Gwilda Wiyaka Interviews - DR. ROBERT SILVERMAN - Longevity - Mission Evolution with Gwilda Wiyaka

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:39):
The amazing self repairing human body was designed to last,
yet many of us age early. What's causing our premature
decline with Asis Hour to take a deeper look at longevity,
good health and immunity is Doctor Robert Silverman. Doctor Silverman
is a chiropractic doctor and clinicaltris. He's the founder of

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Westchester Integrated Health Center and author of Amazon bestsellers Immune
Reyboot and Inside Out Health. Named Sports Chiropractor of the
Year by the ACA. He serves as a science officer
for Nutrient in Chief, clinical consultant for KMBO Diagnostics, and
advisor to Functional Medicine University. A global speaker and published researcher,

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he was the principal investigator on two level one laser
FDA studies, making him a leading voice in functional medicine.
His website, Doctor Robert Silverman dot com. Doctor Silverman, thank
you so much for joining us on the show.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
That's my pleasure to be here. Thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
It's always a pleasure to work with you, sir. So
as a chiropractic doctor, how did you become interested in
nutrition and longevity?

Speaker 3 (01:50):
You know, it was not by accident, It was truly
by design. When you deal with patients in a clinical setting,
you find out there's one thing that they all want.
They want to live forever, they want to enjoy their life,
and they want to look like they're thirty years old.
So that said longevity was an obvious venue and avenue
for me to go down.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
That makes sense, you know, But did you ever get
it figured out? The living forever and looking thirty years old?

Speaker 3 (02:18):
I want some of that, you and me both. I'll
share it with you. Want to get the bottle and
hopefully the genie comes out.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
I hope so too. I hope so too. So tell
us what's functional medicine?

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Functional medicine basically the tenant is root cause resolution. So
so many times people go to the doctor and the
doctor just looks at the symptoms. There's thousands of symptoms
they need to delve into the systems of the body.
That's between twelve and fourteen systems depending on who you ask.
But the real secret sauce is to get to what

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we call root cause resolution, or right now it's evolved
to root causes resolution, what is causing your issue. So,
for instance, if you were to unfortunately bang your head
against the wall and come in with a headache, and
I fixed a headache, but if you still were hitting
the wall, I never got to the root cause. And

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that's where medical should be. That's where old doctors should be,
believe it or not, that's what patients are striving for
right now.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Well, I would think, because eventually you're just chasing symptoms around,
aren't you sure?

Speaker 3 (03:22):
And you know, it's kind of like I was talking
to my dad last night, haf a ninety four year
old father, and he was like, tell me what your
day's like, and I tell him, I'm trying to explain
that I don't take the battery out of the smoke
detector because you know, if you take the battery out, yeah,
you shut down the symptoms, but the fire still there,
burning and causing damage.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Your or death is the case. Maybe, So how much
I know this is a tough question and you're just
gonna have to take a guess, But how much of
our illnesses are misdiagnosed because they don't find the root?

Speaker 3 (03:57):
You know, I don't know if they're misdiagnosed. I just
don't think there are treatment approaches are going to be
the most beneficial for the patient. Now, for me, when
I sit down with a patient, what's most important is
helping them get over their issue and helping them live
a long lifestyle that's full of health benefits. So as

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far as misdiagnosed, I don't know if that's a term
I want to use. I'll just say they didn't get
to that root cause. If I could use that one
more time, well.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
We'll probably be talking about root cause a lot in
the next hour. So for many, the goal of having
good health is to live longer, obviously, but how do
we define longevity?

Speaker 3 (04:39):
Longevity, without question, is the incisive conversation of twenty twenty five.
There's not a coffee or a tea house that I
can go into and not have a conversation about longevity.
That said, longevity as a definition is lifespan versus health span.
So lifespan is what it says, how long you live.
Health Span is how long you live without a chronic disease.

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Six out of ten Americans have one chronic disease. Four
to ten Americans have two chronic diseases. So obviously any
doctor office you walk into, he's guy, he or she
has to be well versed with the idea of chronic disease.
But lifespan health span, I look at vitality. So you
could sit by a TV at eighty years old and say, hey,

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I've got great longevity. I'm watching Beverly Hillbilly's repeats, but
I've got no vitality. So I'm all about vitality. Can
I travel? Can I enjoy myself? Can I still exercise?
Can I enjoy the more extensive things in life? So
lifespan health span with an overriding white cloud of vitality.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
So if we take lifespan and health span and compare
them to where we've been, say fifty years ago, seventy
five years ago, are we having let's compare them both.
Are we having a longer lifespan, having a longer health
span or not?

Speaker 3 (06:02):
The World Health Organization said in twenty twenty two, we
are the first generation to recede in our lifespan. So
that does impose a good scenario for anybody. But I
think the biggest problem is we may be living longer
per se, but we're not living healthier. If I had
to say that America's number one in something right now

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in the industrialized world, we're number one in bad health.
Ninety eight percent of our dollars are spent on chronic
disease in Medicaid, and eighty six percent of our dollars
in Medicare are spent on chronic disease. So, without question,
we're able to live longer, but we're not living healthier.
We're not striving. And if I were to project as

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a twenty twenty eight presidential candidate as a joke, the
first thing I would promise you is good health for
all the American people.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
Well, you'd probably get voted for because I don't. It
doesn't sound like we're having farings so well if you would.
But the body seems to reach iterate itself. What's going on?
We're getting chronic diseases.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
I think the number one reason is our environment, and
inside the environment is something called ultraprocessed food fifty seven
percent of Americans consume their calories from ultraprocess food. We
are the smartest species in the world. We can make
our own food, supply ultraprocessed food, yet we're dumb enough
to eat it because it leads us down a very

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slippery health slope.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
So what is it with the ultraprocessed Why does that
what does that impact our health so badly?

