Unlocking Longevity: The Secrets to Living Beyond 150 with Dr. David Bilstrom

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Make sure to check out the podcast notes for access to our exclusive 12-person mastermind. All right, let's go ahead and jump into the show. Welcome back to Grow Your Impact, Income and Influence, the number one show for people looking to reach millions. Today, we're going to be talking about one of the most important things, and that is how to live beyond 150 years old. My guest today has been practicing medicine for over a thousand years. No joke. That's what he told me.

Dr. David Bilstrom has been practicing longevity medicine, helping people control their health so that they can live a longer life. His tagline is that aging doesn't start till you reach 90. We kind of joked around a little bit getting into it. Dr. David, welcome to the show. How are you doing today? Doing great. Thank you, Steve. Awesome. Well, I am so excited to have you here.

I this is a subject that I am really passionate about because I believe like I work really hard at my job at my business I love what I do and I want to be here for generations I think we're living in a time where we can easily see people live to be 150 to 200 years old with the medical science that is happening but we have to learn to take care of ourselves now you have a free course completely free on your website it's called the medical bill detox

and it is all about how to correct your aging. Is that correct? Can you tell us a little bit about that? Yeah, well, it's becoming incredibly challenging to stay healthy. You see so many health issues starting in young people nowadays that we just didn't see before. Like heart attacks used to happen when guys were like 60 to 70, then 50, then 30. Now we're seeing actually guys have heart attacks in their 20s.

It is incredibly hard to stay healthy. And so what we want to do is teach people, you know, why this happens and make the changes ideally before it happens. And then you maintain your health, or if you've already developed a health issue, how you can reverse the process. Awesome. I love this. We are going to unpack it. If you guys want access to this free course, it is linked down below in the show notes.

It is on his website. Again, 100% free. It's delivered through email, six to eight minutes per email to read. It is going to help you out. Make sure you check that out. Let's go ahead and jump into it. Dr. David, how did you get here? Because this is most medical doctors are interested in being as fast as possible in a diagnosis, getting you on a medication that keeps you there for the rest of your life and does not really correct the cause. It just corrects the symptoms.

And I don't think it's caused by the doctors not wanting to help. It's how our medical system is laid out. How did you end up getting into this practice and actually helping people treat the root cause? Well, I've always been very interested in chronic disease. My original area of specialty was spinal cord injury rehabilitation. So everybody that I would see would be paralyzed from the waist down and the neck down and incredibly complex medical challenges.

And there was just not meds for so many things. And if you try to use a medicine, the side effects were problematic. And so I started looking around first thinking, well, geez, wouldn't it be nice if there's something out there that could help these people that I never learned in my traditional training and wouldn't it be lovely if they had no side effects?

Well, it turns out there is a lot of scientific data out there, an explosion, if you will, that tells us why people get these things and how you can reverse them no matter really what the chronic disease is. And I really learned from that patient population how to not use meds and actually correct the problem as best we can and actually let the body do the correction itself.

Okay. So I love that. I'm going to go back to what I said though, why do normal doctors, why do most of the medical profession not have this knowledge or not choose to act on it? I think most of them don't know it. Yeah. And that's part of this explosion of medical knowledge is you just can't keep up with everything. And if your sort of position is, Hey, I got six, 10 minutes to help somebody. I don't have a lot of time, but I, I know my meds and I know the side effects

and how to maybe avoid them. And that's going to be my tools. Well, those are your tools. Those are the only tools you use, but actually the tool chest is profoundly huge. And the science is very clear why people get these things. And if we spend some time and actually, you know, want to change the narrative from a pill for every ill, we can do that.

Awesome. I love it. So let's go ahead and let's move over into how you started to implement this in your practice. What are some of the first cases that you use this with where you saw people actually have phenomenal change and they weren't taking medication. Yeah, so really, as I got into the complex patient population, they would come to me, and we would look into why they have it. They start getting better and better.

And invariably, because of this explosion in autoimmune disease where the body's actually attacking itself, you're actually attacking your own body parts. It's basically you're self-destructing. And it's always going to be a tad counterproductive to self-destruct. You're really not going to get where you want to go if you're self-destructing during that time. And so I found that fascinating that the body would actually attack itself.

