Latest / INSPIRE STORY / Podcast Episode 1- Mental Health and Behavioural Disorders
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- 0:00Speaker 1: You are listening to the very first episode of the
- 0:03Inspire Health Podcast. Thank you so much for joining us.
- 0:07Our first episode features a great mentor of mine, doctor
- 0:10William Walsh of the Walsh Research Institute. If you are
- 0:13a loved one suffers from mental health challenges or a
- 0:16behavioral disorder, this is an absolute must listen to episode.
- 0:21The key takeaway is that if your body is out
- 0:24of balance, you could be biochemically hardwired to struggle in
- 0:28your life. Doctor Walsh's research has had transformational results for
- 0:33thousands of families and it's an important aspect of treatment
- 0:36that I bring into my practice as well. Welcome to
- 0:40the Inspire Health Podcast. Your life is about to get
- 0:43a whole lot better. Have you ever felt like you
- 0:46tried everything and yet still couldn't find the answers or
- 0:48the solutions that you were seeking, whether you're dealing with
- 0:51chronic illness, physical or emotional pain. I want you to
- 0:55know that your body is the most sophisticated machine on
- 0:58planet Earth. Your body whole, it's unfathomable wisdom. Trust in
- 1:02it and learn from it. Know that there are answers
- 1:06and there are solutions to your specific health challenges, and
- 1:10we will be uncovering all of them here on the
- 1:12Inspire Health Podcast. I'm so excited to be a part
- 1:16of your healing journey. Your transformation starts out. Welcome to
- 1:23another episode of the Inspire Health Podcast. Today, I've got
- 1:26a really special guest. This has been one of my
- 1:28main mentors over the past five years. It's my great
- 1:32honor and pleasure to introduce doctor William J. Walsh, PhD.
- 1:35Doctor Walsh is an internationally recognized expert in methylation disorders
- 1:40and nutrient imbalances associated with mental disorders. Through his nonprofit organization,
- 1:45The Walsh Research Institute, is dedicated his life to unravel
- 1:49the biochemistry of mental disorders and develop improved treatments through
- 1:53scientific research and studies and medical partitioner education. He has
- 1:58educated more than six hundred doctors and medical practitioners in
- 2:01North America, Australia, Norway and Ireland. Today, Doctor Walsh will
- 2:07be sharing with you what he has learned over the
- 2:08past thirty years, developing biochemical therapies that have helped thousands
- 2:13of individuals diagnosed with autism, behavioral disorders ADHD, depression, anxiety, bipolar, schizophrenia,
- 2:20in Alzheimer's disease, doctor Walsh, thank you so much for
- 2:24being on our show.
- 2:25Speaker 2: Oh happy to.
- 2:27Speaker 3: Be with you, Super.
- 2:28Speaker 1: I was thinking today about when I first came across
- 2:31your information, and it was back when I first heard.
- 2:35Do you remember when you did your first episode or
- 2:37your first podcast with Bulletproof Radio.
- 2:42Speaker 2: I think that's about a year and a half ago,
- 2:44maybe two years ago.
- 2:45Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think even longer than that.
- 2:48Speaker 1: I think it was probably I think I did my
- 2:50first training with you back about three years or more ago,
- 2:54and then a recent one again about a year ago.
- 2:57Speaker 2: I think I've been doing about two or three podcast
- 3:00a month, so it's kind of all becoming altogether.
- 3:03Speaker 3: But it was great.
- 3:04Speaker 1: I remember I was in the car and I was
- 3:06listening to the podcast, and as you were talking about
- 3:09nutrient therapy and methylation disorders, and I remember thinking I
- 3:13had never heard it explain quite the way that you
- 3:15explained it, or with the details that you had gotten
- 3:18into it, and I remember thinking that was one of
- 3:20the missing links to the whole piece, the whole puzzles.
- 3:23So I'd love to hear your story. How did you
- 3:28get into thirty years of working with mental disorders? How
- 3:32did you get into this field of mental health and
- 3:35even more particularly, how did you get into working with
- 3:38nutrients for mental health.
- 3:41Speaker 2: Well, I'd like to say that I planned it, but
- 3:44actually it was a complete total accident. I was a
- 3:47scientist at argon National Laboratory as a young man, and
- 3:51I previously worked with places like most animals that used
- 3:55to for comic research. I was involved in basically experimental work,
- 4:01a lot of it in the nuclear area. And I
- 4:05was a young man and Illinois, just started a new
- 4:08job there and just coming out out of grad school,
- 4:11and I decided to start getting involved with volunteerism. There
- 4:18was a lot going on back then, the Peace Corps
- 4:21and similar everybody I knew he was volunteering to do something,
- 4:24and I decided I'd like to get involved with crime
- 4:27and violence and do whatever I might be able to
- 4:30do to possibly reduce it a bit. And I happen
- 4:33to be president of the Argonne chess team. We had
- 4:39about forty five hundred scientists from all over the world,
- 4:42and we thought we were pretty good at Our team
- 4:44thought we were pretty good at chess. We had just
- 4:46won the Chicago Dustrial Championship and I'm like twenty eight
- 4:50teams and over the summer this guy just kept badgering me,
- 4:56why don't we play the prison. We need to keep
- 4:58sharp for the next season. So I scheduled. I couldn't
- 5:02get rid of him, so I scheduled a meeting with
- 5:05the Statefield Penitentiary, one of America's three tough prisons, and
- 5:10I brought twelve PhD scientists chess players, including some pretty
- 5:16terrific players. I had a guy from Russia who was
- 5:18a master, had the youth champion from Yugoslavia. We had
- 5:24a pretty good team. So the long story is they
- 5:29beat us. Wow. So I thought was wonderful, and I
- 5:33got the names of all the people who had won,
- 5:35and I got in the Chicago Forbune the next day
- 5:37and said, prisoners beat scientists. They had about forty five
- 5:43hundred prisoners there and they actually were quite good. Another
- 5:48guy I played had just come on death road, and
- 5:52I was asking what life was like, and he basically
- 5:55told me how terrible it was until that was in
- 5:58population and for better. He was been commuted because they
- 6:02banned the death penalty, and uh, so I offered to
- 6:05help him with props some of the problems he had,
- 6:10and anyway, he looked at me and said, you really
- 6:14mean that, you really mean you'd like to help, And
- 6:17I said, yeah, I would let me know what you know,
- 6:19what you need. So he went off. Our game was
- 6:22over early. I actually beat him. I think I was
- 6:25the fifth or sixth board. You have the best players
- 6:27are at the top and not a sort of in
- 6:29the middle. And he went off for about three minutes,
- 6:32and you another guy got on a legal sheet of
- 6:34paper and started writing down the things they needed. Poor
- 6:37healthcare or healthcare in a prison is absolutely awful. They
- 6:41mentioned that the food is bad, of course, but they
- 6:44mentioned the danger. It only cost twenty bucks to to
- 6:49arride with guard to open your cell door and somebody
- 6:53else's cell door at three o'clock in the morning, which
- 6:56meant somebody was stumming to kill you.
- 6:58Speaker 3: Yoah.
- 6:59Speaker 2: So he gave me a long list of about twenty
- 7:01things they needed, including recreational programs, educational programs, something to
- 7:07help guide them when they get out, some kind of
- 7:09something for when they eventually leave prison. I found out
- 7:13that one out of five of them will leave prison
- 7:15every year, so the problem is how are they going
- 7:20to behave when I get out. Anyway, I spent the
- 7:22next eighteen years of my life working on his list,
- 7:26and I started going regularly to the prison trying to
- 7:30see what I could do about about the recreational programs.
- 7:34I started the art program where prison artists were doing
- 7:37art shows. I think we did eighty seven art shows,
- 7:41and anyway, people learned not was going there. And my
- 7:46colleagues at are Gone and people at local churches where
- 7:49I lived in Naperville all onoi and they all said, hey,
- 7:51here you go to a prison, I come too. Within
- 7:53about two years, I had one hundred organization of one
- 7:56hundred and twenty five people going to the prisons trying
- 7:59to see what we could do these people. Well, we
- 8:04learned that if we're going to really help them the
- 8:05time that he helped us when they get out, because
- 8:07very often they might have been in jail for five
- 8:09or ten or fifteen years and all of a sudden
- 8:12they opened the door and give them fifty dollars and
- 8:17ticket on a bus to either Juliet or Chicago. And
- 8:20you know they most of them don't have a job,
- 8:23no place to go. So we got involved in what
- 8:26I call it well an ex offender program, and that's
- 8:30when my education began. I learned that that in talking
- 8:35and talking with the families that had produced a criminal,
- 8:38I learned something very surprising. I found that many of
- 8:42them came from good families. I had always thought that
- 8:44the criminality is really caused morally by my trauma and
- 8:49early childhood, or bad parenting, or you know, bullying or
- 8:54some kind of physical abuse. I learned that some of
- 8:57these families were terrific and did everything that he could
- 8:59have to help these children. They told the mothers were
- 9:02telling me that they knew there was something around with
- 9:04this child at the time they were one year old.