Speaker 3 (07:36):
Well, the ultraprocessed food is mostly bad carbohydrates, and they
are essential amino acids, they are essential proteins. They're no
essential carbohydrates. And these are what I would call junk carbohydrates.
They're synthetic foods. They're very high in sugar, they're high
in preservatives. They work with the reward center of your brain.
So therefore you want to eat more and more and more.

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You know the story where ultra processed food came by
the nicotine. Tobacco companies bought a food company in nineteen
eighty eight and they said to themselves, what advantage do
I have to sell more food? We're all at the
same starting line. So they said, we need to use
something to light up the reward set, and like nicotine

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did for tobacco, and they used ultra processed foods with
a lot of sugar and preservatives that would get us
addicted to the food, frosted flakes, et cetera. And therein
lies the rub, if you will.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
And what's scary is young children are seriously addicted, aren't they.
I remember my grandkids pitching an absolute fit when they
were expected to. I wanted to feed them oatmeal, and
they wanted their frosted whatevers.

Speaker 3 (08:47):
Yeah, the frosted flakes and stuff like that. Unfortunately, for
children and teenagers, sixty six percent of the calories they
consume comes from ultra processed food. So obviously, what's not
an ultra processed food? Well, I had somebody once something
that has a food label that's less than five ingredients.
There's no ultraprocessed food in pairs apples, broccoli, grass fed beef,

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pastor raised chicken. My mother in law is visiting me now,
I'm having a great time. And what happens. We go
to the farmers market every Sunday to get real food,
if you will. So if I had to tell everybody
one thing to start on Monday, a cellient point is
please avoid limit ultra processed food and eat real whole foods.

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Or as my friend said, if it walked down the earth,
the sun hit its back and it breathed there, and
it was grown in the ground. Non glypha shate go
for it.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
Speaking of which, throw in the GMOs and glyphasate and
then what do we have going?

Speaker 3 (09:50):
Well, that's an interesting thing. Glyphasate is a particular ingredient
in round up with the World Health Organization. It's called
cancer causing all these earth sides and pesticides are used
to extend the life of food. They don't extend the
life of the consumer and the human. And I don't
know why people who have organic forms and organic products

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have to get taxed when these foods that are causing
us such a injurious type of route are getting away
with that kind of stuff. So these are herbicides. So
one of the things I tell everybody, unfortunately, is I
much prefer eating organic food, so foods that are not
being touched or in a more natural state.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
So the genetically modified food is adding to the problem.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
Well, now you're really going down the path of good.
And yes, they genetically modified food's inherently what it is.
It's not food, it's modified, it's not cooked, it's modified.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
And what are we seeing as a result of Because
you have to really work at getting away from that stuff,
But what do we see as a result of it
being so a large part of our diet.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
We're seeing a lot of instances of increase obesity. Seventy
five percent of the American population is obese or overweight.
I mean, it's way too heavy. The average American now
consumes one hundred and sixty pounds individually of sugar per year,
one hundred and forty six pounds of wheat, one hundred
and forty two pounds of artificial sweeteners. So when you

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really think about what we eat, I think about twelve
percent of the calories consumed by the average American comes
in real, whole food.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
So do we have to store them? Not so real?
Not so whole food is fat.

Speaker 3 (11:38):
And not only as fat. But look at the deleterious
effect that has on people's gut. You know, it's an
interesting thing when I talk about gut and gut health.
Eighty percent of your immune cells or in your gut,
where your macro and micronutrients are absorbed. Did you know
that the largest nervous system in your body is in
your gut? Our gut allows us to have something called

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neuro seption, our perception or subconscious perception of what's going
on around us. Men like to refer to it as
a gut feeling, and women like to refer to it
as a female intuition. It's our nervous system actually from
our gut communicating with our brain ascertaining what's going on.
That is diminished greatly by consuming poor food. Now, I asked,

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I apologize. I asked a mentor of mine, doctor Jeffrey Bland,
the father of functional medicine, and I said, why eighty
percent of our immune cells are in our gut? He says, well,
where's most of the carnage coming from what we open
up and put in our mouth?

Speaker 2 (12:40):
Interesting, So basically, the digestive system needs to let you
know that things aren't what you're feeding. It isn't to
its liking.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
You know, the digestive system. So it's interesting. The digestive
system is part of our immune system. It's actually our
first line of defense. However, the digestive system is actually
deemed outside the Bible. It has been postulated that that
whole digestive system, which is the first line of defense,
is the first time that the outside world meets the
inside world when something goes through the small intestine and

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gets analyzed by your blood. So it's a fascinating thing,
that outside world and inside world. So someone came to
me and they asked me what I would recommend. I
would tell everybody, let's take care of our gut because
God health is the epicenter of our health.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Well, we're going to have to really research that a
little further because I want to hear more about it,
and I'm sure the audience does too. But it is
time for a station freak, doctor Silverman, and I will
return very shortly, so please don't go away. This is
Mission Evolution www dot Mission evolution dot org. Quite a
we age is this hour discussing longevity is doctor Robert Silverman.

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Doctor Silverman is the author of Immune Reboot and Inside
Out Health. His website Doctor Robert Silverman dot com. Doctor Silveran,
can you discuss the hallmarks of aging for us?

