The power if sound medicine with Kulreet Chaudhary

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And you've been on a few shows like Dr. Oz, and you've been the director of Wellspring Health at Scripps Memorial in La Jolla. So you have what I'm going to call a real doctor background.

Yeah, yeah. I didn't just play one on television. I was a real doctor. And, you know, it's interesting because I would consider neurologists as kind of the engineers of the medical world. We're very black and white. We like things very neat. And so I'm in the same boat with you. There's a lot of this stuff that in my 20s, I would have had the exact same reaction to.

The other reason I wanted to pick your brain today is that you've done 20 clinical research studies, at least participated in them, around MS, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, and people who listen to the show and read my books, which is a lot of them probably read Headstrong, which was on the monthly science bestseller list between Homo deus and sapiens, which is the coolest place I've ever had a book. And really, a lot of the research around mitochondria in the brain came from studies in those three fields. And you also have looked at diabetes in your studies. So you've gone from that to sound. And I really want to know what that path was like and how that happened, because I wouldn't have predicted that. So that is the best framing I can possibly think of for just jumping into some questions. In particular, because you wrote your book on sound medicine, which just came out in March, called this is Very Surprising. If you guys are listening to this, it's called Sound Medicine.

No, I would not have predicted my life. I've come to a place where I don't even predict, like, the next year, because I think once you do get kind of into that space where you're just allowing for life to show you the next move, you no longer can predict it because it just becomes, you know, more and more expansive. And, yes, my background was very much as a normal neurologist. I think the difference, though, between myself and many of my colleagues is I always asked why questions. And most people in medicine don't ask why questions partly because you're trained out of it, and oftentimes we don't have answers for why questions. And so it just annoys the hell out of all of your professors and all of the physicians that are training you. And so you just stop at some point because it's annoying. And we usually don't know, anyways, but there was a critical point just in my own health where I developed migraine headaches. And as a neurologist, all of the medications I was using wasn't working. And so that actually brought me back to some of the ancient knowledge that I was introduced to growing up in the form of Ayurvedic medicine. And so as I started to dive into that, and this is before the microbiome revolution that we're now in, this was, you know, 15 plus years ago, one of the core beliefs in Ayurvedic medicine was that the gut and the brain are intimately connected. And that completely revolutionized my practice. And so the part of me that was, you know, just the. The nerdy scientist, the one who loved asking why questions, I started going down this rabbit hole and realizing that as much as I respected my education, as much as I respected the institutions I was trained at, and I was trained at some of the best, there was still a lot that was unknown. And so as I started going into Ayurvedic medicine and started seeing the enormous benefit that it had on chronic neurological conditions that I couldn't even treat, I just started going deeper and deeper into these ancient traditions. And I'm a huge quantum physics buff. It's something that I was introduced to as a young child and just loved. And the more I went into quantum physics, the more these ancient traditions, they finally made sense. And so what we thought were metaphors, you know, just poetic writings in these ancient texts, all of a sudden you realize that they were actually treaties on quantum biology, which is a field that has yet to really take root. So that's kind of how my journey started, was, honestly, as a patient, and then as a patient having to look at her own health differently. You know, when I developed migraine headaches, and then as a physician who had to be honest from a scientific standpoint and go, wait a minute, is there more to know? And now kind of, you know, as a. As a newbie in the field of quantum biology, and that's really where sound medicine starts to make a lot of sense.