300 Episodes Later: Why Personalized Medicine Is the Only Medicine That Works

WELCOME TO EPISODE 300

EPISODE TRANSCRIPT

Freddie Kimmel (00:01.718)
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Beautifully Broken Podcast. Here we are. Can you believe that this is number 300? So I'm gonna do my best to speak from my heart. I thought about all these different ways in which I could do episode 300. Maybe I would script everything that I had pulled from the last seven and a half years of doing the podcast. Maybe I would pull clips from my favorite thought leaders over time that just were impactful, those people who were.

bringing forth incredible technology, survivors of chronic illness, the real innovators in the space, the tools of Titans. And honestly, what is coming up for me right now at 300 is that it's been very challenging to pick guests. It's been very challenging to find a conversation which can really be about the philosophical aspects of health.

The idea that there is a settled science or that we understand this one thing and we know how to fix it, I never see that play out. What is fascinating to me is in this just broad scope of the world of working and wellness, it's so unique and individual and and it comes down to one thing. It comes down to you. It comes down to the person who walks into the room and sits across from

a healer, a practitioner, a doctor, a therapist, and they and they look at you and they're curious and they ask you questions about your body and your biology and your genetics and your lifestyle and what that tone is like when you look in the mirror in the bathroom when you wake up in the morning, what is that narrative? Is it one of love and of of a of of acceptance and curiosity and hope? Or is it one that's a little it's it's full of judgment. It's harsh.

There's a negative slant to it. It all matters and and that is probably the starting point. Which is why which is why, again, it's getting really hard to pick guests. Because I find, I find, especially in this space, and in there's a lot of people who and it's so well meaning. It's so well meaning. I think we generally, as human beings, we want to help. I think that that longing to do better or to help is easily swayed in our

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model of unconscious capitalism, which I've mentioned many times. And we're still doing it. We're still doing it. I ain't going nowhere because I wanna tell you, I wanna tell you, if you listen to this show and you've ever heard an episode or you've ever seen me on social media or maybe this is your first time, I love it. I love this. I love people. I love getting to sit down and when people are vulnerable and

Secure enough in their position where they can be challenged a little bit and we can really dive into a good conversation on the podcast. I don't think there's any I don't think there's any education like it in the world. I don't think I could pay for the timeline I've jumped from 2019 to 2026. Holy cow. Holy cow. I do want to, again, I want to keep this from the heart. I do want to say a few things.

I want to say thank you for anybody who's ever listened. If you've ever commented, clicked, liked, shared an episode, if you found value. I get messages all the time. It's rare people leave a review on the podcast and it's it's so very helpful. And I just want to say thank you for like the 300 people between Apple and Spotify that have done that. Maybe like 340. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. I know how precious time is. I know it is a short little life. And it is not lost on me. Your kindness that you've

exemplified through the internet in engagement. So thank you. I want to say thank you for all the different people who I've worked with over the scope of the show to make it possible. I've worked with single podcast producers and editing team, my team in the Philippines, Dave, I love you guys so much. Nicole, my assistant who I've worked with for a long time, and many, many other assistants, other Nicole's and my friend Linda in South Africa.

It's been a team effort. Truly, truly a team effort. And one thing I'm doing right now, I'm actively like pulling everything back. And I'm working with a team that is is more local. More local, we'll say Eastern Seaboard and same time zone. And we are we have a mission. We have a mission to just continue to improve the quality of the show. One thing that you're gonna notice is everywhere.

Freddie Kimmel (04:50.629)
You're gonna be able to see videos. You're gonna be able to watch the show on video because that's something I've always done. I put a video out on YouTube and I have put a video out sometimes on Spotify, but it's never been consistent. So we're gonna be producing the show in video. You'll always be able to listen to the audio, but that's something going forward that we are gonna be doing. So again, I'm interested in proving my skill as an interviewer, improving my skill as a conversationalist and

improving my service to you. So what what I bring to the show is really it's really it's what is unfolding in my life as far as an awareness. I have a nice view of the field, the scope of health right now. I I we we know the technology space. We know a lot of the things that are happening there. There's a lot of nuance there. There's a lot of nuance. Just because you have a device that creates a pulsed electromagnetic field does not mean in any way that it's going to change your position. However

