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and I know you're in the States You're in New York So I've got to ask you about your opinions in regards to um Robert F

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Kennedy Jr.'s um you know his introduction into the government and how

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you know two years ago this guy was deplatformed He was a he was a quack You couldn't you know he and now he's like

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at the highest official in American health Like it's it's a it's a it's a

0:24

unbelievable story But looking forward looking to the future looking for solutions because we just want people to

0:30

be healthier and happier and you know and live wonderful lives and and pass it

0:36

on to their kids You know that's what we want But how do you see what's your um

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do you see alignment in like what he's doing and his administration i've never been more aligned with a human being in

0:47

my entire life I I will tell you this uh and I don't

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make it a point to be political ever Uh I'm just not that person I am a person

0:58

who is passionate about health and wellness and so is RFK Jr In fact uh he

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has like you were just saying risked his reputation as a Kennedy that is pretty

1:11

much as close as you come to royalty in America Yeah Uh and he comes from a

1:16

family people forget people forget and they he has been bashed He has been

1:23

criticized He has been attacked This man cares

1:28

about health and wellness for Americans Yeah And um the changes he's making I

1:34

will tell you the things that you hear coming out of RF Kennedy Jr.'s mouth uh

1:40

have all come out of mine at one point Yeah [Music]

1:52

Hello all and welcome to True Hope Cast the podcast where we dive deep into the powerful connection between mental and

1:58

physical health In a world that's both beautiful and wild we're here to bring you motivation inspiration knowledge and

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real solutions for living well body mind and soul I'm your host Simon Brazier and

2:10

today's episode is going to shake up how you think about medicine healing and the root cause of chronic disease We're

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2:29

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2:34

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2:40

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3:19

All right Hello Dr Raj Welcome to True Hope Cast How are you what is going well

3:25

i'm great Thank you for having me I appreciate it Simon Yeah of course It's a pleasure to have you here and we're

3:30

going to be discussing breaking free from the pill for an ill mentality But

3:36

before we jump into that topic would you mind just giving us a little bit of an introduction about who you are and what

3:43

it is that you do please absolutely So uh my name is Dr Raj Gupta Uh I'm a

3:49

chiropractor of 29 years I can't even believe that now uh and uh I've had

3:57

tremendous success in helping people reclaim their lives in all aspects First

4:03

it was muscularkeeletal uh I as a chiropractor treating them with chiropractic services

4:09

but then I built a multi-isiplined practice to include physical therapy occupational therapy

4:16

acupuncture uh IV nutrition drips Uh and then I

4:22

built a spa and a gym to go in the same facility with my uh medical practice So

4:28

uh I built a a wellness center Um and then I built another and then I wrote

4:34

some books on how to build wellness centers and somewhere along the way uh

4:39

about 10 years ago uh I was exposed to from another colleague uh functional

4:45

medicine which is actually getting to the root cause of chronic diseases and

4:50

uh Simon it's like I fell in love with another I never looked back I mean I'll tell you when you're able to getting to

4:57

the pill for an ill society uh when you're able to help people reduce and

5:03

then eliminate medications that was it for me There is nothing there is no better feeling that

5:09

I've ever had and I don't think I ever will Um I I have a passion for it Uh so

5:15

I began helping people reclaim their lives by ident identifying the root

5:21

cause of why they have high blood sugar to begin with So question during that journey when you

5:27

have been you know you've been practicing and working and building wellness centers and doing so much for

5:33

individuals and I guess the community and then you are introduced to functional medicine like who introduced

5:41

that to you and why why did it what you use the word why did you why did you

5:47

fall in love with that and what and how and why had you not maybe heard about that beforehand with through all your

5:53

training and experience Well sure I I still think that um to

5:59

this day nine out of 10 people do not know that type 2 diabetes is reversible

6:05

Uh that's well documented worldwide but uh if you don't know it's probably

6:11

because you it was intended for you not to know Uh there's big money uh in

6:16

keeping people on medications um they are creating

6:22

um lifetime customers the pharmaceutical company Uh so how I found out about this

6:29

is I uh as I grew um uh in my field within my field I became a leader within

6:36

the field and I I had the unbelievable opportunity to speak at chiropractic

6:41

conventions and join uh many of these uh highlevel think tank mastermind groups

6:49

And it was there that I was exposed to some colleagues who had been on Netflix

6:55

um specials um others who have uh been reversing

7:02

chronic diseases not just diabetes but underactive thyroid working with autoimmune diseases uh cognitive decline

7:10

which is actually known as type three diabetes and I was blown away um and I

7:15

started to speak and learn more through my colleagues and then through one of these mastermind groups I met with Dr uh

