Take Charge of Your Wellness: How Biological Medicine Empowers Personal Health Responsibility

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EPISODE TRANSCRIPT 

Freddie Kimmel (00:01.344)
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the beautifully broken podcast. want to talk about biological medicine, which I am certified in. And it's been a cornerstone of my understanding of health. So in bio med robust wellness and health is achieved by maintaining a healthy biological terrain that refers to the body's internal environment. It's pH it's extra cellular matrix, the cell health. And when the terrain is disrupted.

We get illness. So terrain theory, which is conceptualized by French scientist, Antoine Bachamp. I used to say beach camp and in high school, he proposed that the body's internal environment, the terrain, the milieu is the key factor in disease development. And it is suggesting the idea that the illness arises from within when the body's terrain is imbalanced. And the contrast to that is of course, germ theory, which is championed by Louis Pasteur.

And that asserts that external microbes cause disease that regardless of the body's condition, the disease is from the outside that, so these opposing views continue to influence modern discussion today on health and medicine. And today they highly trigger social media algorithms. And from my understanding, both theories as we often see in life can be held in a simultaneous truth.

The one that I tend to focus on is the aspect where I, Freddie Kimmel have impact and control and immediate agency. So this is a test for the audience. Do I have more impact over outside world or inside world? Please yell it from your car or wherever you are listening, say it out loud, let the world hear it. If I have a genetic predisposition to diabetes, do I live my life? This is a question.

and reckless abandon in the sugar aisle in the grocery store and wait for my time when insulin is necessary or choice B, do I impact my internal environment with clean food, exercise, stress, navigation, and movement?

Freddie Kimmel (02:19.426)
Again, I'll let you answer at home. I love the image that biomed uses for the body and which it compares it to a fish bowl. We're maintaining a clean and balanced environment is essential for health. can all visualize this a beautiful fish bowl with rocks and bubbling oxygen. So just as the fish need clean oxygenated water with the right pH, the right nutrient levels to thrive ourselves depend on a balanced biological terrain.

And if toxicants, environmental toxicants, waste, pathogens, if they start to build up in the extracellular matrix, much like the debris in a fish bowl, it disrupts nutrient flow, oxygen, and balance within the cell. We get cellular stress, we get oxidative stress, we get rust, we get disease. So proper waste elimination and maintaining this internal milieu is the key in my experience, in my opinion, to robust.

wellness, right? We're all going to come across different, outside factors. But what is my internal? like, I don't like a mean system. like internal shield. How strong is that? So in conventional medicine, the focus might be giving the fish in that dirty tank, a course of antibiotics in a longevity spa. may give them light or pulse electromagnetic field to keep them swimming a little longer. But in biological medicine,

The priority is to clean that water and to maintain that internal terrain or milieu. Today, I would tell anybody struggling with chronic illness and asking me where the hell do I start? I would say like all great journeys, you start at the very beginning. You're going to take one step at a time. And before you know it, you've traveled a great distance. It's not unlike that Chinese proverb. How do I move a mountain? I go one stone at a time.

And then the actionable advice, not just an inspirational saying I would offer like building a home. We begin with a strong foundation. So for me, I have a list. My list of foundational awareness begins with flooding the body with nutrition, detoxification and drainage, pH balance, hydration.

Freddie Kimmel (04:48.666)
movement and circulation, nervous system, navigation, sleep, deep rest and recovery, and environmental toxicant reduction. Imagine there's a checkbox next to all of those. So let me give you some examples. My movement and circulation that could be for the day. I want to be sure I do 10,000 to 15,000 steps. And I want to go to the gym for 20 minutes for my detoxification and drainage. That could be.

Ensuring I have a complete bowel movement, at least one that I'm jumping on a large trampoline that I'm in the sauna three times a week, sweating out my environmental toxicants. The sleep deep breast recovery that could be tracking on my bio strap, ensuring that I'm getting sufficient deep sleep, looking at my sleep latency, how long it takes me to fall asleep.

And that I'm not having excessive interruptions in that pattern. And so I just kind of have that list and it's so basic and it will make such an amazing impact in your life. If you could have just a gentle awareness around that. So in our medical system, your medical system, my medical system, the foundation it's often skipped. And again, it's whatever story you want to tell.

But I don't think it's out of arrogance. I don't think it's out of malice. I simply think it's due to a lack of understanding, time, training, and urgency.

There's a favorite saying that I love from Charlie Munger, show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome. That model. It's not compensated to keep you well. Period. That's it. Don't be angry at the game, but know what game you're playing. So it could also be gross incompetence, but when you visit a primary care physician, they don't have hours or financial incentive to walk you through the basic.

Freddie Kimmel (06:53.092)
tenants of a healthy lifestyle. These are the practices that are opening the door to robust health. list we just went through. And to be real direct with you, it's not why you're at the doctor's office. For example, if you're struggling with chronic IBS, right? You go to a restaurant, you either get really constipated or you have watery diarrhea. Your doctor might prescribe you a powerful antibiotic known as Xyphax.

