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7 tips to improve your mental and nutritional health NOW- Dr. Bob Rakowski

• Dr. Terry Weyman and Dr. Spencer Baron

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In this eye-opening episode of the Crackin Backs Podcast, we welcome the renowned Dr. Bob Rakowski, an influential voice in holistic health and wellness. Dr. Rakowski’s extensive experience and groundbreaking insights into nutrition and lifestyle medicine provide listeners with practical advice to navigate today’s complex health landscape.

Lab-grown foods are becoming more mainstream, but with their rise comes heated debate over their safety and nutritional content. Dr. Rakowski shares his expert perspective on how these alternatives measure up against traditional, naturally grown foods. He also offers essential guidance for making informed choices at the grocery store to ensure optimal nutrition without emptying your wallet.

Amidst ongoing discussions surrounding vegan and carnivore diets, Dr. Rakowski sheds light on the true benefits and drawbacks of each. Is there a balanced diet that combines the strengths of both for sustained health? Find out as we explore diet myths and truths.

Holidays often lead to overindulgence, leaving many searching for effective recovery strategies. Dr. Radowski reveals his proven nutritional and lifestyle approaches for getting back on track. In a world rife with external stressors, from social media noise to global news, he explains how to filter out distractions and focus on personal well-being, offering daily habits to cultivate lasting peace and resilience.

As an expert in longevity, Dr. Rakowski emphasizes often-overlooked habits and exercises essential for maintaining strength and health as we age. Plus, discover how diet impacts mental stress and the vital nutrients that support emotional balance. He even shares unique protocols to reset the body’s stress response, equipping listeners with actionable steps to regain calm and stability at home.

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Dr. Spencer Baron:

Bob. This episode of The cracking backs podcast is sponsored by Guardian grains growing nutrition. You can see, welcome to the cracking backs podcast today, we're joined by health expert Dr Bob radowski. He's here to tackle some of the most pressing questions in modern nutrition and wellness. What's really behind the rise of lab grown foods? Are they as safe as they really say, and nutritious as they claim, struggling to find affordable, healthy meals in today's complex food landscape? Well, we've got you covered on this. Welcome to the cracking backs podcast. Dr Bob Bucha, I am so excited to have you on because we love what you talk about your I understand you're a wellness a transformational expert, which I'm going to ask you to really distill that down into plain English for some of our lay audience. And what else you are doing is natural medicine, and more importantly is you are in a town where I went to chiropractic college, 38 years ago, Texas chiropractic college. So you are in Houston, Texas, and your specialty is creating peak performance. Let's talk.

Dr. Bob Radowski:

Let's talk. Yeah, I love it, you know. And you know, you introduced, well, the concept of wellness, transformation. Let's just break that down, well, as opposed to sick, you know, and we've got this crazy world focused on sick care, especially in this part of the world, you know, with over 80% of the diet being ultra processed and genetically modified, and herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, and the term transformation literally to change form. You look at most people's forms, they're not very good. You know, you people are obese, overweight, pre diabetic, in you know, cortisol resistant, autoimmune, depressed, you name it. We've created a circumstance where it's going to take some effort to get out of it, but the good news is we've got the right philosophy and tools to get there.

Dr. Spencer Baron:

Yes, so I want to start right out of the right out of the starting blocks. About You. Recently posted something about lab grown foods. I would love for you to elaborate on that and their whole issue with nutritional value and safety and all that. So please, just have at it. Well,

Dr. Bob Radowski:

there's a debate about how should we access food, and the debate has a lot of validity, because factory farming may be one of the worst things we do for the planet. We take a bunch of different animals and we stick them in tight quarters, and then we've eaten an unnatural diet, and we use over 80% antibiotics on them, and they're inflamed and sick, and sick animals create sick meat, and that's what people are eating. But when you start looking at lab grown you know the whole idea started with the idea of medical need to culture stem cells when, when people would have a burn, you know, they could do skin grafts. And then they came to realize, wait a minute, we could actually take stem cells and grow skin, you know, in a dish. And then they thought, Okay, if we can grow skin, can we grow muscle? And they were able to do that too. And so, if you had stem cells, and you grew some, grew some type of protein. The good news is that it would be clean, right? It's not going to have the herbicides, it's not going to have the insecticides, it's not going to have the fungicides. But we know there's nothing natural about that and and I think there'll be a long time before we figure out, Is this stuff really decent for us? You know, it's not just a calorie anymore, we have to understand that food is not just calories. It's not just protein, carbohydrate, fat, fiber, water, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes, fiber, etc. There's a lot of information in food, and we know that, for instance, if you grow a plant in a natural, organic circumstance, that plant will develop a stronger immune system, and we also know that that transfers to whoever eats the plant. So you know, if someone wanted to just fill their belly with something that had no obvious signal to it, well maybe that would work, but we're beginning to realize there's a lot more to everything. Or maybe I'll go with Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison said we don't know 1,000,000th of 1% of anything, and I think he's right, especially about food.

Dr. Spencer Baron:

I understand that. I read an article years ago that's based on a concept of nutritional value, and it was an opinion statement about obesity. Is there really an overeating problem, or is it the fact that if I took a tomato from 50 years ago and it was a nice, red, robust, nutrition filled tomato, and then you take that tomato from today, it's larger, more calories and less nutritional value. Can you make a comment about some of that? Well.

