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- 0:00If you think about what health is, to me, it's the
- 0:03ability to adapt to your environment. If you can adapt, like
- 0:07to any certain signal or stimulus or whatever in your life
- 0:11and your body can have a reaction to it and then return to homeostasis, that's
- 0:14health. Welcome to the QVC podcast where we explore exciting new
- 0:18paradigms that have a meaningful impact on our day to day
- 0:22lives. I'm your host, Meredith Oak. Let's keep the
- 0:25conversation going. Join us in our free community by visiting
- 0:28qbcpod.com that's Q
- 0:31qvcpod.com and let's see where the quantum
- 0:34superhighway takes us next. The old paradigm
- 0:38way of looking at health was to focus exclusively on diet and
- 0:42exercise. If you wanted to take control of your health, it was all about diet
- 0:45and exercise. Now most people still operate out of
- 0:49that paradigm. Not you guys, but most people. Not us,
- 0:53but most people, including most practitioners. The
- 0:56practitioners have expanded it a little bit to include
- 1:00supplements and if they're on the allopathic side, then it's mostly focused on
- 1:03prescription and they may not even look at the diet and exercise
- 1:07piece. And my guest today is going to sort of
- 1:11break down what that education looks like,
- 1:14how it impacts the way that your practitioners are looking at
- 1:18health, the benefits of it, the rigor of having a 4,
- 1:226 year degree and also what's missing, the
- 1:25reductionist way that traditional
- 1:28educational systems look at health and how we can move out of it.
- 1:32So we really dig into what the standard structure
- 1:36of a health credential looks like, what it covers,
- 1:40what it doesn't cover, how we can shift the conversation, how we can
- 1:43shift institutions if we can, and what we
- 1:47really need to be looking at when we look at health today. And it's
- 1:51not just diet and exercise, of course, it's. It is how our biology is
- 1:55interacting with our environment as a whole. So Dr.
- 1:58Hussey has some great insights on that. As somebody who
- 2:02followed very closely all of the
- 2:06standard advice on how to be exceptionally healthy and ended up
- 2:10having a heart attack in his early 30s. So that put him on a
- 2:14totally different course. And he has now gone deep, deep, deep into
- 2:17quantum biology and biophysics and, and has a
- 2:21very in depth understanding of
- 2:25heart health and health in general from this new
- 2:29paradigm, which he has come to
- 2:32understand by doing his own research, by taking extra certifications
- 2:36and he is now a faculty member at the Institute of Applied Quantum
- 2:40Biology. He's written three books and he's an
- 2:43independent practitioner that is really, I think, at the forefront of doing what,
- 2:47what needs to be done, which is shifting the
- 2:51paradigm from the ground up, you know,
- 2:54which is what all of you are doing. Whether you are a practitioner or a
- 2:57health coach or a client of one of those people, just by
- 3:01exploring, researching, applying new ways of thinking
- 3:05about biology, you are in fact making
- 3:08the change happen. It doesn't have to. We don't have to wait for
- 3:13the CDC or the NIH to put out a, a bulletin. But
- 3:17a lot of those lately, we could just do it, which is really
- 3:20what's so fun about being in the world. So enjoy this. It's
- 3:24a really important conversation and I know that you will like it. I look forward
- 3:28to hearing your feedback and questions afterwards. And of course, don't forget to
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- 3:45to read before bed. We use them as flashlights. We use them if we need
- 3:49to see in a room that doesn't have a red light in it at night.
- 3:53Gotta go downstairs in the middle of the night or something like that. They're super
- 3:56handy. Those are my, that's my top, my top pick for this month
- 4:00is the little red night lights. And then of course there is also red light
- 4:04therapy devices. And speaking about making sure that
- 4:08our biology is in sync with our environment,
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- 4:37which translates to vitamin D, moon cycles, even luck.
- 4:40There's a lux meter in there. It does all kinds of really fun things. If
- 4:44you're a practitioner, you're definitely gonna want this. The practitioner
- 4:48version allows you to put in the location of your clients so you can
- 4:52see what is going on in their environment specifically and help them fine
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- 4:59synced up. It's super fun stuff. It's a super fun world,
- 5:03you guys. There's so much cool stuff happening and I so appreciate you being
- 5:07here and contributing to it and supporting it and you
- 5:11are amazing. Have fun with this convo. Stephen
- 5:14Hussey welcome back to the Quantum Biology Collective podcast. I
- 5:18think this is this three or Four times, I forget. But it's
- 5:22always super fun. I love it.
- 5:25Okay, so I'm going to jump right in. If people want like a
- 5:29deep dive into Steven's story. I have, as I just said, at least two other,
- 5:33maybe three other interviews in the archives. You can go to QBCPOD and put in
- 5:37Hussy H U S S E Y and it'll, they'll all come up. I don't
- 5:40remember the episodes offhand, so I, I wanna jump right in
- 5:44because today we're gonna talk about the field of chiropractic.
- 5:48What's missing, what used to be there
- 5:52that's not there anymore, your thoughts on the whole thing. So we'll start
- 5:55off. You were a successful chiropractor.
- 5:59You'd been in practice for nine years. You were really good at what you did,
- 6:03you were early 30s and
- 6:07as one does, you had a full on heart attack
- 6:11and the trajectory changed from there. So let's start with that.
- 6:14Yeah, well, just you saying the trajectory changed from there, that's, that's
- 6:18interesting because it's this thing that obviously most people would consider
- 6:22this bad thing, right? That happened to me, but it has kind of
- 6:25turned into one of the best things that's ever happened to me because of
- 6:29where it took me, where I went to try and figure out why it happened
- 6:32and the things that I found. And now it's what I'm known for.
- 6:36And now I'm coaching people through their heart
- 6:39disease or to heart health. That's what I do for a living now. I don't
- 6:42even practice chiropractic anymore. I stopped doing that six months ago because this is
- 6:46what I do full time. So yeah, definitely changed trajectory for me.
- 6:50And in a way it, it's, what I'm doing now is more
- 6:54rewarding to me than chiropractic ever was. And we'll probably get
- 6:57into that and I'll get into that more as we get into it. But
- 7:01yeah, so obviously it changes trajectory for me because at that
- 7:05moment in time, obviously I missed something, right? Something happened because
- 7:08I had always been interested in health my entire adult life, ever since college when
- 7:12I figured out that I could live my life in a certain way and have
- 7:15a direct impact on my health, which no doctor ever really told me. I was
- 7:19like, okay, I can take back control and take the reins on this. And so
- 7:22I'd always kind of eaten well, as whole foods as I could, tried various
- 7:26diets. You know, I did paleo, did vegan, did low carb, did
- 7:30all these things and found what Worked for me. Exercise. I was always
- 7:33athletic and played a lot of sports, so that was just kind of part of
- 7:36who I was. But it always kept me active, just wanting to play sports. So.
- 7:40And people think that that's what it takes to create health, right? You eat right
- 7:43and you exercise. That's what we're kind of been told forever. And
- 7:47formal education was no different. It was the same kind of messages
- 7:50there is that, that you eat right and exercise. That's what. Like in
- 7:54undergrad, I learned my major was health and wellness promotion.
- 7:58And in that, if I wanted to go to chiropractic school, I had to take
- 8:01all these other science classes too, the biologies, the chemistries, all that stuff.
- 8:05But yeah, in health and wellness promotion, I remember, I mean, I had basic classes.
- 8:09It was basically everything had to do with movement and food, right?
- 8:13And that was it. There was no other talk of any other aspect of health
- 8:16really. Like, to get a bachelor's degree in health and wellness promotion, you
- 8:20learned about exercise and you learned about food and, you know, that's great.
- 8:24Those are important parts of living healthy, right? But they're
- 8:28definitely not the full story. It's very incomplete. And so,
- 8:33yeah, even then in chiropractic school, you know, I stayed active and
- 8:36ate well as I could. And in chiropractic school was when I was vegan for
- 8:40two years, which ended up not working well for me in the end
- 8:44for various reasons. But I, I mean, I. I'm thinking back
- 8:48to like, what that education was like. And it was
- 8:51so, first of all, like, just so people have this context, because we're going to
- 8:55talk a lot about chiropractic today. There's. I didn't know this,
- 8:58going to chiropractic school, like I, I went to. My parents took me to a
- 9:02chiropractor at a very young age. And they said that it helped me with my
- 9:04asthma. I have no memory of that, of it helping, but they said that it
- 9:07helped me with that I was able to get rid of asthma later in life
- 9:10by doing other lifestyle things. But then I didn't go to a
- 9:14chiropractor again. And probably until college I started to go into one again
- 9:18and had no concept of this philosophy of
- 9:21chiropractic, the different, like the divide in chiropractic
- 9:25or anything like that. So when I'm applying to schools, no idea that there's
- 9:29different philosophies and different things in schools. We all have the same board exams.