Given the right machine and the right frequency and the right strength and the right practitioner, I think it can be profound. Just like a shockwave machine, a radial shockwave that is gonna work on breaking up adhesions into tissue in the right hands with the right therapist with the right device, I think it can be magical and life changing. And my good friend Molly Eastman just randomly posted a video yesterday about how about how her terrible car accident that left her in

10 out of 10 pain, she couldn't sleep. And she discovered it by chance, a shockwave therapy device, and it changed her life. It allowed her to sleep. It was a breakthrough and healing. And these things that I'm talking about, PEMF and shockwave, they're not standard of care. Now, let's talk about the wellness industry and how it's been my experiences of late, that holistic wellness, that biohacking, poor biohacking. I think she's played out.

human optimization and longevity, I think it's overmarketed or the claims are becoming so unfounded in in reality that it's just as problematic as as legacy medicine's pill for every ill. And so let me give you an example. And I'm just listening to a team of doctors talk about they they said that the dementia, dementia is the only heterogeneous disease out there and that

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what they mean is that a person walks in with with Alzheimer's and everybody's got a different background and that there's no way to s standardize a treatment 'cause we're all so different.

Welcome to the disease paradigm. When we have a disease state, be it Parkinson's, be it MS, be it Alzheimer's, there's no blood test for those diseases. They are a series of symptoms and they've been categorized in a box by legacy medicine to be able to treat standardized a a treatment program, a front line of care. That's highly problematic because we don't look at the individual in front of us. And what's missing from that season, that season.

That season of medicine, what's missing from that specialty of medicine is personalized, hyper personalized care. That is looking at the genetic blueprint. That is understanding that person's eggsome, their their entire environmental burden from metals to mycotoxins to chronic viral infections to dot dot dot dot dot. All the things. Where does their nervous system sit? How do they take in information? Are they a visual learner? Do they learn through text?

Do they learn through experience? Are they an auditory learner? We have so many ways in which this person is going to be subdivided. What is the functionality of their lymphatic system? You know, again, something again, I'm on the soapbox, but something a t a doctor will get maybe an hour, sixty minutes of training on in their medical degree. Be it it is the garbage man for the body. It's taking care of all cellular waste. You've heard this if you listen to the show. I don't need to tell you. All cellular waste, all your

know, all your immune cells are born in your lymphatic system and go off and develop some to other places. NK killer cells are already ready to fight cancer when they're born in the lymph node. But we don't work with this system as a regulatory system. Sh do you see where I'm coming from? So we don't really, really do personalized medicine. Now, the biohacking space or the human optimization or longevity or whatever you want to call it space would have you think that

Freddie Kimmel (09:24.251)
All you need is the hyperbaric chamber or the red light or go get some in an infusion of stem cells and you just need to use this one supplement that boosts your polypleural stem cells within your body or or maybe you're gonna infuse yourself with methylene blue and that will kill all infections. It's just not the way it works and it all falls apart from someone who's spent all the money and done all the things and seen where it falls apart, that storyline falls apart. It's always gonna be about the one person.

It's gonna be about one person, and let me here's this is my working theory, the one person in the inner relationship with their healer who is guiding them through that experience and educating, inspiring, and empowering that person to take radical ownership of what they take responsibility for. What's on the end of the fork? How are we breathing? What is our sleep hygiene like? How is our movement? What is the mechanical nature of my physiology? Is it creating pain? Is it helping to strengthen my physiology so

So, with all those great things in the biohacking space, like light and a magnetic field and high-end supplementation, supplementing for the gaps in our nutrition, what a wild concept that we do get better results. But I really think we need to be guided. I've had great guides. I am a self-starter and I am a person who has done a lot of experimentation. Most of those experimentations have cost me a lot of money. They did not improve my long-term.

my long term position in health, my long term health outcomes, I would temporarily find benefit and I would usually fall back below my baseline. And I never got it and I did that for over a decade. And the reason why I think that happened is because I have all these regulatory systems within the body that regulate health and those are going to govern where my state of health is right now, how do I shift those?