- 9:06They were different. I also found out that many of
- 9:09their brothers and sisters were fine, but this one kid
- 9:12was different. And so that's when my education began. We
- 9:16even though we were scientists, most of us, we realized
- 9:19we didn't know what we were doing. We didn't know
- 9:21what the cause of violence is. So at that point
- 9:25we started studying, going to the library a lot, and
- 9:27studying psychiatry, criminology, all those sorts of things. And we
- 9:32learned that there was quite a bit of information suggesting
- 9:35that there was a some kind of a predisposition, some
- 9:38kind of a inborn tendency that sort of sent them
- 9:42that direction, and the families were saying, gee, when this
- 9:45kid was two or three years old, we started torturing
- 9:49the family pet families and said that these little kids
- 9:52had actually murdered their pets, and they were oppositional, and
- 9:55they were defiant, and they were violent, and many of
- 10:00them had tried counseling by the time they were three
- 10:03or four years old. A lot of them were on
- 10:06medication by the time there were five or six, a
- 10:08lot of them were special education and and then and
- 10:12then instaly and then usually institutional care by the time
- 10:15they were eight or nine years old. And the family
- 10:17said it seemed like from the time they were born
- 10:20they were headed for the penitentiary, and that's where we
- 10:22wound up.
- 10:23Speaker 3: And that they were trying were really helping much at all.
- 10:27Speaker 2: So, being being scientists and myself being involved in a
- 10:30lot of experimental work, I decided to try to see
- 10:33if I could find out something different than them. So
- 10:35I started getting samples, getting blood samples, urine samples, hair samples,
- 10:40are very violent people and then compared them with controls
- 10:44people who were who were, you know, okay, without a problem,
- 10:48and we found out they were really quite different. And
- 10:52the first thing we found was that that their metal
- 10:56metabolism was really different, things like copper and think we're
- 11:01really astonishingly abnormal. And we found they had mehilation disorders,
- 11:06something called piral disorder. At that time I had run
- 11:10into a die named Carl Pfeiffer.
- 11:12Speaker 3: Have you ever heard, Yeah, renowned psychiatrist.
- 11:17Speaker 2: Yeah. And he gave a lecture at Argun and one
- 11:20day I was I never had heard of him, but
- 11:21I was walking out of on a lamb to come
- 11:24home for supper and I saw there was this this,
- 11:27this lecture that was going to be that night. So
- 11:30I went to his lecturer or about a thousand people
- 11:33in this big auditorium. And here's a guy who he
- 11:37had just spent the last twenty years of his life
- 11:40doing the kind of studies I was beginning to do.
- 11:43He was doing it for schizophrenia. He was renowned as
- 11:46the world's leading nutritional scientists. They announced during his lecture
- 11:51that he had just been nominated for Nobel Prize in
- 11:54Chemistry or Medicine. And he was nominated by my line
- 11:58as Pauling, And he didn't he didn't win, but he
- 12:01I think he deserved it. But he got interested in
- 12:04my research and he volunteered to help, and so after
- 12:08a while he I started bringing criminals, some with people
- 12:16with extraordinarily violent passed to his clinic in Princeton, New Jersey,
- 12:22and we started studying collaborating on studying their chemistry. First
- 12:26it was a group of five socio paths who had
- 12:29done some pretty terrible things, and uh, he found and
- 12:33we found that we've already found a chemical pattern, mainly
- 12:37of straight trace elements that that seemed to indicate social
- 12:42paths and separate them from other violent people. So, uh,
- 12:47it was pretty exciting to visit when when the six
- 12:50of us went to Princeton. I'm not going to talk
- 12:53about all the all the crazy things that happened during
- 12:55that trip, but we shared a two rooms in the
- 12:59in the Holiday Inn in Princeton and three in one
- 13:02room three and the other with the door in between.
- 13:05And the man I shared a bed with had a
- 13:09had bullet holes right down his don's chest. He lost
- 13:14the battle with a with a with a police helicopter.
- 13:16And we had a guy there that was a hit
- 13:19man who had murdered lots of people, and a guy
- 13:21who was a I don't want to get into details,
- 13:24but they were but they all had assoship what we
- 13:27call the sociopathic pattern people we thought were anti social
- 13:31personality disorder. And so after it was all over and uh,
- 13:38they spent the day the clinic. Fighter hit a lab
- 13:40there that was really excellent, and he got all the
- 13:42lab results before they left, and he did the medical history.
- 13:46So I went to see him a four thirty in
- 13:48the afternoon and he said, Bill, this is pretty exciting.
- 13:52They're all the same. They all had they all they
- 13:55all are high high blood history, they're all unre meth belated,
- 14:01they all have high role disorder, they all have low
- 14:03blood spurming. So we wade a look about six different
- 14:06abnormalities and he said they've all got the same odd
- 14:09collection of chemical balances. So I was pretty excited, thinking, well,
- 14:14this is great for research. Maybe we're on something here.
- 14:18And and then something happened that that really sort of
- 14:21changed my life. I started to leave to catch the
- 14:23plane back and he said, no, you can't leave. The
- 14:26other he said, and he handed me five pieces of
- 14:28paper and he said, these are their treatment programs. He said,
- 14:31every one of these imbalances can be created, can be
- 14:34corrected without drugs, and they really should do this because
- 14:39because he said they'll feel better. So that's how we
- 14:43got started in treatment. So we we we we we
- 14:46started them. Most four of the five were willing to
- 14:49do it, and uh. And then he volunteered to see
- 14:53more and more, and eventually we shared five hundred cases
- 14:57of violent people from Illinois, and and we learned early
- 15:01on that the violent criminals, most of them said that
- 15:06life was different within three or four months. It was
- 15:09really helpful. But we found that most of them were
- 15:12back in prison after four or five years. And I
- 15:14kept getting these letters from them saying, well sorry, doctor Wals,
- 15:18but I stopped compliance and all the problems came back.
- 15:23The good news was that we had started working with children,
- 15:26violent violent children in the Illinois area. And the results
- 15:30with them was not only excellent as far as we
- 15:33could tell based on the reports of the families and
- 15:36their teachers and sometimes they're psychiatrists, but it seemed to
- 15:41be enduring. And so we learned. By nineteen I say
- 15:47laid in eighteen eighties, we learned that we really were
- 15:51having a low success with the violent adults, which is
- 15:55my boy. I hope we could turn these people in
- 15:56the pussycats. But what we found was that it seemed
- 16:01to be far more effective with children, so at that
- 16:03time we focused on kids. So that's how we started.
- 16:06And after a while, the great man Carl Pfeifer said,
- 16:10every time I would be to me and say, Bill,
- 16:12what's really needed is a clinic, an outpatient clinic in
- 16:16Ago area for behavior to start. And eventually I realized
- 16:20he met me.
- 16:22Speaker 3: One thing other than another.
- 16:25Speaker 2: Ravid Ragon started a not for profit public charity and
- 16:29we and I assembled organizations best I could, started very small,
- 16:33and we opened the clinic and eventually saw thirty thousand patients.
- 16:39We eventually had a staff for about between forty five
- 16:42and fifty people, a number of doctors, nurses, and we
- 16:46just saw enormous numbers of people. So that's all I
- 16:49got started. And it's now twenty nineteen and I no
- 16:56longer am doing clinical work. I'm now engaged in a
- 17:02different public charity and I write books. I've got a
- 17:06team that travels around the world training doctors. Will be
- 17:10in two months will be in Australia, Melbourne with another
- 17:14eighty doctors, including quite a few psychiatrists, and train them
- 17:17how to do these protocols which which not only worked
- 17:21for behavior. But we we uh. We did initial study
- 17:25back with flight for back in the eighties. Not only
- 17:27did we get reports of the behavior getting better, we
- 17:30got a lot of reports of families saying, Wow, their
- 17:35their greats are so much better. We didn't know this
- 17:37child was smart. And we learned that we are treatments
- 17:42for these very same chemical and balances were appear to
- 17:45be very successful helping people with ADHD and what they
- 17:48used to call minimal brain function. So so once we
- 17:53opened the clinic, that was our focus. But then one
- 17:56thing led to another, uh, and we had a woman
- 17:59and she real We called it a Fight for Treatment Center.
- 18:03Doctor Pheiffer died just before we opened the clinic. He
- 18:05was going to be our doctor for the first six
- 18:07six months of patients. He was going to advise us
- 18:10on every one of them. He died just before we opened.
- 18:13We called it the Karl Fight for Treatment Center. Well,
- 18:15some people recognize that as a expertise in schizophrenia. So
- 18:20this woman came in and offered us a big donation
- 18:23if we would start seeing schizophrenics. So we started seeing
- 18:26schizophrenics and found we could help most of them too,
- 18:30and eventually we got involved with autism depression, anxiety, by
- 18:37polar disorder, and then finally all sudder. So that's how
- 18:41it all started. It's kind of a long answer to
- 18:43your first question, but that's good.
