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Speaker 3 (01:01):
Good Day America. This is doctor Adam Brockman coming to
you on The Doctor Bob Martin Show, where we confront
the health challenges that keep you up at night, not
just with facts but with solutions. Today we're addressing an
epidemic that has become tragically routine in our country, and
that's mass shootings. I want to go ahead and bring
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in doctor Bob Martin in this conversation, Doctor Bob, how
are you today?
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I'm well? In you, Doctor Brockman, I'm fine.
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And this topic is heavy, folks.
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And recently, yet another government agency and yet another community
was shattered with another school, another workplace, another church, another
public space that's been transformed into a crime scene. It's
another set of families that are left grieving and another
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round of thoughts and prayers from leaders who seem powerless
to stop this cycle of violence. But here's where our
leaders are. They're reinforcing this isn't just about guns. It's
about a deeper sickness in our society. And the question
is is this a perfect storm of mental illness, social isolation,
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and a culture in media that too often glorifies violence
over compassion. And doctor Bob. The stats they're staggering, over
two hundred and fifty mass shootings in the United States
this year alone. It's a number that no other developed
nation even comes close to matching. And our children, they're
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practicing lockdown drills more often than they are fire drills,
and they're growing up in fear of their own classrooms.
And the survivors in this of these public shootings, they
suffer ETSD rates that are higher than war veterans, and
they carry this invisible wound for life. Yet instead of
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meaningful action, we get the same tired debates where lobbyists
and politicians block even the most common sense reforms. Meanwhile,
the real drivers of this crisis, like social media, that
algorithms that feed rage and alienation, that it's a healthcare
system that still fails those in mental distress, and corporations
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they're still profiting from the division. Everything continues unchecked. And
today I want to cut through and ask some of
the hard questions. Why does America have thirty times more
mass shootings than any other comparable nation. What role do
psychiatric medications truly play? And we need to separate the
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science from phecul here, and how do we protect our
children in schools? And doctor Bob, I know you brought
to my attention when we were talking about this topic.
You brought a different a little bit different on this
mass shooting at the CDC. Can you can you explain
that a little bit further?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
I can, And by now, Doctor Brockman, everyone knows. August
twenty seventh, another monster opened fire on the church next
to Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, killing two children, wounding
seventeen more, as well as two elderly parishioners. Forty fourth
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school shooting this year. That's the forty fourth school shooting
this year. Mass shootings are much higher in the US
than any other country. Why why are these horrible senseless
killings occurring in our beautiful country. Well, recently, Robert F.
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Kennedy Junior, the Health and Human Services Secretary head the
following to say about it, go.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
The certainly consider mass shootings a health crisis, and we
are doing for the first time real studies to find
out what the ideology of that is. And we're looking
for the first time at the psychiatric drugs. If people
have had guns in this country forever, it's happening in
our country. It's not happening around the world, and there
are many other countries that have comparable levels of guns
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that we have in this country. Something changed, and it
dramatically changed human behavior. And one of the culprits we
need to examine is whether the fact that we are
the most over medicated nation in the world and at
a lot of those are psychiatric drugs that have black
box warnings on them that warn of suicidal and homicidal ideation.
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So we are doing studies right now for the first
time and we will have an answer.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Okay. And that was Robert F. Kennedy, Junior Health and
Human Services Secretary, talking about, you know, looking into it.
It's sort of like reminds me, doctor Brockman of what
we covered in the first hour of the show, investigating
why it is that America's health is so poor and
why the CDC has been sleeping at the wheel and
covering the backs of their pharmaceutical companies, which seem to
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be the ones who are pulling the strings over the CDC.
This sort of like is him launching into at least
trying to investigate why it is that the United States
has so many of these mass shootings compared to other countries.
That's what they're looking into. The potential link between pharmaceutical
drugs such as medically prescribed antidepressants ADHD drugs for hyperactivity
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and attention deficit of hyperactive disorder, anti anxiety drugs, and
marijuana use as potentially contributing to the frightening and unprecedented
rise in mass shootings in the United States. And I
know that a lot of people are going to say, wow, no,
there can't be one. No't there's probably not one, cause
it's probably a mixed bag. But until we actually lift
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the cover and look underneath to try to find out
what's going on, we're not going to get to the
bottom of this, why this is occurring. And according to
the FDA doctor Brockman, there are over one hundred and
twenty five medical drugs with warning labels on them about
the risk of someone taking that drug and then contemplating suicidality,
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in other words, killing themselves as a result of taking
a prescribed drug. One hundred and twenty five different drugs
carry that label. So the question is if a medically
prescribed drug can cause imbound is in a person's brain
sufficient to propel the same person to end their own
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life via suicide. Are those same medically prescribed psychological or
psychiatric drugs also capable of pushing a deranged or mentally
ill person over the edge wherein they want to take
the lives of many others before killing themselves, and perhaps
as sick as and is demented as that it sounds
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it's what's really going on now. The research from the
National Institutes of Justice ANIJ and other sources indicates that
the number of mass shootings in the US began to
increase noticeably after the year two thousand, with a particularly
sharp rise in the twenty tens. However, the COVID nineteen
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pandemic saw even more significant surges in mass shootings beginning
around mid twenty twenty. Overall, these medically prescribed drugs, these
antipsychotic drugs, prescriptions have been on the rise in recent years,
particularly for atypical second generation antipsychotics off label uses, and
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the trend varies significantly depending on the age group, of course,
with some populations experiencing a sharp rise. And it's not
just let's just face it's not just prescription drugs such
as antidepressants, antipsychotics, anti anxiety drugs, call them whatever, downers.
