
Guest Episode
December 31, 2021
Episode 52:
2022, Our Youth & Trauma with David Stephan
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David Stephan is Vice President of Operations of Truehope Canada. In today's episode, David and I will talk about 2021, our youth and their mental health, trauma, and what we can look forward to from Truehope in the future.
Greetings.
Hello, good day. Welcome to True Hope Cast,
the official podcast of True Hope Canada.
If you are unfamiliar with us, true Hope Canada is a mind
and body based supplement company that is dedicated first
and foremost to the promotion of Brain
and Body Health through noninvasive nutritional means.
And for more information about us and our products
and what we do, you can visit true hope canada.com.
This is our 52nd episode of 2021.
And let me tell you, it is not easy to, uh,
start a podcast up and keep the content relative
and interesting
and getting good guests on,
which I really think we've done such a great
job here at True Hope Cast.
So I just wanna say that
to everyone who's involved in the podcast.
What a great achievement for 22, 21 52 episodes.
And I thought it would be incredibly appropriate
to bring back onto the show, uh, vice President
of Operations of True Hope Canada, Mr. David Stephan.
And it's been a really wild year for True Hope Canada
and probably everybody on the planet in,
in one way or another.
So, in today's episodes, with with David,
I really wanna talk about 2021,
looking back over the past 12 months
and discussing our youth, the state of their mental health,
bringing that into trauma as well.
And then also what we can look forward to, um,
in the next 12 months from True Hope
Canada within the future.
So, without further ado, David, welcome to the show again.
How are you?
I'm, I'm doing very well.
Thank you, Simon, for, for having me on again.
And, and thank you for all that you're doing
and being able to share, uh, the message of, of
what we're doing and, and bringing hope to people that,
uh, are without hope.
So thank you for what you're doing.
No, of course. It's a true honor.
One of the true honors of my life is to be able to work
with True Hope and, and spread this very,
very important messages.
So thank you.
So, um, just to kick things off,
I think most people listening are familiar with, with
who you are, what you do in the company,
but there's definitely gonna be people listening
for the first time, people who are not so familiar.
So can you just give us a little brief intro of like,
you know, who you are and what you do?
Absolutely. Yeah. So I was born into a family that, uh,
was played with mental illness and,
and, uh, you know, many people know the Ope story.
It was, uh, showcased in a 2002 Discovery Health, uh,
documentary that was aired in 50 countries.
Uh, so, you know, the word really got out there back in the
early two thousands to mid two thousands.
There was a lot of controversy with government, uh,
regulatory, uh, bodies
and all that to,
to keep our products flowing to those that needed them.
And so we made the news, uh, a lot from Boat 2001
to about 2011, uh, over that,
that decade we were in the news, uh,
for a significant amount of that time.
Um, and so I was born into the family, uh,
where this solution, uh, came about to really restore, uh,
the mental health of our own family, to make sure
that we were, that we were all well, that we were able
to function, that we were able to do what we wanted
to do in life, pursue our dreams, rather than being plagued
by the despair and hopelessness of depression
and, um, the symptoms of bipolar and mania
and all that, that, that came with it.
And so, unfortunately, that came, uh, about due
to multiple suicides, uh, in our family, uh,
including my grandfather
and, uh, my mother, uh, when I was at the age of 10,
moving forward from that.
'cause that's a whole, that's a long story.
And if anybody wants to find, uh, the details on that story,
they can do so, uh, in multiple documentaries, uh,
that, that they'll find online.
Um, impossible Cures being one of them.
From Discovery Health, uh,
letter letters from Generation rx, which is a follow up to,
uh, generation Rx,
that was a big hit back in the late two thousands, uh,
showcasing how the pharmaceutical medications
that were being given to, um, this young generation, uh,
the disastrous effects of them
and how they were being approved, uh,
in really a reckless way.
So if people want the details on the
story, they can definitely find it.
Uh, I won't rehash that today
'cause that would chew up the entire, uh, podcast.
Uh, but, uh, today I head up the retail division for Canada,
where we take our supplements,
our life-changing supplements, um,
that have been very controversial, that, uh, uh,
there's been interest to shut them down
because they're extremely competitive against, uh,
pharmaceuticals, uh, in relation to psychiatric medications.
Uh, so we take these products
that are now fully licensed in Canada,
and we supply 'em to the health food stores, uh,
naturopathic doctors, uh, alternative practitioners outside
of the pharmaceutical realm.
And we train them, uh, we give 'em the appropriate training
as to what they would expect by using, uh,
these powerful nutrients that, uh,
that are processed in such a way that they, they,
they provide profound effects in the body, um, comparatively
to many other nutrients that may look very similar.
And so we, we educate them or reeducate them
because they're not receiving this education in school
because it just, you know, the, the powerful nature
of minerals has been overlooked
because of the improper form that they've been supplied in
for so many years where they haven't
provided the therapeutic effects.
So we train up doctors on what, uh, naturopathic doctors
and all that on what they exp
what they should expect from a proper, uh,
properly formulated mineral supplement.
And, um, and so I've been heading up that division, uh, now
for, uh, since 2012.
Um, spent a lot
of time on the road meeting tremendous people, making a lot
of connections, uh, traveling across Canada,
presenting at many of the health shows, uh, over the years,
and just having a real good time, uh, being able to, uh,
you know, communicate with people that, that were in need
of help, and then to show up a year or two later,
and they, they show up at the same health show at a
presentation and, and they share, uh,
how their life has been radically transformed.
So that's what I've been doing,
and it's been extremely rewarding over the last decade.
Amazing. Yeah, the, um, just the family of natural health.
The natural health community, especially when you go
to these shows, like, let's say 90% of it,
amazing individuals who, most
of them have a story in regards to where kind
of conventional medicine has not really served them in the
best kind of type of way.
And their life has been changed by, by some
or some other product or therapy or combination.
And you just get this really authentic, genuine
conversation, exposure, energy when you go to these events.
And it's incredibly, it's electrifying
and it's, it's, it's addictive
because it's just, it's just pure joy, gratitude, and,
and happiness coming from these individuals.
And it's, um, a really wonderful, um, environment to be in.
So, yes, it's unfortunate the last couple
of years we've not been able to get together as a,
as a community and be able to share our products,
share our stories, you know, get some of our key players in,
in true hope around the country, really, really sharing
not just the stories, but the hard science
behind our products, which is, you know, so profound,
so unique to a supplement company.
And it's so important that a lot of people
who are just in the dark when it comes to an alternative,
they, they stay there when we're
unable to make these connections.
So everybody at True Hope in regards to
what they're doing every day is just,
it's just a remarkable feat.
And, you know, we have our Monday morning meetings
and it's just an absolute energetic breath of fresh air
to just even be part of the company.
So it's, um, yeah, it's, it's, it's wonderful.
So can you tell us a little bit about
2021 from your perspective, when it goes to, when it comes
to Cher Canada now,
what have you really experienced over
the, over the last 12 months?
