Counteracting EMF Toxicity With Peptides

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I'm very excited to share with you information on the toxicity of EMFs. Uh, this is one of those subjects that the more you dig in the medical literature, the more you can't believe the massive amount of literature and data that's showing that EMFs at supposedly safe levels are very toxic. and clearly showing that. So I'm gonna hopefully give you a little taste of the literature, and there are just massive amounts. I, I'm just scraping the surface here for you guys. Um, you know, if EMFs were a drug, they would never get approved. They would be immediately recalled. Um, And, you know, I speak on a wide range of topics, and I often hear, "Oh, there's so much, you know, basically medical literature. Why haven't I heard of this before?" And the answer is usually money and/or politics, or usually both. So, but I'll present a little bit and give you a taste of, you know, some of the data. When looking through it, I'm just blown away at the basically massive amounts of literature that are showing how EMFs are affecting our lives. So, uh, we'll get started here. So, counteracting EMF toxicity with peptides. Really, the EMF's the silent killer. Um, disclosures: I'm owner of the Hulterf Medical Group, Chief Medical Officer of the nonprofit National Academy of Hypothyroidism. And Chief Medical Officer of Integrative Peptides. And in full interest of disclosure, the, uh, legal team is making me say this. So I am Chief Medical Officer of Integrative Peptides. Opinions expressed are mine and not— and do not necessarily reflect those of Integrative Peptides. And none of the information and claims contained within this presentation pertain to a specific product and are not endorsed by Integrative Peptides and have not been reviewed by the FDA, and no statements in this presentation have been evaluated by the FDA. Products from Integrative Peptides are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. And you have the legalese on the right there. So, um, goals and objectives that we'll talk about: what, what are EMFs and how do they work? We'll talk about man-made versus natural, which is a big difference. Types of exposure, the controversies, the effects of EMFs on health, of course, and how it relates to really multi-system dysfunction that we see with other chronic illnesses and other toxic exposures. Uh, cellular effects, neurologic, immunologic, behavior, psychological effects, cardiovascular, thyroid, and hormonal effects. Uh, we'll go through basically a little intro to peptides and the basic major class of peptides, including really the core of all this will come down— I hope I can convey— is that immune modulating. And with all the common denominator of all these illnesses is immune dysfunction and mitochondrial dysfunction. Um, but with the peptides, you can get much more specific and with brain mitochondrial boosting, you know, kind of anti-aging, anti-inflammatory. We'll talk about the importance of the gut-brain axis. And, you know, the more we learn about the gut-brain axis is the more we learn it's important. And EMFs really affect that a lot. And which then goes along to— everything's a vicious cycle. And really the synergy between multiple peptide therapies and other therapies as well. So what are EMFs? So there's a typical cell tower hidden in a fake palm tree. But so going back to physics, and don't get too hung up with this, but there's basically EMFs, electromagnetic fields, are— there's the electrical field and the magnetic field, and they're perpendicular to each other. So there's basically a wave, and you can see here, electrical field goes one way, and then 90 degrees, there's the magnetic field. And where do these come from? So the extremely low electromagnetic fields are basically from the— that's like cell towers, and which— or the high tension wires, where really you'll find that the magnetic part of that is the biggest problem rather than the electric field in those were more associated with leukemias and cancer. Then you start getting into where— this is where we're really talking about is the EMFs here in the range here where you get cell phones and the routers and the Wi-Fi. Those are the— are by far the biggest problems. And then you get also electromagnetic fields from wiring in your house and things like that, which they all cause problems. But really, I, I think with the Wi-Fi and the cell phones— and I'll show you studies where just the cell phone can cause basically brain damage, and, you know, showing with with rats' learning disabilities and actual brain damage, actually. So, and we're being bombarded with this and how they actually— all these EMFs coming from multiple sources in nature, they cancel each other out. But with artificial, they actually combine to be stronger. So that's, that's a major problem. And this is the— basically, it's the cell tower here, and this is the electrical field, but there's also magnetic field associated with that. And just another depiction here of the magnetic field. When you have, um, current going through a wire, there's electrical field and a magnetic field around it, again perpendicular. But, um, and— but the key is polarization. So in nature, basically the EMFs are created from, uh, natural sources where basically electrons are changing from, uh, basically, uh, different states, and they're putting off in random directions, and they end up canceling each other out. So really all you get is when you get exposed to those, let's say it's the sun or the earth is you can get thermal, um, basically excitation of molecules, but they don't change, they don't cause an electric charge in the body like the basic artificial ones do. So the man-made here, you look at the, the waves here, and when they're basically in sync, they combine to cause a bigger wave and they can also cancel each other out. So all types of man-made EMFs are polarized. So they only have one direction. Well, again, naturally they're non-polarized, they're in all directions. And so when you have multiple sources, they cancel each other out. But when basically they're typically sent out in the vertical, like with antennas, that you get these basically spots that are additive and you'll get low spots. So you can get these, and also coming from multiple sources, you can have spots randomly and also moving where are huge levels of electromagnetic radiation. Um, again, from the sun, light bulbs are non-polarized, so infinite number of, of planes, so, um, they cancel each other out. Um, and where, as you can see here, you know, basically going from all around, it equals zero. But when you have them all in one direction, you're gonna get additive parts, and you're gonna get parts that cancel each other out. So in nature, there's no force on a charged polar molecule, other than if there's just general increase in molecular Brownian motion, basically it heats up the tissue, but very different with man-made EMFs. Again, they're polarized, and the problem is when they look at safety, they're looking at just what basically it can happen with the amount of thermal increase, like how much heat, but that's not the problem. It's that when it's polarized is— and also it's AC current, which goes back and forth— it causes all these cells in your body to line up, charged molecules to line up and go back and forth and oscillate with the current. And we have not— basically millions of years have not been exposed to this. Um, so basically you get, uh, huge amounts of EMF energies at points that are unpredictable. They vary in location and strength depending upon the location and source, the frequency. Um, you get hot spots where all of a sudden they all come together and where you get huge, huge levels. And just some more here about where— how the waves will basically combine. But if they're non-polarized, they cancel each other out. And what we're finding is that the biggest problem is the cell membrane sensors for the gated ion channels, especially the calcium ion channel, uh, will open. And this is the same thing that is happening with the cell danger response that allows calcium channels to be opened and cause mitochondrial dysfunction, which then becomes a huge vicious cycle, vicious cycle with immune dysfunction, hypothalamic-pituitary dysfunction, and it just goes around and around. Um, and where natural EMFs won't do that. So, um, you know, throughout evolution or time on Earth, we've been exposed to non-polarized, uh, EMFs. But we've never been exposed to the polarized EMFs. And so basically, just a millionth of a non-polarized EMF or polarized can have a biologic effect. And when you look at the studies, you'll find that if you look at Industry studies, about 70% show that EMFs are totally safe, don't worry about it, about 30% show they're harmful. But if you look at non-industry-funded studies, 70% show they're harmful and 30% show no effect. So you'll see that a lot, unfortunately, in medicine. And