But with this population, I would reverse the process, get these things to go away. And I'm like, this is fascinating. This is great. But then I read this amazingly sad story in the New York Times, but one I've heard a lot, where this really famous journalist was losing her life and her profession to the autoimmune disease lupus. And the story was doc after doc, nobody could dye her noses. She got worse and worse.

About seven, eight years later, 10 doctors later, oh, you got this autoimmune disease lupus. But then the only thing they offered her was a medicine to control the symptom that had profound side effects, like increasing your cancer risk, your risk of a life-threatening infection, and actually can give you a new autoimmune disease as a side effect. And so that kept getting worse. And I'm like, this is crazy. This is what everybody hears, and this has got to stop.

So about 10, 12 years ago, I said, okay, well, somebody's got to change the way autoimmune disease is dealt with worldwide, and I might as well be that person. I love that. I love that you just took that on. So what are, let's talk about first autoimmune diseases.

What are some of the most common ones? Because lupus, I mean, like people have heard of that, but if I understand what you were saying when we were talking before we started the interview, autoimmune disease affects a large amount of the population and it might be more of a general autoimmune disease than super specifics. What does it look like?

Let's maybe start with that. Sure. Well, kind of the classic autoimmune disease that people might know about and kind of the way we thought about it for a long time before the last decade or so is the immune system that makes antibodies to attack things that are not us, that are going to hurt us, like a virus, like a cold virus that gets in.

It's not us. It's just going to hurt us. So we'll make antibodies to attack that specific virus to kick it out of our system so that we might just have a cold for like four to five days rather than like 40 years. Right you just consider but then the classic is well we can start attacking our own body parts the immune system becomes confused and so like rheumatoid arthritis where you might attack your own joints the joints become swollen and sore and you know huge knees or hands and.

But you get this, you can attack your brain, multiple sclerosis, you can attack your skin, psoriasis, you can attack your gut, like ulcerative colitis, you can attack any body part. Now, what we know now, though, is this process is part of all chronic disease. It's not just the classic ones. And so there's an autoimmune component to things like heart attacks and strokes and osteoporosis and Alzheimer's and dementia. And even 70% of all autism is one particular autoimmune disease.

So it turns out, since I've really dove deep in this, the immune system, chronic disease in general, including even heart attacks, like I mentioned, where historically heart attacks were seen as this degenerative disease that's an inevitable consequence of aging. Well, there's nothing inevitable or degenerative about it. It is an autoimmune, inflammatory, infectious, because infections are part of all this chronic disease, creating this inflammation disease.

So even we can attack basically the lining of our blood vessels, get a heart attack, just as easily could attack our joints. Okay. So now we have an overview of what it is and how it kind of presents itself. What are some of the causes for it? I know we were talking about vitamin D, but what are some of the other things that are the corrective measures for this?

Yeah. So there's very specific things that tend to disrupt the immune system like this and cause this excessive inflammation. So, infections we now know are part of all chronic disease. There's infections that give obvious disease like fevers, and you know you got it, but there's other infections that drive chronic smoldering inflammation, driving chronic disease.

So, one that maybe a lot of people have heard about is Epstein-Barr virus, the monobug that can become active, and then here it attacks the brain, multiple sclerosis, but it's part of so much chronic disease, including it can drive childhood leukemias, for example. But then you also have things like herpesvirus 6, not sexually transmitted or cold sore herpes, different kind, Coxsackievirus, mycoplasma, and a ton of tick-borne infections are part of this.

Vitamin deficiencies, hormone imbalances, especially a very specific one that I hope you have a minute to talk about called estrogen dominance. We get too much estrogen on the progesterone. Gut disruption, the gut's a very central mechanism, all this stuff. The stress hormone cortisol gets stuck in the stress mode because of all this physical stress or chronic emotional stress as well. And then here comes the immune system getting thrown off.

Here comes the immune system can't keep away inflammation or actually starts attacking our own body parts.

Okay got it so let's like when you're in your practice how do you like when you see somebody what are the things that you look for around this and what are some of the is are the corrective medicine well let's let's ask what they look like first when clients come in patients come in and you see them what does this look like is it because you've mentioned inflammation a lot you mentioned joints what kind of ailments are they having and what does it does it always point just

to inflammation and autoimmune? Is that, from what I hear you saying, that's the base? Yeah, so what we know is there are things that will create excessive inflammation. And wherever you have excessive inflammation in the body, that body part's not going to be happy and there's going to be a health issue there. So if you're having brain stuff, doesn't matter what brain stuff you got, it could be autism, developmental delay, ADD, ADHD, depression, anxiety, suicide attempts are so common.