7:22

Aean Dr Aean is a leader in the functional medicine field who

7:27

specializes in cognitive decline Um my wife who is an occupational

7:35

therapist for 20 years uh after hearing Dr Aean and I at this point had been

7:41

doing functional medicine for a couple of years uh she stood up and and told Dr

7:48

Aean We were in a small group We were so fortunate There's probably about 10 of us uh in this group listening to Dr Aean

7:55

speak and tell his story Uh my wife stood up and said "That's it I'm going

8:00

back to school." She became a nurse The next day she was enrolled uh in to

8:06

become an RN and then an NP and now she's beginning a new

8:11

career in functional medicine as well Well I wonder It's so funny how just

8:17

having those conversations and being opened up to functional medicine as a whole changes people's per perceptions

8:24

and also provides this element of motivation that allows people to

8:30

completely change course in their lives literally over a dinner Like I think that that is amazing and I think that's

8:36

actually quite a frequent thing when people are fortunate enough to have conversations with you know

8:43

really really amazing people who know exactly what they're talking about They've seen thousands and thousands of

8:48

patients They've seen the recovery They've seen the healing and you know it's not and they're primarily not using

8:55

alipathic pharmaceutical medicine and using stuff that's actually quite free and available when it and it comes down

9:00

to I guess like habitual choices and um having having that selfm motivation to

9:06

be able to take yourself on that journey Well you mentioned motivation and um

9:12

mindset uh those that come I can't reverse everyone's diabetes I can't do it I have

9:20

to have a patient who has had the light switch go off And I don't It's a It's

9:26

not a light switch It's a light switch They have something goes off in them

9:32

Simon You see it You feel it It's tangible They're like "That's it." They

9:37

have reached the end point They're like "There's something else I know there is I can't live this way one more second."

9:45

Yeah I've I've got a lot of experience with people who have that epiphany moment Yes And

9:54

they all of a sudden have this very very clear goal And what's very different

9:59

about that because you can have a clear goal on January 1st of losing weight or whatever it might be or to exercise more

10:07

whatever that might be But the difference between what we're talking about here is I think you've got a clear intention a clear goal but it's wrapped

10:14

up in really positive emotions That's not you know it's not it's not negative

10:19

It's not like self-loathing or I'm not worthy I'm not good enough I'm overweight There's a very very different

10:24

frequency in those negative emotions to the emotions of joy grace love happiness

10:31

you know and I think when you've got that clear intention with that emotional set people do amazing things very

10:37

quickly Agreed One thing you touched upon is there is definitely a difference between

10:44

a wish and a goal A wish there are no consequences for not achieving that wish

10:50

There are for goals Um and I will tell you when people get to that uh point

10:58

where they are ready to have that light switch Another thing that you had said

11:03

just said that is super important is that you have a sub we all have a subconscious and the subconscious is

11:11

like a genie in a bottle It is that your wish is its command So like you're

11:17

saying if you are looking at yourself and feeding you yourself thoughts of I'm so fat I'm not enough um I'm not strong

11:26

enough I'm different the genie is just going to be like yes you are So uh you

11:33

have to be very conscientious of your thoughts You have to tame and quiet down

11:39

your subconscious uh which is trying to keep you safe Uh

11:44

but the definition of safe for the subconscious is no change and you know

11:52

uh expecting a different result uh from doing the same thing over and over again

11:57

That's the definition of insanity So you have to convince your subconscious that it's actually uh more dangerous and

12:05

lifethreatening uh to stay where you are than to make that change Yeah Beautifully said Beautifully said And

12:11

I've looked through your website looked through some of your content And you often talk about treating the root not

12:18

the fruit So I wonder if you could maybe unpack what that means and how the pill

12:24

for an ill mindset really misses the mark when it comes to real healing It

12:29

sure does You you are absolutely correct So what happens is there's a reason uh

12:35

that people have the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes You know a smart person will

12:41

say uh well it's because I have high blood sugar and that is true Uh but even

12:46

a smarter person will say I have high blood sugar because I have insulin

12:51

resistance and frankly that is probably as far as alopathic medicine will give

12:57

you a reason Uh the reasons that they give you are totally false Uh there is no gene uh diabetic gene So they always

13:05

say that well it's a family history it's your genetics but there has been no gene in science identified linked to diabetes

13:13

uh cognitive decline yes breast cancer yes other diseases yes but not diabetes

13:19

it's not your pancreas typically if it were your pancreas typically you're a type one diabetic um type two diabetics

