11 Feb 2026 · 24 min
In this Peptides and Longevity podcast episode, host Mike O'Neill interviews Blake of Forgotten Formula, who outlines a comprehensive, root‑cause perspective on chronic illness. Blake argues that modern birth practices (cesarean delivery, lack of breastfeeding) disrupt the newborn microbiome, setting the stage for autoimmunity. He links dental amalgam and other heavy‑metal exposures to gut dysbiosis, nutrient malabsorption, and systemic toxicity. The conversation expands to broader environmental insults—vaccines, pesticides, GMOs, and the overuse of antibiotics—that together erode the microbiome and immune resilience. Blake emphasizes that a cumulative pathogen load (herpesviruses, EBV, CMV, Candida, parasites, mold) creates an “oncobiome” that fuels cancer and autoimmune disease. He frames the body’s metabolic failure as a “math problem”: missing essential nutrients and trace minerals impair mitochondrial electron transport, leading to cellular breakdown. Diagnosis, he says, must be a deep, narrative‑driven review of a patient’s entire life story, uncovering trauma, hormonal events, infections, and environmental exposures. Treatment combines removal of toxic burdens (metal chelation, anti‑parasite protocols, mold remediation) with bio‑available nutrient repletion, gut‑restoring strategies, and advanced modalities such as suppositories, peptide therapies, Rife devices, EBOO, and plasmapheresis. Blake stresses the integration of mind‑body‑spirit work, noting that emotional trauma can manifest as physical symptoms. The episode also highlights the role of the RPMA/Forgotten Formula association in protecting practitioners, providing access to high‑quality supplements and alternative therapies, and challenging the pharmaceutical‑driven healthcare system. Throughout, Blake and Mike advocate for patient empowerment, practitioner collaboration, and a return to the body’s innate self‑healing capacity.
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There was a doctor one time that asked, why did God put the garbage disposal right next to the baby maker? And it's because there is very important probiotic and microbiota in there, in the fecal, in the vagina that the baby comes out and it gets.
Welcome to the Peptides and Longevity Podcast. Each week we'll dive into groundbreaking science, innovative therapies, and the future of health and longevity. Alongside visionary physicians and experts, we'll explore how peptides, cutting-edge medicine, and lifestyle strategies can redefine the way we age. Get ready to transform your health, optimize your vitality, and unlock the secrets to a longer, healthier life. Let's get started. Hey everybody, my name is Mike O'Neill. I want to thank you for joining us at the Peptides and Bioregulator Summit. And we are about to delve into one of my favorite talks of all time. And so we brought on the genius himself, Blake with Forgotten Formula. He has a history of not only understanding the origins of chronic illness creation in the body and how do we address it, but what's the path of diagnostics. And then once you find out the root cause, How do you start to root out from the inside out and outside in and completely transform the body in the way that we are supposed to be created, which is this perfect self-healing machine that lives with a great mind, a great attitude, and a resilient spirit. And literally, I want you guys to focus on this talk. It's probably one of the most important ones in the summit itself because this is just gonna lay out a foundation of healing that I hope we all start to take as an approach for ourselves to be healed. So Blake, thank you so much for joining me, and I can't wait to hear your genius.
Oh man, come on, talk about— no, I don't think it's genius, man. So what we look at is common ba— common sense, right? Common sense practice. And then looking across the board at modern medicine and looking at the flaws. Yeah, for us it was, you've got 6 different doctors all doing different things, different, you know, good at different stuff, right? You got the cardiologist, You know, the, the, the liver guy, the endocrine guy, and they don't talk, right?
Yeah.
And you end up with a bag of pills and we've all, our grandparents, you know, they're victims of it, right? And we've all walked into clinics, um, where you're like, man, they don't have hyperbarics here. I really wish they had that. They don't have live blood analysis either. But I heard good things. And then you leave with like all these pills and, you know, 15 minutes and we saw that too. It's like. The doctor's seeing you in 15 minutes. Like, whoa, no wonder you're chronically ill. And then obviously being a part of a system that keeps you sick. So what I developed and what I started to look at when I started to look at member profiles, and we only get the sickest of the sick when we first started about a decade ago, just this, you know, kick this, this is the worst of the worst butchered, you know, cut up and, and we would, we would heal them. Uh, how did we do it? Well, we looked at it and went, okay, what did, what do Americans have? All right, what do we all have issues with today? And you go, okay, well, the food sucks, right? Genetically modified organisms has entered the body and caused inflammation. And we say, okay, gluten allergy. Well, none of that existed, man. Like, I'm only 41 years old, and when I was in school, none of these things happened. I maybe had one or two people with asthma. There was no autism. Uh, what changed? A lot of vaccines, a lot of pesticide, a lot of fungicide, a lot of disruption of the microbiota. I think we could look across the board and then all the way down to American Dental Association. If you look at the history of them, there was two conglomerates, uh, similar to the movie Gangs of New York, where you've got inner politics going on. Now, we learned from the Mad Hatters that mercury was very toxic. And for people that don't know that story, they would use mercury, uh, or, you know, quicksilver, to seal the layers of the felt, right? And it made people just crazy because it eats the myelin sheath of the brain.