unfortunately, and this is also in the range of so-called accepted safe ranges, significant toxicity. So again, if this were a drug, it would never even be considered. And also, when, when you look at how EMFs are put out artificially, they're put in pulses. And as you can see here, and the pulses are what get you— it's not the average because these high levels of EMF will now cause alignment of these, all the polar molecules in your body, where they're— again, we'll talk more about the, the gated voltage channels and other things, and they have a huge effect on the body where— but the average is very low because they're— it's, it's basically they're pulse. So a lot of times you won't have anything, but all of a sudden a big hit of EMF. Um, even just 1 watt emitted from a mobile phone can cause DNA damage. Um, the, the Safety Data Standards, um, estimated potential thermal damage, again using non-polarized. And but that's not the problem. It's— the problem is is this how it causes your body, these molecules, to line up and, and oscillate. So the biology of the EMFs correlate with the peak pulses, not the average, which is— this is how Wi-Fi's work, your cell towers, your cell phone, it's always sending out pulses. Um, so they're much more potent, able to elicit a biologic response at tiny doses that would never, you know, thermally heat up your body. Um, so they assume that they're safe, but it's a totally wrong assumption. So thousands of studies have shown and support the fact that very low intensity polarized pulsed non-thermally acting EMFs can result in abnormal activation of the voltage-gated calcium channels at that are 7 million times lower than what is considered safe. So they, again, they just look at, well, it's going to heat up the body. Let's look at electric cars, uh, for a second here. Now, the metal body even of a car is a conductor of medical electricity. It's like a Faraday cage. I don't know if you know what that is, but if you remember the pictures of Tesla in a cage where all the electro, um, Lightning bolts are all around him, but he's, he's totally fine. So that insulates the person inside from the electromagnetic field. But if the electromagnetic field coming from inside the Faraday cage, it is amplified tremendously. So anything that's going on inside the car, whether it's if you have a cell phone, the Bluetooth All the electronics in the car, they're hugely magnified because they don't escape the car. I mean, it's not a perfect Faraday cage, but it, it is pretty good. And modern cars have so many different computer parts that are sending out, you know, EMFs and connecting to one another and Bluetooth, that it's a problem. But then when you look at electric cars Now we go to even bigger level here. They pose a significantly larger— they have, you know, huge electrical currents and batteries. The tested magnetic fields exceed 30 times levels that are seen in very close proximity to the high tension wires. So with high tension wires, you get about 0.2 to 5 microtesla magnetic field units. But you can see here on the left that in like the BMW, if you sit in the back seat, it gets about to 100. And the Nissan, about 100 in the front seat. With the Tesla, about 50 in the back seat. Uh, the Volkswagen, about, you know, 86 in the front seat. So huge. And the Australian, um, Radiation Protection Nuclear Safety Agency states that areas having, um, oscillating magnetic fields between 2 and 100, uh, microtesla must have an appropriate warning sign. Okay, and these are right there in the hundreds. And fields above 100 must be controlled by a permit. So it's like, it's like toxic. You gotta warn people. I've never seen a warning label on an electric car. And just looking at a pooled analysis of 9 studies reported a 2-fold increased risk of childhood leukemia in children exposed to 0.4 microtesla or higher. And again, we're talking about 100 here. Where their, you know, average in here— again, average is not the big problem, but, you know, like 5, 6, 7, but, you know, getting up to 100, 50 to 100. So at 0.4 or higher increase leukemia. A meta-analysis of 15 studies showed a 1.7 increase in childhood leukemia among children with exposures of 0.3 units, microtesla or higher. Again, the electric cars are way above that, hundreds of times higher. And basically another study showing 1.4 increase at again 0.3 or higher of leukemia. So people, you know, with the electric cars, hey, I want to decrease my carbon footprint and That's all great, but you're getting into a basically huge electromagnetic field. And what's the biggest way you can reduce your carbon footprint is not have children. And you may not be able to have children for driving around an electric car. And I didn't— I took out the studies on fertility, but just because we had too many things to go through, but it's a major problem. And then, you know, put children in an electric car that are much more susceptible to electromagnetic fields. I, you know, I won't get an electric car, but I'll probably get, you know, Tesla will send a hitman after me. But what are the effects of EMF? So let's talk about that. So we see in the studies anxiety, depression, depression, ADD, OCD, stress, more emotional, you know, lack of sleep, I think is the biggest thing. You don't— if you have like Wi-Fi and electromagnetic fields when you're sleeping, you don't go into deep sleep. And hugely associated with Alzheimer's, neurodegenerative diseases, ALS, huge association, cognitive dysfunction, learning and memory. And we'll look at a lot of studies with that. Hypothalamic pituitary, tons of hormonal deficiencies, uh, pineal, thymus gland dysfunction. So, um, and we'll talk about which is kind of a key to aging. So it's really an accelerated aging. These EMFs are making, making us age so much faster, and we're getting all these diseases of aging when we're younger. And, you know, and I look back, you know, 20 years ago, I don't remember everyone being sick, but it seems like everyone's sick and everyone has these kind of diseases of aging and they're young. Uh, again, sleep disorders, insomnia, brain tumors, tinnitus.

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But basically, a brain blood barrier, and even just almost instantaneously, your blood-brain barrier will open up in electromagnetic field. It's, it's crazy and goes along with the gut. So all these people have leaky gut, which means leaky brain. EMFs are certainly contributing, and a lot of things contribute. So it's another thing that is causing huge problems. It's also, you know, shown to basically stimulate the growth of toxic molds and make them stimulate them to secrete mycotoxins at a million-fold times higher in, in the presence of electromagnetic fields. So it's, it's getting us multiple ways. And we're finding all these, you know, mold problems, which, you know, no one was talking about mold problems 20 years ago. Um, EMFs are making mold just grow everywhere and much more toxic, much more toxic. And it's making the bacteria also become, uh, resistant to antibiotics. So it's, it's bad stuff. Inflammation, cause lots of inflammation, IL-6, interleukin-6, and we'll talk about that. And a core thing, and again, we've kind of turned into an immune modulating clinic because all these things have a very underlying common pathophysiology of this immune dysfunction of a Th1 T-reg to Th2 Th17 shift. So Th1, basically think about it, gets stuff inside the cell, TH2 gets stuff outside the cell. Usually they're balanced, but with chronic illness, with EMFs, um, basically toxins, aging, inflammation, your TH1 goes down. You can't fight intercellular infections, but the TH2 goes up. You get all this inflammation, autoimmunity, and all these problems. And then also TH17 goes along with that, though. I don't want to make it too complicated there. Mast cell activation Huge problem that we didn't see 20 years ago. Again, see which pathogens I was talking about. Other toxins are synergistic with it, showing, you know, heavy metals— that you'd be fine with heavy metals until you get into an EMF field. Autoimmunity, uh, it's causing diabetes and insulin resistance, mitochondrial dysfunction. And, uh, it's very interesting when you look at those calcium— those voltage-gated calcium channels and all the work by— amazing work by Naviaux and looking at the cell danger response where the mitochondria, where we think of them as just creating energy, but they direct so many things in the cell. And what happens, they get leaky. And so it just— and they can't produce energy. Instead, they produce inflammation. And this is what happens when you Basically get in, in, uh, an EMF field, your mitochondria get leaky and calcium floods in and you don't make ATP but you make inflammatory reactive oxygen species, um, and you just become totally inflamed. Uh, cardiovascular dysfunction, and I can't tell you how many people, you know, with palpitations and sensitive is that if they get out of the Wi-Fi and, um, uh, basically