Some people also believe that it's a super the super
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strong marijuana that's available today, the one that the marijuana
that you know, our parents may have had and may
be used in the past that was weak, or at
least was diluted or to a lesser strength of THC.
The active ingredient in marijuana on it. They say that
some experts believe that the high strength marijuana also has
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the potential to contribute. Most of the mass shooters, by
the way, when they did autopsies and blood tests on him,
had marijuana in their system or they had been users
of marijuana. So we need to start, you know, asking
really important questions about this and doctor Brockman recently, I
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was watching Fox News recently and there was an interview
of a reporter, an investigative reporter and author, Alex Berenson.
He had some very interesting news and perspective on this
very topic. And when we come back from this break,
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we're going to play the interview that he had on
Laura Ingram's show on Fox News. Stand by for that.
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we're talking about this horrendous another horrendous I think it's
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the forty fourth school shooting of the year, if you
can believe that. Back on twenty seventh of August, another
monster open fire I named Minneapolis school, killing two children
eight and ten year old, wounding seventeen more and three
elderly parishioners were here looking at it, Doctor Adam Brocklan
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and I and trying to figure out make sense of
this makes no sense on any level, But we're trying
to investigate as to what could what possibly could some
of the factors be as we look into this and
not just accept it now. I was watching Fox News
this week. Laura Ingram was interviewing a prominent investigated investigative
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journalist and author by the name of Alex Berenson, who
was very outspoken during the COVID debacle and the CDC,
and he had some very interesting comments related to these shooters.
All these shooters, these mass shooters, usually teenagers, are in
their young twenties, almost always male, male exclusively. He had
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some interesting comment about the effect of drugs, illicit en
listed drugs, and particularly homeing in on marijuana and the
fact that marijuana was found to be in the system
of these shooters. Now, whether it's a cause or not.
It is something we need to consider. Listen to what
this former investigator had to say on this topic.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Go.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
We know that cannabis can cause psychotic episodes and people
THCHC the active ingredient. We know that that there's increasingly
strong evidence. You know, when I wrote Tell Your Children
in twenty nineteen, there was evidence, and now there's more
and more evidence. There's been national level studies from countries
like Denmark showing that a real attributable proportion of new
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schizophrenia cases, and schizophrenia is a terrible mental illness that
you know, psychotic disordered delusions, hallucinations are attributable to cannabis use.
And we also know that psychosis is you know, is
related to violence. That people who have psychotic conditions, although
you know most of them will not be violent, there
is a higher risk that they'll commit violence, that they'll
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commit extreme violence in some cases. And I can point
you to several you know, of the highest profile mass
shootings in the United States in which cannabis use was
found in people's bodies after I'm talking about in the
shooters' bodies upon autopsy, or in the case of Nicholas Cruz,
who is a Parkland shooter, he acknowledged having used cannabis
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and having had, you know, sort of dark thoughts as
a result.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
So there is a.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
Correlation here, and we're seeing it more and more. Listen,
in no single case can you ever prove causation. I mean,
it would be very hard to do. The person would
almost have to leave a manifesto saying, well, I was
sane and then I used and I became insane. But
I can tell you again, having looked at these autopsy reports,
you see cannabis use. You rarely see alcohol. Sometimes you
see anti anxiety drugs, prescription drugs like they're called benzodiazepines,
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like valium, But you over and oversee cannabis. And and
there's a specific kind of crime that's committed here. It's
not Listenlcohol can certainly cause violence, but what it tends
to do is escalate violence. So a bar fight gets
more violent. This is a crime that is often committed
against innocent people. And so, by the way, you know,
right now, the President of the United States, who obviously
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you know, very smart, very committed to public safety, is
thinking about whether or not to what's called reschedule cannabis
to a Schedule three drug, which would make it more
easy for the industry to make a lot of money
to keep pushing this drug on people. And I hope
that he understands that that we are likely to see
more crime like this if there is more cannabis use,
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and you know, I know public safety is important to him.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
You're listening there to Alex Berenson on the Laura Ingram
Show on Fox News talking about what he believes there
may be also a potential connection, But I personally believe
doctor Brockman, and you can comment on this. It's a
mixed bag. I don't think there's any one singular thing
we can point it at. We know, between the year
two thousand and twenty twenty two, there were one hundred
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and nine mass shootings in the US versus thirty five
public mass shootings in thirty five different countries combined. So
we've got a real problem on our hands here. The
US makes up about what four percent, four or five
percent of the global population. But here it is, we
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consume eighty percent of the global opioids supply eighty percent.
We make up four percent of the world population, but
yet we're sucking down, swallowing eighty percent of the opioid
drugs that are manufactured on this planet. Now, you might say, well,
it's just all about drugs. No, if you look at
some of the stats, for example, if you look at
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some of these shooters, and you find out also there
may be even a connection between some of the sickness,
the mental illness associated with them as it relates to
hormonal changes going on in their bodies. The Denver shooting
was a trans, the Aberdeen shooter was a trans, the
Nashville shooter was it was a trans. The Georgia shooter trans,
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Philadelphia shooter, U Valley, Colorado, all trans related to some
kind of a problem, a mental health problem related to
transsexual change in their bodies, either females wanting to be
males or males wanting to be females. And this last shooter,
of course, also a transsexual. Uh it is. I don't
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think there's any one singular source. We need to look
at all of them and find out what in the
heck is going on in our beautiful country with this problem.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Yeah, there's there's a lot to be be said on
several different things. Uh. One one being the marijuana use.