Dr. Bob Radowski:

Well, part of if we talk about this concept of satiety, how do we know we're full? How do we know that we've given our body what it needs? And our brain and our nervous system has a very complex set of sensors that come to realize how much nutrition did I just receive? What's my blood sugar regulation? What's my acid alkaline balance? There's so many things there, and we know that across the board, food has less nutrition and in it right now, one of the major factors for satiety is the nutrition quantity. It's the nutrition value. So if your body doesn't have the nutrients that it needs, it's always hungry. And I happen to think that that's one of the biggest factors behind the obesity pandemic. If we looked at the Big Four, I call them the deadly quartet. Stress that makes metabolism inefficient, breaks down, lean, increases fat, toxins. If we wanted to get technical, all toxins inhibit mitochondria function. Mitochondria is where fat burning occurs, malnutrition. There's 22 different steps in what's known as the electron transport chain, and that's how we convert convert food to energy most efficiently. And if we don't have, you know, the right amount of those nutrients, and we're inefficient with energy production, if we're not efficient with energy, we don't exercise. If we don't exercise, we gain fat. So you see the big four of those going into play. So when you we talk about this bigger tomato that has less nutrition in it. One thing we talk about caloric density or nutrient density. If I had something small that had a lot of nutrients in it, like a good multivitamin, multi mineral, we might think that might be good for us. If we had something big that had essentially no nutrition in it, that might be a waste of our digestive effort.

Dr. Spencer Baron:

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Dr. Bob Radowski:

Well, you know, one of my mentors said years ago, eat food that spoils, but eat it before it does. And so, you know, they I found a YouTube video a few weeks ago about a guy that found a 40 year old box of Twinkies. And, you know, the box looked perfect. The things were perfectly packaged. He opened it up, he ate a Twinkie. It tasted exactly the same after 40 years. So, you know, I tell people, even mold isn't stupid enough to eat that stuff. So why? And, yeah, there's a good sound, right? Mike Poland in his book in defense of food, he said, you know, something strange started happening in the US in the 70s and 80s. He said food started flying off the shelf of the supermarkets and being replaced by food like substances. It looked like food, it smelled like food, it maybe even tasted like food, but it wasn't food. And so now, you know one quote that I heard from the internet, no, that's not food. That's a science fair project. So you know Casey means she was at Stanford. She was in her 15 Head and Neck Surgery, she has really brought a lot of this with the book clean energy, she and her brother, and they worked at it from different angles. She went to Sanford medical school, very bright lady, and he was part of food lobbying, and they both came to realize, wait a minute, we're looking at the same problem from different angles, all these food companies spending all this money to essentially poison people. And then Stanford, she's doing Head and Neck Surgery, and she asked one of her professors, look, this is third operation on this person for sinus Is there something we can do to prevent this problem? And she couldn't get an answer. And she realized, wait a minute, we're barking up the wrong tree. So. So healthy bodies.

Dr. Spencer Baron:

We are hoping that they have a larger platform now to express all that conversation. I listened to them on one of the podcasts that they had. It was fantastic. Was a really good one. They are exceptionally good,

Dr. Terry Weyman:

I think. And when you think about Carlson, yeah. And what do you think about with Kennedy's new plan? Do you think it with and I know they're on board with him. Do you see some change? What kind of changes do you see that that could help? Because we get, I get a lot of nutritionists that going, Oh, I don't know. You know, we can't get rid of the FDA. We can't do this. This is terrible. And I'm like, do you? Are you healthy now? I mean, every we need, we need change, right? So what's your thoughts on what just recently happened? And, and the plan putting forth,

Dr. Bob Radowski:

well, awareness is the key. And, and, you know, Robert F Kennedy has done such a good job bringing that to the forefront people, if they're not familiar with some of the things that he's written, one the real Anthony Fauci, his book that's a horror story. And as Joe Rogan would say, if that were false, he'd be sued out of his mind, because what he's done to humankind disguised as medical experimentation is beyond horrible. But he also wrote the book Vax versus unvaxxed, and within that book, he talks about there being over 60 studies that looked at demographics that would not vaccinate. Like, you know, the Amish wouldn't vaccinate their children versus those that did. And in every single category, those who were not Vaxxed were significantly healthier. But he also says within that book, President Trump invited Bobby Kennedy to be on a committee in 2016 and they were looking at this vaccine issue, and Anthony Fauci was in the room, and Bob Kennedy asked him. He says, Look, where are your double blind placebo controlled trials on these vaccines? And as he talks through it, you know, in the book, or, you know, the audio version. He says, Look. Fauci opened up his briefcase and said, Well, let me look. And then as he went through it, went through all the studies, he says, You know what? I don't have it with me. Let me get it back to you. And that was 2016 we're almost 2025 he hasn't submitted that study. Why? Because it doesn't exist. So, you know, what do I think about Bobby Kennedy and this book, good energy and everything else, the more people know about what's happened with food that is not in the best interest of health. I think the better off we are. We all do have a choice now. Kelly Brownell Yale University said, over two decades ago in this country, said food in this country is engineered to be addictive. You know, they have flavor chemists, and when you look at a loaf of bread that has 35 different chemicals in it, what are some of those that we can't pronounce? Well, I promise you, a lot of them are designed to make it taste good, or, as they call, it hyper palatable, and to even hijack brain chemistry and make it addictive.

Dr. Spencer Baron:

Wow. So, just so our listeners have faith in change, in massive change, I have two people that one is a patient. One is my my ex wife, actually, who are best friends, but they both are part of a wine distributing a huge wine distributing company, and they both have said to me, in fact, this past week one the the Met the patient of mine who is at a high level in the wine industry. It said to me that that the consumption of alcohol has gone down because there are a lot of people online, and the Instagram influencers are commenting on how bad it is for the brain. It's alcohol, it's a poison. And so people are becoming more aware. So there is hope.