- 9:33We have to pass the same board exams regardless of school you go to. But
- 9:37there's really had no idea that like the school that I ended up going
- 9:40to, which was University of Western States considers themselves one of the
- 9:44most evidence based schools. They're teaching based off the literature, which
- 9:48I appreciate that they taught me how to critique literature and read literature
- 9:52and ways like that. It helped get me a lot of places when I was
- 9:55reading literature about cardiovascular disease. But yeah, there's like that side of the spectrum
- 9:58and there's some schools on that side and on the other side there's the very
- 10:02philosophy based schools which are very much like treat
- 10:06the spinal cord, treat the spine and the nervous system and everything will
- 10:09work better. And there's kind of two different things. Whereas this side is very do
- 10:13what the research says, like treat pain and treat conditions based on what the
- 10:17research says is effective. And so it's very interesting. Whereas
- 10:21two different. And then there's a bunch of schools in the middle where there are
- 10:24varying degrees of either side of those extremes. So yeah, it was very
- 10:28interesting to have no concept of that going in. And then even
- 10:31then like at my school they
- 10:35were very big on, they wanted them to make us as close to primary care
- 10:39physicians as we could. So what that means is basically any
- 10:42someone could come in with literally anything and doesn't mean that I can treat that
- 10:46thing, but I can diagnose it or at least recognize it and refer them out
- 10:50to who they need to go to. So my school was very proud of treating
- 10:53us to be primary care physicians. And I noticed was a
- 10:57chiropractic school. But they, yes, really
- 11:00seemed to have modeled themselves as a medical school. Yeah.
- 11:04And a lot of people would say that people who want to practice
- 11:08chiropractors, they're calling them medi practors is what they're calling them because it's very
- 11:11much that way. And again, there's no problem with that. I'm not complaining
- 11:15about it. It's just the way that school's philosophy was, was to be
- 11:19very familiar with the research. What does chiropractic actually treat as far as these
- 11:22diagnosable conditions? Right. Whereas a
- 11:26very medical philosophy it's we have to find a diagnosis in order
- 11:29to treat something. Whereas if not very non medical philosophy
- 11:33would be like regardless of what the symptoms are because sometimes the collection of
- 11:37symptoms does not match up with your diagnosis or a diagnosis that
- 11:41you're trying to get it to fit. Right. It doesn't match up. You still know
- 11:44what to do. Right. Because you recognize the same imbalances in the body
- 11:48that literally cause all. When a body is telling you something is wrong, you
- 11:51recognize the imbalances that are causing that, and you can fix
- 11:55those, and the body figures it out. Right. Rather than saying,
- 11:59I need to know exactly what's going on, have a diagnosis before I can do
- 12:03anything. So it just to. And I didn't get exposure to that more
- 12:06philosophical side of things until later because I got this
- 12:10education that told me that this is the way to do things, and that's fine.
- 12:14But I've never really. I've never been a person that's
- 12:18more like, hoorah. Get involved in this thing because I
- 12:21like it and I want to be involved in this. And it's kind of a
- 12:24belief. It's whatever. It's all always skeptical to me. Like, I've never been a very
- 12:28big proponent of, like, I believe in
- 12:31chiropractic. Right. I think that it's great. Right. But I've never been that way.
- 12:35I've never been like, yeah, I believe in. This is the best thing to do.
- 12:37I love all chiropractic. It's all great. I've never been that kind of person.
- 12:41It doesn't mean that I don't like chiropractic. It just means that I'm not. I
- 12:44guess I'm not tribal, I would say. I was gonna say it's. It sounds like
- 12:48you're just not an all or nothing thinker. Yeah. Which is
- 12:52incredibly helpful because I do see that a lot, Whether it's on the
- 12:56professional side or even just the other side. Even with light, people are like, I'm
- 12:59gonna watch the sunrise every morning. And then that's it. I never have to do
- 13:02anything else again. All my problems are fixed. It's like, okay, that's not what we
- 13:06said. Yeah, right, exactly. So. So I. I came into things
- 13:10with that kind of mentality. Just kind of like, whatever. I'm just learning stuff, having
- 13:13no idea. But then later, having worked with lots of different
- 13:16chiropractors who went to different schools, I'm starting to
- 13:20see, oh, there's a whole different way of doing this or practicing this.
- 13:23And then I learned that there's this huge divide in the profession, which is why
- 13:27chiropractic, or one of the reasons why chiropractic seems to not
- 13:31be able to get anywhere as far as, like, politically or
- 13:34legislatively. Because when state or federal
- 13:38governments are getting legislation from chiropractic as far as what we can do, what we
- 13:42can't do, they're getting two pieces of legislation, one from the ICA and one from
- 13:45the ACA who have different philosophies and the legislators are like, well, what do
- 13:49you chiropractors want? We don't know what you want, so therefore we're not going to
- 13:52do anything. And that's kind of a big issue. One of them is the more
- 13:56medically evidence based. Everything we do comes from the literature. And
- 13:59the other one being the more philosophical base like
- 14:03treat the, treat the person and see what happens. Yeah, it seems
- 14:07to be that's the divide. Now, you couldn't go to a chiropractor though, any
- 14:11chiropractor, and be like, so which one are you? Because it's all across the
- 14:14board. That's why you really have to go to a practitioner and see if they
- 14:18fit with you and see if you like what they do and how they explain
- 14:21it and everything. Because there's chiropractors that are full
- 14:25blown functional medicine and they're just taking blood work and recommending supplements and that's all
- 14:29they do. They don't even do chiropractic. And then there's chiropractors who just adjust the
- 14:32spine and that's pretty much all they do. Then there's chiropractors who do
- 14:36all kinds of muscle work or physical therapy or whatever.
- 14:40Like there's all kinds of things. And it varies depending on the state of what
- 14:43chiropractors can do. In some states, chiropractors can take
- 14:46blood work and interpret that, and other. And others they can't. You know, so
- 14:50it's crazy. Like in, in Oregon, where I went to school in
- 14:54Portland, chiropractors are technically, at least last time I checked,
- 14:57they're still allowed to deliver babies, do
- 15:02proctology exams and gynecological exams. If you do
- 15:05extra training, you can't do that coming out of school. But under your license,
- 15:09if you do extra training and you get certified in those things, you can do
- 15:12them in that state, whereas most other states you cannot do those things
- 15:16whatsoever. There's even, even minor surgery. Chiropractors can do
- 15:20that. And so going to school in Oregon, I had to learn all those
- 15:24things because in the state that I went to school, that was under my
- 15:28license. So I had to learn them. And to get my state license, I had
- 15:30to test on those. Whereas in lots of other states you don't have to
- 15:34get your license. So just very interesting. It's very different. This
- 15:37is actually very helpful because I always think that you're a doctor and then I'm
- 15:41like, oh no. And then I go check. I'm like, oh no, he's A chiropractor.
- 15:44But the way you talk about things, which is how I know he was talking
- 15:47to you, I'm like, you sound and speak like a doctor. Okay, so
- 15:51now I'm seeing why. Got it. It's interesting. It's interesting that you say that and
- 15:54you notice that because I wouldn't know that. It's just my experience that I'm
- 15:58speaking from. So going through that. Like, I remember, like in
- 16:01chiropractic school, everybody thinks that. I mean, first of all, the first
- 16:05two years of chiropractic school are just like medical school,
- 16:10like a traditional medical school. And the reason I know that is because in
- 16:13Portland, where I went to school, they had the four big kind
- 16:17of medical discipline schools were in Portland. They had the ohsu, which is the
- 16:21medical school, and dental school. They had University of Western States, the
- 16:24chiropractic school, the National College of Natural Medicine, which is naturopathic school, and then
- 16:28Oriental College of Medicine. So they're all there. So they had this group called
- 16:32same. I forget what it standed for, but it was basically students something, something. So
- 16:35we all got together to talk. People who wanted to come got together. So I
- 16:39got to know people. Yeah, I was also dating somebody in
- 16:43the naturopathic program, or I did for a little while. So I got to know
- 16:46people in the naturopathic program. And then a friend of mine in chiropractic school,
- 16:50her boyfriend, who's now her husband, was in. At medical school.
- 16:53And then a friend of mine in chiropractic school, his best friend from college was
- 16:57in the dental program. So we all kind of got together and. And got to
- 17:00know each other and compared our curriculums. And the first two years was
- 17:04exactly the same. Like we're learning all the basic science, all the
- 17:07physiology, all the anatomy, all the pathology.
- 17:11Everything was exactly the same. We were taking all the same courses. And then after
- 17:15that it differed. Right after that, we started adjusting a lot more,
- 17:19looking at very neuromusculoskeletal type conditions. The medical school
- 17:22went pretty deep into pharma. The Natural College of Natural
- 17:26Medicine did. The naturopaths did lots of herbalism and
- 17:30lots of other therapies. They did all kinds of things. So it was very interesting
- 17:33to see things change as we were going through our education.
- 17:37But the reason I say that is because people don't are
- 17:40unfamiliar with the types of education. Right. And so.
- 17:44But then when we got. When I got into later quarters and I'm learning things
- 17:47like nutrition, that was. I had two or three nutrition classes in chiropractic school.
