Why Men Are Losing Testosterone | Dr. Austin Lake Exposes the Truth

Testosterone is crashing, estrogen is rising, and men are being poisoned—spiritually and physically. In this Rise Up Kings episode, Dr. Austin Lake exposes the war on masculinity through food, fluoride, and fear.

Dr. Austin Lake, a top functional medicine expert, breaks down how modern culture is destroying men’s health—from glyphosate in your food and fluoride in your water to low-fat diets, hormone disruptors, and spiritual complacency. This is a raw, unfiltered conversation every man needs to hear. Wake up, fight back, and rise up.

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Chapters:
00:00 - Culture is a death cult  
01:36 - Meet Dr. Austin Lake  
03:28 - Stewarding your body as God’s temple  
05:08 - Women’s hormones vs men’s hormones  
09:06 - Testosterone crash since 1981  
14:08 - You can't outwork a bad diet  
16:14 - Fluoride and the pineal gland  
20:16 - Chlorine and hidden toxins  
24:04 - Why women suffer more than men  
28:10 - Respect and the root of imbalance  
31:22 - Depopulation and the healthcare agenda  
36:13 - Why Dr. Lake stopped vaccinating his kids  
41:22 - Autism, heavy metals, and gut-brain link  
46:44 - Detoxing parasites and heavy metals  
57:15 - Dr. Lake’s personal story

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Transcript

00:00:00:00 - 00:00:21:05
Unknown
Our culture is really a death cult of pushing things like abortion and transhumanism and transgenderism and all these different things where it's like it's taking away of who we are as God's creation and who were intended to be liquid death. So they actually bring a wish in and that which praise death over the water, like trees over the water, and bring spirits into the water.

00:00:21:05 - 00:00:38:12
Unknown
And does this entire process that someone caught on camera? I did not know. And then they actually just came out with a new, a new whole thing where you can join the Liquid Death Program membership. Yeah. The way to become a member is you sell your soul. And there's, I think, probably over a half a million people that have sold their soul to the death.

00:00:38:12 - 00:00:54:00
Unknown
That's the lie that's been told to everybody because vaccines made billions and billions of dollars. But not only that, they create customers for the rest of their life because there have always sicknesses and issues beyond that. So whenever information's coming down from the top, you don't question it, because in the way you're trained, it's you're trained to think that like if you don't know it, then nobody else knows it.

00:00:54:02 - 00:01:10:11
Unknown
Like it's not been proven. It's not safe. And if you think that vaccines have been studied well enough and why would you go out and study it yourself? We also have like the 66, overall quality of health in the world, and we spend the most amount of money on health. And so it's I think there is a financial incentive, obviously, to keep people sick.

00:01:10:11 - 00:01:36:09
Unknown
But Doctor Austin Lake is a renowned medical expert, and he specializes in helping people find the root cause of their disease. And dysfunction within their body. In this episode, we dive deep into the main causes of disease and what could be preventing men and women from truly living a life of vitality. Welcome to the show. Yeah, thanks for having me, guys.

00:01:36:11 - 00:01:51:00
Unknown
Glad to be here. Yeah, it was pretty fun. We got to hang out all day in golf, which was, not something that I do on the regular. I mean, it really didn't show. You say this a few times. Yeah. Right now I appreciate it. Rough golf is really hard. I mean, you shoot the. Yeah, it is very challenging.

00:01:51:02 - 00:02:06:06
Unknown
Yeah. Keeps you on your toes the whole time. That is why I like it. You've been studying. You've been really focusing on, mastering golf. You said over the last year and not mastering was your word, but. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I just being somewhat proficient on embarrassing is what I'm going for it. Yeah, they were saying, so I looked up some statistics.

00:02:06:06 - 00:02:28:08
Unknown
So the 10,000 hours is for complete mastery. Some highly proficient or high proficiency. Like very high, better than most human beings. This is about 2000 hours. Okay, so most people hear the 10,000 hours and they're like, man, there's no way I could ever do that right now. 1000 to 2000 hours will get you better than most people. Well, it's kind of like even with a lot of things in life.

00:02:28:08 - 00:02:46:12
Unknown
It's like if you put 20 hours in, you start seeing a lot of breakthrough and whatever you're trying to accomplish. And so that first initial step is really important. So even 20 hours is a good step. Yeah. Yeah. The challenge with golf is, anyway, we're off on a tangent, but, so I'm super excited to have you on the show regarding, we're going to talk a lot about health.

00:02:46:15 - 00:03:06:23
Unknown
You're a, you're a doctor, and some pretty important you make some very impactful, shifts and changes for human beings through the work that you do. And so a lot of our we really haven't had a Halifax bro or doctor on the podcast yet. I also have a lot of guys in the fitness space, the business space, marriage, family, all that, but not in this arena.

00:03:06:27 - 00:03:28:13
Unknown
So, very excited to have you. Yeah, thanks for having me. Let's start out with, what's something that what's an area of, of of health and nutrition that most people overlook, but that's very, very impactful to their health. What kind of we were saying, you know, during our lunch meal, whatever that was today.

00:03:28:15 - 00:03:46:28
Unknown
I think a lot of it was stems from a lack of belief that our bodies are capable of healing, and in that the right environment will allow for a body that can really thrive. And so people kind of get set up in this mindset that things just happen to them. And it's a result of their genetics. And, it's just, things that are out of their control.

00:03:46:28 - 00:04:18:07
Unknown
And I think it creates this, this mindset that allows people to, just kind of drift into what's convenient and not taking ownership of their body and, and really viewing it as, a break for I had recently was kind of just realizing that, like, this isn't even my body like, this is, you know, in First Corinthians like six nine, I think when got some of our bodies or temples of the Holy Spirit, you seen it like, this is like, this is it's mine that I've given to you, you know, and I think realizing that we're stewarding something that's not ours, just like if you were to borrow some of these car or

00:04:18:07 - 00:04:34:21
Unknown
some of these golf clubs, like you would probably take a lot better care of it than you would if it if it was your own. And I think having that mindset, that visualization for me at least has been super helpful just to be like, no, like I'm going to be intentional with the things I put in it, the things I do, the things I think and believe because it really matters.

00:04:34:21 - 00:04:50:21
Unknown
And I think having that initial belief is, as we're kind of saying before, it kind of leads into these other areas of health where it's like you got to pay attention to exercise and the things you eat. Sometimes you take the things you think, the air you breathe, the water you drink, like all those things affect how you feel and how you can operate.

00:04:50:21 - 00:05:08:26
Unknown
So it's really critical. So you've helped thousands of people through your work. What would you say are the top, reasons people come to you? Like, what are they dealing with? So that's primarily women. Is where I've kind of landed. But as a whole, you know, it's like I was saying before, it's really the family is who we're trying to help.

00:05:08:29 - 00:05:25:18
Unknown
But a lot of the women that come to us initially, it's because, you know, they're tired, they can't lose weight, they have brain fog. You know, they just don't feel well. And, you know, when it comes to a female specifically, you know, their hormones are a lot more variable, like it's a 28 day cycle. We have a 24 hour hormonal cycle, as men explain that.

00:05:25:20 - 00:05:48:23
Unknown
So, you know, we have a typical circadian rhythm that we follow, as men because testosterone is very stable. It doesn't change a whole lot throughout the course of our life. We don't have much fluctuations in kind of the, the hormonal cycles that we're going through. Females, you have three different phases over the course of 28 days that your hormones are drastically changing through each of those, those, those typically 7 to 14 day time periods.

00:05:48:26 - 00:06:23:01
Unknown
And so women are a lot more susceptible to, feeling poor, like they don't feel well because they're starting a month off with lower energy. And they become more a bit more anemic, they feel a little bit more drained. And so our culture as a whole is not catering to the fact that if you have a female who's running the household, you know, taking care of the children, working a job and then expected to exercise and fast and calorie cut and do all these things, if you're not timing up with her cycle, she can have a lot of symptoms just from poor management of her, of her month, basically.

00:06:23:03 - 00:06:37:22
Unknown
And so as a husband, it's one of those things of like, okay, honey, what do you wanna do this month? Like or what do you wanna do this week? And she's like, hey, like let's, let's, you know, go on a hike and you're like, okay, like, let's do that. But if she's like in the beginning of her cycle, you maybe you're like, well, maybe we should do a little bit of a lesser, you know, more or less intense hike.

00:06:37:22 - 00:06:55:14
Unknown
Or if she's exercising, maybe encourage her to do a little bit different strength training methods, or maybe not do so much cardio. If she's, like, not really feeling it and not in the mood because she has a low libido biologically because of her her hormonal cycle, like having a little grace for that and kind of realizing like that's going to kind of peak after day seven through day 21.

00:06:55:16 - 00:07:09:19
Unknown
Well, that's going to be a lot more feasible for her to feel like she would want to get in the mood and kind of get active. But if she's not in that state, kind of having some grace for that and realizing where she is and kind of understanding her cycle would be helpful, I think, as a husband, to kind of consider that.