- 18:46Speaker 1: It seems like you guys, mostly you focus on almost
- 18:49all mental health, it sounds like for the most part.
- 18:51Speaker 2: Because I didn't want to do that, I reluctantly started schizophrenia,
- 18:57thinking that we got a full plate because there are
- 18:59so many people behavior and ADHD problems. The autism happened
- 19:04by accident. A small child from Michigan showed up at
- 19:07our clinic one day, and this little guy was different
- 19:10from anybody I'd ever seen before. He was just running
- 19:12constantly around the circle and on repetitive movements. He was
- 19:17not able to speak, seemed quite right, and I asked
- 19:22my staff, well, how did this happen? How did this
- 19:24mistake happen? And they said, well, they're sorry, we didn't
- 19:26know he was autistic. The problem was he got better,
- 19:30we fixed his chemistry, and the parents said, hey, he's
- 19:32remarkably better. Well, I don't know if you're familiar with
- 19:35all the autism families, but you can't say no to
- 19:39one of these dedicated autism families and word got out
- 19:42and eventually I've seen six thousand, five hundred families with autism.
- 19:47I think I've seen more autistics than anybody in the world. Again,
- 19:51all by accident, and so that's how we got started.
- 19:55We got lucky in doing this. We've learned we did
- 20:00a lot of study of neurotransmitters, because really the abnormalities
- 20:05we find in behavior and depression and whatever has a
- 20:09lot to do with neurotransmitter systems that are not functioning properly.
- 20:13So we got lucky and found that only about six
- 20:18or seven nutrients have a really powerful effect and impact
- 20:23on brain function. And you know, there's more than three
- 20:27hundred really important nutrients in the body. And this is
- 20:31really good luck because can you imagine if we had
- 20:33to do hundreds of lab tests, or if we had
- 20:37to develop treatment therapies for hundreds of imbalances, that would
- 20:40be almost unworkable. But we got lucky, and it turns
- 20:43out that we have a certain number of imbalances that
- 20:46dominate problems for most people ninety five percent of the people.
- 20:51So we've developed the protocol over time for correcting these
- 20:55chemical imbalances. What we do is a medical procedure done
- 20:59by a medical licensed medical professional and who we have
- 21:04trained and helped and guided and to help them to
- 21:07learn how to do this which is not that complicated
- 21:11and so it involves a very good medical history. We
- 21:15learned that symptoms and traits can really help guide to
- 21:19a diagnosis. I did a study of over and undermethylation
- 21:24once where I had a researcher spend six months looking
- 21:28at thousands of charts looking at the characteristics and traits
- 21:33of people who are very over methylated and those who
- 21:36were very undermethilated. And we and we found that there
- 21:40are symptoms and traits associated with that. For example, we
- 21:43learned that undermethilated people seventy five percent of them have
- 21:48allergies to grasses and colonies, and inhalent allergies only five
- 21:54percent of over metholated people. We found that ninety five
- 21:58percent of people who are under methodis are sort of
- 22:01have some OCD tendencies, very few of the others. So
- 22:05we we then assembled we now have a list of
- 22:08symptoms and traits that can help us and actually our doctors.
- 22:13We're pretty good at predicting the lab results before we
- 22:17do the lab results, but then we also do lab
- 22:20testing and blood in air and usually you get confirmation
- 22:25between the two and then we can confidently put together
- 22:28a treatment program which will normalize these nutrient factors that
- 22:33are abnormal, hopefully normalizing to some degree the Neuer transmission characteristics.
- 22:40And so that's sort of the summary of what we
- 22:42do are. My goal is originally to train and to
- 22:49enable a thousand doctors to do this, and we're in
- 22:53about two years of getting there by the end of
- 22:57by the end of April, we'll have close to eight hundred,
- 23:00and some of these are really dedicated, terrific doctors, include
- 23:04some mdphds, and we're getting a growing number of psychiatrists.
- 23:09The most enthusiastic docs we now have are psychiatrists who
- 23:15we're finding that a lot of them are not real happy.
- 23:18They spend all this time in medical school, and in
- 23:21the USA at least, they're only allowed thirty minutes and
- 23:23they see at first dictatient and they spend all their
- 23:26time wondering, all what medication should I give them? Well,
- 23:29that's not you know, that's not medical and scientific, and
- 23:33they must prefer our system whereby the first thing they
- 23:37do is they do some relatively inexpensive blood and nerd tests,
- 23:42and then this guides them to understand which nerve transmitters
- 23:46are malfunctioning, whether they have too much or too little
- 23:49expression at these at these nerk at these receptor systems
- 23:54and UH and they have a treatment that is with
- 23:57nutrients that can help this especially good ever since the
- 24:02science of epigenetics has come around, and now for the
- 24:05first time in ten years, we can we can adjust
- 24:09gene expression, we can adjust neurotransmission. We can we can adjust,
- 24:15for example, serotonin reupdate without having to use an anti depressent.
- 24:20We're not we're not opposed to drugs, to pharmaceutical Now
- 24:25now they're calling the biologics and advertising it sounds a
- 24:28little softer, but we're not at all proposed. I've opposed.
- 24:32I've met hundreds and hundreds of people who said that
- 24:36that the presence like prosaic and bas only have saved
- 24:39their lives. However, a lot of this can be done
- 24:43with nutrients. In many cases you can We've had pieces
- 24:47of people who were taking taken medication, high levels of medication,
- 24:51and we have we would always have to do both
- 24:53together and then once once our embasis had been corrected,
- 24:59maybe after three four months, we suggest maybe they try
- 25:02lower and lower, you know, levels of the medication to
- 25:05see where they're at their best, since there's a new reality.
- 25:09We lived that with depression, behavior, ADHD, and anxiety, those
- 25:15those four problems, about eighty percent that they were at
- 25:19their best with zero medication. Said they lose something if
- 25:24they go all the way to zero, and we say,
- 25:26so be it, continue the medication. So that's basically that
- 25:30part of it. Working with bipolar and schizophrenia and autism
- 25:37are more complex, more difficult. I believe they are diseases
- 25:42in which DNA repair has caused a permanent change in
- 25:48gene expression. So these people have a multitude of problems,
- 25:53and so our success rates are less. We might have
- 25:57eighty or eighty five percent of the family saying we've
- 25:59really help them in life is better, but it's not
- 26:02as not as often that we get what you would
- 26:05call it completely covered the relatively easy things from our
- 26:10part of view, in terms of the likely of having
- 26:13somebody get completely better. Behavior disorders, ADHD, anxiety, and depression.
- 26:21Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's often when I find in clinic too,
- 26:23when I'm seeing patients with anxiety, depression or children with ADHD,
- 26:27learning behaviors. I'm always super excited to see outside of
- 26:32the symptoms. Like you said, I would say probably about
- 26:34eighty five to ninety percent of the time you have
- 26:37a pretty good idea based on their symptoms from a
- 26:39good case intake, on what you're looking at, and then
- 26:42it's just the lad work helps just kind of reinforce
- 26:44that and to show it to the patient what we're
- 26:46working with, and it gives you a platform to be
- 26:48able to see the changes that are going on to
- 26:51tie with.
- 26:51Speaker 2: The symptoms exactly.
- 26:54Speaker 1: You had mentioned a couple of things before. I just
- 26:55want to clear up as far as for the main
- 27:00balances that you that you work with. You're talking about
- 27:02metal metabolism, pyals and methylation. I wonder if you can
- 27:06break some of those down for people. So when you
- 27:08talk about metal metabolism imbalances, what are the primary ones
- 27:12you see and what kind of symptoms comes from that.
- 27:16Speaker 2: Okay, we found these really after working with thousands and
- 27:20thousands of patients and also from from our guidance in
- 27:24the beginning from the great doctor Pfeiffert, and we started
- 27:27looking at some of the same factors that he found.
- 27:30For example, he told me the first day I met him,
- 27:32he learned about our early research with prisoners that are
- 27:36got National Laboratory. He pointed out that his first good
- 27:40data was mettle metabolism, things like copper and zinc, for example.
- 27:44We've learned that me if you know, most people have
- 27:49a we most of us have have a system's natural
- 27:53that that normalizes and controls copper and zinc into bloodstream.
- 27:57Some people don't have that capability because of of etics
- 28:00primarily sometimes bad diet, but usually genetics. And if if
- 28:05a person's copper level escalates beyond what it should be,
- 28:10it causes a rather dramatic impact on dopamine and neuropen efferent,
- 28:14two of the major nerve transmitters, because copper is involved
- 28:18in the in the the conversion of bilpamine and doorpan efferent,
- 28:23which is where all the door effort comes from. And
- 28:25if you have too much copper, then what happens is
- 28:29you're deficient and low and buildamine and at the same
- 28:32time overloaded and neuropon efferent, which means anxiety, sleep problems,
- 28:37in some cases psychosis. So uh, that's why those metals are,
- 28:42why copper so important, zinc and is associated if you're
- 28:46if you're if you're zinc deficient. Zinc is used in
- 28:49about one hundred different enzymes, and it can cause all
- 28:52kinds of physical but also mental problems. It has a
- 28:56bigger impact on the gas system. If you have low
- 28:59zinc levels, you're you're you're not getting the protection from
- 29:02your GAMA on your transmitters as as as you would like.