like shut off their Wi-Fi at night and, you know, and basically protect themselves, all of a sudden their palpitations and heart problems go away. And again, with that, because of that calcium channel, uh, that is causing, uh, basically the heart to flutter, uh, and palpitations, uh, hypertension from inflammation, fatigue, weakness, pain, increased cancer, we'll talk about DNA damage. And, you know, it's basically called non-ionizing radiation. It's not powerful enough to, to basically directly damage your DNA, but it certainly indirectly damages your DNA and also epigenetically, meaning that it will turn on certain genes and turn off certain genes. And it turns on all these inflammatory genes and genes that are not healthy. So you get leaky gut, leaky brain, brain, infertility, EMF sensitivity syndrome, which more and more people, it's occurring in kind of the multiple chemical sensitivity where, where they're treated like they're just making it up. But I'll show you some studies where they're not making it up, that they are blinded to the fact that they're in a field or not, and they have total change in their physiology. So really, over the last 20 years, a robust, robust body of independent science has emerged showing significant negative biologic impacts of exposure from EMFs. And there's clear evidence that you— children get developmental delay, neurological and cognitive dysfunction, neurodegenerative diseases, heart abnormalities, thyroid and hormone deficiencies, reproductive effects. And also with A mother just holding her cell phone, you know, basically on her stomach, not only affects the baby, but it affects— because it's, it's basically affecting the gonads of the baby, so it's the baby's baby as well. So it's multi-generational. Um, increased lots of inflammation, again, immune dysfunction, the mitochondrial, um, epigenetic is, is huge. Abnormal activation of the voltage-gated ion, which again we'll talk about, leaky gut, just some serious health problems. And this was in the '70s. Dr. Robert Becker, twice-nominated Nobel Prize, said, I have no doubt in my mind that at the present time the greatest, uh, polluting element of the Earth's environment is the proliferation of electromagnetic field. So he understood it then, and it's gotten much, much worse. So here's looking at a study looking at people's symptoms, uh, in relation to their distance from a cell tower. And you can see how there's a direct, you know, basically decline, you know, increase the closer they get, especially with fatigue, sleep disturbances, headaches. Just uncomfortable, like want to jump out of your skin. And we hear that a lot. Poor concentration, depression, memory loss. And you can see this direct correlation with the distance from a cell tower. Um, and like, doesn't this— you look at these symptoms, they sound very much like chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, uh, Sears, Lyme, diseases of aging. And they all share the same immunological phenotype, that shift in the immunity, that Th1 to Th2 shift, mitochondrial dysfunction, and that vicious cycle that occurs. So these calcium-gated channels that again are the core of the cell danger response, uh, cause abnormal cell signaling, um, poor mitochondrial function, so the body can't make any energy. And you get cell toxicity and death. And it's really occurring in everyone. It's just a matter of the degree that it's happening and who's sensitive. And for instance, if you just have just EMFs, you're probably okay. But if you add in a chronic infection, you add in stress, you add in mold, mycotoxins, hormone deficiencies, everything's a vicious cycle. So again, here's another study looking at people living within 300 meters of a cell tower, all the symptoms that they basically had. And again, it's broad-based, which makes it, you know, easy to discount. Here's a— they looked at interleukin-6 levels in technicians with long-term low-level EMF occupational exposure. Compared to their counterparts working in the office. So the workers chronically exposed to long-term safe, so-called safe, levels of EMFs were found to have increased levels of IL-6. And that's the— IL-6 has been in the news because of COVID as the major issue with who's going to basically go on to potentially have prohibiting mortality. With a COVID infection, is you can't turn off that IL-6, you can't turn off that inflammatory cycle. So exposed workers were shown to also have significant increase in the interleukin-1b, white blood count, RBCs, mean cell volume, uh, so a number of different things. And you can see here, when you look at the non-exposed people here, like, they're basically at zero, right? And as you get more exposed, these levels just get much, much higher. And, uh, you can see just such a huge difference, especially in these people that have higher magnetic fields. They're talking about magnetic fields here, where we'll talk about both electrical and magnetic fields. So, um, yeah, basically they're causing EMFs developmental delay, chronic illness, and it's really very similar to rapid aging. And so prenatal exposure to 900 megahertz, which is like the cell phones, result in dysfunctional thymus and spleen. And we'll talk about thymus. So the thymus, uh, basically involutes. It's in your breastbone. And when that happens as you age, it, it basically causes all the— increases your, your risk and all these diseases that we associate with aging, uh, diabetes, uh, autoimmunity, cancer, all those things. So the EMFs just speed that up tremendously. Then you also get mitochondrial, um, uh, dysfunction. So your body can't make the energy, which also— it's a vicious cycle— causes the immune dysfunction, which then causes more mitochondrial dysfunction. Increase in inflammation, so they decrease glutathione and decrease superoxide dismutase, so your body can't get rid of these inflammatory byproducts. Reduce natural killer cell function, which we see so much of. You'll see that in Lyme patients, chronically ill patients, where they can't fight intercellular infections. And all this is additive to it, whether it's stress, insomnia, diabetes, autoimmunity. You don't have the intracellular immunity. And that's where the same thing— it monitors your body for cancer. So you get cancer, you get reactivating infections, you— but you get lots of inflammation. Your body's trying to fight it, but it doesn't have the right part of the immune system. Gut dysbiosis, which then causes, you know, basically a vicious cycle, increased permeability of the gut and the brain, cardiac dysfunction, arrhythmias, chest pain, hypertension, fatigue, depression, anxiety, cognitive dysfunction, headaches, ADD, OCD, infertility, tinnitus, osteoporosis, neurodegenerative diseases. We'll talk about all this. And everything is a vicious cycle. Now, this is like, oh my gosh. And you really should be thinking, oh my gosh. But the good news is there are things you can do to mitigate and prevent the safe amount of EMF toxicity. One is don't, you know, stay as much— you can't get rid of it because it's everywhere, but you can do certain things to minimize your exposure. And when you ask, like, well, how much since 1917— they, they looked at the difference in EMF exposure, polarized EMF exposure since 1917, and ask people, they know, maybe 1,000 times more. Nope, nope. Million times? Nope. Basically a billion billion. So 10 to the 18th. So 10 with the— it's a 1 with 18 zeros. That's how much more EMFs we're exposed to just since 1917. So very short period of time. Uh, this is just a quick one of, uh, patients, um, that I had. 37-year-old, uh, female, long history of chronic fatigue syndrome, severe fatigue, insomnia, anxiety, cognitive dysfunction, night sweats. Uh, she had POTS, so when you sit up, basically low blood pressure, palpitations, interstitial cystitis, which is inflammation of the bladder, which is a mast cell activation, swollen legs. And so they get leaky vessels. And they also get the kind of the skin, if you see where you get kind of a lace pattern in the skin, with kind of purplish, really think of Bartonella. Um, urinary incontinence, hair loss, irregular periods, multiple food and other allergies, and other multi-system symptoms. She was mostly house and bedbound. Uh, she's been sick for over 9 years. She said she had seen too many doctors to count. She had been diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, mast cell activation syndrome, POTS, pre-lupus, pre-rheumatoid arthritis. You know, go to, uh, rheumatologist, you're going to get some autoimmune, basically, diagnosis. And you do find that, basically, the chronic fatigue syndrome patients, the Lyme patients, and now we're looking at EMF patients or post-COVID patients, that you'll have autoimmunity to a number of different things. Oftentimes, it doesn't fit into a little box. But whether it's antiphospholipid syndrome, they'll get multiple autoimmunities, but when you fix underlying immune dysfunction, those go away. She, again, she had