It seems like that's probably a self medicating uh type
of thinge for these people. And then once we start
looking at some of these other things they're there is uh,
my my brother in law is a psychiatrist and my
wife is a as a nurse practitioner. So we have
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a lot of these conversations about mental health and and
there's a there's a lot of people there. There's there's
definitely people that have to be on some of these
s sris uh because they just can't function any other way. Now,
what happens, I think is some of these people they
they tend to lower their dose or they they completely
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come off of that. In your in your body, your
brain just can't uh can't react in and so this
is where some of these these things need to be
studied further.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
And Secretary Robert F.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Kennedy Junior, he made that bold declaration that you played
mass shootings are a public health crisis, and then he
took it a step further and he announced that a
federal investigation into whether psychiat psychiatric medications might be a
contributing factor to these acts of violence. So let's start
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with some of these facts. Doctor Bob recently, when he
said that at the press conference and he dropped it's
a huge take on mass violence. And he said, quote,
we're looking for the first time at psychiatric drugs. We're
doing these studies right now unquote. He pointed to the
America's status, like you mentioned, as the most over medicated
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nation in the world, and he cited those black box
warnings on SSR eyes, those selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. There
they have tiny disclaimers basically the side that you see
on those TV ads that are rare in the risk
suicidal or homicidal thoughts. So with this, when we come back,
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we're going to give our health alternative as a natural
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into this a little bit more, Doctor Bob. You're listening
to the Doctor Bob Martin Show.
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our listeners with this.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
Yeah, these are books. These are books that are authored
by people I've interviewed on this very show as guests
on the program when talking about psychiatric drugs and what
they actually do or what they can do, and I
wanted to give people some reference, our listener's references if
they are themselves taking any kind of psychiatric drug or
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mind or mood altering drug, whether that be an add
ADHD drug or drug for anxiety, a drug for depression,
whatever prescription drug you're taking, you should know what you're
getting into. And one of the authors I've had on
this show numerous times is a psychiatrist by the name
of doctor Peter Bragan Peter Bragan, MD, And one of
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his books that I really liked is a book entitled
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why therapy, empathy and love must replace the drugs, electroshock
and biochemical theories of the new psychiatry. Excellent book you
can find that, I'm sure in Amazon dot com. Also,
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Bruce Weisman been a guest on the show, author of
a book entitled Psychiatry The Ultimate Betrayal. Wow. Is this
a hard hitting book and some reality checks to anybody
out there who's taking drugs to modify or change their mood.
And lastly, the third book is by doctor Ray Strand,
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MD entitled Death by Prescription The use of prescription medications
you know is a leading cause of death, and he
goes through just a whole lot of different things in
here related to you know, prescription drugs in general, including
psychiatric drugs. So, I mean that's just three books. There's
plenty if you want to educate yourself. I don't think
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anybody should take any drug unless they educate themselves before
they do it, either through you know, sufficiently through their doctors.
Most doctors do not educate their patients sufficiently in a
you know, seven to ten minute office visit. Then you
go to your pharmacists. Pharmacists do a great job trying
to educate the public as to what they're doing. They
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give them package inserts and so forth. But I still
think the public in general need to have access to
other potential learning tools, such as books, so that before
they take a drug, before they start swallowing a drug,
they know exactly what to look for, what to look
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out for. Books are a great resource. This radio show
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We're coming right back. It's the Doctor Bob Martin Show.
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Welcome back, doctor Adam Brockman here as we return to
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doctor doct r bob dot com. Now let's get back
in today's important conversation. And since it is so important,
I want to continue to focus on this mass shootings
and in mental health. And we're going to forgo a
couple of our other features, the Health Outrage and the
product Recall and Doctor Bob. So the question is where
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do we go from here? How do we honor victims
without fueling fear or false narratives in these mass shootings.
I think what what Kennedy is doing is he's demanding
better research. We need further studies on this topic mass
shooting in the psychological component.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
And if we're going to study this property properly studies.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
They must be peer reviewed, and it need to be transparent,
and they need to be free from big pharma agencies
the agendas that they have. But these studies, the design
studies with rigor and independent oversight, and the no cherry
picking the data, no sensationalism, just the science with it.
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We cannot scapegoat mental health treatment while ignoring the elephant
in the room, and that's America's violence in the media's
continued spotlight on it. We also need to focus on
what works, the universal background checks, the red flag laws,
the safe storage campaigns. We need to expand mental health
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care access so fewer people reach crisis points untreated. We
with this also comes combating that stigma without the compromise.
Mental illness does not equal violence, and medications aren't always poisoned.