- 29:06It has something of an effect on serotonin and and
- 29:09a really major effect on the n M d A
- 29:11receptor complex. So we now know why it has that
- 29:18bells have that kind of an impact. But that's only
- 29:20one of about seven problems. We found that methylation is
- 29:25extraordinarily important. And the reason really is that methylation is
- 29:30so important to gene expression. From the time you're born
- 29:33the nine months during the nine months of development of
- 29:37the baby and new all of our DNA's and all
- 29:41of the different tissues and cell lines in the body. Uh,
- 29:46they all have the same DNA, identical DNA, but every
- 29:50part of the body needs different chemicals and and O
- 29:55our DNA works for us all day every day. It
- 29:58produces all of these these chemicals needed for ourselves. However,
- 30:05you need a different mix of that. You need a
- 30:06number of different ingredients. So the way that is done
- 30:10is really quite beautifully done during the first nine months
- 30:13in the room, and what happens is what they call bookmarking.
- 30:18And the way it works is that in most cases
- 30:21you have methyl groups methylation parts of the DNA that
- 30:25can reduce or shut off the unwanted chemicals, and that's
- 30:29how that system works. So now what we've learned, so
- 30:35that means that people who are born undermethylated because of
- 30:38what happened before they were born. There are the people
- 30:40who have these the symptoms and traits, and they'll have
- 30:43them probably the rest of their lives. They'll be competitive,
- 30:47there'll be a tendency for obsessic cause of this order.
- 30:50They'll have a greater than their tendency for depression. They
- 30:54tend to be highly successful. Most doctors and scientists and
- 30:58great athletes are under metholi. But the obviously can happen too.
- 31:03They can be overmethylated. They can have too much of
- 31:07that happening before they're born. And another thing that happens
- 31:11is that methylation can change gene expression after they're born.
- 31:17That's what's really neat. So if we find someone who's
- 31:19born with under methylation, then they happen to have a
- 31:22disorder related to that, like depression, we can use We
- 31:27now have nutrient therapies that can that can normalize methylation
- 31:33and to a degree and sometimes nicely normalize the neurotransmitter envelments.
- 31:41So that's why methylation is important. There's also something called
- 31:44the pyal disorder, now that that's really a name we
- 31:48give to a condition that involves extraordinary oxidative stress, just
- 31:54an overload of these free radicals that could go through
- 31:57the body and the brain and can damp image sells
- 32:01and can damage cell components and damage really neurow transmission.
- 32:07And we've learned that this is especially important for people
- 32:12who have autism or schizophrenia, bipolar because those are caused
- 32:18as cancer is by the way, caused by loss of
- 32:23integrity of our DNA, and it can't quite quickly. What
- 32:27cancer we now know is in the event where you
- 32:30get to the point where part of your DNA is
- 32:32overwhelmed with oxidative stress or possibly a chemical that it
- 32:37can't tolerate. Our DNA is remarkable. We have thirty trillion
- 32:42DNAs on the average, and every one of them is
- 32:45massacred and torn apart and ripped apart more than ten
- 32:50thousand times a day. It's hard to believe we have
- 32:53this thing called DNA repair. Three guys got a Nobil
- 32:59price five years ago because they worked out all the
- 33:01details of DNA repair our DNA. It can be single
- 33:05when double strand breaks, that can't be a chemical be there.
- 33:09It all gets corrected really quickly. It's like we've got
- 33:12a thousand repairmn every little cell fixing our DNA. Sometimes
- 33:17that gets overwhelmed, and that I think is when you
- 33:22have the onset of these what I used to call
- 33:24epigodetic disorders, things like a schizophrenia breakdown or an autism
- 33:29regression event that often handles around age two. And since
- 33:33these are complex disorders because they usually involve maybe fifty
- 33:38or one hundred or five hundred genes, and so you've
- 33:41got a multipude of systems that need correction, and that's
- 33:43why clinical will work with these people. It's so complex
- 33:47and so hard to make real progress for them.
- 33:52Speaker 1: It leads me to a question to doctor Wills, when
- 33:56you're talking about methylation. A lot of time is now
- 34:00I'm getting patients that'll come in and they've done a
- 34:02series of different genetic tests that have told them that
- 34:04they have methylation and balance. Now I basically have to
- 34:09go through and explain that there's a lot more to
- 34:11it than what you just see from a genetic panel.
- 34:14Wondering you can shed a little bit of light on that,
- 34:16because what I'm often finding is that people that find
- 34:20out that there might be a methylation and balance then
- 34:23often start treating themselves with certain key methyl donors, assuming
- 34:29that that's the best idea that they can do. And
- 34:32you kind of find that unless you know a little
- 34:34bit deeper down the rabbit hole about it, the treatment's
- 34:37very different. I'm wondering if you could just shed a
- 34:39little bit of light on the genetic testing and how
- 34:41that mixes with others.
- 34:45Speaker 2: I actually feel guilty about this because of eighteen nineteen
- 34:50eighty nine nineteen ninety, working with authors of patients, I
- 34:54discovered that nearly all of them were under METHYLID. At
- 34:57that time, nobody was paying attention to methylation, and so
- 35:00once this got known, starting in the Office of Community
- 35:04and then later all other parts of complementary medicine, people
- 35:08get interested in methylation with respect to these problems. And
- 35:14what we found is that seventy percent of humans are
- 35:16normal methilation, twenty two percent are under eight percent over
- 35:21But what happened was once these really great DNA and
- 35:25analyses were available, we now know that there's this thing
- 35:28called a complex system that we call the one carbon
- 35:32cycle or the methylation cycle, and we know the enzymes
- 35:36that impact that. And what happened is we now have
- 35:41there are I think millions of people now have had
- 35:43those tests and they've identified what they call snips or
- 35:48mutations in some of these enzymes, especially one called MPHFR
- 35:54and a few others. And if you have a mutation,
- 35:57say the MPTY special mutation and in the MTHFR it's
- 36:02called six seventy seventy or the twelve ninety eight, you
- 36:06know that that will that will really inhibit their methylation
- 36:09capability and can cause on your methylation. So some smart
- 36:13people says, aha, if that's not working, what's just the
- 36:17product of that reaction that can't go, which is called
- 36:20methyl folli. It's a nutrient. The problem is that the
- 36:26DNA tests only look at under methylation. There aren't any
- 36:31yet there are finding factors that could cause over methhylation.
- 36:37There are DNA sniffs that could cause over methylation and
- 36:40it's like a tonne of work. And I found I
- 36:43found people with the MTHFR who were who were in
- 36:46fact over methylated. It has determines which it depends on
- 36:50which of these mutations is winning the battle. Well, we
- 36:54also learned something about epigenetics. We've learned that fullys, whether
- 37:00it's fully acid, pleinic anthim or methyl folate, they not,
- 37:06They really reduce by an epigenetic mechanism. They reduce the
- 37:10neuro transmission of serotonin and dopamine. So let's say you've
- 37:14got an undermeflated person who's depressed, and let's say they're
- 37:18undermefilated and they have low serotonin activity. If you give
- 37:22them methyl fol eight, the methylation would improve and the
- 37:26patient would get dramatically worse because because folates are a
- 37:32serotonin reuptake promoter, they need wanting to reuptake in ambition
- 37:40so that the serotonin will remain in a sitans longer.
- 37:43And and well, we've known for thirty years that that
- 37:47it's not the amount of serotonin that matters, it's the
- 37:50reuptake that matters, which is why we have these antidepressants
- 37:54light like Prozac and pets and all the others and
- 37:58they are effective at enhancing serotonin inactivity, albeit often in
- 38:03side effects that people are like, well, the problem then
- 38:07is you don't even if you do the today testing
- 38:11and you find Aha, there's this mt hfr uh and
- 38:15balance these people, you must not give the methal folly too,
- 38:20because they will get worse and I think some of
- 38:23them probably committed suicide. So it's a you need to
- 38:28look at the overall picture. Like you say, it's more complex,
- 38:30and I think the doctors that we work with, I
- 38:33think they all understand us really quite well, and so
- 38:35there they can identify who might profit from it, who
- 38:39would not. If you've got an undermethlated person who has
- 38:44the the mt hfr problem and they don't have a
- 38:47serotonin problem, methal fol it's a great thing to give them. Yes,
- 38:52do well on it, methal folly. A few of them
- 38:54get horribly worse, and they are the autistics who have
- 38:57low serotonin tendencies.
