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Craig Brockie on Gut Health Challenges, Naturopathic Turnaround, and Embracing Holistic Wellness
After years of struggling with chronic health issues, Craig Brockie found himself questioning the effectiveness of traditional Western medicine, particularly after experiencing the disruptive effects of antibiotics like tetracycline on his microbiome. Craig joins us to share his personal journey from battling acne and anxiety to embracing naturopathic medicine and other holistic practices. Together, we explore the limitations of Western medical paradigms focused on medication and surgery, and advocate for alternative solutions that promote long-term wellness.
Our conversation dives deep into the complex relationship between gut health and overall wellness, highlighting how anxiety and chronic pain can be linked to what we consume. I recount my own struggles with chronic pain and anxiety, which led me to seek help from a naturopathic doctor, revealing issues like leaky gut syndrome and Candida overgrowth. We emphasize the importance of maintaining balanced gut flora disrupted by antibiotics and processed foods, offering insights into managing one's health through education and self-care, citing resources like Dr. William Davis's "Super Gut."
We also venture into the intriguing realms of allergy testing, peptides, and GMOs. Craig provides insights into the benefits of amino acids and the concerns surrounding agricultural practices, while we touch on the evolving trend towards integrative medicine. Our discussion is filled with practical advice and personal stories that inspire listeners to take control of their health journey, challenging conventional approaches and exploring holistic pathways to wellness.
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One of the worst offenders is antibiotics, unfortunately, which is bad enough that we take them orally to treat infections, and that's actually, I believe, what set me up for failure. In high school I was having acne, and not severe acne, but it was enough that it made me feel self-conscious and I didn't want to have acne because I was already self-conscious. I mean, growing up as a kid, you want to. You know it's hard to you feel. I guess self-conscious and insecure is a good way to put it. And at the time there was a drug in there that still exists today, called tetracycline, which is an antibiotic, but it doesn't just target bad bacteria, it kills all bacteria and you actually need to have good bacteria in and inside your body and outside your body. So antibiotics are one thing that just destroy a person's microbiome and the bacteria that should be in and in and outside the body my name is michael guy at publisher of the lead lagarport.
Speaker 2:Join me. Here is craig brocky. Uh, who's got a? There's two of them, as you can tell from the background picture. Uh, one that might be a little bit more photoshopped than the other. Um, craig, introduce yourself to the audience. Who are you, what's your background, what have you done throughout your career and what's up with Ultimate Health?
Speaker 1:Okay, cool. Well, actually you first came on my radar probably 12 years ago and I actually met you in person in New York one time at a true contrarian conference that my friend, stephen Kaplan was putting on. But anyway, I've been watching your finance and shit posting on X for years and enjoying it and I like how you say like you see it and you don't pull punches, so that's appreciated. I really admire what you've been doing with your fasting journey and working out. You're definitely showing people and you're leading by example on how to be healthy, so I admire that and appreciate that. I've had my own health issues.
Speaker 1:30 years ago my health completely fell apart. I was 21 years old and I had chronic anxiety. I wake up in the morning, just not want to get out of bed. I was feeling, so you know, worried about the day and but it was too late, I you know my mind was already spinning, I couldn't turn it off, so I'd get out of bed and get into action and then I'd walk to the bathroom and look at myself in the mirror and just wonder what happened, because you know, my belly was hanging out, my shoulders were weak and when I looked at myself in the mirror and looked at my reflection. I just was ashamed and regretful and feeling bad about all the bad decisions I'd made and I was using drugs and alcohol to escape life at the time.
Speaker 1:And life was just not good. I was in chronic pain. I'd had a couple of car and boating accidents, I was left with chronic neck and back pain and my immune system was shot too. I was just sick all the time. The life was just terrible. And then, fortunately, I was turned on to naturopathic medicine and homeopathic remedies and massage therapy and chiropractic and I just began a journey and soon after I became very, very healthy, happy.
