The Toxic Truth: Understanding the Hidden Dangers in Our Environment with Dr. Paul Savage

Who's ready to rock today? Fire Nation. JLD here and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire, brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals with great shows like the Hustle Daily Show. Today we'll be breaking down the toxic truth, understanding the hidden dangers in our environment. To drop these value bombs, I have brought Dr. Paul Savage into Eofire Studios. Dr. Paul, founder of MD Lifespan, revolutionized integrative medicine with his plasma exchange protocol addressing toxins to optimize health and empower patients through innovative detoxification methods and evidence based practices. Today we'll be chatting about the impact of environmental toxins. We'll talk about future proofing our health and business and oh so much more. And a big thank you for sponsoring today's episode goes to Dr. Paul and our sponsors, Fire Nation. You have a book inside you and it's time to share your message with the world. That's why I created Author 100, a 100 day program where I will personally guide you one on one to create, write, publish and market your book. If you want daily guidance and mentorship from me, JLD then head over to author100.com to sign up for a free call with me to chat about the details. Dr. Paul, say what's up to Fire Nation and share something that you believe about becoming successful that most people disagree with.

Most sensitive thing about career and I've had actually four different careers and four different startups. The first one I got into was the emergency room and by the end of 10 years in emergency room I'm £300 with every kind of health problem there is. I went out searching for a way to get myself better and I did. And because of the transformation, I got into this field of health and wellness and started building 70 clinics. And by the end of the 70 clinics I'm back up to 280 pounds and I'm feeling like crap again. And then everything bad happened because of that. So the one thing that I would have to tell people, especially the CEOs, that they don't believe is if you're not maintaining your health, you're going to lose Fire Nation.

That's why today we're talking about the toxic truth, understanding the hidden dangers in our environment. We're talking right here, right now and I want to start by talking about the hidden threat to entrepreneurs, which is environmental toxins. What is their impact?

Dr. Paul I would start that by saying this wasn't an issue 40 years ago. 50 years ago, there just weren't that many Toxins in the environment. They've been building since then. And I've been in this career of health and wellness now. I've been a doctor for over 35 years focusing on this particular issue for over 30 years. And I've seen the test results on tens of thousands of patients over 30 years increasing. And in the last 10 years, it's accelerated to the point where everybody has high critical levels of toxins. Not just some people, everybody. The question isn't what toxins you have anymore, it's how many do you have and what do you need to do about them. So it's the aggregation of all these toxins over time that have become this substantial force that we have to be dealing with as entrepreneurs. Because if you understand that now toxins are the reason that the bodies get inflamed and chronic inflammation is the reason for all chronic inflammatory diseases, which is everything over 40, then you start seeing the relationship here pretty clearly.

Fire Nation. This is why I brought Dr. Paul in the house. Because things have changed over the past 40 or 50 years. You have to be aware of it, you have to take action on it if you're going to make it happen in your world. As far as top health, top absolute success when it comes to your business, your friends, your family, your loved ones, you want to be there. And you told us a little bit in the intro about your journey. You know, you went from ER doctor to toxin eclipse expert. Give us just maybe a one to two minute encapsulation of that flip into toxin expert.

Being in the emergence room was a great experience because I learned everything about everything as an ER doctor. I was one of the doctors at the largest trauma center in the world. So we saw a lot of interesting stuff based on that. Because of my own health issues, I got into health and wellness and I got healthy relatively quickly by understanding all that other stuff that's out there in medicine that's not in traditional medicine. So it had to do with eating and exercising and sleeping and stress management and hormones and steroids and stem cells and supplements, all these different things. My health got great. Then I started building all these clinics and within five years I'd lost. I lost all of that again.

Based on that, I made this change and made more dedicated into looking at the data and built a number of different software system, one that had over 3 million people on it. We were aggregating the data and we were watching the inflammatory mark, the inflammatory markers increase, we were watching the immune system strength decrease, we were watching oxidative stress, which Is burning in the body increase as the whole time we're watching toxins increase. And everybody knew what was the cause of this. And it was becoming very evident when I retired, and I did retire in August of 2022. My regret was I never figured out how to, how to make that solution on the toxic problem. Because now it's not just about getting mercury out or getting a mold out or getting a pesticide out. We are all so contaminated, if you don't get them all out, you're not going to make any difference. But that's where the universe gave me a gift. I've always been one to be able to see around corners. And when I read a paper about plasma change, it occurred to me I knew how to get all the toxins out. So when the, when the universe gives you a gift like that, you don't ignore it. So I pulled the team together, put everything back into place, and within two years we had data that was impressive to the point where we're in the process this month of publishing six different papers about how you can get every toxic out, including microplastics, pesticides.