- 39:00Speaker 1: Which really comes down to why it's so important to
- 39:02do a proper clinical intake and get a lot of
- 39:05symptoms and really get to know the patient and what
- 39:07they're dealing with, and then use some of the labs
- 39:10to help confirm it, and I think sometimes a difference
- 39:13between looking at just markers from genetics versus also looking
- 39:18at real functional markers. Like you said, a lot of
- 39:20times with methylation, it's a bit of a tuggle war.
- 39:23So sometimes the only way you really know who's winning
- 39:25the battles to see a functional marker that gives you
- 39:27a clear picture almost at the end of the day,
- 39:30what do you lean towards?
- 39:32Speaker 2: Yes, and I think you need at the impact on
- 39:35the dural transmitters that might be misbehaving.
- 39:41Speaker 1: One other thing we were talking about was with autism
- 39:44and is there a group of patients with autism? It's
- 39:48this comes up a lot of time. I get asked
- 39:50a lot of times around patients with that are autistic,
- 39:52especially when there when they're quite young, and around vaccinations
- 39:56and if there's anything they need to be careful about,
- 39:58which group of the pop relation from what you've seen
- 40:01with different potential imbalances needs to be more careful And
- 40:07is there a reason why they might need to be
- 40:08careful with some of that.
- 40:10Speaker 2: Yeah, I researched that along with a lot of colleagues,
- 40:13and there's a lot of really solid research out there.
- 40:16I think we've discovered what the predisposition for autism is,
- 40:19the inborn predisposition. We know there is that because if
- 40:22you look at identical twins you have you don't have concordance.
- 40:28If one gets autism, the other one may not. But
- 40:31if you compare identical twins and fraternal twins, there's a
- 40:33huge difference if you've got If you've got identical twins,
- 40:37it's between sixty and ninety percent likely the other will
- 40:40also be autistic. If it's fraternal, it's only about five
- 40:43to ten percent. So we know that there's a genetic predisposition,
- 40:48but it's not one hundred percent. And the one thing
- 40:51I've seen in all virtually every autistic that I've seen
- 40:56is they have extraordinary oxidative orload. They are learn with
- 41:00a weakness in the natural protectors against oxidative stress, things
- 41:04like glutathione, the callifying, on and on. We have eight
- 41:08or nine really marvelous natural protectors that that can cope
- 41:13with with the with the oxidative overload you get from
- 41:16cosmic radiation, from from bad diet, from toxics, whatever, some
- 41:22people are born with a deficiency and protection and I
- 41:26think those are the people who are who are vulnerable
- 41:29to autism. Now, a lot of people will get concerned
- 41:31about mercury and vaccinations. Well, it turns out that these
- 41:35people are in fact especially vulnerable to mercury and especially
- 41:40vulnerable to lovaccinations containing mercury. It doesn't mean that mercury
- 41:46is the reason why people get autistic, but it's one
- 41:48of one of one of the challenges they have. And
- 41:52I'm trying to develop a system. We now have a
- 41:55way of identifying with simple law. With lab tests, we
- 41:59can identify people who are on the verge, who are
- 42:04just who are vulnerable and about to develop autism. We
- 42:07can do that now with the lab testing, we know
- 42:10which part of the DNA is most vulnerable. The weak
- 42:13link is the guanting nucleotide. We've got so much DNA
- 42:18in our system. Once the wanting starts to be assaulted,
- 42:22it shows up on a bloodstream. So I think we
- 42:24can I I'm hoping to write a book sometime called
- 42:27the End of Autism. I really believe that the answer
- 42:31with autism is really prevention, and I think that we
- 42:34can do testing right after birth, identify the ones who
- 42:38are most vulnerable, and there's a strategy we can give
- 42:42them that can protect them until we're three years old.
- 42:45Once they get the three years old, they won't get autism.
- 42:48All autism happens PERVCT. It's a developmental that's sort now
- 42:54for those who have autism, we've allowed myself and a
- 42:58number of really terrific reasons or have worked out a
- 43:01lot of therapies that can help them. Most autistic families
- 43:05are told once they once they're diagnosed, they're told, I'm
- 43:09sorry to say your child is autistic. This is incurable,
- 43:13and they and they described the future that is really
- 43:17not very inspired. They imply that it's a it's a
- 43:22really severe disorder and that it will not be cannot
- 43:26be corrected, and there are a few things that can
- 43:28be done to make life somewhat better. What we've learned
- 43:32is that we need to tell every family with a
- 43:35young autistic child that don't believe this treatment is treatment
- 43:42is effective, and recovery is possible, not likely, but possible.
- 43:49And we learned you have early intervention is everything. You
- 43:52have to intervene early. We find that they all have
- 43:56extraordinary chemistry. They all have extraordinarily extraordinary oxidative overload, which
- 44:03affects the brain, which affects information. They all have immune problems,
- 44:09they all have GI tract issues. I think again because
- 44:13so many of their genes are non malfunctioning. So if
- 44:19you have a child with autism, I suggest you find
- 44:21one of these experts. And I think I'm sure you
- 44:23have them in Toronto. Maybe you're one of them.
- 44:25Speaker 1: Yeah, lotimes, And but.
- 44:29Speaker 2: You've had good success with the with the autistics you've
- 44:32worked with. There's one therapy we developed that we find
- 44:36especially helpful. It's called metalifining promotion. We found that virtually
- 44:41all autistics were low in a genetically expressed puilteing called metalifying,
- 44:47not finding but me talifining, and it's involved in brain development,
- 44:52which tends to be incomplete in autism. So we developed
- 44:55a therapy to enhance this because we think there are
- 44:58mutations in that in the metallifinding system and in the
- 45:04in the autistics. Most of them I think are extraordinarily
- 45:07deficient in this. So we we've had good success with that.
- 45:10But there are other therapies. There are a number of
- 45:12therapies that work well. One therapy that I think is
- 45:15terrible that is now mainstream is to give them respired
- 45:18all because they've learned that if you have a autistic
- 45:25patient who has a big behavior problem, maybe vient, maybe
- 45:32they bang their head against the wall. They found that
- 45:34we're spared all can can help the behavior. The problem
- 45:38is we now also know that we're spared all and
- 45:41all of the atypical elements. Psychiatics slowly and gradually shrink
- 45:45the brain. They slowly and gradually reduce cortex minds, And.
- 45:51Speaker 3: That's quite definite.
- 45:52Speaker 2: It's been published in peer reviewed top journals even in psychiatry,
- 45:56and uh it's it's it's proportional to the dosage of
- 45:59partial the wink the time they take it. I don't think.
- 46:01I think that is the last thing you want to
- 46:03give a young autistic with a problem with the brain
- 46:06development to add that problem. That's something I really have
- 46:10been advocating that families not do. But there are a
- 46:14lot of really good therapies that can help. But I
- 46:17think in the USA and I probably Canada also, we
- 46:19now have I think a couple of thousand doctors that
- 46:22are really good, good at this h.
- 46:27Speaker 1: Well, it's been such a it's been gradually one of
- 46:29those conditions that seems to be just progressing the year
- 46:33after year after year. So I think you're getting more
- 46:36and more people interested in trying to find some solutions
- 46:39for it.
- 46:40Speaker 2: I found something interesting in that too. I started doing
- 46:42a number of w search with University of California, with
- 46:45the University of Pittsburgh and others published studies we did.
- 46:50And now since I had this clinic that hit his
- 46:54high volume of autistics, we were supplying the autistics. So
- 46:57when they volunteered for a study, we would do the
- 46:59special blood bloodwork. What I found was there was a
- 47:04big change in two thousand and five. Before that time,
- 47:10if a child came to our athletic and was diagnosed
- 47:12with autism, they I would say ninety five percent or
- 47:16more actually had autism. It was a solid diagnosis. It
- 47:20was classic what I call Canner autism, which is a
- 47:24really severe disorder. And some of them were Aspergers, but
- 47:28the Aspergers, true aspergers, there's a very you know, really
- 47:32severe disorder. The So something changed about two thousand and five,
- 47:41and from that time on, people started talking about the
- 47:44autism spectrum. Autism spectrum disorder. They're about eleven or twelve
- 47:49classic symptoms of autism. Well, if doctors were now saying, gee,
- 47:55if you this child's got six or seven or four
- 47:57or five aspects associated with autism think they're on the
- 48:00autism spectrum. I don't think they really have autism. They don't.
- 48:06And these are the people who get completely better, relatively
- 48:09easily because they don't have the change in their DNA,
- 48:12they don't have this epigenetic disorder.
- 48:15Speaker 1: So what do you think is primarily behind that group
- 48:17of people?
- 48:18Speaker 3: Then? That is?
- 48:19Speaker 1: Is that more related to things like changes in the gut,
- 48:23bio being multiple chemical sensitivity like all of these other
- 48:27environmental conditions, excessive EMF like is a group that's more
- 48:31sensitive that type of stuff?
- 48:33Speaker 3: Do you think are not?