Yeah. You know, if, if we were speaking solely on a,
on a business perspective, which we, we very,
we put very little focus on,
because when we take care of the people,
the people take care of us, right?
And it's not simple. So all we need
to do is focus on the mission of blessing people's lives,
lives, and, uh, it comes full circle as long
as we're doing it in a wise way that, uh,
makes it viable moving forward.
But if we look at it from a business perspective, um,
here's really what we've seen, uh, over the last year, um,
business has been good, which in a sense
is bad.
And here's why. Sorry, one second, I'm just gonna, okay.
The reason why it's bad is that it shows
that there's something going on in the marketplace.
There's something going on in, in the population
that is causing an increased demand
for natural health supplements that are there to correct,
uh, significant mental health conditions.
And so what it's identifying is that the trauma
that people are experiencing, the issues that are going on,
the job losses and all that type of stuff, uh,
the isolation from friends
and family, um, the lack of social connectivity is
that it's having a significantly negative impact on people,
um, which is not a good thing.
Uh, I'm just glad that we're in a place
where we can actually provide solutions
that will help them get through these, that will, um,
increase their resiliency to stress and,
and give them clarity of mind through all of this,
and just support their, their overall mental wellbeing
that they don't find themselves in,
in the depths of despair.
That's a, that's a beautiful thing to be a part of,
but it's really actually kind of heartbreaking to see, uh,
that there's been, uh, an increase in business largely due
to, um, the environmental factors, uh, within, within
the populace within Canada.
And we're seeing the same thing in the us, um,
where people are being plagued with, uh, with these issues.
Um, so 2021, uh, was good in the sense
of we were still able to, uh, navigate through the process.
Uh, even though there's major restrictions to us being able
to get out into the marketplace, uh,
there's been major restrictions in people being able to get,
uh, get out to health food stores and even purchase product.
A lot of, uh, the activity has become online.
And so we've been very limited in our ability, um,
to be able to get out in front of people
and to educate them that there is a solution
that will make them not only, uh, mentally well,
but physically well, that their overall health will
increase, that the side effects are actually good rather
than, uh, being negative side effects.
And so it's been, we've had to really shift gears.
Uh, you've been a big part of that in, in relation
to the fact that we've had
to really take our activities more online, um, than, uh,
you know, through printed materials or anything like that,
because, um, a lot of that, uh, you know,
the marketplace is just significantly different than it was,
uh, a year and a half ago or two years ago.
And so it was still a good year.
It was better than, than the year before.
Um, we're still moving forward,
which is a, a beautiful thing.
Um, it's been a bit tough.
There's been, um, one of our biggest hurdles
has been in relation to sourcing of ingredients, getting all
of our raw ingredients that we can then take
and process, um, to, to make 'em extremely bioavailable.
Uh, we've had limited access.
And then also, uh, the unfortunate thing is, is that we had
to do a, a price increase recently in relation to the fact
that, um, a lot
of the source ingredients are, are going up in price.
So we've, we've done our best to try to get our hands on,
um, uh, these products, uh, and,
and we're moving forward with that,
that we aren't susceptible to, uh,
the ma major fluctuations in price and all that.
So it's been a very interesting year navigating through.
But overall, um, the numbers indicate
that we're helping more people than we were in 2020 or 2019.
So it's, it's a good thing.
Yeah, it's very interesting in regards to how, you know,
if True Hope Canada is getting busier with sales
and manufacturing and production, all of this,
it obviously means in the market somewhere
there's more people flooding it, whether that's
because of more people are becoming aware
of our product, which is amazing.
And all the fact that, you know,
people are getting their mental health is, is declining.
And we can see statistics
and studies all over the world that, that, that will confirm
that the fact that, you know, we've been isolated
and separated from one another.
And, you know, it's, it's very, very difficult on,
on anybody to be able to, you know, sustained positivity,
whether that's, you know, psychologically
or biologically, that's, that's not super,
super easy thing to do.
And then you've got the fact that so many people are unable
to get to see a doctor to get a diagnosis,
to get their mental health checked out,
even at a conventional level that's pushing other people to,
you know, maybe go to a, a natural, natural food store
or to go and look online for something alternative.
You know, I'm just so blessed that we're actually able
to be there for these individuals who are looking,
who are seeking for the answer
to some very, very serious questions.
And yeah, the timing of, you know, our, like,
new website throughout the year
and the, the way we've been able to work with, you know,
search engine optimization to be able to, we can see
what kind of questions people are asking for,
because when it comes to mental health,
you know, I am depressed.
Um, natural health and depression, natural health
and anxiety, it's so important that
the right people like Trout Canada
are there on a search engine
because people are online, they're looking for the answers
to their questions on their phone, on their computer,
rather than being able to like,
go out there and, and talk to different people.
And it is such an honor
and a blessing to be actually be there for those people.
And every time I, we do a video or do a post
or do a podcast, I really see the value in it,
in being somewhere that somebody can go to, to recognize
that they're not alone and recognize
that there are solutions out there.
And you, you know, we are accessible.
You people are not alone.
And, you know, we,
the best thing we can do is bring people together and,
and offer that type of, you know, natural health solution
and have like a micronutrient support team
that can talk people through their own phar pharmaceuticals
they're already on and how to, how to dose them correctly.
You know, it's such a wonderful thing that we're able to
support people when it's seemingly for a lot of, a lot
of them, they're in their darkest hour.
Yeah, a hundred percent. And, you know, that,
that's something that many people don't realize
that we have, um, is that we're not just, uh,
like a normal supplement company who's just taken the
products to the market to put onto health food store shelves
or into the hands of naturopaths or, or anything like that,
but that we actually follow through with,
with helping these people that may be on psychiatric
medications and that they're addicted to these medications,
uh, whether they know it or not.
Uh, the medications are extremely addictive.
And as such, or over the last, it's been over 25 years now,
um, wherein we've actually developed a support protocol
or a support program, uh, with staff on hand, uh,
to help people come off of these various medications
as safely and effectively as possible.
Uh, we've really pioneered the way there in relation
to helping people come off these medications
and worked literally with hundreds of thousands
of people now, um, over the last two decades, two
and a half decades, and helping them come off these,
these psychiatric medications.
And so, um, uh, yeah, that's something
that people don't really realize that we have,
that we supply that as well, uh, for a very small fee,
um, on top of the cost of the product, um, just basically,
uh, to try to cover some of the costs of, of supplying that,
uh, that support program and, um,
and that we're really the leaders, uh, out there in,
in helping people come off, uh, psychiatric medications.
And the reason why I say that is we've worked with, uh,
over the last two and a half decades, uh, many, uh,
of the top names in psychiatry, uh, in the us, um,
like Dr. Charles Popper out of Harvard University, who's,
who's quite a renowned, um, psychiatrist
and psychopharmacology.
And he was actually the one that was responsible
for bringing lithium into North America for the treatment
of child adolescent, uh, bipolar, uh, he also started up a,
a medical journal that he, uh, ran for quite some time,
but also, uh, worked out of Harvard, um, for many years.
Uh, I believe he still does today.