Dr. Bob Radowski:

Well, I'm gonna go with ancient wisdom on that everything's a toxin. It's a matter of dose. And so you look, can you make good use of wine? Sure, a little bit the right dose, the right kind, better quality is better. And so now for men, two drinks a day is the max. For women, one drink a day is Max. But if there's a breast cancer risk, women should only have one drink every 10 days. And I hadn't seen the similar number for prostate but prostate cancer is essentially the cousin of breast cancer, so likely those males should do less alcohol as well. But you know, alcohol and survivability, there's no doubt that there's a bell shaped curve. People who drink a little live longer than people that drink nothing. People that drink the most die early. So can people get by with a little I think most people can, yeah, but those at higher risk, they should definitely avoid it. Yeah,

Dr. Spencer Baron:

great to hear. I want to get back to the idea of something that would help get you know, getting back to basics that would help some of our listeners as well. And that is just. What could they do? You know, organic food has become so expensive, and do you have any suggestions? And you know, nutritious sources of food that is more affordable?

Dr. Bob Radowski:

Well, there's people growing their own, you know, and there's even, like, square foot gardening and in home, vertical towers, where people are getting creative about giving people options to create their own food. Now, not everybody's going to live in an area where they can get to know their farmer, but that's really ideal. If you can have an organic farmer in your in your neighborhood, and you know these different co ops where where you commit to buy so they know they've got customers, well, then you can probably get a better deal on price. But we're in a world right now where more than half of the US population has a side hustle, and I think it is because of the ridiculous rise in all costs of living, including food. And there's an organic farmer that he's got an interesting meme. He says, If you think organic produce is expensive, have you priced cancer lately? And you know, he is exactly right. Better quality food, better quality fruits and vegetables, prevents cancer. A worse quality is going to increase the probability. So where do you want to put your money? You know, I would invest it in long term health.

Dr. Spencer Baron:

Very, very cool, good thought. So switching gears just a little bit vegan and carnivore. And there's always a debate amongst Well, it seems like all diets, you know, it's whatever isn't in fashion at the moment, but any thoughts about that from a nutritional standpoint, if you can compare some of them and which are the pros and cons to each, you know,

Dr. Bob Radowski:

the best advice I think I ever heard about nutrition was to eat like our ancestors ate, you know. And we go back a couple 100 years ago, there wasn't processed food. There wasn't the ultras processed food. There wasn't this. 1/3 of our calories from vegetable oil, you know, in 1800 people got an average of five pounds processed sugar. Now they're over 120 pounds processed sugar per person per year. So it's pretty crazy there. But every diet has a place. You know, it's been said, there's no consensus on what the healthiest diet is, but there is consensus on what the sickest diet is, and that's the standard American diet, modern American diet, processed food diet. So vegan, you know, there is a vegan culture, Loma, Linda, California, the Seventh Day Adventists, and they're one of those blue zones where they live to be over 100 longest. So there might be something to that. What's the advantage of carnivore? We have more bugs in our gut than we have cells in our body. The difference between good bugs and bad is what they eat and what they poop. Good bugs eat poop and poop nutrients. Bad Bugs eat nutrients and poop toxins. Most of the bad bugs in our gut happen to be vegan, so if people are eating plant fibers, you know they might be feeding bad bugs in their gut and creating problems. So I've seen people have wonderful benefit from maybe seven to 10 days of a pure carnivore reset, where, like Jordan Peterson and his daughter Michaela Peterson, they do red meat, salt and water. And you know, I've seen some very substantial changes, blood pressure, dropping, blood sugar, dropping cholesterol, dropping on an all animal diet. That's pretty interesting. People losing weight, inflammatory markers going down Harvard did a study of over 2000 people that were diabetic on the carnivore diet. It was six months long, and everybody that was on insulin was able to get off of insulin in that study. So there's benefits, there's benefits to vegan, there's benefits to carnivore. But we are omnivores, you know, we have a hybrid digestive tract, and as I tell people, you know, I've got I've got incisors, I've got canines, I've got molars for grinding. Our entire digestive tract is a hybrid, and structure dictates function. We were meant to have all food types, not one or the other.

Dr. Spencer Baron:

Wow, that's great thought. I i would imagine that reading labels is such an important facet of our shopping extravaganza. And even though I've tried to go with vegan style, or what do they call it, the fake meat, or what have you the if you read the label, there's more probably more junk in some of this, Beyond

Dr. Terry Weyman:

Meat, fake

Dr. Spencer Baron:

meat products and then, and I'm all I also was gluten free for a while, so not all gluten free products are healthy for you. I found that out the hard way when I started reading the labels. Any thoughts on on your perspective of reading labels and being more conscientious of them.

Dr. Bob Radowski:

What that's the starting point? You know, you ought to be able to to pronounce everything on the label. And, you know, so one of one of my mentors, most recently, said, I like one ingredient meals, you know. So what's a one ingredient meal? Beef could be a one ingredient meal. Broccoli could be one. Ingredient meal, asparagus, right? Even a salad is complex, and so, you know, you start looking at it and it is easiest. I call them mono meals, and I've said that for years, when I have someone that I want them to do a gut reset, I like them to do one food per meal, and often with digestive enzymes, because we want to see how is your body reacting to that meal, and one at a time, you can tell it a lot, you know, a lot more effectively. And people do repeat their diet. Last feeding survey I looked at about every four days, people repeat their diet. We don't have much variety, so if you're just eating one thing at a time, you'll see, is this serving me or is it moving me in the wrong direction?