Again, it's awareness, it's practice, is having somebody in the other side of the table reflecting back to me, my patterns, where the limitations are, challenging my expectations on what I think will move the needle. These we we overestimate the the impact of a single therapeutic and we underestimate the the intervention of a c of a complete paradigm shift and where we look at all the things.

Freddie Kimmel (11:46.497)
like language, like breath, like exposure to light, like circadian rhythm. I promise you, if you move five or six of those things around, you will see change in both your physiology and your and your physiology and your mental emotional state. Both of them. Hold on here. My computer's asking for a software update in the middle of episode 300 and we ain't gonna do it. We ain't gonna do it. So that's been my experience. And that's why I sat down last year and I made this great big course called the Biological Blueprint.

And I and I put every system, my understanding of the system, how it works. I brought in a doctor, a scientist, or an expert that is certified in medicine to validate what I was saying. And we looked at things like dentistry. We looked at things like biological dentistry, the lymphatic system. We looked at physiology. We looked at the value of the fascia. We talked about light as medicine. We talked about optimizing our breath, rib cage mobilization. I could go on and on and on. There's like 16 modules. And

I always have what what that did for me, and let me be let me be radically transparent here. Did I have a thousand people jump into that course like I thought there would be? Nope. But I had twenty. And I I had twenty and I talked to all of them. And some people have really excelled, some people haven't done much, but the the feedback has been nothing but phenomenal. The clarity, the amount of work, the idea that I voiceovered.

a hundred and forty pages of of intellectual property so you could take it on a walk and learn and it's still there to do. It'll always still be there. But what that course did for me was two things. It showed me that that in the world that has evolved since I started, right? Since I started now here we are in twenty twenty six, the world of AI has changed the way people get information.

And there's an assumption with large language learning models, L L L L L L that we don't need information anymore that I can ask Grok or I can ask Claude or I can ask ChatGPT or Google. And so people I think they're viewing courses as information they already have access to. And that's very true. It's never what you do, it's how you do it.

Freddie Kimmel (14:08.652)
It's the energy behind the action and it's context. And that is something I've probably bored some of this audience with. It is the context over the content. I said this to a company I work with last week and we were we were we were negotiating over a fine point in a contract and I said I do not care. I do not care about the content. I am not gonna get caught up on it and over stress about these things in my life. It's a short little life. What I'm really focused on is the context.

How I move through from where I'm at today to the rest of the time I get to be in a human body. And I want it to be rich and loving and dynamic. And I want it to be collaborative. I want to work with you. I don't want to work against you. And so we I've really been thinking about that context. Because I understand, I will take an example, and I just redid the module on light. And it was great. I loved it. Nothing but good feedback. And I was like, hmm, I want this to be better.

I want the language to be better. I want to be a little more edgy. I want to push a little bit harder into that this might be something, you know, get in where you fit in, only do if it feels right, listen to your body. I actually pushed a little harder into that edge because I find is a regulatory system of the body seeing morning sunlight, and we've all heard it on a podcast, but understanding what happens. Why do we get a cortisol spike in the morning? Why do we have a lull of energy in the afternoon?

How does the lux of a single candle compare to that of my television, right? That I'm watching Netflix on. And even the impact of a candle can change how my body responds to light. But looking at a TV screen for the last two hours before bed, the the scope and the range of that lux, that power of light, became so evident to me that I was like, I need to be a little bullish on this.

I need to understand that there are photoreceptors in the skin, albeit they are different than those of the eyes. So I had to lay all this out again and I did it all over and I did that and I just was like, okay, I finally framed this thing the way I want it to be. I finally have the context. And understanding that like in that, in the light module, there are things like, Well, what about vitamin D?

Freddie Kimmel (16:28.523)
You know, there's a range, there's a time of day when we need to be outside with enough skin exposure at the right latitude and longitude to be able to get that medicine, or we're gonna supplement with some vitamin D and K2, or we're gonna get a vitamin D light. And those are all very unique modalities. Nothing's right, nothing's wrong, nobody has to do anything, but it's gonna come back to the one. And that's where, long story long, is that information is cheap.