Environmental toxins, mold, heavy metals, all of them forever chemicals, which, which the government has said is impossible to remove. That's why we call them forever chemicals. We're getting them out as well. Matter of fact, our data scientist, when we were giggling over the results that we were seeing on all these people, he was like, you guys are idiots. And we're like, why we're idiots? He goes, because I mean, look at this, we're in the high double digits on every single toxin that we tested for. And he goes, that's my point exactly. If we're in the high double digits for every toxin we tested for, and we tested for a wide range range of toxins, including microplastics, then whether we tested for these toxins or not, we got them out. And that was where the, the real hammer hit the nail.

Hammer hitting the nail. Dr. Paul, I love that. I want to understand how these toxins can create new opportunities specifically for health focused entrepreneurs. Because we have a lot of individuals listening who are entrepreneurs. Small business owners are looking for opportunities they're currently in opportunities. What are these new opportunities that are being created because of this?

There's just a ton of them. I mean, whether you want to get into the environmental awareness part of getting the governments and getting the people to understand we need to make changes today. It was Stephen Hawking before he died that said pollution, not climate change, was the only existential threat to Mankind. That's a huge statement. And when it been pressed, he said they were talking about, well, yeah, we got to get aware of these pollution, these toxins, he said, but we passed that 10 years ago. And he was correct. By this time, everybody is toxic. So getting awareness on the environmental part is huge. Learning how to test for toxins better, less expensive. We are just working with a company now because they do microplastic testing is quite involved, as you might not even imagine, because you can't use anything plastic when you're testing for microplastics. But now there's a company we're working with in Michigan as about poking your finger on a piece of paper and looking under a microscope and counting plastics. So that. And we're working this studies right now. If it proves to be successful, and it looks like it will be, that's going to open up a whole ability for people to get microplastic testing for 110 of the price. Wow. Looking at the different plasma exchange protocols that we're doing and all the different tools that encompass it, we're working with AI companies right now to develop teaching programs for people to understand how simple it is to change your environment, your work environment, so that it's safer for you so that you can perform at your highest function. I think it really is important to talk about what toxins are. And the answer is toxins are everything bad that you can imagine. I mean, they infiltrate the body and there's 150,000 of them in our environment now Puerto Rico is bathed in them because of all the trauma that you guys had last few years.

Yeah.

And what people don't understand is they do everything bad. They burn the cells, they burn proteins, they cause inflammation, they act as hormones, they block hormones, they can accelerate hormones, they break the DNA, they change the micro genome. There is nothing good that toxins do. And although certain toxins have certain properties to do certain things, J.D. what we're looking at now is all these toxins at once, this swamp of toxins invading you. And you don't have to have a lot of them because you have a little bit of 150,000. And that's what we're now calling the toxic burden. So stop looking at which toxin you have and start asking you what's the quantitative amount of toxins that I have. That's really what's pointing the direction towards the toxic burden.

Fire Nation. I mean, that's such a powerful word, such a powerful concept. And you know, listen, if you know that you're not feeling at the top of your game. Health, wellness wise. If you're feeling sluggish, tired, brain fog, all these different situations, like there's definitely things that are happening in our bodies at all times and we're talking a lot more about this and what we can do about it when we get back from thanking our sponsors One of the coolest opportunities that comes with being an entrepreneur is being able to travel to new places and speak on stage. Later this year I'll be going to Nepal to speak in an event and I'm tacking on a couple extra weeks to trek the Mount Everest Base Camp with my dad. Talk about a once in a lifetime opportunity. So if you're like me and traveling this year, don't let your home just sit there. Host on Airbnb Even though you might be thinking that hosting will be overwhelming, especially when you're traveling, think again. With the co host network. It's easier than ever and it's also a great way to earn some extra cash. Now you can hire a high quality local co host to take care of your home and your guests. They can do everything from creating your listing to managing reservations to messaging guests and providing on site support. They can even help with design and styling. So if you've got an extended trip coming up and need a little help hosting while you're away, you can could hire a co host to do the work for you. Find a co host@airbnb.com host Fire Nation you have a book inside you right now, but it's not always about our desire to write a book. Sometimes it's about knowing which steps to take and when to take them to make it happen. If you know you have a book inside of you but aren't sure where to start, then I have an exciting opportunity for you. It's called Author100. Author100 is a program I personally crafted to help you one on one every step of the way, from drafting to writing to publishing and even marketing your book. When you join the author 100 program, you'll have access to me JLD for 100 days. We'll have weekly one on one calls, plus you'll get daily guidance from me whenever you have questions or hit a roadblock. Over the past 12 years, I've self published five books, including one of the top five publishing campaigns of all time on Kickstarter, the Freedom Journal. I've also traditionally published with HarperCollins, so I know a lot about the book publishing world and where most authors go Wrong. I created Author 100 to share my experience and the lessons I've learned along the way, and I can't wait to share it with you. If you're interested in learning more, head over to author100.com and sign up for a free call with me. That's author100.com Dr. Paul, we're back. And listen, you've made it a mission, a life's mission, to educate the public about toxins. Tell us more.