13:26

that I meet nine out of 10en of them their pancreas is is doing great

13:32

um so what is It it is Sorry can I just interrupt you for one second should you

13:38

Why do you think that these doctors are spreading this myth or this lie about

13:44

this genetic factor because I bet you that is probably the one of the first things that is being told to patients

13:51

Yeah And not only so two parts of my question why do you think that they're still spreading this mis

13:58

misinformation and two what does that do you do you think in the patient doctor

14:04

relationship when I'm telling you something that's actually not it's not your fault so there's nothing you really

14:10

can do about it like what does that do to the progress oh but hold on a second Simon patients are led to believe it is

14:17

their fault okay the doctor is there to tell you to diet and exercise which are

14:22

definitely two aspects of our lifestyle that contribute to this lifestyle disease but it does not stop there are

14:29

other aspects to our lifestyle that no one does the detective uh work to find

14:35

So why uh the first part of your question uh the misinformation i don't

14:41

believe that the doctors believe it's misinformation This is what they have been taught in medical school Now the

14:47

curriculum in medical school is controlled by the pharmaceutical companies Now that's not a jab Now think

14:55

about this There are so many new medications on the market each year for all these diseases we've never even

15:02

heard of You know they're they're coming out with medications for who is better to teach those medical physicians how to

15:10

apply these medicines than the people who actually created them So the medical

15:17

schools are just an influx of pharmarmacology knowledge from the

15:22

pharmaceutical companies Now unfortunately a medical doctor has one tool on their belt That

15:29

tool is medicine So they are taught to treat the

15:36

uh fruit not the root You come in with a symptom they give you something to

15:43

squaltch that symptom without looking for the reason why you have that symptom Back to diabetes There's other aspects

15:50

of your lifestyle like the 700,000 toxins that Americans come in contact

15:57

with on a daily basis 700,000 Um there's hormonal irregularity

16:02

that is swept under the rug Uh there are more hysterctomies performed uh

16:09

unnecessarily each year uh just due to lack of detective work hormone irregularity You can you can balance out

16:16

your hormones naturally Yeah Uh there are underlying infections that

16:21

go miss There are autoimmune diseases that never get diagnosed Uh there's

16:26

there Simon the amount of GI tract problems It it's just seven So

16:34

Hypocrates uh Hypocrates you may know that name Uh all doctors take the

16:39

hypocratic oath Hypocrates was the father of modern medicine And this guy

16:45

believed that all disease came from the gut And he wasn't far off He wasn't

16:51

correct but he wasn't far off because 70% of all of your uh your your immune

17:00

system cells come from your gut But no one gets a stool test anymore And that's

17:05

what Hypocrates believed in Blood urine and stool If you have a pet maybe your

17:10

pet has been lucky enough to get a stool test but not you as a human

17:17

Yeah it's pretty wild in regards to let's say the simplicity of

17:23

um diagnosis when it comes to the majority of people who go in to see a doctor I think with like chronic issues

17:30

I think that if you were to take a look at the intestinal tract of these individuals look at what they're

17:36

consuming um look at the microbiome of people I mean you can actually it's a

17:41

very very simple cheap thing to do to be actually to be able to do a stool stool test to see kind of like what's going on

17:47

down there And I was luckily enough when I moved to Canada I studied holistic nutrition for four years And we talked

17:54

all about stool and how like informative it can be even though it's not a conversation not everyone wants to have

18:01

but you can learn so much about somebody's health um by what they're

18:06

doing in the bathroom you know whether that's like there you go I love that whether that's whether that's once every

18:12

four or five days or four times every day like you know everyone's kind of got their wild story but it tells a whole

18:19

lot and I yeah I don't think I don't think doctors are really being taught about you know the the impact of the

18:27

microbiome its role in your immune health your its role in your psychological health when it comes to

18:32

depression anxiety etc Absolutely If you're unable to produce the necessary neurotransmitters within your gut that

18:38

you know then you're going to have sleep problems you're going to have digestive problems you're just going to have problems all over the map But if you

18:44

were to just like focus on the gut get that healed up um which is relatively I

18:50

I don't want to say easy to do I think it's the habitual changes which is the challenging piece But again if you've

18:55

got that clear intention wrapped around positivity then these things are um a

19:01

lot easier for people to to to come in to be able to achieve Yes But but it's

19:07

like again like how many doctors are having conversations with their patients about like the the probiotics they may

19:13

be consuming or like their their their toilet habits you know i I can't imagine

19:18

that it's as common as it needs to be Yes It's funny I just did a session in

19:25

my most recent master class the other day on GI tract problems leaky gut and

19:30

the explanation of what that is Um and I was explaining that when I'm going

19:35

through an intake form um people who have problems with their GI tract they really want help will write it down like