Speaker 1:My anxiety went down and today I'm 50 years old and people think I look much younger for my age. I definitely feel much younger for my age and I've learned so much over the last 30 years. I just love sharing what I've learned with people. So I wrote a book about it and I post regularly on social media just sharing with people how to be healthy and how to escape the disease care system which is the Western medical paradigm right now, which is take a drug for the rest of your life. If that's not working, cut something out of your body and it's just, to me the wrong way of approaching medicine and health. To me, the wrong way of approaching medicine and health. So there's much better solutions that people can try early on, and I'd just love to talk to you about those things.
Speaker 2:I'm glad you mentioned the Kaplan thing. I knew you were familiar and it's been a long time, obviously, since then. What was the catalyst for you? I'll tell you. For me and I have no problem saying this publicly I think this is just. It's okay to be vulnerable, right? I think, with hindsight, the last three years, I may myself have been going through some form of high functioning depression, right, and I say that because, yeah, in my case, I've got. I'm a very hard worker. I built a strategy that did particularly well in 2020.
Speaker 2:I think that's my breakout moment in my career, after a long slog of a cycle that didn't really favor it and I thought I would not go back down again, and it ended up not being the escape velocity that I thought it was from a career perspective. It ended up being the exact opposite. It ended up being hell, ended up not being the escape velocity that I thought it was from a career perspective. It ended up being the exact opposite. It ended up being hell, as the Fed started to break the fast rate I cycled in history.
Speaker 2:As I have to stick to a particular mandate, I talk about anxiety. They call it comfort food for a reason. It's like if you're sad and you're depressed. What do you do? You eat, which of course makes you more sad and more depressed and becomes this very vicious cycle. My catalyst was, I felt I just kind of woke up and said I need to have control over something, because in the game of investing you don't really have much control People seem to, but they really don't. So it's like, of all the things that are around you in life, the thing you have direct control of at least to a large degree, not fully is your. Is your health right? Not fully, because of you know cancers that come up, other diseases that are outside your control, or you know your genetics right, but for the most part you have some control of it. So for you, what was the, what was the catalyst there?
Speaker 1:I would say the chronic pain. To be honest, you know, living in my early 20 twenties and just having a sore neck and back all the time was just, you know, unacceptable. I mean, anxiety for me had become the norm. So I I probably didn't know that that was abnormal at the time, but I certainly didn't like it. I didn't like feeling in fear all the time, but I would say it was the pain that was really what really pushed me over the edge and I just had to do something about it because living with chronic pain was just not acceptable to me.
Speaker 1:So it got me into going to this massage therapist who was referred to me and his name is Nigel Jeffers. He's in Winnipeg, manitoba, and he really got me started on this journey. He taught me that what he was doing for me was 10% of the solution and what I would do for myself would be 90% of the solution. So basically, if I wasn't going to take full responsibility for my own wellness and my own health, that I wasn't really going to get anywhere. And so he put me on a stretching program. I used to stretch about half an hour a day at least, just to keep the pain at bay, and then he turned me on to naturopathic medicine and what I learned was that I had dysbiosis, which is a really unhealthy gut condition, or your intestines are inflamed. In my case they were leaking. I had something called leaky gut syndrome, which has become more popularized these days. A lot of people know about something called small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, or SIBO, and there's also fungal overgrowth which is SIFO, and I had a fungal overgrowth called Candida, which is very, very common. In fact, my friend up in Vancouver, canada, dr Lauren Swetlikoff, who helped really turn my health around. One of the first things he tests on everybody is the level of candida yeast in the body, because candida yeast, when it gets out of control, really undermines a person's health. And what's really cool these days is that even the American Psychological Association you can go to their website and they acknowledge that serotonin, which is the neurotransmitter associated with mood and happiness even the American Psychological Association themselves acknowledge that 95% of the serotonin in your body is actually produced in your gut. So obviously if your gut health is out, that can throw off your hormones because hormones are actually produced in the gut as well Neurotransmitters everything goes out of whack.
Speaker 1:And then also, if you're not absorbing your nutrients properly. Not only is our food system really screwed up these days because they're using pesticides on the plants, not only that, but the fertilizer that they put on the crops is actually derived from petroleum, and it's only three minerals out of the dozens of minerals that would make a plant healthy. So our plants are mineral deficient. They're sprayed with chemicals, then the animals are eating these things. They're condensing it into their fatty tissue. We're eating these animals and you know it's just setting people up for disaster.