Speaker 3 (14:05):
Without question? Love to do that. First hallmark of aging
and without question is immunity. I like to refer to
it as immune reboot. You want to reboot your immune system,
go right over and press that red button and stop
your immune system from doing all those wrong things and
regenerate it make our immune system more resilient. Another hallmark

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of aging is inflammation. If COVID taught me two things,
it taught me one half the room's crazy and the
other half of the room is crazy. Are It also
taught me that most of us are pre inflamed. We're
running around inflamed and we couldn't respond to specific stimulants.
So if I had to look at inflammation, I would

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want to manage and modulate it with every one of
my patients. Inflammation is interesting. It made the cover of
Time magazine twenty years ago. Now it's not called inflammation,
it's called inflamma aging. How you cause aging from inside
because you can't manage and modulate that inflammation. The microbiome.

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There's three microbiomes that we talk about. Number one the
gut microbiome. We kind of talked about that before, without question,
the epicenter of your health. As I said, the second
microbiome would be the gum microbiome. Really growing in data.
Did you know everybody knows what gingervitis is and inflammation
of bacteria of your gums? Did you know that it

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produces a destructive enzyme called ginger pads. Ninety percent of
Alzheimer's patients have gingervitis because they have this destructive enzyme
called ginger pads. Mitochondrial dysfunction is another hallmark of aging.
Everybody knows the mitochondre as the powerhouse of yourself. The
number one complaint that people have is the lack of

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energy fatigue. That's based on mitylchondrial disfunction. In addition to
that and the idea of mitochondrial dysfunction, we also look
at the idea of immunity, and mitochondri dysfunction is the
number one reason for the increase in neuro degenitive disease.
The number one body part that uses mitochondri is your brain.

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Something that may be new to many people is something
called fascia, your body's wet soup, the sarane wrap of
the body. So the other day I showed somebody I
took a chicken breast, pulled the skin apart. There was
the chicken breast, that was the muscle, the white films
the fascia, and obviously that white film is attaching the
muscle and the skin. And something else that we like

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to refer to of a hallmark of aging as dys biosis,
the unleveling of good and bad bacteria in your gut.
You need about eighty five percent good bacteria not to
have ds biosis. And I'll finish with loss of muscle mass,
which referred to as sarcopenia. The loss of muscle mass

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has been shown by a nineteen ninety eight study in
Tuls University to be the leading cause of aging. Muscle
mass is your longevity organ.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
Oh interesting, So what causes us to lose it? Outside
of our setting it behavior?

Speaker 3 (17:09):
You know? Interesting? As we age, it's a side of aging,
the loss of muscle mass. We don't need enough protein.
We need more protein as we age than we did
when we're younger, and most people cut down on their protein.
So I would tell everybody you need a gram of
protein for every pound of desired body weight. So most
people want to lose. So, if you're two hundred pounds man,
and you want to weigh one hundred and sixty pounds,

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let's say you need to consume one hundred and sixty
pounds of one hundred and sixty grams excuse me of protein.
So that's one of the biggest reasons. Also, we stop exercising.
We become more sedentary as we age. If anything, with
this longevity wave and craze, people are exercising more. We're
seeing men in my age bracket sixty starting to exercise.

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Everybody wants to look like Brad Pitt with their shirt off.
So muscle mass is the currency of longevity.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Why is that?

Speaker 3 (18:03):
Because it's actually an indocrine oregon muscle. It dispenses with
blood glucose. People who are muscular have a much lower
incidence of diabetes. Muscle also is great for postural support,
and the number one marker for aging is actually movement patterns.
And we have better movement patterns when we have muscle
to help us move and hold our structure tight.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
You know, I've heard years ago, and I don't know
if it's accurate. You'll have to help me with that.
Is that the if you are active and muscularture very
you know, build your musculature during your childhood and young adulthood.
It's easier to gain it back if you, you know,

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get a job where you sit a lot and then
you want to rebuild than it is if you never
had it in the first place. Is that accurate?

Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yes, that's accurate. So, but it's not the muscle that
has met it's your central nervous system that holds the
muscle memory. You've got this great computer in your body,
and everybody always relates to the brain. Brain is part
of the central nervous system. The brain and the spiral cord.
It remembers everything we may not remember. You know, I

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may not remember at thirteen years old, I had this flu,
I had a sore throat. But your body, your central
nervous system, will remember it. Because of that memory, it's
easier to put muscle on that you've already had than
build new muscle. But people who have never lifted weights
before don't worry about it. Your body still has the

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capability of responding. Start today.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
So is there an age at which the body can't
respond anymore?

Speaker 3 (19:46):
My dad says that ninety four, his body is responding
as well as as it ever has. I think there
is a slope. I think men and women's slope are
very different. Women are wavelike because their hormones are wavelike.
You know, this really crazy wave, especially what we call
pre metapausal metapausal pulse metapausal and manage sort of a

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slow drippity drop of declivity of loss. So anyway, we
all get there, but our bodies are able to respond
because we're always able to make new cells.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
So if you know, someone says I want to weigh
what I did when I was twenty seven, but then
they get down to that weight and they're not shaped
the same. Okay, right, does it have to do with
the difference between muscle mass and weight as far as
you know what weighs more fat or muscle?