19:42

I'm having problems others don't But I'm looking at their blood work and I'm like everything's pointing to GI tract

19:49

problems and I have to ask and I do that serotifically because I'm wor they you

19:56

know that they are going to be a little bit embarrassed they didn't put it on their paperwork But uh it's a difficult

20:02

conversation Yeah it sure is It sure can be I guess when you're if you're able to get a um

20:08

have a practitioner that you're working with that can kind of create the therapeutic alliance where you can be

20:15

open to having those conversations and asking those questions in the right way It can be it can be very very um

20:21

relieving if you don't mind the pun You know what most of their physicians

20:27

will not broach the the question No because I think it probably ends up

20:32

being a 25 minute conversation and they've probably got what eight minutes seven minutes in a conversation That's

20:37

exactly right On average eight minutes is the visit Yeah And that's a long conversation after you get over the

20:43

awkwardness of it all But yes Yeah It's but I I just want to say there's some amazing practitioners whether that's a

20:49

nutritionist even you know even there's some really amazing functional chiropractors out there that can have those conversations because there's

20:55

obviously a lot of connection with um with with with with the bones with

21:00

the spine with the body with alignment all connecting up with uh with everything we're kind of talking about

21:06

here and I'd love natural for chiropractors to get into functional medicine as a chiropractor I was taught

21:14

also to get to the root Because also you know there's a reason why someone's

21:19

getting headaches on a regular basis and it's certainly not due to a lack of Tylenol in their body Um you got to find

21:27

out why It's typically coming from their neck And there's other aches and pains that uh pain relievers or NSAIDs That's

21:34

not the answer It's the same thing as taking diabetic meds to cover up your diabetes So it's a natural transition

21:41

Yeah I found out how to help people with chronic disease and I took it to another level I was that's what that's where the

21:48

passion is It was always there I'd love to ask you something a little bit off

21:53

topic in regards to like the history of um chiropractic because I think um when

21:58

you look back when when you when somebody takes a deep dive into kind of um let's just say big farmer's role

22:05

within um medicine creating alipathic medicine and

22:10

their roles in like universities and schools etc Not many of the let's call them I want to call them traditional

22:16

modalities survived but chiropractic was certainly one of them that kind of survived the let's just say this this on

22:23

onslaught of alipathic medicine we we lost um a lot of homeopathic medicine we

22:30

lost a lot of um phytotherapy so like you know obviously just like using plants which you know would have been used for hundreds of thousands of years

22:37

as as medicine and the majority of drugs we have today are you know derived from natural compounds So I'd love to just

22:44

know like what's the why do you think chiropractic survived oh it's the spine

22:49

and there is a pun as well of every chiropractor that we are we are like

22:55

cockroaches We are it is just it's in our blood to fight for people's health

23:01

and wellness Uh and we have we've been fighting since conception No kidding Uh

23:07

my predecessors went to jail for practicing chiropractic in many states

23:12

Yeah And it wasn't so long ago Um you know I remember it's changed a lot It

23:18

has there's been a lot more acceptance of chiropractors in my career uh from beginning to to current time Uh when I

23:26

had first graduated I almost had to uh defend myself and defend chiropractic I

23:32

felt uh now people get what we do Uh there's even less people I mean for for

23:40

a lot of people to hear that I as a chiropractor are helping people reverse

23:45

their diabetes that's a bit of a stretch for some but for others they're like that makes sense Uh though you know I

23:53

think it's one in every um 27 people see a chiropractor and I'm hoping that that

24:00

changes We're primary healthcare doctors Uh and we're going to look for natural solutions prior to having to to resort

24:07

to to alipathic medicine Um yeah I think the more options people are able to have

24:14

and you know not not obviously obviously not everything is accessible when it comes like to like finances and even

24:21

just if you live in like you know rural areas there aren't you might not have a holistic nutritionist or an acupuncturist or a TCM practitioner So

24:30

right there I I think especially living in British Columbia like there's a there's a lot of these practitioners

24:35

around and they are they are accessible and you know some some of them do like uh uh like community pricing which is

24:44

which is just amazing But um yeah it can be it it can be tricky And I think if I

24:49

was if I was in the role of trying to make as much money as I possibly can as a far in

24:56

the pharmaceutical industry eliminating the competition would would No that

25:01

that's business That's business 101 Oh Yeah Yeah And I'd love to talk I'd love to talk a

25:07

little bit about prescriptions and individual health So like in a system that often reaches for prescriptions