Seizures and migraines. Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, dementia, any brain thing. Geez, I got brain fog. Well, there's too much inflammation in the brain. Well, the same thing. If you got joint inflammation, the joints aren't happy. My muscles aren't happy. Oh, I got too much inflammation there. So wherever you have a body part that's not happy, there's too much inflammation there. And the immune system is not doing a very good job of putting the fire out, basically.

Okay. So then what are some of the corrective measures for this? Is it all, I've heard, you know, don't eat gluten. you need more vegetables in your diet, drink more water, here, take these vitamins. Do you do, is that really the solve for it or is it more specific? Tell me a little bit about what you do with your patients to help them. Well, by the, you know, what we do when we go through their history, we can really kind of see this stuff coming.

So you can see some changes happening, even in childhood, during the teenage years, other kinds of things where, you know, little things keep happening here, here, and here. And you go, oh, okay, I can see that's disrupted. Uh-oh, oh yeah, okay, now I can see this. So you can basically see this stuff coming like decades ahead. The body is so smart. The body's natural default mode is always to fix something. Like you may be walking around your house, bare feet, you kick a chair leg.

Well, now you're hopping around in tremendous pain. Try not to cuss as small children are around. Well, you know inherently that your body's going to be so healthy and good at healing that you're not going to be hopping around in tremendous pain for the next 20 years. Two to three minutes, your body fixes it, you're fine. But then you start getting this other stuff and you're like, oh, well, that's just what happens. That's what's happened.

And you're like, no, no, no. Your body's having a hard time fixing stuff and you're getting this thing. And then you say, so why is the body having a hard time? And then it goes back to the things we mentioned. And even though the science is very clear, what I like to, well, one thing I like to say is the body's really, really complicated, but it's also very, very logical. There's a logic behind everything that happens. And then what we like to do is test.

There's tests that can be done in any lab in the country, blood work, that will tell us a tremendous amount of information, really pinpoint exactly what this individual person needs, or also other tests, like it might be a stool test or a saliva test or some other test where we can really pinpoint, even though basically going through their history, we know what we're going to find in the testing.

Basically, the testing is like confirmatory. We don't want to waste your time doing something you don't need. Just like when we talk about how people can do this stuff, we don't want to waste your time doing things you can't do. Let's do these really big central mechanisms that are going to impact everything at the same time. And basically, you're getting your body to do the work. And it's your body's natural default mode, it wants to do the work.

And if it's not correcting something, if you're just getting one thing after another or can't get rid of something, you know your body's trying to fix it. You know it knows how to fix it, but something's gotten in the way, and all we got to do is get that something out of the way, whether it's a hormone imbalance, a certain infection, a biome deficiency, a food that they're consuming that's creating inflammation every time they eat it. And then the body goes hot dog.

I've been waiting years or decades possibly, and now the person starts getting better. and this happens to things that are decades and decades old, the body's always trying to fix it, just looking for this opportunity.

Nice. I like it. Well, let's move to vitamin D because this is one of the main things that you said could help. So what, first off, like what is vitamin D? And then there's a problem from what I understand about vitamin D being able to be integrated into the body. Is that, do I have that right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, so vitamin D is actually more of a hormone than a vitamin. It's kind of misnamed.

And hormones in general, whether they're testosterone, estrogen, you name the hormone, they're designed to keep away inflammation so that you don't get chronic disease. And if you don't have enough, you get inflammation and chronic disease. And so vitamin D that ideally we're supposed to get from sun exposure, but things that happen that make it incredibly difficult for humans to make vitamin D from sun exposure, and we don't get outside enough anyway.

And so every cell in our body has a receptor for vitamin D. So, vitamin D can attach to the receptor on a cell and tell the cell what to do. But a big part of this, besides not having enough vitamin D, and if you're not on the right supplement dose of vitamin D, you're totally tanked and kind of a bit of a ticking time bomb. But the vitamin D receptors, especially the ones in the gut, can become resistant to vitamin D.

