Do you have fatigue, anxiety, brain fog? Probably don't sleep great, or even if you do sleep through the night, you just feel wiped out the next day. Can't make it through a day, you just don't have the energy. Or how about this? You walk into your closet and you go, What am I doing in here? What am I looking for? Or maybe it's any room for that matter. Okay, listen, that's happened to me, but there's an answer for that. And it's not what you think, and that's what this episode is about.
How about this? What about a thyroid condition? Or maybe you think you have a thyroid condition, right? Uh your hair's thinning. Of course, my lack of energy. I can't even lose weight anymore. And even when I'm on a diet, I lose a little bit of weight, but it stops. Okay, or you fail on every diet because you start craving carbs and junk foods, so you fail on every diet. Well, I'm gonna tell you this, it's none of that's your fault, number one.
And number two, again, repeating myself, there is a simple solution. Uh look, I think that many people would say, um, look, you have a hormone problem, right? It's very in vogue right now to take hormones, right? Oh, you're in perimenopause or menopause, and you just need to take estrogen or progesterone. There's a time and a place, but what I'm about to tell you is 95% of the time it's not needed, and it doesn't give you a lasting solution anyway.
We have more people taking hormones, testosterone, estrogen, you know, for different problems, right? Weight gain, feeling good about yourself, just feeling good in general, right? And it kind of works, but it's not a lasting solution. We have more people taking hormones, but it's not working out lasting or long term. There's a reason for that too.
And listen, I will say there is a time and a place, and I believe if you don't have an organ or a gland that produces a certain hormone because they took it out for some reason, you probably need to take a hormone. And even then, sometimes people's condition is so deplorable that you need to take a hormone. So I'm not against bioidentical hormones, I'm not, but I am also for the body producing its own.
Lesson number one: there's nothing better than when your innate intelligence is keeping you in a perfect hormonal rhythm, meaning throughout the day, different stressors or demands, your body will raise up testosterone, lower testosterone, raise up cortisol, lower cortisol, raise up estrogen, progesterone, meaning that there's this incredible balance that takes place constantly. And you don't have to think about it, do you? Hopefully not.
No, of course you don't, because your innate intelligence does it as it needs it. There's a time for more hormones, there's a time for less hormones, even as we age. Yes, estrogen, believe it or not, is meant to go down during menopause. You know why? It protects you from cancer and it actually allows you to live longer, healthy, lower estrogen. But here's the problem. There's something pandemic in the United States of America in particular that is causing our cells not to hear hormones.
And therefore, when the normal estrogen in hormones go down during menopause, and by the way, that's normal because most of your estrogen is produced in your adrenal glands after menopause, not from your ovaries like before menopause. Okay, so the fact is that the body makes that shift of lower estrogen, but here's the cool thing God knew what he was doing. Your cells become more sensitive to the estrogen in the progesterone, even though the levels are lower and we then feel normal.
Do you know other countries? We look at menopause as something cherished, something celebrated, even for health and wisdom in a woman. Here, menopause is dreaded. So maybe it's not what we think. Would you agree with that? Maybe it's not about the lower estrogen. Maybe it's not as simple as that. Maybe it's what's blocking our cells from hearing estrogen. See, blood levels don't tell the whole story. This is important. Meaning, hormones don't do their work in the blood.
We just tend to measure them there. Where do they do their work? They do their work in the cell. Meaning, once they attach to these little antennas, receptors on our cells, now they communicate within our cell and our DNA and our mitochondria. Even some of the hormones enter the cell and they do all their magic and we stay lean, we have energy, our brain works, no brain fog. That's if the hormones actually get into the cell.
But what if this pandemic of something is blocking those hormones, stopping them, even damaging the receptors to them, and we can't hear the hormones? There's a scientific term for this, and it's called closed door syndrome. Actually, no, that came later. That means the hormones can't get into the cell. The doors are closed. It's called hormone resistance, meaning that we're resisting the hormone. You've heard of insulin resistance, I'm sure, right?
Meaning the plenty of insulin, oftentimes too much insulin, which causes damage. And yet it's not getting its job done. Our cells are resistant. So then glucose builds up in our cell instead of being able to burn it up in our cells for energy. That's a problem. It's a disease we call diabetes. But what about thyroid resistance? Meaning when people go to their doctor and say, My hair's thinning, I have no energy, brain fog, and I'm gaining weight all of a sudden. I must have a thyroid problem.