25:12

first within alipathic medicine how can patients advocate for themselves and

25:18

shift towards more of a proactive lifestylebased approach to their health

25:24

i think that there's a there's a trend um um in that direction I think after co a

25:33

lot of people took a look at their health from the outside in um

25:40

and there are those who were pro- vaccine there were those that were

25:45

antivaccine but no matter which side you were on you were forced to really kind

25:51

of look at things Um and I think people these days understand that uh if you

25:59

depend on your health insurance to keep you healthy Um I mean that's that's

26:05

really silly It should be called sick insurance Really you only use it when you get sick Um and frankly depending on

26:12

your health insurance to keep you healthy it's like depending on your life insurance to keep you alive Yeah Um it's

26:20

not there You must get proactive I think that people are starting to realize that

26:25

they're starting to take and reclaim their health and get into the dry receipts where in the past they would uh

26:32

put entirely all of their trust into their physicians almost like clergy

26:39

But I think that there is more of um I see it with diabetic patients They trust

26:45

their doctor and they say "Oh my goodness I have this disease Well I will just do what my doctor says to do and

26:51

quote unquote I will get better Uh and they keep that hope until they lose hope

26:57

because they go from one med to another med and they start to lose faith in their physicians because they're getting

27:04

worse and they're just increasing the number of meds Um and I think that

27:10

people think that the medication that they take for the diabetes is actually helping them It's not It kind of manages

27:18

and controls That's what the doctor's trying to do until the the disease below

27:23

the surface actually gets worse Then you require more medication It's kicking the can down the road And people will kick

27:30

the can down the road a certain amount or distance before they're like "Wait a second this isn't

27:39

working." Uh so then they begin open become more open-minded and looking for

27:45

alternatives But unfortunately Simon it's it's diabetes is a slow role and it it's the it it's a

27:53

slow killer It's effective at killing people because it's so slow Um so

27:59

unfortunately and 67% of diabetics will die of a heart attack or stroke

28:07

Yeah it's really sad Adam we we me we mentioned it at the top of the show that there's there's an industry that is

28:12

heavily profiting on people being insulin resistant and if people were to

28:18

become healthy and and were to reduce those numbers to 5% of the American population had insulin resistance that's

28:25

probably I know 40 50 billion a year that a company is not making which at

28:31

the end of the day like when you're looking talking about a corporation a body it's not a human person making that

28:36

decision they're making the best interest as they can for their shareholders their stakeholders to make money It's a really sad state of affairs

28:43

but it's just it's it's it's the reality that is that we've created It is broken

28:48

It is a broken health care system Uh it is affecting uh Americans We are 37th in

28:56

world health It's you know who's 36 costa Rica

29:02

And they are a third world country Yeah It's it's funny but not um it's it's a

29:09

pill for an ill society and it it makes money on keeping people sick So the

29:16

biggest thing that gets my goat Simon this is what really this is what where I'm hoping for change

29:23

Um health insurance pays for all those medications They pay for amputation The

29:29

number one reason for amputation blindness kidney replacement and

29:34

dialysis is type two diabetes All of which are covered by insurance But

29:41

teaching you a healthy lifestyle doing the detective work to find out what the

29:46

true cause is and then providing supplementation none of it's covered No

29:52

So it's difficult Yeah That's a bit of a disaster really Yeah Yes

29:58

I'd love to talk to you about um micronutrients and supplementation Um

30:04

two of our products here at True Hope Canada So our flagship product is a is a broadspectctrum micronutrient formula

30:09

It's 36 ingredients It's actually the most studied micronutrient formula on the planet And what we have found when

30:17

it comes to diabetes that is people who are let's just say overweight have type

30:24

two diabetes A lot of these individuals are sleeping badly They've got very low

30:29

energy levels and they're depressed They're anxious and they have they have mental health problems And they find our

30:34

product they find Empower Plus which is you know predominantly been studied for such things as depression anxiety

30:40

bipolar disorder schizophrenia very serious psychological disorders And they take this product not for their insulin

30:47

insulin resistance or their weight issues but they take it to try and help them deal with their sure mental health

30:53

problems and they take this product and because it's formulated in such a way it's chelated for four days The industry

31:00

standard is four hours So our our minerals are getting into people's brains and renutrifying them and very

31:07

quickly they start to feel significantly better and then they're interested to take look at what other products we have

31:14

We have five other products but one that we often get them on is is inorositol or myioinorositol which obviously has a

31:20

significant amount of research for increasing insulin sensitivity and getting a hold of you know controlling

31:27

glucose And then when they to combine the two products together like they start to they start to lose weight They