- 48:35Speaker 2: Really? I think what it really is that these are
- 48:37people who have problems like that that can cause the
- 48:41symptoms they see, any issues they have, but it hasn't
- 48:44been enough. They haven't had enough oxidative overload to really
- 48:50cause their DNA to malfunction in a great way. I
- 48:53think that's the difference. I don't think there's any particular thing. Yes,
- 48:58if they have ability at handling casing and gluten, which
- 49:02are the most difficult proteins for the geotract to break up, yes,
- 49:06it would be more likely to it if they have
- 49:08If they have a yeast overgrowth, if they have immune problems,
- 49:14you could go on and on. They'd be more they
- 49:17have more of a tendency to be on the spectrum
- 49:20without really having classic auntism. But a lot of these
- 49:24people they call that I now find diagnose with autism
- 49:28spector disorder are the same people we saw who we
- 49:30had ADHD or had behavior disorders in many cases, and
- 49:35they can be they can be corrected relatively easily. You
- 49:38see a lot of doctors now talking about all the
- 49:40autistics who are now normal. Well, I hope it's correct,
- 49:45and but I think most of them are probably the
- 49:47ones who didn't have classic contents.
- 49:50Speaker 3: Gotcha?
- 49:52Speaker 1: How long does it generally take do you find for
- 49:55the different conditions as far as before patient's going to
- 49:58start to see some real significant And I know from
- 50:01from what I see in clinic when we're doing it
- 50:03that I want to ask you, because you're the expert
- 50:06in this and sort of what you've found.
- 50:08Speaker 2: I think you already know because you've been seeing patients.
- 50:11The quickest patience to get better are the ones who
- 50:14have a pyal disorder and nothing else wrong. I'll always
- 50:18have to see.
- 50:19Speaker 3: Those patients show up.
- 50:21Speaker 2: Whenever a violent child would walk into our clinic. Our
- 50:24staff would be relaxed and smile because we knew this
- 50:27is going to be easy. We're going to buy you
- 50:29able to find out what's wrong, and they're going to
- 50:31get better. At most of them are going to get
- 50:32better quickly. We've had violent, violent, even teenagers who maybe
- 50:38were violent five or ten times a day and just
- 50:40in terrible shape, who within a week were notably better.
- 50:44You've probably seen that already, But that's only if that's
- 50:47the only imbalance. Very often a patient might have two
- 50:50or three balances. If their problem is metal metabolysm if
- 50:54they've got the copper or the zinc imbalance, that's sixty days.
- 50:58It takes sixty days for that to be normalized. And
- 51:02usually nothing good happen in the first three weeks, and
- 51:05they start to get better. The most reports, they start
- 51:07to get better the fourth week, and then after six weeks,
- 51:10if the doses are correct and really balance the metals,
- 51:13then you've got the full effective methylation disorders. Over methylation
- 51:20usually nothing good happens the first month, but they get
- 51:24better by the second month, and under methylation is the
- 51:29toughest one we've got because it can often be six
- 51:32weeks three months before you get real impact. The reason
- 51:36is what we're doing with our treatment for under methylation
- 51:39is we are slowly and gradually changing the genus expression
- 51:44of these re update transport proteins, and it's a slow process,
- 51:48and we're changing the population in their pre synantic neurons,
- 51:55and that takes time. And so I don't know what
- 51:57your experience is, but in my case, or for depression
- 52:01and anxiety, if it's under methylation, we tell a family
- 52:05don't expect much to happen the first month, however, there
- 52:09should be some improve and month two, but it might
- 52:11take six months to get this Donephritic or have severe
- 52:16bite polar it takes even longer. It might take eight
- 52:19months to a year to get the full benefits of
- 52:22a methylation therapy. So it varies for condition to condition.
- 52:28Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely the same as what I find. I'm always
- 52:31excited when I see someone that comes in with just
- 52:33straight high pirals.
- 52:34Speaker 3: It's easy.
- 52:35Speaker 1: Usually within six weeks they're significantly better, and often even sooner.
- 52:41Speaker 2: They think you're a genius, so they become your best friends.
- 52:44Speaker 1: But what I often find is it's very seldom I
- 52:46actually see any one disorder. I almost always see combinations
- 52:50of disorders because why even the symptoms blur a little
- 52:53bit sometimes because you get a mix of different conditions
- 52:58playing into different symptoms for the patient.
- 53:01Speaker 2: The hardest group are the ones are differentiating between over
- 53:05methylation and higher one. Some of the symbtoms are the same.
- 53:09Speaker 1: High anxiety, they overlap significantly a lot of times, yeah,
- 53:12and treated completely different, which is which is important. Why
- 53:16why I really liked the Walsh approach in general is
- 53:20because I you know, in the world of functional medicine
- 53:22and natural medicine, a lot of times there's lots of
- 53:25different things that are good for lots of different things.
- 53:28But the bottom line is it's it's nice to really
- 53:31be able to dial it in so you know, from
- 53:34an individual basis, what does that person specifically need because
- 53:38it makes such a difference. And a lot of times
- 53:40people think we'll just give them everything, and it's like
- 53:42nutrient accesses will cause just as much impalances as nutrient
- 53:46deficiencies will.
- 53:47Speaker 2: So that was my first surprise at working with patients.
- 53:51I originally thought, really the thing that it was to
- 53:53find out which nutrients they're deficient in and give it
- 53:56to them. And I learned that very often you get
- 54:00the most of this shift from nutrients that are overloaded
- 54:03because of genetics.
- 54:05Speaker 3: Yeah, Fainy the same thing.
- 54:07Speaker 1: And a lot of times people are coming in and
- 54:09having to go off of a lot of things and
- 54:10then really fine tune the whole picture again for them.
- 54:14Speaker 2: The key. The key is biochemical individuality, who person is
- 54:19with respective efficiencies and overloads, and then normalizing them as
- 54:23as you can.
- 54:24Speaker 1: Yeah, we're coming up on time here. I just want
- 54:27to ask you one other quick question. Where do you
- 54:30find the role for some of the other pieces. I know,
- 54:32when I'm looking at mental health in general, I think
- 54:35of it from perspectives, So I think often I find
- 54:38like the advanced nutrient therapy, which is the work that
- 54:41you've done and through your book. I often that's the
- 54:44first piece because I want to get an idea of like,
- 54:46is there something biochemical that's going on? It's just you're
- 54:49only you're going to hit rate limiting step unless you
- 54:51start to get that corrected first. Then I often look
- 54:54at things like diet, blood sugar regulation, food allergies, look
- 55:00at mind, body, spirit, working with all that, and then
- 55:02this whole area of self regulation on how do you
- 55:05how do you help kids adapt parenting. There's all these
- 55:08sort of big pieces of it. What have you kind
- 55:11of found from your experience in the field for so long,
- 55:14how those other parts play into it as well?
- 55:16Speaker 2: Well. I think diets are really important, and we usually
- 55:19do evaluate diet. Of course, a bad diet of nothing
- 55:22but jump food, you know, that's a terrible idea. But
- 55:24we also know a few other things. We know for example,
- 55:27if you're undermethylated, you would thrive on a protein based diet.
- 55:31These are people would get worse that they had a
- 55:33lot of green leafy vegetables because of all the folies, right, methining, yeah, protein,
- 55:41because that's where the methyl comes from for protein. However,
- 55:44if they're over methilated, and the opposite is true, and
- 55:46these are people who do great on a vegetable based
- 55:50diet and they need to maybe suppress and that emphasized protein.
- 55:55So we have that. We also know that the diets
- 55:59that are loaded with with some natural antioxidants is a
- 56:03really great idea really for everybody, so we do that.
- 56:07We also have to evaluate a patient to see whether
- 56:10they're a malabsorber or not. Very often some of them
- 56:13will have a rather serious problem with GI tract function. Uh.
- 56:19There we know that zinc deficiency can cause that. We
- 56:22know that there that that that oximative stress can mess
- 56:26up a person's GI tract. So, but sometimes you need
- 56:29to go beyond that. Sometimes you have a patient with
- 56:31CIBO or some problem, or they might have parasites.
- 56:36Speaker 1: Uh.
- 56:37Speaker 2: Human beings are complex and sometimes you have to go
- 56:41beyond our straight protocol and look at the other areas.
- 56:45We we very carefully measured treatment success as best we
- 56:49can with outcome studies and a few double blind studies.
- 56:52But Uh, the truth is we can't help everybody, and
- 56:56I think are the good news is that our system
- 56:58seems to be applicable to ninety or ninety five percent
- 57:02of the people who come to us with problems. Sometimes
- 57:05we have something else wrong and we have to recognize
- 57:08that as a possibility. So again, human beings are very diverse. Uh,
- 57:17and we're learning more all the time. Just in the
- 57:19last year, we learned something really important. We learned that
- 57:23based on new neuroscience, we learned a lot about the
- 57:27NNBA receptor and we now know that for the first time,
- 57:31we have a nutrient therapy that can help people with addictions.