00:07:09:21 - 00:07:30:04
Unknown
That's incredible. Yeah, yeah. No, I've never I'm right. I'm kind of wild right now that, that I am completely I feel like I'm a decent husband, but I'm very unaware. I'm a I'm aware of one cycle. Sure. Like, I know, I know, I know it's a cycle. Oh, yeah, I know when she hits her, her period and, and, however, I'm not aware of really what's happening hormonally.

00:07:30:04 - 00:07:42:15
Unknown
I don't, I don't think a lot of women even know what's fully happening. No, I really don't. And a lot of women, I mean, I shouldn't say a lot about a decent woman don't even tractor cycle. So they kind of know, like when they could potentially get pregnant, ovulation. But they don't always know when there's when they're about to start their period.

00:07:42:15 - 00:07:54:06
Unknown
Like they'll get, you know, signs of maybe cramping and things like that. Maybe they don't feel so energized. But a lot of women, it can kind of sneak up on them. They're like, oh, shoot. Like, I don't know, it's going to happen already. It's already that time of the month when there's a lot more that's happening leading up to that.

00:07:54:06 - 00:08:11:09
Unknown
That time period you can be mindful of. And I think intensity of, of, of exercise and activity is really important as a as a baseline. Does the count consider that at the beginning of the month she's gonna be kind of here with her intensity as she kind of goes through ovulation. It's going to be like a bell curve to where she'll be, able to handle a little bit more in the middle of the month.

00:08:11:09 - 00:08:27:17
Unknown
And then as the end, the month comes, like kind of taper off with the activity intensity, not the actual month, but the end of her sight interval cycle, which depending on when she's lined up the 20 day cycle. So yeah. Okay. Yeah. Got it. So the beginning of the cycle. That's really interesting. Do you have a documented somewhere?

00:08:27:19 - 00:08:46:09
Unknown
I created a post on that at one point. Yeah. And it's I mean, it's in my, it's kind see that visually like I'm a yeah I guy you can you can just I mean, you could even just Google like, female okay. Hormonal cycle and would pop up and show you those different hormonal levels. But if you kind of just picture a bell curve, at the middle is, is a higher intensity or like higher ability to handle intensity?

00:08:46:09 - 00:09:06:13
Unknown
Yeah. You can kind of just picture that like bell curve throughout the month or throughout her cycle. Since we're talking about hormones, I was, reading an article that, in 1980, since 1981, there's been a 1% decline in the average testosterone of men, over the over the last rate since 1981, up until now. So massive decline.

00:09:06:16 - 00:09:24:03
Unknown
What do you think is causing that? So, if you look at number one, the first thing I think of is if you look at when we introduced, glyphosate into our food system, it started really getting sprayed on food. And back in like 1972 was when it was primarily being, you know, roundup is what's being used.

00:09:24:03 - 00:09:48:28
Unknown
And so the way glyphosate works, is that it? It actually. Well, that is a roundup. Yeah. It's actually the best kind of going roundup. Okay. Yeah. So I was 72. What that does to the human body. Well, what does the plant is it actually let me back up. So if to create GMOs, genetically modified organisms so that they can spray glyphosate on the the crops, that it can not kill the crop, but it can kill the weeds around the crop.

00:09:48:28 - 00:10:04:10
Unknown
Right. And so what that does is a deep mineralized is the weed. So it takes away and strips out the minerals that would then allow it to, to grow and to live. And so you have to create a crop that's genetically modified, first of all. So the food is, is coming into a, a human body. That is, our bodies may not be all that used to.

00:10:04:11 - 00:10:20:08
Unknown
So your immune system can then start to create an attack against some of these things you're consuming because it's it's not accustomed to it. Right. And so that's where the main issue is with, gluten is that gluten has become hybridized. It's no longer the same kind of protein structures. So our bodies are taking it in and identifying it as a foreign invader.

00:10:20:11 - 00:10:35:13
Unknown
And that's why you if you go to Italy in places like that, you'll see that people will do well on eating pastas and bread because it's a it's an ancient grain. Our, our health care system, the United States or our health United States, you know, and that was the first problem is the food that we're consuming is, number one, it doesn't have nearly the nutrients that it used to have.

00:10:35:13 - 00:10:53:22
Unknown
I mean, if you look at the soil, depletion of minerals and vitamins that's coming in through the soil that used to be there, I mean, it's like 30 to 80% reduced. And in these veggies and foods that we're consuming just because we're consuming genetically modified organisms and the soil itself is, because the mono cropping, doesn't have the nutrients that it used to have.

00:10:53:22 - 00:11:12:29
Unknown
So there's that component with, with with our health, with testosterone, you know, you have to have you have to have fat in your diet. There's a huge like, you know, fat is bad idea. Back in the 80s and 90s, even in even early 2000, where people were told not to consume fat because you'll gain fat, which is a complete fallacy, it's not even close to true.

00:11:12:29 - 00:11:32:09
Unknown
You need fat to make cholesterol, and then you need cholesterol, which is the building block of all your hormones. You need cholesterol to make testosterone, and then you need omega threes to convert these hormones into the right hormonal pathways so that you can actually make good testosterone and not just convert it into bad androgens or even estrogen, which happens to a lot of men.

00:11:32:09 - 00:11:58:06
Unknown
And that's where you start seeing even worse problems for, for for men's health specifically. So there's a lot of things that come into it deficiencies, inflammatory responses. And then just the fact that, you know, I think there's there's other components maybe in terms of, this sounds this is a little bit more fringe, but more things like, you know, candles in your household, like having soy candles or burning fragrances all the time and breathing that in like that, that has an effect, creates a weak estrogenic effect in all people.

00:11:58:06 - 00:12:14:27
Unknown
You're saying that having and burning candles will feminize men is what I'm here. Yeah, yeah. Don't don't have candles like you don't need a candle guy. You're good. So there's, there's, like, beeswax candles and things like that you can do that aren't going to be having that. But that's not nearly as big of a lever that guys can pull.

00:12:14:27 - 00:12:39:06
Unknown
Or people can pull that would affect that. But primarily I think it's the food. Yeah. And then, yeah, then our whole culture has been centered around this idea that, you know, that the cholesterol is bad. That salt is bad. You know, that that fat is bad. Like, we have all these kind of, these misnomers that are kind of creating, a reaction within the culture that to respond to certain lane exercises, certain won't eat a certain way.

00:12:39:06 - 00:12:55:17
Unknown
And I think all that is just affecting testosterone and hormones in general. Yeah. I think it's, the amount I mean, the amount of women, the amount of men that are dealing with brain fog, with the depletion of energy. Yeah. They're dealing with disease. The amount of disease that's out there is just absolutely out of control. Yeah. And that's why I.

00:12:55:17 - 00:13:13:16
Unknown
I love what you do because yeah, people can go work out more. Right. They can spend more time in the world reading the Bible. But at and at the end of the day, you got to take care of this vessel. Yeah. And the way to take care of this vessel, I believe, primarily is through, I mean, there's a lot of environmental issues, but through our nutrients and, like, what we eat, right?

00:13:13:18 - 00:13:31:00
Unknown
Dysport is one of the most important, one of the critical things that we can really, really help people step into is eating properly. Yeah. And it's a huge part. I mean, it's the problem is that food provides such comfort to people, right? And like, we eat, we eat to reward ourselves after a long week or a hard day.

00:13:31:03 - 00:13:45:27
Unknown
You know, we drink alcohol because we we deserved it or we want to treat ourselves or, you know, we we stay up late and watching Netflix and we disrupt our circadian rhythm. And so we, we wake up the next morning, we drink a bunch of caffeine and we spike or cortisol. We reduce our insulin sensitivity. And that can make testosterone drop as well.

00:13:45:27 - 00:14:08:07
Unknown
And so there's a lot of like chain reaction things that happen just from having poor discipline and your day and your structure of of when you're saying no to certain things and, and even something as simple as just not eating after 6:00 at night can really help to improve insulin sensitivity, which Insulin's job is to take. This energy you're ingesting is from through carbohydrates, through through sugar and using it for for production of energy.

00:14:08:07 - 00:14:29:20
Unknown
In terms of ATP, which ATP is that active form of energy via your mitochondria that actually helps to fuel everything that we do. And so people will take food in, you know, potential energy through the food, if it's bound with a bunch of chemicals and maybe the calories are good, but you don't have, you have this inflammatory process coming in through the food because of the chemicals, and then maybe you're eating at the wrong time of day.

00:14:29:20 - 00:14:47:03
Unknown
It's too late at night. Maybe it's before bed. Your insulins become less sensitive. You'd be more likely to store it as fat, and so that fat storage will then turn and start to, turn into triglycerides, which basically that's potential energy that hasn't been used. And your body is not broken. It's not it's not doing that, by by accident.