- 17:51People think that, oh, yeah, chiropractors learned all these alternative ways to do
- 17:55things. And technically that's true. But when I think back on my
- 17:58nutrition courses, absolutely terrible. Based on what I know
- 18:02now, just terrible. No offense to the professor or the school or
- 18:06the curriculum or whatever, but it was basically just like nutrition
- 18:10meant to them, supplements. That's what I was learning. I was learning,
- 18:14okay, we have this evidence for this supplement to do this. You can do that.
- 18:17And then, like, when I was going through clinic, like a student Internet, I had
- 18:21to get certain nutrition credits, so I had to recommend nutrition to someone. That meant
- 18:24recommending a supplement to them. That was my nutrition credit. Yeah. So it's like
- 18:28a prescription model, but with supplements instead of
- 18:32drugs. Yeah. And unfortunately, so. So I.
- 18:36I guess I've always been curious or like, I was going through chiropractic school and
- 18:39got this education and felt like that's not what I wanted
- 18:43to learn. It wasn't what I. Everything I thought, there has to be something more.
- 18:46Right. It can't just be you adjust the spine and give supplements. I can't. That
- 18:49can't be right. And it can't just be. Doesn't make sense to me to kind
- 18:53of think of it as a. As a trying to diagnose somebody with something.
- 18:56Right. Because there's chiropractors that just do sports medicine, and all
- 19:00they do is treat athletic injuries and things like that. And so
- 19:04after chiropractic school, I was like, there has to be more. So then my school
- 19:07had just launched this human nutrition and functional medicine master's program.
- 19:11So I was like, okay, I'll go do that. Because it was like, partly. It
- 19:15was like half online, half in school. So I did the in classroom
- 19:19part, and then I went to Ireland while I finished the rest of it. Because
- 19:22I went to Ireland after chiropractic school, and that didn't tell
- 19:26me what I thought I wanted to know. I. It just didn't. It was just
- 19:28unsatisfying to me. I mean, we. I learned a lot of things. It was good.
- 19:31Like, we talked a lot more about actual nutrition in that program. We
- 19:35talked about things like oxidative stress and genetics, but there was a lot more
- 19:39supplements. Right. And actually, to his credit, the guy
- 19:42who started that program, his name was Alex Vasquez, and he started the
- 19:46whole program. He built the whole program. And then the school wanted to sell out
- 19:49the standard process, which Standard Process is a good supplement company if you're into
- 19:53supplements. Right. They wanted to take a bunch of money from Standard Process in order
- 19:57for them to recommend only Standard Process products in the program.
- 20:00And he was like, no, I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to
- 20:03sell out. So he left. And I was like, good on him. That's
- 20:06awesome. You know, so. So he left. But so anyways,
- 20:10that's kind of my formal education. It was that kind of
- 20:14story. But even after the functional medicine program, it was like, I'm unsatisfied. I
- 20:17don't know what causes disease. Nothing told me what caused this disease, and that's
- 20:21what I was looking for. So you had like this intuitive sense that the
- 20:25picture was incomplete. Yeah. And then you had
- 20:29a health event that kind of proved the picture was
- 20:32incomplete. Because if all of that had been sufficient,
- 20:36why would you be having a heart attack at 30 years old? Right. Or
- 20:40so even then, like as a chiropractor, you know, I learned
- 20:44about neuromusculoskeletal disorders and about the nervous system and things
- 20:48like that. But the way that I see
- 20:52that stuff now is totally different than what I think the traditional chiropractor would think,
- 20:56whether they're more medical based or more philosophical based. But yeah, it was
- 21:00clearly something that I missed because even then I was eating well and exercising and
- 21:04all that stuff. And I did that for after chiropractic school for nine
- 21:07years. And then, yeah, had this cardiac event
- 21:11seemingly out of the blue. All my testing looked great. There was nothing that told
- 21:15people this was going to happen, and it still happened. So
- 21:18that got me more curious and looking into more things
- 21:22to try and figure out what that was. But it also got me really focused
- 21:26on heart disease. I mean, I was already somewhat focused on heart disease because I'm
- 21:29type one diabetic. And so that heavily predisposed me to heart disease
- 21:32technically. So I've always kind of thought about that. But
- 21:36this got me really thinking about it, obviously figuring out why this
- 21:40happened and. And that led me down this path of where I am
- 21:43now. So, yeah, knowing what you know now, when
- 21:47you look back at that curriculum, which I think by
- 21:51general standards was actually pretty good, it. I've
- 21:55heard, you know, it could have been a lot worse. What was missing? When you
- 21:58look at the especially western states and trying
- 22:02to be more of a medical side of things, like that education
- 22:06was the standard. Like if you go to any medical school anywhere,
- 22:10like OHSU in Oregon, like, you're going to get that same education. It's just going
- 22:13to vary a little bit after when we go to treatments, like based on what
- 22:16you can treat. So, yes, it was very good. And it's standardized across
- 22:20all chiropractic schools, so we all have to pass the same boards and get the
- 22:23same credits for things. So. So, yeah, so that was the case.
- 22:27Very, very high level of education. What was it missing?
- 22:31Why did I. Why could I not prevent this? Right. Those are answers that I've
- 22:34had to come to through my own research. I always credit my
- 22:38dad for this and giving me this curiosity because he's always, like, when
- 22:42we were growing up, he'd ask us just random questions, and we. Even if we
- 22:45knew the answer, he'd be like, but why? You know? And so we're just always
- 22:48having to tell him why about stuff. Or even, like, science
- 22:52projects in elementary school. Like, we do the product, this is what we got. And
- 22:55he's like, yeah, but why? And we have to think about that. So it gave
- 22:59me this curiosity. Fortunately, I have hardly been reading a lot about health in
- 23:02general. And it wasn't until after the heart attack that I really
- 23:06started getting into light because I was aware of
- 23:10circadian rhythm and I was aware of sunlight being healthy and things
- 23:14like that. But the whole reason this started for me, which
- 23:17I don't often say on podcasts, was that I didn't. I didn't
- 23:21know what I was doing right after the heart attack. And I've had this success,
- 23:24and I've been able to figure out why I was successful and all this stuff.
- 23:26And that's great. But in the first, I didn't know what I was doing. They
- 23:28just scared me into thinking I was going to develop heart failure because I just
- 23:32had a heart attack. Which is the biggest. A big issue after you get damaged
- 23:35to tissue in your heart is you could develop heart failure. And the only thing
- 23:38I knew at that time was I was well aware of the research that showed
- 23:41that infrared sauna was phenomenal for heart failure. And I was
- 23:44like, infrared light, this is it. So I got a sauna and started
- 23:48doing that and then just started researching more and more and more. So that's where.
- 23:52That's how I got onto light was just that little bit of information
- 23:56right there, and then applying it to all these different things, like, well, that makes
- 23:59sense because the sun is always infrared light. Anytime it's up, there's an
- 24:02infrared light. And so I just started making sense of all these things
- 24:07and then recognize, like, based on your question, is what was
- 24:10missing? Is that right there. What's missing is that we're
- 24:14looking at human physiology
- 24:18and biology from a
- 24:21biochemical perspective, from a structural and a
- 24:25biochemical perspective. So even then, I think about it
- 24:29like as I wrote this book on chronic pain. It's been out a couple
- 24:32years now, and I'm thinking about that too. People think of pain as this very
- 24:36physical thing. I think about a physical therapist or a chiropractor. We're
- 24:40thinking that we have to treat this tissue physically to get it to stop
- 24:43expressing pain. And that's not the case
- 24:47necessarily. I mean, a physical ailment can be one contributor
- 24:51to why someone would have a change in a tissue that would cause the brain
- 24:53to express a pain signal. But it's.
- 24:57It's much more than that. There's more than just this physical aspect of something
- 25:01or the biochemical changes that happen due to the physical aspects of it.
- 25:05And so as I'm starting to learn all that stuff, I'm like, where was that
- 25:08in my education whatsoever, all we're learning about? I mean,
- 25:12I had to take organic chemistry and then biochemistry and all
- 25:16these courses in college and in chiropractic school, because it was all based on
- 25:19that. It was just little letters that interact with each other and make different things.
- 25:24And it was very linear and it was very one step after the other.
- 25:27And even your labs, it was just trained you that that's the way physiology works,
- 25:32is that you just one reaction after the next. It's these biochemical
- 25:35interactions. That's what drives everything. Even like nutrition and even
- 25:39supplements in pharmaceuticals, they're all based off of, how can we
- 25:43change the biochemistry? Right? We're looking at nutrition.
- 25:47We're reducing it down to the nutrients in the food or in the supplement
- 25:51or whatever that have the biochemical reaction to change this. And so
- 25:54that's where I think you just trained that. That's the way that it is, right?
