Episode 52 - Hope For TBI, Semaglutide Concerns, Short Walks & PEAK8, Dementia Testing & More

In chiropractic, adaptability is the name of the game. Everything we do as humans is adapting to our environment, and when we fail to adapt, things go bad. Bad could be neck, back, or knee pain. Or bad could be cancer. After reviewing this episode, everything we talked about this day concerned failures to adapt, from TBI, gaining weight, dementia & of course cancer. Learn how walking helps you adapt and check out the Sprint 8 routine below! Concerns about the new weight loss drug semaglutide are shared. We also discuss simple tests to see if a loved one has issues with dementia. And what episode of TBTB wouldn’t be complete with some talk about food?!?!?

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Hope For TBI, Semaglutide Concerns, Short Walks & PEAK8, Dementia Testing & More

Dr. Bagley, how are you?

I’m doing well. I want to talk to our audience. If you are on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or YouTube, I want you to like and subscribe to us because that helps us reach more people, but it also helps you find us. If you like this content, please let us know and leave us a five-star review. That would be lovely.

This is a perfect place to explain why we need to share this content with people. This is the day that Phillip’s episode dropped. We’re several weeks through the cycle. March 7, 2024, is when the episode dropped. If you haven’t read it, you have to go back and read that one. If you read this one before you read his, read his.

I had a patient come in who told me that her grandson had taken his life. Her grandson was a 29-year-old former Marine. I’m sorry. Folks, I’m not going to rag. If you’ve served, thank you for your service. Marines are special kinds of people. Even to get into that position, you are above and beyond an exceptional human being to be able to do that. To feel like you are in such a deep, dark place that you can’t survive and you have to take your life hurts my feelings and soul. I don’t use those words lightly. That makes me sad on many levels. I wish this kid had heard that story, and we were able to help him at least half as well as we’ve been able to help Phillip.

One of those points is that chronic pain and mental changes that happen after traumatic injuries and traumatic brain injuries, that there is hope out there. Chiropractic is a piece of the puzzle. Upper cervical chiropractic is overlooked, misunderstood, and not known. That’s one of the reasons we are doing this show here. If there’s someone in your life or if you are that person who is having a breakdown right at this moment, know that we’re here. We will listen. Text and call us. There are people who care about you. There are doctors that will listen to you. Chiropractors are also a special breed. We care. Please reach out.

Semaglutide Injections

You had some ideas about what we’re going to talk about.

I was looking through the news and what’s out there on mainstream health news because we have always had a different perspective. When I read an article, I’m like, “Yeah, okay, but who paid for that article?” One of the things that happened coming out of the FDA was that it approved Wegovy, which is the semaglutide injection. It’s the same thing as Ozempic. It’s similar. All of them are similar. Wegovy is approved for cardiovascular and stroke risk. I find that interesting because almost everyone in America is cardiovascular and a stroke risk.

Depending upon the year, the number 1 or 2 killer between it and cancer. Why do we need to add it?

That’s a big deal because we’re going to find out what this drug does by the amount of people that are now on it, like we did with Celebrex. Celebrex was a medication that was given for chronic and musculoskeletal pain.

Was it Celebrex or Vioxx?

Is Celebrex the one that they still do?

Celebrex is still in the market. It was less of a problem, but Vioxx has a problem.

It’s a Cox-2 NSAID. You’re right. It was Vioxx. Apologies. Thank you. All these people were out of pain. What they found out is a whole bunch of them were dying of heart attacks. It causes cardiovascular complications because it damages their hearts. What are we going to find out 2, 3, 10 years from now with all these people on these glide injections? The answer is I don’t know. Maybe it’s a miracle there are no side effects. We already see some of the side effects. People have peristalsis, which their gut stops moving, and some of that is permanent, which is scary.

You’ve got muscle loss because, on these semaglutides, what you lose is body mass. My scale is down. That’s not healthy.