00:14:47:03 - 00:15:02:01
Unknown
It's actually doing that by design, because your body is going to be thinking that you're in a state of survival because you're having all these stress responses coming in, you're eating a certain way or eating these foods are causing this, this stress response, potentially. And what your body's thinking is like, okay, well, we may not have food for a while.

00:15:02:01 - 00:15:15:18
Unknown
We may be going in a period of starvation. We may have a period where we have to fight and we might need to store this for for a later date. So your body's actually doing it by design because it's that's how we've survived at this point. Like the fact that you and I are all here is because our ancestors were great survivors.

00:15:15:18 - 00:15:34:15
Unknown
And so we have really good survival mechanisms that will get us to survive, but not help us to thrive. And thriving is a totally different conversation. That's where the sex hormones all come into play. And that's what people always think about when it comes to losing weight and being fit. But you can't you can't outwork your, in the gym, a bad diet and high inflammation and bad.

00:15:34:15 - 00:15:49:18
Unknown
So can you feel like you can't? You can't do that. You can't take supplements to to override that because that's just not how the body works. And so people kind of get caught up in this idea that that more is always better, and sometimes less is more. You know, when you're trying, especially for females, if you're trying to actually lose weight, sometimes doing less is going to help you get there.

00:15:49:20 - 00:16:14:19
Unknown
Let's talk about the circadian rhythm for a moment. There's a lot of people that are unclear on the best, like, well, what is the best way to be in alignment with that and to maximize that part of the natural part of ourselves and the way that we operate. So what should we be doing? The first thing you want to do is not drink fluoride, in your water, because fluoride is going to calcify your pineal gland, and your pineal gland is what interprets daylight and interprets the cycles throughout throughout your day.

00:16:14:19 - 00:16:35:14
Unknown
And so when you're when your body, when your eyes are seeing sun, it realizes, okay, it's daytime, let's, let's secrete let's make insulin more sensitive so we can take this energy and take it and convert it into ATP. But if it's if it's nighttime, you're also getting that signal to your brain to like, hey, let's, let's make more melatonin and decrease cortisol so that we can actually start to get into a state of rest and sleep.

00:16:35:16 - 00:16:55:26
Unknown
So people have to kind of understand that, you know, fluoride is in my opinion, it's, you know, I think it's a waste product of, of aluminum. And I think it was coming through a lot of people's, to farmers and things like that was getting the soil and kind of getting our waste, our water systems. But, more than that, I think this is where this is like, I'll get back to activism, but this is kind of an important thing to think about.

00:16:55:28 - 00:17:16:16
Unknown
What what fluoride really does. And I think this is where I think there's some level of intentionality maybe, as to why it's there, but, fluoride, I mean, we've seen the reports on how it reduces IQ. And really what it does is your consciousness is also being affected. And so your ability to to have critical thinking and, and not just be, open and just kind of be told, do what you're told.

00:17:16:18 - 00:17:33:29
Unknown
Having, a healthy pineal gland will allow you to kind of think deeply and to challenge, you know, these these ideas that maybe, are against the grain, against the narrative. And so, so many people are, I think, in our day and age, don't think those way. We're all kind of just zombies watching a TV. We're just kind of mind numbed all the time.

00:17:33:29 - 00:17:48:14
Unknown
And, you know, we saw it with Covid. We see it even now, like it's happening and even still, like, even if everything that's already happened, there's still people off or you're just like, how could you not wake up to all the things that have been happening? Like, how could you not see it? Well, like, I think I think physiologically they can't see it.

00:17:48:14 - 00:18:03:17
Unknown
Like I think there's a block there. So reducing or getting rid of fluoride in your water is a hugely important thing. Do you think that's the primary, source of fluoride and take us through water right now? Is there any other areas? It's a it's an a lot of things. It's the medications. Certain foods in some ways.

00:18:03:17 - 00:18:18:27
Unknown
But yeah, water is the primary one and it can only come it can only be absorbed through through ingesting it. It doesn't get absorbed through your skin, thankfully. What's the best way to get, water tests for fluoride? So there's like, like my tap scores a pretty good what is it? My top score. My tank top score.

00:18:18:27 - 00:18:32:03
Unknown
I'm not familiar with that score. Got it. Okay. Yeah. They'll they'll test your water, and you can just send it off and they'll tell you what's in there. But if it's if it's tap water, you can assume that there's fluoride in there. Toothpaste obviously has fluoride in it. Does. So we have a reverse osmosis system.

00:18:32:03 - 00:18:46:00
Unknown
Yeah. I've always had a matter of houses. Is that a great way to. Yeah. The only the only caveat there is just you got to add minerals back to your water. Yeah, but my wife does that I do not. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah, definitely the mean I'll speak to it. I like Baha gold, Celtic, seaside, sea salt. Those are all good options.

00:18:46:00 - 00:19:03:03
Unknown
But, if you do that, I take, I take a teaspoon of the Baha go my water. Yeah. So I don't, I don't add it. I don't add minerals to water every time I drink from reverse osmosis. But I do do a daily teaspoon of the. Yeah of the Celtic salt. Yeah. That's that's probably pretty good. I mean you could maybe do a couple more times throughout the day, but that's really good option.

00:19:03:03 - 00:19:19:29
Unknown
Okay. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of people I mean there's a whole salt conversation too. But getting back to circadian rhythm, so taking the fluoride out is really important. But other also I should say, fluoride also depletes iodine, which is really important. So we get a stomach. You're asking about the hypothyroidism thing on the golf course.

00:19:19:29 - 00:19:34:12
Unknown
Like, if you deplete iodine, you have a hard time making T4 hormones, which is helpful for, that's what your thyroid is trying to make is T4. And then you convert that T4 and T3, and then you get your T3 into your cell. And that's what helps the metabolism of energy. But fluoride will also deplete iodine.

00:19:34:12 - 00:19:55:22
Unknown
And a lot of our culture doesn't get nearly enough iodine because we've taken that out of our salt as well. You ionize salt? Not the thing anymore. So having I don't be a seaweed or a supplement to kind of, ensure that you're getting enough of iodine is really important. But also chlorine is another, halide, which is a part of this whole iodine and, fluoride and bromine family.

00:19:55:24 - 00:20:16:15
Unknown
They're all competing for absorption. So chlorine, is in your regular water as well. That gets absorbed through your skin. So if you're taking showers or long baths, like all that's getting absorbed into your, in your body. And so that that can be a big problem if you're doing that often or if you're a big swimmer and you're doing that a lot and you really need to make sure you're taking iodine and that you're also, so iodine counteracts that then.

00:20:16:19 - 00:20:38:08
Unknown
And by the way, if you're listening to this podcast, this is not for the person that, does not desire to improve physically or mentally or even emotionally. This is for the person that's like, hey, I would like to learn how to take care of my body better, right? So this is, really important critical information. Just giving that little, little notice out there like, this stuff is the real deal.

00:20:38:12 - 00:21:00:06
Unknown
Yeah. So regarding chlorine in the pool, so, so my my thought we have a saltwater pool, which basically means that that our, our, the, the saltwater cells convert, the salt into chlorine. So even though it's a saltwater pool, it's still chlorinated by, by the salt, but. Sure. So what is, is it okay to go swimming?

00:21:00:06 - 00:21:12:27
Unknown
And is that stuff absorbed into your skin? Right? I would believe so. Yeah, and I don't that's a I don't know the answer to that question, but I guess if it's if it's in product is going to be chlorine, then that would probably be a problem if you're doing it a lot. But but the nice thing is you can take.

00:21:12:27 - 00:21:30:19
Unknown
So if you take like selenium, selenium is really helpful to kind of protect your thyroid. It's also it's a it's also a trace mineral. So you can get it through the Baja Gold and things like that. So taking that or taking like a thyroid supplement that has iodine and tyrosine and selenium is really helpful. If you have a thyroid problem, how would somebody know if they have a thyroid problem.

00:21:30:20 - 00:21:51:18
Unknown
Problem. So I mean, most, most women do. Most women have a thyroid problem. Yeah, to a certain extent. And the problem is if you look at a conventional blood panel, the reference range is pretty wide. And so if you go to your doctor and say, hey, like, I'm having fatigue all you have to do to get that panel drawn is to say, doctor, I'm tired and I'm having some brain fog.

00:21:51:18 - 00:22:15:23
Unknown
Like, maybe my hair's thinning and they'll do a thyroid panel. And that kind of triggers that from a insurance perspective until they can justify that. But if you do that, you'll see a reference range. And typically, you know, most reference ranges is like 0.5 to 3.5 is what you look for on a TSH. Tsh marker. Optimal is more of like, 0.8 to like 1.8 to 2.

00:22:15:24 - 00:22:29:26
Unknown
And so you can kind of see that even though you're still in the range, you could still have like a suboptimal thyroid problem. And then if you wanted to go even a step further, you could check iodine, you can check selenium, you can check all these things specifically to see if you're deficient. But most people have some issues there, and especially women.