- 25:57And then from a physical perspective, all you're doing is you're looking from the outside
- 26:01like, I got a shoulder problem. Okay, there's something wrong in the
- 26:04shoulder. You're not really connecting that and chiropractic. There's a little bit
- 26:08more of this where you're connecting it to the nervous system and how it's signaling
- 26:11to the shoulder and things like that. But I've come across other
- 26:15techniques and philosophies of things that make way more sense from a physical perspective
- 26:19and how it is about the nervous system. But I think about
- 26:23it way differently than how chiropractic thinks about the nervous system. So there was just
- 26:27all this stuff missing. And to some extent it's
- 26:30understandable that it's Missing because if you're going to bring people
- 26:34in and give them education for four years,
- 26:38like you've got to make it this and you got to give them that, that's
- 26:41what you're paying for. Right. If you try to teach somebody all the things that
- 26:45I've learned since then in a four year program, that's impossible. You're not going to
- 26:48do that or be able to very successfully. You're not. It's definitely
- 26:52hard to standardize it too. Which, that's the thing is you have to standardize. Yeah,
- 26:56I know. Yeah, you would know that, wouldn't you?
- 26:59Yeah, yeah, you would know that. There's a lot of moving parts. So it's, it's
- 27:03like that's what's, what's missing is philosophy of health. Because
- 27:07if you think about what health is, to me
- 27:10it's the ability to adapt to your environment. If you can adapt
- 27:14like to any certain signal or stimulus or whatever in your life
- 27:18and your body can have a reaction to it and then return to homeostasis. That's
- 27:21healthy, right? So if we think about it from that perspective,
- 27:26we can't just think about the biochemical interactions
- 27:29or the physical things that happen to us. We have to think about every
- 27:33single environmental stimuli that our bodies come into contact with day in and
- 27:37day out. And now you're thinking, oh well, that
- 27:41could be light, it could be sound, it could be
- 27:44relationships, it could be toxins, it could be movement, it could be food,
- 27:48it could be whatever, emf, it could be all these things. All
- 27:51these things are just signals to our body that are telling it to do one
- 27:55thing or the other, which is a very important concept. Especially when I talk about
- 27:58how I do chiropractic now. It'll come back, but
- 28:02we have to look at all of it. And most educations,
- 28:06medical, chiropractic, maybe even naturopathic, they may be a bit more
- 28:10broad, but are looking at it from very, very
- 28:13biochemical perspective and physical tissue perspective,
- 28:17because that's how you can standardize something. That's how you can make it an education
- 28:20and make it four years, make it reasonable, that kind of thing. But it's missing
- 28:24and it's, it's so incomplete that any sort of
- 28:27formal education on some sort of professional healthcare
- 28:31practice is incomplete. And it's why coming out of
- 28:35school today, I think students are just incredibly
- 28:38ill equipped to handle what we're seeing because
- 28:42their education's been so reductionist into what is
- 28:46contributing to all this disease. And reductionist is the right word because it's not
- 28:49that it's incorrect, it's just like
- 28:53one layer. But if everything is reduced to
- 28:57that one layer, then any part of health or symptom
- 29:01or condition or experience that a person is having that is
- 29:05coming from the other layers is not going to be addressed. And I'm
- 29:08critical of functional medicine because I have a master's degree in it, but I'm
- 29:12critical because I've had clients and people over the years, patients as
- 29:16a chiropractor, that come to me and say, yeah, I'm professional medicine practitioner and
- 29:20I'm taking 15 supplements a day. And there's a few issues
- 29:23with that. One is that that's incredibly expensive for someone to do. But
- 29:27two is that it's the same philosophy as Western
- 29:31medicine. You take blood work and you treat the blood work with supplements rather
- 29:34than treat the blood work with medications. It's not health. You're not going to create
- 29:38health by that. And the reason I know that is because, and you know,
- 29:41functional medicine does address environment, they do address lifestyle, and so I'll give them
- 29:45that. But if you think that 15 supplements is more important than
- 29:49the environment, then you're not doing a service to somebody, right? Because
- 29:52you could take all the supplements in the world. You could take a medication, you
- 29:56could go to a clinic and have a treatment, right? But if you come back
- 29:59from doing those things or you do those things in the environment
- 30:03that's giving you the signals to tell your body to be sick, they're not going
- 30:06to help, right? And so now the
- 30:10person is just doing these things, thinking that it's helping while not addressing the
- 30:14actual things that are telling the body to be sick, which means their light
- 30:17environment or their lack of movement or their EMF or their whatever
- 30:21else would be their dental infections. What, like, whatever it could be. There could be
- 30:24so many different things. It's incredibly lacking. And again, at some point
- 30:28it's understandable because it's really hard. How do you get all that information into
- 30:32one education and give people a piece of paper that says they can do something
- 30:35now? That's really what education is. Yeah. Piece of paper. Yeah. And,
- 30:39and truly, as we were just talking about, there are some
- 30:43basic ways you can be equipped, but then it needs to be to be an
- 30:46ongoing process. And I also think that if the
- 30:49paradigm shifted a little, right? And that's why
- 30:53I really, you know, God bless the scientists who
- 30:57invented the term quantum biology, because quantum, to me,
- 31:00that like, gives instead of just, you know, one section
- 31:04of the library, it's like the whole library all the books on
- 31:08all the different things that you've just mentioned have a place on the shelf
- 31:12if you expand from a biochemical view to a quantum view
- 31:17and mechanisms of action to go with it, which is always what they're
- 31:20after, right? Well, I think that just.
- 31:24You said mechanisms of action, and that just put this whole thought into my head,
- 31:28because I think that the most important thing that looking at things from a
- 31:32quantum perspective has given me is that we will
- 31:35not ever be smarter than nature. Ever.
- 31:39Right? And so if we think we can be, if we think we
- 31:43can master the next biochemical pathway, which, again,
- 31:47is what medicine is trying to do. I used to. I used to work in
- 31:50a clinic as a chiropractor across the street from the Virginia Tech School of Medicine
- 31:53and Research. I would get all these PhD students coming in. I'd always ask them,
- 31:57what are you working on? And they tell me, oh, I'm working on this very
- 32:00specific biochemical pathway to see if I can create some molecule to change that. Because
- 32:03it's all, where's the next pharmaceutical, Right? Where can we make something?
- 32:07And again, very reductionist. But they're trying to change this one
- 32:11biochemical pathway and think they're going to affect a whole disease process that has all
- 32:14these complex mechanisms or within a complex
- 32:18biological ecosystem. So when you look at things from a quantum perspective and you realize
- 32:21that something can happen and that a hundred different things can happen all at the
- 32:25same time, and how that makes it almost impossible to predict
- 32:28what's going to happen, you just have to throw your hands up and be like,
- 32:32why am I even trying to research this biochemical pathway? Because that doesn't even
- 32:36make sense, that I'll never be able to figure it out. And,
- 32:40yeah, like, when you, like I've heard mathematicians talk about it, and like, you get
- 32:43two things, you can kind of predict how they're going to interact with each other.
- 32:46You get three, it becomes harder, you get four, you get five. It's almost impossible
- 32:49now. And we're talking about hundreds of reactions at the same time.
- 32:53So when you think about it that way, to me it's.
- 32:57And I've expressed this to clients recently a lot, which is probably why I popped
- 33:00into my head. It's almost as if we're creating this false
- 33:03idol that is medicine, that is science,
- 33:08right. And that this is the standard by which we're trying to do things. And
- 33:11those things are trying to basically tell us, or we're trying
- 33:15to using those things. We're trying to tell ourselves that we're Smarter than
- 33:19nature or smarter than God or smarter than the universe or whatever you want to
- 33:22say, right? When in reality, what quantum, I think biology
- 33:25teaches us, you see that from that perspective, is that at some point you have
- 33:29to kind of throw up your hands and surrender to the
- 33:33higher power. That is what I would to consider nature, right? And if you put
- 33:36yourself in that environment, your physiology knows what to do and you're never going to
- 33:40understand how it's doing it or why it's doing it, but you
- 33:44will see the result. And so it's not about
- 33:47me trying to do this science or diagnose this thing that
- 33:51I think that I can control the way the body's doing something or give this
- 33:55pill or give this whatever. It's about throwing your hands up and saying, go back
- 33:58to this environment and make that be your baseline.
- 34:02Right? And if your baseline is that, then that's a
- 34:06great place to start right now you've created this as much as you can within
- 34:10the confines of your modern world. Go back to nature, recreate nature. And that
- 34:13means that sometimes, yes, we have to use some modern day things that help us
- 34:16recreate that because we all just can't go live in the woods. And then you
- 34:20can use some select maybe supplements or maybe this here and there, but your baseline
- 34:24has to be this. Throwing your hands up and going back to this and
- 34:27surrendering to that because that's the only really way that your
- 34:31physiology is going to get the right signals. And what it does with that is
- 34:34up to the body. But we have to at least give it that chance. And
- 34:37that's the almost like people ask me all the time, like, how do you know
- 34:39you're not going to have another heart attack? And I'm like, that's why. Because I
- 34:43just kind of gave up and said I'll give myself to this
- 34:47higher power. That is the philosophy that I have. And yeah, I could tell you
- 34:50all these different things in science about why I think that works, but in reality
- 34:54I don't need to understand that. I just kind of like to, because I'm curious.
- 34:58But yeah, I hope that makes sense. It makes perfect sense.