Speaker 1:And so when your small intestines are inflamed and they're covered with mucus and fungus, you're just not absorbing the nutrients. So not only is the food itself deteriorated and very poor quality, but even if it was a high quality and even if you're worse taking supplements, if your body cannot absorb those through your small intestines, then they're not going to get into your bloodstream and benefit your body. So just treating your gut is so, so important, and that's why that's the main thing I focus on these days is there's a great book out today called Super Gut, by a friend of mine named Dr William Davis. He got famous writing a book called Wheat Belly, which is New York Times' number one bestselling author. Hell of a guy, great guy. I highly recommend everyone read the book Supergut and in that he tells you in four weeks how to turn your gut health around. And it's just remarkable when you do that, what kind of results you get.
Speaker 2:It sounds like it's obvious, right? It's like what you put into your body impacts, you know, your, your health. And then what is the processor? It's your gut, and so it kind of makes sense from that perspective. Um, let's talk about what types of uh foods tend to screw up the gut.
Speaker 1:Um, especially the simplest answer, the right one, which is just a bunch of processed stuff, but maybe it's more than that yeah, and I mean, uh, one of the simplest answer is the right one, which is just a bunch of process stuff, but maybe it's more than that. Yeah, and I mean, one of the worst offenders is antibiotics, unfortunately, which it's bad enough that we take them orally to treat infections, and that's actually, I believe, what set me up for failure. In high school. I was having acne, and not severe acne, but it was enough that it made me feel self-conscious and I didn't want to have acne because I was already self-conscious. I mean, growing up as a kid. You want to, you know it's hard to you feel, I guess self-conscious and insecure is a good way to put it. And having acne on top of that, just that wasn't helping helping matters.
Speaker 1:And at the time there was a drug in there still exists today called tetracycline, which is an antibiotic, but it doesn't just target bad bacteria, it kills all bacteria and you actually need to have good bacteria in and inside your body and outside your body. So antibiotics are one thing that just destroy a person's microbiome and the bacteria that should be in and outside the body. That actually has health enhancing benefits. So antibiotics are one of those things, obviously taking them orally to treat some sort of infection is one thing, but also the animals these days are oftentimes conventionally raised. Animals that are not grass-fed or organic are typically treated with hormones and antibiotics, so you can actually get antibiotics indirectly that way.
Speaker 1:And then obviously, sugars and simple carbohydrates are something that fungus like candida feeds off of. So what you've been doing with intermittent fasting and what my friend, dr Eric Berg, who does healthy keto, he teaches people about ketogenic diet. But these things, they cut down the carbohydrates which feed the bad bacteria and feed the fungus. So just doing that alone can help get the control and the upper hand on the situation. But obviously, yeah, processed foods, earth control pills those can disrupt your microbiome. Unfortunately, nutrasweet, sucralose all these artificial sweeteners tend to have a destructive effect on the microbiome. Sweeteners tend to have a destructive effect on the microbiome. So, yeah, just focusing on whole foods, lower carbohydrate, lots of vegetables these are just common sense things for your microbiome and getting your gut back on track.
Speaker 1:But also, on top of that, what happens is when you get leaky gut and you get an inflamed gut or digestive system, it tends to get overly sensitive also and you can develop food sensitivities.
Speaker 1:So one of the things I recommend in my book, which I think everyone should consider, is getting tested for food sensitivities, because if you're continually eating foods that inflame you, then that's going to be a problem. And just eliminating those things you can actually lose some of the puffy water weight that people carry in your face. And just by dropping into a ketogenic diet and avoiding your food sensitivities, people can often drop five to 10 pounds almost immediately just from water weight that they're carrying, because their body's just trying to deal with all these things that it's having trouble dealing with. So if you just remove those things temporarily and give yourself a chance to heal, then you can start reintroducing those things. It's not like you have to avoid dairy or gluten for the rest of your life. You can actually, in a lot of cases, heal your gut and then clean your liver out so it can process those things and then reintroduce them, so you know you can live a normal life.