It's just Your nerves get frayed. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. And so the first thing that the dentist is going to do to a 2 or 3-year-old that eats candy is put amalgam in their mouth. Right. And then, so as soon as the amalgam goes in the mouth, what we've discovered is that 70% of the microbiota of the gut goes with it. So antibacterial resistant bacteria. Now rewind just 3 years before the implants. Baby was taken cesarean. Baby was not breastfed. What just, what just happened? Well, that's a recipe for an auto— autoimmune child. And explain to me why my great-grandmother could sit at home and have 10, 12 children out on the farm, and now we're cutting babies out of women, or even worse, murdering them. But cutting the babies out, not breastfeeding. And this is why it's important, guys. The first time you get anandamide, which is an endocannabinoid considered the bliss molecule. It's literally the, not just the bonding, but the suckling mechanism of a mammal comes from the endocannabinoid system. If, and that colostrum has the building blocks of that baby's immune system. There was a doctor one time that asked, why did God put the garbage disposal right next to the baby maker? And it's because there is very important probiotic and microbiota in there. In the fecal, in the vagina that the baby comes out and it gets, right? And then it should be put on the nipple, on the chest of the mother, and the blood going through the cord and cut at the right time. You see in hospitals today where that is not occurring. If you've ever had doula training, or if you've ever had a midwife, you've either had a bad experience that led you to a midwife, or you're more of a— in a religious type of situation. But what we saw was the baby— if you're corporate capitalism and your goal is to constantly make profit, why not curing? Keeping them just enough sick. And your cash cow is what? The autoimmune child. So that starts at birth. And go look at the numbers if anybody wants to. The cesarean rise is crazy. It's turn and burn. We were warned on my first daughter that they will try to force you into that because they are only going to give you a certain amount of time. So our doula had us wait till we were dilated at a certain level and then we went. And they tried and went, nope, turned in baby tricks. We walked forever, it seemed like, finally, and then had the baby all fine. But they would have cut it out if I would have said, oh yeah, cut it out. If I wouldn't have known, right? And then again with the breastfeeding, so, so necessary. So what did we learn there? If I took that away and then I put metal in its mouth, why does that child have chronic strep? Why do they have asthma? Why do they have all these things going on and it just starts to build because then that little baby goes back, Z-Pak, and now I just killed more microbiota, right? And I can't give little Timmy, he can't really eat anything. He's got all these allergies and it's because you destroy the microbiome he never even was born with, right? Okay. So now let's take somebody that's older. We've talked about how they make the sick people. Now let's talk about how we fix them. So somebody comes in, hey, I've got this X cancer, right? All right. Did you do a biopsy? Not yet. Or I did.
Okay.
So we can talk a little bit about the why you, why you should or shouldn't, but real quick, because again, this is a longer talk when you're talking about the functionality of this. Let's go back to the metabolic breakdown first. So we have, do we want to use cancer as the kind of the baseline or do we want to just use? Sure.
Yeah, you can use cancer. All right. Cause I see like if you're chronically autoimmune, you're more prone to developing even more serious cellular breakdown. Like if you get into SAS where you're creating inflammation instead of energy, those cells, they'll turn over correctly.
That's what I need to do.