Speaker 3 (20:40):
Well, muscle does weigh more than fat, as both of
us know. But that's a great point. Because we're not
able to put muscle mass on as easily as when
we were younger. Our body composition changes. Also, collagen is
a decrease in our body, and collagen gives us those firm,
tight structures, so we don't look quite the same. However,

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I have to say that the people I'm seeing in
the news, people on the Instagram, people coming in my
office that are hearing to a healthy lifestyle, they are
really pushing the envelope in a positive light. I've never
seen more fifty sixty and seventy year old men and
women from a distance look twenty.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
That sounds like a wonderful improvement to me. So let's
change gears just a little bit. What's a biomarker?

Speaker 3 (21:32):
A bio marker is you know, when you go into
the doctor, they should think of what they do. They
take your temperature, they take your blood pressure, they look
in your eyes and ears, they take blood. A bio
marker is something that determines where you are right now
in space. So bio markers are great because they are

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allowing you to assess, and then when you're able to
assess as a doctor, you can then treat and then
you can reassess to see how much that treatment worked.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Okay, so what are the biomarkers of longevity?

Speaker 3 (22:06):
Here are some of the ones that I would recommend
for you, my good friend, to take. Number one biomarker
of longevity. We're concerned about Alzheimer's. Did you know there's
a genetic component to Alzheimer's. It's called a poe. So
everybody should go test or apoe. If you happen to
have an apoe two. There's three different alleles. In APOE two,
which one percent of the population has, you will probably

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never see Alzheimer's in three lifetimes. You can have an
apoe three, which means you're neutral like myself. If you
have a good lifestyle, you can avoid Alzheimer's. If you
have an apoe three and you have a bad lifestyle,
you're going towards Alzheimer's. If you have an apoe four,
eight percent of people that have an apoe four have Alzheimer's.

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Twenty five percent of the population have this genetic bio marker.
And it's not a state androdized test across seventy five dollars.
You only have to test once. If you have an
apoe three neutral that happens to be seventy five percent
of the population. So wouldn't you want to know that
if you had a genetic predisposition to Alzheimer's.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
Clearly, if you have genetic predisposition to Alzheimer's. And I
have heard that aluminum is one example, Malcolm's right fillings
is another that up your chances even if you're already predisposed,
they pretty much would guarantee that you end up with Alzheimer's.

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Is that accurate? And how do we avoid all that stuff?

Speaker 3 (23:39):
You know what? You set me up for the dunk.
I appreciate the alley. So here we go. Yes, Alzheimer's
a byproduct of a full body insufficiency from an environmental attack. Technically,
Alzheimer's is not a disease of the brain. It's actually
a disease of the immunity in the brain, and it's

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lifestyle driven with a genetic component. So, like you said,
those heavy metals, if you're exposed, increase your incidents of Alzheimer's. However,
there's data now, robust data that speaks to the idea,
from mild to moderate Alzheimer's, you can stop and reverse
it by changing your lifestyle.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
So what changes in lifestyle with somebody that's being faced
with Alzheimer's, What would they need to do?

Speaker 3 (24:28):
Remove specific food? So the first thing I would remove
is a food allergy, a food sensitivity, a food intolerance.
I would go on all enriched whole food diet. You
could pick one that like the Mediterranean diet, which is great,
the ketogenic diet, which is vastly different, a plant based diet,
which also would be great. You know, they have two

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sets of studies on diets. One was the ketogenic diet
which is very fat and meat oriented and it worked,
and one which is plant based, which is a total
antithesis of that ketodiet, and they both worked. They had
one commonality, whole foods. So the first thing I would
do is change what I eat. Try and find thirty

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minutes a day or thirty minutes three to five times
a week to exercise with an emphasis on some form
of weight resistance. Again, the studies are coming in on
a daily basis that exercises the golden ticket to decreasing Alzheimer's.
In addition, there are specific supplements that have been shown
in research to have a great salubrious effect on Alzheimer's,

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something called pro resolving mediators which allow for the resolution
of inflammation, Omega three fatty acids, vitamin D three, lions
main which is taken a world by storm or mushroom,
and last but not least, magnesium AL three and eight.
You do all those things, you're going to precipitously drop
your incidents of Alzheimer's and reverse that mild to moderate position.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
Is there a point of no return you say mild
to moderate? Is there a point where it's not going
to help, You're not going to be able to reverse it.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
Yeah, there are instances where you won't be able to
Most people are in a mile to moderate advanced. There's
no data yet. Now there is something that I call
the secret recipe that I find worked in my office
and other practitioners have found to work, and that would
be non thermal low level layser. The addition of a
true laser red green, and a violet light has mystical

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effects on the brain.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
So how does that work? Obviously the eyes are the
brain or part of the brain. So the light coming
in through the eyes, is that what you're working with.

Speaker 3 (26:42):
Yeah, it can come through the eyes. It can also
be exposed to the skull and it gets absorbed because
it's photonic energy, it's non thermal. So there's a lot
of stuff going on out there about the conversation of
red light therapy. Red light therapy, it's just a heating device.
The last time I heated my head. That's not what
you want, everybody. You want non thermal low level laser

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that allows for electromagnetic transfer of energy that stimulates and
optimizes mitochondrial function and also allows for the stimulation of
neuronal input in that interconnection. The body's all interconnected. If
we can rewire that brain, we can start to have
firing and refiring of the neurons inside that brain.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
Well, it's time for another station break, doctor Silverman and
I will be right back to continue our discussion, so
please stay with us. This is Mission Evolution, Mission evolution
dot org. Why is the gut the fountain of youth?
This is Mission Evolution, Mission evolution dot org with this
discussing longevity. Is doctor Robert Silverman his website Doctor Robertsilverman

(27:50):
dot com. Doctor Silverman, why is the gut considered the
fountain of youth?