It's interesting you say that. We've made our corporation into a public benefit corporation. So for all the entrepreneurs out there that don't know this, a public benefit corporation is so that the mission gets treated higher than the finances. Of course we all want to make money, but in this case, because this is such an existential threat to mankind, and this is my fourth setup, I've done very well with my other ones. All the people who worked with me on tech, on marketing, everybody I've known for 25 years has joined me on this project. Now, we've grown from three to 27 people in 15 months, and we're going to be up to about 75 in the next year because now we're launching locations all over the United States because there is something you can do. If 25 years in this field of health and wellness haven't showed me anything, it's proven to me one point with without any kind of doubt, if you're not feeling well, there's something physiologically going on with you. This whole idea that you're overstressed, you're overworked, you, all these things, and that's what's causing all your problems, is a fake myth. The real thing is there's something going on physiologically inside of you that's making you feel anxious and that's making you feel stressed, which makes you feel unfocused. At the Same time, in 94% of the cases that I found, it has to do with something going on either in your gut or an infection or in this case, just these toxins. So this whole thing that I don't feel well anymore and I'm, you know, I'm stressed out and I'm anxious and I'm not focusing like I used to. Stop thinking it's because you need more rest. Stop thinking it's because you need to eat better. Because the fact is it's likely to be something more mundane, something more integral into your own health, like an infection or significant amount of toxins.

Okay, Dr. Paul, the time has come. Talk to us about the plasma exchange protocol as a breakthrough in toxin removal.

Plasma exchange has been around for over 50 years. I used it in the emergency room when people would come in with acute overdose toxicities. Because what this is, is an oil change. Because we're a machine, right? We have a combustion engine, we have liquid, we have air, we have pulleys and dials, we have combustion engine, we have exhaust. We're a machine. And this liquid that goes through our bloodstream, the blood is actually made of two components. The liquid part we call plasma, and then the cellular part, which is everything else. When you put someone through a plasma change, what you're doing is separating the blood cells from the plasma. And then we're taking the plasma, believe it or not, we're throwing it away. And we're giving you human albumin instead, which is a very neutral commercial product. When we give it back to you, we're actually exchanging about 70% of your plasma for albumin. And in about the next 24 hours, you make fresh new baby plasma. Non infected, non toxic, non inflamed new plasma. Now, you wait about a month and you do this again. Remember in the. You're probably too young to remember back in the 70s, when you find an old car, first thing you do is give it an oil change, put the gas in, change the plugs, running around the black for a couple weeks, coming in, bring in there and do another oil change, fill it up with new oil, run it around the block for a couple weeks, do it again. You kept doing that till the oil got clearer. That's exactly what we're doing to the human body. This has been around for 50 years. It's safe, it's effective, and it's minimally invasive. The complication from plasma change with albumin is very, very low. We've done over 200 procedures this year with only one person getting a slight bit of low blood sugar. And the only reason that happened is they lied to us and said they ate before they came in and they didn't. So people say this sounds like very scary. It's a very simple procedure. It's very safe. We've done it for a very long time in medicine. But what we did, what was unique, is we took that procedure and we wrapped it around everything in health and wellness. So now we're teaching you how to make your environment safe. We're giving you over 60 different supplements that help with antioxidant, anti inflammatories, energizing, detoxification. We wrap that around some medications that help you get rid of some of the toxins quicker. And I Can't tell you all of this because it's very proprietary and it's been patented. But what we've been able to do is get the toxins out in levels that have never been seen before. And not just a toxin, we get virtually all the toxins out.

My one question right now is where's the closest place to Puerto Rico?

Yeah, I'm coming to Puerto Rico. Yes, I'm coming to Puerto Rico. I love that place. We actually have one of our doctors right there in San Juan. So we're already in the discussion with him on getting this up and running in that location. Right now we're in Chicago and within four weeks we're going to be in Hartford, Connecticut, we're going to be in Orlando, Florida and we're going to be in.

Birmingham, Michigan within about two months after that we're going to be in Houston, Texas and then South Carolina and hopefully Puerto Rico as well. Well, there's, this is something that is going to transform medicine because everything in medicine has to do with chronic inflammation. We know that. We've known that for a long time. And it's amazing. After we do this procedure on people, their inflammation levels go to zero, their immune system doubles in strength, all their toxins diminish, their oxidative stress markers disappear, their cancer markers, the pre cancer cell markers disappear. We've had such a success on this, we know we're onto something because eventually you're going to have to have an apheresis center in every cardiology office for people with heart disease, every obstetric's office for every woman who wants to get pregnant, every neurologist office for anybody who has Alzheimer's. We've been able to take patients already with cognitive decline in their early stages, do this procedure, did some regenerative wellness procedures and been able to restore their cognition by over 37% as measured by Harvard and Yales.