And they go to their doctor, they measure their blood, and oftentimes they're said, Oh, your levels are normal, a little out of range. Ranges are so broad, but yeah, pretty normal. That was me, by the way. I had thinning hair, I was gaining weight, what I called skinny fat. I had no energy, and I had a lot of anxiety and other problems. But I knew my adrenals and thyroid weren't functioning or my blood work was always normal. But how about this scenario? Because that's one, right?
And then of course you go home frustrated because you don't have an answer. But here's the other scenario. You do go and you go, oh, your thyroid hormone is off, blood range is off, your TSH is uh low or high, something's wrong. They give you a hormone, and two months, three months later, you come back, and wonderful news your blood levels are better. And you say, Huh, not so wonderful because I still can't lose weight. I still don't have energy.
It was helped a little bit, but it seemed to help more, and now it's on. Okay, we'll just up your dose then. But your blood levels look so much better, but we'll give you a little more. That works for a little bit, and your blood levels are still in range, so all is well, and you just go on life thinking, what is wrong? See, because no one ever told you that the cell, the hormones actually have to get into the cell to work.
I'm gonna draw it for you because I want you to understand this, because this enlightens us on potentially a different solution. And that's what I want you to get out of this, that there's a different solution. Can we hear me all right? Okay, great. All right. So every cell, as I made the point in our body, well, at least the cells that we're talking about here have receptors on the cell.
And the receptors actually are what the hormones have to attach to to get their message or themselves in here. It's like a cell phone, right? You have a very expensive cell phone, and if you're taking hormones, a very expensive hormone, but that cell phone's useless without a cell phone tower. Think of those receptors like that. It has to connect to that to get into the cell.
Now that could be thyroid, T3, it could be insulin, it could be estrogen, testosterone, progesterone, all of these interact with that cell membrane and these receptors to get into the cell, and we feel great when that happens. But my point is that there's something that's pandemic in this country that is blocking these receptors, causing closed door syndrome, aka hormone resistance. That something is inflammation. Now, you've heard inflammation is the cause of almost every condition, right?
Of course, diabetes, thyroid conditions, cancer, even, right? Time magazine was, you know, there was a whole thing about inflammation as the cause of all chronic disease, right? Well, I don't know about all, but I can say this inflammation is the cause of the most conditions. And inflammation does, in fact, close the doors. Inflammation does damage those hormone receptors. Inflammation causes those hormones not to work in our cell.
Irrelevant of the blood levels when we look at our TSH as an example, or estrogen or testosterone. Blood level means something, of course. However, if this resistance is taking place, even when you take hormones to make the blood levels normal, it still doesn't matter. You don't feel well. Does that make sense? Oh, and it's also an explanation for why nothing works. And cellular inflammation, by the way, can even block a good nutrition from getting in the cells that we need to make energy.
So inflammation could be the reason why your supplements don't work, why your diets don't work, and why nothing works. Told you it wasn't your fault, right? Because, by the way, when you can't utilize energy, glucose, even fat for energy, because thyroid hormone helps you burn fat for energy, right? And insulin is a fat-storing hormone. So all of these hormones play into the how you make energy in your mitochondria and even burn fat. So guess what?
When you don't have the the ability to burn fat, because this cell can only use two things for energy. Do you know what it is? Sugar or fat. That's it. Healthy cells, healthy people have the ability to go back and forth. Eat carbohydrates, you burn them up. Glucose high, insulin lets it in, you burn it up. No problem. You can eat carbohydrates. Are not carbohydrates are not unhealthy. Your body is designed to use them for energy and burn them.
However, when you're not eating, you have an ability to use fat, even the fat that you potentially use. Oh, here's how cool it is. As you gain fat cells on your body that we oftentimes don't like, well, guess what? It releases a hormone called leptin. You know what leptin does? Watch this, I'm gonna draw a head. Leptin. Oh gosh, that is a really bad person, but that's my person. Leptin goes to a place in the center of the brain. And it's called the pituitary hypothalamus.
There's receptors on the hypothalamus for leptin. You know what it does? As you gain fat cells, down here, if I drew a belly down here, as you gain fat cells, you produce more leptin, and that leptin tells the hypothalamus, hey, we're getting fat down here, burn it. And it burns it and we stay lean. Oh, you know what else it does? It tells you to slow down eating, it controls your appetite. It's not your fault. Told you it's not your fault. Because you know what?