And then vitamin D can't attach and do the work. It's almost like you don't have vitamin D. And that is a really big central mechanism, not only for gut health and autoimmune disease, but also. When you correct it, it's been called a nuclear weapon against metabolic syndrome, abnormal weight gain, insulin and blood sugar control issues, cholesterol issues. Harvard Journal of Psychiatry that talked about, well, if you can fix the gut this way, the mix of good, bad bugs.

And I looked at that and go, well, that's what happens when you fix this vitamin D receptor resistance, but you can treat major depressive disorder with this. Another psych journal goes, well, geez, if you can fix the gut this way, it affects personalities, people will become more outgoing and more social. And I go, wow, you know, this is a, we're talking central mechanism stuff here.

We're not just throwing supplements at somebody. We're fixing a central mechanism that every body part is going to relish the change. So is it just about taking a good vitamin D supplement or is it actually, if the gut needs fixed, how do you go about doing that? Is it, I've heard, you know, all about the, I can't remember what they're called, the stuff that's in kombucha probiotics. Is it that kind of stuff? Yeah, so you're talking about good bacteria for the gut.

And the good bacteria in the gut are basically these warriors fighting our battles for us. Well, the bad guys down there are trying to take us down. And when the vitamin D receptors become resistant, you start losing your good. You start building your bad. The lining of the gut will actually start making its own inflammation. The gut will become this engine of inflammation. And then it makes its own inflammation, hurts the gut worse, so it makes more inflammation, hurts the gut.

And people get stuck in this vicious cycle that then creates all this stuff. And so the original data, I think it came out like in 2015 out of University of Illinois in Chicago. I do a little shout-out because that's my med school. They go, hey, if you can fix this using what we call the foundational triad, daily vitamin D, daily probiotics, or fermented foods on top of it, And then this thing called butyrate. Butyrate is actually something made by the good bacteria. So it's all natural.

Body's supposed to make it on its own. It's called the short-chain fatty acid. But when the good bacteria become disrupted, antibiotics, stress, neutrons and Advils, tons of different meds, their numbers get decimated. Well, they're not going to make that thing. But if you use vitamin D, probiotics, and butyrate together, it fixes the vitamin D receptor resistance. Good bacteria numbers come up, bad guys come down. The lining of the gut stops making things that create inflammation.

The lining of the gut starts making very specific proteins to keep the bad bugs down forever called antimicrobial peptides. And then it has original data was, well, this is exactly what you want to do to change and reverse autoimmune disease with the gut, like ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease or the folks to have recurrent infections like C. diff and H. pylori. They're super hard to get rid of and super bad for the system.

But then they also said, well, geez, this looks like what you want to do for everything. And then here comes the nuclear weapon part that, Hey, it changes personalities, you know, as the years go on. And so, you know, that's the kind of stuff that you want to attack because, you know, There's a lot of information out there and a lot of supplements people can do and a lot of nutrition programs and all this.

And when I see somebody come in and they're doing all this stuff, I'm like, oh my gosh, you have really done your homework. I can tell that you've done a ton of reading about how you're trying to stay healthy or reverse disease, but you're missing some really important central mechanisms. And this is what we're trying to teach people what those are and how they can actually get at it is what you're trying to do when people have like everything going wrong at the same time.

Now, it always starts with one thing, but then we got a lot of folks out there, including a lot of kids, even, of course, and young people in their 20s and 30s and 40s should be their most healthiest. They're like, holy cow, how can I have all this different stuff going on? Like different parts of me seem off. Well, it can get very confusing. How can everything be off at the same time? Well, it actually makes it super straightforward and super easy.

The only way you can get a bunch of stuff off, some really important central mechanisms that are driving everything crazy. you attach, attack those when you can fix everything basically the same time. Your body starts fixing it here. Okay. So, and we're talking about vitamin D is one of those central mechanisms. Is there another central mechanism that is relatively simple to fix? That's a good point. And we will get right back to today's show.

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All right, let's go ahead and jump back into it. And then here come these infections. Now the infections are hard to get rid of. You can't get rid of them with antibiotics. You can't get rid of them with the typical medicines, like for antivirals or antifungals. Cause these are the guys that it takes like three, six, nine months sometimes to get them out of the system or dormant again. So they don't create havoc like the Epstein-Barbara has to go dormant again.