But anyways, so we've worked with a number of these,
these psychiatrists over the years,
and we had to actually train them on how
to take their own clientele off of medications
because they weren't learning it in school.
And so, uh, through a lot
of hard experience over the years,
and, uh, taking a very scientific approach to it,
having a database where we're able
to track people's symptoms
and, uh, be able to identify patterns in hundreds
or thousands of people over the years
and figure out, uh, how people respond
to various medications, different supplements they can take
to help, uh, reduce, um,
the withdrawal effect and all that.
Um, we've, we've become basically the teachers in psychiatry
for how to come off psychiatric medications.
And so a lot of people don't understand that we have that,
that available to them to assist them.
Again, another miracle that we're actually here, there
to be able to, to fill this huge void in regards
to conventional teachings of medicine where, you know,
obviously incredibly valuable, everything's got its place,
but if a, a, a psychiatrist
or a doctor is, is trained to diagnose
and then treat with a, a pharmaceutical,
especially when we're talking about like,
something like bipolar, where it's kind of like a,
a mix and match a cocktail.
It's kind of like you, you try,
you try lithium probably first
and then these other things that you would try.
And then finding the right dose
and the right drug is not really, I can't understand
that there's actually a teaching process in regards to,
okay, you've, you, you found the right blend, now we need
to figure out a way to, you know, what else can we do
to bring you off these?
But it's almost like, let's find the right set of drugs
for you and then maintain that forever.
And then there's, there's, there's not really a, a, uh,
a post game, post-diagnosis operation out there.
It's just, it's, it's very,
it's not really something I've actually really thought about
too much, but that seems a huge hole missing
and something that should be really,
really spoken about in regards to, you know,
how doctors are trained to diagnose, give drugs,
and then that's it.
Like, these, these people will stay on these things forever.
We know about significant side effects.
I'm sure a lot of these things haven't been tested
for the duration of somebody's life
who might be on this from the age of 15, for example.
So it's very, yeah, that's a very, very interesting point
of view, but so amazing.
We do have this micronutrient support team
that is incredibly well versed in regards to pharmacology,
micronutrients, and, you know, being able to help people,
one-on-one, as you say, for a very little cost.
It's, yeah, it's another remarkable thing
that True Hope has going for them.
And just to kind of step into the next 12 months,
looking at 2022, you, how do you see the future of True Hope
for the ne for the next year?
I know we do have micronutrient support.
We have a nationwide representatives of True Hope.
So if I get a lot of people ask questions on our website,
uh, through, through our social media,
and I love to connect them with their local representative,
and we've always got someone on hand,
incredibly knowledgeable,
wonderful individuals that can do that.
We also have our True Hope University,
which is a educational program for any retailer staff member
to very, very quickly
and accessibly can do it from your smartphone to get really,
really knowledgeable about our products, um, taking tests
to reaffirm the learning.
And then there's, you know, also some incentives
there as well, personally.
So we are doing some,
and also our incredible medical research, which is just,
you know, one
of the most studied micronutrients on the planet.
We just have all these wonderful things that we've got going
for us, as, you know, as this incredible supplement company.
Um, what, what else is,
what else do you see coming in
into the future for True Hope?
Well, you know, moving forward, you know,
if we take the last two years as a basis, um,
we're definitely gonna remain dynamic
because as soon as we try to go static with anything
and that we just, we know exactly
how we're gonna execute everything moving forward,
business wise, how we're gonna continue
to bless people's lives, um,
we're gonna find maybe the R Getss pulled out from
underneath our feet, and we need to be ready for that
and have plan A, plan B, plan C, plan D,
all in order, ready to go.
And so, you know, remaining dynamic is,
is absolutely crucial, uh, during these troubling times.
And so, you know, we're gonna continue to be dynamic,
um, as we move forward.
Uh, but on top of that, we're also going to, um, uh,
continue working towards, uh, further r and d.
Um, even though these, these are times
that you don't really wanna over invest necessarily.
Um, when we, we take a look at the, the effect that this,
this, um, these issues surrounding Covid are having on the
populace that, uh, there's, there's an increased need
to be able to, uh, get our products to the people
that need 'em, especially children.
So we're gonna be pushing forward with a children's product,
um, to, to make these supplements that, uh, these vitamins
and minerals that typically taste pretty gross on their own,
um, and a child who can't swallow capsules to try
to make it palatable for them, um, so
that we can begin assisting these young children, um,
that are either pulled out of school
or they're in school now under different circumstances
that they're not used to, um, having to, to social distance,
uh, from their friends, really having that lack
of connection, uh, and,
and feel, you know, having that, that void filled
with love that they normally would.
Um, so to really try to assist, uh, in the issues that
that come about because of that.
So we're gonna be pushing forward with that.
Um, we, uh, we do have, uh, an immune boosting product.
Uh, we actually have two of them that are significantly,
uh, targeted for that.
Um, however, we will be looking into, um, possibly, uh,
simplistic easy formula that,
that brings a few products together to really assist
with the immune system, uh, that also helps, uh,
with other issues that we deal with, such
as candida overgrowth in the gut and all that.
So basically an antifungal, antiviral, uh,
antibacterial formula, um, that, that can really assist, uh,
in helping people with either infectious disease
or, uh, even just, uh, bringing the microbiome, um,
back into order, back into balance, uh, so
that they can absorb and digest, uh,
absorb the nutrients from digested food, right?
So we're gonna be looking into those things, um,
but we're just gonna see what 2022 holds really,
because, um, none of us really know, uh,
what it's gonna look like, but we're just gonna remain
dynamic and do what we can to be prepared, um, to continue
to bring our products forward even in troubling times.
Amazing. Yeah, it's so important that we have to be able
to stay fluid with the times.
You know, there can be something that happens thousands
and thousands of miles away
that we actually have no control over,
or that we, you know, it completely changes our,
our outlook when it comes to production
or marketing, you know, whatever.
So yeah, it's so important that we stay, we stay kind
of ahead of the game, but it's very, very difficult
to obviously make predictions.
But we, you know, we can certainly be, um,
forward thinking in regards to our ability to adapt
in an ever changing, ever changing
market, but it's very exciting.
We've got, you know, new, new products in the,
in the development stages.
You know, having a, um, a product like Empower Plus in a,
um, more accessible form
for children is gonna be an absolutely incredible, I'm sure
so many parents out there are gonna be,
um, absolutely blown away.
And, um, love the idea of not having to whip up, um,
smoothies and sticking the, uh,
the caption ingredients in them as well.
Like, I think that's gonna be wonderful,
and I think that's gonna be a big game changer for,
for a lot of, a lot of youth
and children who are, who are struggling.
And I think that brings us perfectly into our kind
of primary topic, I suppose, for the day.
And, and I really wanted to get your opinions on
what role micronutrient support
and nutrition can have on a very struggling
youth and their mental health.
Oh, absolutely. And we're,
and we're seeing a major rise in this.
I mean, I've got a 14-year-old son,
I've got a 9-year-old son, 7-year-old son.
