Only the best herbs - Episode 8

www.surgeonsolutions.orgwww.cbdsurgeons.shopHost, Ryan Bolda, interviews bio-chemist & Business owner, Christen M.

Episode Transcript

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Broadcasting live from Mount Clement, Michigan. This is only the best herbs with Ryan Boulda.

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I just wanted to create a show in a community where you can be yourself and learn about
all natural medicine.
What's going on everybody? It's Ryan here from Surgeons LLC. Today I'm with Kristin.

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She is the owner of a new upcoming business. I'm definitely going to let her explain about
this because she is really excited. I'm really excited for her. So, all right, Kristin, what
do you got for us?
So it's a red squirrel mycology. Basically, I'm going to be putting out a hardware line

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that is unique. I don't think anybody has done it before and certainly not a whole product
line. It's geared mainly towards making mycology more user-friendly for the beginner, for the

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absolute beginner. I'm going to be doing some kits along with the line to starter packs
to help people have what they need and some videos to go along with them. I mean, there
are PGT and the rookie mycologists and all those people who have trailblazed in terms

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of providing instructional videos. But I think that everybody learns a little differently.
So watching their videos might be more helpful for certain people than watching mine might
be helpful for other people. So I think there's room in that space to grow in order to help

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people.
Most definitely.
So real quick, I want to talk about these seeds and glass that we have, these glass
pipes. Glass pipes are really, in my opinion, really nice. Right here, we got a bubbler.

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We let this go for probably around 30, 35 bucks. It's really nice. And here we got seeds, right?
We got candy cookies. We got crazy kush. And we got ruba cookies, which I kind of like

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the name of this. It's kind of how they come. Message in a bottle, right? Seeds in a bottle.
This company, Ruga Monterto, we partnered up with them for what is called the Hemford
Humanity. We're still doing that, by the way. It's just taking some time. And yeah, kind

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of thank me if you are interested in possibly a glass like this. Our top quality, feminized
genetics, courtesy of Ruga Monterto. We need more dependable mycology supplies, contaminations,
a huge issue. It's the number one issue mycologists face daily when working with microbials or

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mushrooms, fungus in general, I suppose. But it's not a new industry. It's definitely a
trending industry at the moment. However, it's not new. What would you say? Do you think
it's the time to get into the microbial business now? Clearly, you think so, right?

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Yeah, I think so. I've read that the increase in popularity was really spurred by COVID-19
and people trying to find natural ways to help themselves. When I was looking at the
industry and the metrics of it and everything, that's apparently where there's been a big

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boom in the last couple of years and that's why. I didn't even think about that.
You know, it's wild.
So, I wanted to touch on your backstory a little bit. I know you were in college, you
studied microbials or biochemistry actually, right? Tell me a little bit more about your

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schooling and your background.
So, I went to school when I was younger to get my undergrad in bioorganic chemistry with
the aim of going on the PhD track for research. But a couple years in, I got really sick and

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I had to leave school in order to get treatment. So, that was put on pause for a while. And
then once I recovered, I didn't go back to school immediately. I started working in the
horse industry because I grew up loving and riding horses. So, I just kind of went right

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into the workforce. I was itching to do something, you know? So, you know, I worked my way up
from being a regular horse groom to an international level horse groom where I worked with like
Olympic level athletes. Yeah, I flew on a, you know, a big 747 cargo plane with forces

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to England.
Hello from Amsterdam. So, Coco Bell and I are currently in a 747 at the airport waiting
to be unloaded because there is a windstorm, the likes of which nobody has ever seen before.

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So, I opted to stay on board with the horses to take care of them because, well, duh, you
know, they can't be alone. Can you Coco say hi?
You're Amsterdam, buddy. We're almost there. And Bebes is back there too. Can't really

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see her. But we are waiting and I am going to make them a little bit more mash and eat
some extra apples at the reserve. We don't have a long, long wait here, couple more
hours, but we're in the home stretch and yeah. So, let's go bye Coco. Bye bye. Bye bye bye

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bye.
I only have some stories, you know, it's one of four people on this giant aircraft. It
was just a wild, you know, meet three other people and two horses and a plane full of
flowers from Argentina to Amsterdam. Yeah.

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That was like a, what a visual.
Yeah, I've got videos too of the flight, you know, the plane and it's crazy because, you
know, it's just nuts because you go from, you know, the top of the airplane where it's
kind of like the nose where you see like the windows. There's like the pilots and then eight

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seats and then there's a door that leads out and a ladder down into the cargo. That cargo
is full, just like full of flowers, cut flowers and it smells like nothing you've ever smelled.
And you know, and then there are horses and I had to go and check on the horses every

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two hours on this, you know, transatlantic flight. You know, carry a oxygen tank with
you in case the plane depressurizes and it's just like real, it's crazy.
Wow. That's tense. Yeah. That's tense. Wow. Wow. That is so cool. I know we had talked
a little bit earlier before this interview. So you, you are currently retired from horse

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training and doing all that and you're 757s, right? Yeah. Yeah. I retired, you know, I
got really dis, I would say disenchanted with it due to the human side of it. There's a,