- 35:02And I think going back to what you were saying, how you were trained on
- 35:05diet and exercise, diet and exercise. You know, for
- 35:09women my age, we grew up on that. The adults when
- 35:13we were teenagers, the adults in our lives getting middle aged,
- 35:17wanting to get healthy diet and exercise. And so they
- 35:21see me doing all this stuff and talking about all this stuff and they're kind
- 35:24of like, what are you doing? And I'm like, everything in our environment
- 35:28is affecting us, and our environment has
- 35:32changed a lot since. Since we were teenagers. So. Yeah,
- 35:35it's exactly what you're saying and what I feel like quantum biology does.
- 35:39And I'd love for you to give a little of the science on this is
- 35:42like, give that grounding to ex
- 35:46a little bit, like, for your dad. Right. Okay. But why? It's like, what do
- 35:50you mean? Who cares? Like, it's fine. Seems
- 35:53fine. When in reality, we could be like, we're putting ourselves
- 35:57in a, you know, destruction chamber every day and not even
- 36:01realizing it. Yeah. So, like, from. From perspective of, say,
- 36:04like, some research article. Let's take that. Right. We take this research article,
- 36:08we look at it. What's the goal of a research article? What are they trying
- 36:11to do? They're trying to show that this causes this. And you can start out
- 36:15with an associational study to just see if something's associated. But that doesn't really tell
- 36:18you much. You have to figure out why it's associated. And then the standard, like
- 36:22the higher standard is randomized controlled trials. And then higher than
- 36:26that is the systematic reviews of all the randomized controlled trials. But the controlled
- 36:30trial is the highest thing because, like, you take this intervention versus the people
- 36:33who don't do the intervention, and you see if it causes something. And so it's
- 36:37like, okay, that's great. You. You tried to isolate all the variables
- 36:40and see if this one thing that they did versus the people who didn't do
- 36:43it caused a certain thing. It's like, that's great. However, last
- 36:47time I checked, I'm not exposed to one thing at a time. Nobody
- 36:51is. And at the end of the day, the way that we're doing research, even
- 36:54the standard of care randomized controlled trial is fundamentally flawed. Yeah. Because it
- 36:58can never tell us anything. It can tell us what this study
- 37:02showed, but that's about it. That doesn't apply to any of us because
- 37:06we are all in different environments. We've all had different experiences, different
- 37:10traumas, different whatever. And so you can't really say that. You
- 37:13can't apply that to everybody. And we're all exposed to multiple things
- 37:17at multiple times, all the time. And even then, you could say that in that
- 37:21randomized controlled trial, it's completely. The results are completely void
- 37:25because everybody in that trial had different environments, you know, did different
- 37:28things. You didn't control for light, you didn't control for emf. You didn't control for
- 37:32childhood, you didn't control for car accidents, you can't, like. It'S
- 37:36literally impossible to control for all that stuff. So, so that's what I mean
- 37:40by putting this faith in this thing that literally can't give us what we think
- 37:43that it's going to give us. And we have to put our faith
- 37:47somewhere else. So from that perspective, without that
- 37:50philosophy, for me, of, of nature and again,
- 37:54people who call it God, they call it prana, they can call it universe, they
- 37:57can call it ether, whatever they want to call it, for me, it's
- 38:00nature. Without that context, then you can't
- 38:04interpret what that study said or what it meant, right? Then
- 38:07you just basically focused on the result of that study and you say, see
- 38:12this study lowered LDL with a statin and it
- 38:15created less heart disease. And aside from all the statistical
- 38:19manipulation that probably happened in that study, like you're taking that
- 38:23result as the end all but because this is the standard, this is a man
- 38:26made standard that has been created just like a man made
- 38:30standard of care has been created through medicine. And that
- 38:34is us trying to think we're smarter than nature. So
- 38:38again, I mean you read my book, there's like 750 cited articles of science
- 38:41in there. So it's not like I'm anti science, I just am expressing the
- 38:45limitations of it and being aware of those and realizing that if I don't have
- 38:49this foundation of what nature is, then this doesn't make sense. So
- 38:53here's an example. So if you look at research on
- 38:56electromagnetic fields, right? Wireless signals, radio frequency or electromagnetic
- 39:00fields, and you look at, say you read Andrew Marino and you read
- 39:03Robert Becker, you're like, this is some things, there's some things here that we should
- 39:07probably pay attention to, right? But there's also a lot of other studies that say
- 39:10that it's not an issue, right? They don't get any results. They
- 39:14didn't get any like harmful. You could argue that they designed those studies
- 39:17poorly or that there's other variables and you could make all those arguments.
- 39:21But all that stuff without the context of nature
- 39:25doesn't make sense. And here's why. Because if you look at what nature
- 39:29provides us, nature provides us with
- 39:32a radio frequency on the electromagnetic spectrum of
- 39:36UV through infrared, right from the sun and that's it. Anything outside
- 39:40of that is non native to us. And so for me,
- 39:44if, for historically, revolutionarily, if all we had
- 39:47was these wavelengths between here and here, anything outside of
- 39:51that, that's suspect until proven innocent, right?
- 39:55And whenever we, I mean you read Arthur Fursten's
- 39:59Berg's Book about how they were studying like electricity came and then all the
- 40:03radio frequencies came after that. And the things that they saw, those are just
- 40:06observations, but it's a 200 year observation that every
- 40:10time that something happened we saw these issues. Right. So
- 40:14just to, just to clarify. So that is like
- 40:17electricity came and then there were some major epidemics,
- 40:21illness. Well, yeah, well, first of all, the early scientists who were studying
- 40:24electricity and kind of like inventing this thing got sick. They,
- 40:28they had flu, like viral like illness. Right. And then, yes,
- 40:32every time we had this major jump in some sort of electromagnetic or radio
- 40:36frequency thing, we saw these epidemics, we saw these people
- 40:39get sick. Whether that was after World War I, we all know
- 40:43that. What was it? The Spanish flu? Was that what it was? I forget what
- 40:46it was after all of the radio. Yeah, after the radio towers. Because
- 40:49radio frequency is what came out in World War I. That's why that's
- 40:53how they communicated. And then radar in World War II and like there's all these
- 40:56different things. And he tracks it very well. And again, it's just associations.
- 41:02I'll say it. So you don't have to.5G in the late
- 41:062000s. Yeah, I mean that's the latest one. Did we
- 41:10have an epidemic of a flu like virus after that? Yeah,
- 41:13exactly. Right. And he traces that really well. And again, it's just
- 41:17associations. But it's a very consistent association every single time for
- 41:21the last 200 years. So it's kind of hard to ignore that whether we know
- 41:24the mechanisms or not. So but anyways, getting back to
- 41:28like. So nature also provides us an electromagnetic field. And that
- 41:32is assuming resonance of the earth or the electromagnetic field coming from other living things.
- 41:36Those are compatible electromagnetic fields. Anything outside of that
- 41:40is non compatible. Which means the electromagnetic field is created by this
- 41:43artificial thing we've created, which is electricity. Right. When we do
- 41:47that, and we put it at much higher voltage than say what's coming from
- 41:50the earth when we touch our feet to the earth, that creates this field that's
- 41:54non compatible with us. And so again, that's guilty and
- 41:57proven innocent until proven innocent in my mind. Because it's not something that we have
- 42:01been exposed to for historically for forever really.
- 42:05And so that's just one example. So if you look at this
- 42:09research and you say, see this research shows that it doesn't cause harm, or see,
- 42:12this research says that it does, you're tied to those things and you don't know
- 42:16what to make of those things because there's conflicting results. There
- 42:20Whereas if you have this foundation that is nature, you realize,
- 42:23oh, that that stuff's not natural to us.
- 42:27Right. And so therefore, it's for
- 42:31me, just as my personal decision, I'm more likely to say, yes, it's
- 42:34probably the study that shows that there's harm. And then there's all the other issues
- 42:38with research too, as far as who's funding it, what type, where the scientists
- 42:42paid off, like, all the stuff, did they mess with the statistics and make it
- 42:45show a certain thing, which we can talk about all like that, with statins and
- 42:49everything. But to give examples, there's this again, I'd say, like,
- 42:53almost false idol in modern medicine and modern
- 42:57science, and it's taking us away, which is a very, I'd say, I
- 43:00don't know, like, spiritual or religious kind of foundation. Like, you
- 43:04surrender yourself up to a higher power, and that's how you find
- 43:08enlightenment and those types of things. So it's kind of led me to that. And
- 43:12that's just, you know, one example. We could talk about light as well. The only
- 43:15light that we get is UV through infrared. So these other unnatural
- 43:19forms of light, it's not surprising that we're finding that they're harmful. And people will
- 43:22say, like, why? You know, because we can adapt, right?