antiphospholipid syndrome. Her Lyme test said was negative, but when we actually test her with a decent test, she ended up positive for Lyme, Bartonella, toxic mold, Jed Sears, immune activation of coagulation, uh, which I'd love to go into, but, uh, that's for another day. Uh, severe immune dysfunction. So she had, uh, very low natural killer cell function, uh, but lots of the low Th1 but very high Th2, Th17. Hypothalamic-pituitary dysfunction. So a lot of hormone deficiency, but the standard tests look normal, especially thyroid. The TSH looks normal because the hypothalamus pituitary is not secreting TSH. Um, so doctors look at the TSH, if it's low, they think the thyroid's high. But in this case, which is so many people, the low TSH is actually associated with low thyroid. Um, again, hypothalamus, she had normal thyroid function tests, but when we did Our tests where we look at their basal metabolic rate was terribly low. She was burning like maybe 60% of the calories that she should be burning throughout the day. And her Thyroflex, which measures the relaxation phase of muscle reflex by a computer and shown to be more accurate than blood tests for thyroid, was extremely low. She's hypometabolic, um, she wouldn't have mitochondrial dysfunction. So, uh, long story short, we got a patient feeling much better, uh, with, uh, time-release T3. Uh, she was on Bi-As progesterone, uh, between 6 to 8 peptides, um, uh, ozone, exosomes. Uh, she had short course of antibiotics. We tend to use a lot less antibiotics now. Because we don't need them. And we find that just, you know, I did on myself when I had terrible Lyme and just bedbound and heart failure, you know, 3 and a half years of the highest dose IV antibiotics that I would never give a patient. Didn't do anything, you know, until I fixed my immune system. Poly-MVA, phosphatidylcholine. So she had dramatic improvement in all her symptoms, but she suffered from this anxiety, insomnia. And her natural killer cell, we— it was— we couldn't get it above 5. It should be above 30. And so ask her about her potential EMF sources. She said no major power lines, uh, she didn't know about any cell towers. Her— she did have a Wi-Fi router in her bedroom, and she sleeps with her iPhone and TV and her house alarm and smart thermostat and TV. So we told her to basically turn off her Wi-Fi and if she could hit the breaker and, you know, basically put her phone on airplane mode and just take it out of the bedroom. She returned several months later, noted the significant improvements in insomnia. She feels that she's getting deep sleep, which she never felt that she got before. Her anxiety was better and felt much healthier overall. And I just kind of just happened to ask her, you know, what she does in a typical day. And she mentioned that she goes out with her husband in his Tesla. And I told her, well, don't do that. You know, drive your— I think she had a BMW, gas-powered. But she said she wasn't ready to drive. But she said she'll try not to go with her husband in the Tesla. So we also adjusted a few things and do some new labs. But she came back 3 months later saying that her anxiety was dramatically better. Since not being in the electric car. And she's actually able to drive now. Her anxiety was down and she just was able to drive, wasn't overwhelmed with it. So again, with the electric cars, it's a big problem. But— and this is from when I was Chief Medical Officer of the Fibromyalgia and Fatigue Center. So we had 22 centers, but In 2003, and this, this still holds true, and it's this vicious cycle. And you look at all these things that just basically go in a circle and doesn't matter where you start. Normally, like with chronic fatigue syndrome or Lyme disease, so it's usually stress has an issue with it, which unfortunately makes doctors think like, oh, it's not real because they're just stressed. But I'll show you how stress really doesn't lower the immune system, it modulates it in a negative way. But— and then you get 2-terahertz dysfunction and then mitochondrial dysfunction and then reactivating infections, and it goes around and around. Now with EMFs, it's— you basically down here with the environmental toxins causing the mitochondrial dysfunction and the immune dysfunction, and you again just get in this whole chronic vicious cycle. And it kind of doesn't matter what the initial cause is. It just sets everything off. And so all these patients look, look the same on blood tests. You look at a chronic fatigue syndrome patient, a Lyme patient, an autistic patient, and they have their immune system and their mitochondria are shot. And you fix that, they get much better. Um, and so IL-6, again, uh, maybe common denominator in this vicious cycle, um, where you get that immune dysfunction. So all these things here are associated with that Th1 to Th2 shift, um, even diabetes, obesity, cancer, infertility, hypothyroidism. And that— these two figures took me about 2 hours to do, so you can sit here for a second and marvel at the wonder of them. But so, so basically, yeah, so either Th1, the Tregs, are too low, and the Th2, T17s, are too high. So when you look at stress, we always think of stress as lowering the immune system, but What it really does is cause the cellular— I mean, the Th1 with natural killer cell function to go down, but causes increased Th2 with mast cell activation, increased inflammation. So it's immune modulatory. And then again, becomes a vicious cycle. So stress plays a huge part in all these things. And they all basically combine together in a vicious cycle. So you hear a lot about mast cells now, um, and it's a major concern for Lyme patients, chronic fatigue syndrome, you know, Sears, of course, mast cell activation syndrome, uh, patient with POTS. Um, it's basically out of balance immune system, and direct mast cell inhibitors are kind of the mainstay of treatment. But look upstream and fix the immune system, and then that mast cell activation gets better. And EMF's causing a huge problem with mast cells. Let's go— let's finally talk about peptides here. So what the heck are peptides? So peptides are naturally occurring or analogs of short chains of amino acids. Um, arbitrarily, if they're less than 40 or 50, are considered a peptide. If they're longer, they're considered a protein. Peptides work different than hormones. Peptides are generally cell surface signaling molecules that will basically cause a cascade of effects, where hormones go into the cell, go into the nucleus, change protein synthesis, uh, basically have the body epigenetically change. So slow on, slow off, where peptides are generally fast on, fast off. And so they tend to be much safer. So hormones work on specific receptors in the nucleus, again, affecting protein synthesis, where peptides are pleiotropic, much more like vitamins where they have multiple effects and where actually you think, well, multiple effects, so that's, that's a problem. But they tend to be much safer like a vitamin where when you give a drug that has like one specific effect, it tends to throw everything off. And that's where you have issues. But peptides in general are exceedingly safe. A number of them, you can't— they can't find a toxic level. A, you know, 1,000 times a typical dose that it's non-toxic. Try that with anything. Try that with Tylenol, or try that with water. They're so safer than water. Um, but they're very synergistic. Um, they regulate most every known process in the body. We should think, you know, hormones were the master regulator, and— but we're finding that the peptides are the much more precise modulators that, that work with the hormones, but more of a, a another layer that is more tissue-specific. Again, trying to be extremely safe, at 100 or 1,000 full-time, you don't see any drug or anything like that. And increasing number of peptides becoming clinically available. So let's look at the different categories. So immune-modulating peptides, so the ones that where we want the peptides to, uh, essentially, um, convert that where the abnormal balance of the immune system, that low Th1, high Th2, back to normal. And peptides tend to be homeostatic, meaning that they bring the body back into balance. For instance, BPC, Body Protection Compound 157, you have high blood pressure, it brings it down. If you have low blood pressure, it brings it up. If you're hypercoagulable, it brings it down. If you can't coagulate, it brings it up. So they, they tend to bring it, everything back into balance. So immune modulating, um, like thymosin alpha 1, think mostly of increasing Th1 where the BPC, think of mostly lowering Th2, and then thymosin beta-4 and TB4 fragment, which we'll talk about, think of more as modulating both of them. Then there's different thymic peptides come from the thymus, thymulin and thymogen. The thymulin tends to be more basically anti-inflammatory, works great for people with Herxheimer's. And then you have also what works for immune modulatory are the pineal