00:22:29:26 - 00:22:46:25
Unknown
Women have more issues than men. Yeah. I mean, what would be the what would be the symptom. So if if somebody is having a thyroid problem. So, loss of hair or thinning of hair, thinning of hair. Yeah. You could just even brain fog, slow motility. So motility, if you had, like, constipation a lot, obviously low energy, difficulty losing weight.

00:22:46:27 - 00:23:06:08
Unknown
You know, kind of a lot of common symptoms. You see, it's usually connected back to the thyroid. But the problem is your thyroid is is a master gland that's responding to everything around it. So it's responding to your environment. So if your environment is deficient or it has toxicity issues or you're consuming gluten in that is causing, an autoimmune response to then go after and attack your thyroid.

00:23:06:10 - 00:23:27:15
Unknown
All those things are things that you can fix. So we help women reverse our problems all the time because it's it's not all that complicated once you understand, like what's driving it. But in terms of conventional medicine, you'll get synthroid or levothyroxine, which is just T4 and that T4 is, is something stick. And the crazy thing about it is a lot of women that have issues with thyroid problems, they also have issues with gluten and dairy.

00:23:27:18 - 00:23:47:02
Unknown
And there's research has shown that if you cut out gluten, there's about a 90% reduction in symptoms. If you cut out dairy, there's like an 80% reduction in symptoms because those those foods you're consuming, again, they can cause issues with your actual thyroid tissue that your immune system then identifies as a problem. So your your body then goes after and attacks your thyroid tissue.

00:23:47:02 - 00:24:04:15
Unknown
And then you start seeing a reduction. And these enzymes known as TPO and TG, which you can check those as well. But you that's what you'll start seeing like Hashimoto's which is an autoimmune hypothyroid condition. Yeah. The amount of autoimmune diseases right now skyrocketing are skyrocketing. I mean, are you following that at all as far as. Oh, yeah.

00:24:04:15 - 00:24:21:09
Unknown
I mean, we primarily what I, what we help our clients with is autoimmune issues. And so, but yeah, I mean, women are, you know, 5 to 8 times more likely to have these issues for men. And it really is so sad. Yeah. And I hate seeing that. Obviously my wife. Right. Jessica, she's dealing with her autoimmune disease and Lyme disease.

00:24:21:09 - 00:24:41:03
Unknown
And it's just a total, very difficult, very difficult process because there's not the very rarely is there a clear way out. Yeah. And so it's for autoimmune and there are ways right. Which is how you support people. But you know I always wonder why why why it is that way. Right. Because as men are just in general, they don't necessarily take better care of their bodies.

00:24:41:03 - 00:24:58:01
Unknown
Right. However, women tend to be more susceptible to disease. Yeah. So women perceive stress about 40% more than men. Yeah, yeah. And I think that's a huge factor. We're kind of letting this in the golf course too. But men's role in this whole thing of of offloading some responsibilities from their wife and understanding kind of what they're up against.

00:24:58:01 - 00:25:14:00
Unknown
Then the women are also more likely to seek out care, but they're also, you know, they have this caregiver syndrome where they give of themselves to where there's nothing left. Right. And so, I mean, my wife right now, like we have a seven month old baby and I've seen it in her all the time. Like she's she's constantly just she has nothing, hardly anything left in the tank.

00:25:14:00 - 00:25:28:27
Unknown
And she's staying up late with the baby and the baby's crying. She goes and feeds them and, you know, holds his hand. And there's all this stuff. And I'm just kind of like, man, can we get that baby to be quiet so we can just go to sleep? And she just, like, exhausted the other part of her that's like, she she helped to make that, you know, him and her body.

00:25:28:27 - 00:25:50:10
Unknown
And she has like a deeper level of connection to him than I do. And I think with all the kids, she feels that way. And so I think God created them that way on purpose. There's not a it's not a mistake, but knowing that like, we have to then be extra considerate of offloading those responsibilities really important. And that's, a lot of times we refer to the way men treat women as being donkeys.

00:25:50:10 - 00:26:07:29
Unknown
Yeah. So being donkeys in the way that they will king men will continue to pile stuff on and the wife will continue to bear. Yeah. That burden. Right. Except the husband's not taking care of the schoolwork. The wife will take care of the kids schoolwork, like. Right. So if the if the man isn't showing up, the woman bears that responsibility.

00:26:07:29 - 00:26:30:05
Unknown
Yeah. And and the downside is stress. Yeah. Women. Women operate differently under stress than men do. Right? We have broader shoulders. Were built to hold more stress, less. And I don't think guys realize that. That's why I desire for my wife to not have to work. Right. I don't want my wife to have to work, because I know the level of stress that sometimes those things can have on her.

00:26:30:05 - 00:26:48:08
Unknown
So if there's a way where she can have less stress, man, I'm I will do everything, but I will apply all the stress necessary to be able to provide for her so she can have less stress because I know it affects her body. Right? Like I see it, I actually see and I see when she stressed out and I see how it negatively affects her.

00:26:48:08 - 00:27:13:03
Unknown
Yeah. So I think a lot of guys are missing that point. They just they're all being goofballs, messing around, hanging out with their buddies, getting wasted or sedating with alcohol or otherwise handling dinner and handling the kids and handling everything. And yeah, there's, there's a big gap there. And that was me for a little while. Not necessarily sitting with alcohol, but there was there was a point where I yeah, I would just disregard tasks that needed to get done, and then they would end up piling on my wife's.

00:27:13:04 - 00:27:29:13
Unknown
Yeah, right. And then she would be stressed for and and again it did, it did it did take a toll. Yeah I'm sure. Yeah. And there's also a good but you know aspect to think about in terms of, you know, there's this really I can remember his name. But he wrote this book called White Nights and Reviling Wives.

00:27:29:15 - 00:27:42:28
Unknown
And I listen to podcasts. He was talking about it, but he was talking about how, you know, a lot of the, you know, the pastors, the men in the church we have like this, like, white night mentality of like, men are bad and women are like poor, you know, things that everything's been done to them and they're victims and all this stuff.

00:27:42:28 - 00:28:10:14
Unknown
But there is also this like reviling wife component to this that we have to be mindful of within the relationship of men, men, men, wives are it's like women are going to want to to take leadership like if you look at Adam and Eve, like that was kind of the whole passivity thing, right? Like Adam, like let her make that decision because he was passive and you kind of just gave that responsibility to her when the reality is, like, God put us as headship over our household and over our wives, and not in a dominating way, not in a dismissive, unloving way.

00:28:10:14 - 00:28:27:00
Unknown
Like that's not at all what it is, but being a true leader, is hard. Like, it's very difficult to to love your family. Love your wife. Well, and it's hard, I think, for women to respect their husbands, especially when, number one, we don't always earn it or deserve it. Like, sometimes it has to be given even though it's not earned.

00:28:27:00 - 00:28:42:14
Unknown
And same thing with our our wives, that we have to love them even though they may not deserve it. But I think not having that dynamic within a relationship, at least from my experience, like that's where I think a lot of this responsibility thing gets passed on to where it's like, yeah, you don't respect me anyway. So just you take that like, I'm not going to do that.

00:28:42:14 - 00:28:55:25
Unknown
I'm assuming you do it. You don't. You don't seem to care anyway. So I'm gonna go do I mean, we have my buddies and be a goofball, but, like, I think if there is this love and respect component, I do think that'll be a lot more impactful on the family and also the health of the men and the women.

00:28:55:27 - 00:29:11:29
Unknown
So interesting how this is full circle, right? They we respect and love each other directly. It plays into our health. It's hard. Yeah. Right. And our well-being. So it's all it's all a critical part of this is we're a whole them right. Living a holistic life like play. Yeah. Is a key a key part. Right. And we talk about the four pillars.

00:29:11:29 - 00:29:35:18
Unknown
Faith, family, fitness and finances. Right. So faith is the key foundation of everything. And then we have family the relationships loving respecting this the way we operate. Then we have fitness or health like all these things in and then also our finances. Right. Not a big deal. Us being. Yeah that's being us being able to take care of our families and be able to provide great food for our family like this all at all.

00:29:35:18 - 00:30:02:26
Unknown
So it all ties it. Yeah. It's hard stuff. I mean, I think that's where there's there's a lot of grace that can be had for, for wherever you are in your walk of, like, healing. There's a lot of grace there because it's not easy. And I think especially in our culture, where it doesn't encourage these kind of behaviors, encourages, you know, feminist behaviors and effeminate churches and pastors and, and just like, masculinity is toxic and all this stuff and eating healthy food is like a, you know, a conservative thing.

00:30:02:26 - 00:30:24:11
Unknown
And it's like, no, eating healthy food is a human thing. You know, like loving your wife is a human thing. And I think, our culture is, is really a death cult, of, of pushing things like abortion and transhumanism and, you know, you know, transgenderism and all these different things where it's like it's taking away of, like, who we are as God's creation and who we are intended to be.