But when you can talk somebody, you can listen to someone in in in a in a reflective space where I can hear what's going on. I can hear I can hear what do you want to erase from the from the from the magic board of health that's hurting you, that's holding you back, that think you think is a limitation in your life. I can listen to that and I can give objective information. I can ask the right questions to empower that person to choose something different. And I love it. I love it, I love it, I love it. So that's why we have switched from

community calls in the biological blueprint to one-on-ones. So every month on a Friday, you can book a one-and-call with myself. Anyways, I'm not here to plug the course, but I wanted to talk about that. Because in this age of information, which we're moving so fast, and there are supercomputers in your pocket which can pull up any piece of information contextually, that's something where somebody in a human body is gonna have

The ability to ask a better question. And that's what a good doctor does. And that's what a good healer does. They ask better questions and you will get a higher caliber, higher level of answer for your road, right? It's all a road. It's all a journey. The thing about life is, in my experience, we're here to ride the waves. And as long as the waves keep coming, even when they're heartbreaking and devastating, it means you're still alive. I

Recording this podcast on July fifteenth. So tragically, over the last month, I've lost two people in in in not my immediate circle, but in a close circle of friends, in which I had a a large chunk of time w that I spent with these human beings. My friend Dono Cumin Cunningham, who I worked at Ellen Stardust Diner w as a as a singing waiter for years in New York City. If those of you who know

Freddie Kimmel (18:51.275)
my music theater background. it went beyond Ellen Stardust. Don't think that was the peak of my career. It I'm saying this for real. I had just as much fun working in that restaurant as I did in any Broadway show. I probably made more money working in Ellen Stardust Diner than working in a Broadway show. But I bring that up because Dono had a tragic accident. And he worked there the whole time I did. I think I started in 2003. I was in and out of events there and

I got the news that he had passed and it hit me so hard. S i he was just a wild, weird, wonderful staple of Alan Stardust Diner in New York City, and it doesn't seem right. It doesn't seem right in life that he's not there. And had a really hard time. And I understand that is the end point for all of us.

Unless you're Brian Johnson or Dave Asprey, they're gonna live for infinity. but if you're if you're a person who understands what the timeline looks like, we're all doing it. We're all going there. And and I'm still, I'm still my heart hurts. Cause he he was such a big part of my New York experience. And I'm grieving. I'm grieving, and I think about it most days. I

Three days ago, I found out another another actor in New York City, extremely talented. He was on the Marvelous Miss Mabel. He was on numerous large scale productions, Broadway shows, Josh Grizzetti. Josh also worked at Ellen Stardeiner, and Josh tragically, tragically chose to end his life. And that again, in a very short amount of time.

It's really hard to digest. It's really hard. These are these are forty and fifty and and sixty year old people in my in my circle that are are leaving. You know, they're no longer in human form. I don't know what exists on the other side, but it's it's been something I've really been sitting with. I've been journaling about. I would implore anybody that listened to this podcast, if you have moments of suicidal ideation, please reach out. We will put the suicide

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support line in this podcast in the show notes. It's a very serious topic. I am in no weight qualified to address any part of it other than that I said yesterday in my journaling that I had this moment of feeling so much love and admiration and awe for the talent and the the kind human being

Josh was and in the same breath I feel angry, frustration, rage

Just intense grief. A lot of anger because there's no one to explain it to me and there's no way to make sense of it. And it's just been it's just been really tough. You know, I think about I think about I think about how hard I had to work to live through metastatic cancer and the decades literally.

Decades of surgeries and chemotherapy and rheumatoid arthritis and decades of severe joint pain in which every breath hurt.

I worked so hard. I worked so hard to be in a body in which I had

Freddie Kimmel (22:53.046)
I felt like I had complete agency. Like I had, I'm like, okay, here we are. All the resources are back. Let's go. That's the way I feel today. I work so hard for that. That's just my story. I'm not saying you need to do that. And then I think about how quickly it changes and we're no longer here. And that perspective of of how different it is for different people on their timeline.

It it really has, I will tell you what, it's liberated me from the at times hypervigilance of my day-to-day practices, i.e., I'm gonna be in front of the red light, I'm gonna do breath work, I'm gonna do journaling and meditation, I'm gonna do I'm gonna do my PEMF device, I'm gonna be in Flopresso, you know, I'm gonna make sure I get in the sauna four times a week to detoxify because I know the heavy metal burden and my mycotoxins and the lead and the mold and the mercury, blah blah blah.