Sometimes that trigger that is something that people need, They
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have to they have to have it, and if they're
taking it, they can't just come off of it. That's
where I think some of these violent tendencies occur. The
complexity it doesn't have to mean chaos, It means smarter
solutions are needed. Combination treatments from mental health providers, doctors,
and alternatives, And we also need to think about honoring
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this human element to the to the families that are grieving,
The nation sees you and we feel for you. And
to anyone that's listening who struggles with mental health, you
deserve help without the guilt. So I hope everyone can
walk away with at least three three things from the
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episode today, the story today, clarity on what science actually says,
Compassion for those that are struggling, and courage to demand
that change from our leaders, because here's here's my take.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
If we want fewer.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Mass shootings, let's stop chasing the theories and start addressing
the root causes with evidence and with empathy. And remember
when when with regards to this, science without compassion is
just noise, and policy without humanity is just paperwork. And
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I do want to leave this. If somebody's struggling there
listening to Day, you can you can reach out the
if you dial at nine to eight eight, that's a
suicide and Crisis lifeline, or you can visit NAMI dot org.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
All right, doctor Bob.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Yeah, it's a situation. It's very complex. As you pointed out,
doctor Brockman, anytime there's a mass shooting, though that, you know,
flashes on our television screen here in the doctor Bob
Martin home, and my wife is in the room. The
first thing I say to her is, boy, I sure
hope they can test that person's bloodstream, whoever they catch
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who have done these just devilish acts to take another
person's life, evil acts. Check their bloodstream, check their urine,
find out what's in their system, because it's not normal
for human beings, for a human being to senselessly kill
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another human being, and you see correlations over and over.
Like you said, you've got to get to the cause
of the problem. And chiropractic physicians are highly trained in
thinking along those lines, not just covering up symptoms and
kicking the can down the road, but rather what is
actually triggering an abnormal reaction and a human to take
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another human's life? And are there common denominators that we
need to start focusing on. So every time I see
something like this doctor Brockman happening in the news, I say,
check their bloodstream and lo and behold you. You know,
post event, you see that this person was either on
ADHD drugs, ADD drugs and adepressants anti anxiety drugs. They
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are heavy marijuana users. There are some kind of biochemical imbalance,
hormone imbalance, something that was going on with these people
that we need to investigate and figure out.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
You're absolutely correct, and Doctor Bob, we're gonna go ahead
and line the mood on this last segment with our
health mystery of the week. We're gonna come come with
that right after the break. You're listening to the Doctor
Bob Martin Show on Radio America.
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What's wrong with Then? What's wrong with Ben?
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What's wrong within contident as?
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It's time to get the.
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Welcome back doctor Adam Brockman here, and you're tuned into
the Doctor Bob Martin Show. I know we've had a
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And if you got something from this conversation today, why
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At eight hundred sixt zero six, eight eighty two to two.
All right, Doctor Bob, I want to go ahead and
light it up just a little bit and get to
our health mystery of the week. This week's health mystery
is a surprising link between thumb length and brain size.
Speaker 5 (38:09):
All right, doctor Bob, I know what you thought.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
I was going in an entirely different direction with thumb
size link, But this week's health mystery reveals an astonishing
evolutionary connection. Longer thumbs are linked to larger brains across primates,
including humans. A groundbreaking study from the University of Reading
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in Durham examined ninety five primate species from lemurs to
neanderthals and found that as thumbs grew more dexterious over
millions of years, brains expanded in tandem. So the researchers
expected thumb length to correlate with the cerebellum that's the
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movement control center. Instead, they discovered it's tied to the
neo cortex, the brain region that govers government's higher cognition
sensory processing in even consciousness. This suggests that fine motor
skills like tool use didn't just demand better coordination, they
drove the evolution of human like intelligence. And this is
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why it matters. It gives us a human advantage. Our
elongated thumbs in oversized brains set us apart from other primates,
enabling complex skills like writing and cooking, and human babies.
There's a little bit of a trade off here with development.
It takes years for these human babies to master thumb
dexterity like tying shoelaces, while baby chimps adapt faster, and
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this is a price that's paid for this advanced cognition
its evolution in action. Early primate ability to manipulate objects
like using sticks and rocks likely spurred brain growth, fueling
creativity and problem solving. So the takeaway here is while
thumb link doesn't dictate individual intelligent, it underscores how physical
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and cognitive evolution are related and intertwined. Activities that engage
your hands, like plain instruments crafting, may also nurture brain health.
So next time you use your thumbs, remember they're not
just tools. They're evolutionary marvels that help shape human brilliance.
Speaker 4 (40:20):
Doctor Bob, Yeah, it gets back to the age old argument.
You know what's more important, uh, length or girth as
it relates to body parts. I guess TMI on that one.
I'll let you have that, doctor Borrow.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
Well, thank you to everyone who is listening for those
of you who have called in the show's hotline, your
courage fuels this movement, so for Doctor Bob Martin, this
is doctor Adam Brockman signing off from the Doctor Bob
Martin Show. Until next time, keep fighting for a safer
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Good Day America. This is doctor Adam Brockman coming to
you on The Doctor Bob Martin Show, where we confront
the health challenges that keep you up at night, not
just with facts but with solutions. Today we're addressing an
epidemic that has become tragically routine in our country, and
that's mass shootings. I want to go ahead and bring
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in doctor Bob Martin in this conversation, Doctor Bob, how
are you today?
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I'm well? In you, Doctor Brockman, I'm fine.
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And this topic is heavy, folks.