00:30:24:11 - 00:30:41:21
Unknown
And like that, to me, is like the biggest under root cause. It's like, that's the biggest root cause as to why our culture is in such a confused, confused state. Because like, we're getting it from the top down all the time of like, this is how you know, life should be and and forget that stuff about the biblical stuff about what God teaches you.

00:30:41:21 - 00:30:58:29
Unknown
And like God, is God even real? You know, all these different questions. They raise the kids and and parents and it's just like there's so much of a death cult because that God is life and they they hate life like they hate God. And I think that's that's really what I see in terms of health care, is that it's not even that people are ignorant.

00:30:59:02 - 00:31:22:11
Unknown
From the top down, I think there's, there's truly a, a culture that that hates life. And you start seeing it when you see how they use pharmaceuticals and how they use, you know, we have we have the worst infant mortality rate in the world. You know, we have like, I think probably the second or first, maternal mortality rate in the world, like, so moms and babies die more often here, during birth than any of the world.

00:31:22:11 - 00:31:36:04
Unknown
Yeah, like we have. Like, if it's not if it's not number one, it's number two. Like, it's it's up there. Well, we also have like the 66th, overall quality of health in the world. And we spend the most amount of money on, on health. And so it's I think there is a financial incentive obviously to, to keep people sick.

00:31:36:04 - 00:31:53:18
Unknown
But more than that, when you really start looking at this kind of depopulation agenda that you start seeing from these world world leaders and the World Economic Forum in places like that, they really are pretty outspoken about we need to depopulate and the world needs to be smaller. And, we have too many people and, we need to we need to control that, and we control it through vaccines.

00:31:53:18 - 00:32:07:27
Unknown
We control it through abortion. We control it through poor health. And and it's really I mean, it makes me furious when I, when I think about it. Because if you really kind of boil down to what the root of it is, that's what I think it is. And that's where I feel like it's worth. It's a fight worth fighting for sure.

00:32:08:00 - 00:32:29:22
Unknown
Man it's so good. Yeah. It's interesting as we move away as, as our culture and our society moves away from God, we start losing just basic decency and morality, which is what you talk about life. Right. You said they actually hate life. I think about it, and we get desensitized to these things. Right. So there's a the water liquid death.

00:32:29:24 - 00:32:52:23
Unknown
And so it's super interesting. So I don't know if you're aware, but there's a video that shows them praying. Oh, have you heard? Oh, man, I don't think I've seen this. Oh, wow. So liquid death they have. Oh, the actual company. The actual company that makes the water blowing up. Yeah. Huge company. Yeah. So they actually bring a witch and and that witch praise death over the water, like, sprays over the water and bring spears into the water.

00:32:52:23 - 00:33:09:19
Unknown
And does this entire process that someone caught on camera. Wow. I did not know this. And then they actually just came out with a new a new whole thing where you can join the liquid Death program. They're, they're like, partnership, not partnership. They're, membership. Yeah. And to become a member, the way to become a member is you sell your soul.

00:33:09:19 - 00:33:26:29
Unknown
There's actually a written document that you have to sign. It explains all these things about how you're giving rights to your soul. And there's, I think, probably over a half a million people that have sold their soul to, to death to be able to have some of these free privileges. It's just, I mean, that's crazy. It's just a twisted, weird way.

00:33:26:29 - 00:33:50:00
Unknown
Like, I mean, even the name Liquid Death, like this obsession that, hey, we no longer care about life. It's just this. Well, yeah, life is meaningless if you don't have God, right? Right. And as a Christian, right, we know our body is a vessel, right? We know our body is very important. Right? Yet when you walk away from God, like our bodies just this, this tool that can be used for whatever and whatever sin is, whatever sin is out there.

00:33:50:00 - 00:34:05:07
Unknown
So it's a it's a real. Yeah, it's I see the the death cult, is is a real deal. Yeah, yeah. And I think again, no, no, you know. No the enemy and kind of know what you're up against and I like it's not to, it's not even a left versus right conversation. Like it's it's just a life versus death conversation.

00:34:05:07 - 00:34:22:16
Unknown
And and I think again, it gets back to like what our purposes as Christians and, and all that, what, what supplements back to, back to actually, before I dive into that. Yeah.

00:34:22:18 - 00:34:47:13
Unknown
What would you say is leading to the, allergy pandemic? Right. So I, I have personally a few different allergies, right. My, one of my kids has, egg allergy. Yeah. And that's allergy. Jessica just got a milk allergy. Egg allergy. Right? I mean, it is just a it's an app. Some people, it's not talked about enough, but I feel like it's a full it's a full on epidemic of of the amount of people that are sensitive and allergic to things now.

00:34:47:14 - 00:35:18:02
Unknown
Yeah. So what do you think is leading to that. Well, I mean really what it is, is, hyper reactive immune system. That's kind of the they're the response that's happening, but that doesn't justify, like, why the immune system is hyper reactive. So it kind of what I was saying before with the GMOs and kind of things are coming in like the way they're changing food, doesn't help that situation, but kind of like we were saying before with the, with the eggs during our meal was, you know, how they use a lot of these egg based proteins to, to put into vaccines and different, vaccines as, as adjuvants so

00:35:18:02 - 00:35:37:15
Unknown
that they can then, deliver it and they can kind of create some kind of immune system response. The problem is, if you have that, if you had a vaccine that had that in there, or you had something else in your vaccine that would that would then trigger immune system response, whatever was in there could then also become like a sensitivity to your immune system, to where if you're eating it, you know, your immune system is like, hey, this is a foreign invader.

00:35:37:15 - 00:35:57:09
Unknown
Like, we should get this out and go after and attack it so you can see that component. I'm saying with the peanuts, that's kind of a big issue with peanuts. It seems same kind of thing. And then you also just looking at, you know, the vaccine schedules increased like threefold. You know, it went from, you know, like 18 shots to like 72 shots over the course of, you know, like 11 years in a child's lifetime.

00:35:57:09 - 00:36:13:24
Unknown
Diculous. Yeah. And absolutely out of control. And so that's going to create more of this immune system hyperactivity. And then you have other, other heavy metals in there that create more problems. So we were kind of alluding to before, but yeah, that that's primarily my, my estimation as to why that's happening, but I don't know for sure if.

00:36:13:24 - 00:36:34:10
Unknown
Do you back, vaccinate your kids? No, no, not at all. No, I used to. We used to. We, Yeah, we our first two, we did, like, a modified delayed schedule. And we did it. That also did a couple of them. And then once I started looking into the stuff more because even even at that time, I was, I was more of, like, a skeptic of vaccines at that point.

00:36:34:13 - 00:36:48:06
Unknown
And so that's why we're kind of like, I we'll do a couple. We only did a few, but our last two, we haven't done any. And I don't plan to. If you look at books like Turtles All the Way down or, learn from people like, Doctor Suzanne Humphreys, I believe her name is. Or even RFK spoke.

00:36:48:06 - 00:37:04:09
Unknown
He did. I doubt you'll vaccinate your kids any further. Because a lot of the vaccines that they're testing, they never test them against the placebo, the salt pill, they're tests are a saline solution. They're testing them against, other vaccines. And so you're getting this comparison of, like, well, this this is the vaccine that we had.

00:37:04:09 - 00:37:21:11
Unknown
Let's just say for polio back when. And now we've kind of had some new variations from from that time on. Let's test the new the new vaccine versus the old vaccine and see if there's any change. And so if you're if you're comparing like a vaccine to a vaccine, but not to a placebo, you won't really get good data on on its safety and effectiveness.

00:37:21:11 - 00:37:34:28
Unknown
And so it's really a manipulated way to, to test it and to say it's safe and effective. But that that is a big lie that's been told over and over again and just like the Nazis did back in the 40s, like if you tell a big lie over and over again, people start to believe it and don't question it.

00:37:35:01 - 00:37:59:04
Unknown
And that's what's happened to vaccines is like it's people say vaccines are potentially harmful. People like vaccines are safe and effective. It's like it's just like a robotic response. It's not even like, well, how do you know if you like, ask all the doctors, like, I interview doctor, Joel Marsh, she's a pediatrician out in, LA, and he's even kind of he's like one of the first ones in this conventional pediatric pediatric world who's started to really ask the question of like, are these safe and effective?

00:37:59:04 - 00:38:12:23
Unknown
And so he started doing his own research, and he's just like, your mind would be blown if you realize, like, the research is such garbage that like, you can't you can't say it's safe and effective because they don't even know that. But that's the lie that's being told to to everybody. Because vaccines make billions and billions of dollars.

00:38:12:23 - 00:38:31:16
Unknown
But not only that, they create customers for the rest of their life because there have always sicknesses and issues beyond that. Well, I remember, going to get our son vaccinated and we we told the doctor, we said, hey, so we want to spread out the vaccinations, right? We don't want three or 4 or 5 or, at this one.

00:38:31:16 - 00:38:51:02
Unknown
Right. We can we spread this out. And the doctor, they thought us well, like, they they were very, like, actually visibly upset that we wanted to spread out. So they're like, hey, so you're not doing this vaccine right now or we're not doing this vaccine right now? Yeah. Are you sure? Do you know the consequence? I mean, they were they push back.