hormones, epitalion and pineleon, and these will basically modulate the thymus, also increase melatonin, but they do a lot more. They work very synergistically with the thymus in terms of immune modulatory effects. Sleep peptides, epitalon and pineleon, they will again raise melatonin levels. And for people that can't sleep, there's delta sleep-inducing peptide, and which sounds like, oh, it's a peptide, you take it and you go to sleep. But no, it doesn't. It, it's not like a sedating peptide. It basically reduces inflammation in the hypothalamus, which calms down the sleep center. So if you don't have a problem sleeping, it won't do anything for you. But if you have a problem sleeping, that you combine Epitalion, the delta sleep-inducing peptide we're finding, with a growth hormone secretagogue— I'm not going to talk a lot about those, but, um, that's a whole nother area— but all of a sudden people are like, oh my gosh, I'm getting deep sleep, especially if you're out of EMF fields and the, uh, being in electromagnetic fields gonna cause inflammation of the hypothalamus, which keeps from going into deep sleep, causes insulin resistance, leptin resistance, weight gain, anxiety. And then AOD, anti-obesity drug, is a fragment of growth hormone, um, but it's other effects, uh, brain peptides for memory, depression, traumatic brain injury. There's CMAX, C-Lanc, and we'll talk about those. Cerebralysin, which has been for IV and IM injection, but they made it a biologic now, so you can't get that in the US, but it is available orally. Dihexa is a, it's a synthetic angiotensin I-7 analog, which the— but it helps memory. Uh, cordin— all these are very synergistic, by the way. Growth hormone secretagogues, um, again, most are natural, but some of those synthetic antimicrobial peptides. I won't get, uh, too much into— LL-37 is naturally produced in the body, but also thymosin alpha-1, uh, is approved in 30 or so countries for hepatitis, HIV, for cancer. Um, the TB4, TB4 active frag, um, very antimicrobial. BPC-157, uh, shown to be more potent antiviral, for instance, against the herpes virus than acyclovir at 1/100th of the dose. But people tend to not think of it as that because it has so many other effects of healing, but it has— they're very antimicrobial, just kind of general rejuvenation, um, body protection compound. And what we'll go through that, it tends to heal so many different, uh, systems in the body. When you take it orally, it works systemically, uh, as well as TB4. They work together. That's more of, again, that thymic peptide, or TB4 fragment, is the part of TB4 that's the immune modulator, and it's actually orally active and takes out a part that stimulates mast cells. Epithelion and pineleon, uh, again, the pineal hormones. Delta sleep-inducing peptides, growth hormone-releasing, mitochondrial peptides. So I'm not going to go into much detail, but MOTC, 5-Amino-1MQ, humanin, SS31— tons of studies on are actually being conducted now on reducing neurodegenerative diseases and so many different issues by boosting mitochondria. BPC-157 actually prevents the calcium voltage-gated channels from being overactivated. So very potent actually mitochondrial protecting peptide, TB4 and TB4 frag. And then the melanotropic peptide, so, um, alpha monocyte stimulating hormone. And there's Melanotan 1 and 2, which are analogs of alpha monocyte stimulating hormone, which stimulate your body, the melanocytes, to get tan in response to sun. Now, the Melanotan will do the same thing, it's the analog of that, but it also will reduce inflammation, increase libido, decrease body fat. So you get tan, increase libido, and you get skinny. So it's called the Barbie doll peptides. But you— the tanning part tends to be an issue if you're older because it will bring out kind of age spots and things like that. Now, KPV is just a 3 amino acid part of alpha monocyte stimulating hormone, and it has all the— actually even more anti-inflammatory effects that alpha monocyte stimulating hormone does, but it doesn't stimulate the monocytes, which is great. It's actually orally bioavailable and hugely, um, basically anti-inflammatory. So mast cell issues, and we just KPV is now available and we're having great success with that and patients are loving it and doctors are loving it. Side effects, really some nausea, really that's with kind of the PT-141. So that's actually approved as a drug for female libido, but it does, it definitely works for male erectile dysfunction, um, but you tend to get nausea with it. The other ones, not so much. Um, so, so EMFs, really, they accelerate aging. And now, even when you look at aging, according to the CDC, okay, approximately 80% of aged individuals are afflicted with at least one chronic disease as a result of the decline in the thymic-related immune function. So So 80% of aged individuals are basically suffer from a, from a, you know, basically illness because of their thymus is no longer working. So many things have negative effects on the thymus and pineal gland function as well. Age, genetics, inflammation, EMFs just speed that process up. Again, they speed up the aging. Diet, you know, bad diet, lifestyle, stress, toxins, low thyroid, low growth hormone, zinc deficiency. All these things kind of speed up this, this thymic involution, which causes, um, basically the immune dysfunction. So you basically end up aging faster and getting a lot more of these multi-system degenerative diseases that you tend to see in older individuals, but you're still young. So thymus involution, uh, basically starts around age 15, and, uh, around 45 it hits a— it hits a low. And so you get, again, where you get that immune shift, so increase up to infections, um, you have more autoimmune disease, more cancer, cardiovascular disease, more inflammation. And you can see here the thymus, as you age, it just starts dropping right around age 10, 15, and then by 40, and usually right around between 40 and 50, that's where you start getting the red line here that I drew in. You can tell it's not professionally done, but I get the point that where this is the increase in, um, basic diseases of aging. You'll get childhood diseases, you'll get a bump in diseases here, um, and then diseases of aging just rapidly increase here because of the thymus. So let's fix the thymus, um, and, uh, with stress. So I think I went through this, um, where The stress is a major immune modulator. So the thymosins, they again modulate the body to be more immune balanced, uh, see if repair and restorative and healing properties, maintain normal antimicrobial activity, boost mitochondrial function. Again, you'll see all these things connected. Thymus works by activating secondary messengers. Stimulates wound healing, stem cells, stimulates stem cells, increases antioxidants and glutathione production, needed to maintain a healthy GI mucosa. So really a combination of BPC-157 is kind of the go-to for gut inflammation but also inflammation throughout the body. But it's known for that. But the TB4 fragment you can take orally, works in the tight junction, and we're finding KPV is the one very anti-inflammatory and really heals the gut very quickly. Um, and a big problem we're finding with Lyme, all these, uh, you know, this inflammation is basically brain on fire, so microglia activation, and So you'll find with BPC-157, the thymosin beta-4, thymosin beta-4 frag, KPV, they'll lower the microglial activation, also cerebrolysin. So the brain inflammation goes away, and you'd be amazed at how many symptoms go away when you reduce brain inflammation. And brain inflammation, particularly the hypothalamus, uh, is what causes insulin resistance and diabetes. Thymosins and also BPC blocks the effects of neurotoxins, endotoxins, mycotoxins. They boost natural killer cell function. And so thymosin beta-4 is a long molecule, and so, uh, 43 amino acids has different parts that do different things. So What they found is that the fragment 1-4 possesses all the immune modulatory and angiogenic and healing and anti-inflammatory and cellular protective, um, but it takes out the part that stimulates mast cells, um, and also now becomes orally active because it's very short. A long peptide is not going to absorb. Even short peptides can be difficult to absorb, but this one absorbs whole and is clearly totally bioavailable, and you get all the benefits of thymus and beta-4, which you normally have to do with a shot, but you can take it orally. It's about 10 times as potent as well. So, um, it's more potent anti-fibrotic, so it will prevent like diabetic cardiomyopathy, diabetic nephropathy, you know, where kidney damage from diabetes Again, it's 10 times as potent per weight. It doesn't stimulate mast cells, is orally active, um, it crosses into the blood-brain barrier. It's much smaller where TB4 is too big to cross. Gets into biofilms and breaks up biofilms. It inhibits, um, uh, thrombin growth factor beta-induced plasmin activator inhibitor, so it prevents that