It doesn't take that long to feel a lot better. You got to get these infections out. And so we use a product out of Canada. That's a nano silver product called pH structure silver solution. And this nanosilver will get rid of any infection, no matter where it's at, no matter what kind you got, whether you even know what you got or not.

And clearly I did a video not too long ago where whenever I do a video, I hold up a scientific journal article and I go, hey, this is my point, but here's the journal article that says it even kills malaria. Now, unfortunately, some people in Florida are starting to get malaria. So, hey, guess what? It gets rid of that. But also the water portion. It's called structured water. That's the name of the product. Structured water is what they call the fourth phase of water.

So water has solid liquid and gas, but it has its fourth phase. It's really this funky biophysics of water molecules that allows them to get rid of inflammation and help damaged tissue heal.

And so it's a real profound way of not only getting rid of what's driving inflammation and tissue damage, but also getting rid of it at the same time okay so the structured water i've heard different things about this is i'm trying to find a demonstration of it can you walk us through what this is because i've heard i've heard several different things about this is something i've actually seen i did a little bit of research on but i i was very skeptical of.

Yeah, it's interesting. So the water molecules start kicking out protons of the molecule, and then they start stacking like pallets, one on top of each other. And it changes the whole way that this stuff works, including when you're really talking about how the body stays healthy. Well, you have genes that tell the cells what to do. And unfortunately, there's a lot of bad genes in every one of our cells, a lot of good ones.

You got to turn off the bad, turn on the good. So when you're getting health issues, what's happening is you're flipping on the bad and turning off the good, every cell in the body eventually starts being told the wrong information. And so this is epigenetics, the things that influence gene expression without changing the genetic code. And so, for example, in the wound care field, they would use this structured water nano silver product to keep away infections.

Because if you have a burn injury and you get an infection, you got to breed it and it really throws everything back as a hassle. Well, they saw that it actually was healing quicker, not just keeping infectious, but healing quicker. So they go, geez, I wonder how this has worked. So they actually did a study where they looked at the epigenetics of skin cells. And it turns out there's 88 different genes in a skin cell that code for skin cell healing.

And when you use the PA-structured silver solution, it makes more active, upregulates the activity of 59 of those 88 genes that code for skin cell healing. And you're like, well, that is so cool. It gets down to, you know, what is the cell being told by our genes? That's really super central mechanism stuff. Okay. So that's a little bit different. The structured water I saw was like, take a glass pitcher, put some crystals in it, put it in the sunlight.

This is something quite different than that. A different, kind of the same sort of concept. You're trying to reproduce sort of the, how water would naturally become more structured.

Kind of like water flowing quickly over a bunch of rocks and being up here in the rocky mountains where i'm at you see a lot of that kind of stuff but but it's not the same not the same okay got it so if people wanted structure water they need to look for the nano silver product out of canada is there anywhere else is this just like you drink the ones that have taken it to the next level including Canada, as you can imagine, like the United States has such a multi-level bureaucracy

when it comes to letting anything be sold, let alone be touted as being helpful. And the person that figured this out, the engineer that figured this out, Health Canada is like, well, we can't deny that the science out there, this is a great product that actually does work. All right. And what was it called? One more time. We'll put it in the show notes for people. It's called pH structured silver solution.

Okay. Real game changer. I find it a real game changer because these infections are tough to get rid of. Does it, and is it, you just drink it like normal water? Yep. And you can drop it in your ears. You can drop it in your eyes for like an eye infection or ear infection. Shoot it up your nose, drink it. It really gets rid of any infection. Not only that typically is causing these chronic things, but also because antibiotics are so problematic for the gut and the immune system.

And we find these people that have this immune system disruption to get a lot of infections that are obvious ones. We can't have them keep doing antibiotics for a strep throat or an ear infection, like over and over and over again. And so we really can break that cycle by using this structured silver solution.

Parents, for example, go, oh my gosh, we finally got rid of my child's 9,000th ear infection without having to use the antibiotic, we are so happy that silver, you know, was able to do that. And because we don't, we know that this antibiotic is really hurting their gut and driving their health issues. And we finally figured out a way to not have to use the antibiotics.

Got it. All right. So you talked about epigenetics just a little bit, and that is, that has to do with your DNA expression in your cells across your body. And this is basically what real health looks like. Is that correct? That's the way it was explained to me. That is.