Speaker 3 (27:57):
The gut, as I said before, is the epicenter your health.
Your immune cells are in your gut. Whatever you've done
for your guts lately, you have the guts to be healthy.
I ask all my patients, and you know, it's a
fascinating thing that the conversation of the gut, and it
grows every day. But what's most interesting is ninety percent

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of the data that's been published on the gut has
been published in the last five years. So if you're
seeking out a practitioner and you haven't spoken to somebody
who's let's say, staying with the data, you're going to
be missing out on a valuable part. Now, interesting that
we are made up of bacteria. Ninety percent of our
bodies bacteria. Ten percent of our body is human cells,

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so we're actually outnumbered at a ten to one ratio.
So somebody would appear as a practitioner to be myopic
if all they wanted to do was kill bacteria. You
want to foster good bacteria, you want to get rid
of bad bacteria, and that's the basis in the starting
point for good gut health.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
So there's a lot of talk about candida the overgrowth.
I assume that candida is naturally occurring. But when all
these things we do to our system, antibiotics and glyph
estates and everything else kill off the good guys, the
candida overgrowth, what impact is that happening? And how common

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is it?

Speaker 3 (29:22):
Candida overgrowth or a yeast if you will, something called
small intestinal fungal overgrowth. It's a new term out there.
So ce fo ninety seven percent of ce fos is
Candida indeeda leads you down a path of what we
call leaky gut breaks in your gut, which cause immune compromise.
Something that's interesting about Candida indeeda is one of the

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pathogens that are on the list of things that can
lead to Alzheimer's disease, and it's great to have this conversation.
I mean, there was a night I had a pression moment,
and in that moment, I said, won't it be great
that I can go on a radio TV where someone
doesn't just ask me about the gut, but they ask
me about the intricacies of yeast and candida And the

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moment has happened.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
It's that magic moment. So what are the what is
the impact and why o candida?

Speaker 3 (30:16):
Well, unfortunately, your gut is like an ecosystem. I like
to refer to it as a neighborhood. So ninety percent
of your gut is what we call commensal bacteria. It's
the middle class. They have values, they keep their lawns clean,
they pay their taxes, and they're really nice people. And
if you have that, you do not have d biosis.
Then you have five percent of the population in the

(30:39):
area is very rich. They can populate really quick, they
can do a whole bunch of really good things. But
on the other side is the people from the bad
side of the neighborhood detrimental. But you need them because
you need them to balance out. But you need them
because the good bacteria needs to know what's bad. And
I know when I say in ecosystem, people are a

(31:01):
little confused. But when you put it in the confines
of a neighborhood, they get very very It becomes quite evocative.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
So what are the symptoms if you have an overgrowth?

Speaker 3 (31:14):
Well, one of the things, do you get guess some
voting after you eat? Do you have brain fog thirty
to forty five minutes after you eat? If you have
any one of those two things, you would want to
check yourself for candida. Do you have urgency to use
the laboratory? Do you have absence from using the laboratory?
Things of that nature also will lead you down a

(31:36):
path that you would want to see. Do you have
an expression of candida? Some real advanced expressions. Do you
have focus on your skin? Do you have focus on
your eyelids? Because whatever is on the skin, which is
a line of defense, is occurring inside your gut.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
So putting stuff on your face to cleric skin rash
is probably not going to do it right.

Speaker 3 (31:59):
You just talk about so eloquently about treating the symptom,
not looking at the system and not going to root
cause resolution. We should always look at the body from
the inside out. Unfortunately, part of longevity is trying to
look pretty, trying to look handsome. Woppo if you will,
And part of that problem kind of sways you away. Hey,

(32:20):
I want to get rid of the blemish, But what's
the blemish there for? You just brought gave a great example, is.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
There to let you know something's going awry inside? Right? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (32:30):
Without question?

Speaker 2 (32:31):
So one more question about candy dam How accurate or
how the testing that we have right now in mainstream
medicine will it pick it up or not?

Speaker 3 (32:43):
There's this hard line divide between mainstream medicine and what
we call alternative medicine, And unfortunately, when it comes to candida,
I found that the alternative medicine has much more effective testing.
For me, the most effective type of test would be
a blood test for candid and not a stool test,

(33:06):
and in that the accuracy, if it's done well, is
in the high nineties.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
Now, well, that's fantastic, is it? Yeah? Waste product versus
the actual critter?

Speaker 3 (33:16):
Yeah, yeah, I mean well said well said waste product correct.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
Yeah, I understand that one of your waste is pretty toxic.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
Yeah. I'm a big proponent of blood serums because I
think it's you know, you're obviously it's part of your
circulatory system and being a proponent of that because that's
what's going on inside your poop. We can use that
word on radio and TV. Is one isolated incidence, is
something that went in and came out.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
But the blood is covering all that stuff. I mean, yes,
it's circulating throughout the body and feeding it or whatever.

Speaker 3 (33:52):
Yeah, it's it's the gold standard as we like to
refer to.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
So tell us about the gut, brain axis.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
Function, whatevery duty, gut You do your brain with every
duty brain you do, do you gut and you do
so in a millisecond. As I said before, did you
know that all neurogeneritive diseases have an origin in the gut? Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, als,
multiple sclerosis, and one little addition, ninety percent of people

(34:21):
who suffer from autism have a gut issue.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
My goodness, and the good issues are running rampant because
of our diet.

