I would see coming from this is people that have a vested interest in continuing the path that they're on now because they've got a financial interest in that and also that it just, you're gonna have to train so many people and it's complicated.
Like, are you getting some from the United States?
Are you getting some?
I mean, how many people are aware of this, other than the podcast that we've done, and all the information you've gotten out there, and your documentary, and...
They can go to the website and pick up a lot of information from the tbihelpnow.org.
And there's information about our TRIPAC, and that's what we're doing right now, trying to get the impediment to starting our programs by having the core product readily available.
And that's what the studies that we're doing last year in Kentucky and now with the Marines and then with two other organizations, military organizations.
But the mission is, what I've done is I've written a grant application for the Department of Defense.
And I haven't submitted it yet because I need some help.
And one of the congressmen in the area that I live in, California, has stated that he'll help me once he was re-elected, and he was re-elected, good Republican, and he'll help me to get the final parts done so I can submit it.
And hopefully with this program and also I'll be training another group of docs in Miami April 15th on our protocol and then introducing them to the computer program so they can use them both together, the didactic academic information and then the program to accelerate it.
When we went to England, I brought a syllabus with 50 key articles put in order from A to B to C, so someone who read them would understand the thought processes that I was forced to go through in order to learn and understand the simplicity.
I mean, I don't mean to deprecate or downplay the science that I've been reading, but the simplicity is It's like you have a car, you put gasoline in it, you put olive oil in it, you put water in it, and you expect you're going to drive.
It's not going to happen.
What happens to the brain when you have inflammation, it changes the chemistry, and that disrupts all the regulatory systems that we have, the control mechanisms, the communication that says, no, frontal lobe.
You're going to take the coffee, put it into the cup, put the sugar in there, and put the hot water in it.
You're not going to pour the hot water down the sink.
It gives us our function, our ability to sequence things.
And if you change the chemistry, you lose it.
That's what happens in Alzheimer's by loss of pregnenolone, by loss of pregnenolone sulfate, progesterone, dopamine.
Consolidating it into something that's 50 articles, or I can consolidate it, you know, 10 articles up there talk about the inflammation and the precipitation of psychiatric illnesses.
Very clearly.
And it shows in every one of the labeled, and I don't label depression anymore or anxiety or bipolar, but in each one of these labeled conditions, they did testing and showed the inflammatory cytokines in each one.
Then on the side, they have those autoimmune illnesses, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, Crohn's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis.
And when you block the inflammatory cytokines, Not only does their underlying autoimmune syndrome disappear, but the depression associated with it disappears.
So, yeah, I got a personal bone to pick with this SOCOM suicide study.
We're going to focus and do our best to show a different alternative for that.
And then we're going to focus on supporting this in the homeless population and the incarcerated population.
We don't know which one we'll do first, but those are the next areas that we're going to continue to move into.
So not only will we prove it in these domains, we'll start to move these other domains as well that we think will continue to help our effort to spread this.
We've been in dialogue with a guy by the name of Richard Troxell, who was homeless himself, a veteran who was homeless and developed this organization, House of the Homeless Veterans.
So we've been in dialogue with him for three, four years because this is something, if we can...
Get them out of the homeless status.
They'll be able to get back into life and do well.
Do you think these side effects might coincide with all of the various factors you were talking about earlier that would lead to people having long-term COVID problems being affected?
You are giving their body's ability to produce proteins that will help fight off that virus, but you still have this underlying problem of inflammation.
So do you think that maybe this mRNA vaccine along with Having a protocol to reduce inflammation in the body, reduce these inflammatory markers in the blood, that this should be a dual point strategy.
So what we're telling our patient population who have elected to go and get the COVID vaccine when it's available, They're already on the Brain Care 2, which has the anti-inflammatory products that help drop the production of cytokines to try and help mitigate some of the inflammation that is intrinsic to getting any vaccine.
Yeah, the second injection is to enact the animistic response, which means memory response.
The first injection you get will create an immune response, but you're not going to get a really high level of antibodies to protect you.
So on the second immunization, the body says, oh, I already seen this foreign protein before, so I know what to do, so let's do it.
So it produces an exaggerated relative to the first immunization or vaccination, an exaggerated response.
And that's why you get more of the side effects afterwards.
One of the thoughts about why people are getting the first shot symptoms similar to the people who get both shots is because they're not testing whether or not you've been exposed to coronavirus before.
Remember, H1N1 is corona, SARS is corona.
Remember that in 2009 or 11, they added H1N1. To our annual influenza vaccine, which is called a quaternary, four components in it.
And a lot of people didn't even know that.
So we're already being exposed to the coronavirus in a vaccine.
So I already have that potential for an animistic response, the memory response.
So when I get my first injection...
First injection of the new Corona-19 virus.
My question is, is it going to interact with your prior injection and create this overwhelming response?
Okay?
So I've got out to a couple of virologists, immunologists, whether or not that will work.
Yeah, they're all different, you know, like influenza A and B. It's different than rhinovirus or enterovirus, different than H1N1. But H1N1, SARS virus, and COVID-19 are in the same place.
What really reduce it is when they have the finger antibody test.
That's accurate.
So it would mean going in, it's a $35 test, I believe, to get your finger prick and find out whether or not you already have the antibodies against coronavirus.
But they're trying to say that COVID-19 is so unique, but in the coronavirus grouping, they all have the spike protein.