We used to think it was what genes do you have, but now we know it's not which ones you have, it's which ones get turned on and turned off. And there's a whole science between turning on the healthy genes. I've seen, what's your take on hyperbaric chambers, for instance? Is that something? What do you think about that? A lot of benefit. I can't tell you I know the connection if there is any between epigenetics.

I know a fair amount of epigenetics, including what I tell people to do that works through epigenetics. But, you know, with the body's inherent, it's just default mode to heal. It's a lot easier to optimize epigenetics than people might think. Such as Harvard did a study about 16 years ago where two studies previously suggested that meditation might work through epigenetics. And so Harvard did kind of the quintessential study and they go, holy cow, it does work through epigenetics.

Well, this is why it works for so much stuff. This is why you can probably use it for about anything, because it's flipping off the bad and turning on the good. And what their study showed, they only looked at people that started meditating and did it for eight weeks. And they saw profound epigenetic changes. So it's not like you got to like do something like meditation and maybe five years later, you're going to see the benefit.

Within eight weeks, you're flipping jeans left and right the right way to turn this stuff around. But it's so smart. It doesn't take a long time. Excellent. So what are some other things? So meditation, we talked about structured silver water. What else would help with epigenetics? What else would help like bring out true health? Well, actually that butyrate that I talked about that's supposed to be made by the good bacteria, the short chain fatty acid, it's so important.

And it's actually tested on the stool test called digestive stool analyses that a lot of docs like myself do. Well, butyrate almost exclusively works through epigenetics. And that's why it will like prevent cancer five different ways, including it kills cancer cells. It helps the brain and helps keep away cataracts and macular degeneration. It's great for the lungs. It does all this kind of stuff. Another product we use a lot is one that should be made by the liver.

It's a bile acid. It's also called the chaperone molecule called TUDCA, T-U-D-C-A. And TUDCA works through epigenetics, which it makes it cool, but a totally different mechanism that kills cancer cells, which is totally cool. But also it's called the chaperone molecule for a very specific reason.

So we have this explosion of diseases that are called the civilization diseases, all these things that are happening so much more than they used to, including all that neuro inflammation, all that brain stuff. Like I mentioned, you know, kids, autism, development delays all the way up to Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, anxiety, depression, all this kind of stuff. But you also have, you know, guys having heart attacks in their 20s.

Cancer is rampant, chronic kidney disease and type one and type two diabetes and obesity and cholesterol and blood pressure issues and cataracts and macular degeneration. You name it, you're like, holy cow, where's all this coming from? Well, it turns out if you take away the water and human, what we're left with is 80% protein. So cell walls are proteins, hormones are proteins, bone is 80% collagen protein.

And so if the body's trying to make new healthy proteins, there's one particular spot in the cells where that happens. But the world around us is so difficult to stay healthy, it creates inflammation right in that spot called the endoplasmic reticulum, creating endoplasmic reticulum stress. And what happens is proteins become misfolded. And when you misfold the protein, it's not that protein. It's just a glob of amino acids.

So here's this epigenetic of type one diabetes where insulin becomes misfolded in the pancreas. You can't make insulin. You're on insulin pumps. 20,000 kids a year now are diagnosed with this, but adults are getting it too. Even though it used to be called childhood onset, they had to change the name to type one diabetes because adults got it. Unfortunately, that didn't set up a red flag like, what the heck's going on? Adults are getting kids disease. Oh, we're just going to change the name.

That'll take care of it, right? Well, this Tudka made by the liver, chaperone molecule, it chaperones proteins through the production process so they do not become misfolded. And it is a game changer, reversing chronic disease, including, this is why premature infants will end up getting type 1 diabetes so much more because a premature infant's liver doesn't make as much TUDCA as a term baby's liver.

So here's the premature infant is so much more likely to get type 1 diabetes because of the misfolding of protein, but it sets the system in such a compromised position early that they're the same ones that get type 2 diabetes decades later. Or a child that gets jaundice at birth, the liver gets dinged, 25% increased risk of type 1 diabetes.