31:33

actually start to reduce the cravings that they have for certain foods because their brain is being fed in a in a let's just say positive way because of the

31:39

micronutrients that they're being taken And it's just remarkable to see that in a very short period of time people's

31:45

psychology begins to change and their their their mindset around what they're eating and how they're eating it

31:52

reverses in quite a miraculous way And I just wanted to get your your opinions your experience in regards to maybe some

31:59

of the more overlooked um micro and even macronutrients I guess And um yeah what

32:05

do you think about that yes for sure We uh provide uh micronutrients for our

32:12

patients for sure In addition to uh finding the root cause and eliminating

32:18

the insult uh we nurture uh people's organs with nutrients

32:25

Uh so yes I I it's a crucial part but I think there's several parts micro uh

32:31

nutrients uh and and and macronutrients vitamins and minerals are

32:38

very important You need to supplement your diet We don't get it from the food any longer Yeah Uh our food has been

32:44

stripped of all vitamins and nutrients um over the years So we do need to supplement our diet no matter who we are

32:50

But supplementation I don't believe is enough Uh we also uh so it will

32:56

certainly help Yeah Uh and I your micronutrients sounds uh that your

33:02

formula sounds fantastic and I I suspect it addresses uh some gut imbalances uh

33:11

because it's helping with mental health um and when you're talking about it

33:16

affecting glucose um and insulin receptors of course So

33:21

that's going to help your body uh work again Uh but the reason why it stopped

33:28

working is due to and created insulin resistance is because I you know I liken

33:33

the mitochondria the powerhouse cell of the body that creates it takes the food

33:39

we eat and the energy the air we breathe and it mashes it together and converts that into energy for us ATP So I think

33:48

that the mitochondria is a stud Uh but it only likes one type of fuel Um and if

33:55

it's the wrong fuel like toxins or hormone irregularity or infections trying to get into the mitochondria

34:01

that's when it puts up walls of resistance to allowing those cells into

34:06

its cell the mitochondria So identification of what aspects of your lifestyle what is the

34:14

bad fuel is important And equally as important to nurturing the organs back

34:20

to health is finding the problem that was hurting and beating up the organs to begin with Uh high insulin is one of the

34:29

the biggest things that choke out the kidneys So you can give uh supplements

34:35

to nurture the kidneys We do it all the time You can reverse chronic kidney disease Um but if the insult to the

34:41

kidneys is still there being insulin until you eliminate the insulin resistance

34:48

um then the kidneys are always going to be at at risk Uh and then doing the testing to find out what the insult is

34:56

and then removing that Um that's when we are able to see the micronutrients

35:02

actually be more effective Yeah really well said Yeah I think

35:09

that the fact that yeah our soil is just so poor and the way that we are you know

35:16

monocropping across the let's just say across the western world producing nutrient deficient food and glyphosate

35:24

Oh my adding toxins to them Yeah So the fact that we're consuming like nutrient

35:30

poor foods plus we're being exposed to what did you say 700,000 different toxins every single day like that

35:36

overload and you know the the liver that's supposed to detoxify and get eliminate these things that are inside

35:42

of our body they run primarily on micronutrients that we are supposed to

35:47

get from our food are unable to do that so if we're not taking good quality

35:52

supplements as you said I think everybody will benefit from taking I used to think when I Before I started

35:59

studying nutrition I generally thought I could just eat really well avoid all the

36:05

naughty things and I'd be absolutely fine But when you start looking into the fact that our soil is what it is and our

36:11

gut is being um it's being changed all of the time and whether from the water

36:18

that we're drinking the air that we are um exposing ourselves to it's this ever fluctuating beautiful organism Then you

36:26

have to recognize that there's so much external stress coming in You might not be feeling it but your body is having to

36:33

constantly ramp itself up into full motion to be able to do it And if it doesn't have the necessary co-actors

36:41

co-enzymes all those tiny little ingredients as building blocks that it needs to be able to produce these

36:48

biochemicals to eliminate these things and you know make and and make you feel great then you you're always going to be

36:55

in a state of lack You're always going to struggle and you will end up in a doctor's office and you'll probably get

37:00

on a prescription for something else which will end up depleting you even further And it just turns into this like

37:06

vicious cycle But yeah like the foundational piece for sure for me is like we are consuming nutrient poor

37:12

foods therefore we're chronically nutrient deficient in kind of all areas and we're being exposed at an

37:18

unprecedented level Therefore we really have to take our health seriously

37:25

Very well said The days of leaving your health to your doctor have been long

37:31

gone Long gone It's It's almost like buyer beware when you go to the

37:36

physician And I hear my patients tell me that they're fighting with their doctors all the time No doc I don't want another