Speaker 3 (34:30):
Yes, yeah, you really signified that really well. With the glyphosate,
the ultra process foods, they increased sugars, the environment full
of toxins. Did you know that if you live anywhere
between one to three miles from Parkinson's disease. You have
a twenty four percent chance of increasing Parkinson's because of

(34:53):
the runoff of the toxins in the water, because they're
trying to keep the grass so pristine.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
You mean golf courses, you said, you said for Parkinson's disease,
And is it contagious.

Speaker 3 (35:07):
It's not airborne, but it is getting good looking, almost
soil born.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
Everything is at this point, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (35:14):
Unfortunately?

Speaker 2 (35:16):
So why is the gut brain access function critical for
healthy aging?

Speaker 3 (35:20):
Well, I mean these nerd degenitive diseases are a sign
of aging, and Parkinson's does, and Alzheimer's do have a
decrease in life expectancy. You know, love to make a
little point about Alzheimer's because you know, if you tell
somebody the number one killer is cardiovascular disease, they look
at you go. Which is interesting. Fifty one percent of

(35:40):
Americans die of some cardiovascular disease. If you say Alzheimer's
neurodegenitive disease, you gather their attention. It is the seventh
leading cause of death in the world, sixth leading cause
of death in America, number one leading cause of death
for women in Australia, number two leading cause of death
in the UK for women. Women are much more susceptible

(36:02):
to Alzheimer's because they're more susceptible to neurodegenitive disease. Because
neurodegenitive diseases are based on autoimmunity. Your body are attacking itself.
So I don't see a decrease because people are not
embracing quality lifestyles. But I just wanted to make a
point now. Interesting, when you took at the finances of Alzheimer's,

(36:25):
it costs about three hundred and sixty billion dollars to
an American health care cost per year. They speculate by
the year two thousand and fifty, it'll be a trillion dollars.
It is the most expensive health care disease in America
today because of its direct and indirect costs. So the
obvious statement is we need to do something.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
About it quickly. Yeah, and if anybody's ever out there
has ever had a loved one come down with Alzheimer's,
it's heartbreaking for everybody involved. You know, if we can
find a way to avoid it, say yeah, let's give
up our wheaties, Okay.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
And you know, we should really define mild. You know,
we I use the term a lot mild to moderate Alzheimer's.
So I'll ask somebody in a basic question, have you
ever forgotten where you park your car? Did you ever
have to search for your keys? I have? That is
a very early sign of Alzheimer's. Now, don't fret I

(37:24):
suggest that everybody goes on an anti Alzheimer's diet. So
I do already recommend certain acronyms like GPS, DNA and IRS, DNA,
no dairy, sorry, I know everybody loves cheese, No nicotine,
no artificial sweeters, DNA, GPS, no gluten infinitive, no or

(37:45):
limited ultra processed food pee and avoid and limit sugars IRS,
inflammation reduction strategies. And hear this clearly, no processed seed oils.
I don't care what the influencers say. If they want
to eat it, let them. And no deep fried foods.
If you do GPS, DNA, and IRS, you're gonna have

(38:08):
a healthy life, You're gonna have a good life span,
and you're gonna have vitality.

Speaker 2 (38:12):
How much does our habits, I mean, we've designed our
lives around pull it out of the freezer, throw it
into the microwave, eat it on the way to work,
or throw it at our kids on their way out
the door to school. If you're talking about, you know,
eating real food, that's going to change our lifestyle just
trying to get it provided for us, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (38:34):
It's a great point here. I can purchase this beautiful
organic bison with organic broccoli, sprinkle with extra virgin olive oil,
some cashew nuts, and put it in a microwave to
heat it up and ruin the whole meal. And we
do that because we live a very fast paced life
in America. We live a life where people work five

(38:57):
six and like you and I, unfortunately or fortunately seven
days a week. It's just how we're constituted. So to
get around that, I strongly suggest avoiding certain things like
a microwave, using hot pots, using regular pots, and unfortunately
for some people like myself, hate the food cold.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
Yeah. I haven't been opposed to that. It's like, you know,
we always think we have to have it hot. But
the other day and time, and I had an organic
sweet potato that I'd already baked, and I tried it cold.
Hey it was dog gone. Good. You know, it's surprising.
We have these things that we think are deal breakers,
but if you get adventuresome, you can really find some
other things that work out. The is there a problem

(39:41):
with the microwave itself, No.

Speaker 3 (39:44):
It's just the radiation and the microwave emits. You know,
I would be amiss if I didn't talk about fruits.
So it's a big question. It's fruits healthy. So I'm
going to make a statement that may be perplexing. Fruits
are healthy, but a lot of f dose isn't healthy,
which is the sugar in a fruit. So if somebody
would say to me, can I eat fruits? I would

(40:06):
say yes. It's not the fruit that you eat, it's
when you eat the fruit. So if somebody wants a
real secret recipe here it is on a meal and
I sit down to have a good meal, the first
thing I would eat is fiber. The next thing after
fiber would be protein and fat, and it would end
with the carbohydrates. If you eat in that order, you

(40:29):
will decrease your blood glucose rise by seventy three percent
and your insulin released by forty seven percent. So don't
count calories. Count chemicals. Don't count calories count satiety, don't
count calories, count nutrients, don't count carbs, look at when
you eat your food. So it's the nuance of it

(40:51):
all that will really lead you down the healthy.

Speaker 2 (40:53):
Pathway and sounds a little simpler than what some people
would have you believe.