I struggle. I get wanting the fix. I would love to not be hungry. I have some patients that are on it. They’re having success with weight loss. I’ve had some patients who were on it and went off of it because of side effects. The issue I am running into is what happens afterward. This isn’t a permanent drug you can take. It’s not something they want you to take all the time.

We’ll find out differently. Maybe they’re going to try to make it a permanent drug for some people, which would make them more money. When I say they, it’s the pharmaceutical industry. My concern is the long-term consequences. It could be cancer or osteoporosis bone. I could see people because it could affect how we absorb food and nutrients. I have no idea what will happen.

We’re already seeing muscle loss as a consequence of taking the drug.

Do you think that muscle loss is more because of the anorexia type that occurs when people take it?

Fasting And Weight Loss

It’s not putting you into a fasting state for whatever reason. If you are in a fasting state and you can fast regularly, you will generally switch your body from producing or utilizing glucose and glycogen stores. You will end up upgrading your own ketones, which we’ve talked about as far as what the ketogenic diet is trying to switch you to. Ketone may prevent muscle wasting and sparing to a point.

I can’t say that I’ve looked down this biochemical rabbit hole to see why it’s doing that. We are observing that it’s decreasing your overall body mass, which means you’re losing fat, but you are also losing muscle, which includes the heart because the heart is a muscle. For whatever reason, something is not getting converted, and these people are losing muscle mass. That does two things. When you lose muscle mass, you lose your metabolic powerhouse because muscles are where your metabolism comes from. You lose that metabolic powerhouse, and the next thing you know, you’re like, “I’m off the drug.”

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Let’s say you’ve lost 70 pounds. I’m excited for you, but now, you have less muscle. Less than if you would’ve done something differently.

Working out and walking every day.

You start eating normally again because you’re like, “I’m hungry again.”

What’s curious is if you are eating 3500 calories a day, and a lot of them are junk calories. You’re sitting at 250 pounds and can’t figure out how to lose the weight for various reasons. You haven’t figured out the diet and lifestyle. What’s curious is you eat the same thing, and 250 doesn’t go up or down. You hover right there. You are at a set point because your body can maintain that with whatever you’re eating.

You drop down 70 pounds. That sounds great. You’re sitting at 180. You look great and better. The metabolism you had at 250 and the metabolism you have at 180 are not the same. You are not 180 of muscle. You are now 180 less than both fat and muscle. Your metabolism that was maintaining 3,500 calories at 250 does not have the capacity or the workhorse to maintain 2,000 or 2,500 at 180. That’s a problem.

What’s happening is you don’t have a metabolism. You’re going to start going right back to that 3,500 calories. You’re going to get back up to the 250, except it’s not going to be muscle, and it’s going to be plus. This is the same thing that was happening when they put people through the Biggest Loser competition, especially the ones that happened all the way across the board.

Some of them maintain, but that was a small percentage. The grand percentage of them all rebounded back to where they were and gained some. Somewhere along the way their diet and exercise were structured, they ended up doing the same problem where their metabolism was shut down. This is why if you want to be not hungry, go eat protein. A pound of protein in a meal will fill you up.

It takes a little while to digest. It’s not if you eat a bowl of rice that’s gone in 30 minutes, and it’s out of your stomach.

There’s a joke about going to a Chinese restaurant and being hungry. You stuff yourself full, and you’re hungry as soon as you walk out. There are some empty calories going on there, but that’s not the whole thing.

We are chiropractors. We do not put people on or take people off drugs. You talk to your doctor about all these things. There are some medical doctors out there who are hesitant to put those people on these medications. There are all these fly-by-night places you can walk into, pay a whole bunch of money, and get these injections. They’re popping up all over St. Louis. I don’t know if you’ve seen them in Springfield.

I haven’t, but I haven’t been looking either.

I look at socials, and even in the mail mailers that we get, it’s these weight loss centers. I do look them up. Patients will ask me about stuff like this. I want to know what this is. Almost all of them have a medical staff there, either a physicist or a medical doctor who’s running the place. You can walk in and walk out for a couple of thousand dollars with a set of these shots.