37:43

med I don't want this medication I want to get off of my meds and they kind

37:50

of are um very condescending in the way that they say it's okay it's okay just be a

37:58

good patient take your medication go home diet and exercise And then you have

38:03

those patients that uh have they've lost like a 100 pounds and their A1C climbs

38:09

and they're like what is going on um and uh you know so you don't and this

38:16

is the big this is another myth people think that they gain weight and that

38:21

causes insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes but it's actually the exact opposite You get insulin resistance

38:29

first that causes you to gain weight I don't have it up right now but uh I have

38:34

a picture of myself 28 years ago 80 pounds heavier Yeah Um I was a size 36

38:43

or 38 waist Um I'm now a 33 Uh I I lost

38:49

80 pounds I put se I put 10 pounds back on in muscle Uh and there was a point

38:56

where I had not I I never went to the gym In fact I didn't like people named

39:02

gym but I I I had the life switch go off I did a

39:08

detox on a dare One of my colleagues said and I I went I wanted to prove that

39:15

they did not work And in a 10day detox I lost 19 pounds

39:21

So I explained to people that it wasn't uh me fat that made me

39:29

toxic It was the toxins that made me fat So when I got the toxins out guess

39:35

what went with it so um people got it all wrong They've

39:42

been led to believe that it's their fault They give up They They hate going to the doctor Simon So many patients of

39:48

mine tell me that they dread going They sit in their car and they cry It's awful

39:54

It's awful Yeah And I I I try to have sympathy for this these the doctors

40:00

because they're they're obviously trapped within a dogma within you know an ideology in which they've sacrificed

40:07

a lot of their time and their entire lives They don't want it to be wrong No And then you see like you see people who

40:15

do break out of that system and do let's say they whistleblow and they take an

40:20

alternative route and I have these conversations with people about you know who are kind of on the other fence of

40:26

COVID who um who don't think these individuals are credible but I'm like

40:32

the these are the people that are standing up They're saying what they truly believe after lots of experience

40:37

and they've got absolutely nothing to to gain from it In fact they lose their reputations They some they lose their

40:43

medical practice in some cases and they are you know they don't have any money

40:49

but they're still like they're they're being true to their hypocratic oath and they can't like kind of live in that

40:56

ideology which is not putting patient and health first And it's yeah it can be

41:03

it can be a challenging challenging thing to navigate around because yeah we've abs we've been kind of programmed

41:08

and taught from a young age when you play doctors and nurses when you're four or five years old that that's where you

41:14

go when you're sick and there's no other kind of alternative It's it's it's deeply deeply ingrained But I don't know

41:20

I I feel maybe there's a little shift happening I think so I feel it as well Yes People are fed up Yeah They're sick

41:30

and tired of being sick and tired And I know that sounds so cliche but it is true Super accurate though Super

41:36

accurate Um and I know you're in the States You're in New York So I've got to ask you about your opinions in regards

41:42

to um Robert F Kennedy Jr.'s um you know his introduction into the government and

41:50

how you know two years ago this guy was deplatformed He was a he was a quack you couldn't you know he and now he's like

41:57

at the highest official in American health Like it's an it's a it's a it's a

42:02

unbelievable story but looking forward looking to the future looking for solutions because we just want people to

42:08

be healthier and happier and you know and live wonderful lives and and pass it

42:14

on to their kids you know that's what we want But how do you see what's your um

42:19

do you see alignment in like what he's doing and his administration never been more aligned with a human being in my

42:25

entire life I I will tell you this uh and I don't

42:30

make it a point to be political ever Uh I'm just not that person I am a person

42:36

who is passionate about health and wellness and so is RFK Jr In fact uh he

42:42

has like you were just saying risked his reputation as a Kennedy That is pretty

42:49

much as close as you come to royalty in America Yeah Uh and he comes from a

42:55

family people forget People forget and they he has been bashed He has been

43:01

criticized He has been attacked This man cares about health and wellness for Americans

43:09

Yeah And um the changes he's making I will tell you the things that you hear

43:14

coming out of RF Kenny Jr.'s 's mouth uh had all come out of mine at one point

43:21

Yeah Yeah I think that um for a lot of people hearing him talk about anything

43:26

is relatively new Maybe even the last year probably 99% of people have been hearing about him But if you've been

43:32

tracking him for let's say five plus years Yes Um I I think we're so lucky

43:38

with with like p long form conversation podcasts where you're able to actually listen to an individual hold themselves

