A Drug For Every Ill "What you have to realize is that you've been preconditioned not only by the system, by your parents, by schooling. […] you have been preconditioned to accept what they tell you, and they're the experts, and you'll do it. "E.g., when you go to see a doctor, no matter where you are in the world, whether it's Europe or the United States, if you don't get a prescription for it, you feel like, 'well, this was a waste of time.' That idea comes from the preconditioning you got. "When you begin to realize that the person who really preconditions everything in medicine, who gave doctors that idea, who doctors gave the patient the idea, that was big pharma. That started at the turn of the 20th century. That started with the robber barons in the United States who basically had one of their oil trusts broken up. And then from the breakup, started the idea of big pharma, which started in New Jersey. "They started to use industrial chemicals to place in pharmaceuticals. […] "They actually came up with a guy named Flexner to come up with a report. And in the report says this is how we're going to fix schools. The idea of the Rockefeller Foundation at that time is if we can change the curriculum, we can change the culture of medicine away from vitalism towards reductionism. […] What is the single key moment that solidified that the Rockefellers would win? "It was actually Alexander Fleming discovering penicillin. When penicillin comes out it's truly a miracle drug. It does things that no other drug's ever done. And what does that do? "It kind of pushes everybody to the belief that there's a drug for every ill. And that was reinforced post-war America, post-war Europe. It was reinforced everywhere in the world." —Dr. Jack Kruse on the Longevity & Lifestyle podcast @ 11:54 – 14:49

"You'll be shocked, 'cause I've been talking bad shit about blue light all the time. Do you know what one time Uncle Jack loves blue light? "It is when you have a burn victim. You put blue light on a burn victim, you know what it does? It stimulates the skin to grow faster (which is the reason why blue light causes skin cancer) […] "But believe it or not, when someone has a burn, using blue light, unopposed blue light, actually causes the burn to heal faster because you're stimulating repair. One of the things that I've talked to several burn trauma surgeons about, that I believe when they do use the blue light, they need to add the 380 light for the reason I told you before. 'Cause nitric oxide talks to the stem cells in the skin to even redo it faster. "One of the things that people who don't use the UV light have noticed: the skin that comes back after you use the blue light always has less pigment in it. And I think the reason for that is because the way nature wants this done it needs not only the nitric oxide stimulus, but it also needs the UV stimulus to turn POMC on. Why? Because POMC has to migrate into the new skin as it's growing." —Dr. Jack Kruse with Danny Jones @ 04:02:39 – 04:03:52

"Einstein, when he died at 76 years old, his brain was not atrophied. […] "There is a power law at the basis of energy production. And it's called Kleiber's law. You can look it up. And there's a line. See the line right there? Doesn't matter where you are on the evolutionary path; you're always along the slope of that line. So what does that tell you? "You're in a zero-sum game. And I remember when I learned about Kleiber's law, that's when I realized that having really big muscles when you're a human is a disadvantage. […] So what is nature telling you? "Where you bury your mitochondrial density is the key. […] "If we keep using technology that's stealing from us, it's causing electron steal. What's going to go first? Our brains and our hearts." —Dr. Jack Kruse with Danny Jones @ 04:10:03 – 04:12:04

"I trained at a time where doctors worked for the patient. Today most neurosurgeons, they're working for a hospital system. So that means there's an oracle problem. Doctors aren't working for you; they're working for the hospital." —Dr. Jack Kruse with Danny Jones @ 02:53:51 – 02:54:03