Um, and so just in the, the small, uh, interactivity
that they've had with, with children their age, uh,
it's coming to our knowledge that there,
there's a lot of struggling going on.
Uh, we've been homeschooling, uh, from the get go, um,
you know, from the time that, you know,
my first son was four years old,
we were already beginning schooling with him,
so we've never been integrated into the school system.
So, you know, we, we don't really, uh,
fully understand what's going on there.
But, uh, just in the, um, in the interactions
that my 14-year-old son has had with other 14 year olds
around here, um, we're learning that there's,
there's a big shift that's taking place
where there's a lot of struggling happening.
And so in relation to that, if we were
to talk about the role that, uh,
nutrient supplementation has,
and when we say nutrient supplementation,
we're mainly focus on vitamins and minerals,
and it's well known that, you know, vitamin, the b family
of vitamins have a significant effect in relation to stress
and, uh, overall mental health.
Um, it's not really well known
that the other vitamins have too much of an, uh,
role other than, you know, vitamin D has, has an impact.
Uh, and as well as vitamin C, uh, does have an impact.
But somebody wouldn't go
to a health food store if they're struggling
with mental illness and go
and grab the vitamin C or the D, right?
Right. It's kinda ancillary
or synergistic where it assists with the other nutrients in,
in, uh, playing the role that they need to,
to correct mental health issues.
Many people know that nutrients such as omega fatty acids,
uh, have an impact on mental health.
Uh, but once again, they're working synergistically.
The body can only, uh,
really process those omega fatty acids appropriately
in the presence of other nutrients, uh, namely minerals.
So the, it's the mineral deficiencies that really, um,
I'm gonna spotlight here.
And it was identified actually back in 1936,
pretty sure I got my date right.
1936, uh, Senate document, uh, 2 54, I believe it was,
um, highlights this
where they had a Senate hearing on the issue
of the rise in disease amongst a population
that was identified in 1936 due to the farming methods
that had been employed, wherein there was not the mineral
content in the food in 19 36, 19 35, 19 34, whatever,
leading up to this rise in disease like they saw 50,
60 years before.
So the modernization of agriculture caused this issue
where now we're, we are eating, um,
extremely deficient food, so kind of empty food,
and you don't just eat food to get the caloric value
to make sure that you have the energy to burn,
you also consume food, to get all of the nutrients,
the macros, and the micros to allow your body
to function appropriately.
And so when we take a look at what happened then,
and what was identified then,
and fast forward, we can begin to see
how the problem only continued to get worse, uh,
through the introduction of fungicides, pesticides,
herbicides, synthetic fertilizers,
where the nutrient values actually became less,
where even though the soil had been, uh, very depleted,
but there was about 50%
of the mineral content in the soil from
what there was a hundred years before, it wasn't available
to the plants because the soil had been sterilized.
There's no longer, uh, the environment, the bacteria,
cultures, and the fungi
and all that thriving in the soil that caused the breakdown
and the processing of this mineral, of these,
of all these minerals in there that allow for them
to be uptaken by the plants.
So all of that was kind of a race.
So you've got basically these inert minerals sitting in the
soil that aren't really readily available
to be taken out by the plants.
So if you take a look at Anne-Marie Meyer's work
wherein she analyzes, um, food from 19, uh,
49 to 1999.
So over a 50 year period, she takes a look at
what the mineral values were in 1949, compares it
to the mineral values in the same foods in 1999.
What they found is that in many of the foods,
there was a reduction by over 80%
in many of the key minerals.
So I'm gonna highlight the minerals here,
and I'm gonna talk scientifically for a moment,
and then I'm gonna talk about
what we actually experience, what we see.
So when you take a look at, let's, let's just take one, um,
pathway in the, in, in the body, the trytophan pathway, uh,
which will eventually turn into serotonin and melatonin.
Okay? Many people come to us, uh, depressed.
So speculation is they're not producing enough serotonin.
They also come to us, uh, with an accompanied,
uh, diagnosis of insomnia.
They're not able to sleep. That makes sense.
If you don't produce enough serotonin,
you will not produce enough melatonin.
Melatonin comes from serotonin.
So if we take a look at the tryptophan pathway, we know
that tryptophan is an essential amino acid
that you need without it, you die.
And if you take a look at that, it requires iron,
methyl tetro, hydro folate, so activated vitamin, uh,
B nine, right?
Uh, has to be methylated.
And now we can get into the whole methylation pathway
talking about that, because that's a,
that's a whole craze going on now
where people are identifying
that they're not methylating appropriately.
Once again, it comes down to nutrient deficiencies.
You need to have all of the nutrients available to, uh,
to cause the methylation pathways
to actually optimally function.
But also there's the, the genetic mutations.
But the genetic mutations as identified by Dr.
Linus Pauling, are a cause because of nutrient deficiencies.
Nutrient deficiencies he identified were actually more
of a hazard than exposure to radiation.
Wow. If you have enough nutrients, you can actually begin
to heal from all these different
exposures to radiation and all that.
If you don't have enough nutrients,
your body will actually begin, uh, to just go into
to defunct mode where nothing seems to work,
and the breakdown begins to happen.
So Linus polling actually identified
that nutrient deficiencies were more hazardous
or more of a risk than being, uh, exposed to radiation.
So, um, to correct those genetic mutations
and to optimize the methylation pathway so
that you can actually take vitamin B nine folate, um,
or even folic acid, which has, has got a real bad rap lately
because a lot of people aren't able to process it
because it's not being consumed in, um, the presence of all
of the other nutrients necessary to take, uh, folic acid
and to convert it into the various forms of folate,
including methyl tetro, hydro folate.
Um, anyways, so you can take these, these forms of,
of vitamin Ben nine, and they will actually function
appropriately when done, uh, in the presence
of the proper nutrients
that they work synergistically together.
So iron methyl, tetra hydro folate, uh, vitamin C,
vitamin D, and vitamin B three,
those are all necessary going back to the tryptophan pathway
to convert tryptophan into five hydroxy tryptophan.
So here's the, here's the
issue that, that people are seeing.
They, they get depressed, they go to the health food store,
and rather than asking,
why am I not producing five hydroxy tryptophan,
which then converts into serotonin, they just go
and buy the five hydroxy tryptophan.
So they're bypassing the step.
They didn't correct the root issue.
They didn't address the root issue.
They didn't, probably didn't even think about the root issue
as to why their body isn't producing
five hydroxy tryptophan.
And it's probably because, uh, one of two things.
Either they're not consuming enough, uh, tryptophan itself,
um, which generally isn't the case,
or that they're lacking iron, the ability to methylate, uh,
vitamin B nine folate,
and that they're not getting enough vitamin C,
D and, and vitamin B three.
Because in, if you have all of those present,
the enzyme reaction, uh,
takes place converting tryptophan into five hydroxy
tryptophan, and then five hydroxy tryptophan then converts,
uh, through another enzyme reaction that only requires, uh,
P five P, which is pyridoxine five phosphate.
And to make it quite simple, activated vitamin B six,
so once again, take the vitamin B six,
you have the nutrients you need, your body will activate it.