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there are a lot of like human rights violations in the industry, you know, in terms of like
how many hours you work, no fair compensation with that. And then the end with the amount
of hours and the physical nature of the work, there should be more staff. But the people

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that run these businesses, you know, it's all about cost that because nobody regulates
it, you know, they put a lot on one person. Yeah, there's verbal physical abuse, you
know, and also taking care, like taking advantage of undocumented workers in this country.
It's also a big thing, which I mean, is part of the course, unfortunately, but, you know,

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it's just, it's a, it's a, there's definitely a dark side to it. And I just couldn't do
it anymore. So long story short. So you had mentioned that you were going to school, right?
And you weren't able to finish because you had gotten sick. What we haven't really touched
on yet is the struggle you had with Lyme disease and the story behind that because you figured

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out you had it at a young age. So the day that I found out like what Lyme disease was
and that I may have it, I was 20, I think I was about 23. And I had been experiencing
so like before that, I was experiencing for over a decade, these weird symptoms. And I

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had seen, they started at age 11. And I saw every kind of doctor and nobody could figure
out what was wrong. And I'm in South Florida, just for reference. And nobody would think
to search for Lyme disease. So, you know, I was kind of told that it's in my head, there's
something wrong. And just to push through. And so I did that until I was, I did that

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until I was 23. And my, I started to get these really severe neurological symptoms where
I was tripping my speech with slur. And my, my fingertips. So the day that I, that I
found out I might have Lyme disease, my fingertips started to go numb. And I was not really able

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to breathe well. So I went to my university clinic. And a nurse practitioner there, like
after I got oxygen, my O2 was really low. Up there, I received that. And then the nurse
practitioner said, you know, we had been talking a little bit and talking a little bit about
horses. And she put together that I could have Lyme. And so she did the testing for

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that. I had to go in, I think every week to get my blood tested, because Lyme can hide
in the body. And the time that it tends to express itself and you can catch the antibodies
are when this one, the, the moon is at its fullest. So it cycles with the moon. So I

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had to get tested every week to make sure it didn't, you know, miss it. And lo and behold,
it showed up. And that, that nurse practitioner knew of one of the leading doctors in the
field of treatment. And she got me a referral to go to her. So it took me a couple months

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to get in. But yes, I did have, I did have Lyme. And it was causing everything. So I
had to go through treatment, which for, for my level of severity, I was kind of in like
end stage Lyme at the time, you know, almost to the point of no return. And I had to do

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six months of doxycycline. And the normal, which is an antibiotic that at a normal level
would be about 50 milligrams would be the dose. And mine was 200 milligrams for six
months. So that was really, really harsh on my system. And I also did part of the treatment

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was herbal medicines as well.
Well, you are on a show called only the best hers. So what kind of her, what kind of national
remedies are you talking about?
There's bandarol and cement, which come from a tree in the Amazon. That's just bark, the
bark of the tree. And it actually destroys biofilms online. And a biofilm is kind of

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like a protective like armor almost around the Lyme particles. And immune system can
break through it. Like the immune system can attack it as much as it wants. And it actually
it hides with the biofilm so you can go dormant, you can have a ton of it in your system and
you know, your body can't fight it.

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That's so confusing.
I know. I know.
That's so, that's so crazy.
It's wild. And so I use the herbal therapies and a whole host of, you know, conventional
medicine. And it took me five years to feel something like normal again, or for the first

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time since I was 11, you know, and that was, it's wild.
You know, years later, you get, find out you're in remission. You worked with doctors to get
back healthy and whatnot. Describe to me day one, how did you feel once you were, you know,
you started to feel better and realized you were in remission and everything was going

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to be okay.
I think it's, it's like joy, you know, because there's, it's just, there's just a lot of
joy with it because I felt like I was trapped and limited in my body by my body for so long.
And suddenly there's just this blank check to do whatever I want to do. And I can do

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anything that a normal person can do now. And like so many things were off limits to me.
Like, if I couldn't, I couldn't go, I couldn't go outside for very long because I would like
really like overheat really quick. You know, all of my joints hurt in my body.
That's just, that's just blows my mind. And I'm so glad you got that. I'm so glad you

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got that back.
Me too. Me too. I mean, it's that feeling that, you know, you can do anything. It's just,
it's really free, you know, and I still, I can still remember quite vividly how it felt,
you know, and it's like, that's why I feel, you know, such sympathy and compassion for

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people who have things like fibromyalgia, MS, you know, any, you know, any facilitating
rheumatoid arthritis, anything that is, you know, really holding somebody back and like
the pains of that every day, you know, I really feel for them. You know, it's, it's, it's
hard. It's really hard.

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All right. So after this, you live your life, right? And then you get the idea to start the
red squirrel mycology business, right? How much of a inspiration would you say beating
your Lyme disease has been for starting your business?