Dr. Terry Weyman:

Wow, right? That's fantastic. You know, we have, we're coming into the holidays. And in holidays, everybody over indulges. They eat way too much sugar, way too much candy, way too much whatever. And then you have, you know, Thanksgiving, where they they way too much Turkey, the trip to fan coma, you know, afterwards trying to watch a football game. What are your your your lifestyle strategies to not only get through the holidays, but if they do over indulge, how to get out of that period of excess? Well,

Dr. Bob Radowski:

you know, holidays, I've had this conversation with patients now for three plus decades. I always like to finish the holidays in better shape than I start. And if you're proactive, and you know, you can do that. So I tell people you want to earn your desserts. And if you you know, if you realize that, you know, maybe a piece of pie has 300 calories, well, you might have to run three miles to earn that, you know. And then you're getting some, some of the extra sweet potato and everything else. And by the time you look at if you're getting 567, 800, extra calories a day, which is easy enough to do, then you start the year behind the eight ball. So, you know, I like people to keep track of it. Why not weigh every day? And you know, I'll tell this story. I had a patient over 30 years ago. He was 88 years old, great shape, great health, all his hair, all his teeth, no medications. And I asked him, you know, what's your secret to longevity. And he said, Bob, it's no secret. I wake up every morning I step on the scale. He says, If I'm a pound heavy, I eat light and I exercise more. If I'm a pound light, I get to have dessert. Now we know the scale is more dynamic than that. You know, there's people that just between electrolytes and water, the scale can have about a five pound difference, but I would like people to be that proactive. Keep track of what you're eating, keep track of what you're exercising, keep track of how you're moving, and why not make it a goal? Weigh yourself right now. Do your body measurements. See how your clothes are fitting. Why not be in better shape January one than you are today? And I would call that a successful holiday season.

Dr. Spencer Baron:

It was said that between this is a crazy statistic, but between Thanksgiving and New Year's, America takes in 60% of their calories, so within a two month period they take for the year, 60% is shoveled in those last months. And then they make New Year's resolutions. Don't stick,

Dr. Terry Weyman:

yeah, and on that, you know, on that note you you know, there's, you'll hear in the holidays, you know, well, they stress eat. You know, I'm stress eating. It's sad to know that in December, there's more suicides than any month of the year, right? And then with all the external, with the election, and all the stuff that we there's enough external there's no storage of external stressors out there. What's some recommendations? You tell your patients to turn down the noise, to change their mind, and some a daily practice to get them in the right mindset.

Dr. Bob Radowski:

Well, daily practice is easy enough, right? Count your blessings. Gratitude is one of those things that really keeps us moving forward. A great day starts the night before. If you have good sleep, you're not likely to be stressed out of your mind the day, or at least less likely. But one of my best interventions that I've done for years is what I call a stress reset. I do a combination of melatonin, theanine and Ganoderma spores every waking hour. Melatonin, we know that the gut makes 400 times the melatonin is the brain. It actually binds to the adrenal glands and prevents the pituitary drive of stress on the body. The theanine is an amino acid at green tea. It's a natural GABA facilitator. It crosses the blood brain barrier and immediately puts the brakes on mental stress. And then the Ganoderma spores actually calms the body, the mind and the spirit. In 2022 they finally studied it and realized that it lowers circulating cortisol. So, you know, if I get people, one, having gratitude. Two, getting good sleep. Three, doing a stress reset. And then how about four, be going into the holidays, proactive, you know, planning out your meals and exercise. I think that's a great way to buffer stress. And you know, you mentioned December being, uh, you know, a month of suicide. You. All of these deaths of despair. Need to all wake us up to realize, look enough fighting, let's, let's, let's love one another and make this world better. I had a suicide in my own practice this week, a 25 year old male. That's what it looks like at this point. And I can't, I can't imagine anything more tragic than that, you get that call, and you come to realize, how could someone so young, with their whole life ahead of them have so much despair? Well, we've created that as we've created this ill health in terms of body, I think we've created body, mind and spirit that all need help together. I think we can solve it, but one loving dig at a time, one good choice at a time.

Dr. Spencer Baron:

What a great recipe, though. Thank you for sharing that. Can you mention that third nutritional product that you mentioned after three and

Dr. Bob Radowski:

three is also known as reishi, so medicinal mushrooms, over a $30 billion a year market. Full disclosure, I'm an investor in the what I consider the best organic Reishi company, and if people want to reach out to me, I'm happy to help them source that. But the Ganoderma spores, the spores are how the plant replicates ganondorma lucidum is called the flowering body. The mycelium has gotten some press. There's a documentary out there called Fantastic fungi, because they're finding that these mushrooms, they can be good for post traumatic stress. They they, you know, the mushrooms can block replication of HIV. You know, that's right in PubMed, it was good for that, you know, virus that the world tried to hype up. You know, over these last couple of years, we knew by March of 2020 that Canada, melissin Reishi was effective against that virus, and now you start looking man's pharmacy, God's pharmacy, God's pharmacy has plenty to offer. Man's pharmacy too, but you have to use that with a lot of caution. God's pharmacy, lot more latitude and safety there.