"I think it depends on the child and how significantly they've been impacted, and also the level of [mold] contamination. […] If a child or person hasn't been significantly exposed, what I find is with some filtration and deep cleaning, and just some things that any person can do, a lot of times that's enough to move the needle. "And then when you drop the toxin load by getting rid of the grains and these contaminated foods, that further reduces it. And then as you control the inflammation in the gut that then allows things to move along. […] "Unless someone is living in scary amounts of mold, in which case they they need to take action, […] in milder amounts […] We Inspect has some really wonderful handouts on do-it-yourself deep cleaning. "HEPA vacuum. When I tell them this that they're kind of look at me weird until they do it and it works. So HEPA vacuuming or dusting your walls, because that's where a lot of the mold lives. "Decluttering the environment. Get rid of all the stuff that can trap the dust and the mold. "From there just HEPA vacuuming the heck out of everything, the walls, the rugs, the furniture. "Run HEPA filters. "And one thing that I've become a huge, huge fan of is, and I know there's some controversy around this, so not all the environmental people agree with me is, ionizers. […] The newer technology doesn't produce any ozone, so there's no bad byproducts. "But essentially what these filters or purifiers do is they emit these little tiny electrostatic charges that we can't sense, but it actually causes the mold particulates to stick together, which actually causes them to drop out of the air or causes them to stick to the walls. And then when you do your cleaning you actually clean it." —Dr. Pejman Katiraei on Nutrition with Judy @ 21:05 – 22:25 & 01:23:14 – 01:24:54

"There are now two or three articles that substantiate this view […] it's quite possible that the right microbiome is about making the eight [pivotal] B [vitamins]. "And it turns out now I've been doing this for a long time. Really all you have to do is have a D over 40. You don't even have to have it 60 to 80. You have to have a D over 40. "You have to [take] B50 or B100, use that for three months. "Your microbiome will be back. "And if you never let your D fall below 40, you'll never lose them again. That's my belief." —Dr. Stasha Gominak with Dr. Mercola 51:23 – 52:05

"Anytime you have fluoride present it has a massive effect on proton tunneling. Proton tunneling is how every enzyme on this planet works. So if you have it in an aqueous solution it will slow your enzyme kinetic rate down. "In fact, the only halogen [...] that really helps, [...] especially if they have fluorosis on the teeth, they need to eat a lot of seafood with iodine in it. [...] Iodine helps tremendously get rid of fluoride. "But you need to do it with the sun. You need your skin exposed to get rid of it. That's how I got rid of my fluorosis. [...] "Anybody who's got a real bad fluoride problem really, really, really needs to get a lot of iodine in their diet. And the way to do that, the best way, not from table salt, I want you eating seafood, especially shellfish. [...] "One of the biohacks that I did for my fluorosis, since I live in the south we have big gulf shrimp. And you know that when you peel the shrimp you have that little foot on the end, and it usually leaves a collar on it, the chitin or the exoskeleton. Most people don't know this: it has more iodine in it than thyroid medicine does. [...] "When I'd eat 12 shrimp I'd eat one of that chitin to get my iodine in it. [...] So any kind of shellfish that you eat is good. "The other thing is if you have flouride issue and you're worried about it: seaweed. Eat seaweed once a week." —Dr. Jack Kruse @ 36:54 – 39:57

Q: "Is there any hope in patients with inflammatory bowel disease who have chronic gut dysbiosis?" Dr. Stasha Gominak: "Yes. Do the right sleep program. It turns out that ulcerative colitis and Crohn's are two of the easiest things to fix. "It's not just about getting a normal microbiome back […] it's a combination of D plus large dose B complex, because those are growth factors that the normal microbiome require. And it really turns out that once you get the microbiome back usually the symptoms of the inflammatory bowel disease get much, much better. "But the core of my idea is not that vitamins are good for people, because they're not always. It's that you could use deficient vitamins to improve your sleep. "And once you get somebody with ulcerative colitis or Crohn's sleeping better, that is where the immune system starts to heal itself. "So we've been taught that autoimmunity is permanent and that it's a genetic disease. That's not true. It has genetic factors that make some people get inflammatory bowel disease, and other people get rheumatoid arthritis, and other people not get autoimmunity. But you can actually affect the immune system by sleeping better." —Dr. Stasha Gominak @ 59:54 – 01:01:25

"Why is lousy sleep the new normal, and has it always been this way? […] "Is this relevant to my patients who are suffering with pain? Absolutely it is! […] "In my view, pain of any origin only gets better if we get into deep sleep. […] The body always heals itself. We try to help, but healing really only happens in sleep. […] "What's changed in the last 40 years that is affecting our sleep? I'm going to tell you right up front: we've all moved indoors. […] "Vitamin D actually run our asleep. […] Most shocking of all the microbiome the bacteria that live in our intestine runs the sleep too. […] "Moving indoors means we have a low vitamin D. […] A low vitamin D means ruined sleep. And because the vitamin D supports the microbiome […] losing your microbiome ruins your sleep." —Stasha Gominak, MD @ 03:16 – 07:51