- 43:26And to a certain extent, we can adapt to things. But
- 43:30true adaptation, I mean, I think from an evolutionary perspective, true
- 43:34adaptation comes many, many generations. So in my first
- 43:37book, I talk about this Russian scientist named Dmitri Belyav,
- 43:41who basically started selectively breeding foxes for docile
- 43:45traits. And after about 30 generations, he had pretty much foxes who
- 43:49were dogs. They were like his. He domesticated them after 50
- 43:52generations? No, after 30 generations, basically he started seeing
- 43:55characteristic changes, like the fact that their ears were up like this all the time
- 43:59in nature, always perceiving their environment. They didn't have to anymore,
- 44:03that their ear started to droop, like is what we see in dogs, right? And
- 44:07their coat started to change because they didn't need camouflage as much. And then after
- 44:1050 generations, he actually died, but people continued his work. After 50
- 44:14generations, he pretty much had these foxes that were like dogs. They were completely
- 44:18domesticated. And so that shows us that it takes, you know,
- 44:2130 to 50 generations to get significant changes in adaptation.
- 44:25And that's with very select breeding. So in nature, it doesn't happen that way.
- 44:29It probably takes longer. And for humans who have a much longer
- 44:32reproductive cycle, it probably takes longer to get these true
- 44:36adaptations to a change like that. And so if you think about how long that
- 44:40takes and you think in the last three generations
- 44:43at the most, four generations at the most, the drastic amount of changes we've
- 44:47seen, there's no way our physiology could adapt to that. And
- 44:51so it's not like it's adapting enough to just kill us off immediately,
- 44:55but it's definitely enough to make us ill. And we're seeing the
- 44:58repercussions of that with a chronic disease epidemic. That's what I mean
- 45:02by, like, when we change the environment too much, these things are
- 45:06unnatural to us. Our bodies give us signals. This is not okay.
- 45:09And we're interpreting, like, the historical way to think about it has been,
- 45:13like, from a medical perspective is, oh, our genes are causing
- 45:16disease. Right. And that's not the case at all. Our genes
- 45:20respond to the environment. If even that's the way it works. I don't even know
- 45:24from a quantum perspective. I'm not even sure if that's the way it works. But,
- 45:27yeah, it's all about the environmental signals and how our body perceives them and then
- 45:30chooses to respond to them to keep us alive and adapt.
- 45:34If we're constantly trying to adapt, that's what we call disease. Like,
- 45:38if we're constantly trying to adapt to an apparent signal, that's what we call disease.
- 45:41You give it a better signal. It's adapting to that. It's easier to adapt to
- 45:44that. We have health, we have homeostasis. Our technological
- 45:48evolution so far outpaces our
- 45:52biology's ability to keep up, but also our
- 45:55institution's ability to keep up. You know, going back to
- 45:58your curriculum that focused on diet and exercise, that had
- 46:02its roots at a time where that might have been enough because
- 46:06we didn't have LED light bulbs. We didn't have screens in our faces
- 46:10before we fell asleep at night. We didn't have TVs on in the bedroom all
- 46:14night. We didn't have wifi. We didn't have 5G. We didn't have
- 46:18headlights on cars that could blind you when they come
- 46:22around the corner. Like, none of those things existed and
- 46:26we are proceeding, or the institutional
- 46:30education system is proceeding as though none of those things
- 46:35are having a biological impact. Meanwhile,
- 46:38the research to show that it is, like,
- 46:42piling up. People always assume that, like, oh, you're kind of out on
- 46:46the fringe talking about these things, because the research must be out on the fringe.
- 46:50No, it's all there. It's just we're not equipped. We
- 46:54have no mechanisms or structures that are
- 46:57equipped to update themselves quickly enough. Yeah. To
- 47:01connect that research to the
- 47:05people giving health advice to the people receiving health advice
- 47:08down to like the mainstream understanding of, you know,
- 47:12maybe turn those LEDs off, you know, in the middle,
- 47:16when it's the middle of the night. Like that should just be common knowledge. And
- 47:19it's not because of all these layers that are
- 47:22unable to keep up with the absolute insane pace
- 47:26of technology change. Yeah, and not just technology,
- 47:30but all kinds of stuff that we've seen over the last, I'd say 150 to
- 47:34200 years. Major changes. But yes, even the last 50 has been crazy
- 47:37as far as technology. But yeah, and there was that study, I can't remember, I
- 47:41think it was 2011 when it came out, that was just.
- 47:45Basically, it found that the average amount of time for
- 47:48something to get published in the literature to be something that your doctor may tell
- 47:51you in the doctor's office was 17 years. And that was the average. So
- 47:55yeah, like all this literature is there and I, I talk about
- 47:59that all the time when I talk about cardiovascular disease. It's like the
- 48:03amount of things that I found in the literature that I have never met a
- 48:06cardiologist she's aware of astounds me, you know, because
- 48:10I've. Like the work of Giorgio Baraldi itself just throws
- 48:13cardiology on its head. But it was completely ignored. I've never met even more in
- 48:17the. No cardiologist I've never met anybody who's aware of him in the field of
- 48:21cardiology. Doesn't mean there's not somebody, because I don't know all of them. It's crazy
- 48:24to me that his work is not recognized. But of course it's not,
- 48:28because if his work was recognized, they would never do electrostens and
- 48:32bypasses, but they do. So yeah, it's just there's so
- 48:35much incongruency between what medicine's actually doing and what
- 48:39the research is showing for because of A, the philosophy of medicine and
- 48:43B, how fast things are changing. There's just like, it's,
- 48:46it's crazy. Like a medical school would have to, you know, revamp its whole curriculum
- 48:50to teach what's actually causing modern disease, even if that was their
- 48:53purpose, like to try and actually prevent disease rather than just treat it and profit
- 48:57off of the treatment of it. But yeah, it's just, it's too much.
- 49:00But it's a good segue based on what you said was that like
- 49:05even the modern day practitioner now is up against so many different things
- 49:08that even 20, 50 years ago they wouldn't have had to address or be
- 49:12aware of. Right. Because there's so Many new things. And like
- 49:16if you look at some of the early things that, like the early
- 49:19chiropractors like DD Palmer and the people that worked with him were doing and
- 49:23the results that they say they were getting, if you looked at that now and
- 49:26saw A, what they were doing and B, the results they were getting, you'd be
- 49:29like, this is crazy. There's no way they could do that. But it's
- 49:33because of what they were doing. But also in 1895, there wasn't
- 49:37near as many of the problems and changes that we've had today. So
- 49:41it's interesting about, you know, how
- 49:45that was possible then, even if it seems impossible today.
- 49:48It was very possible then. Right. You could, with an adjustment,
- 49:52probably change somebody's life because that was, that was probably
- 49:56the main thing going on. They didn't have all of these other assaults on their
- 49:59body. Sure, yeah. So what was, so what was the early
- 50:02chiropractic like? What did they do? So I have a good friend, his
- 50:06chiropractor, who introduced me to a lot of this stuff. So especially
- 50:10in my program that was very much like I told you, very
- 50:13medicine based look at the research. What has chiropractic shown to be helpful with. And
- 50:17we teach that, whereas the philosophical schools, I didn't get much of
- 50:20that. And so they got more of this background of the philosophy of chiropractic and
- 50:24what D. Palmer did. But first of all, DD Palmer didn't invent an
- 50:28adjustment. People have been manipulating people for however
- 50:31many years, ancient civilizations were doing that. He just kind of formalized
- 50:35it into what's chiropractic or not even he did, his son did. BJ
- 50:39Palmer is the one who really formalized it into a career of chiropractic or a
- 50:42profession anyways. Yeah. So if you
- 50:46look at like some of the early quotes of the Palmers, they'll say things
- 50:50like, all you really need is a space and a
- 50:53patient. And the magnetic manipulator is what he called himself.
- 50:57And he wasn't using magnet. He didn't, he wasn't like putting magnets
- 51:01about. Some people do that today. They use magnets. He wasn't doing that. He's using
- 51:05his hands. And he called himself a magnetic manipulator.
- 51:08And so I think that he had this concept of what
- 51:12chiropractic was that I don't even think
- 51:16maybe he didn't or early, early disciples didn't, or
- 51:20students. But I don't even think that the philosophical schools have a
- 51:23concept, a true concept of what was going on. And what he was doing.
- 51:27Because when I think about it and when I learned about it from a quantum
- 51:30perspective or quantum aspects of what the body does, it
- 51:34makes more sense to me on what he was doing and the results that he
- 51:37was seeing. And what chiropractors can still see today, it's much less common, but can
- 51:41see today. If you ask chiropractors, I will lecture to groups of chiropractors and ask
- 51:45them these things. Like, we all see people that come in and they're in a
- 51:48lot of pain, or they're, they have all these health issues, or they're just like
- 51:52a disgruntled person. They don't even want to be there. And like, their
- 51:56wife made them come or something like that. And then we start treating them
- 51:59and whether their pain goes away or not, they just seem more likable, they seem
- 52:03more amiable about life. And we're just kind of like,
- 52:07okay, that's great. And we assume, oh, they must be feeling better, that's why they're
- 52:10happier or whatever. But when I thought about things differently and I thought about what
- 52:14de Palmer was saying, originally, it is magnetic manipulation.
- 52:18And then I learned things from a quantum perspective. I put a lot together.