Dr. Spencer Baron:

Wow. Well as a thank you for that. Thanks for elaborating on that. That's fantastic as a as a health expert that you are, what are some fundamental habits or exercises that you believe might be crucial for longevity and maintaining physical strength as we age? Well, I'm

Dr. Bob Radowski:

going to go with my Magnificent Seven. You've got to eat, right, drink, right. Think, right. Move, right. Sleep, right, poop, right, talk, right, every single day. And I'm gonna, I'm gonna go through the simple hacks of it. So, for eat, right? If God made it's okay. If man made it, stay away. For drink, right? Every you know, everything you put in your body counts. So if you're going to put in coffee or tea, and the world drinks a ton of coffee or tea, why not have healthy, organic turbocharge those are associated with longevity. You know, it's like something like 53% of the coffee in one study has mold and mycotoxins. There's herb herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, heavy metals, micro plastics, you know, clean choices across the board, so no liquid calories. We know that if people drink sugary drinks, they're not very satisfying. They spike blood sugar, they cause different problems. Think, right? So Daniel Amon has a TED talk. He says, Why I learned after 83,000 brain scans, he learned you could change the brain. And he was on a podcast, and someone asked him, you know, if you were an evil genius and want to destroy brains in the world, what would you do? He says, I would create a world just like we created it. And so one of his top tips is, stay away from bad news. If it bleeds it leads. Is one thing we see. And people are waking up to the mainstream news, mainstream media. You know, we are wired to avoid danger, and if someone can make us think that we're in danger, they automatically have our attention. So avoid the bad news, move right. I like every joint, every range of motion, every day, pain free, and it doesn't have to be extensive. There was a Japanese researcher by the name of Tabata, and he wanted to find a very efficient way of exercising. So he took two groups that were age matched, health matched, let's say they were relatively fit people, 25 to 30 years old. He had one group Do light exercise, like a mild jog for one hour three times a week. The other group did four minutes three times a week, where the four minutes was 20 seconds of all out, the highest intensity they could do for whatever exercise they were doing, followed by a 10 second recovery, eight rounds. So 20 seconds all out, 10 second recovery, 20 seconds on 10 second recovery, eight rounds. That's four minutes three times a week. And he found at the end of three months, the people that did that had better body composition, better, strength, better aerobic fitness, better anaerobic fitness. So that was a big part of the high intensity intervals. But I do want people to move every joint to every range of motion in a way that's pain free. You can go on YouTube and you can see these 95 year old ballroom dancers. You know that when they get on the dance floor, they come back to life? Right? Because moving your body does keep you alive, sleep, right? The best of the best, sleep, 8.6 hours a night, vitamin s, Superman, that S on his chest is for sleep, poop, right? That one tends to get chuckles, but all elimination routes, whether we're exhaling, sweating, liver, kidney, bowel, to get rid of toxins. And you know, if we have the right food, right drink and honor our elimination habits and breathing included and sweating all the all the better for us. Talk right? Well, every cell in the body is potentially in communication with every other cell. Most people are familiar with the term the endocrine system, which is a broadcast message, you know, like insulin or growth hormone or thyroid hormone or testosterone or estrogen. But there's also autocrine signaling, where cells talk to themselves, and Paracrine signaling, where cells talk to their neighbors. And I'll give a very ridiculous example. If I'm teaching a seminar and there's 200 doctors in the audience, I usually look out and I say, you know, I see we have a couple of 100 people here, but I also notice no one's sitting on anybody's lap here. Why? Because we respect each other's face. If food comes by, I'm not stealing from other people's plate, because we respect other people's nourishment and food. And if we have to use the restroom, we're going to leave the room and go in private and take care of business, and then come back when we're done. And the reason I mentioned that, and then I lead into it and say, cancer violates all that. Cancer doesn't respect your space. It wants to crowd you. It wants to crush you. It wants to destroy you. It wants to eat your food, drink your drink, and then it poops and peas all over you. So it's a very bad neighbor. And you know, statistically, it's estimated that 99.9% of people walking around get 500 to 1000 cancer cells a day. So the solution is the immune system. Keep a valid immune system, and what are the enemies of the immune system? Stress, toxins, malnutrition, physical inactivity. So the things we're talking about keep us safe. They they can be and should be great daily practices. And the more we do to get better, the better we make. The whole world.

Dr. Spencer Baron:

Oh my gosh, that was a fantastic list. That was great. And we all love the the poop conversation, because nobody wants to address that. So thank you for forget approaching it. So we have an issue with mental stress these days, more so over the last couple of years than ever before, possibly because of COVID and other factors. What? How does diet affect the your state of mind and emotions?

Dr. Bob Radowski:

Well, first and foremost, we have more brain chemistry in our gut than we have in our head, between our ears. And so we have to know that what we're putting in that gut is going to matter. And so there was a, you know, an author a number of years ago, he wrote a book called The second brain, and he was talking about the gut, and over 90% of the serotonin in the gut, over 90% of the dopamine and the bugs in our gut actually make brain chemicals as well. And so you start looking, and there's plenty of evidence now that you should really start with the gut for any type of mental health issue that people have, whether it's the food they're putting in their digestive capacity, the bugs, or probably a combination of all the above. You get those things, right? There's a lot of things in terms of the brain that get better.

Dr. Spencer Baron:

Dr Rakowski, could you please? I think it's a perfect time to make a comment about antibiotics.