00:38:51:02 - 00:39:05:21
Unknown
So yeah, it was really interesting. So I feel I feel for parents that are confused in this space. Like should I vaccinate my kids that when the doctors are so pro-vaccine. Yeah, it's varied and, and it's very difficult to push against them. You feel like a bad parent, right, pushing against these vaccines. But it's it's a real deal.

00:39:05:21 - 00:39:28:11
Unknown
They push these things so hard. And they have again there's yeah, there's a lot of there's good reason of why they push these things. It's not for the health and benefit. Maybe some doctors truly believe in them. Yeah. But there's there's definitely, incentives. Well, and I would say, most doctors, probably over probably 95% of them, truly believe that it's safe and effective.

00:39:28:11 - 00:39:46:25
Unknown
And it's a good thing. It's not even a malicious intent. It's the incentives behind getting a vaccine. Like there are bonuses that you can get from certain programs. And things like Blue Cross Blue Shield offers. But that's that's not enough to, to, you know, to for them to then be that aggressive towards it like they're making enough money already.

00:39:46:25 - 00:40:01:27
Unknown
But it's really they really, truly believe because the problem is that where could they be so naive though? I mean, when you really look at the data and the information they don't look at it is they don't look at the data. You know, it's so it's a it's a bunch of chemicals, right, that they're inputting into a, a six month old baby.

00:40:02:00 - 00:40:25:12
Unknown
Yeah. One year old baby. That's like, it makes I mean, common sense would say that it's not ideal for their little system. Yeah. So there's, like, silos in in healthcare and in science and science too, where it's like you're in your silo and like, you're an expert in this field and you have your standard of care that like you're supposed to stick to, if you go beyond that, you could get, you know, accused of malpractice and you could lose your license and all this stuff.

00:40:25:12 - 00:40:42:07
Unknown
So you stay in your silo, as a doctor, you know, you're looking at like, okay, so, like, information is coming down for me from from the top, from the, from the experts in the field. And so the experts are the people, those scientist that are studying these things and are actually in that in that field doing that.

00:40:42:09 - 00:41:04:16
Unknown
Me as a clinician, I'm not studying it, but I, I've been trained as in a hierarchal system of like, you know, this expert, I should take their word for it. I'm an expert in this field. They should take my word for it. And so there's all this kind of like, narrow mindedness that occurs. So whenever information is coming down from from the top, you don't question it because in the way you're trained, it's you're trying to think that like if you don't know it, then nobody else knows it.

00:41:04:17 - 00:41:22:04
Unknown
Like it's not been proven. It's not safe. And so the first, you know, objective is to do no harm. And so you're not going to do anything that's going to cause any harm. And if you think that vaccines have been studied well enough to say that they're safe and effective, because that's been the narrative, then why would you go out and study it yourself and do a deeper dive when that's that's what you're told?

00:41:22:04 - 00:41:41:05
Unknown
And why would you distrust that? Because you're the expert like or they're the expert. So it really creates this big issue of, just an inability to critically think for yourself. And most people don't have time to go research it properly to actually understand what's involved with all this stuff. But it's it's complicated, you know, I mean, there's complicated and there's significant consequences.

00:41:41:06 - 00:41:59:25
Unknown
Absolutely. Right. Yeah. Specifically around vaccines. Yeah. I believe and I believe you believe that too little. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Damage that's done. Yeah. Yeah. The the autism rates. Yeah. Rates to talk about those for a moment. Yeah. I mean you, you can read about this and they'll say, well we're, you know, we're we have broader spectrums of classification to determine autism.

00:41:59:25 - 00:42:32:12
Unknown
We're doing more testing. There's more awareness, all that stuff. And that is probably true. But when you go from like 1 in 25, 100 to 1 in 35, it's not just that like there's other environmental factors or, potentially vaccine factors that are contributing to this neuro inflammatory problem. And it's not that hard of, it's not that far of a stretch to, to think that injecting something like aluminum and mercury that can combine with each other and some of these vaccines don't even have, you know, aluminum and aluminum in them anymore, like they have they've kind of gotten rid of some of that stuff, but they still have these heavy metals,

00:42:32:12 - 00:42:55:24
Unknown
these other toxins that are known to be problematic for the gut health. And if you understand anything about gut health, you understand that there's this entire nervous system that can occur between your gut and your brain. There's this axis that they all work upon. So just like you can get a leaky gut where you can get things gastrointestinal, your intestinal permeability, this barrier that your body creates, you can also have a leaky brain barrier to where you can start getting things passed through, and it can get in your brain.

00:42:55:26 - 00:43:14:15
Unknown
And that's where you can start seeing this neuro inflammatory problem, especially with like aluminum that comes through, environment, but also potentially vaccines. So it is a problem for sure. What would you say for people that, are looking to level up their health. Right. Maybe maybe they're in a preventative way, but also maybe they're experiencing some different symptoms.

00:43:14:15 - 00:43:44:14
Unknown
Like what? What's a good process? Where do they start? Yeah. So what we do with our clients is we'll start on a like elimination diet. So we want to figure out what foods are consuming that would be contributing to this, inflammatory problem or this, immune system hyperactivity issues. So we walk walking through elimination diet. We get them on, some foundational supplements, like, obviously vitamin D, D3 with K2, magnesium, glycine, typically omega three fatty acids, which, you want about 600mg of EPA and per dose if you can, there's some really good brands that offer that.

00:43:44:16 - 00:43:59:00
Unknown
And then you want to make sure I, I typically want people to be on to be complex just because, as we're saying before within TFR, that genetic polymorphism. Yeah. And talk about that for a moment. Yeah. So you've spent some time some good time with Gary Brook. And he, he does a lot of, yeah.

00:43:59:03 - 00:44:19:04
Unknown
He shares a lot about the MT FH r and. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So the so explain, explain what that is and explain how that could be affecting people. Yeah. So it's, it's passed down. So that is truly is genetic. And so about about 60% of the female population has him for I think maybe about 30 or 40% of the male population.

00:44:19:04 - 00:44:37:09
Unknown
It has a gene mutation. It's a it's a polymorphisms. Yeah. So it's called a snip. To where basically the the gene doesn't function like it should. And what what that means is that you don't methylation. So methylation is a process that's happening like 300 billion times a second. Or it's like it's it's ongoing all the time. So you have two methyl if you don't methyl that you die.

00:44:37:11 - 00:45:06:23
Unknown
But methylation is also important for like detoxification DNA repair, producing neurotransmitters like serotonin, helping to, you know, with mood and sleep and, and, thyroid health like all these things. It's super involved in that. And so if you don't methylation you don't detox. And so usually people have issues consuming like folic acid. And as we were saying before, like if you're a lot of things are, you know, being spread of folic acid or it's synthetic form of folate, which fully it's great not the folate is, better, but folic acid synthetic.

00:45:06:23 - 00:45:19:23
Unknown
And so it's a lot of foods. It's in a lot of prenatal vitamins. It's in a lot of multivitamins. You'll see folic acid if it's in any of your supplements just toss it out like it's so it's really yeah. Like I that's one thing that I, I try to avoid as much as I can because I do have an image of arc.

00:45:19:25 - 00:45:38:07
Unknown
And so I take a b-complex that's methylated. And so that basically means that it's like the, the most absorbable form of B12 and folate and B6. And so that can help you to detox and make energy and all these things so people can see, really see like a life changing experience just by taking a methylated B complex if they had them too far.

00:45:38:10 - 00:45:53:17
Unknown
And you can go get a test request or your doctor, well, your doctor may not be able, may not want to or be able to, but you can get it done privately if you want to through your own quest lab locations nearby nearby. But it's a simple gene test. Get that done. You can rule it out, but at the very minimum, you could you could price.

00:45:53:17 - 00:46:10:15
Unknown
And you need to be complex. Preferably methylated. And then that will that help to solve that problem for sure. Again what's a symptom of that, of that problem. So you're having a hard time. Yeah. But what would be a symptom. Yeah I mean that has that mutation. It could be something as simple as brain fog and low energy.

00:46:10:15 - 00:46:26:17
Unknown
It could be something as simple as you're starting to get like you know, rashes or you're not. You're seeing like, eczema. You're starting to see, maybe even joint pain. Like, you just don't feel, you feel inflamed, you feel puffy. Like just a lot of people feel that way in general. So yeah, the first step is to get people feeling better.

00:46:26:17 - 00:46:43:27
Unknown
So like in our program, our first objective within the first month is that they they feel well enough to where they can see the comparison of like, wow. Like I was feeling like like crap for so long that when you start feeling better, it's kind of like this moment of like, wow, I didn't know I could feel this way again.