And then you get into a state where they clump together and then you form a wherever stagnation breeds, that could be the potential cancer.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, and I'm glad, okay, that's what I needed to circle back to that real quick because it comes down to a math problem of resources, right? So if we can say that the body needs 90 nutrients, 60 of them it doesn't make, it's no longer in the soil. Right there, mitochondrial metabolic function breaks down, right? Because in the electron transport chain, the reason that we're getting sicker is the electrons are shedding off faster. Why is that happening? Well, when you go to make a perfect cell, you need certain things, certain elements. If you're missing 3 amino acids, couple trace minerals, you may make a brick, but it's not gonna be a perfect brick, and the next one is not gonna fit right. And it's going to, again, shed an electron. That's a use of energy. And again, if, if we're setting the person up the way that we talked about, they can't really take on another parasite or take on another lack of a resource, right? So they're even on a faster track of getting cancer or getting worse, worse diseases or sick all the time. But we'll take somebody that just diagnosed, right? And so maybe they read a book about cancer and they're like, Nick, you shouldn't biopsy, you know, it shouldn't tell the cancer it's there, but Remember, cancer isn't genetic. I'll say it again, it's not. It's a summation of your life. Okay, Michael, then why do babies get glioblastoma? It's a gallium deficiency in the mother. It all comes down to trace mineral deficiencies that are driving the initial activity, right? And the breakdown of the cell. Now, what causes the gate, the pathways to shut down? The summation of that life. So we have a 60-year-old patient that, remember, that has cancer. All right, what happened when you were born? Did mom breastfeed you? Did you get a cesarean? Yes, no. When's it— when did you have chickenpox? Yep. So now I'm counting herpes virus subsets. If you know anything about cancer and autoimmune, you see the same bad actors. Epstein-Barr virus. So the next one is, did you have mono? Yeah. And if they say yes, then you know they have a, a really iffy immune system already, man. And because Nobody in my, like one person in my school got mono. Epstein-Barr virus is mononucleosis. It's the bad version, right? So that gives me an insight and diagnosis already. They had chickenpox. They had mono. Now they've got two bad ones right now, right? Do you get fever blisters? Oh yeah. All right. Now we got herpes subset, right? So we got three subsets already. 60-year-old patient though, remember?
Yeah.
Have you had shingles? Yes. I got it after my first round of, you know, what, or I had this, you know, I did took this immune suppressor and I got shingles. So we've got 4 sets of herpes now and we can assume cytomegalo, likely, but you know, EBV is going to rear its ugly head as the immune system goes down. And then you got Candida, right? Your fungal loads and mold. And this leads into where I would say the carbon cycle is in that body because of the Cell pathogen colonization. Now, that's a broad word because I quit— I don't like— it's hard to say parasites, mold, mildew. So, cell path— so everybody out there, cell pathogen colonies are all of that. Yeah. It's either a group of parasites, a group of bacteria, in this case, the oncobiome. So, there's a whole microbiome that feeds this cancer, right? That's feeding the cancer. Now, why doesn't the body see the cancer? Well, there's pathways like tumor necrosis factor alpha, ATK1, there's caspase 9. These autophagy pathways, BRCA1, BRCA2, these genetic pathways that people say, oh, well, you're this or you're MTHFR or whatever. These are methylation problems that are caused by the breakdown of not having, again, the resources needed to make a proper cell. So, as I grow through the ages, I'm 10, I went on a camping trip, I drank out of this stagnant water, I got sick when I got home. My dog licks its butt and then licks me.
Yeah.
I've never taken an anti-parasite. I have amalgam in my mouth, right? So my gut is dysbiosis. I'm not absorbing nutrients, right? So I'm not even able to even if I was, right? And then I've got to get the metal fixed because I also got a broken tooth and that underlying infection, I'm swallowing it every day. Yep. And that goes to the leaky gut and can become systemic. Now think about that, dude. 30 years of your life through college, through marriages, breakups, all of your traumas, which I would go over in your life story. What happened at puberty? When did you start? Was it severe? Was it hard? Did you cramp a lot? These are all signs of either abuse or trace minerals. If they had their period at 10 years old, or 9, you need to go back and ask harder questions. And, you're not going to get this in 15 minutes. That's the whole point of this, right? Is if true root cause medicine needs to evolve around this technique of the storyline, the summation of that because you get trust halfway through and then they will tell you what's really making them sick. So, what did we start with? We're going to start with the reduction phase of getting the parasite load down, getting the amalgam and metal out. Reducing mold and toxicity exposure and start to rebalance the system. Because, because of the breeding of cell pathogen colonies, those pathways that you needed to recognize the cancer, to recognize the uncontrolled mitophagy that's just going crazy, they're shut down. They're blocked, man. And they've already usually taken their gallbladder and they've taken other organs. So you need to understand what is the appendix used for. Well, it's used to repopulate and feed the other microbiota. But what was their plan? To destroy your microbiota since the day you were born. Yep. Right? Yeah. And through cesarean, through malnutrition, and through, again, throwing chemicals, taking the flora or the iodine out of bread and replacing it bromide, you know, constantly throwing all that crap at you. And then understanding that, understanding that you need a bio— you have gut dysbiosis. So I need a bio— available solution to make sure that they absorb