Speaker 2:I love that point about giving yourself a chance to heal, which is really what fasting is right. I mean, you're giving your body time to heal from what is a very strenuous process in terms of the metabolizing and digesting of various food items, letting it go through your bloodstream and then shutting that system down so that it can get reinvigorated right for when you next eat right, which is where we used to be the case for our ancestors as cavemen. How did you go about identifying what you needed to remove? So I know you mentioned it before. So you do a food sensitivity test, sure, but it sounds like a lot of this is also a bit of a trial and error dynamic.
Speaker 1:One of the easiest things I think anybody can do is learn how to do muscle testing. It's also referred to as biofeedback, rather, and it's pretty rudimentary I wouldn't say it's an exact science by any stretch but it can be a good guide for people in terms of what makes them stronger and weaker. You can actually learn how to do muscle testing and again, I don't say it's the gospel and 100% accurate, but if you just were to go through your refrigerator and hold an item to your chest and have someone test the strength of your arm holding that item, it will give you an idea whether that's something your body agrees with or not. But then there's a blood test I believe it's called MU Pro, i-m-u-p-r-o, mu Pro, and that's a blood test that can help. And there's allergy tests, where they actually break the skin and put allergens. It's called a scratch test, I believe, where they're actually breaking the skin and exposing your body to it that way and looking to see what your body reacts with. But I don't think that's actually a very accurate thing either, because your body has to have a pretty strong reaction for it to show up in that regard, whereas something could be quite a subtle food sensitivity, where you're not actually breaking out, you're not, your throat's not closing, you're not getting a runny nose or coughing or anything like that or a tickly throat. Even sometimes you can actually be sensitive to a food and your body's dealing with it well enough that you're just carrying some extra water and you're getting through the day. Maybe you're just a little bit tired or you're having difficulty sleeping or you're snoring or whatever these things are.
Speaker 1:All these things you can get rid of, by the way and I cover all these things in my book in terms of whatever health issue you're dealing with right now just by getting your whole system, your whole body, tuned up. A lot of these symptoms and diseases quote diseases go away when you handle these issues. But there's something just muscle testing. You could do that with your partner or a friend and just go through your, your pantry and your refrigerator and test different foods. And if you test week four, just you know, set it aside for a while and just don't consume those things for a few weeks and then test them again. And in the meantime, you know, do things to heal your gut, clean your liver out. Your liver is actually what's processing these things and reacting to them, because you know, say you're eating gluten every day and your body's sensitive to gluten, you know your liver gets backed up and has a hard time dealing with that stuff. But if you can actually remove the gluten for a while, let your body chill out, then clean your liver out and get it to the point where it can actually handle and process like your whole system can handle gluten, then you're probably going to be okay reintroducing it.
Speaker 1:And there's actually allergy elimination techniques also and I mentioned those in my book as well that you can do to actually fast track eliminating food sensitivities and outright allergies. There's people who have had violent peanut allergies and they get rid of them routinely. So you know there's no reason someone has to live like a hostage in their body that's been hijacked by a shitty food system and a shitty big pharma system that's designed to keep you sick, stressed out, fat and unhappy and tired. You know people just need to find what's actually going to work and you've obviously found something that works for you. I think if everybody did what you did, you don't have to read my books, you don't have to even, you know, watch YouTube videos or anything. If they just did what you do, they're going to be fine.
Speaker 2:So there's always the story of the perennial smoker who smoked six packs a day and lives to the age of 100, right, there's always stories of people that do all the wrong things but they still have the longevity somehow on their side. Maybe it's genetics. I want you to talk about trump. Um, let's see the thread on this and it's actually amazing. The guy's 78. I mean, you know, love him or hate him, you can't deny his energy level. Right, I mean, it's got to be exhausting. I don't remember biden being like that, you know, at 78, four years ago, right when he was first elected. And Trump doesn't look particularly healthy. He's got a gut Somehow. He still is standing there. What have you been able to determine from his lifestyle that are interesting?