It’s scary. It’s going to be interesting to see what happens in the next couple of years.

I don’t like me, my family, or friends to be guinea pigs. I feel like there has been a lot of that going on in the last few years in this country and this world. People are becoming guinea pigs because of new medications. I haven’t seen that happen, and it is a good thing.

Anytime you rush anything, it is going to be bad. I’ve worked back towards my engineering days. We figured out quickly when we said, “We’re going to ship the robots out and the parts out. We’ll assemble it all at the job site where it’s going to be running, and everything is going to go fine.” No, everything is not going to go fine. There’s going to be a piece and a part missing. There’s going to be fittings that weren’t correct.

What they figured out, because it costs them a bunch of money when they started doing these smaller projects, is if they didn’t test the project out in completion, at the very least as much as possible with mockups, you would end up spending four times more down the line, both in dollars and hours. That was always a nightmare.

In my first big job, I cut my teeth on a job like that. We were fixing stuff and figuring out what the heck was going on. It was fun. I had a great time playing firefighter, and you can only do that for so long. For the next project, we made sure we got it fixed and got it working before we got there. I go in, and I’m like, “Yeah, I do this. My job’s already done. I was bored.” There was there was still fire.

We never get bored as chiropractors because people are not that easy to figure out.

Downtime Hours

If you wonder why we have restricted hours, it’s because we play firefighters a lot, and sometimes we need downtime.

I’m checking one patient. I’m doing this. There’s another one over there. I’m talking to them. We’ve got open adjusting. I can see the other doctor. We were talking and commenting. There is a lot going on. She goes, “How do you do it?” I was like, “Do what?” She goes, “You know everybody and everything.” I was like, “I don’t know everything but everyone. I write down stuff and my notes. Once I write it down, I do remember most of it. I do remember a lot.” She goes, “What do you do for your downtime?” I was like, “Sometimes, I need quiet.” You tend to be more of an introvert. You’re an extroverted introvert.

I like that time to be with people and to be social. I also need to get away from it all and digest what is going on so my brain can relax. My problem with the hunting season is I didn’t get to the point where I needed that much time to relax where I needed to. I need to disappear for a week and bring me home a dear.

For me, a week is a long time, even to be on vacation for a week by the end of it. That sounds bizarre, but I don’t like long vacations. These long weekends are plenty for me most of the time. I like to take a nice warm bath. I put Epsom salts, which have magnesium in there. I soak and have quiet. Sometimes, I’ll have music on. I’ll chill out, but everybody needs to find cathartic and something that relaxes them.

Short Walks

One of those common things in springtime is to go outside and go for a walk. That brings me to one of the things that I was also reading, which was this thing called The 10,000 Steps a Day. Everybody talks about that. I have never measured my steps a day. I have never gotten into it because I don’t carry my phone around with me. A lot of people use their phones to measure it. I don’t wear any bracelets because when we adjust, we have to use our wrists. I never have anything there, but I know you use that Oura Ring. Does that measure steps?

It does.

Does it do a good job of measuring steps? Is it enough?

This is a good question, and it’s funny because I was chatting with somebody else. It’s not 10,000 if you want to lose weight. It’s 15,000. What is curious is I switched from calorie burn to step counting here a couple of months back. I was more curious about what that number was. Can I meet my calorie burn metric, which I want to hit a day as far as activity goes? Absolutely. Do I hit the step counter? I miss it almost every day.

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What do you have your set at?

Mine is set at 9,000 steps. On some days, I’m going to meet it, and on some days, I’m not worried about it. On most days, I’m not too worried about it because, during my kettlebell training, I don’t wear it. It doesn’t show up. I sit somewhere between 6,000 and 7,000 steps a day on busy office days. Even when I’m doing stuff in the office, I’m not hitting all of those metrics. I couldn’t do it because it was raining. Once I realized what time it was, I had other obligations.