Q: Are vitamin D2 supplements potentially harmful as compared to D3? Stasha Gominak, MD: "Absolutely. And because we've been giving them once a week, it's very difficult as a clinician to observe that. So once you know that D2 actually can bind to the receptor and block the D3 instead of actually being active, then you can actually interpret your patients saying things like, 'Oh, that's funny now you tell me that. I always wake up with a headache on Sunday morning. I always take my D on Saturday.' "So giving D once a week is a ridiculous thing to do. It's not meant to be that way. And giving something that is not our natural hormone is crazy. I mean why would you give […] something that humans have never made, and no animal on the planet makes, to that animal, when we have D3 readily available? […] "And there are plenty of articles that have explored the fact that D2 and D3 are different chemicals. We just have actually done very odd things with this particular hormone that we would never dream of doing in any other setting." —Stasha Gominak, MD @ 57:15 – 58:22

"The number one cause of allergies, both food and any other kind: lack of vitamin D. It goes back to the sun again. Why? The sun is how we build our redox through water. […] "I'm gonna tell you put the kid in the sun and watch what happens. You'll be shocked. Because it actually will help the hydrogen bonding network in their water." — Dr. Jack Kruse @ 34:06 – 35:02

"There's all sorts of dogma about these [vitamins] are water soluble, we don't have stores. That's all wrong. We have documented B12 stores, documented C stores, documented B5 and B6 stores. There are scientific studies that really show that we have stores of these." — Dr. Stasha Gominak on Nutrition with Judy @ 59:38 – 59:53

"I believe that sleep is a better doctor than any doctor. In fact, doctors are trained to put a Band-Aid on a thing that went wrong. The body is designed to keep anything from going wrong. That's miraculous! That means when I'm approaching it from that way, every time a person comes in with something going wrong, their sleep should be addressed." — Dr. Stasha Gominak on Nutrition with Judy @ 41:44 – 42:08

"There's a next phase, which is as we sleep better and better and better, it appears that the brain actually pays attention to the fact that we've actually had 10 years of deferred repairs, repairs that we didn't get accomplished. Now we're sleeping really, really well and brain actually tries to go into a repair phase that requires longer time spent in sleep. "Most of my clients are just interested in sleeping normally. But it turns out that the brain is actually designed to say, 'you know, you really weren't sleeping well for the last 15 years and I had to put off all these things that I needed to do.' The brain is actually organized to say, if the vitamin D stays 60 to 80, everything must be perfect, I'm actually going to switch into, 'I remember every single deferred repair that I didn't make. If you will just give me a few more of these building blocks i.e., B vitamins, minerals, A and C, the things that we use to make these repairs, I will actually undertake sleeping longer than eight hours. More importantly longer than the normal amount of deep sleep and REM sleep, and I will actually make those repairs for you.'" — Dr. Stasha Gominak with Dr. Mercola 33:06 – 34:27

"DHA works with something called the RXR and the VDR receptor. Everybody's heard about the VDR receptor; that's the vitamin D receptor. Well the RXR receptor is the vitamin A receptor. […] "Turns out that all opsins in the body, and melanopsin happens to be a blue light detector, are bound to vitamin A. So this is the control mechanism of how this clock mechanism works everywhere in your body. "If you break off the vitamin A from melanopsin, it destroys photoreceptors in your body. That's how we destroy melatonin. It's how we destroy DHA. It's how we destroy the [Bazan] short and the long loop. "This is the basis of how #leptin resistance occurs. When that long loop is broken, that's how you break it in the liver. That's called leptin resistance part 2; I've got a blog about that from over 10 years ago. "When you start to see all these pieces and parts, you begin to realize, hey man, this clock mechanism in the eye controls all these timing issues everywhere else in the cell. Then you realize that this all goes back to circadian biology. "Then you realize it's not about food and exercise. It's about light and dark. It's about how well we can tell time. It's about the light we live under. It's about how accurate do we live a species-directed life. And unfortunately most of us don't do a good job of that anymore." — Dr. Jack Kruse with Steve Stavs @ 01:00:05 – 01:01:49