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And recently, yet another government agency and yet another community
was shattered with another school, another workplace, another church, another
public space that's been transformed into a crime scene. It's
another set of families that are left grieving and another
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round of thoughts and prayers from leaders who seem powerless
to stop this cycle of violence. But here's where our
leaders are. They're reinforcing this isn't just about guns. It's
about a deeper sickness in our society. And the question
is is this a perfect storm of mental illness, social isolation,
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and a culture in media that too often glorifies violence
over compassion. And doctor Bob. The stats they're staggering, over
two hundred and fifty mass shootings in the United States
this year alone. It's a number that no other developed
nation even comes close to matching. And our children, they're
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practicing lockdown drills more often than they are fire drills,
and they're growing up in fear of their own classrooms.
And the survivors in this of these public shootings, they
suffer ETSD rates that are higher than war veterans, and
they carry this invisible wound for life. Yet instead of
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meaningful action, we get the same tired debates where lobbyists
and politicians block even the most common sense reforms. Meanwhile,
the real drivers of this crisis, like social media, that
algorithms that feed rage and alienation, that it's a healthcare
system that still fails those in mental distress, and corporations
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they're still profiting from the division. Everything continues unchecked. And
today I want to cut through and ask some of
the hard questions. Why does America have thirty times more
mass shootings than any other comparable nation. What role do
psychiatric medications truly play? And we need to separate the
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science from phecul here, and how do we protect our
children in schools? And doctor Bob, I know you brought
to my attention when we were talking about this topic.
You brought a different a little bit different on this
mass shooting at the CDC. Can you can you explain
that a little bit further?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
I can, And by now, Doctor Brockman, everyone knows. August
twenty seventh, another monster opened fire on the church next
to Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, killing two children, wounding
seventeen more, as well as two elderly parishioners. Forty fourth
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school shooting this year. That's the forty fourth school shooting
this year. Mass shootings are much higher in the US
than any other country. Why why are these horrible senseless
killings occurring in our beautiful country. Well, recently, Robert F.
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Kennedy Junior, the Health and Human Services Secretary head the
following to say about it, go.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
The certainly consider mass shootings a health crisis, and we
are doing for the first time real studies to find
out what the ideology of that is. And we're looking
for the first time at the psychiatric drugs. If people
have had guns in this country forever, it's happening in
our country. It's not happening around the world, and there
are many other countries that have comparable levels of guns
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that we have in this country. Something changed, and it
dramatically changed human behavior. And one of the culprits we
need to examine is whether the fact that we are
the most over medicated nation in the world and at
a lot of those are psychiatric drugs that have black
box warnings on them that warn of suicidal and homicidal ideation.
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So we are doing studies right now for the first
time and we will have an answer.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Okay. And that was Robert F. Kennedy, Junior Health and
Human Services Secretary, talking about, you know, looking into it.
It's sort of like reminds me, doctor Brockman of what
we covered in the first hour of the show, investigating
why it is that America's health is so poor and
why the CDC has been sleeping at the wheel and
covering the backs of their pharmaceutical companies, which seem to
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be the ones who are pulling the strings over the CDC.
This sort of like is him launching into at least
trying to investigate why it is that the United States
has so many of these mass shootings compared to other countries.
That's what they're looking into. The potential link between pharmaceutical
drugs such as medically prescribed antidepressants ADHD drugs for hyperactivity
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and attention deficit of hyperactive disorder, anti anxiety drugs, and
marijuana use as potentially contributing to the frightening and unprecedented
rise in mass shootings in the United States. And I
know that a lot of people are going to say, wow, no,
there can't be one. No't there's probably not one, cause
it's probably a mixed bag. But until we actually lift
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the cover and look underneath to try to find out
what's going on, we're not going to get to the
bottom of this, why this is occurring. And according to
the FDA doctor Brockman, there are over one hundred and
twenty five medical drugs with warning labels on them about
the risk of someone taking that drug and then contemplating suicidality,
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in other words, killing themselves as a result of taking
a prescribed drug. One hundred and twenty five different drugs
carry that label. So the question is if a medically
prescribed drug can cause imbound is in a person's brain
sufficient to propel the same person to end their own
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life via suicide. Are those same medically prescribed psychological or
psychiatric drugs also capable of pushing a deranged or mentally
ill person over the edge wherein they want to take
the lives of many others before killing themselves, and perhaps
as sick as and is demented as that it sounds
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it's what's really going on now. The research from the
National Institutes of Justice ANIJ and other sources indicates that
the number of mass shootings in the US began to
increase noticeably after the year two thousand, with a particularly
sharp rise in the twenty tens. However, the COVID nineteen
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pandemic saw even more significant surges in mass shootings beginning
around mid twenty twenty. Overall, these medically prescribed drugs, these
antipsychotic drugs, prescriptions have been on the rise in recent years,
particularly for atypical second generation antipsychotics off label uses, and
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the trend varies significantly depending on the age group, of course,
with some populations experiencing a sharp rise. And it's not
just let's just face it's not just prescription drugs such
as antidepressants, antipsychotics, anti anxiety drugs, call them whatever, downers.
Some people also believe that it's a super the super
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strong marijuana that's available today, the one that the marijuana
that you know, our parents may have had and may
be used in the past that was weak, or at
least was diluted or to a lesser strength of THC.
The active ingredient in marijuana on it. They say that
some experts believe that the high strength marijuana also has
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the potential to contribute. Most of the mass shooters, by
the way, when they did autopsies and blood tests on him,
had marijuana in their system or they had been users
of marijuana. So we need to start, you know, asking
really important questions about this and doctor Brockman recently, I
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was watching Fox News recently and there was an interview
of a reporter, an investigative reporter and author, Alex Berenson.