After my workout, I’m like, “I want to go for a walk around the block.” It was raining, and I was like, “I don’t want to be that wet.” The more that you figure out how you can get a ten-minute walk-in 2 or 3 times a day, 30 minutes of walking will hit your 10,000 steps. That’s more beneficial. All you have to do is set a timer. If you eat three meals a day, you should do five minutes out and five minutes back.

A good point is telling people, “If you don’t have 45 minutes to walk, you might have 10 or 20, and set the timer to go off in five minutes, walk out and back.” When I walk in my neighborhood, I tend to do a twenty-minute timer, and I go back into the woods behind my house. When that twenty-minute timer goes off, I turn around and come back. It’s a rider. I might be 2 or 3 minutes off depending on how I hit that big hill because the hill is down on the way out.

The other thing for our readers who may have problems walking or are getting into walking is knowing that you don’t have to go far. I have a cul-de-sac. I could do circles around my cul-de-sac if I’m afraid I might get tired or if you have stenosis in your back and you need to sit down often. I told one of my patients to set up a lawn chair at the end of her driveway. She could do a loop and sit. Do a loop and sit. Every day you do that, it’s going to be easier. Don’t feel like, “I’m going to start off and walk an hour.” No, do five minutes. That’s better than you did before.

One of my nuns lives up on the fourth floor. She’s fairly capable. She can do everything. We’re keeping her head on straight. She used to work on the farm. She likes being active. She likes us too, but like us, she wants to lose some weight that feels like it’s stuck. We’ve talked about how to clean up her diet. One of the things is that because she lives on the fourth floor, she doesn’t take the elevator. She’s been doing steps. What I told her to balance is she can walk up a flight of steps, walk down the hall, and back. The hall walking is nice and relaxed. As soon as she hits the steps, she’s got to work harder to go up. That’s a sprint to get up the steps as fast as possible, a relaxing walk on the flat, and doing another one.

Pavel Tsatsouline got a new book out. If you want to find his stuff on StrongFirst.com, that’s a good place to find everything he’s talking about. The point is hill walking and step climbing. If you’re doing the step climber at the gym, it’s not the same as an actual step because you are staying in the same position. Your legs are moving, but you’re not changing. You’re not moving in the same way as you will when you hit actual steps.

It’s not bad. It’s different.

The nice thing is you don’t need a lot of activity. In 20 to 30 minutes a day, you can get about everything you need, especially if you do something like that. I told her that she would do it twice because she’s got three flights of stairs. I said, “Once you’ve gotten to the top, use the elevator and take it down.”

If you have knee problems, going downstairs hurts worse than going upstairs. A great idea is to take the elevator elevator down and do it again.

That’s a C3 and C4 problem. Make sure your doc is checking your C3 and C4 if you are having problems walking downstairs because that’s what I was having trouble with.

It has to be for everyone because it was for you.

PEAK8 Program

Joe Mercola had something out there called Peak Eight. If you go to Mercola.com, he still has all his stuff up there. You have to figure out how to navigate his site. He had something called a Peak Eight Program. It was 30 seconds on and 90 seconds off. That’s what his sister is doing. She’s in about 30 seconds. She’ll be up those two sets of stairs. She won’t get her winded, but it’ll get the heart rate going. You take 90 seconds to relax, and you do it again.

Each time, your heart rate will increase a little bit. I remember Mercola talking about that years ago.

The book that I came across was Sprint 8.

Interval training is what it is.

It is a form of interval training. If you do that about 3 or 4 times a week, in twenty minutes, you will see major structural changes in your body that you didn’t think could be changed.

It is why if you are in a place that has hills like I am taking a walk outside versus being on a treadmill, it is different because you are going up and downhill. It changes how you work out.

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There’s more movement when I go over to the Arthur office because I’ve got to tear down what I’ve got at the house. We have a portable table at the house that I take over to Arthur. I will hit my step goals to the tune of almost 12,000 steps on those days. I’ve got some stairs that I have to go up and down a couple of times. When I go to see my dad and visit with him, we’ll take a leisurely stroll around the property. There are roughly 40 acres there.