it. So I can't give them a bunch of capsules. And then I've already told them that the food is bad and it's sprayed with everything, so they don't know what to eat. So we put them on a very easy diet website, thousands of different recipes to make it simple to stay alkaline. And then remember, Americans are going to always think if one's good, ten's better. And we make sure that they understand that homeostasis is about balance. You can't just take one shot. You can't just take, you know, 2 things. You're missing certain trace elements. Bacteria has to be replaced. Mitochondria needs all those elements to be able to make a perfect cell. So, we're gonna provide that in a bioavailable way. We're gonna also use suppositories to bypass the stomach. And then, we're gonna use certain modalities like Theta, like Rife, like EBOO, like plasmapheresis, peptides, custom therapies designed to that patient based on their storyline. And then based on the fact that all humans are the same, they just don't react the same to certain things, right? Meaning if I take Expresso, I could be just jumping through the roof. You may need 3 shots, right? Okay. So we know it works. We know that the pathways are there. Now it's about reversing the carbon cycle because everything in the body at that point is getting the signal that death is coming. So they're all preparing to go back into the ground. What we do is we go, all right. You're missing this and that's the trace minerals are driving the vitamins. So I need to fix these deficiencies, fix your mouth, get all these critters out of you. And now that math problem becomes a solution because the body now has the resources to send the troops out to recognize what's going on. Because remember people, you weren't born with this. You weren't born with it. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. It was a summation of your story over time. So you need to bring out the trauma events. It's It's not just the gut. It's not just the parasites. It's not just the mouth. It's the mind, body, and spirit. The trauma has to come out. You have to know if they've been sexually abused. You have to know if they've been divorced 4 times and what involved with that. Was there cheating? Did you check for STDs? Okay, diagnostics needs to be verbal, but also then you do what you need to do to make sure they're telling you the truth. But first and foremost, remember, if given the right conditions, the body heals. And it's never just one thing.
100%.
That was a lot.
But I resonate with all of it because, and I'm going to recap and kind of summate what he said, is that we're dealing with an epidemic of chemical toxicity exposure. And to the point where they're even finding things like pesticide residue, heavy metal toxicity in the umbilical cord where the baby hasn't even had a choice of what their food is quite yet. And so we're not only being bombarded now, but even before we're even born. We're already in the pre-bombardment stage. And so, there is a, a correlative fact to the direct correlation between all of the chemicals that we are receiving in our bodies, the trauma that we receive, the viral load, just like you said, the parasitic load. There is a basically a categorical formulation that starts to occur that's pushing us into the state of a chronic autoimmune condition, our cells start to shut off. They're overwhelmed with toxicity. They're overwhelmed with the burden of trauma. We can't process all of these things in a sick body with a sick spirit. And so, as you systematically diagnose in a biological blueprint way, meaning you go all the way back in a patient's history, you bring them all the way forward to current day, then you reverse engineer from the beginning to now exactly what they have need of. You constantly flood the body with the things that were missing. And guess what starts to happen? The cell that forgot starts to remember. The body that couldn't heal starts to heal itself again. Why am I so passionate about this? Because I don't wanna lose another family member to a cancer diagnosis, to a death sentence that I have had gone through personally twice in my life where I've sat by their bed and watched them die and they didn't believe in anything I believed in. And so, I have an extreme passion about this that if you find a practitioner, if you're a practitioner listening to this and some of these techniques sound maybe you're not adding in certain things in your office, reach out to us. This is our absolute passion is to turn back on the body the way it was created to heal. And so, I love, Blake, that you go all the way back to when we're babies to the trauma. I have 1,000 stories for you in my own healing journey, but one mini one I'll share with you is when I had a traumatic brain injury when I was 12 years old. It was to the back right side of my head. I was practicing fake kick in the theater class for West Side Story and I wanted to impress a girl in class. And so I pushed myself off the floor in the cafeteria and I landed on a metal podium corner. And when I stood up, I cracked my forehead on the linoleum floor. I just fell straight forward. I almost went into a coma. Rotational brain injury caused all types of bone spurs and abnormalities in my spine off the occiput, C1, C2, and C3. And it actually gave me some severe, basically, post-concussion syndrome. So my brain would shake, I would black out, throw up in school. I started to develop tics on the left side of my body. I wound up getting developed— diagnosed, excuse me, with Tourette syndrome by age 16. And I dropped out of school because I was so debilitated. Well, I will tell you that in my healing journey, I had a functional medicine doctor, I had incredible compounding pharmacist, I had a wonderful funk neuro chiropractor. I had a whole team on my back of the healing journey for me talking about everything you're talking about. This is more than half my life ago. And one thing that blew my mind is when I went into my functional neurology chiropractor, he watched me walk out of my car. And when I walked out of my car, I was leaning to the left side of my body. And I had all this heaviness on my left side. When I sat on his table, he said, what's going on between you and your mother?