Many people have leptin resistance, meaning the cells in your brain can't hear the leptin hormone. And so you don't go into a fat burning mode. You don't get told to stop eating. You crave carbohydrates because you have your cell's inability to use fat for energy. So it makes you crave sugar. You break every diet. And oh, by the way, if you still are disciplined over that control mechanism, guess what your body does for survival?
It breaks down your muscle into sugar because your cell's inability to burn fat because of this hormone resistance, maybe at the brain, maybe at the cell, maybe it's thyroid, maybe it's leptin, maybe it's insulin, maybe it's testosterone, but it will absolutely just need sugar. It will break muscle down into sugar. It's called gluconeogenesis. But the more muscle you lose, now you get skinny fat. That's what happened to me.
And when you get skinny fat, your metabolism's low, you have no energy, and you don't look good in mirrors. People think you're skinny, but you look at yourself in the mirror and you're sickened by it. That was me. And but the fact is, is you're broken at the cell. You have closed door syndrome, you have leftin resistance, insulin resistance, thyroid resistance. Okay, fact is this what can you do about it? That's the thing.
The question, I hope you thought about what's causing the cellular inflammation. Because Dr. Pompa, if we could get to that, then wouldn't I hear my hormones better and not have to take all these hormones? Possibly, yes. That's the idea. If you get to the cause of something, the body has an ability to heal itself. It's true. If you saw all of these testimonies out there of how I did Pompa's detox, ah, I just tipped my hand. And how I got off my thyroid medication.
I don't tell anyone to come off any medication or go on one. That's not the point here. I'm saying that there is a cause. And if you remove the cause, the body can do it. And your body can, yes, it wouldn't need to lean on a hormone in that case. And you can't just stop hormones or meds not making that recommendation because now your body's not producing it. One of the problems with taking hormones, your body stops producing its own, and now you end up in a new problem.
These hormones, when you take them, constant levels, you're not getting the fluctuations that innate intelligence likes to do in a day. It's a constant level, which is problematic because it never helps you feel the way you should feel when you're forcing a hormone in, controlling a level to be static, when hormones are meant to adjust from stress, from cortisol levels, all of it, all that is that innate intelligence.
Okay, which brings me back to what if we got to the cause of the inflammation that is the cause of closed door syndrome and why your hormones actually aren't working. The cause of the anxiety, because when you start burning, uh when you start don't not having enough energy, can't make enough energy, your body will raise up cortisol trying to get weird energy, which raises up adrenaline and we're left with all this weird anxiety and we don't sleep normal, etc. Not good place to be. Been there.
The number one cause of cellular inflammation is certain toxins. I'll tell you which ones. There's also all you hear the rage about bad seed oils. Yes, there are cause. Bad seed oils, vegetable oil, canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, go down the list, grapeseed oil, palm oil, you can keep going. All of those oils are rancid oils.
And those fats, those omega-6 fats typically, and omega-3, they're both so important in the cell membrane that they go right for the membrane and cause inflammation, but they're not meant to be there because they're rancid fats. They're bad fats. But if you ate good seeds, I love vegetable oil, but in vegetables. I love corn oil in corn, organic corn. But the point is that when we pull those oils out, they become very fragile. They don't take heat and they get rancid, denatured.
They still go where they should, into the membrane, but they cause an inflamed membrane and they cause everything that I just said. Hormone resistance, inflammation of the cell, lack of energy, etc. But toxins are the number one cause. So when I was sick, I had high levels of mercury. It took me four years to figure that out. But mercury was causing so much inflammation in my pituitary hypothalamus. So I chased my thyroid problem for many years.
I chased my adrenal problem for many years because of all the fatigue and anxiety and sleep problems. But the fact was, it was here. I had too much mercury driving massive inflammation. And then it was throwing off the whole system. And of course, that inflamed also the cells of my body. So then I was blocking other hormones. I had no sex driving. I was young and nothing worked the way it should because my cells weren't hearing my hormones. So what if we get to that cause?