He had some very interesting news and perspective on this
very topic. And when we come back from this break,
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we're going to play the interview that he had on
Laura Ingram's show on Fox News. Stand by for that.
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we're talking about this horrendous another horrendous I think it's
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the forty fourth school shooting of the year, if you
can believe that. Back on twenty seventh of August, another
monster open fire I named Minneapolis school, killing two children
eight and ten year old, wounding seventeen more and three
elderly parishioners were here looking at it, Doctor Adam Brocklan
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and I and trying to figure out make sense of
this makes no sense on any level, But we're trying
to investigate as to what could what possibly could some
of the factors be as we look into this and
not just accept it now. I was watching Fox News
this week. Laura Ingram was interviewing a prominent investigated investigative
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journalist and author by the name of Alex Berenson, who
was very outspoken during the COVID debacle and the CDC,
and he had some very interesting comments related to these shooters.
All these shooters, these mass shooters, usually teenagers, are in
their young twenties, almost always male, male exclusively. He had
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some interesting comment about the effect of drugs, illicit en
listed drugs, and particularly homeing in on marijuana and the
fact that marijuana was found to be in the system
of these shooters. Now, whether it's a cause or not.
It is something we need to consider. Listen to what
this former investigator had to say on this topic.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Go.
Speaker 7 (14:16):
We know that cannabis can cause psychotic episodes and people
THCHC the active ingredient. We know that that there's increasingly
strong evidence. You know, when I wrote Tell Your Children
in twenty nineteen, there was evidence, and now there's more
and more evidence. There's been national level studies from countries
like Denmark showing that a real attributable proportion of new
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schizophrenia cases, and schizophrenia is a terrible mental illness that
you know, psychotic disordered delusions, hallucinations are attributable to cannabis use.
And we also know that psychosis is you know, is
related to violence. That people who have psychotic conditions, although
you know most of them will not be violent, there
is a higher risk that they'll commit violence, that they'll
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commit extreme violence in some cases. And I can point
you to several you know, of the highest profile mass
shootings in the United States in which cannabis use was
found in people's bodies after I'm talking about in the
shooters' bodies upon autopsy, or in the case of Nicholas Cruz,
who is a Parkland shooter, he acknowledged having used cannabis
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and having had, you know, sort of dark thoughts as
a result.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
So there is a.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
Correlation here, and we're seeing it more and more. Listen,
in no single case can you ever prove causation. I mean,
it would be very hard to do. The person would
almost have to leave a manifesto saying, well, I was
sane and then I used and I became insane. But
I can tell you again, having looked at these autopsy reports,
you see cannabis use. You rarely see alcohol. Sometimes you
see anti anxiety drugs, prescription drugs like they're called benzodiazepines,
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like valium, But you over and oversee cannabis. And and
there's a specific kind of crime that's committed here. It's
not Listenlcohol can certainly cause violence, but what it tends
to do is escalate violence. So a bar fight gets
more violent. This is a crime that is often committed
against innocent people. And so, by the way, you know,
right now, the President of the United States, who obviously
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you know, very smart, very committed to public safety, is
thinking about whether or not to what's called reschedule cannabis
to a Schedule three drug, which would make it more
easy for the industry to make a lot of money
to keep pushing this drug on people. And I hope
that he understands that that we are likely to see
more crime like this if there is more cannabis use,
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and you know, I know public safety is important to him.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
You're listening there to Alex Berenson on the Laura Ingram
Show on Fox News talking about what he believes there
may be also a potential connection, But I personally believe
doctor Brockman, and you can comment on this. It's a
mixed bag. I don't think there's any one singular thing
we can point it at. We know, between the year
two thousand and twenty twenty two, there were one hundred
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and nine mass shootings in the US versus thirty five
public mass shootings in thirty five different countries combined. So
we've got a real problem on our hands here. The
US makes up about what four percent, four or five
percent of the global population. But here it is, we
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consume eighty percent of the global opioids supply eighty percent.
We make up four percent of the world population, but
yet we're sucking down, swallowing eighty percent of the opioid
drugs that are manufactured on this planet. Now, you might say, well,
it's just all about drugs. No, if you look at
some of the stats, for example, if you look at
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some of these shooters, and you find out also there
may be even a connection between some of the sickness,
the mental illness associated with them as it relates to
hormonal changes going on in their bodies. The Denver shooting
was a trans, the Aberdeen shooter was a trans, the
Nashville shooter was it was a trans. The Georgia shooter trans,
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Philadelphia shooter, U Valley, Colorado, all trans related to some
kind of a problem, a mental health problem related to
transsexual change in their bodies, either females wanting to be
males or males wanting to be females. And this last shooter,
of course, also a transsexual. Uh it is. I don't
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think there's any one singular source. We need to look
at all of them and find out what in the
heck is going on in our beautiful country with this problem.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Yeah, there's there's a lot to be be said on
several different things. Uh. One one being the marijuana use.