Mm-hmm.
Just like that. Not, I need a diagnosis or anything. He's like, what's going on between you and your mom? What he didn't know is that I had a dream about my mom. Anyway, long story short, I did a lot of stuff behind my mom's back and I wanted to talk to her and just basically make resolve with her. And he said, well, your treatment today is to go talk to your mom. So this sounds Wow, this sounds out of scope of like going to get a blood marker and seeing you're vitamin D deficient, put vitamin D back in and you're good. There's deeper layers to healing. Guess what happens when I talk to my mom? We had the most beautiful forgiving healing powerful conversation. 50% of my tics on my left side went away the next day.
Wow.
Because half of what my body held on to was that I didn't feel safe in the presence of my mom where all of my injuries occurred. And so that's just one tiny, probably there's thousands of stories we have from, from members of clients.
And that's the point right there, man, is that if that guy had not done that for you, you could still be in the same mess, worse, because they don't think outside the box a lot of the time. Right. And I think it's a blessing that we have an association where you can be free. You can come in and you can use these modalities. You have access to the things that cure. And I think that's why we've grown. I think we're, you know, we're going to continue to grow because how do you change medicine up against that, right? Up against billions and billions of dollars. And I want to just remind people that you cannot create a billion-dollar cancer drug and not have cancer patients and make your money back. It's wrong. It's a messed up system. It doesn't mean that all drugs are bad, okay? But it means for the last 50 years that the majority of them are made to not make you better. We have SSRIs out, out the wazoo, and we've had more domestic terrorism going on than we've ever had before. Um, we know SSRIs don't work. We've been told now cholesterol is not a bad thing. We're sorry, just sorry nobody went to jail. You mentioned earlier that, you know, the third leading cause is medical malpractice in this country, and it's not just medical malpractice, it's writing the wrong prescriptions, it's overmedicating. It's the insurance racket altogether. So, you know, our goal as an association is to provide clinics and doctors the protection they need and the products they need, the bio— the quality, the bioavailability, not just a bunch of pills, but actual liquid supplements, suppositories, shots, injections, IVs, all modalities offered in the United States. Because it's not, as a Supreme Court ruled, it's not an act of evil. Yeah. And as a member of RPMA and under our protection, you're allowed to talk about why cancer exists. You're allowed to talk about as a chiropractor, why someone's very sick. I have muscle testers that we protect and that are amazing. Some of the best doctors I've ever met in my life. And they can literally touch people and tell you things that you just, just blow you away. I would encourage everyone to, you know, Come to forgottenformula.com, check out our seminar page. Come check us out. We're going to have our annual event is what we do is 50 of our members, our top doctors get together and we just go over stories of the year and hand out awards of cancer cases, autoimmune cases, people that shouldn't be here with us anymore, but are still, still here and not just surviving, but thriving.
That's awesome. Can they find the link to the seminar through your website?
Yes. And, and also guys, anybody can join. Just as a normal member. And then if we want to get into more of the PMA structure, I would encourage you to check out the video before where we jump into more of the PMA and how it protects you guys.
Well, Blake, thank you so much for joining us today. I hope you guys are encouraged as practitioners or clients or whoever is watching this. I'm sure this goes out to anybody and everybody that you have found a bit of hope inside of the words that we're speaking today. It was YouTube shows. And podcasts on website in the early days when I was exploring it at 16 years old that I found a health educator who encouraged me to order reishi mushroom extract and start drinking smoothies and start taking my own health into my own hands. So the power of information is the pathway to the education that will get your client healed. And so this is just the beginning. And so we're glad that you guys are joining us. And we're glad that hopefully you're enjoying this entire summit and we look forward to the next time you join us as well.
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