- 52:21And so what I think was happening in those early days is that when you
- 52:25adjust the spine, which is the main treatment that most chiropractors
- 52:29do, you do a hvla, a spinal manipulation of joints or
- 52:32whatever, you're creating sound. Obviously we hear sound, but you're
- 52:36also creating electromagnetic field. You're having a piezoelectric effect that
- 52:40creates electrons, you know, a streaming potential of electrons that go somewhere.
- 52:44You're creating light. You're actually emitting. There's studies that show that when you adjust
- 52:47the spine, more biophoton emission happens in that area.
- 52:52And so you're doing all these quantum, like things to it. And then
- 52:55if you understand that the fascia is a communication system for all
- 52:59this stuff, and you adjust the spine and the
- 53:03communication system picks up on all that, and it's instantly relayed to the entire body.
- 53:07And you recognize that the better the fascia
- 53:10communicates, the more coherent the body is. It's one thing,
- 53:14one contributor to coherence of the body, which is how synced up
- 53:18and on the same page, all the systems of the body are all the
- 53:22cells, all the tissues, everything is. And when you do that, you're creating the
- 53:26signals that are creating coherence, right? You're, you're improving. You're also breaking
- 53:29up scar tissue where. Cause scar tissue is a place where the
- 53:33signals through the fascia can't flow very well. So if there's any around
- 53:37the spinal cord, you're breaking that up in the spinal cord and the spinal column.
- 53:40And so when all that stuff's happening, you start to understand that what you're really
- 53:44doing is you're creating coherence in a system. And
- 53:47so back in the day, it could be that you get a
- 53:51couple adjustments and you've created coherence. Now there's all
- 53:55these things that we're exposed to today and it's
- 53:59taking a lot more or we're not seeing the same result. Right. Well,
- 54:02there's things like you adjust somebody, they go back right into the environment that was
- 54:06making them sick and creating incoherence. And it's like it's not going to matter.
- 54:09Whereas back in 1895, they were barely having
- 54:13electricity. Right. So it wasn't even like this situation
- 54:17where you're surrounded by emf. And now we are. So there's all this stuff.
- 54:20And so, yeah, so then when you realize that the heart
- 54:24is what's measuring, it's sending out the electromagnetic field and it's measuring
- 54:29the coherence of the body internally and externally, what's happening on
- 54:32externally, and you start to increase the coherence internally
- 54:36by chiropractic or any other body work therapy. I'm not saying chiropractic is the
- 54:39only one. There's lots of different bodywork therapies that will increase this. And you start
- 54:43to see the effects of chiropractic or any body work therapy on heart rate
- 54:47variability. Which heart rate variability? People think it's measuring balance in the nervous
- 54:50system, when in reality it's measuring coherence and
- 54:55it picks up on coherence and sends that message to the brain, sends that message
- 54:58back down through the body as nervous system balance. And so,
- 55:01yeah, it looks like because chiropractors are all like, oh, yeah, adjust the spine, you
- 55:04create nervous system balance. We're balancing sympathetic and parasympathetic. But that's only
- 55:08through creating coherence. And so that's what's actually happening in
- 55:11chiropractic. That's why we see the results. And you can relate heart rate variability to
- 55:15pretty much any chronic disease. If heart rate variability gets better, there's less rates of
- 55:19cancer, there's, there's better cardiovascular outcomes, there's better
- 55:22neurodegeneration outcomes, there's metabolic outcomes. It's all of
- 55:26it. Right. Because we're creating coherence. And that's the thing that
- 55:29chiropractic is actually doing. Because, you know,
- 55:33traditional chiropractic philosophy will say, oh, you adjust the spine, you relieve pressure
- 55:37on a nerve. The brain is. The brain is able to send a signal down
- 55:39to the body better. And that may be happening too, right.
- 55:43But in reality, what's really happening is the other way around, is you're creating coherence
- 55:47and the heart's picking up on that. The heart's sending that information to the brain.
- 55:50The brain is sending the signal back down of more coherence, more balance in
- 55:54the nervous system. So that's what's really going on. And I think that's what they
- 55:57were seeing in early chiropractic, whether or not they knew that or not. But
- 56:01now, you know, chiropractic has this very
- 56:05interesting history of being like, chiropractors went to jail because they were
- 56:09accused of practicing medicine without a license when they were just practicing
- 56:13chiropractic. The American Medical association, literally,
- 56:16there were statements out from them that medical doctors should accuse chiropractors of
- 56:20practicing medicine so that they would get arrested. It's crazy. And then
- 56:24I can't remember what year it was. I think it was the 60s. I can't
- 56:27remember. But eventually it went to a court, and the court, I think it
- 56:30was a superior court somewhere, like, literally told the American Medical association to
- 56:34cease and desist, that what they were doing was unconstitutional. You cannot do this.
- 56:38And then finally it stopped at that point. And I think that
- 56:42over time, depending on which school or which person you're talking
- 56:46to, to stay relevant, chiropractic had to become more medical,
- 56:50to a sense, which is. I mean, that's kind of the name of the game
- 56:53is you have to create this standardized education. It has to be evidence based. You
- 56:56have to do all this stuff. Even though we talked about the evidence and how,
- 56:59I think that's false idol. That's the standard by which you have to be
- 57:03relevant or create relevance to survive as a profession. And
- 57:07so now we get today these chiropractors that are thinking very
- 57:09neuromusculoskeletally rather than very quantumly, which is
- 57:13where I think it started, whether they understood that or not. And that's why
- 57:17they were seeing the results they were seeing, especially in 1895, without
- 57:21all the other stuff around them. So, yeah, I hope I described
- 57:24that well. But, yeah, that's my perspective on what chiropractic was
- 57:28and is now. It's so fascinating. And I think,
- 57:32like, for me, the thing that is hard to get my head around,
- 57:35and I know this for a Lot of people, too, is the idea that all
- 57:38of the structures that we believed
- 57:42had our best intentions at heart and all of the
- 57:46structures that we put our faith in to keep us healthy
- 57:51or help us get back to being healthy if we get sick
- 57:55are flawed. I'll say flawed. And I
- 57:58think over time, even dis. Totally disincentivized for
- 58:02us to be healthy. Which leaves us in this space
- 58:06of, you know, you have now
- 58:10started your own independent practice where you can
- 58:14treat patients with all of the knowledge that you've collected
- 58:19as a curious researcher. And it also, I think,
- 58:23is tough for people to swallow because it does put a lot
- 58:27of personal responsibility. Right. If my environment
- 58:31matters that much, I have to think about it. I have
- 58:35to make the changes. And I'm going against the tidal wave of
- 58:38culture, which is hard to do. Right. Like,
- 58:42I use the example of having a home birth. I lived
- 58:46in Ontario, Canada. There was like, a midwife
- 58:50was covered by insurance. I learned with my first
- 58:54child that you had to get on the list, like, the moment you conceived or
- 58:57the midwives were booked out. So by the second one, I figured it out. I
- 59:01was in a culture that supported that. With my third child, I
- 59:05wasn't. And it's. I was living overseas and it was,
- 59:09you know, I realized, like, I actually don't have the energy to go
- 59:12counter to what everyone wants me to do in this situation. So I went
- 59:16back to the hospital and I just use that as an example,
- 59:19because what I'm hearing from you is that, like,
- 59:23we do have to take this responsibility for environment, and it's
- 59:27not straightforward, and it's not what everyone else is doing. And
- 59:31so to have a practitioner or a coach or somebody at least, who is
- 59:35supporting you in those choices becomes so important and is helping
- 59:38you to be that detective. Yeah, I mean, I. An analogy I use
- 59:42with people, because I'll get on with a potential client and I'll be like, how
- 59:46do I know this is going to work? Can you guarantee me results? And I
- 59:49say, okay, so whether or not you went to college, when you go
- 59:53to college, does that guarantee you in education, they're like,
- 59:57well, yeah, if you pay for it and you go through anything. I'm like, yeah,
- 1:00:00but did you learn anything going through that? What determines if you learn something and
- 1:00:03how much you get out of this? So you can pay the same amount as
- 1:00:06everybody else, but your education will be very different. Whether or not it
- 1:00:09works and gets you where you want to go is very, very different based on
- 1:00:12how much you put into it. Right. So it's really on you. Even if you're
- 1:00:15all paying the same tuition, paying the same amount, you get out of it what
- 1:00:19you put into it. And that means you really have to invest. You can't just
- 1:00:22pay and expect someone to give you the answer or fix you.
- 1:00:26And that's a very hard thing to face. And it's. I've especially
- 1:00:30become aware of how hard that is for certain people with trauma,
- 1:00:34because you have to face some very, very hard things, and that's not easy. And
- 1:00:38I. My heart goes out to them, and I empathize with them. I can also
- 1:00:41be there to encourage them. Then it's worth it. So it's not just environment as
- 1:00:44far as having to change things. And, and you may
- 1:00:48lose some friends if you decide that this isn't going to be my hard line.
