Dr Ozone 40 Years Using Medical Ozone To Fix Everything Frank Shallenberger #524 Full Episode

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You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey. Today's cool fact of the day is about hummingbirds. It turns out that amongst all the animals with a backbone in the animal kingdom, the one with the very highest metabolic rates, the hummingbird, when they're hovering, they're about 10 times the metabolic rate of what a human can do on a pound for pound basis. And most of the diet, though, comes from sugar, things like nectar. And they would be considered diabetic if they were humans. But to burn through that sugar so rapidly, they keep their wings fluttering 60, 80 times a second, and they eat so much food so fast as they burn it that they eat one and a half to three times their weight in nectar and insects per day. And the ruby throated hummingbirds have a metabolism 100 times that of a big animal, like an elephant, which is kind of cool because we're all animals, we all run on mitochondria. But there are some serious differences between how we sense the environment and how we use what we get in the form of food and light and all the other signals to tell our bodies what to do. Which is why, as you can well imagine, I've been mastering the art of foreshadowing lately. Uh, we might have something to do with metabolism in today's episode. And that's because today's guest is a guy I referenced heavily in Head Strong, my book on cognitive function and mitochondrial hacking. And his name is Dr. Frank Shallenberger. He's been practicing as a physician for more than four decades in conventional and alternative medicine. He was a western doctor earlier in his career and found he just wanted to know more than what happens in a hospital. Decided the body was a self healing mechanism and that our lifestyle, our belief systems, bad exercise and toxins were what was breaking his patients. And as you well know, I am very much in alignment with that method. And Dr. Tallenberger is one of the guys who's revolutionized the practice of anti aging and preventive medicine since the very early days of those fields. And his work, the stuff that really transformed my first recovery from mold toxicity and all this other bad stuff I had going on, including obesity and early risk for stroke and heart disease and arthritis and chronic fatigue syndrome and blah, blah, blah, all the bad stuff. It was his work on ozone. And he has a patented measure, a patented method to measure mitochondrial function, metabolism, oxygen utilization, and then can do something about it with stuff that most of us haven't heard of. We're going to talk about it. And some of this is in his most recent book called Bursting with Energy. He's also written a book on type 2 diabetes. So, Dr. Frank Shallenberger, it's an honor to have you on the show. Your work is seminal in the field has made a huge difference in changing the industry of functional medicine. Thank you.

Thank you for having me, Dave. It's a pleasure to be able to talk about these things, of course.

And it kind of makes me sad. We were neighbors for a while. I used to live outside Lake Tahoe in Nevada, and you're in Carson City. I was about 10 miles away from you, But I never knew your clinic was there, or we would have just gone out for coffee. But since I'm not there anymore, just for people listening, we're talking live from Nevada, and I'm up here on Vancouver Island. All right, you're 40 years into a career as a doctor. What made you decide that you were going to focus on mitochondria before everyone else did?

It's interesting. In the early 80s, I learned about.

Ozone therapy in the early 80s. That's really early.

Yeah. And I was one of the first guys that actually brought it over here to the U.S. interestingly enough, it has a history that goes all the way back to the late 1800s in the U.S. the Florida Medical association produced a paper in the early 1900s. In Loyola School of Sciences in Chicago produced a paper in, like, 1885 describing ozone therapy. So it does go way back. But I was one of the first guys that actually kind of brought it back from Germany in the early 80s. And the thing was, after a while, I just noticed that unlike most any other therapy, whether it's natural or pharmaceutical, usually these other therapies have kind of a limited spectrum of what they do. It didn't take me long to figure out that ozone is good in almost every case. You see, it's good for heart problems, good for toxicity problems. It's good for low metabolic problems. It's good for stress. It's good for sleep. It's all these things. And you ask yourself, how can one thing be responsible for improving people with so many different things? And so you got to look at the core. What's core? And I just, you know, you don't have to be a genius to figure out, I'm giving oxygen. That's what ozone is. So I'm giving oxygen. Everybody's getting.