Maybe yours is a moldy home. Maybe yours is a hidden infection in the jaw, unknowing, where you got a wisdom tooth pulled and it heals over. No pain, but infections there. Oh, it drives cellular inflammation. What if you have parasites and don't know it? What if you have, and I could keep going? What if you have a buildup of other heavy metals like lead and arsenic? Oh, where does that start? In utero. You know where most of my mercury came from? My mom, she had silver fillings.
There's a study called the Durash study. It was one of the first studies that showed the number of silver fillings in mom's mouth is proportional to how much mercury they found in the baby's brain on autopsy studies. Yeah, that's where mine studied. That's where mine started. And if I would have, well, I don't want to say died, but if I did and they was in that study, they would have found a lot of mercury in my pituitary hypothalamus. And that was a problem. But you know what?
My wife had major lead levels. You know where she got it? From her mom. Because they grew up in the lead generation. In utero, a lot of lead is stored in the bone. During pregnancy, it's very normal to lose bone because of estrogen shifts. Normal. But out comes the lead into the baby in utero. Oh, and then we get our other exposures through life, don't we? Right? I had my own silver fillings put in. I wore contact lenses in the 70s, 80s, early 90s.
It had mercury, thimerosol, right in the saline solution. Oh, of course, I went through a time where I was eating a lot of big fish, tuna, because I wanted to be healthy. Gained a lot of mercury there. Oh, my mother used aluminum foil constantly in everything that we did. Oh, gained a lot of aluminum. And thank God I didn't have a lot of vaccines. But think about kids today where they're using aluminum as an adjunct to make the vaccine actually work. Mercury too.
So these accumulations happen throughout our life until one day the bucket overflows, and that's when we get the diagnosis or the symptoms start, then the thyroid condition, and we're chasing thyroid, chasing hormones, shit. When all of those things I just said are driving cellular inflammation. But if we deal correctly, 20 years of teaching doctors this, if we deal with those exposures that have accumulated over our lifetime, and one day the symptoms start, and we think that it started then.
If I would have thought it started when I was 30 years old, I was wrong. It started way before that, even though I didn't have symptoms before that. But that accumulation, and now we're affected by plastics that accumulate, persistent toxins like forever chemicals that are in all the personal care products, shampoos, all of these things are accumulating in our tissues. How possibly can we expect to have normal hormone function or brain function?
How possibly do we think a hormone is going to just make us magically feel better when we have all of these toxins that have accumulated in our cells, causing cellular disruption? I didn't even get into it. It can turn on bad genes. As these toxins build up, our cellular ability to get rid of them lessens and lessens. And the toxins start building up more and more and more in that cell. And when they do, the genes get turned on. It's not, you didn't inherit the gene from your mom or dad.
No, it was turned on. And now you get the thyroid diagnosis or whatever it is, right? The autoimmune diagnosis. Maybe it's a gut problem that won't go away. Yes, the gene gets turned on. Oh, and the cellular energy just keeps going down and toxins keep building up and inflammation keeps building up, causing less and less of the uh good things to get in and the bad things can't get out.
So it's like your dampers closed in your house and your fire's burning, the smoke's pouring in, flames don't kill people. What kills them? The smoke, right? And that's what's happening to your cells until we get rid of the toxins that have accumulated in there and we open up those detox pathways. Twenty years I teach doctors as a matter of fact. I don't expect in these short podcasts for you to get it. I'm gonna make sure my team puts a link into a free training I did.
It's the same training I did for doctors, same thing. You'll understand every bit of it. You're you're gonna say, why doesn't show somebody show me this sooner? But more importantly, we can start doing right now what you need to do to get to it. Twenty years I've taught and team, I hope you heard that, put a link for them somewhere that they can access for that. But 20 years of teaching doctors how to do this. When you get the cell, my saying, fix the cell to get well.
Now you just have a greater insight on this. You fix the cell to get well. More specifically, you get the cells detoxing. You detox the cell and you'll get well. Your life will come back. Energy, your cells will start burning fat for energy again instead of muscle. Your fat, your cells will start burning fat again when you're not eating, you'll stay lean. Your cells will start hearing your hormones to give you energy throughout the day, your brain works throughout the day, right?
It's like that, I think, makes more sense if we get to those causes. Look, it's not a sauna, it's not a 10-day cleanse, it's not a juice cleanse, it's not Corella cilantra, it's not, no, it's not that. My pet peeve is people market that as a solution to detoxing. No, real detoxes at the cell, real detoxes, upregulating, fixing all of these pathways, methylation pathways, glutathione pathways, all of that. The cell membrane has more to do with detox, fixing the cell membrane.