Dr. Bob Radowski:

Yep. Well, the word anti is against bio life. Antibiotics are against life. And if you swallow an antibiotic, you're going to kill some of the bugs in your gut. And once you kill off those bugs, and the healthy bugs are more vulnerable. Isn't it fascinating that the stuff that's good to us is really vulnerable to the antibiotics the bad bugs, not so much anymore, because we have abused them so much, and so over 80% of antibiotics is used in livestock. If people have meat or milk or eggs, there's residues of those antibiotics in it. We know that. By the way, when animals poop, the antibiotics get into the soil, the plants are taking it up. And as we put those things through our gut, as we kill off the good bugs, then we can have overgrowth of yeast, parasite, fungus, bacteria, and as that happens, our whole body goes downhill. So there's a certainly a link between antibiotic overuse and chronic illness, antibiotic overuse and yeast infection, antibiotic overuse and breast cancer, antibiotic overuse and chronic fatigue. You know, if we need an antibiotic, awesome. You know, that's the time to use it. But using an antibiotic for anything or everything or prophylactically, generally, not a good idea.

Dr. Spencer Baron:

Yeah, I am so glad you brought that up and elaborated on that, because antibiotic you, you know, it was interesting. It's this seems to be a pendulum. Even the FDA was prompting physicians to reduce the number of prescriptions for antibiotics, because they understood this. We were building these. We were our bodies were a medium for developing super infections, not just when you take your full round of antibiotics, but oftentimes, people would get a, you know, a seven day prescription, oh, I'm feeling better after two days or three days. So I'm not going to. So what? They don't realize they what they they killed off. What they killed off allowed the strong to survive, because they did anyway. So it's like a real catch 22 so thank you for bringing that up, because I think what's happening is the pendulum is swimming back to the wrong side again. And I also believe it's because doctors. I don't know if it's the insurance company's fault or the doctor's fault, but the insurance companies are squeezing doctors down to spend an average of seven minutes with a patient. How do you, I mean, I don't know about, I mean, I know about Dr Terry and I'm sure Dr Rakowski, you spend a little more than seven minutes, maybe a lot more than seven minutes with a patient, and we solve complicated problems, and usually the medical cast offs. So how is it that a doctor, well, the only way a doctor can see you in seven minutes is he just writes you a prescription. So, you know, let that sink in our listeners heads. You know, a lot of our listeners are already practicing the way we think, and then it's the lay people that really need to, you know, develop an understanding. If you have any thoughts about commentary, well,

Dr. Bob Radowski:

you know, it's a profit driven system. So, you know, I over this last go round, we probably learned quite a bit about that. So, for instance, I've got a patient that's a pediatrician, and he didn't, you know, he felt so coerced and forced. He was getting paid$1,000 to inject six month old babies for COVID 19, you know, and getting a lot of pressure from people that run the clinic, because you're leaving a lot of money on the table. Now, first and foremost, how does that make any sense? It certainly doesn't. It makes a lot of dollars for the drug companies and the clinics. But when you're focused on profits, you know, health care is not very profitable. Sick care is and and so you know, what would you know, the best expense in health would be investing in a good gym, a good trainer, a proactive health care provider, and organic food, whereas sick care. You say, I feel lousy, someone you know looks at lab. Maybe AI did the interpretation. Maybe the doctor doesn't need as much time. But keep in mind the word Doctor means teacher. How much can you teach someone in seven minutes? And you know, are they even trying to and from my experience, talking to people that have seen these other doctors, it is just a matter of, here's a drug get out of here, you know. And health, no, we don't study that, you know. That's not what they're they're there to do. So hopefully we see a big shift in that coming in the near future.

Dr. Terry Weyman:

I hope so. Yeah, I question my you know, and this is a so kind of wraps a couple things we've talked about. But my son was living in Portugal and and he used to say that he would go eat dinner at six and he was full, and he wouldn't be hungry for the rest of the night, and we'd have a great night's sleep. He comes home and he eats at six. He eats again at eight. Eats again at 10. He doesn't sleep really well. He's always hungry and and for a parent, part of my friends, it's fucking expensive, because you're paying for three major meals. So you know? And Spencer talked about for people that trying to save money. But I'm like, you know, what is the main difference between the density of food in, let's say, Portugal, Spain, Italy, versus the density in the food in the US? And how do you find food that's going to be dense and nutrient that they can eat at six o'clock and be fine till next morning, but without growing it, especially beef, I can't I have no room for a cow in my house.

Dr. Bob Radowski:

Well, you know, good luck with that, because it's so amazing how many things are different, you know, so like, you know, Kennedy, you know, you brought into life. You talking about personal care products. We have something like 1200 chemicals that are banned here, that are used in products everywhere. You started looking at things like Roundup, glyphosate herbicides, insecticides, fungicides. I consistently see from from my own experience, when I go to Europe, when I go to Asia, when I go to Africa, I eat like a king, and I come back lighter, and I do sleep better, and I do have more energy. And it's got to be that there's more good stuff in it and less bad stuff in it, and how much of it. Difference? Well, in your son's case, you know enough to make he's got to eat three meals, and he's still not satisfied for what he could get in one there. So that's probably a reasonable estimate of how much better that food is.

Dr. Terry Weyman:

So where you find the good food out here markets, or the

Dr. Bob Radowski:

organic farmer in the farmers market. But I think there's more than that. I think there's differences in the air. I think there's differences in the groundwater. Because when I have patients that compare what how they feel in Europe, and their diet and their body comp and their body response, there really is no comparison. It's just as dramatic as what you're talking about with your son.