It’s not uncommon that I hit 13,000 steps in the morning. I’m flat everywhere I am in the office. I have a hard time breaking 7,000 to 8,000 steps. On a day like this, I’m supposed to hit 11,000 steps. If I got that walk-in, I might be closer. That’s not going to happen. I’m not worried about it, but it’s one of those things.

For the readers out there, I want you to do something. After you’re done reading this podcast, take a walk. I enjoy listening to podcasts while I’m walking. I do listen to music. I’m big on podcasts because they put my brain in a slightly different mental state, where I’m not thinking, “There’s that next hill.”

You’re doing two things at a time because you’re learning something from us while you are being physically active. We’re not going to hold our breath that you’re always going to learn something from us, but that’s possible. It could happen.

Clock Test

I was not learning anything because I listened to the State of the Union address.

I thought they were calling it the Hate of the Union address.

It was rough.

I haven’t listened to it.

I did not listen to the whole thing because I was busy. I listened to a couple of excerpts. I’m not going to listen to it again. There are two things I want to bring up about that. Number one, how do we diagnose dementia? If you have a friend or a family member that you feel has a cognitive disconnect or something is happening to them, and it’s your spouse or a close person, one of the tests you can give them is the clock test.

The clock test is something simple. You have them draw a clock. You say, “Draw me a clock with all the numbers on it.” They draw the circle. Make sure there are no clocks that they can look at that point. If you have them, you start with 12 and then 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. What will happen, and I’ve given this to someone and seen them have it done wrong, is the person that I had had all the numbers on it, but the numbers only took up three-quarters of the clock. They didn’t get it all the way around.

I also tell the person to say, “Make it 3:00.” Unless you’re a Millennial and didn’t learn how to read a clock, it’ll be hard for them to do that. That should not be a hard activity for someone without a cognitive problem. That’s an easy test. It’s not 100% accurate, but it gives you a clue. What I was trying to express was that there is something there.

That’s something you can bring to your medical doctor or healthcare provider to show and say, “My husband, my spouse, or someone I care about, there’s something going on cognitively.” In the elderly, it could be as simple as they have a urinary tract infection. That many times causes quick cognitive changes in elderly individuals. I don’t think that’s what’s going on with Joe Biden. There’s something else. I’m going to guess it is dementia, but I can’t tell you.

Without seeing medical records, I’m not going to make an opinion.

I felt yelled at for an hour.

Somebody had said something along those lines, and it also came across that Joe Biden had survived another four years. Will he last until 2029? The question is, will we last until 2029 if he’s president again?

He might make it until the election, but I don’t think he’ll make it in the election. They’re going to pull and put somebody else in.

Something is going to change. We’re getting more political than we like.

Ending Cancer

The other part that I wanted to bring up was he said something that piqued my interest. He’s going to end cancer as we know it on his regime. I find that interesting for a couple of different reasons. Number one is you can’t end cancer. Why I say that is have cancer. I’m not scared of it because I’m adapting to the changes in a cell. That cell started to grow and became 2 or 4 cells. That’s how a tumor starts.

My body has this natural defense. It’s something like a natural killer cell that comes along, which is a part of the immune system. It recognizes that as an invader, something is wrong. It’s multiplying weirdly. It murders those few cells. That’s a normal adaptation. What cancer is is a lack of adaptation. The body is no longer adapting to something. Cancer can be triggered by poisons and toxins. One of those is Agent Orange. Many of our servicemen who were in Vietnam were exposed to that. Many of them have already passed away.

The fires out of Afghanistan where they were burning.

Was it Iraq? I think it was Iraq.

It was both.

I have a friend who has cancer. He got that from Iraq by breathing in those toxic fumes. There are things that we have in our environment, not in wartime zones, that are causing things, and things that we may inject into us could cause us to not adapt well. The job of a chiropractor isn’t to put you on or take you off medications. Our job is to help our patients adapt well to the stresses that are already on their bodies. We want to educate our patients not to do things that will make it harder for our bodies to adapt. One of those things is eating Doritos every day. It’s not a great idea for you to fight cancer.