Look at the molecular biology of the cell once again.
Here is the nucleus of the cell.
In the nucleus of the cell is the DNA. The DNA is a double-stranded string of nucleotides, which are the codes.
Those codes are transcribed using RNA polymerase into RNA. That RNA then goes out of the nucleus, gets a 5' cap, and gets a 3' poly-A tail and it's ready for ribosomes to come on to read that code and that code is then translated into the code of amino acids which amino acid after amino acid will turn into a polypeptide which turns into a protein And proteins are how
the cell gets things done.
So it moves by proteins, actin and myosin.
It can bind oxygen through hemoglobin.
It can do cellular metabolism.
All of those enzymes in glycolysis, in the citric acid cycle, all those things that you learned in biochemistry, those are all enzymes.
Those are all proteins.
So that's the normal situation.
Now enter coronavirus.
Coronavirus has its own genome.
It is made out of RNA. And that RNA just happens to have a 5' head and a poly-A tail.
So when it pops into the cytosol, It's going to be read by those same ribosomes that can't tell the difference.
Except this time, instead of making a protein that's useful to your cell, this RNA that comes out of the virus is going to make something called a RNA-dependent RNA polymerase.
And it's this enzyme right here that is going to read from the 3'm to the 5'm of the viral RNA and replicate it.
So this RNA-dependent RNA polymerase makes more viral genomes.
It's also known as replicase for that reason.
And there's something that has been shown to inhibit this replicase, and that is zinc.
Zinc will shut down RNA-dependent RNA polymerase or replicase.
And so that is what we learned.
The problem is, how do you get zinc inside the cell?
The problem with zinc is that it's an ion.
It's a 2 plus ion.
And ions cannot get through the cellular membrane unless there's a transporter that allows it to come in.
In fact, the way that they tested this in the paper is with an ionophore, which allows the zinc to come into the cell so they could see that the activity of this RNA-dependent RNA polymerase was reduced.
This is the paper.
Zinc inhibits coronavirus RNA polymerase activity in vitro, and zinc ionophores block the replication of these viruses in cell culture.
When they looked at the SARS-CoV virus, that was the one that was seen back in 2002, as the zinc concentration inside the cell went up, you can see that the byproduct of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase went down, down, down, clearly demonstrating that zinc intracellularly is going to block this very important enzyme of the virus.
Well, that's great.
We've got zinc that's going to block it.
But how are we going to get zinc inside the cell?
It's one thing to say that you're going to take zinc supplements.
But how do those zinc supplements, first of all, get absorbed into your body, into the blood, into the extracellular space?
And then finally, how are you going to get that zinc from the extracellular space into the intracellular space in the cytosol where it needs to work on these infected cells and these viral proteins?
Well, that's another thing altogether.
What you need is some sort of ionophore or some sort of gated mechanism to open and to allow that zinc to come into the cell, increasing the concentration of zinc into the cell so it can block RDRP. Well, enter this paper that was pointed out by some of you commenting, chloroquine is a zinc ionophore.
This paper was published back in 2014, and the point of this paper was something completely different.
They weren't thinking about coronavirus.
They probably didn't even know, perhaps, that zinc blocked RNA-dependent RNA polymerase.
What they were looking at here is that zinc may help some of these cancer cells basically eat themselves in the lysosomes, which are sort of the trash compactors of the cell, and that by giving chloroquine, you could have these cancer cells disappear.
Well, in doing that research, they found out something that's very interesting to us because of that finding.
And this research came out of the University of Oklahoma and some institutions in China.
So this is what they used.
Chloroquine diphosphate.
Here's the structure of that compound.
And this chloroquine is a medication that has been around for decades that is used to treat malaria.
It's not under patent and it's pretty dirt cheap and widely available.
However, you do need a prescription to use this and it doesn't come without side effects.
What they show is that they were able to detect intracellular zinc by checking its fluorescence.
Here on the x-axis, we have increasing concentrations of chloroquine, and the white bars represents those cells that were bathed in only 5 micromolar solution of zinc chloride, and the black was in 10 times that amount at 50 micromolars concentration of zinc chloride.
And what you can see here is that in the normal situation, if you're able to get some zinc into the cells, this is the amount of zinc you will see inside the cells.
So this is the amount of concentration outside the cell.
This is the amount of zinc you see inside the cell.
And let's just look at this same concentration, 5 micromolar.
When you bathe the cells in chloroquine, you can see how much this intracellular zinc concentration goes up.
In fact, if you look at the amount of zinc inside the cell, by just adding a small amount of chloroquine here at 10 micromolar, we would get more zinc inside the cell than if we increase the concentration of zinc outside the cell tenfold.
That's how powerfully chloroquine will increase intracellular zinc concentration.
Now remember, this is chloroquine.
This is a medication that's been used by millions of people already with known side effects, and it's pretty well tolerated.
Here's another example from the article.
Here we have the control group, the five micromolar...
And in something like ZMA, putting a little bit of quercetin in it or turmeric for all the benefits that are on turmeric would help their product in absorption.
Well, I think overall this podcast has been very beneficial.
It certainly helped me a lot.
I understand a lot more of this zinc stuff and the quercetin and just so many different things.
And I'm so happy that the message is getting out there, that there is hope, that there is for all these veterans, all these people suffering from TBIs and a host of other issues, that there is some hope.