Speaker 1:takeaways. I think Warren Buffett's another example of that. He's quite productive and sharp and gosh, I don't know. I think he's in his 90s now and I really feel, like you know, mind over matter. There's a big part to it and I actually do things every day to improve myself spiritually and mentally. I'm a practicing Scientologist. I do something called auditing, which makes me feel chilled out, happy.
Speaker 1:I don't get upset about things. I mean, trump has been under attack so much the last few years and I think he's had probably a lawsuit on the go for most of his life. I've been litigated a few times and I had to litigate it. To me it sucked the life out of me and was difficult, but the more I've done it, the less it affects me and I think there's truth to the saying that what you can confront, you can handle, and then also just what you believe is true for you, I think is important, like if Trump was feeling that his diet was killing him. Maybe it would be killing him, but he doesn't have that consideration. I think he just feels that you know what he's doing and how he's approaching life is good for him and it's working for him and the fact that he's got so much love for life and I believe he's got a high purpose too, and I believe he's got a high purpose too which I believe just drives him as a being. So I think those things are more important probably than you know, obviously, if he's eating highly toxic food all the time and hooked on some sort of psychiatric medication or I don't know, taking antibiotics all the time and not getting good probiotics. But I'm sure he's got good people around him.
Speaker 1:I know Dana White, who's a really good friend of his, totally turned his life around in the last few years with the help of 10X Health and Grant Cardone and Gary Brekka, and you know I'm sure he gets good advice here and there. Probably he does some. I know he plays golf and I just think he doesn't let some things affect him that other people would. I look at other people who are, you know, very little things stress them out Like a little thing going wrong just totally caves them in and obviously someone like that who doesn't have a lot of confidence maybe their guts messed up or just their emotional stability is really low.
Speaker 1:You know they're probably an accident waiting to happen in terms of illness and sickness, but Trump's getting attacked all the time doesn't seem to let it affect him. So I think that's probably a lot, a lot to it and obviously he's surrounded by great medical teams and hopefully he's doing something positive for his life and I'd like to see him get ripped Like if he did what Dana White did. Dana White was quite I wouldn't say obese, but he was definitely chubby and he was very bloated and very unhealthy. He had a lot of different symptoms and diseases and sleep apnea and all kinds of problems, and now he's just you.
Speaker 2:You know he's looking great is the the simplest answer, the right one, which is just eat organic whole foods and you'll be fine? Or should people be looking into supplementation even if they're eating organic whole foods? I I saw your post on essential amino acids. Right, you said I'm a big believer in. You can get it in natural food sources, but maybe not enough. So let's talk about that for a little bit.
Speaker 1:Okay, well, let's get back to the gut health again, and so again, this book, supergut. I highly recommend it. I do have a vested interest in this, in that I sell the number one bestselling probiotic yogurt maker on Amazon. In Supergut, dr Davis teaches people how to use a yogurt maker to make your own probiotics. You can take almost any commercial probiotic capsule that you buy off Amazon, a health food store or whatever, and actually culture it and ferment it and multiply it from billions into trillions of live cultures, so it's much, much stronger. And not only that, but the yogurt that you buy in a grocery store typically only has two species of probiotics, and they're not overly effective. In fact, they don't even populate the small intestines, they only populate the large intestine. Plus, there are only two of thousands of different probiotics that you can get, and on top of that they're quite weak. And then you have to keep buying them all the time. So what we teach people is which probiotics have which specific benefits and Dr Davis covers that in detail in Supergut and then how to culture those things using a probiotic yogurt maker and make your own. And then the cool thing is that you only need to use one spoonful of that to make the next batch, so you don't have to just keep buying expensive probiotics all the time. So that's one thing that's really big. That's a big part of my business and my life. And again, that is a bias that I have. You could buy any yogurt maker out there or you could use something called a sous vide. You can even use a food dehydrator if you want to. I think certain instant pots will work as well. So by no stretch do you have to buy my product, but it is a great one.