I wonder if I saved this one. I saw something. If food labels were honest, it had one that said, “Hidden ingredients. Canola oil was a splash of milk, sugar, and egg. Do not eat nacho healthiest choice with red 40, yellow 5 and 6, and MSG.” If there’s a color with a number, that is a petroleum product.

It’s not good for you.

The comment at the bottom is ovary-crushing testicle, toxin, deliciousness, mac, and disease with heart disease-causing ingredients. Calcium, triphosphate, sodium triphosphate, and plain old sodium phosphate. Chips decoy because these aren’t real chocolate chips. There are three types of sugar in one cookie. Low fat, high obesity, sweet baby betrays 90% corn like the factory-fed meat you’ll be slathering it on. It has four kinds of corn, less than 2% barbecue, and 32 ingredients that are bred in a roll. These are BS in a can.

That Red Bull stuff is gross.

Imitation of boiled tree sap was the last one.

Our ancestors figured out we could boil maple sap and make this delicious nectar.

It is wonderful that you can get grade A and B maple syrup.

I have never gone there, but I wanted to go there.

I stopped several ago. It’s a nice little place. Next time you’re coming through, try to stop. I could drink this stuff. She gave me a shot glass when I got there to try it. It is not overly sugary. It is smooth. I could drink this entire thing, and I’m like, “I shouldn’t.”

Maple syrup is expensive. It takes a ton of this to make it a little bit.

A sixteen-ounce jug that I got was about $20 or $25, but it’s awesome. I get to make waffles and/or pancakes for my wife’s birthday. I’m going to break it out. It’s good.

That should be an every-once-in-a-while treat. Sugar was always looked upon by our ancestors, and this is an every once-in-a-while treat. We’ve got high fructose corn syrup made into brown maple artificial flavoring in a jug. When I was a kid, that’s all I knew. I didn’t know that there was the other stuff. I tried the other stuff, and it tasted gross because I was used to this high fructose-saturated sweet solution.

It’s not as much. Once you start moving yourself away, this is why going keto is powerful. Do a sugar-elimination diet for a while and reintroduce honey and/or maple syrup.

All of a sudden, the fruit tastes delicious because you can taste the sweetness of the fruit.

Make sure it’s organic because the organic stuff is different than the non-organic stuff. It is amazing how, at the end of the season, when the organic stuff is gone and you pick up blueberries, they don’t taste right. As soon as you hit that point in the season, stop eating that fruit. There’s another fruit that may be in season.

Inability To Adapt To Dis-Ease

It is how our ancestors would have eaten. The last thing I’m going to say on adaptation is the body’s inability to adapt results in disease or dis-ease, as chiropractors would say. That could be tingling down into my hand. It could be a headache or cancer. That’s what chiropractors help with. It’s not like I’m saying we cure cancer. We do not cure cancer.

I don’t even cure tingles down the harm, but a lot of my patients who have that don’t have that anymore. What we do is, if there is a structural shift in the spine, we adjust the spine to allow the body to start adapting to the stress of living again. When we can do that, all of a sudden, the potential for healing is unlocked, and the body can heal like it was designed to do, which is incredible.

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I remember hearing about a case about a decade ago. Dr. Forrest had shared with us that it was a young lady in Spain who had a bad, non-operable tumor that was giving her horrible migraines. The doctors were like, “We can’t do anything because of where it was located.” It was close to the brainstem or in the brainstem.

She ended up getting under chiropractic care to give her some pain relief. I can’t be exact on the timing because it’s been a while since we’ve seen this case. They went in to see where the tumor was. It had regressed significantly. It’s not to say that your body can’t heal the tumor because it can, but bear in mind there are other factors that are going to play into what’s going on in your body. It’s one anecdote.

It’s why I’m not afraid when someone tells me that they’re actively in cancer treatment or in remission. I’m not afraid to have them as patients. I’m like, “You continue to do whatever you feel comfortable doing with your medical team. I’m here to help support your body in that process.” I’m always happy to do it because we see amazing results, and it’s the best job in the world.