Dr. Spencer Baron:

Yeah, it's amazing. So you developed a unique protocol resetting the body's stress response. Please share that with so far you've given us just a ton of information, so I'm just going to squeeze you for more. So give me some insights and protocols on how you do this, resetting the body stress response. I want, I

Dr. Bob Radowski:

want to give a little background first. So, you know, I've taught on a functional medicine circuit for over three decades, and it was 2002 I did an international series with the founder of Functional Medicine, Dr Jeffrey bland, on stress related disorders. And you come back and you know there's data, and it even goes up to modern day, but they estimate that somewhere between 75 and 90% of all doctor visits are in some way related to stress. And when we're stressed over something, and when our body gets in fight or flight, our body prioritizes resources to fight or flight. So that means it shuts down digestion. It shuts down liver to a certain degree. It shuts down kidney to a certain degree, the immune system shuts down higher level thought process, even joy, shut down. So you know, people are not digesting if they're not absorbing, if they're not detoxifying, if they're not having good thoughts, How good can their life be? And so when I started putting people on stress reset the melatonin every waking hour, suddenly you come to realize that when the body no longer has the stress drive, it frees up resources to digest, to absorb, to repair, cells, to detoxify. So the melatonin calms the body. Theanine calms the mind and the Ganoderma spores it there's actually medical literature that says it calms the body by lowering cortisol and driving the parasympathetic nervous system, calms the mind, because it's a GABA facilitator and then the spirit that's a little tougher. They actually call it the herb of spiritual potency. But when we put the brakes on stress, and people suddenly can make better use of what they have in their body and get rid of what they don't need. A lot of things get better. I have plenty of people that feel that the stress reset was the seven to 10 days that bounced their life back in the direction to where they could see hope again.

Dr. Spencer Baron:

That is fantastic. Yeah. I find that that stress? Well, stress is provoked by break breaching all the, you know, the sleeping and the eating properly and so on, and then just and then it causes so many you hear about it all the time, causing disease states. And you know, if people can just tend to turn off the TV, especially when I'm in South Florida, so especially when there's a hurricane coming, that is a known fact that the therapists and psychologists are much more busy the weeks before and during this the way the news reports the hurricane. And it's not like Dr Terry's earthquakes, that fires boom, come and go.

Dr. Terry Weyman:

We get with the we get the fires, and we'll watch it, and they'll just have the same thing on for hours. You know, it's the same thing. You know? I gotta interject some. You talked about melatonin every hour. Can you break that down for the person that's listening. I mean, what is your milligrams? Are you literally taking it every hour you're awake? And what milligrams you talking about? And what was the second thing you mentioned? You a tea or something, theanine.

Dr. Bob Radowski:

Theanine is amino acid green tea. But so melatonin, one to two milligrams every waking hour, really, depending on body size, right? So you get a 200 pound male, he'll do, you know, the two milligrams you get 120 pound female, she'll do one. Theanine is 100 to 200 milligrams every waking hour. The Ganoderma spores actually do 500 milligrams of an organic Spore. And between those three, it's just a phenomenal way of pulling the plug on stress fast. Now people think, well, you give me melatonin, wouldn't that make me tired? It shouldn't keep in mind, if the gut makes 400 times the melatonin as the brain, and it does, why are we not sleeping 24/7 and the answer is, it doesn't cross the blood brain barrier, but theanine actually does, and so do the Ganoderma spores. So that's that's how we. We break it down. So one milligram melatonin, if you're petite, two milligrams if you're a little bigger, 100 milligrams standing 200 if you're a little bigger, 500 milligrams. Again, the dermis spores, no toxicity on either direction. I haven't do that every waking hour for seven to 10 days, you know? I'll have people to set a little alarm on their iPhone, and it goes off and boom, you know, they just take their nutrients, but it's amazing. Some people will feel real tired for a couple days because they're running on stress hormones. And I just did a consult earlier today, and by it said it took them days. It took them six or seven days where they felt absolutely horrible. Then by the seventh day, they realized, whoa, something good just happened. You know, my body was working, right? I feel wonderful. So, yeah, gotta get long enough tense enough to make a difference. What

Dr. Terry Weyman:

a great tip for entering our holidays. What a great thing for people to do. Thank you for that.

Dr. Spencer Baron:

I will say that the melatonin thing was, there's some interesting effects in a positive manner. I started taking it before bed, and I cannot, no, I'm not saying this just because we're on the air. It was actually remarkable the rest and the quality of sleep, not the quantity of sleep, the quality of sleep that I was, that I've been getting, that I almost was afraid to take it every single night, so I tried to back off because I didn't want to ruin I didn't want to, you know, become desensitized to it. But it's been fantastic every time.

Dr. Bob Radowski:

So it's anti cancer by 10 different mechanisms. It's a mitochondrial specific antioxidant. They're now tracing melatonin back. They can find it in fossil records over a billion years. If you can imagine, they can have that level of preciseness. So melatonin is very important throughout the entire life cycle, and every living organism. Fantastic. What

Dr. Spencer Baron:

order a couple bottles of that right now. Thanks. That was great. Plus the other, the other two things that you had mentioned as well. Dr Rakowski, we're going to go into one of our favorite parts of our program, and it's near the end of it, and it's called the rapid fire questions. You obviously are quick on your feet. I'm sure you had your melatonin and all the other theanine and everything. I'm sure you're ready. We have five questions you can answer them briefly and concisely, but I must say we tend to get hung up on a cool thing that you might say, so be prepared. Are you ready?

Dr. Bob Radowski:

I was born ready. Let's do it

Dr. Spencer Baron:

right on question number one, how did you get the job of C, H, O, Chief happiness officer.