Speaker 1:And then here's the other thing when your gut is not working properly, a lot of people realize protein is important, but your body actually has to break down the protein. When you eat a steak, your body doesn't just push that steak into your cells and use them. Your body, first of all your stomach, has to be highly acidic and has to have really high stomach acidity to start breaking down those, like even eggs, into smaller chains which are called peptides. Peptides are a fascinating topic. I've got a free peptide guide on my website that people can get. I love peptides, but also the amino acids are what make up peptides and make up proteins.
Speaker 1:And these amino acids you're not actually going to utilize them. A if your stomach can't break them down. So if your stomach's not operating properly, a, you're not going to break down the protein properly. And then, b, if your small intestines are inflamed or covering mucus or bacteria or fungus, then they can't absorb the protein. So one of the solutions to that is this product we developed, and there are other products out there.
Speaker 1:These are essential amino acids, and there's over 20 amino acids that your body needs. Most of them your body can actually produce on its own, which is kind of cool. There are nine amino acids that your body actually has to get from external sources and that's why they're considered essential amino acids because you actually have to consume them. So we've developed this product Ultimate Essential Amino Acids and there's other essential amino acid products on the market.
Speaker 1:You take these and the benefit is that it's helping give your body the building blocks of protein, which are the amino acids, and a lot of people associate protein with muscle, but protein and amino acids are also used to develop bone, blood, neurotransmitters, hormones, enzymes there's so many things that are actually produced by amino acids. They're extremely important. So you definitely want to make sure your body's got a lot of those so it can repair itself and support itself. And then, secondly, because this product is already in its basic form. Your body doesn't have to digest it like they would have to with a steak or eggs, and they are absorbed quite readily within 20 to 30 minutes they're in your bloodstream and helping you repair and build neurotransmitters, hormones, et cetera.
Speaker 2:I'm actually glad you mentioned peptides, because for all of the excitement around GLP-1, that's effectively a peptide.
Speaker 1:Right. Insulin is a peptide too. Insulin is the first mass-produced peptide. It's been around over 100 years now.
Speaker 2:Why is it that the FDA hasn't really kind of gone and looked at the peptides that are out there more seriously? I mean, there's ones that EPC-157, which helps with healing, ones that help with growth hormones like semoralin and desamoralin, right. Why hasn't the FDA looked into this stuff more intensely?
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, my opinion on that is that, because a lot of peptides are from natural sources or they're analogs of naturals peptides naturally occurring peptides that have been synthetically produced unless there's some alteration that they made to them, they can't be patented. So it's really difficult to patent something that's naturally formed. In this case, most peptides are actually synthetically produced but they're based on a natural structure, something you would already have in your body. I guess the exception of that would be like collagen peptides, which actually come from the hides of animals like cows, beef, cattle and other peptides like that that are actually naturally sourced, but most of them are synthetically created, but the structure of them is a natural something you find in nature. So, from my understanding, you can't patent something that's already found in nature. You actually have to modify it. I think I'm not 100% sure with these GLP-1s what the modification is. I think it might be how long they last, because your body actually produces GLP-1. This is the important thing for people to understand, especially if they're considering taking Ozempic or they're scared of taking Ozempic or Wagovi or Monjaro, I think. What's the other name for Monjaro is oh gosh. Anyways, the basic names are semaglutide or Ozempic, and Wagovi and trizeptide is what Monjaro is, and there's another name for that that's escaping me. This is more for weight loss, so each one has a weight loss drug and also diabetes treatment. But anyway, the bottom line is your body produces GLP-1. That's where they found this right. So I believe the modification they did I could be wrong is how long lasting that they created it, so you only have to take an injection once a week because I'm pretty sure your body doesn't produce something that lasts for a week long, naturally. But the bottom line is your gut is supposed to create GLP-1. And there's actually probiotics I mean, you go on Amazon, it's not my product, but there are GLP-1 probiotics that help stimulate the production of GLP-1. And obviously, if you fix your gut health and you get the right probiotics in there, your body will actually naturally produce more GLP-1. But anyway, peptides are really cool.
Speaker 1:I've done, I've used, I've done sound like an addict. I was using them heavily in the last year. I've done, I've used a dozen, over a dozen different peptides and I'm fascinated with them. I created a peptide cheat sheet that summarizes all the different common peptides. There's over 30 different peptides in there. Uh, how to reconstitute them, because usually they come in a freeze-dried vial and you actually have to add some liquid to them and a lot of them you have to inject. Some of them you can take orally. But I cover that all in my peptide cheat sheets.