- 1:00:50I'm going to change this, and I'm not going to do that. This friend may
- 1:00:53be like, oh, I don't want to hang out with you anymore. Okay. You have
- 1:00:56to kind of be okay with that. Right. But it's also making you look at
- 1:00:59internal things, things that may be in the way of you getting to the place
- 1:01:02where you want to be, which is difficult. And those are things that
- 1:01:06I've had to learn over time. And working with people, that. That's. That's something that's
- 1:01:10probably one of the most important things to deal with. So you're right. It's not
- 1:01:13easy, and it's not easy sometimes. It depends because.
- 1:01:16Because half of that's really empowering. It's like, oh, man, now I can make the
- 1:01:20changes. I'm in control. I don't have to rely on the next blood test or
- 1:01:23this medication or what this doctor says, or I can take my control. It's very
- 1:01:26empowering. But it's also like, man, now I've got this. This climb
- 1:01:30to face. Right. I got this. All these things I got to change about
- 1:01:34my environment. I got to deal with things internally, all this stuff. And. And
- 1:01:37there's so many resources out there for people to use and utilize
- 1:01:41and help them. So it all depends on how you see it,
- 1:01:44right? Do you see it as, man, I'm back in control, or do you see
- 1:01:48it as, ugh, this is way too much, I can't do it. Yes.
- 1:01:52And I love that you said that, because ultimately
- 1:01:55it's a gift. If it was just in the hands of somebody
- 1:01:59at the top of the food chain in a higher. In the hospital
- 1:02:02structure like that, it's locked away. Like, I don't have
- 1:02:06that person in my living room, I don't have that person in the, you
- 1:02:10know, when I wake up in the morning. But if it's me,
- 1:02:14like, the world becomes just infinite
- 1:02:17possibility. And I've embraced that.
- 1:02:21Going through some deep challenges 20 years ago. And I was
- 1:02:25like, no, you know what? I'm just gonna take 100% responsibility for
- 1:02:28everything. And people are like, oh, don't be so hard on yourself. I'm like, I'm
- 1:02:32not. I'm choosing the freedom. I'm choosing the freedom path. Because
- 1:02:36if I could take responsibility, then I get to make the
- 1:02:40changes and make the choices. Yeah. And, you know, if they
- 1:02:43don't work out, I just make. I'd make a choice again not to get mad
- 1:02:47at myself and blame myself. But that's a choice too. Yeah. And it's about, I
- 1:02:51mean, it's the same thing. It's like, how long do you stay stuck in a
- 1:02:53situation because you're waiting on someone else or you're waiting on some information
- 1:02:57or something like that, when a long time ago you could have decided, I'm going
- 1:03:01to do this because I'm in control and get whatever you need from
- 1:03:04that, having that mentality. And then there you go, you're. It doesn't mean it's going
- 1:03:08to be all like sky high from there. It'll be ups and downs. But if
- 1:03:11you're the one in control making the decisions and you have the information that
- 1:03:15allows you to make the decisions, that's the most important aspect of it. And that's.
- 1:03:19So there's something that's completely missing from medicine and from a
- 1:03:22formal education is it's more like
- 1:03:26the mentality, I feel like, especially of medical education is this is
- 1:03:30the standard of care, do this to people. Right,
- 1:03:33right. Rather than this is what we think, we understand,
- 1:03:37this is the best way we think about it, educate people on this and allow
- 1:03:40them to make their own decisions. That's a much different way of
- 1:03:45doing anything medical or anything health related. And so
- 1:03:48that's. I didn't know that's what was going to happen for me. But, you know,
- 1:03:51I thought that I was going to come into this, starting my own business and
- 1:03:54coaching people and teach people about heart disease and help them with their heart disease.
- 1:03:58But then I realized what I was doing was I wasn't empowering them, I was
- 1:04:01educating them so they can make their own decisions and that's what gives them the
- 1:04:05peace of mind. So that mentality, that whole
- 1:04:08philosophy is incredibly missing from any formal, I think,
- 1:04:12education. And it's this beautiful paradox of I'm
- 1:04:16in control and I'm surrendered. I don't know
- 1:04:20how those two things are true at the same time, but they are. Well, if
- 1:04:22you're in control, it's your choice to surrender. There you go. Oh,
- 1:04:26Stephen, this has been so delightful. I can keep doing it. And I'm so
- 1:04:29excited that you are faculty at the Institute of Applied Quantum
- 1:04:33Biology where we are doing our best to put some
- 1:04:36curriculum around all of these concepts and
- 1:04:40provide that educational structure so that
- 1:04:44the, this missing piece can be slotted into whatever it is
- 1:04:48that, that, you know, whatever field of expertise a person comes to
- 1:04:52the table with. This is like a lens to go over top,
- 1:04:55not a replacement, just a widening and expand, expand an expansion
- 1:04:59of the view of health that can be taken. And we
- 1:05:03talked a lot about research today and you know,
- 1:05:07as I mentioned to you, that's the next phase is
- 1:05:10we're going to be rolling out programs
- 1:05:14so that the practitioners can be pulling research
- 1:05:18from the field, from those real life individual and bio
- 1:05:21individual interactions so that we aren't completely
- 1:05:25reliant on lab data and randomized control
- 1:05:28studies that control for all of the things that actually happen in people's
- 1:05:32lives. Yeah, there's a really interesting, there's a really interesting
- 1:05:36article out there that is published that I've cited in a few of my books.
- 1:05:39Maybe you're aware of it, but it's basically, it argues against evidence based medicine
- 1:05:43and argues for medicine based evidence. So basically
- 1:05:46perfect. That's exactly it. Yes. Yeah. Because it's
- 1:05:50basically, it would be more useful if we had this huge database of
- 1:05:54people came with this condition or this symptom. Right. And this is what we tried,
- 1:05:58this is what happened. Right. If we have a huge catalog of that,
- 1:06:01rather than let's try and prove this is a good treatment for something and we
- 1:06:05can't do it until we prove that it is. And that's evidence based medicine. Let's
- 1:06:08try and make this one sequence of events, this one sequence of
- 1:06:12cause and effect, the standard of care for everyone. When we live
- 1:06:16in a quantum universe that has infinite variables at
- 1:06:20any given moment. Yeah, it's just like my reversal of the plaque in my
- 1:06:23leg and how I was able to do that. I just finished writing up the
- 1:06:26case, that report for that. We're trying to get that published. But that case was
- 1:06:30sport. Like if you had 50 case reports, like that's data.
- 1:06:34Right. Even though they're case reports and they're the lowest form of research, like
- 1:06:37that's more significant than these clinical Trials where
- 1:06:41they try and control for everything, like what worked for this person in this
- 1:06:45instance based on their situation and everything. And if we had a bunch of those
- 1:06:48things deciding what you want to do for your someone, if they came in with
- 1:06:51peripheral disease like I had, then this is ideas of
- 1:06:55what you could do. And it worked really well for this instance. That's much more
- 1:06:58useful as a practitioner rather than trying to sort through all the clinical
- 1:07:02trial stuff that they try and control for and prove that this one thing
- 1:07:05causes this. It's. It'll be much more useful. Yeah, please do. We will
- 1:07:09add it to the database and I'm excited to have you. We're doing a practice
- 1:07:13based research accelerator for people to come in and learn. It's going to be a
- 1:07:16good time because Nico Kennedy was saying that she was reading research and
- 1:07:20you know, the, the practitioners would implement the
- 1:07:23standard of care based on the research and it wouldn't work. And then they'd go
- 1:07:27back and the research would be like, oh no. Well, we controlled for this and
- 1:07:30this and this. And they're like, well, my patients have all of those
- 1:07:33variables in their lives. They're like, oh well, yeah,
- 1:07:37yeah, like. Again, like trying to isolate one thing
- 1:07:41and from all the different variables. It doesn't make sense because humans are not
- 1:07:44exposed to one variable at a time. Sure are not.
- 1:07:48All right. If any of them. You'd like to be exposed to any of our
- 1:07:51variables. Steven, where can people find you to book a
- 1:07:54session? Particularly if you have, if you are a man
- 1:07:58or you have a man in your life. It's really worth a consult just
- 1:08:02to check in on your, on your heart. Because I
- 1:08:06promise whatever you are told is not the full story.
- 1:08:11I mean my website is resourceyourhealth.com pretty much everything is
- 1:08:14on there. I'm also on social media posting.
- 1:08:18When things pop in my head, I get ideas. I post stuff on there. Informational
- 1:08:22stuff. Just Dr. Stephen Hussey. Dr. Stephen Hussey. People can
- 1:08:25find me there. Amazing. So resource your health.com or
- 1:08:29Dr. Steven Hussey on Instagram and all of the big
- 1:08:33platforms and you can come and learn. If you're a practitioner, you want to take
- 1:08:37the certification. Dr. Hussey is there
- 1:08:40for Q and A's and we would love to
- 1:08:44see you all. Thank you, Stephen. This was so fun.
- 1:08:48I look forward to interview number five. Yeah, I'm sure it'll happen sooner
- 1:08:52rather than later. I think so. There's so much to talk about.
- 1:08:56All right, everyone, thank you so much for being here.
- 1:08:59Appreciate it all. Thank you Stephen.
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