20 years of teaching this. You can learn and do it yourself. Believe me, you can learn it, you can do it. I have a program that teaches people this. 20 years of teaching doctors, you know, it was my oldest son that said, Dad, take it to people. Teach people how to do it, people looking for an answer, just like you are. How are we gonna do that? Social media. Yeah, as an old guy, I never had a concept that we could take a message directly, people looking for an answer.
That's what I've done because of my um son Daniel's encouragement. But yeah, that's my passion, my purpose. If we can fix and upregulate all those pathways that determine how the cell detoxes, you get your life back. Your hormones work again. That's how you downregulate the inflammation. There's specific toxins.
We even have, I I have tests that we do, and I I think in the training they'll add in, I talk about the test, but um, it is literally pathways or certain symptoms, even, that we know get compromised and create certain symptoms, I should say, that will tell us what toxins people have been exposed to. You know, a lot of people don't feel well, they're actually living in moldy homes, unknown to them, and they always say, I got my home tested. Okay, I talk about that. They do have hidden infections.
I talked a little bit about these cavitations that can form. They, you know, they have heavy metal exposures, and where the metals accumulate will determine certain symptoms, but all of that is testable. And if you get to that and you get to these inflammatory causes, you have a lasting solution. And you're not spending all this wasted money on a lot of different drugs and who knows what other solutions. I know I tried it all. I was the guy who tried it all. Most things fail.
Um, but this I'm gonna end here. I know in my heart of hearts, God showed me everything. From pain to purpose is actually the name of this podcast, right? For a reason. Because it was my pain that gave me the purpose of how I even sit here today. But there's one word that's not there that is our family mantra, from pain to purpose to promise. And this is a true story. My wife, when I was sick and looking for an answer, it massively disrupted our entire family and everything in my life.
Life as I know it literally came to a screeching halt. But many times she was on her knees praying for me and the family at this particular time. God spoke to her heart that not only was he going to get me well, but I'm going to take a message to the world. And by the way, when she would say that to me, I'd get very angry. My exact words were I can't even get myself well. How dare you put that on me? I didn't see it, but that promise, pain to purpose to promise, got her through.
And what I found out even just recently is my two oldest sons, that's what got them through. They said, Dad, we would hear mom talk about God has a purpose and what God told her. And they hung on to that promise too, believe it or not. It wasn't until you many years later that I was like, she was right, or God was right through her. That all of that, God showed me to be here with an answer.
And I and I always say, I look, I don't claim to have every answer, but I have a unique answer for such a time as this. All the detox, toxins are making people sick. When we look at what's happened in the last 50 years, chronic disease, even in children, under 10%, some say under 6% 50 years ago. Now today, 60-some percent of chronic disease in kids, let alone what's happening in adults right now. Obesity sailing more than half the population. Why?
The answer isn't just the food, no, it's the toxins. That's the problem. I was just with RFK Jr., um health secretary, and I can tell you, he believes exactly the same as I do that it is absolutely the toxins are the big culprit of why chronic diseases have soared. Now, we can talk about all of the sources. He talks a lot about different vaccines, he talks a lot about other things, but in the toxins and the food and the water.
But the fact is, it's the toxins that we've accumulated that have caused the chronic disease. If you desire for you and your family to be well, it's not as simple today as just changing your diet. Oh, you should start there and change your water too and change your personal care products. But if you follow my Instagram page, I teach people how to start there. But ultimately, what's accumulated in your cells, that's what's driving the inflammation. And you have to deal with what's accumulated.
And that's the process I've been teaching for 20 years. And that's a process you can learn. So hopefully you watch that training, it's more in depth. But share this podcast. So many people need to hear this message and it will give them hope. Because I promise you, most people who don't feel well say, I tried this, I tried that, I'm trying this, I'm on hormones. But the answer is not what they think.
And the answer is so simple and obvious, especially when you spend time reading the scientific literature. But if it were only so simple as me telling you to step into a sauna or do a detox or a foot bath, yeah, not that simple. But it's not that it's more complicated, but real detox is at the cell. And anyone can learn what I've been teaching doctors for 20 years and change the destiny of you and your family. Thank you and share this podcast.