hypercoagulability, which also BPC-157 and And we actually— if you check the coagulation status of chronic Lyme patients, chronic fatigue syndrome patients, about 80% plus have immune activation of coagulation. So what's happening is they're laying down— they're not causing a clot, but laying down fibrin, trying to wall off that infection, which is good in the short term. But long term, now the body can't get at it. And also nutrients can't get in and waste products can't get out. And oxygen that usually takes 2 seconds to get in the cells can take up to 2 minutes. So the cells are also starving for oxygen. So cleaning up that fibrin, actually, with either really low-dose heparin, which is safer than aspirin, or also, you know, with immune modulating, also some of the vascular enzymes will help. But, uh, just another again in this vicious cycle that we see. Um, a lot of times when nothing's working, the patient, you know, will say, hey, I got good news, got bad news. Good— the bad news is you got immune activation coagulation. Good news is you got immune activation of coagulation, and we can treat. All of a sudden, treatments that weren't working because whether it's a hormone or a drug or a nutrient wasn't getting in the cells All of a sudden you clean it up, now it gets into the cells and starts working. So here is just, uh, basically these are amino acids of thymosin beta-4, and then TB4 active frag is the first 4 amino acids there. Um, BBC-157, you know, these two are kind of the go-to and kind of the core treatment, um, and available as supplement. Um, it's a 15 amino acid which normally would not absorb, but it is basically, uh, secreted in the gut. So normally we also— most peptides, things are broken down from the— with the enzymes, um, and with the acidic gastric juice. But this is very stable. Um, that's where it's That's where it's made. So it's resistant to hydrolysis and enzyme digestion. It's shown to have a wide range of healing mechanisms. It's almost embarrassing showing the studies because it sounds like snake oil, like name it, it kind of, it helps heal it. But it really changes epigenetically the body into a healing basically turns on all the genes for healing, lowering inflammation, improving the immune system, gets increased blood flow to areas that are needed. It modulates the neurotransmitters. Great for leaky gut and again, the gut-brain access, and it's great for the microbiome. Oral and systemic administration shown to improve cardiovascular issues, blocking many of the toxic effects of EMFs, including immune dysfunction, mitochondrial dysfunction, the excessive reactive oxygen species, and again, by inhibiting that abnormal activation voltage gate of calcium channels. And I'm telling you, for— I know there's a lot of you out there that are suffering from whether it be Sears and chronic mold, chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic Lyme, and just have palpitations all the time, get out of the EMF fields and take BPC to block those calcium channels, which will also help your mitochondria. And you can just get— again, it's a start of this whole multi-system treatment. So, um, works for heart failure, hypertension, uh, hypotension or hypertension. You know, I went into heart failure with chronic Lyme, and the cardiologist said, you may be able to get 10% better in 10 years. I couldn't stand up, uh, straight. I couldn't— like, walking upstairs, forget it, taking like an hour. Um, I can't live like this. And that's when I went basically around the world looking for treatments, and that's where I found peptides. But, um, and I went back a year later and my heart was normal, and the cardiologist says, oh my gosh, I've never seen that. Of course, she didn't even ask what I did, but she said she's never seen it. Um, it actually prevents arrhythmias, shortens that QT interval, which again, with COVID you may be hearing about, you know, the QT interval. With Zithromax and hydroxychloroquine. We look at that, but actually BPC-157 will shorten that, as does thyroid. But BPC-157 also will— is great for arrhythmias. We had one of our employees' husband was in AFib and gave him a big shot of BPC-157 and broke his AFib. Went back into normal sinus. So it works for central peripheral nervous system, treating neuropathies, and all the, you know, with EMFs associated with them. We'll look at, you know, traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, neuropathies, peripheral nerve damage, mood disorders. It's shown to be a better antidepressant than antidepressants. Blocks that exaggerated stress response for constant fight or flight. Um, let's see. So I think that's the same slide. And so, yeah, just even a brief period here, 7 days after just a brief exposure, uh, from a mobile phone, they found the blood-brain barrier opened up. So again, we have the brain is protected by a network called the blood-brain barrier, which makes it difficult for certain things to get into the brain. It protects the brain from toxic substances. But if you're in EMF field, it opens it up. And also, you know, leaky gut ends up being leaky brain and vice versa. So In some of these studies, just 2-hour exposure to a low-level cell phone level, uh, in rats found immediate disruption of this blood-brain barrier, um, protection, increased permeability, allowing these big molecules, even albumin, which is a big protein, to be able to get in and out. And it's crazy. And the— just the brief exposure for a couple hours, the increased permeability for 2 weeks. And they also found significant brain damage was found 20 and 50 days after, um, the exposure in the rats. Um, and now if they were to give anti-glutamate antioxidant therapies, it did help prevent some of that permanent brain damage, um, but not all of it. And anyone who was already sick, it actually, it was much worse for them. And that, that's what you see. And so with the, um, in terms of the microbiome, we heard a lot about the blood-brain, um, access. So the microbiome affects the neurologic system and really most every system in the body. And also, but the brain can determine what the microbiome is. So again, it's a two-way street. So if you have leaky gut, you have leaky brain, uh, almost instantaneously. Um, now radio frequency, radio frequencies similar to those emitted by mobile devices or Wi-Fi typically cause pathogenic bacteria, that's E. coli, Listeria, they grow faster, become more resistant to antibiotics. I mentioned that causes toxic molds to grow faster and secrete millions more of, um, mycotoxins. Uh, it's, it's crazy. And so here's a basic look at the blood-brain barrier. Um, so numerous studies showing the importance, um, and looking at BPC-157, KPV, uh, TB4 active phag, those combination works on all the different parts of the dysfunctional, the leaky gut, and thus leaky brain. Studies there. And then we get into the microbiome. So the viruses that are in there that they're called phages that feed on the bacteria, then it's exponentially more complicated, but we haven't heard about that yet, but you will. So let's see, that is, uh, we already talked about that. Um, so BPC-157 stabilizes the gut and nervous system, um, which we talked about. So much of the safety tension is really been looked at, again, ionizing radiation, which powerful enough to break up DNA, where— so it's felt that anything less powerful does not cause DNA or, or damage. But that's not the case. So even short-term, low-level exposure to non-ionizing radiation, well within the safety limits, has been shown to cause DNA damage. Increase in what's called senescent cells. So the cells just basically, they're sitting there, they're dysfunctional, they have mitochondrial dysfunction, they can't do their job, but they're secreting all this inflammatory byproducts and causing a lot of problems. Those are the ones that turn to cancer. And, uh, and basically what they don't have enough energy to even go under apoptosis or really die and get rid of those. So they get basically— if you get the mitochondria going, they can actually go under what's called apoptosis and get rid of those old cells that are causing all these problems. So free radicals, especially interaction with transitional metals like iron and heavy metals, play a big role with EMF toxicity on DNA. So if you have these metals that, you know, Fenton reaction, um, or with the heavy metals, that you can get DNA damage, certainly. So here's basically just looking at the incidence of glioma, so, uh, brain tumor, and the amount of cell phone use. And here's looking at, um, the thymosins and the pineal peptides, epitalin and pinealin, and cancer reduction. So, uh, with thymus, you get— see, you have increase in lifespan and, um, also boost, which correlates with the boost in immunity. And the pineal gland Same thing, so increased lifespan, increased immunity, um, they go together. So demonstrated the high efficiency of Epitalion therapy for prophylaxis of age-related pathology including cancer, showing a new physiologic