It's crazy. It's crazy. It's crazy. And I say y my friend Kathy and Laura say WT WTF WTF. You guys all know what WTF means. If you're not watching the video, go watch the video because you'll get it. But they say, what is this for? What is this for? What is this here? And the the painful the painful reality of watching the people we love leave our lives is it gives me

It gives me great perspective. It makes it doesn't make me do anything. It gives me pause and in that pause I examine I examine I examine how I'm spending my time. I examine how I'm spending my time.

Yeah, that's that is that is the one thing I take away. And cherish the moments. You know, there's no reason not to wake up in the morning and sing and dance if you are breathing because there are so many people in a position less fortunate than us, specifically in the United States. You know, our our country just celebrated the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of of the great American experiment. And I say experiment because even as a

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highly optimistic person. I am highly questionable that the gap between the haves and the haves nots doesn't continue to expand. I understand more than anybody that's what made makes America great is the opportunity. The opportunity, as in the Broadway show ragtime, to come here on a ship with nothing and one day be the captain of industry. I really do. I really do. But if as as we've seen that

are are and I don't want to be political on this podcast, but I think there's a case to be made that the way our political system is structured that such people sit in office for a lifetime, that is it is no longer a role of service. You know, it's no longer a role of service as in a general or a president or a manufacturer or an inventor stepped into Congress for a small amount of time and then stepped back out and they went into life. And I think that's where we've we've this again, this is just my position.

I think this is where we jump the shark a little bit and it's a little bit weird right now. Here's what I'll say.

The world needs you so bad. I hope everybody hears this. The world needs you so badly. Not as a consumer.

Not as a consumer, as a warrior. The world needs you right now as a warrior to step into your power, to claim your your strength, to to be a master of language, to be powerful in a room with your voice, to be powerful in your body, with your physiology, your mental acuity, and solve the problems that are facing humanity.

Freddie Kimmel (26:56.218)
And right now, we've heard this stat on the podcast a lot. We spend the most on healthcare in the United States and we are the sickest. We spend the most on healthcare. We are the sickest nation in the world for what we spend. That's where we're at today. Now is d is that fear porn? Is that me s is that me waving the flag of defeat? Absolutely not. But if you hear this podcast and you're inspired, it's your call to action.

Freddie Kimmel (27:28.539)
That's everything. That's everybody that hears the show. That's everybody on the planet. We have to step up. There's big problems that are gonna require elite performance, sharp minds, unboundless energy, the fullest expression of your human self. I'm an optimist. I believe this can happen, but I think that is the target you might want to play with in your daily journaling.

And I ask myself this all the time. I every day I get out of bed, I'm excited. Because I'm gonna go have a conversation that I think moves the level of awareness into a bigger expansive space. I get on with clinics and doctors and and consumers that are stuck, whether it's their business model or it's their health, in a position where they don't wanna be, and I have a conversation w do I have

An avenue, a lane, education, a technology where you might be able to move forward. And then I know is Freddie Kimmel that part of part of the reality is it's never about the thing, it's about the context. And I have a I have an experience putting these things in the right context. That's how I'm doing it. I think I could do it better. I think there's some limiting mindset, some things, the things, I'm a small podcast, I'm a small channel.

You know, we've got a small little audience.

Freddie Kimmel (29:02.554)
Yeah. I tell myself that story. Why can't I be the number one podcast in the world?

And then I had this thought walking down the street yesterday, and I can't believe I've gone over thirty minutes. Thank you guys. I had this thought walking down the street.

Thank God for all my failures.

Thank God. Really and truly. You know, I walked around the majority of my music theater Broadway career.

And I saw the ceiling that existed way above me and I and it felt like such a gap. And there were many times that I thought, you know, w why am I not in that Tony Award winning show? I mean, I could tell you, right? I could tell you there was also like a an identity gap in which I saw all these talented singers and performers. I was like, I don't sing that good. I don't dance that good. I'm bald. You know, I could come up with all the stories in the world. But the reality is

Freddie Kimmel (30:03.396)
The reality is it was all a story. And so there was this ceiling that I had self created, I had self illustrated, and I had told myself again and again and again and again about why it couldn't be. You know, I I don't tend to do that today. In in in the in the way I work now, it's it's it's like five percent where it was like, I think it was like 85 to 90% of the time.