Memory scar called CNS vital signs.

So once you've gone through the first couple rounds, how often are you doing it going forward? Is that a once a year? Once every three years.

So that's what we wondered when we started. Like, okay, how long is this going to last for? And amazingly what we found out, and we're 18 months out, is nobody's had to repeat the procedure. Wow, that's like, wow, maybe at some point it's going to happen. Sure. But what we have seen is the patients that don't follow our advice with the supplements and the avoidance routine of air, water, food, shelter, those are the people who start seeing the toxins come back in. But if they take it as seriously and it's really not difficult things to do and it's not terribly expensive, we're not seeing any of the patients return any of their markers at this point. Matter of fact, what we are back seeing is at month 18, their markers are better than what they were three months after we were done with the procedure.

Let's end with a bang. I want to talk about future proofing, both our health and business. So what are some practical strategies that's going to minimize toxin exposure while optimizing performance?

Two things. Number one, go get your toxins tested. You don't, you can't measure what you don't know. And when people start saying, wow, maybe this is the cause of all these other symptoms that you didn't know, you can't relate to that unless you get that test measured. You can get that from our website. You don't even need to have an appointment. You can purchase that test, you'll get the results. You'll get 15 to 30 minutes with one of our clinicians to go over it with you to explain to you what it is. That's number one. Number two, we have a handout, a guidebook that your clients can, your listeners can get to on our website. And I think you're going to post that link as well as well. This is how you, this is how you get your environment clean at home and at work. Very simple things. Stop drinking water out of bottles. Get a water filter, triple filter, reverse osmosis, Drink it out of a stainless steel canister like a yeti or a Klean Kanteen or a Stanley. Make sure that your air is purified. Buying a HEPA filter for the office, buying HEPA filter for your bedroom is essential because those are the rooms that we're in the most. And that air, particle pollution in your house is five times more than the outside world. Make sure that you're eating clean organic food to the best of your ability. And finally, probably one of the more important things that people don't do is clean your toxins out of your house. You don't need them. They don't. They don't provide all this added benefit and cleanliness. They're actually killing you because all these toxins that you're using in your house are in your air. You close your window, it heats up in Puerto Rico, and then you're living in this box that's heated up with all these chemicals. And we're wondering why we're getting sick. It's simple JDL. It's very simple, Dr. Paul.

Give our listeners a call to action. If they want to connect with you, if they want to learn more about what you have going on. Where do they go? What can they do?

The website is MD Lifespan. That's MD like medical doctor Lifespan. Schedule a call. I'm happy to talk to anyone one myself or one of my clinical providers and they're all doctors. For 30 minutes we'll answer your questions on how we can help you. If you want to simply get a toxin test done, you can order that right from the website, delivered to your home and the results come back, we'll send it to you and we'll even offer to talk to you for 30 minutes about what that means for you. The call to action is very simple. Be proactive. Believe me when I tell you all these fatigue and lack of concentration and you're not on your game like you used to be or you're one of those CEOs that's really health conscious and really pro health. Go do this now because this is the hidden killer that is causing all the other hidden killers like diabetes, hypertension and heart disease.

Fire Nation. You're the average of the five people you spend the most time with. You've been hanging out with DPS and JLD today, so keep up the heat. For links to everything we talked about, visit eofire.com just type Paul P A U L in the search bar and the show notes page will pop right up. And again, Fire Nation, the call to action, MD lifespan. Check out the website, order the toxin kit. You can get a, you can get a 30 minute call with somebody on Dr. Paul's team. I mean that is an amazing opportunity. You can, you can start the process on what it is to get this toxic burden out of your body. And Dr. Paul, I want to say thank you for sharing your truth, your knowledge, your value with Fire Nation. For that, we salute you and we'll catch you on the flip side.

Thanks so much jld.

Hey Fire Nation. A huge thank you to our sponsors and Paul for sponsoring today's episode and Fire Nation. Over the last decade I've been interviewed more than 4,000 of the world's most successful entrepreneurs and I've created a revolutionary 17 step roadmap to your financial freedom and fulfillment. I've put it all into my first traditionally published book, the Common Path to Uncommon Success. Personally endorsed by Seth Godin and Gary Vaynerchuk, the common path to Uncommon Success is the step by step guidance that you need to achieve the lifestyle of your dreams, visit uncommonsuccessbook.com I'll catch you there. Or on the flip side, Fire Nation. You have a book inside you and it's time to share your message with the world. That's why I created Author 100, a 100 day program where I will personally guide you one on one to create, write, publish and market your book. If you want daily guidance and mentorship from me, JLD then head over to author100.com to sign up for a free call with me to chat about the the details.