Now, it, it, uh,
it finds itself present in the enzyme reaction,
taking five hydroxy tryptophan,
converting it into serotonin.
Serotonin then converts into melatonin
to another enzyme reaction.
And so when we take a look at that, what we identify in
that pathway, as well as actually in, in all
of the biochemical pathways in the body, in the production
of hormones and neurotransmitters, you're gonna find
that vitamins and minerals are an absolute necessity
to ensure that our body is converting, uh,
these various amino acids into the neurotransmitters
or hormones that they need to become the
tryptophan pathways exactly the same.
Initially, it has the same enzyme reaction
that requires the iron, meth, tora, hydro folate, uh,
the vitamin CD and B three.
And it turns it into l-dopa,
the L-dopa then takes P five P vitamin B six,
and, uh, turns it into dopamine.
So a dopamine pathway, reward circuitry,
you feel high in life naturally, when you're producing it.
You don't find yourself, uh, engaging in a lot of addictive,
uh, behaviors that would, um, uh,
basically artificially stimulate that,
that dopamine production and,
and make you feel like, like you, you know
that you're rewarded, right?
Yeah. Um, you just naturally feel good.
So now let's take this into the youth.
When we see what's going on, uh, in society as a whole,
not only are we eating, you know,
a cardboard box diet a lot, a lot of people,
and I'm not gonna say all people,
'cause a lot of people have, have definitely been health
conscious and, and moved away from that, um,
or, uh, never engaged in it in the first place.
And, and great. But a lot of people are, are eating,
uh, food.
I, I don't even know if we call it food, things
that look like food that supply caloric, uh, value
that our body can at least thrive off of that way.
But it's, it's so incredibly, uh, nutrient deficient
that the bodies are literally starving for nutrition,
which causes us to overeat in a lot of instances
where we, our body's saying, Hey, I need more.
I need more, uh, you know, otherwise I'm gonna die in
essence, even though I don't need the calories from it,
I need what little nutrients are found in there.
I need more of those nutrients.
And so this is one of the issues as
to why we see the obesity, uh, pandemic, really that, uh,
you know, that we didn't see in the sixties
and fifties and forties, right?
It, it just wasn't there compared to what it is now.
Um, and it comes down to nutrient deficiencies
where our bodies are starving
and they're signaling saying, you need to eat more,
even though you've already maxed out
for caloric intake today.
So, um, we're seeing a lot of youth growing up on
that diet now,
that's gonna cause some issues right off the bat
because the body is trying to, uh, take
what little nutrients it has and survive.
And the body's incredibly intelligent.
So it may rob from certain areas to provide it to areas
where it's absolutely crucial that it has in that moment.
And so what we see is where it may not, we may,
may not have enough nutrients, um, sufficient to, uh,
produce all the neurotransmitters that we need, that we,
that cause us to feel well, that cause us to,
to function at a high level, right?
To have a high level of intellect even.
Um, we see issues with that.
If you just take iodine, for example, um, uh, in areas
that are deficient of iodine versus areas
that are sufficient, there's up to a 13 plus, uh,
points difference in IQ just from that one mineral alone.
That, that's huge, right?
I mean, it's, yeah, here we're putting our youth into school
and, and we want them to, to function highly,
and we're investing into academia,
but we're not investing into, um, what's going on
inside them that would cause them to be able to
function very well within the walls of academia, right?
Yeah. It's, um, even if you just look at the, the fact
that our soil is just completely,
completely, completely different.
We're, we're literally standing on a completely different
earth than we did 40, 50 years ago from modern
agricultural practices.
And the fact that, you know,
most people's diet western diet is, is awful.
It's completely nutrient deficient when it comes to those,
you know, micronutrients, which
in essence are without more, more valuable.
And if you don't have those smaller ingredients,
those vitamins, those minerals, those antioxidants,
those phytonutrients, we don't have those in those
even smaller amounts.
We're just constantly gonna be, um, depleted.
And, you know, the body is quite remarkable in regards
to making us feel relatively okay, maybe not incredible,
but, um, the body does very, very well
to make people just be able to get through the day somehow.
And then people get used to feeling kind of not great.
And then they, that's just their kind of our normal go-to,
and that's when we don't see a lot of people making,
you know, huge significant changes, especially when it comes
to, comes to their diet.
And, you know, as a nutritionist, it's very,
very frustrating to see that people pay me good money
to have a session with me, want my advice, take it
for 2, 3, 4 weeks, feel awesome, and then stop seeing me.
And then, you know, I, I Get hold of them in six months
or whatever when we've not spoken in a long time,
and they're in an even worse position
because they've just not, they've just been able
to slowly creep back into their old habits,
end up just buying the same food, eating the same food,
not moving their bodies anymore, not drinking enough water,
drinking too much coffee to just get through the day,
and they, in a worse off, worse off position.
And I think that's got a lot to do with the body.
Again, massively craving these micronutrients
that they're gonna sacrifice themselves
by just taking them from these box products just
so they can grab them to get,
do all these incredible pathways that's so essential
all the time that it's, um, yeah, it's a real, um,
real crime to our planet
and a real crime to our youth that we get, this is
what we're giving them, and we're expecting them to sit down
for eight hours and, you know, listen
to someone at the front of the classroom
and expect the kids to just all sit there
and be like, nice, calm and normal.
Like, it's just, you know, it's just, I think if someone,
anyone was to literally listen to that breakdown, they,
they would, you know, agree and,
and recognize that it doesn't quite make sense.
Maybe those eight hours at school would be best served in
regards to getting some nutri good quality
nutrition into these individuals.
So yeah, it's a big, big struggle.
And we can't really have a conversation about mental health
and our youth without touching on, on trauma.
And so many of the traumatic things that happen to us,
happen to us when we are young,
and we're not quite conscious
and aware of, you know, what's really happening to us.
And then, because we don't have those tools in those younger
years to really deal with the situation right there,
and then we actually hold onto that trauma,
and it ends up, you know, physically
manifesting in inside of us.
You know, energy just doesn't disappear.
And a lot of those childhood traumas end up defining us
as adults, and we carry it around
with us very subconsciously,
and it completely changes people's personalities.
So how do we begin to unravel trauma
as like this social crutch
that we're walking into our adulthood, adulthood with?
Yeah. Yeah.
And then even as adults too, I mean, we're,
we're finding the same thing.
We're, um, even when we think we have the tools, uh, to deal
with it, uh, we're seeing adult traumas
that just won't go away either, right?
Um, manifesting as PTSD at some later point.
And so, when we take a look at this, uh,
and first of all, when I speak of this, I, I just wanna,
you know, add this caveat that I'm not speaking as it, uh,
speaking of it as one who's merely observed it in others.
Um, I've had my fair share of trauma,
like a significant amount of trauma, uh, just, you know,
from early years on,
and it just really kind of didn't actually stop, uh,
throughout my life, but yet I don't have the residual
negative, uh, impacts of trauma, um, really at all.