- 57:34People would severe OCD people who are hooked on cocaine
- 57:39or heroin. We've always avoided these patients because our utim
- 57:42studies said we couldn't help them. We didn't want to
- 57:44waste their money in our time. Now we have a
- 57:47therapy in all the antecetal as system that has a
- 57:50special neuroscience actor or process where it's what they call
- 57:57anti porter real cells or this an MBA system that
- 58:02that that lowers that could lower NMDA activity, which is
- 58:07a problem if you have an addiction or if you're
- 58:11severely undermethilated. We also know that that NMDA is related
- 58:15to schizophrenia, and in that case it's the opposite situation.
- 58:19These are people with too little inn MBA activity. Uh So,
- 58:24now we have new therapies for schizophrenia, whether they're over
- 58:27meth lated or undermethilated.
- 58:29Speaker 3: We didn't have to.
- 58:30Speaker 2: See year ago. So we're constantly learning. I suspect maybe
- 58:34what we don't know is what we do know. We
- 58:37already know enough to be able to help a lot
- 58:39of people, but we have to be constantly alert from
- 58:41new knowledge.
- 58:44Speaker 1: Zach also keeps us all kind of moving forward so
- 58:48and keeping inspired to try to find new solutions for things.
- 58:52Speaker 3: So yeah, doctor Wilson.
- 58:57Speaker 1: One last question, I shouldn't say a question that the
- 59:00reason I started the Inspire Health podcast was because I
- 59:03found that there was so much information available that I
- 59:07found to be really transformational, your work being one of
- 59:10them that was just not as commonplace as I felt
- 59:13like it should be.
- 59:14Speaker 3: So the whole goal was to try.
- 59:15Speaker 1: And bring what was not so common to make it
- 59:18more commonplace, to inspire others that there are answers and
- 59:21solutions to health problems that they often don't think there is. So,
- 59:26if you were to take your life experience being how
- 59:32long have you been in the field of biochemistry? Now,
- 59:34when did you first get your PhD?
- 59:37Speaker 2: Nineteen sixty four, so none of this field, no.
- 59:46Speaker 1: So for the amount of time that you've spent as
- 59:49a researcher, working really as a clinician for a long
- 59:53time too, with seeing patients and with doctor Pheiffer, and
- 59:56having mentors like doctor Pheiffer. Being also a dad and
- 1:00:00a father, you had a parent that came to you
- 1:00:04that felt like they were at their wits end, feeling
- 1:00:07like they've run out of all hope. They've got a
- 1:00:09child that's got ADHD or a learning or a behavioral disorder,
- 1:00:13or even the child themselves that actually starts to feel
- 1:00:17like something's wrong with themselves. Because I find this a
- 1:00:20lot of times too. It is a hard effect on
- 1:00:23their self esteem and a lot of self doubt, a
- 1:00:27lot of questioning. What would you say to those people
- 1:00:30to inspire them that there are answers and solutions they're
- 1:00:33just not aware of.
- 1:00:34Speaker 2: I had such a father, troubled father just walking to
- 1:00:37my office yesterday with the child he's very worried about.
- 1:00:41I think the message I want to get across is
- 1:00:44that you don't necessarily have to do a drug. I mean,
- 1:00:47drugs can help a lot of people. However, you can
- 1:00:49get a lot of this done with nutrient therapy. And
- 1:00:53when I wrote a book a few years ago, and
- 1:00:57I spent a long time trying to decide what to
- 1:00:59call it, I think the message I wanted for families
- 1:01:02and for doctors is that nutrients can to have real
- 1:01:06power and including in some really serious disorders, and so
- 1:01:11I called it nutrient power. Nutrient power is the aim
- 1:01:14of the book. I think families need to know this
- 1:01:16is an alternative, and maybe that's the first maybe it's
- 1:01:20the first direction you want to try it. See I
- 1:01:21think if you have a child with a problem with
- 1:01:25behavior or learning, I think counseling might be the first
- 1:01:27thing you want to try it. But I think before
- 1:01:30you go heavily into drug therapies, whether it's something like
- 1:01:35riddling or adderall or an oppressive I think nutrient therapy
- 1:01:39is the next thing that maybe should be tried because
- 1:01:43we try to normalize the brain, and so instead of
- 1:01:46using a foreign molecule that can that is not going
- 1:01:50to normalize your brain and possibly will cause side effects.
- 1:01:53I think this is a I think eventually this is
- 1:01:55the direction means you medicine hopefully will go. So I
- 1:01:59would I would say us, they they can. There are
- 1:02:02many sources they For example, our website, Walsh Institute dot
- 1:02:06org has got a lot of information The book Nutrient
- 1:02:10Powers available on our on our on our on our website.
- 1:02:13We're a public charity. We I think you can get
- 1:02:16it for like twelve bucks and and hopefully if I
- 1:02:19change somebody a child's life, and and and and and
- 1:02:24if you don't want to spend twelve dollars, you can
- 1:02:26find it in the library or you can get information
- 1:02:28off our website. I think that that's something that we're
- 1:02:33at a mission really to get this known to doctors,
- 1:02:36to and to the field of psychiatry.
- 1:02:39Speaker 3: Uh.
- 1:02:39Speaker 2: By the way, I've been to the American Psychiatry Association
- 1:02:42Annual meeting now five times. And the first several times
- 1:02:45I went there, I had all this great data. Nobody
- 1:02:48believed me, nobody seemed to care who is this crazy guy.
- 1:02:52The last two times I was there, they paid a
- 1:02:54lot of attention, and since that I I was there
- 1:02:59about three years ago and I gave a lecture to
- 1:03:01a huge number of psychiats, seventeen thousand psychiatrist from all
- 1:03:05the world at this big meeting, and basically I was
- 1:03:09gave a like sure telling them they're doing depression all wrong,
- 1:03:12that in fact, there are five completely different types of
- 1:03:15depression and they each have a different different There are
- 1:03:19transmitters that are abnormally functioning, and they need different therapies
- 1:03:23instead of just throwing antidepressants.
- 1:03:24Speaker 3: At all of them.
- 1:03:26Speaker 2: And I showed the data I showed and I got up.
- 1:03:30For the first time they actually paid attention to me,
- 1:03:33and there was a big swarm of psychiatrists followed me
- 1:03:36out of the lecture room. And since that time we've
- 1:03:39been training psychiatrists, they've come to our training programs. Are
- 1:03:42next going to be at Evanston in late April, and
- 1:03:48they love this because now they can not just try
- 1:03:52to guess what side what drug to give them. They
- 1:03:55can actually do testing. They could actually guide them to
- 1:03:58the right drug. Eating they can usually identify with transmitter
- 1:04:04systems off, and then they have nutrient therapy that can
- 1:04:07either bolster the medications they're using or in some cases
- 1:04:11fix the problem with compli medication. Basically, it's a matter
- 1:04:15of education. I tried to work with government. I've tried
- 1:04:20to work with the NIH. I'm lectured at the United
- 1:04:25States Senate. I've given watures at the Surgeon General's Office
- 1:04:29and correctional institutions, and they all said, oh, this is wonderful,
- 1:04:36this is very nice, and then nothing would happen. And
- 1:04:39I decided to uh, that that's not the direction to go.
- 1:04:43People just don't believe that nutrients have power, and so
- 1:04:47I decided to go in the other direction. If I
- 1:04:50had a bumper sticker, it would read when the people lead,
- 1:04:55the leaders will follow. I've gone to the leaders and
- 1:05:00they don't believe, and so this is the direction we're going.
- 1:05:04I think if we could get a thousand doctors working
- 1:05:07with hundreds of thousands of patients, they'll just hopefully start
- 1:05:11a wave and people will realize this is this is
- 1:05:14another weapon that mental health practitioners should have their they
- 1:05:19should in the arsenal, they should, they should have it.
- 1:05:21And those that are doing it, you know, they might
- 1:05:24continue to use drug medications and everything else, but this
- 1:05:28is a weapon that sometimes can be really.
- 1:05:31Speaker 1: It can be incredibly powerful. I've seen it firsthand over
- 1:05:34and over again. And we have patients coming in from
- 1:05:37your website every week. I'm seeing multiple patients usually in
- 1:05:42incorporating the Welsh Protocol and everything that I'm doing, Doctor Walsh,
- 1:05:48you had mentioned also, I just want to make sure
- 1:05:49that the physicians out there that are listening to this
- 1:05:52are aware that you do have a physician education training
- 1:05:55program and you can just say a little bit about
- 1:05:57that because and I know you can. I'll put this
- 1:06:00show links we'll put in your website and links to
- 1:06:03the book and everything too, so people.
- 1:06:05Speaker 3: Are aware of that.
- 1:06:06Speaker 1: But just made me mention a little bit about the
- 1:06:08physician education training because I think that is where you're
- 1:06:11moving to try and get the message out more and more.