Speaker 2:I think it's all a fascinating field in general and there's a lot of interesting things to get from that right if you kind of research it very carefully. Um, you use the word modify, um I'm. I am curious to hear your take on sort of genetically modified uh ingredients. Um, there's one I came across, epg, which I guess is on the fat side right, that um doesn't get digested and results in a much better calorie to nutrients ratio if it's used in whatever products it's used. Any insights on that?
Speaker 1:All right. Well, let's just talk about GMO, or genetically modified organisms, for a second. Now you have to ask yourself, why are they doing this? And one of the main reasons they're doing it is to make the crop so that it doesn't react to glyphosate, which is Roundup. The crop so that it doesn't react to glyphosate, which is Roundup. It's a toxic chemical that they put on crops to kill weeds and pests. So now, basically, here's the thing.
Speaker 1:There's a great film, gosh, it's called the Biggest Little Farm. I don't know, michael, if you've seen that, but put it on your list. I think it's called the Biggest Little Farm, something like that. Anyway, it shows basically, if you were to take a plot of land and put it back to how nature intended it to be and where the ecosystem is operating properly, you don't need pesticides and weed killers to have a healthy crop.
Speaker 1:So here's the fundamental problem they stopped putting natural minerals on the soil and they started planting the same crop, one crop, on the land, again and again and again and again, stripping out all the good nutrients. Topsoil sucks. If they were just to put the right mineral content in there, rather than using a petroleum-based fertilizer that only has three petroleum-based minerals, the plants would be a lot healthier. So, instead of actually making the soil healthy and making the crops healthy, what they're doing is they're allowing crops to grow in a very subpar or a terrible environment where they're prone to disease and sickness because they're not getting what they need to be healthy. And then they're using chemicals on top of that to kill off anything that would attack them because they're weak, whereas if they weren't weak crops, they'd be able to defend themselves and be healthy, and then it's just like it's. That's what's worse than that is. Then, when they use like wheat, for instance, they're using actually glyphosate again during the processing and drying it out. So they're not just using glyphosate to kill pests and weeds, but they're using it during the drying stage to process the wheat. So you're just getting this terrible, terrible product that's just loaded A, it doesn't have good mineral content, it's unhealthy, and then it's got chemicals on top of it, and that's what GMO that's the main reason I believe that GMO crops exist is so the crop itself can withstand having a poison sprayed on it regularly.
Speaker 1:It's criminal, in my opinion, and that's one of the reasons I'm really excited about RFK coming in. That guy he's actually got a history of putting justice and ethics into the system. He was involved with that lawsuit that I believe was a quarter billion dollars against Monsanto and he's got a history of actually standing up against big food, so I'm really excited about him. He's even acknowledged chemtrails. I know there's a lot of controversy. A lot of people don't even believe that chemtrails exist, but he's actually identified them. He said you know we have to make this stop. So I'm super excited about RFK.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's funny because people, I think, may misinterpret a lot of what they see in the media and assume they know exactly what his views are on everything. I don't get the sense that he's anti everything from the medical community, right? He's just pointing out that we should talk about this stuff more, right, which I think is important. Speaking of that, what does the medical community get right about health, cause it seems like a lot of it is is largely not right. What does the medical community get right about health, because it seems like a lot of it is largely not right.
Speaker 1:What does the medical community write about health? Is that what you?
Speaker 2:said yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:Okay. Well, I believe the medical community has its role for sure. We just did a thread on X. If people follow me at Craig Brocky, I'm writing about controversial topics all the time. We did a thread this week or maybe it's coming out in a few days about rockefeller um and how he basically converted the health care system from one where natural remedies that actually support the body and help the body heal itself were dismissed and suppressed. And he actually was the one that introduced petroleum-based drugs, which, again, not only are the fertilizers that we put on crops based on petroleum, but most of the drugs are made from petroleum. Even a lot of supplements B vitamins these days are actually made from petroleum. It's sick, michael. It's really sick. It literally is sick and bordering on criminal, how messed up things are.