Without the liver making this TUDCA, here's these civilization diseases that are so rampant but the science hopefully your listeners are hearing the science is very clear where this stuff comes from and we know what to do about it nice well that sounds i mean that stuff that's stuff that you can fix and it's interesting that you're fixing it without major pharmaceuticals let's move into the estrogen piece because this is really interesting to me estrogen dominance the number

one cause of death for women and how to stop it let's talk about this one a little bit Yeah, so I call it the most dangerous disease for women. And truly, if you look at the top 10 reasons why women die, estrogen dominance plays a part in about 90% of that. The only part that doesn't play a part of is accidental deaths, like in car accidents. And so hormones keep away inflammation, keep away disease, like I mentioned. Estrogen does that.

Progesterone does that. Guys need both of these. But in women, this is particularly troublesome because you get too much estrogen down that progesterone. Estrogen dominance. And that is a driver of all hormonal menstrual things in women, whether it's bad flows, bad cramps, PMS, ovarian cysts, polycystic ovarian syndrome, fibros, endometriosis, fibrocystic breast disease, infertility, which is a civilization disease as well, is all tied into this estrogen dominance.

Too much estrogen compared to progesterone. But also because estrogen revs and progesterone calms, it drives rev without calm things. So in women, you might become an excessive worrier, more anxious than you probably should be. Maybe you don't sleep as well as you should, or maybe you have panic attacks. So you look at this estrogen dominance, these symptoms are like, oh my gosh, almost what women doesn't have, at least some, if not tons of these

things, it's so common. And it's this estrogen dominance. Now, it's important to take care of these because nobody wants any of this stuff. This is all really crummy stuff that's going to get in the way of, you know, if you're a woman trying to take care of the kids or your business or your aging parents. The last thing you need is all this stuff going on at the same time, right? And so it's very important. We feel that we teach women why they feel this way and what to do about it.

It's so important to do something about it because you don't need all that crap going on anyway, but it is such a disruptor of the immune system that this is one of the big reasons why 80% of people that get autoimmune disease are women, but because cancer is the flip side of the same coin as autoimmune disease, it is a humongous viral cancer.

So for example, women with estrogen dominance, you know, you got, if you got any of those symptoms that I mentioned, estrogen dominance before menopause will increase your risk of breast cancer 5.4 times. Double the risk or triple the risk, over five times the risk of breast cancer before menopause, plus a 10 times greater risk of malignant neoplasms. The cancers that start at one place and metastasize someplace else, the really bad ones, 10 times greater risk your whole life.

Wow. It is so important to know where this stuff comes from, why you got it right. Get rid of it because you don't need that stuff, but you also have now done your due diligence as far as preventative medicine. So you hopefully don't end up with these autoimmune chronic diseases, cancer included. And so if I understand what you're saying correctly, the main thing here is

that there's progesterone therapy. My girlfriend is actually, she, her doctor said, Hey, this is what's going on and gave her progesterone. And it has, it, she has said that it has changed her life. Is that the main way that you fix the estrogen dominance? Well, that is a good way to start. Cause you're giving the progesterone, bringing the levels up. So it balances with the estrogen. You're already feeling a ton better.

And now you don't have that estrogen dominance driving you every place you don't want to be. And then that buys you time to go back and go, okay. So why did my progesterone tank in the first place? Why did my estrogen get too high? And then you start unwinding all this stuff. And then you start making your own progesterone.

You start getting rid of the excess estrogen. you reset the hormone menstrual stuff you're so chill you're sleeping like a baby you're so calm and you're like oh yeah all right now we're really getting at the heat part of the matter and then this is where you get a chance to fix about everything hopefully at the same time but then you've done your due diligence prevent the stuff that might come later.

Nice got it so we've covered kind of a wide range of things all the way from vitamin d to epigenetics and now into estrogen, what are some places in the world? I mean, there's a lot of doctors out there saying just take better supplements.

There's a lot of naturopaths or functional medicine who are saying, you know, you just need to take these vitamins or you need to drink a green smoothie every day or you need to do X, Y, Z. What are some things that you see in the marketplace that are probably either dangerous or just complete waste of money? Well, I think, you know, one of the nice things is there's a lot of information up there.

That people can read now there's a lot of bad information there's a lot of good information so what i tend to see is people spend an inordinate amount of money on supplement after supplement after supplement and really don't get where they want to go they might be on 30 40 supplements when they come in to see me and i see their list i go oh my gosh you've done your homework i can see exactly what you're thinking but you're missing the big stuff and

so if you're going to use supplements you really want to use very pointed supplement use if you're using like 40 supplements basically your body's getting totally confused everyone's telling the body something unique. You got like 40 people screaming at the body and the body gets real confused. It was like, it might not all be good information, but you guys got to shut up. I can't make heads or tails. But you use a very pointed ones, like a few ones. Then the body goes,

Oh, I know what you're talking about. Kind of a thing. And if you get at these really big central mechanisms, like we've been able to talk about, you don't need a ton of supplements. You don't need to spend, you know, 20 years doing meditation for it to work.