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Well, so when I was, when I was, you know, at my first attempt, my first go around at
my undergrad, which I'm, I'm now back at school again to complete.
But at my first, my first go around, I was a biochemical lab assistant in school. And

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I was working on a term project for the head of the department to, so he, he was, he's
working on broad spectrum and I'm fairly sure that he still is PRMT, PRMT research, which
is protein, arginine, methyl transferases, their enzymes that catalyze the addition of

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methyl groups on protein arginine. So, and they are implicated long story short, they're
implicated in like their role, they have a role in the progression of human disease
and the onset of disease. So like, you know, cardiovascular issues, prostate cancer, brain

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colon cancer, skin cancer, they're all like that they're involved in like the dirty business.
So, we were working on isolating and activating these enzymes that are very poorly researched
or were at the time. And we're using that essentially to in the hopes of developing

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cancer vaccines. So it's cancer vaccine research. And I successfully isolated and activated PRMT
5 and I think I was the only one in the lab to successfully isolate and activate an enzyme
aside from the professor. And so that is in a deep freezer somewhere, all that activated

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enzyme that he's probably using to, you know, to advance that research. So I have a history,
you know, I've wanted to advance medicine, you know, and I want to help cure diseases
and help manage them. So, you know, that's that's always been a passion and then, you

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know, finding out I had finding out that I had Lyme going through that process, the
beating it. Yeah, beating it. You know, and going through going through that that whole
process, you know, it's, it's reinforced that that passion in me, for sure. So with Red

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Sporal, you know, ultimately beyond, you know, selling the the basic, you know, the products
and, you know, whatever else I'm selling, it's really my goal is to advance medicine.
And the understanding, the scientific understanding of, you know, natural and naturally derived

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remedies. You know, there's a lot of, you know, there's research being done on, you know,
neurogenesis with, you know, mushrooms with psalosy, lion's mane, reishi, you know, those
kinds. So, you know, I want to, I want to get into that, you know, and see, see what

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comes of it, for sure. I thought this multiple times while you're, you know, while you were
speaking, like, if no one else has told you you're a hero, you're legitimately a hero
out there trying to cure diseases, molecular level, molecular hero. That's really awesome.

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So we've talked about a little bit about the Red Sporal Mycology. You have a big launch
coming up. Tell me about that.
So I'm going to be launching my first product line on October 1. And it's going to be that

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that beginner, well, and I shouldn't just say beginner, because there's not that's the
inspiration for it is to make, make a line of, how do I say, row, growth medium, like
jars, bags, make it make it easier, but also potentially reducing contamination. Because,

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you know, contamination is the biggest issue we have with growing mushrooms and mushroom
research and everything. So I'm really looking to hone in on any, any little way I can to
reduce contaminant. And, you know, I was looking at this initially, it's just lids that I would

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make for myself. And I was like, well, you know, why stop there? You know, lids, you
know, bags, et cetera, just being big about it right now, but you'll see.
Yeah, I'm sure I will see. And I'm excited to see too. The one thing I had to ask you
though, we have talked a little bit about it is the inspiration behind the Red Squirrel.

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Like, where did you get the name from?
So it's, it's actually a pretty funny story. So the, so first off, I'm a redhead. So that's
kind of where the Red Squirrel came in. But a little crazy, a little nuts, you know, but
the squirrels on my property where I live now are hilarious creatures because we have these,

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we have a bunch of mango trees. And, you know, when the mango fruit drops, it ferments and
creates alcohol. So it's like, they're like these alcoholic fruits. And the squirrels eat
them on purpose. And they just, they're drug squirrels running around.

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That's awesome.
Just there's chaos, you know, and they're, they're hilarious to watch because they're
doing things that just don't make sense.
Even for a squirrel.
Even squirrel. So that's kind of where, you know, Red Squirrel came from for me. So just
they're hilarious. And so another, another aspect of my shop and what I'm going to offer,

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I'm, I mean, potentially what I'm working on. It's in very early stages, whether it
be agar, brain jars, brain bags, that sort of thing. I'm looking at, you know, accelerating
timelines without use of antibiotics. You know, that's, that's mainly like that's another,

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another area.
And products. So, and that's actually what I'm going to go and do today.
Yeah.
So, you know, stage, you know, stage one of that. I have a, I have a Facebook page and
I have a website and development.
Facebook page is Red Squirrel Mycology. That's the name. And there's also, you know, that's

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also the link.
So yeah, I mean, just watch out for my products. I'm going to drop them, you know, October
1st. And there's also going to be some giveaways as well. So, and that's going to be in Swampy
State and I think also by you and your page as well.

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For sure.
So there's going to be a bunch of giveaways going on. I want people to try my product,
you know, and yeah, that's it.
I'm excited. I'm really excited.
All right, everybody. I appreciate everyone who tuned in this week. Just a reminder, we're

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that you can only find on the Apple Podcast. So be sure to subscribe to that.
Big thank you to Kristin for showing up today and representing the Red Squirrel and Mycology.

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Stay tuned for her launch in October.
Next week, we have part two of my interview with my partner Sheila. Definitely don't want
to miss that.
Again, my name is Ryan Boulder. I'll see you soon. You'll see me soon.