00:46:44:00 - 00:46:58:24
Unknown
And then once you start feeling that way, then we start to challenge our immune system with new foods to kind of see how they're responding. Because if they're feeling well and you bring something in, they don't feel well anymore. Like you kind of know, like this is a trigger for your immune system. But usually if you take a methylated b-complex, with these other supplements I mentioned, you should start noticing that.

00:46:59:01 - 00:47:18:08
Unknown
And those are something I recommend to everybody. Like, I think everyone, for the most part, should be taking those. There's a few contraindications here and there. If you're like on blood thinners, you shouldn't be taking a ton of omega threes. But for the most part, most people should be taking those. And if you check your vitamin D levels, if you check, you know, mostly vitamin D to make sure you're not toxic and taking too much.

00:47:18:09 - 00:47:36:29
Unknown
Otherwise it's pretty benign. Like you're not really going to be inducing much risk or taking those, in every human body, I think would thrive more if they had those on in their system. So that's kind of foundation. And then from there, what we start focusing on is in phase two is we start focusing on like detoxing parasites and getting their gut health in alignment.

00:47:37:01 - 00:47:55:16
Unknown
Because all people have parasites and parasites, they affect your immune system by they deactivate this one part of your white blood cell that, is responsible for pathogens and viruses and bacteria. And so this is why I think ivermectin was helpful during Covid is because it's an anti-parasitic drug. It's pharmaceutical drug, but it does help to kill off parasites.

00:47:55:16 - 00:48:13:16
Unknown
And so if you're killing our parasites, you're theoretically bolstering your immune system so they can go after viruses and bacteria. But if you have a bunch of parasites, you're likely experiencing, a lot more, a higher rate of, autoimmune issues because your, your immune system is just, being turned off, essentially. And so some parasites can be good.

00:48:13:18 - 00:48:31:29
Unknown
Most of them aren't. Most people have too many, and they're out of balance. And so we would do a parasitic cleanse in that second month. But you have to kind of prep the body for that. So there's kind of some steps we have people take. And then we move it into like a systemic detox of like their liver and cleansing heavy metals and kind of going down that route, but that's kind of towards the end of it, because again, you want to make sure they're ready for that kind of stuff.

00:48:31:29 - 00:48:48:25
Unknown
You don't want to do that too soon because people can feel pretty sick and crummy if they're detoxing too quickly and they're not ready for it. And so there's some steps to follow. For sure. Got it. Yeah. Got it. Yeah. We went through a detox we have with Jessica. Detox is she gets, Yeah, it can be.

00:48:48:27 - 00:49:03:02
Unknown
It can be intense depending on. So some people's bodies don't do as well with detox. Right, right. It can be they can have rashes and a lot of stuff kind of it can end up happening. But detox is such a critical part of. Yeah it's it's necessary. Yeah. How often should one detox like do do go through or detox.

00:49:03:02 - 00:49:19:01
Unknown
Yeah. And so so I always I always clarifying this because I technically said we're detoxing right now. And there's day to day detoxification where it's simply like you have a hydrate. You could have a bowel movement every day. Like I got a you got a sweat, I'm going to pee. You know, so if you aren't doing those things, like you got to breathe air, you breathe CO2 out.

00:49:19:04 - 00:49:41:15
Unknown
That's all detoxification by definition. But, if you're doing, like, more of a systemic detox, like I was referring to, I think at least annually, maybe biannually, it just kind of depends on where you're at and how you're feeling. But if you're feeling feeling pretty good, I would say probably annually would be insufficient. And what's what are some supplements that people should not be taking.

00:49:41:17 - 00:49:58:15
Unknown
That's a good question. We were just talking about this in my, my community group. Alpha lipoic acid is one that can, pull heavy metals, pretty strongly. And so if again, if you're not ready for that, you can be pulling heavy metals like so Mercury in your mouth is a heavy metal. That's that. I have one in my mouth and you get rid of.

00:49:58:15 - 00:50:13:07
Unknown
But that's a big problem for a lot of people, is they have a mouth full of mercury and they need like, gold caps. And those those metals can interact and cause problems. So if you're taking like alpha lipoic acid and high to high doses, it can be pulling out too much too quickly. And that can make people really sick or even kill them.

00:50:13:09 - 00:50:28:12
Unknown
And I don't know if people like, actually die from taking alpha lipoic acid, but, like, that's one to be cautious with. There's a lady in Denver who had, she was seeing a dentist, and she pulled out. They pulled out too many of her mercury fillings at once and actually killed her from the off gassing because it was just too, too strong.

00:50:28:15 - 00:50:43:24
Unknown
And so you got to be careful. That kind of stuff. It can't get trapped in your brain. It's. That can cause issues with your your neural health as well. But alphabet book has to be one. I think people will waste a lot of money on probiotics. Probiotics are can be good, but a lot of them are insufficient.

00:50:43:24 - 00:50:57:25
Unknown
And they're active live cultures. And so they're not actually all that effective and they're not even getting really pasteurized in your small intestine. So what are some what are some good ones. Because we take some probiotics. My wife's done a lot of research on it. I don't recall which ones we take, but what what are some of what are some good ones?

00:50:57:26 - 00:51:14:21
Unknown
Oh, man. So I so this isn't technically a probiotic, but Akerman is like, it kind of like, helps the soil in your in your gut, terrain. And so acromion is a is a newer thing people are taking that I think is a pretty good option to kind of just, allow your microbiome to kind of balance itself out.

00:51:14:23 - 00:51:38:24
Unknown
A lot of people we're starting to see are having deficiencies, like completely of Bifidobacterium, which Bifidobacterium is kind of absolutely necessary for life. And it's also one of the things that I have on my covet protocol, which is from, Peter McAuliffe. They kind of talked about how bit of a bacterium was a super important strain of bacteria for, again, for, for your immune system, because most of your immune system is in your gut, about two thirds of it is coming from your gut.

00:51:38:27 - 00:51:54:01
Unknown
And so I like kind of looking at specifics of like, what what are you potentially deficient in by doing a stool test and seeing like, are they blowing Bifidobacterium or that low and, lactobacillus. Are they low in butyrate or like what are they having issues with? And you can kind of be specific with taking high doses of those things.

00:51:54:03 - 00:52:09:07
Unknown
But otherwise really what you want to focus on, in my opinion, is you want to have, really good eating hygiene, like slow down, eat your food slowly at a table, pray before a meal, don't drink a bunch of water with your meal can help to, affect your stomach acid a little bit to where you may not break things down as well.

00:52:09:07 - 00:52:31:17
Unknown
So you're getting they should drink water after or before about 20 minutes, 20 minutes before or after and just sipping to help you. Swallows. Yeah. Good idea. But, But yeah, chewing. Chewing 20 or 30 times a meal or per by putting your fork down. Like those things that are so again, common and basic that most people don't do has a huge effect on your your body's ability to actually break these foods down and get them into your small intestine to where they're in their, their form.

00:52:31:17 - 00:53:01:08
Unknown
That cannot be then feeding bacteria, because if you're feeding bacteria things that they want that promote, imbalanced microbiome or imbalanced diversity, then you start seeing like, you know, dysbiosis, which is just imbalanced microbiome bacteria. So that's where I would rather start with and making sure that you have good biosynthesis. So if you don't have a gallbladder, taking things like ox bile, can help you to, synthesize more bile and bile is really helpful for cleaning up your your intestinal, tract and all that.

00:53:01:08 - 00:53:24:19
Unknown
Well, what does that sense, considering that a majority of our immune system right, stems from our gut, or there's their involvement in that process somehow. What, what does the most damage to gut health? What are some things that people do that, really damages the gut? Taking things like aspirin, you know, ibuprofen, having high stress, having poor eating hygiene.

00:53:24:21 - 00:53:45:24
Unknown
Nightshades can be, like, black pepper can cause perforation in your testicle lining. And so it can, that's why a lot of supplements will have black pepper, because it can help to increase absorption of those things you're taking, but it's actually causing, like, micro damage to your small intestine. Well, so nightshades are one you can be mindful of, obviously processed foods and processed, you know, seed oils, all that stuff is, is going to be pro-inflammatory.

00:53:45:24 - 00:53:59:24
Unknown
So, like, that's never going to be good for your gut. And then really. Yeah. Just making sure you're hydrate. If you're not hydrated, you're not going to have consistent bowel movements. And you start getting constipated and you don't filter out toxins, and then you start getting, bacteria in your colon that can go into your small intestine.

00:53:59:24 - 00:54:28:13
Unknown
You get things like Sibo, which is small intestinal bacteria overgrowth. And so there's things like that that can occur. But for the most part, I think it's yeah, probably I think for most people it's they're taking too many Tums, or like PPI medications to suppress stomach acid. And then they're what is, what should they. So if you have significant stomach acid, what would be what's the best either, way to fix that permanently or to, to temporarily.

00:54:28:14 - 00:54:46:09
Unknown
Yeah. So all of it, it's it's actually an issue for most people. It's an issue of insufficient stomach acid. And so they're taking a PPI because when, when food comes in, the stomach acid supposed to be so acidic and it's actually more acidic than I think we have more acidic stomach acid than like, dogs, like we have very strong acidity by design.