way to slow down the pathological process and to extend human lifespans. Uh, quote there, uh, from the studies below. And this is— they just basically injected, uh, thymic protein into mice starting at age 3.5 months. They found that increased lifespan by 28% and decreased rate of cancer by 2.8-fold. Um, in terms of— they had, uh, cancer, a few female mice where they had— they're bred to have the breast cancer gene. So genetically prone to breast cancer. Um, they received Apetalian 5 times per week from the second month of life, uh, and the percent of mice that developed breast cancer was 3.7-fold higher in the control, uh, so 73% reduction in cancer in the treatment group. Uh, it decelerated the rate of aging of the reproductive system as well, with only 8% of mice having irregular menstrual cycles versus 52% of age control. So It's actually very good for people with infertility. This is looking at age-related insulin resistance, also neurotransmitter levels. So, apetalian improved insulin resistance. This was in rhesus monkeys. The melatonin levels also, uh, basically went up to, uh, that of young animals. So the older animals looked like younger animals. And the area under curve of the glucose challenge was on average 294 in the young monkeys versus 479 in the old monkeys. So they had a lot of, a lot of insulin and glucose. When they get the Epitalon, it normalized that glucose area under the curve. So significant improvement in insulin resistance— or improvement insulin sensitivity, I should say. The authors concluded Epitalon obviously shows promise as a remedy to restore age-related endocrine dysfunction in primates. Very safe, don't see any side effects from it. Stimulates the synthesis of serotonin and melatonin, uh, restores telomere length. So The cells, in order to divide, they need— the telomeres keep shrinking every time it divides, and when those are too short, it can't divide. It actually will lengthen those, and so your cells are actually younger. Slows down the aging reproductive, um, uh, system. Actually increases T4-T3 conversion and also increases thyroid production. And improves glucose tolerance, we just said, slows aging, increases longevity, protects against senescent cells and cancer, activates gene expression. So it basically makes the, makes the body younger. It's probably the best anti-aging substance that we know of. So the geroprotective effects of thymic peptide, thymulin, and pineal peptide epitope were investigated over a 6-8 year period. 266 elderly patients after being treated for the first 2-3 years of the study, um, they basically found a 2-2.4 decrease in acute respiratory disease. So they had improved immunity, reduced incidence of clinical manifestation of ischemic heart disease, so less cardiovascular disease, less hypertension, less degenerative diseases, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, compared to controls. So such a significant improvement in health state of the peptide-treated patients correlated with decreased mortality rate during the observation. Basically, uh, twofold decrease in mortality, uh, in the thymulin-treated group, 1.6 to 1.8-fold in the epitalion-treated group, and when they're treated with both, a 2.5 reduction. Now, a separate group that was treated, uh, with peptides for 6 years, retardate was decreased, was 1/4 compared to controls when you use both those together. Um, so EMF effects on the brain, uh, significantly impacts on memory, learning, anxiety, um, even at these so-called safe levels. With structural and physiologic changes in various parts of the brain. Again, opens up the blood-brain barrier. The hippocampus, which is very responsible for memory and learning, is very susceptible to oxidative stress and EMF toxicity. The cerebellum, the amygdala, which is kind of that, um, uh, like kind of basic drive, um, and also cerebral cortex, so higher functioning and activation of the glial cells. So again, again, the brain on fire, uh, with brain inflammation. Also neurotransmitter levels. Um, so possible cause contributing with the EMF, what does it do? It increases reactive oxygen species and again increases the permeability of the gut and the brain. Activation of the apoptotic pathway, so it causes cell death, effects on the DNA, you get direct damage and also epigenetically, meaning that it turns on and off genes that cause damage, that calcium influx across the membranes. So it's likely a combination of all these things causing significant problems. So, um, A study here, they exposed pregnant mice in utero to a mobile phone just on active call mode throughout gestation. The offspring were shown to have memory impairments, hyperactive behavior compared to unexposed mice. Uh, another one here exposed 28 days of just the mobile phone, altered neurobehavioral performance, impaired spatial memory, damaged blood-brain barrier, um, impaired, uh, learning and reference memory. Also found brain damage in the hippocampus. So all these things from so-called just cell phone exposure, neuronal degeneration, all these things from so-called safe levels of just cell phone. So here's basically groups. In terms of time it takes them to complete a task. And the more exposed, the longer it took them to, to learn a task. And looking at Alzheimer's, neurodegenerative diseases, there's just so many studies here looking at the ratio here, you know, 5 times the risk for people that have high EMF exposure. Numerous studies all showing neurodegenerative diseases, suicide, depressive symptoms with EMFs. ALS, strong data showing EMFs causing ALS. But the nice thing is TB4 is shown to reverse that. Um, so TB4 or TB4 active frag, whether it's the neurodegenerative diseases, peripheral neuropathy, diabetes, traumatic brain injury. Um, talk about, uh, basically nootropic peptides, a Cerebrolysin. So it's a mixture of neuropeptides. It's been around for 40 years or so, tons of studies on it. It's approved in 44 countries for treatment of dementia and stroke. Very neuroprotective, very neuroreparative, penetrates the blood-brain barrier because they're small molecular weight peptides. They stimulate central and peripheral nerve growth factors. They improve cognitive function. Lots of studies on traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer's, stroke, shown to be effective in Alzheimer's— excuse me, with autism and Asperger's on the spectrum disorders. Historically given intravenously but, uh, no longer available, uh, but it is bioavailable orally. Um, this is the study on Alzheimer's showing the improvement. Um, here's in terms of reducing microglial activation so that brain inflammation— the identification of new compounds with neurotrophic properties becoming a new strategy for the prevention and treatment of neurodegenerative disorders. In this study, we described the use of two different models to demonstrate the ability of Cerebrolisin to reduce microglial activation. The results of these in vitro and in vivo studies indicate that Cerebrolisin might exert neuroimmunotropic activity, reducing the extent of inflammation and accelerate, or accelerate, neural death under pathological conditions such as those observed in neurodegenerative diseases. Another study here showing that oral serbolisin, um, basically a single dose, um, significantly improved the cognitive performance of elderly individuals. Uh, C-Lanc and C-Max, they're very similar. Um, C-Max, uh, will help with memory as well. C-Lanc, C-Lanc's more Calm will also help deal with stress. So we like to give that when people are anxious. It also reduces brain inflammation as well. Um, they stimulate nerve growth factors, shields the body from neurotoxins as well, uh, protect— protective against stress and depression, improves memory and attention even in healthy adults. Beneficial learning and memory, increases actually dopamine and serotonin levels, which decline with age, improve recovery from stroke. You'll get neurologic regeneration increase, dendritic— basically all the connections. I have never seen side effects from these. And looking at cardiovascular system, I mentioned how so many patients have those palpitations. If they can get out of the EMF field, especially with BPC, often those palpitations go away, um, and they kind of get out of that sympathetic fight-or-flight, uh, response. This is just showing that how it— the EMFs add to that immune activation of coagulation, where just exposing the blood— this is the person's blood— to EMF fields, they start clumping, um, after 10 minutes and 70 minutes. So significant effects. So this is a person who basically was, uh, EMF sensitive. Uh, they'd have the person sit in a room and then turn on and off the Wi-Fi. So basically, uh, pulse at 68, and then all of a sudden turn on the cell phone, go up to 122. Um, fake turning on the cell phone goes back to 66, turn back on the cell phone, 129. And then also, so they found that really you get that, again, that sympathetic, parasympathetic, where all these illnesses are causing just