Speaker 1:But in terms of good things, the medical system does. Obviously, emergency care is excellent. If I were to break my arm again in a car crash, I would want to go to an emergency room and get stitched up. Car crash I would want to go to an emergency room and get stitched up, get my arms set, these types of things. I think dialysis is probably a good thing, but there's other things people could be doing to improve their kidney health. Dialysis is definitely pretty extreme Gosh. I mean antibiotics are overused, but here's the good thing is that a lot of doctors these days are actually, you know. I think Dr Oz did a good job of helping raise awareness of natural solutions. Dr Mercola he's super controversial but he's got a big following. He helped, you know, raise some awareness and he's a medical doctor, I believe. I think maybe he's an osteopath, I'm not sure, but anyway there's a lot of people speaking out about it and they're starting to get these clinics that are called integrative medicine, where they combine conventional medicine with natural medicine. I think that's great and that trend is excellent, and I believe that most doctors are very well-intentioned. Natural medicine I think that's great and that trend is excellent, and I believe that most doctors are very well-intentioned, good people.
Speaker 1:I don't fault doctors. I think some might be somewhat arrogant or have their ego a little bit too high in terms of dismissing things that might be helping others that don't fit into their paradigm, but I don't think that most doctors are bad people. What I think is at the top is corrupt, and you've got a big pharma that has their shareholders that want people sick and they want to sell as many drugs to people over their lifespan as possible. That's just a problem. And then the problem is that they educate the doctors in medical schools, and we exposed that in that Rockefeller thread that we did on X just how that came into play. But overall I think doctors are great people. I really admire them and appreciate what they do when they listen to not necessarily me, but other people who are sharing this type of information and trying it out for themselves and seeing what works for them. Because at the end of the day, I think that's the most important thing is for people to listen to ideas and think whether that makes sense for themselves and, if it does make sense, to try it.
Speaker 1:And none of these things I talk about in my book are dangerous and gonna harm anybody. Maybe you won't get the same degree of success with something that someone else might, because everybody's different. But you know, cleaning out your liver, getting your body detoxified, getting your gut healthy using peptides, losing weight Like there's not too many people that wouldn't benefit who are obese or overweight right now Just by losing weight that's going to help. You know, getting rid of your snoring, your sleep apnea, so you're actually sleeping through the night and you're getting properly oxygenated. You know, these are some big things that people maybe take for granted or they think, oh, you know, I haven't been able to handle this for the last few years, so I'm never going to be able to handle it. But the truth is that most of these things have solutions and your body wants to be healthy. So if you just give it the things that needs to be healthy, you're going to be fine.
Speaker 2:Craig, for those who want to track more of your thoughts, more of your work. Where would you point?
Speaker 1:it to At Craig Brocky is my handle on X. We've got about 85,000 followers there Now. We are pretty active there, plan to move into LinkedIn soon and then the other social media platforms with video later this year. Craigbrockycom forward slash free is where you find all the free resources. You can get the first chat for my book for free. You can get my peptide cheat sheet. You can get the first chat for my book for free. You can get my peptide cheat sheet. You can get a weight loss guide there. I actually do talk about peptides and how to use them safely and avoid some of the negative side effects that people complain about. And then also we offer discounts on all our products there.
Speaker 1:Creberockycom slash free my brand is called Ultimate and if people go to amazoncom forward slash ultimate, they'll find my ultimate probiotic yogurt maker, the ultimate essential amino acids. We've got berberine. This is an excellent product. We have a hundred percent grass fed beef organs. We've got all kinds of cool stuff that help people. But whatever brand or whatever information works for you guys, whatever you can do, that's going to help you be healthy, be happy, be productive I'm all for that amen to that appreciate those that watch this live.
Speaker 2:Again, this will be an edited podcast on delete lag live and I'll see you all on the next episode.
Speaker 1:Thank you craig appreciate it awesome. Thank you, cheers everybody.
Speaker 2:Thank you, craig, appreciate it Awesome. Thank you.