Uh, to be quite frank with you, um, like many people do,
and I've had more than my fair share
of trauma in, in my life.
And, uh, you know, I won't go into that too much other,
you know, uh, as I alluded to earlier on, um, at the age
of 10, my mother, uh, took her life.
Uh, there was traumas that led up to that.
There was a lot of trauma that
took place shortly after that.
Um, that caused me to,
to even move outta my house a little early,
uh, to leave school early.
I graduated early, um, uh,
and, uh, just to get out on my own.
And, and, uh, uh, you know, as I started my own family,
we've had our own fair share of traumas that, uh,
that many people, uh, know about, uh,
because of what's taken place, uh, over the last decade.
Um, court proceedings, all that type of stuff.
Uh, I, I guess now that I've said
that I should probably get into a little bit,
uh, can't leave it hanging there.
But anyways, over the passing of my own son
and false accusations that came about, uh, and,
and government, um, you know, moving forward
with a vendetta against our family and,
and trying to, uh, get me and my wife into jail.
And we spent literally nine, 10 years fighting it.
And, uh, it finally got dropped this past year, uh,
when their case completely fell apart.
And, um, the fallacies were exposed.
Uh, but up until a point, uh,
that was always hanging over our head, uh,
and losing a son is more than enough.
So, you know, we've gone through these traumas, uh,
we've experienced them, and, uh, you know, I'm at a,
a little bit of a different place than my wife has in
relation to the healing of, of those traumas.
Um, but you know, I can just speak authoritatively
that there's definitely, uh, an impact
that proper nutrition has on our ability to process trauma.
And so I'm gonna go to kind of an extreme here.
Um, when you take somebody
who has obsessive compulsive disorder, uh, where it's just,
it's these constant things.
The brain is really controlling them.
They're enslaved to, uh,
these cyclical thought processes that just won't go away.
Um, or somebody who has racing thoughts, which many times,
uh, comes with mania
and all that, where you can't go to bed at night
because your brain just won't shut up.
And what's interesting about the, these, these cycles
that you're going through is you're, you're recycling a lot
of memories, uh,
and you're doing so at a time that you're not really, um,
able to process 'em properly,
and you will actually begin to create kind
of a new memory surrounding that.
So something that's that's small
that was negative can actually become so big in our lives.
If we, if the,
the circuitry in our brain isn't working properly,
that these thoughts just aren't shutting down,
we're up till three, four in the morning sitting there
processing them and finding ourselves in a delusional
negative state, we can actually kind of almost create trauma
out of something where something that was so small
that would normally have very little impact on somebody else
is all of a sudden, uh, this huge mountain in our lives took
that molehill and turned it into a massive
mountain, and it just won't go away.
And, and it's real. It, it actually feels real.
We, we've made it real. And so there's a huge, um, effect
that nutrition has in relation
to processing trauma wherein we don't find ourselves stuck
in the, this recirculation of a thought process,
but we're able to process it properly
and put it on the shelf
and continue to move forward
where it's not sitting there plaguing us, we're enslaved
to it, and it's keeping us at night, um, even throughout all
of our court proceedings and, and,
and all of that going on during the heat of the battle.
Um, you know, I was able to go
to bed at night and, and sleep.
Well, it, I didn't have those thoughts
that would just keep on coming back and plague
and plaguing you.
Um, whereas many people, um, do, and, and,
and many people that have, have been present
with me over the years, uh, have actually made remark about
that, that it just, it's, it's a bit of an anomaly to them
that we've gone through this intense situation,
this intense public battle been smeared in the international
media, um, all across the world, had had, you know,
been defamed and all that.
And yet, uh, and even had to fear for our lives based on
what, what had taken place, uh, with the negativity
that had been created surrounding us.
And yet, um, we still were able to, to continue
to move forward, uh, in a very healthy manner.
Um, don't get me wrong, we had our off days,
but it didn't own us.
It didn't control us. And so when we look at, uh,
trauma in youth, when we look at trauma in adults,
it's really the same thing.
Um, everybody goes through hard things. We all do.
We, we've all got our story to tell.
We life has not been perfect for anybody, uh, far from it.
And, um, it's a matter of, uh, the tools
that you have within you that there's, there's a,
there's a marriage between the physical
and the mental and the spiritual.
There's a marriage between that.
They, they, they work synergistically together.
And you can't be high elevated spiritually or, or mentally,
and yet your physical nature is, is is garbage, right?
Because you can't, well,
you just can't have one without the other.
You give your body the physical elements it needs,
and it allows your brain to thrive through the production
of all the various neurotransmitters and,
and, um, uh, the production of, of neurons healthy,
highly functioning neurons,
which is actually a whole nother, uh, topic.
Uh, not to get into the one study too much,
but there was a rat brain study that took place, uh,
where they put rats on our empire plus formula
after they had caused brain injury to them.
And not only did the brain injury heal,
and not only did they function, uh, cognitively, uh,
at a higher level than the control rats
that never had a brain injury,
but also when they, they took a breakdown of the neurons
and the control rats that were just eating normal rat food,
um, versus, uh, the rats
that were being supplemented with the empire.
Plus, there was a significant difference in, uh,
the presentation of the neurons.
The neurons had, uh, far more dendrites, which are, uh,
the branch offs that, uh,
that signal send and receive messages.
So there's far more of 'em to send and receive messages,
and they were longer, which allowed for higher connectivity.
So the brains would've been functioning.
It makes sense that cognitively they were outperforming the
regular control rats, even though 90 days
before they had been, uh, injured with a brain injury.
Um, so everything functions better when,
when you supply the nutrients necessary,
everything functions better.
And, and it allows you to, um, elevate mentally
to not only be more intellectual,
but to also be able to process thoughts appropriately
where we're not becoming enslaved to the situation
around us, but rather we're observing it through a new set
of eyes, and, um, not not having that mania or depression
or whatever that's just causing these thoughts
to just plague us over and over and over.
And so it's, it's absolutely crucial that the youth,
but also adults, um, that they supplement,
that they get the supplementation necessary.
And this brings me back just real quickly here.
I was talking about the cardboard, uh, box diet.
Let's, let's, uh, let's go on the, on,
on the other end of the pendulum here.
Um, so we've got the far wing
where people are just living extremely unhealthy over here,
but then we have those that are, that are health conscious
and they're eating whole foods.
And so a lot of them will come to us, you know,
if they're suffering with depression or, or, um, mania
or psychosis or anxiety.
Anxiety is a big one.
Um, and they'll come to us
and then when we communicate what it is that we're doing,
they have this question mark over them where they're like,
wait a minute, I'm already eating healthy
and you're telling me that you're gonna give me nutrients
and it's going to help correct this issue that implied with,
if that was the case, I should already be better
because I'm eating healthy.
Well, one of my side projects that I do here on the, on,
on the property, I'm setting up greenhouses.
I've planted a small orchard of trees,
uh, fruit trees and all that.
And I've been dabbling with this, you know, since 2014
and also been researching what it requires
to make very healthy food.