This antibiotic is known to relatively for the most part, stay in the small bowel and clean out that section of your digestive track, which should not be filled with all these other microbes. Or they might suggest an anti-diarrhea medication to stop you from having the watery stool. Both options address your immediate need and it's relative, right? We want to meet you where you're at within that 10 minute appointment window.

offering you some level of relief. Here's the thing. If your doctor doesn't ask you about nutrition, exercise, sleep, habits, hydration, stress perception, and prescribes you a medication, you do not have a doctor, you have a drug dealer. Again, it's not an opinion.

The deeper questions about lifestyle, emotional state, environmental, toxic, and exposure, they're rarely addressed, even considered because the depth of questioning is not factored into that part of a billable model. That's simply the game you're playing in. So I have some tough love for you and I love you guys and I hope you're listening to the podcast and I really do hope you find value here. This is your opportunity from growth.

It's not for your primary care physician. This is your opportunity for growth, not for your primary care physician. Only you, you that are listening to this right now can take responsibility for your health. So we can start examining why your body is offering these symptoms rather than trying to quiet the noise from within the divine whisper.

Freddie Kimmel (09:12.534)
in which the body is asking you to ask a better question. I want to look at some of these whispers, as we'll call them, that you might go in and you might be on a medication for right now. So when I had all my surgeries on my small bowel, I changed the transit time of food. When I did chemotherapy, I changed the microbial community. When I did three years of doxycycline for Lyme disease, I changed the diversity of my gut.

So the gut microbiome plays a crucial role in immune function and systemic health as in balance in the gut bacteria known as dysbiosis directly leads to chronic inflammation in a range of different conditions. So a short little study I'm going to look at in nature found that individuals with dysbiosis have a 64 % higher risk of systemic inflammation and a precursor.

to metabolic disorders like obesity and diabetes. I want to just pick two more. Let's talk heavy metal toxicity. So metals like mercury, cadmium, the big three, accumulate in the tissues. They cause oxidative stress and mitochondrial damage. lead to disease. Mercury exposure increases the risk of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's by 68%. Lead exposure.

Elevates your risk of kidney disease by 46%. This is a really interesting one. Let's talk chronic infections. All my people listen to this podcast with Lyme disease and Epstein-Barr. Persistent infections, they evade the immune system. They lead to ongoing inflammation or a loop of chronic inflammation, and that disrupts the terrain. So Frontiers and Immunology reported that reactivation of Epstein-Barr virus

The mono virus, which I added 18, raises the risk of multiple sclerosis by 57%. Whereas chronic Lyme disease is linked to a 40 % higher risk in fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue. I could keep going. have literally mountains of studies for each terrain disturbance, all the way from environmental toxicants where exposure to BPA increases type two diabetes by 33%.

Freddie Kimmel (11:36.706)
and the likelihood of breast cancer by 38 % from the Lancet. Again, I could go on and on, but...

It's not about the, it's not about the stats and it's not about the figures. If an individual experiences multiple health challenges, such as gut dysbiosis, heavy metal toxicity, chronic infections, environmental toxicant exposure, mitochondrial dysfunction, chronic stress and nutritional deficiencies, the cumulative impact on their health.

increases the likelihood of developing various chronic diseases, period, full stop. So I'm going to give you an example. If dysbiosis alone raised the risk of obesity by 60%, type 2 diabetes by 44%, systemic inflammation by 64%, heavy metal toxicity further compounds all the risks with a 68 % increased likelihood of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's.

So when we're considering all these factors, including a 33 % higher risk of cardiovascular disease due to chronic stress and a 50 % increase chance of autoimmune disease from vitamin D deficiency, the cumulative increase in disease likelihood rises dramatically. Looking at just these individual risk factors, the overall likelihood of disease could increase by 560%.

when multiple risk factors are present.

Freddie Kimmel (13:14.852)
That's dependent on exposure, combination, duration.

team, this is the world we live in. again, real talk. When it feels like the wave of chronic illness and early onset cancers are affecting and impacting people in your immediate circle. And that number is getting lower and lower as far as the age of the person impacted. That's real. And it's compounded interest.

Freddie Kimmel (13:55.458)
It's, it's, and I don't say all these things to scare you. say these things to empower you to ask a better question about how we're living our lives and revisiting that list. What's your sleep quality? What's your hydration? Are you flooding the body with nutrients? And is that possible? Is it possible from food alone? When we look at the nutritional value of a peach has dropped by 50%.

These are, these are the questions we got to ask. So I love you guys so much. And I, I think we have to come up with a better metric to look at the body. And I also know it's about accessibility and a lot of the tools and the therapies and the technology that I feature on the podcasts are not always accessible to most people.

Freddie Kimmel (14:58.508)
I understand the financial burden of the world we live in. really do, but lifestyle and early education and impact programs where we can educate and power and inspire that's accessible to everybody. And we just need more people to pick up the torch. And if you feel good, then we need you to pick up two torches. So I love you so much.

I suggest that you check out both episodes with Dr. Dix and Tom where we take a deep dive on biological medicine as well as with Christine Dionisi. Those are all in the last hundred episodes. I think I can't believe I have 215 episodes out. This is wild. And please reach out with questions. This will be on YouTube, Apple and Spotify. I love you so much. Big love. Bye.