It seems like that's probably a self medicating uh type
of thinge for these people. And then once we start
looking at some of these other things they're there is uh,
my my brother in law is a psychiatrist and my
wife is a as a nurse practitioner. So we have
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a lot of these conversations about mental health and and
there's a there's a lot of people there. There's there's
definitely people that have to be on some of these
s sris uh because they just can't function any other way. Now,
what happens, I think is some of these people they
they tend to lower their dose or they they completely
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come off of that. In your in your body, your
brain just can't uh can't react in and so this
is where some of these these things need to be
studied further.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
And Secretary Robert F.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Kennedy Junior, he made that bold declaration that you played
mass shootings are a public health crisis, and then he
took it a step further and he announced that a
federal investigation into whether psychiat psychiatric medications might be a
contributing factor to these acts of violence. So let's start
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with some of these facts. Doctor Bob recently, when he
said that at the press conference and he dropped it's
a huge take on mass violence. And he said, quote,
we're looking for the first time at psychiatric drugs. We're
doing these studies right now unquote. He pointed to the
America's status, like you mentioned, as the most over medicated
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nation in the world, and he cited those black box
warnings on SSR eyes, those selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. There
they have tiny disclaimers basically the side that you see
on those TV ads that are rare in the risk
suicidal or homicidal thoughts. So with this, when we come back,
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we're going to give our health alternative as a natural
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prescription required, and as always, consult your doctor before changing
medicine or your dosage. And you can also pair saffron
with a morning sunlight and a brisk walk for a
triple mood boosting effect at Saffron. That's been your health
alternative of the week. All right, doctor Bob, you made
men about talking about a few books that may help
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our listeners with this.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
Yeah, these are books. These are books that are authored
by people I've interviewed on this very show as guests
on the program when talking about psychiatric drugs and what
they actually do or what they can do, and I
wanted to give people some reference, our listener's references if
they are themselves taking any kind of psychiatric drug or
(27:30):
mind or mood altering drug, whether that be an add
ADHD drug or drug for anxiety, a drug for depression,
whatever prescription drug you're taking, you should know what you're
getting into. And one of the authors I've had on
this show numerous times is a psychiatrist by the name
of doctor Peter Bragan Peter Bragan, MD, And one of
(27:53):
his books that I really liked is a book entitled
Toxic Psychiatry. Toxic Psychiatry, a Psychiatrist, MD speaks out and
why therapy, empathy and love must replace the drugs, electroshock
and biochemical theories of the new psychiatry. Excellent book you
can find that, I'm sure in Amazon dot com. Also,
(28:15):
Bruce Weisman been a guest on the show, author of
a book entitled Psychiatry The Ultimate Betrayal. Wow. Is this
a hard hitting book and some reality checks to anybody
out there who's taking drugs to modify or change their mood.
And lastly, the third book is by doctor Ray Strand,
(28:37):
MD entitled Death by Prescription The use of prescription medications
you know is a leading cause of death, and he
goes through just a whole lot of different things in
here related to you know, prescription drugs in general, including
psychiatric drugs. So, I mean that's just three books. There's
plenty if you want to educate yourself. I don't think
(28:58):
anybody should take any drug unless they educate themselves before
they do it, either through you know, sufficiently through their doctors.
Most doctors do not educate their patients sufficiently in a
you know, seven to ten minute office visit. Then you
go to your pharmacists. Pharmacists do a great job trying
to educate the public as to what they're doing. They
(29:20):
give them package inserts and so forth. But I still
think the public in general need to have access to
other potential learning tools, such as books, so that before
they take a drug, before they start swallowing a drug,
they know exactly what to look for, what to look
(29:41):
out for. Books are a great resource. This radio show
and others like it are great resources. Doctor Google is
a great resource. Just load yourself up. Knowledge is power.
Get that power so that you can be your own
best doctor most of the time. All right, stay tuned,
We're coming right back. It's the Doctor Bob Martin Show.
Speaker 5 (30:04):
You Saw Your Dad?
Speaker 4 (30:15):
I'm a Bussom number Simon.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
One never singles. I want to stop today.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Welcome back, doctor Adam Brockman here as we return to
The Doctor Bob Martin Show, America's number one health talk
radio program. Before we jump back into the day's vital
health discussion, I want to remind you that your wellness
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(31:21):
doctor doct r bob dot com. Now let's get back
in today's important conversation. And since it is so important,
I want to continue to focus on this mass shootings
and in mental health. And we're going to forgo a
couple of our other features, the Health Outrage and the
product Recall and Doctor Bob. So the question is where
(31:42):
do we go from here? How do we honor victims
without fueling fear or false narratives in these mass shootings.
I think what what Kennedy is doing is he's demanding
better research. We need further studies on this topic mass
shooting in the psychological component.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
And if we're going to study this property properly studies.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
They must be peer reviewed, and it need to be transparent,
and they need to be free from big pharma agencies
the agendas that they have. But these studies, the design
studies with rigor and independent oversight, and the no cherry
picking the data, no sensationalism, just the science with it.
(32:28):
We cannot scapegoat mental health treatment while ignoring the elephant
in the room, and that's America's violence in the media's
continued spotlight on it. We also need to focus on
what works, the universal background checks, the red flag laws,
the safe storage campaigns. We need to expand mental health
(32:53):
care access so fewer people reach crisis points untreated. We
with this also comes combating that stigma without the compromise.
Mental illness does not equal violence, and medications aren't always poisoned.