that sympathetic overdrive or just fight or flight instead of that calmness. And again, not getting deep sleep, the brain on fire. And this person would actually go into arrhythmias. with the EMFs. Um, so Epithelon with cardiovascular disease. So this was trial 79, uh, patients age 60 to 69 with severe cardiovascular disease, half them receiving just 6 courses of Epithelon. Um, and they— all the patients continued their standard basic therapy. Over— so far for 13 years, the cardiovascular functional age was 16 years older compared to 7 years in the epigenetic group. So it really kind of slowed that aging, and the mortality rate was about half that of the control group. So cut mortality in half. They actually increased their endurance while the control group declined on their endurance, and they also had normalization of their circadian rhythm. So it increased melatonin, they slept better, more standard sleep cycle. You know, people say as you get older you're going to lose that sleep cycle, so brought them back to that younger, nice awake sleep cycle. Improved carbohydrate lipid metabolism. This is showing that TB4 FRAG and BPC prevents EMF-induced cardiovascular dysfunction. So they, um, the TB4 active fragment cardioprotective effects in diabetic subjects reduce both ventricular, um, uh, interstitial and perivascular fibrosis. Um, oral and systemic administration of BPC-157 simply improves a wide range of cardiovasculars by blocking in many of the toxic effects of EMFs, including that mitochondrial dysfunction, the excessive reactive oxygen species and inhibiting that abnormal calcium voltage-gated calcium channel. So helps with heart failure, hypertension, hypertension, post-MI damage, arrhythmias, vascular repair. We talked about the QT interval. Um, so also we're finding, you know, is that really with EMFs everyone's exposed to is that everyone's really low with thyroid, actually multiple hormone deficiencies. So you look at that, 72 hamsters divided into 3 groups: control group, um, uh, and then group 2 was exposed to cell phone EMF for 10 days, group 3 was exposed to cell phone EMF for 50 days. They tested T4 and T3 and cortisol levels. The cortisol level in 50-day exposure went up, so they had that increase in the cortisol, the stress response, but they found T3 levels were higher in the control group, so the T3 levels in the exposed group dropped. Now, the T4 levels went up, and so doctors think, well, hmm, well, higher T4 means that they're— and especially when the TSH is lower. They didn't test TSH in this study, but I can pretty much guarantee the TSH drop. But we'll see the next study. So low TSH, high T4, doctors go, oh, high thyroid. It's actually low thyroid because they have hypothalamic pituitary dysfunction. The body is not producing TSH. Then on top of that, with the mitochondrial dysfunction, you need active transport for the T4 to get into the cell. So the high T4 shows that it's not getting into the cell, and you can see that by the, the T3 and the T4 thyroid transporters are different. The T4 is more energy dependent, so with low mitochondrial function, it doesn't transport T4, um, uh, much more affected. Now reverse T3 has the same pharmacodynamics, same pharmacokinetics as the T4. So with high reverse T3, it's not— it shows it's not getting into the cells. If high reverse T3, you know T4 is not getting into the cell. So that's why all these patients do so much better with straight T3, because although it is somewhat affected, not nearly as much as T4. So, but doctors look at their TSH being low-normal and their T4 being high-normal, they go, oh, well, you're 'cause you're kind of high thyroid. No, no, no, they're low. So it's the opposite. So here they said, the author stated that the high cortisol resulted in decreased T4 to T3 conversion, which is true, but that's not the main problem. You do get less T4 to T3 conversion, but the big problem, the cause of the high T4 is it's not getting into the cell. And again, EMFs cause mitochondrial dysfunction along with other things, chronic infections, and then causes immune dysfunction, low thyroid, then you basically get all that vicious cycle. And then so different study here. So the major trigger of a T4 is a lack of T4 transport. So we assume that they had low TSH, but, um, so everyone really exposed. If you want to learn more about this, um, go to our nonprofit National Academy of Hypothyroidism, nathyroidism.org. Wrote a couple review articles on this. Um, I'm just kind of throwing it out there. Um, but another study, um, where they exposed, uh, to cell phone for 30 minutes a day for 5 days a week for 4 weeks, um, one group basically has control, another group as the sham, so falsely exposed. TSH, uh, T3 and T4 levels are measured. As expected, the TSH and T3 and, uh, uh, T4 levels were lower in the EMF groups. Um, so the T4 can either be a little high normal, normal, or low depending on where they are in the chronicity of the illness. Um, but so the T4 is not the proper treatment for these patients. So TSH was lower, um, their T3 was lower, and in this one their T4— but T4 can be either high, um, because they have— you actually have less T4 because the TSH is— the thyroid's producing less T4. So you're competing, um, uh, with not getting into the cell. What's going to win out in terms of serum levels? So serum level does not tell you what's inside the, inside the cell, which is what matters. Another study showed male volunteers exposed to cell phone fields for 2 hours a day, 5 days a week for 1 month had a 21% reduction in TSH levels, uh, showing central hypothyroidism, um, which would again be missed by the overall majority of physicians, uh, showing here that giving Apetalian brought melatonin levels back to normal. Um, and I know I'm going long here. The monocortical alpha-melanocyte stimulating hormone, um, melanin 1 and 2, we talked about. KPV, it's a fragment of that, very potent immune modulating anti-inflammatory, inhibits mast cells. Um, it actually reduces the hypothalamic inflammation, so you get reduced insulin and leptin resistance. Delta sleep-inducing peptide does the same type of thing. So when you take it, it doesn't put you to sleep, but over a couple of weeks, it will lower that inflammation of the hypothalamus and where you can actually get deep sleep. And also, the delta sleep-inducing peptide's highest— the highest levels are in the gut. So it lowers inflammation there as well. And just, I'll mention GHK-Cu. You'll see that a lot in cosmetic. It helps heal skin and produce collagen, anti-inflammatory, uh, also helps with hair restoration. I'll just mention that we like the mitochondrial peptides, which include, well, BPC-157 protects mitochondria. 5-MeO-1MQ. We found great results with like bipolar and OCD. MOTC is another one. Again, TB4 Frag S31, increased metabolism, neuroprotective, increased stem cell function, increases NAD+. So really, the, you know, peptides very synergistic with each other. Um, here again with thymulin and epitalon. Um, and I think we looked at that study here. And so to summarize, I know I went way over and I apologize for that, but, um, I hope I gave you a little taste of the problem with EMFs. And hopefully, you know, one way to counteract that, a lot of things, is using peptides, but also you know, try to minimize your exposure to EMFs. They contribute to a wide range of illnesses and immune dysfunction and are key component of vicious cycle of multi-system illness. The key is this healthy, balanced immune system. Remember the gut-brain axis, it's a core contributor, and, um, uh, improper function deficiency of certain peptides. Again, they're natural in your body, which they decline as we age. Can, can heal and protect you from toxic exposures, um, and, uh, works well in a multi-system treatment. Um, so in terms of dosing, let's get asked that. Uh, I'm going to just quickly— usual dose again is 1 cap twice a day, but, uh it's— you can't basically overdose on those, um, if they have GERD, open the capsules, um, uh, but so usually do BPC-157, then add in TB4 Frag, and then add in whatever in, in particular. If they have— if they need a nootropic for memory, um, we had like the Cerebralyzen, or have lots of inflammation, and the KPV. Or the, you know, Epitalion or Pineleon, whatever it may be, or maybe an antimicrobial, which I didn't talk much about, mitochondrial peptides. Again, the nice thing with the peptides is you can't go wrong in terms of the different orders, that you're not going to screw it up, that it kind of, uh, it ends up working out. But, um, that's it. Again, I'm sorry for going, uh, I think way over my time, but hopefully that you got a little taste of all the literature that's showing the issues with EMFs and how to hopefully prevent the toxicity. If you're having any issues, I hope it helped. Wish you all the best health and hopefully you're enjoying the summit and Thank you for letting me be a part of it.

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