43:45

and converse and be challenged and in like a three-hour setting in like a Joe

43:50

Rogan interview for example I feel like most people are able to recognize

43:56

whether that person is full of BS or not whether they're authentic or not And when you watch enough of that content

44:03

and take that in I feel like you you end up aligning a lot with what those

44:09

individuals are saying just because you feel that they're being truthful and they're being authentic They're being open to their own mistakes They're open

44:16

to changing their mind And I feel blessed that he's out there doing doing

44:21

his thing I think just as a young parent and he wants to put kids health like

44:28

first before anything absolutely smashing up the conventional dogma

44:34

around the toxins that are put into food The you know it's no joke He's no joke

44:41

There's nothing about him that is disingenuous Zero Yeah I'm excited to

44:46

see what happens Like it's a wonderful time to be alive That's for sure Um so we're just kind of like watching the space I'm truly hoping that a lot of it

44:54

a lot of that trickles over into Canada because there's some wild things happening here especially when it comes

45:00

to the natural health industry Basically short version is Health Canada and the the Liberal government are doing their

45:06

very very best to um put natural health products in the same category as

45:11

pharmaceuticals and have them go through the same red tape to be accessible which

45:18

is going to basically destroy the natural health industry There's a organization an amazing one called the Natural Health Products Protection

45:24

Association the NHPPA and they're doing everything that they possibly can to basically reclassify natural health

45:30

products to be in a completely different category like they are in the US where they're basic they're basically a food

45:37

They go under the food they go under a food act Um so therefore they've got a lot more protection and it's the FDA's

45:42

job to prove that something is is dangerous and and not effective rather than the other way around here like it's

45:50

so difficult to get a good quality product onto the market And supplement companies aren't billiondollar

45:56

organizations but they're going to be um expected to do the same thing as FISA

46:02

and J&J and all these other companies So it's really quite a um wild time up here

46:08

but I'm really hoping that um what Robert Kennedy Jr is perhaps doing will hopefully trickle over I know that

46:14

Canadians hate to take any type of advice from America Uh but that's just a lot of nonsense We

46:21

all have to get over Oh we just got to look to the f Just look to the future and stop looking back to the past and

46:26

having your present being completely predicted by past events There's just no way to live your life So no way I'm

46:32

hoping to see positive change from that But again like we're just all in the audience watching the theater watching

46:38

the show See what happens That's it That's it Um well Dr Josh thank you so

46:44

much for coming to onto the show I feel like there's plenty of other areas in which we can jump into on future

46:49

episodes if you're open to coming back on but um I really appreciate your time

46:54

today Can you just let people know where is the best place that they can learn more about you and what you do sure Yes

47:01

Well the first and foremost best place to find me is I have an active living

47:07

breathing Facebook group Uh it's a community of oh my goodness I'm so proud

47:13

of the people in this community We've got over 20,000 members Uh and it's

47:18

called Real Health Roots So you would just go to your groups tab on your

47:24

Facebook uh homepage and then do a search for Real Health Roots and you

47:29

will see my mug pop up uh in there Uh it's great man I I I I can't stop

47:36

smiling It's just a great warm feeling of people uh all looking to help one

47:43

another get across the finish line and reversing their type 2 diabetes There are uh tips tricks recipes uh

47:50

testimonials from people Um you know I'm going to read off a testimonial today

47:55

later when I go live from one of my patients We we call it ring the bell When the patient goes to see their

48:03

physician and the physician's eyes bug out of their head and their jaw falls to

48:08

the ground and they say "What are you doing?" Um and when the doctor says "I

48:14

don't know what you're doing Just keep doing it." We ring a bell We ring a bell in the community So magic magic It's

48:22

called It's called Real Health Roots You can also go to our website uh of the same name

48:31

www.realhealthroots.com Um I want to thank you for the opportunity I think we're cut from the same cloth you and I

48:37

son I completely agree Yeah absolutely And I I'll make sure that there's a link

48:42

to the website and a direct link to the Facebook group so people can find that uh nice and easy And uh yeah I love that

48:49

community piece I think that if people to just put a little bit of community and nature into their lives um things

48:56

will change for them very very quickly So that community piece on the healing journey is probably the most important

49:02

thing because going into anything that is significantly difficult it it's scary

49:07

to do it alone but when you've got other people going through it with you it's a lot a lot easier And um yeah there's a

49:14

lot of people out there going through similar things and who have come out the other side and you can certainly be a part of that story Absolutely Thanks

49:20

again beautiful Thank you again Dr Raj for joining us today Um that is it for

49:26

this episode of True Hope Cast the official podcast with True Hope Canada Again if you need any more information about connecting with Dr Raj you can go

49:33

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