00:54:46:11 - 00:55:06:03
Unknown
So acidity isn't the problem. Like, people have two basic of stomach acid. It's not the silica, not so the food sits in there too long. It doesn't break down fast enough, mostly because again, they have poor eating hygiene or they have, they're drinking water or whatever the case is. Some like that will that will delay the breakdown in your food so it can't get in your small intestine fast enough.

00:55:06:03 - 00:55:29:07
Unknown
And so that starts to put it starts to gurgle and put pressure on your esophageal sphincter. And that's when it opens up. And that's when you get like an acid reflux response. But it's not because you have too much acid. For most people, it's because they have too little acidity. And so you want to make sure that if you are in a PPI, it depends on like, yeah, proton pump inhibitors, like, aerosol, Nexium, these medications that are people take, they pop them like they're supposed to be a medication.

00:55:29:07 - 00:55:53:19
Unknown
That was a short term use in case you have like a stomach ulcer. Yeah. Or a hiatal hernia or something like that. And so people that that was their original design, but people start taking them long term, but they're never meant to be taken long term because of this whole stomach acid issue. So people take them long term, because they have stomach acid, but a lot of foods can trigger, like nitrates again, or tomatoes, things like that can trigger that kind of, allergic, not allergic, but that acid reflux response.

00:55:53:19 - 00:56:14:21
Unknown
So there's kind of a combination of like eliminating certain foods that can trigger that, you know, not eating too close to bedtime and then also making sure they're eating a calm environment and then not drink bunch much water so you can actually digest it. Well. And then there is a product you can take if you don't have a high level hernia or, stomach ulcers, you can take betaine HDL, which is actually betaine, hydrogen, hydrochloride, hydrochloric acid.

00:56:14:21 - 00:56:27:11
Unknown
And so it's actually like stomach acid. So you can take that to help your body to break things, break things down fast enough. And once you kind of wean yourself down from that product, you can get your point where you don't need it anymore and you can kind of get off it. So you don't recommend taking Tums? Not.

00:56:27:12 - 00:56:38:15
Unknown
No. I mean, not unless you have like a stomach ulcer or like a really, really good reason for. But most people know like that's not a good idea. So you want to tell if you're on a PPI, you don't want to just stop it. You want it because if you stop it, you're gonna have like a rebound effect with your stomach acid.

00:56:38:15 - 00:56:53:26
Unknown
So you want to kind of wean down gradually over the course of a few weeks. And then once you're off it, then you can do some, like the botanical. And there's a whole protocol I have for that. But it's really a simple process. So really important though. It's great man. I love your, intelligence around this. These topics is so critical.

00:56:53:26 - 00:57:15:23
Unknown
And your your stories, we should probably talk about your story first. But it's a great it's a great story. As far as why you got into this space. So let's let's share that briefly. Why did you become a doctor? Why are you helping people in this way? Well, yeah, I mean, so as I was saying before, on the golf course, you know, a lot of people in my life were sick for a long time.

00:57:15:23 - 00:57:31:13
Unknown
My brother had cancer when he was 14. I was 12. That was obviously transformative and in a very powerful way, just seeing kind of what he went through and and asking a lot of questions of, of why they're doing certain things and him going through chemo and radiation and just seeing like the destruction had on his body.

00:57:31:13 - 00:57:48:15
Unknown
And like that left a pretty big scar, I think, just for me to kind of like, not want people to have to go through that. And then because of that, in my opinion, you know, my parents had a lot of tremendous amount of stress, like financial stress. And then just, you know, the stress of just almost losing your child like he was on the brink of death.

00:57:48:15 - 00:58:02:14
Unknown
And the cool part of that, that story was, we were living in Iowa at the time we moved to Utah. My parents weren't really sure. I remember new time. My dad got a job out there, and they just it's a big move. And people from Iowa typically don't leave Iowa. Like, we kind of stay there, but we left and it was a big deal.

00:58:02:14 - 00:58:22:19
Unknown
And, when we got out there about a few months being there, brother actually got diagnosed with cancer. And turns out the doctor that was there was like one of the top two specialists in that type of cancer for childhood leukemia. And like, was able to, you know, help to save his life. And, so again, conventional medicine medical system is not perfect, you know, but it definitely is not completely, worthless either, I think.

00:58:22:22 - 00:58:37:10
Unknown
Yeah. If you ever need emergency medical care, like, we have the best care in the world. And in my brother's case, it saved his life, you know? And so we're very thankful for that. But there still are consequences as a result of going through chemo and radiation, all that stuff. But, and cancer is a whole driven conversation.

00:58:37:10 - 00:58:52:15
Unknown
We don't have time for today, but we, that kind of spurred it on. And but my parents had a bunch of issues. My dad had heart attacks, working two full time jobs all the time. Just night and day, working all the time. Had a heart attack and, like, 42, my mom started getting, like, really debilitating, autoimmune issues.

00:58:52:15 - 00:59:08:18
Unknown
She was like, title time. Couldn't get out of bed. Just like joints are breaking down. And she was only in her 40s. And so all that started happening when I was at my I was like, end of high school, college years. And so I was just watching this unfolding from my eyes and just like, man, like, I don't like this is terrible.

00:59:08:18 - 00:59:24:22
Unknown
Like, this is people shouldn't have to go through this and know about your health, too. Yeah. My health was was, you know, I didn't have I didn't really know what good health looked like, you know, so I mean, I was an athlete, I played in college, play college basketball and, track. And like, I was, I was fit, but I wasn't healthy, you know, like, I was like, good.

00:59:24:22 - 00:59:42:16
Unknown
Like I was strong and all that stuff and could run for a while. But I wasn't, my guts were all just right. I took a bunch of ibuprofen from a back injury. That then created a stomach ulcer, and then, created more back problems because it was referral pain to my spine for my stomach. And so I was getting bad care from that.

00:59:42:18 - 00:59:59:14
Unknown
I got health, got destroyed, had some really strong semiotics and stuff, and had chronic pain and chronic fatigue for probably, I don't know, like ten years until probably I was like 27, 28 years old, 35 now. And it was functional medicine that really started to kind of show me that there was a alternative way to fix this stuff.

00:59:59:14 - 01:00:13:20
Unknown
And that's really cool. People in some rotations, I was doing, that had healed themselves of cancer and different things. And just kind of opened my eyes that there was this alternative role out there that wasn't quackery, because that's what I was told is like, all that stuff is a bunch of quackery, and it doesn't work and it's it's not safe.

01:00:13:20 - 01:00:31:07
Unknown
And when I started seeing that there was real people that solved real problems, I was like, man, like, maybe I could fix myself too. And, you know, maybe I could go down this road. And so that's what kind of led me down the functional medicine road. Even after I got my doctorate to, I was just like, there's there's people out for real help and there's actually tools you can use to help them.

01:00:31:07 - 01:00:45:00
Unknown
So I want to learn what those tools are and yeah, the rest is, as I say, history. But it's still a mess of so much to learn. Like every day I learn something new. I'm just like, I didn't know that was a thing and that was a factor. And so there's so much to be learned. And that's what makes it fun.

01:00:45:02 - 01:01:02:26
Unknown
Yeah. Yeah. So good. So good. Well let's let's close it out. What would you say. What's the best way that people can get Ahold of you. Yeah. So you can go to I'm not sure if you guys do show notes or anything like that. I have a website that's like, it's like holy dot health backslash.

01:01:02:26 - 01:01:25:05
Unknown
Discover where people can, like, apply to, like, work with me or things like that. And it's, it's totally like a w, Wally dot health. And so it's kind of a play on words if I just being whole, and being holistic. And I also have a book that's called Holy Health. Now you can get a link for that in my, my Instagram, you know, Dr. Drew Austin, dot Lake.

01:01:25:07 - 01:01:38:28
Unknown
Find my Instagram and you can find at the top of the page. But otherwise you can Google my name profile and stuff. So. Yeah, but just saying you blew up on Instagram almost a million, yeah, a million followers on there. That's, Yeah. You provide a lot of good nuggets. Just some good insights that people can use to.

01:01:38:28 - 01:01:53:26
Unknown
Yeah, to make a difference in their life because there's so many things that we can do to or I feel like we need to do to be healthy. Yeah. I think it's just getting to the basics. And so you provide just really good insights on how how one could live a healthy lifestyle. Oh well thanks. Appreciate that. Yeah.

01:01:53:29 - 01:02:07:02
Unknown
Love it. Well yeah. Thanks for thanks for being on the show. Had a good time golfing. I was going to again. Yeah, that was the day. And we can work on our mastery of that a little bit later. Yeah. No, I'm definitely working on mine for sure. Yeah. Okay. Next, next thing I will learn to master is good health.

01:02:07:04 - 01:02:10:12
Unknown
I'll get there. Yeah. Appreciate it. Yeah. Thanks. Thanks, guys.