That all I could see is the things that I wasn't. And today in my life, I actually feel really good. I feel I'm proud of who I am, proud of who I am as a man. I I I totally accept all the bad things in the shadow. And let me tell you what. I love to be right. I don't like to be wrong. I deal with that all the time. I am I have a str I have strong opinions. I'm a strong energy. Trust me.

Trust me, there's plenty of bad stuff, but I'm I'm proud of the I'm proud of the person I I am. I am becoming, 'cause there's no destination on this. But I just thank God for all the things that didn't happen because I wouldn't have this level of

Yeah. I wanna not swear here because it's it's eloquent eloquent. I I wanna say I am relatively untethered from most incentive models, both in the legacy medicine and in the wellness space. I have not been on a payroll since 2017. I am an entrepreneur. I get to choose who I work for. I get to choose when I stop.

If I don't feel like it's an integrity, I don't have to do it anymore. And that keeps me relatively free. However, if I have launched a podcast in 2019 and it had taken off, and AG1 had called me and they said, let's sponsor the show. We're gonna, we're gonna give you, you know, whatever. You can, Freddie, you can make up to fifteen thousand dollars a month, fifty thousand, whatever it is, whatever it is. There's they're one example of a company that I know if you have a big audience that pays very well.

Freddie Kimmel (32:17.105)
I would I would be selling that shit all day long. I would be I would I'd I would convince myself that it was good. I don't believe it's good. I don't believe AG1 is good. I don't think the Juve red light panel is the best panel. All the things, right? Again, let me sub bar that and say I think it's really hard to argue, and I said this on a podcast, what the best red light panel is. They're all red light panels. If it's in the clinical treatment zone, stop fighting.

like who's the best. It's just not that deep. it's just not also worth arguing about. I say that to say, thank God I didn't get this crazy sponsor that was that was giving me access to all this money. Thank God I wasn't right into a Broadway show and a re and a lead role in my ego paired that 23 year old brain wasn't mature enough to handle that ride of success.

Thank God it's all been stalled till now.

Right? I've had enough failure to see people and sit where I'm at. Failure. Again, I haven't failed. I've had enough reality to see people pop off and rocket through a level of success and they don't know how to deal with it. And and I've seen it create sickness and mental health issues. And I could go on and on and on.

So thank God for being relatively grounded. I live in a rental apartment in Austin, Texas. I have a beautiful life. I have everything I could ever need. I can get all my s my clothes in one suitcase. Most importantly, I have my health and I have my vitality. Today, we never know what tomorrow holds. And that is not a negative statement. That is my understanding that if I look around at how life unfolds for most people, we never have tomorrow guaranteed. So I'm choosing to stand in my power.

Freddie Kimmel (34:18.909)
I'm staying here. I'm staying with you. We're gonna keep doing shows. If you resonated with this episode and you made it all the way to the end, I would challenge you to leave a review on Spotify or Apple. Because I think this is a really good show. I love you so much. I'm trying to think if there's anything else I have to say on this 300 episode. Yeah. Stick with me. I I promise to do better. I promise to make better content, better shows.

I will be increasingly more discerning on who I bring on and how those conversations unfold. I will talk to anyone. I will, I will, I don't care. But I'm gonna push back a little bit harder on just that it's all Elaine said this really well. It's all it's all roses and what was it? Roses and roses and rosebuds. No.

No, I can't remember the saying. You guys know it. but it's not all tulips, right? It's not all good. There's always a light and a dark. It's the black and light it's a black and white cookie. We're where most things are gonna go in and out of a light and a dark and a shadow and a and a, you know, Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader. They're both part of the same family. I'm gonna close it down. I've talked enough. I love you guys. This was uncaffeinated me. This is just me, high on life. It's one in the afternoon, and I love you so much.

Happy three hundred. Remember my ask. Remember my ask wherever you are. Don't do it in the car. Don't do it driving. Big love. Bye.