Dr. Bob Radowski:

But you know what I decided? You know, I just made a decision as a teen, I wasn't happy. And, you know, probably because we all go through different stuff, and we haven't found our identity yet. And I adopted a mentor, and he said, you know, he certainly didn't come up with the best way to be happy is to give happy. So why don't you smile at people and give them compliments? And you know what I thought? All right, let's give that a shot. And you know what? You only need to do that for a day or two. And you come to realize, wait a minute, when you can be nice to people, when you can add value, when you can share a smile. And there's one of those ideas, right? If someone doesn't have a smile, give them one of yours, right? Because we have, we have an infinite supply. It's better to give than receive, and that was a good way to find, figure that out. And everybody wants happy. So give happy. Be happy.

Dr. Terry Weyman:

My wife walks around the office saying that she's the chief either happiness offer or the chief fund liaison. I mean, she's, yeah, she's giving herself the same labels. And I have to admit, you know, she's always laughing, and patients are always going, Gosh, that makes me feel better. So kudos to my wife. She's our ch o at our office. Yeah, that's

Dr. Spencer Baron:

great. That's great. I'd be remiss if I didn't mention something that you had started to say earlier about farming and, you know, responsible farming, we have had two podcasts with a woman that we I call her Dr farmer, because she's so comprehensive and understanding on responsible farming. She's with the company's Guardian grains, and it to listen to her shows and hear what she talks about that, how other farms adulterate food and just to to make the grade, and, you know, you know, produce, and get the production out there that it's shocking. With that said, question number two, we

Dr. Terry Weyman:

gotta, we gotta hook these two up. Dr, Bob, we're gonna, I'm gonna send you information of Dan lewowski. It's a person you should really get to know, because she you can buy direct from her. So you get the pastas, you can get the grain, and it's all regenerative for I mean, she does it the right way. So I'm gonna make sure you guys are hooked up after the show.

Dr. Spencer Baron:

Thank you. And quite frankly. That's the only pasta that I dared to eat because I'm gluten sensitive. Yes, she's fantastic, no bloating, and she's got the coolest conversation about it. It's very, very involved in a manner that we didn't know. With that said, We understand you are a coffee lover, so we just happen I also have a coffee company that supports us. And what we want to know what your favorite blend is?

Dr. Bob Radowski:

Well, you know, the king of coffee from Organa won the award is the best organic coffee in the world in 2022 Reishi infused, that's my go to you know, tested for herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, molds, mycotoxins, microplastics, heavy metals, clean across the board and infused with organic Reishi. That's, that's, that's my go to coffee.

Dr. Spencer Baron:

Wow, so it's like a mushroom coffee as well, because I'm hearing more about it. Yep. Fantastic. Thank you. Question number three, what food trend drives you crazy the most,

Dr. Bob Radowski:

oh, boy, you know, probably these planned package diets, whether we're talking Weight Watchers or something like that. They're, you know, can they? Can they be good? Sure they can, but it gets people away from their actual relationship with their food. I think if people had a relationship from actually planting it, growing it, making sure that it was clean, that'll be better. Now it's not practical across the board, but the closer you can get to knowing it's clean and preparing it, the better. I guess. The trend of putting convenience over health, we're paying the price, and that would be the trend that drives me most crazy.

Dr. Spencer Baron:

Very good question number four, you seem to be inspired by a lot of mentors and very knowledgeable folks in your history. What's one piece of advice you got a long time ago that you still use today to guide you, or might be

Dr. Bob Radowski:

the most universal piece, right? That's going to be the golden rule, treat others like you want to be treated. You go back every single society you know that's been successful, they've had some version of that. And so, you know, I think that's as good as it gets. Treat others as we want to be treated.

Dr. Spencer Baron:

Very good. Thanks. Question number five, and our final question is, what is your favorite holiday ritual?

Dr. Bob Radowski:

Oh, boy. Well, now I'm a grandfather, right? So my granddaughters and you know, somehow our family is gets really good at making girls. So my sixth is actually due in May. But the ritual, you know, maybe it'd be, even be the Easter egg hunt, you know, because you see these little kids, and they're so excited, and they're looking around and, you know, it's interactive. They're playing it. They make it fun. You know, presents, my kids are still a little small Christmas. It'd be hard to be Christmas morning, but right now, with the five granddaughters, I'm actually going to go the Easter egg hunt is going to be my favorite holiday ritual

Dr. Spencer Baron:

for them, cage free, organic eggs. I'm sure

Dr. Bob Radowski:

these are the the plastic ones with little surprises in it, but you bet, even better, we do free range organic if we're going to eat them, yep.

Dr. Spencer Baron:

Well, that wraps up our rapid fire questions. Drowsy you are just a just a monsoon of information. So thank you so much for being on our show. Well,

Dr. Bob Radowski:

thank you both. Well, that's the hour just flew that is beyond amazing. Well,

Dr. Terry Weyman:

we so appreciate you and your wisdom and and being now part of our cracking backs family is is kind of cool and, and, and whoever taught you to and told you to smile, that's the one thing I appreciate you. When we first connected on LinkedIn was I go, man, I was drawn to that smile. So you know, you keep it up, keep making people healthy, keep working hard. And you know, if we can support you in any way, we're going to do that. So thank you so much for your time. Yeah, thank

Dr. Bob Radowski:

you. What a joy. Our wonderful world needs all the help that it can get. Yes,

Dr. Terry Weyman:

it does. All right. Brother, take care, bud.

Dr. Spencer Baron:

Thank you for listening to today's episode of The cracking backs podcast. We hope you enjoyed it. Make sure you follow us on Instagram at cracking backs podcast. Catch new episodes every Monday. See you next time you.