Speaker 3 (40:59):
Right, I think that when it's just that, when you
truly understand it's just that simple, put your carbs at
the end of the meal.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
Well, it's time for us to take another station break.
Please stay with us. Is doctor Silverman and I continue
to explore longevity, good health and immunity. This is Mission
Evolution www dot Mission evolution dot org. Okay, so I'm
already behind the nutritional power curve. What do I do?
This is Mission Evolution Mission evolution dot org. We're continuing

(41:31):
our discussion with doctor Robert Silverman his website Doctor Silverman
dot com. Doctor Silverman, let's talk about supplementation that people say, well,
you should be able to get it from your food, right, Well,
it doesn't sound like we're getting it from our food
from this last three segments we've been talking. So what
do you recommend is supplementation and what do you suggest

(41:52):
you'd be careful about supplementation?

Speaker 3 (41:54):
That's a great question, and I agree with you. We
should be able to get it from our food. However,
if you're fifty years sixty years old and you've had
this habit of not eating good quality food, you're probably
not gonna flick the switch real quick. So hence the
idea of supplementation, supplementation to a good quality diet. So
I have what I call my foundation five real simply

(42:15):
in supplementation. Number one would be a good qualified multi
vitamin multi mineral to fill in some of those nutritional
gaps that you're missing. Number two would be vitamin D
three with K two. So there's a lot of conversation
why with K, Well, vitamin D will then shuttle calcium
because of the usage of K to the bone and

(42:38):
not the soft tissue. Vitamin D is, you know, does
a swath of health promoting properties. It is literally one
of the Swiss Army Ice of health. It improves immunity,
bone health, muscule skeletal health, cognitive health, and of course
gut health. The other one I would recommend her. But
the third one on the list would be a Mega

(43:00):
three fatty acids. Somebody said today I was on a
podcast that if you eat a whole can of sardines. Now,
I happen to hate sardines, but if I would have
Grinn and barry, you need a whole case, a whole box,
a whole whatever it is is sardines. The thought of
it is almost making me lose my ability to converse.

(43:21):
It would be one gram. You need two grams of
omega three fish oils per day. Did you know two
grams of omega three fish oils will increase your health
span by five years starting today? Five years? Did you
know by consuming two thousand I use a vitamin D three,
you increase your health span by three years. So my math,

(43:42):
hopefully it's not too shody. Five plus three omega three
plus D three equals eight years of health span starting today. Now,
I don't know about you. I kind of like that
number four would be a pre in a probiotic. Probiotic
is good back chair that you need to populate the gut.

(44:02):
The prebiotic is like a fiber which feeds the probiotic.
And last, but not least, I'm a big proponent of collagen.
I found it to be very helpful for skin, hair,
and nails. There's an aesthetic thing, you know, little vein.
It is a sin, but I apologize for it. It's
also helpful with the gut. And then I would also

(44:23):
supplement with my three superheroes, Acromancia, which is a specific
probiotic that's been shown to enable people to achieve a
good body composition, blood, glucose, and immunity. Creatine, which without
question is the conversation piece right now. Creatine has been
around for thirty years. It is the second most studied

(44:43):
nutrient behind vitamin C. Creatine is shown to increase muscle
mass five to ten grams a day. It's great to
ward off Alzheimer's and for cognitive effect, it has a
more beneficial effect there for females than males. And the
last the new one I would talk about would be
a peptide BPC one fifty seven. They call that the

(45:06):
Wolverine supplement because as Huge Jackman gets shot and stabbed
in all these movies and he heels before your eyes.
BPC one fifty seven has those wolverine type properties. So
those would be the supplement. But don't forget supplemental to
what a good lifestyle, which includes exercise, sleep, reduction of stress,
and good quality food.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
So speaking of which sleep. Everybody has a different idea
of what good sleep is and how much we need.
Where are you with that?

Speaker 3 (45:37):
Sleep is critical? It's one lifestyle hack that we can control.
We need about seven point five hours of good sleep.
If we're able to sleep well, we're actually able to
recover a lot of our brain strength. Interesting, our brain
is a sponge. It shrinks to about forty percent of
its size when we sleep appropriately, squeezing out all those

(45:58):
metabolic waste. So if you want to you know, have
a healthy brain, you want to do better on a test,
you want to enjoy the next day, get about seven
point five hours of good quality sleep, which is so
hard because with all the blue lights, the red lights,
any kind of light noise, people eating late at night,

(46:18):
people drinking caffeine before they go to sleep or try
to go to sleep, makes no sense as a half
life of caffeine of forty eight hours everybody. I'm a
big coffee guy. I say it just like a native
New Yorker. We have to limit that. But sleep is
probably the one hack that we can control better than anything.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
You said. The brain pushes down when you sleep. Is
that why some of us are not?

Speaker 3 (46:45):
I think you know that's a great question. Some of
us are not mourning people. That indicates that we haven't
got enough sleep the night before. I always tease everybody
if I get my seven and a half hours, I
wake up and it's like, what can I tear apart?
What damage can I do? Today?

Speaker 2 (47:01):
Absolutely have that energy to do something. So let's go
back to your low level laser you brought You brought
that up. What is low level laser and where does
one achieve that? Where does one get that?