Sometimes that trigger that is something that people need, They
(33:16):
have to they have to have it, and if they're
taking it, they can't just come off of it. That's
where I think some of these violent tendencies occur. The
complexity it doesn't have to mean chaos, It means smarter
solutions are needed. Combination treatments from mental health providers, doctors,
and alternatives, And we also need to think about honoring
(33:39):
this human element to the to the families that are grieving,
The nation sees you and we feel for you. And
to anyone that's listening who struggles with mental health, you
deserve help without the guilt. So I hope everyone can
walk away with at least three three things from the
(34:00):
episode today, the story today, clarity on what science actually says,
Compassion for those that are struggling, and courage to demand
that change from our leaders, because here's here's my take.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
If we want fewer.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Mass shootings, let's stop chasing the theories and start addressing
the root causes with evidence and with empathy. And remember
when when with regards to this, science without compassion is
just noise, and policy without humanity is just paperwork. And
(34:41):
I do want to leave this. If somebody's struggling there
listening to Day, you can you can reach out the
if you dial at nine to eight eight, that's a
suicide and Crisis lifeline, or you can visit NAMI dot org.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
All right, doctor Bob.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Yeah, it's a situation. It's very complex. As you pointed out,
doctor Brockman, anytime there's a mass shooting, though that, you know,
flashes on our television screen here in the doctor Bob
Martin home, and my wife is in the room. The
first thing I say to her is, boy, I sure
hope they can test that person's bloodstream, whoever they catch
(35:19):
who have done these just devilish acts to take another
person's life, evil acts. Check their bloodstream, check their urine,
find out what's in their system, because it's not normal
for human beings, for a human being to senselessly kill
(35:39):
another human being, and you see correlations over and over.
Like you said, you've got to get to the cause
of the problem. And chiropractic physicians are highly trained in
thinking along those lines, not just covering up symptoms and
kicking the can down the road, but rather what is
actually triggering an abnormal reaction and a human to take
(35:59):
another human's life? And are there common denominators that we
need to start focusing on. So every time I see
something like this doctor Brockman happening in the news, I say,
check their bloodstream and lo and behold you. You know,
post event, you see that this person was either on
ADHD drugs, ADD drugs and adepressants anti anxiety drugs. They
(36:25):
are heavy marijuana users. There are some kind of biochemical imbalance,
hormone imbalance, something that was going on with these people
that we need to investigate and figure out.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
You're absolutely correct, and Doctor Bob, we're gonna go ahead
and line the mood on this last segment with our
health mystery of the week. We're gonna come come with
that right after the break. You're listening to the Doctor
Bob Martin Show on Radio America.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
What's wrong with Then? What's wrong with Ben?
Speaker 1 (37:06):
What's wrong within contident as?
Speaker 2 (37:17):
It's time to get the.
Speaker 3 (37:21):
Welcome back doctor Adam Brockman here, and you're tuned into
the Doctor Bob Martin Show. I know we've had a
real heavy topic today, one that needed to be discussed.
And if you got something from this conversation today, why
not share the health wisdom, tell a friend, a family member,
or a loved one to join us together we can
build a community that's committed to a better living. I remember,
(37:43):
Doctor Bob and I were always here for your health questions.
At eight hundred sixt zero six, eight eighty two to two.
All right, Doctor Bob, I want to go ahead and
light it up just a little bit and get to
our health mystery of the week. This week's health mystery
is a surprising link between thumb length and brain size.
Speaker 5 (38:09):
All right, doctor Bob, I know what you thought.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
I was going in an entirely different direction with thumb
size link, But this week's health mystery reveals an astonishing
evolutionary connection. Longer thumbs are linked to larger brains across primates,
including humans. A groundbreaking study from the University of Reading
(38:32):
in Durham examined ninety five primate species from lemurs to
neanderthals and found that as thumbs grew more dexterious over
millions of years, brains expanded in tandem. So the researchers
expected thumb length to correlate with the cerebellum that's the
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movement control center. Instead, they discovered it's tied to the
neo cortex, the brain region that govers government's higher cognition
sensory processing in even consciousness. This suggests that fine motor
skills like tool use didn't just demand better coordination, they
drove the evolution of human like intelligence. And this is
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why it matters. It gives us a human advantage. Our
elongated thumbs in oversized brains set us apart from other primates,
enabling complex skills like writing and cooking, and human babies.
There's a little bit of a trade off here with development.
It takes years for these human babies to master thumb
dexterity like tying shoelaces, while baby chimps adapt faster, and
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this is a price that's paid for this advanced cognition
its evolution in action. Early primate ability to manipulate objects
like using sticks and rocks likely spurred brain growth, fueling
creativity and problem solving. So the takeaway here is while
thumb link doesn't dictate individual intelligent, it underscores how physical
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and cognitive evolution are related and intertwined. Activities that engage
your hands, like plain instruments crafting, may also nurture brain health.
So next time you use your thumbs, remember they're not
just tools. They're evolutionary marvels that help shape human brilliance.
Speaker 4 (40:20):
Doctor Bob, Yeah, it gets back to the age old argument.
You know what's more important, uh, length or girth as
it relates to body parts. I guess TMI on that one.
I'll let you have that, doctor Borrow.
Speaker 3 (40:34):
Well, thank you to everyone who is listening for those
of you who have called in the show's hotline, your
courage fuels this movement, so for Doctor Bob Martin, this
is doctor Adam Brockman signing off from the Doctor Bob
Martin Show. Until next time, keep fighting for a safer
tomorrow
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