And so if somebody was eating, uh, a very healthy diet,
a salad, let's say every day, and, and,
and ma mainly greens, greens and,
and vegetables, maybe, you know, either they're vegetarian
or maybe they're eating a little bit of meat,
but not overeating the meat and just eating a very balanced
diet, and they're even eating organic,
they're still not getting enough nutrition.
And, and I'll, I'll go into that in just a moment here.
But here's what the science has shown is that in order
for us to get the same nutrient value from a nice spinach
salad with, you know, some other veggies involved in that,
to get the same amount of nutrition
that our great-grandparents would've gotten from the same
salad, same size, we have to eat about six
and a half times the amount that they would've had
to eat in order to get the same nutrient
values out of that salad.
That's significant because we're not eating,
and we're not supposed to be eating six
and a half times the amount as what our great-grandparents
or great-great-grandparents had to eat.
And so, with that being said, if, if, you know, I,
I took over the, you know, some land here,
it had been conventionally farmed at some point,
it may have been sprayed with glyphosate at some point,
which resides in the soil for a very long time.
And it's a key leader binds up nutrients.
Um, and so when we take a look at what we're doing here,
I could, you know, certify this, this, uh,
this land is organic,
organic growing, and that's what we are doing.
We are growing organically, not certified,
but we're growing organically.
And, uh, if I was to, to have it certified
and I supply that food to, uh, you know, the marketplace,
I can tell you it's not gonna be any more nutrient dense
than, you know, apples
and pears that you're getting from somebody else, really.
Um, so what I, what I went to do is, one, address the,
the nutrient deficiencies in the soil,
the mineral deficiencies in the soil, first and foremost.
Second, introduce life to the soil, just like our body does.
You have to have life in your gut in order
to absorb nutrients, right?
You need all of the, the bacteria there, all
of the probiotics, uh, to break down food
and to uptake those nutrients.
If you don't have that, a lot
of it's gonna be passing through you.
Um, and you're gonna have a serious health crisis.
Well, our soil is, is the same.
You, you can't just put nutrients in there.
You can't just put fuel in there.
You have to have that life introduced too.
And so that's what I've been doing,
and it's actually been quite remarkable.
So one year I took
and spread 4,000 pounds of composted mineral
on just my trees, on, on about 400 trees.
And what was phenomenal about it is
that, you know, the trees did better.
Um, but in contrast, the grass
that surrounded all of the trees was at much deeper green.
It was far more drought resistant.
I wasn't watering any of the grass that year.
It was far more drought resistant.
And you could actually see the, the complete contrast of
where I had applied the mineral versus, uh,
and I'm talking composted mineral
and sorry, with also a compo,
a compost tea to introduce that life.
So now you've got the minerals and you've got the life.
They're working synergistically together,
and it's allowing the, that, that nutrient
to be uptaken by the plants.
And you can actually see the health of the plants, the line
where I'd applied it versus
where I hadn't applied it on the same grass,
same environment, and yet it was thriving, um,
noticeably thriving compared to, uh, three, four feet over.
And so we're not getting enough nutrients out of our food,
even if we're attempting to eat healthy,
unless you're growing that food yourself
and you know what you're putting into the soil
and you know that your soil is nutrient rich
and that it's rich with life to facilitate the uptake of
that nutrition into the plants.
And so, uh, it's extremely important going back,
talking about that, whether you're eating healthy
or whether you're eating a cardboard box diet, um,
your body is likely starving, uh, for
nutrients on a significant level.
Um, and that you're nowhere near, um, operating at,
at your optimal level or anywhere close to your,
your full potential.
And so nutrition, mainly the minerals at this point in time,
'cause that's where we're most deficient, um,
is absolutely crucial to get the proper amounts
of tho those minerals in the proper balance that would help,
uh, facilitate the production of neurotransmitters
and hormones that allow us to function appropriately.
Yeah, I mean, it just makes a whole lot of sense when you
to look at the environment of trees, flowers,
the natural world, and you look at the environment, look
what they're exposed to, understanding
that there's a massive synergistic partnership happening
under the soil that we don't even see.
It's so easy to translate to that, to your own body
and recognizing what are you giving your body,
you giving your body enough sunlight, enough movement, uh,
the right nutrition in the right formulas, as you say.
I've had so many clients who eat amazing,
but they still feel they have digestive issues,
they have fatigue, they have depression.
And again, trying to explain to them that a lot
of these people are actually like creating stress
because they're trying to eat so healthy.
And as you say, like trying to eat six
and a half times as many greens
that they actually need to get.
It's, it's impossible. It's not, it's just not possible.
And to, to stress about trying to get that into your body,
it's just gonna cause you even more, you know,
more negativity biologically with within your body as well.
That's just gonna feed that whole stress response
and not gonna make you into a individual ready to nourish.
And not just about providing your body the right ingredients
to create the right hormones and neurotransmitters
and all these, um, chemical messengers that go
around the body that, you know, get created from, you know,
amino acids and carbohydrates.
But we also need to think about
the structures and the cells.
And you touched on it brilliantly with the rat studies
and with power plus where the actual cells
and the structures
and the organs, you know, the cells of those, all
of those structures die and replicate.
But it's like, what are they gonna replicate with?
Are they gonna replicate with, um, like wheat cereals
or are they gonna replicate with, with, with nutrition,
supplementation and movement?
You know, like you're giving your body a much better chance
of being able to recreate a structure when it's given
everything in this synergistic holistic dynamic
environment rather than just, um, thinking of, of,
of food is all the same
and one meal, kind of like one unit.
We have to get outta this reductionist mentality when it
comes to literally anything when it comes to our culture,
especially when it comes to trying to feed our youth with
what they need to internally manufacture the things
that they need to, to, to feel good.
And just coming back to the point in regards to trauma,
be it, you know, the death of, of, of your mother
or the fact that you're isolated from all of your friends
being 10 years old, you have got no idea how to inter to,
to, to digest that experience, you know, so
that inner turmoil, that inner rage, that anger,
that sadness, that tragedy, all of that gets
bound up in your body somewhere.
And if you are going through the next 10, 20, 30 years
of your life, not really paying attention to that
or giving your body the ingredients to digest,
literally digest it out of your body,
then you will be stuck in a position that
that really holds you back from ever feeling as awesome
as you deserve to feel.
That's right. Absolutely.
Um, and so, you know, we talked about the,
the premise on which, you know, this works, you know,
scientifically how it's working in the body.
Uh, you know, the, the mirror that we see in nature,
how it's, it's identical in,
in just in slightly different ways,
but identical in the, in the fact that, uh,
soil requires the same thing that, that, you know,
our guts do, uh, to, to feed everything else
that the soil's feeding and all that,
that it's a very similar system, right?
It's identical that it needs, uh, minerals, nutrients,
bacteria, cultures, all that to, to thrive.
Um, but in relation to what we actually see
now, this has been interesting.
This is what what really started a lot of the studies on,
on our, uh, empower plus formulation, the,
the multivitamin mineral supplementation that we have, uh,
or I guess for better term micronutrient,
because, you know, we're micronizing those minerals
and we're, we're binding 'em to organic molecules that,
that allow for them to be extremely bioavailable in the
body, and we're ensuring that it's balanced so
that it actually facilitates the healing necessary.