If you get freaked out because your doctor says you’ve got prostate cancer and you’re in your 50s, 60s, 70s, or 80s, the reality is every man will die of prostate cancer. Not necessarily from prostate cancer because that’s the nature of the prostate. At a certain point in time, old tissues start to have problems. For whatever reason, for men, prostates seem to develop a cancer or a small tumor.

If it’s to the point where you can’t eliminate your bladder, and you can’t pee all the way out, and it’s taking you fifteen minutes to take one pee, that’s a problem.

We need to make sure that everything is working the way it is supposed to. We certainly don’t want something that goes from the prostate to other parts of the spine because that is the concern that they have there. Monitor it, keep on top of it, and do all the nutrition. Saw palmetto is still the best thing for most men to be taking in those cases. The reality is that we are always creating cancer cells, but our bodies, if they are adapting properly, will clean that up naturally during the process. When it gets out of control, it is when we start having problems.

In my opinion, when Biden says, “We’re going to end cancer as we know it,” we have to know where it’s starting from or ended in a person. There will never be no cancer. It can be less, but there’s never going to be no. I’m done with these politicians on both sides spouting off BS about that stuff to get applause or be like, “Cancer is bad.” We all know cancer sucks. We’re not saying, but there are people out there suffering or who are scared who got a diagnosis. That’s not cool. I don’t like anybody being used for political gain. That was a thumbs-down on that one.

Gene Editing Treatment

The way that they think they’re going to solve this is with a gene-editing treatment.

It sounds like a lot of the stuff that we’ve had injected into everyone.

There was a big deal about the BRCA gene for women’s breast cancer.

That’s a huge deal. I know some people who have moved their breast tissue because of that.

I don’t know if it’s still the case because it’s been a while. We’re nearing that several-year patent mark, but I believe there’s a company that owns the BRCA gene for whatever reason for their testing. There was something hinky about that they made that because it’s the gene. It’s not the gene. No gene is 100% responsible for a problem. It has always been a combination of things. This is why when they were doing the human genome mapping, they were figuring that there were going to be millions of genes. It’s a fraction of that. I can’t remember what the number is. Do you remember how many genes we have?

It’s 15,000 or something. It’s not that many.

It’s a small number. There are small worms that have more genes that are encoded for protein than we do. I don’t understand what that means, but I understand that there are more things going on with gene play than we understand. That’s the short of it.

It’s the expression of the genes. Not so much the genes themselves. Just because you’ve been told that you have this certain gene doesn’t mean it will be expressed. Do your research before you start cutting off parts of your body.

If you were born with most of these things, you should keep them.

In general, we probably should keep the things we are born with. Share on X

Closing Words

On that note, I’m going to keep the parts of my body away from this show. I’m going to say goodbye to everyone. Where can they find you, Dr. Schurger?

I’m at KeystoneChiroSPI.com here in Springfield, Illinois. You?

I’m in St. Louis, Missouri, at PrecisionSTL.com. You can find me on all the socials and on TikTok, which you hate, but it’s fun. I want to remind you. If you get a chance, leave us a like, subscribe, and five-star review because it helps us. We are fighting the global media powers with this show. We appreciate it. It warms our little chiropractor hearts.

Thank you so much. We will be back with another episode. If you haven’t read all the other episodes, go back and go for a binge there. There are lots of great stuff.

Can we talk about fluoride in the next episode?

We need to go through a couple of things to make sure that we can talk about fluoride in the next episode because I saw something that said it was in mental floss and you can reverse cavities. I read it. It says, “You still have to do all the fluoride stuff because that’s the way you reverse cavities.”

We’ve got lots of things to talk about there. It might be the next episode or the next couple of episodes, but that’s going to be a good one. If you’re behind a couple, you might want to look into that one. Bye, folks.

Episode 52 – Hope For TBI, Semaglutide Concerns, Short Walks & PEAK8, Dementia Testing & More