Speaker 3 (47:17):
Well, there's specific companies and I know you want me
to be company free here, so I'm going to be
company free. So here's what you're going to look for.
You're going to look for Class two lasers, which means
you do not have to wear goggles because the Class
two does not require a goggle. You're looking for laser
companies that have FDA clearances. So, for instance, you may

(47:37):
want one since you want to use a laser for
pain that has an FDA clearance and decrease pain and
increase range of motion. You want it based on the wavelengths.
So there's three different wavelengths that are very popular right now. Obviously,
red lights six thirty five is the wave if no
pun intended is the conversation. There's a green light which
is great for stem cells, which has a wave length

(48:00):
of five hundred and twenty nanometers, and there's a violet
light that has a wavelength of four hundred and five nanometers.
The green and the violet together do a great job
of killing a lot of pathogens in one's gut if
you would apply it in a functional medicine light. So
you're looking for a laser that provides photo electric transfer

(48:23):
of energy, and you're also looking for one that actually
has a low power milliwatts, not watts, because a lot
of watts a lot of power lead to heating, and
you know what, you don't need to kick cook my
grits too much.

Speaker 2 (48:38):
So it sounds like energy medicine. Is it the frequency
that is impacting the change?

Speaker 3 (48:43):
Great question. It's the wavelength, with the frequency being the
cherry on top.

Speaker 2 (48:50):
Okay, So the wavelength determines exactly where it's getting in
what is treating.

Speaker 3 (48:55):
The wavelengths actually determine the properties that are going to
be exposed to the body. The frequency is typically the
amount of times the light hits the body. There's specific
frequencies that we know that are effective for certain conditions
like forty hertz fabulous for Alzheimer's, two great for bone
density injuries, ten great for vagus nerve stimulation.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
So is this something that the layperson can get and
do for themselves or is this something we need a
practitioner for.

Speaker 3 (49:27):
Well, a layperson can now purchase them, which has been
new to the arena. But I always do suggest company
somebody and I'm not saying just like me, but somebody
who is experienced in the application of the laser and
understands how to tie it in with all the lifestyle.
So if I were to make your recovery room, your
longevity recovery room, the top of my list, next to

(49:51):
a sauna would be a non thermal, low level laser.

Speaker 2 (49:56):
You see, and we all need recovery at this point.
I'm afraid you and living in the planet Earth, and
planet Earth is suffering. So what's the mainstream medicine missing
about get health and longevity? You know?

Speaker 3 (50:10):
They I just went to a gastro entologist Harbor Trade,
brilliant guy, trusted him and everything like that, and I
had a infection and I said, are there any foods
that you would recommend me avoiding or consuming, not trying
to set him up, and what did he teld me

(50:30):
to eat white bread? So I think the problem is
they're not adapting enough to the new data, and I
think that data is there light. I'm very pro medical,
I'm very pro Western. I believe in integration. I always
tell everybody if I'm in charge, I want to hear

(50:51):
everybody's opinion, from one other's spectrum to the other, so
I have access to any opportunity to help somebody, because
in the end, it is patient result driven. But I
think that the alternative route is really going to take
over because we're offering people what they want. We're offering
will cause resolution. We're listening and we're answering their concerns,

(51:15):
and we're not backed by pharmaceutical companies.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
You know the You know, I have quite a few
friends that are doctors, and I feel really bad for
them in the state and age because when they were
busy trying to make people well, the insurance companies took over,
the pharmaceutical companies took over. Now they work much harder
for much less and they spend more of their time
on computers looking for diagnostic codes than they do talking
to the patient. And every one of my friends is

(51:41):
a doctor. That's their major complaint. They're burning out. And
within that, do they have time to get up on
the latest information. I don't think so. So it's the
whole system seems to be out of whack.

Speaker 3 (51:54):
I agree, And I know, having come from being a
practitioner who used to take a lot of insurance, I
just that was not how I wanted to exist, because
I'm spending all my time trying to get the patient covered,
trying to get paid some shekels, as opposed to doing
what I went to school for, doing what I wake

(52:16):
every day for, you know, trying to adhere to my mantra,
creating health for future generations starting now. So I don't
blame them. I feel that pain.

Speaker 2 (52:27):
Oh yeah, it's sad, it really is. And beautiful, beautiful
people with a lot of skills. Thank God for them.
So it's about that time when I need to ask you,
doctor Severman, what's your mission?

Speaker 3 (52:40):
Well, it just gave it away before. My mission is
to create health for future generations starting now. But my
mission is to be to inspire people to be healthy
like I was inspired. I mean, when you go into
chiropractic and alternative medicine. You do so because somebody inspired you.
I had a congenital problem that somebody helped me with.
I got up twenty one years old and said, this

(53:02):
is what I want to do every day. I want
to help somebody like you help me. An, the game's
changed a little bit. I'm fortunate in that I just
don't do it one on one in a clinical setting.
I get to come on great stations and shows like yours.
I get to write books. You know, there's a big
thing called the Internet, social media and stuff like that,
so I'm able to share my message. But for anybody

(53:25):
ever listening to, the message is true and it's intrinsic.
It's I want to be able to help you, but
you've got to take a step and try and help
yourself as well.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
Isn't that the key, taking that step to help yourself
without question?

Speaker 3 (53:38):
Just remember Jim Rome once said, take care of your body.
It's the only place you have to live.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
And take care of the planet. It's the only place
we have to live.

Speaker 3 (53:46):
On right Indeed, indubably.

Speaker 2 (53:49):
Well, I can't thank you enough for coming on the
show again and for everything you're doing in the world,
Doctor Silverman.

Speaker 3 (53:55):
I appreciate the time and the opportunity. Hope to see
you soon again.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
I hope so too. Our guest this hour has been
doctor Robert Silverman, a chiropractic doctor, clinical nutritionalist, and author
of Immune Reboot and Inside Out Health. To find out
more about doctor Silverman, where you can find his books
and all he has to offer, visit his website, Doctor
Robert Silverman dot com. This has been Mission Evolution with Gildowyeka.

(54:22):
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