But what started the, the studies on that was the fact that
people were getting really better, like way better,
and we're talking the most severe of cases, uh,
that basically had been given no hope, uh,
through the medical system.
They were just medical system turn aways.
And so they were getting better.
And, uh, researchers became aware of this.
And so they began studying it
and they began studying a lot of, uh,
the first studies were, um, on children, uh, with, you know,
A-D-D-A-D-H-D, autism, Asperger's, uh, OCD, uh, many
of these, these disorders that, um, that, uh,
are found in more early childhood.
And, um, they found significant results in all of those, um,
including even the, the autism,
which is, is slightly different.
Um, there, it appears that the mechanism, uh,
and many people would understand that the mechanism
that causes autism is significantly different, uh,
or at least a little bit different than, than
what causes A-D-D-A-D-H-D
because A-D-D-A-D-H-D can be caused just
by nutrient deficiencies.
Um, but it can also be caused by other environmental toxins
and stuff like that, uh,
toxins that are introduced to the system.
Um, and so when we take a look at this, uh, this is
what we typically would expect to see.
Uh, you have a child in school
and he's labeled as a bad child.
He's not functioning, he's not attentive, uh,
he's performing very poorly.
Um, grades are are terrible.
And, you know, parent comes, reaches out to us, gets,
gets the products, um, you know, maybe they're not able
to swallow the capsules so they have to get creative
and they're popping capsules opening to smoothies or yogurt
or, uh, masking it in peanut butter, uh,
to make peanut butter toast or a sandwich or whatever.
And so they're, they're getting creative in how
to mask, uh, the supplements.
Um, or if they're like my son, you know, 11 years old, he,
at that point, he is popping, put 'em in his mouth.
It's really gross, but
he's just doing it just to get it done.
He is drinking some juice. Okay?
So he's getting it done and over with.
So what we would typically expect
to see is within even a few weeks,
there's a major turnaround in their behavior.
And it's generally noticed, uh, by the school teacher
and the parents and, and siblings alike, um, uh, more
so than what the actual individual who's taking it.
They don't, they don't see the changes in themselves
necessarily it,
but all of a sudden it appears that everyone
around them is changing, um, because they're changing
and people are interacting differently with them, uh,
in a short period of time, month, two months,
typically you see a massive increase in, uh,
a significant increase in the grades.
And so, you know, there's one particular, uh,
medical journal publication that was done on the economics
behind taking the Empower Plus versus
taking pharmaceutical medications.
And what they found is they used a case study of,
of one particular individual, uh, who was outta Calgary,
Alberta, and he was not doing well at all.
Um, in fact, I think they had pulled him from school
because he just couldn't function
with within that, that system at all.
And, uh, he was, he was really failing to thrive.
Um, uh, intellectually they got him on the supplements
after getting him off of the medications,
or they did a cross taper, got him onto the supplements,
got him off the medications,
and got him well, uh, to the point
that he became an a student.
And not only did he become an a student, he then went on to,
to pursue what he wanted to do in college and everything.
And he, and he was functioning very well, um, by the time
that they did this medical journal publication on him.
But what they did is they broke down what the cost was
to the system and his cost of care
for one year within the medical system was well over,
um, a hundred thousand dollars.
It was, I think it's somewhere around 150,000.
Uh, I might be quoting that slightly off,
or maybe it was even more than that, but it was, it was in,
it was well over a hundred thousand dollars.
The cost that it took to get 'em well
and to keep 'em well for one year on Empower Plus
was about $2,000.
Now, some of the cost of that was not the product,
it was the fact that they were also, he was still going
for medical checkups, uh, for mental health checkups to see
how he was doing and to document his pro progress.
So a lot of the cost
of the next year being on Empire Plus was actually
still going to the medical system.
Um, whereas he actually didn't require the medical system at
that point because he was well on the Empire Plus.
And so it showed that it was around 1% of the total cost
to get well and be on the Empire Plus versus being
sedated at best, uh, while being on a cocktail
of pharmaceutical medications
that would've eventually knocked out his liver,
kidneys, something like that.
Yeah, from, from going toxic on it.
That's just amazing. You know, I think the,
the conversation in regards to how the, the prices
and costs every year of everyone in the Western world's, um,
healthcare costs continuously go up.
And yeah, if we were to introduce something as simple
as a broad spectrum micronutrient into that,
for those individuals that do rely on
so many things in the convention
and model, whether that's pharmaceuticals
or therapy sessions, doctor's appointments, et cetera,
you know, it's, um, I just always think about like
over decades how much, what that money could be used for for
community infrastructure.
You know, it's a huge, huge topic,
but it's certainly, that's a very intro.
We'll make sure we have links to that.
'cause I think a lot of people be very interested in that.
And what I really love, I love in the new year to have
two more podcast shows with you, David, talking about one,
um, talking, just talking about methylation in general.
'cause it is a hot topic right now.
I know a lot of people who cannot take supplements
because they, they can't hand handle methylated products.
And it'd be very, very interesting to get
a really good understanding of that for a lot of people.
You know, I'm in the, I'm in the nutrition industry
and I know a bit about it, but I definitely dunno enough.
Um, so I'd love to get you back on that.
And also talking about, uh, some of the big research
that has been done with, with Empower Plus
and really making people aware of the, you know, that
that solid scientific process, why it's so important
to use independent third peer,
third party peer reviewed papers.
What does that mean, um, in,
in regards to, to something else?
And talking about the process of, you know, why is it
that we don't have, you know,
50,000 studies on micronutrients
and depression micronutrients
and anxiety, you know, very, very interesting topic.
Let's talk about that. But, um, just coming up to the end
of the time together now, David, I really,
really appreciate you coming on the show
and, um, really sharing some wonderful insight to
not only True Hope Canada,
but your, your own, your personal life as well.
I think it's very important that we share these stories
to really give people context, especially when it comes to
trauma and, uh, mental health
and how micronutrient supplementation can really assist
somebody to help themselves get better.
I think that's super, super valuable.
So I really appreciate your time today.
Hey, thank you so much for having me on,
Simon. I appreciate what you're doing there.
Of course. Thank you. Well, for more information
or anything, uh, for information about any
of the topics we've spoken about in the show,
and don't forget to check out the show notes.
I'm gonna make sure we leave some links to the studies
that we're, we we're discussed today.
Very important that we're able to show you our research
and, you know, don't, don't take our web for it.
Go out there and do, do your, be your, be your own advocate.
Make your, make your own minds up.
I think that's very, very important, especially,
especially when we go into 2022.
It's very important to, to become your own, uh, uh, try
and become your own doctor, I suppose,
and really take your, your own health into your own hands
and where you get your
information from is very, very important.
But I really appreciate you,
uh, for everyone listening today.
Thank you again, David. This is True.
Hope Cast the official podcast of True Hope Canada.
We'll see you next week.