- 1:06:14Speaker 2: We are in April, we're going to have a training
- 1:06:17in Evanston, Illinois. It's over a weekend in uh in
- 1:06:25late April. It's all right next to the Northwestern campus
- 1:06:29in Evanson, beautiful along the lake, and it's a four
- 1:06:32day program. We do it over a weekend Friday, Saturday,
- 1:06:35Sunday Monday to in order basically to so the doctor
- 1:06:40won't be away from their practice that long. And we've
- 1:06:43worked out a we've worked out a system or I
- 1:06:46think quite effective training in this in this and one
- 1:06:52thing we do that's a little different is not only
- 1:06:54do we dog the lectures and show the biochemistry and
- 1:06:57talk about the nutrient therapies we have why patients come in,
- 1:07:02We have patients who might be first time or follow
- 1:07:04up patients, and so we together will do a medical
- 1:07:09history and will find their symptoms and their traits. We
- 1:07:12will have all their labs done before they come so
- 1:07:16then when when that so so, then we together then
- 1:07:20will then have them all evaluate what and try to
- 1:07:24diagnose whish neror transmitters wish and balances they think they have.
- 1:07:29And then once we agree on that, we'll we'll divise
- 1:07:32and we will we will. We will create a nutrient
- 1:07:35treatment program for them and give them a prescription of
- 1:07:39the nutrients to take. We do that over and over
- 1:07:42and over, and I think that really helps give the
- 1:07:46doctors confidence and they see how to do because they
- 1:07:49participate in doing that. So that's a key part of it.
- 1:07:52But it all takes four days. They can find the
- 1:07:55information on our website, which I guess you can. You can,
- 1:07:58you can tell them about We expect about eighty doctors.
- 1:08:02The numbers have been growing and growing and growing, and
- 1:08:06we're going to do the same program in Australia if
- 1:08:09you have any Australia Bolsters, and that'll be an early
- 1:08:13April in Melbourne. Again, we expect sixty to eighty two
- 1:08:17hundred doctors to come.
- 1:08:21Speaker 3: Amazing.
- 1:08:21Speaker 1: I think it's great and I know firsthand from being
- 1:08:24to the program that you've done a couple of times now.
- 1:08:28I love the interaction with the patients. I mean, you
- 1:08:30do finish when you come out of there feeling really
- 1:08:33competent with the whole program. So probably one of the
- 1:08:37best seminars that I've one of the best courses that
- 1:08:40I've that I've seen runs.
- 1:08:46Speaker 2: Every time on to find out that one of our
- 1:08:48patients got better. But I think I get more excited.
- 1:08:51I'll get a letter like I got recently from a
- 1:08:53woman who when I find out that one of the
- 1:08:56doctors we work with has really helped them on there
- 1:09:00even more for.
- 1:09:00Speaker 1: So nice, Doctor Walsh. I want to thank you so
- 1:09:05much for all of your time that you spent with us,
- 1:09:08and it's going to be very much appreciated. I think
- 1:09:12everybody will really enjoy hearing all of this information. I
- 1:09:15will make sure that I get your information out there
- 1:09:17for everybody.
- 1:09:19Speaker 2: Great.
- 1:09:19Speaker 3: Thank you, You're welcome. Thank you so much.
- 1:09:24Speaker 2: Thank you.
- 1:09:25Speaker 1: We're all finished up there, all cans all that, we'll
- 1:09:27finish everything out, but this is great.
- 1:09:30Speaker 3: Thank you so much for all your time. I really
- 1:09:32appreciate it.
- 1:09:33Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be the audience is going to
- 1:09:35really enjoy all of that information.
- 1:09:38Speaker 3: I've done.
- 1:09:39Speaker 2: What people watch will be watching it.
- 1:09:42Speaker 3: Pardon.
- 1:09:44Speaker 1: I think we'll end up having with people want yeah,
- 1:09:48well have an media group will be several thousand, and
- 1:09:51then it'll be it'll be connected to once the whole
- 1:09:55thing goes up, it will go out with everybody else's
- 1:10:00social media followings, their email lists, all of that as well,
- 1:10:03so because it's going to be done as a podcast series.
- 1:10:06So what I'm going to have is when I finished
- 1:10:08setting it up, there'll be a bit of a you'll
- 1:10:12have everybody's picture, their key topic, and the dates that
- 1:10:15are going to be released, and then those will be
- 1:10:18sent out to everybody that was the speakers, and they'll
- 1:10:21send them out to their and their groups as well.
- 1:10:23So I want everybody's group to kind of know the
- 1:10:26all the pieces of it. So, yeah, Shanker in a
- 1:10:32little while, with.
- 1:10:34Speaker 2: Only one doctor, one family, it's all I think it'll
- 1:10:40all be working.
- 1:10:41Speaker 3: Oh exactly.
- 1:10:43Speaker 1: I mean I've done I've done a couple of health
- 1:10:46talks on your information just to try and get more
- 1:10:49information out there, and I finds, uh, they love it.
- 1:10:55They feel like they've kind of hit some specifics that
- 1:10:58they just haven't come across before with anything. And my
- 1:11:02favorite coach is when you get the biochemical stuff that
- 1:11:05comes back and I can talk to that patient or
- 1:11:08that like whether they're an adult or a child, and
- 1:11:11let them know that it's like, it's not your fault
- 1:11:14as to why you've been feeling.
- 1:11:15Speaker 3: Of course you're going to feel this way.
- 1:11:18Speaker 1: You probably don't know any different, you know, and your
- 1:11:21set point for what how you feel and what normal
- 1:11:24is for you is like way up here rather than
- 1:11:27where maybe it could optimally be. So it's almost like
- 1:11:30they don't even know what their potential is like. And
- 1:11:33the relief I find from patients just even hear that
- 1:11:38is dramatic then when you treat it and start to change.
- 1:11:43Speaker 2: One of my really favorite things to do is after
- 1:11:46someone's done well and somebody who was in terrible trouble
- 1:11:49is now okay. It might be a child or even
- 1:11:52a schizophrenic, But what I like to do is when
- 1:11:55I'm talking to them on a follow up visit and
- 1:11:57things are dramatically better, I always like to sort of
- 1:12:00just point at the child or the patient and say,
- 1:12:05you realize what this means. This means that none of
- 1:12:07this was your fault. You were born with this balance
- 1:12:11and this was not really you. And then I look
- 1:12:13at the parents. I so you realized, no, this was
- 1:12:15your fault either. Cry.
- 1:12:19Speaker 3: That's usually when the tears got back.
- 1:12:24Speaker 1: Yeah, I am waiting to see back at patient, I
- 1:12:26saw a wail back for schizophrenia whose pirals were over
- 1:12:30two hundred and he had I had seen him just
- 1:12:36before he came in, we got the blood test done.
- 1:12:41Speaker 3: He kind of had. He went off.
- 1:12:42Speaker 1: He went to Bolivia, disappeared for a bit, came back,
- 1:12:47then started back on his He wanted to recheck his
- 1:12:49pirals still about two hundred, and then he because he
- 1:12:54wasn't going to knock go on anything, he was sort
- 1:12:56of like, I didn't you know, it's really uh like
- 1:12:59had some pair of noise that was going on recheck
- 1:13:03that decided he was only going to do the treatment
- 1:13:05for the piral. He was also over methylated, but he
- 1:13:08was going to just do the treatment for the.
- 1:13:11Speaker 2: That's a nasty combination, oh, it was.
- 1:13:14Speaker 1: And I recently got an email from his mom who
- 1:13:19said that he was currently holding down two jobs and stable.
- 1:13:23So I'm waiting to see when they actually come in.
- 1:13:26The problem is that whether he stays on it or not,
- 1:13:29that's that's the problem. If he's on it, he's generally
- 1:13:32doing well. But it seems if he goes off, it
- 1:13:34just all starts to come back up again.
- 1:13:36Speaker 2: So and because pyrolls, uh, they recover quickly and they
- 1:13:43do better quickly, Okay, deteriorated quickly. But the schizophrenics thirty
- 1:13:50they're usually the only ones who can get completely better.
- 1:13:53Some of them really become completely okay even without medication,
- 1:13:57and they're the only schizophrenics that I could do that.
- 1:14:00Maybe this I can do that too, That's what.
- 1:14:02Speaker 1: I'm hoping, because that was definitely as dominant women as
- 1:14:05the pirals. But I'll keep you posted on how that
- 1:14:07goes when I hear more.
- 1:14:08Speaker 3: Back from them.
- 1:14:09Speaker 1: So thank you so much. I'm sure I'll see you
- 1:14:12again at some point at another one of your course.
- 1:14:15I always like to hear what's new and what else
- 1:14:18you're coming up with, and just nice to meet everybody
- 1:14:20else some time.
- 1:14:22Speaker 2: To time to update everybody on the science.
- 1:14:25Speaker 3: Super sounds good.
- 1:14:27Speaker 2: Thanks so much, Tall, talk to you soon.
- 1:14:29Speaker 3: Well, that was awesome.
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