You don't need to sometimes make even huge nutritional changes, even subtle changes like some meditation for eight weeks if you're giving the body the real good stuff you are going to notice a change quickly but if you don't you know you're missing something and that's why people need to know what these central mechanisms are mechanisms are so they can kind of pick out like what did i miss what did i'm oh there we go okay and now they're going to kind of take care of that now

they get over the now they really get where they want to go Awesome. I love that. Cause that's, I mean, I think you are correct. I think people, they want the silver bullet. So they go on Amazon or they Google something, then they buy it. And before you know it, they've got a whole cupboard full of vitamins, maybe some supplements in there.

The meditation piece I think is very powerful. I didn't know that it actually controlled epigenetics, but I know that it definitely controls stress and helps you think a whole lot clearer. I think there's a lot of benefits there. I want to point one more time to the free course that you have on your website. This is linked down below. It's the Medical Bill Detox.

It's a complete email course with several short, easy to read emails, I think five to eight minutes per email, where you can learn a lot of this stuff. Is there anything that we did not cover that you think people absolutely need to know? I'll tell you something cool about the eyes. So the back of our eyes, we have the retina. Now most retinal cells are what they call image-forming retinal cells.

So light hits the image-forming retinal cells. They project information up to the visual cortex, part of the brain, so we can see images. But then we got these non-image-forming retinal cells. Light hits them, predominantly infrared and far infrared, ideally within the first three hours after sunrise is the best part of the sun to get this.

They project to all these different brain parts, parts involved in mood, emotions called the amygdala, a part that's involved in all circadian rhythm called the suprachiasmatic nucleus. And it turns out that every body part has its own circadian rhythm, including the intestinal microbiome, not just sleep-wake cycles, but a whole lot more than sleep-wake cycles.

And then it also projects to the hypothalamus, which is part of this HPA axis, hypothalamus, pituitary adrenal axis, which is how your body deals with stress. And if you've got a messed up ability to deal with stress, it's affecting the cardiovascular system negatively and the immune system and the hormone system and inflammation and all that kind of stuff.

And so what we're telling people is two plus minutes of early morning sun within the first three hours after sunrise, no sunglasses, no glasses or contacts.

All it takes is two minutes, more is gravy. But this is such a central mechanism for how the body works that when a woman is pregnant with a child early in the second trimester, about a third of the way through pregnancy, the baby doesn't have a lot of body parts that are fully formed yet, but they have now formed these non-image forming retinal cells. Babies start seeing light coming through the abdominal and uterine wall about a third of the way through the pregnancy.

And this is a central mechanism how babies develop all these healthy brain parts healthy immune system including the baby's already setting up a healthy intestinal microbiome that good bad bug mix in the gut even before they're born, It's such a central mechanism. Babies can do it three months into their existence. And this is all just from two minutes of direct sunlight. Well, you don't have to stare at the light. You can, you know,

close your eyes and let the sun hit your face. There's just, there's just got to get outside, got to get outside. And if you let that light hit your abdomen, it has this profound impact on the intestinal microbiome, including builds the good, gets rid of the bad. The good that you're building are predominantly butyrate producing good bacteria. And those good bacteria that make butyrate, epigenetics are shifting because of the light.

And so three different genes and those butyrate producing good bacteria are upregulated. So they can make more butyrate per cell. So even that ties into epigenetics. Nice. So we tell people loud and proud. Get that shirt up for at least two minutes in the morning. All right. I think we both love mountain towns. You got to go out and ski without a shirt or a jacket on for like two minutes. Just do one run.

Back in the day when people used to at a basin in in colorado where i did my residency you know you'd ski until july 4th or later there was people out there in bathing suits and bikinis skiing in july it's awesome oh that still happens that still happens i was there this year. Well dr david thank you so much for coming on and sharing a wealth of information if you guys have made it you need to go check out his website check out the free course that is listed in the show notes.

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