Hey, welcome to Show and Tell. It's me, John Park. I'm not Lady Aida, and I'm not PT, but they had some past if I could fill in, and here I am. And I am excited to be here because I can't wait to see the stuff you've brought on for Show and Tell. If you're not familiar with Show and Tell, but you somehow found yourself here watching, well, Show and Tell is where we have members of the community as well as members of the Aidaford team come on and show some stuff they're working on. Take a couple of minutes to show off a project that you're working on, something you finished, something that you're just getting started on, maybe a product you're developing, all those sorts of things. And if you are interested in joining and you don't know how it's really easy, just head on over to either the AidaFruit blog. You'll see a post of it, just went up, or head to our Discord. You can get there by going to aidafru.it slash Discord, and you'll get an instant invite. Head over to the live broadcast chat channel, and you'll see a link for this here stream yard.  So let's see, to kick things off, we're going to bring on our very own Liz to see what is new. Hey, Liz. Hey, how's it going? Good, thanks. I did a project with wireless LEDs. They're wireless LED maracas. That's great. Got two of them, trying this one on. So at first, I had 3D printed an enclosure with translucent filament, but then PT brought up that he thought it'd be good to have one with clear plastic, so you could really see. And even though this is more traditional crafty in this one, having some struggles could have had a lot of action the past day or two. I like these a lot better than the 3D printed one, because you can't see it. And then the handle is just a toilet paper tube that I wrapped in washi tape, and that's how the translucent bobble is just like a Christmas bobble for crafts is on there. And in case people are looking for really good washi tape, the Scotch stuff I can confirm holds up better than the craft store ones. Oh, nice. So these are wireless LEDs. Yes. Tell us how you're powering them. Yeah, so I just got a AAA battery packs with three AAA batteries, and then I just soldered a JST socket connector to the end of the coil, which you can see is kind of standing up right there. And then it just slides conveniently very nicely into the cardboard tube, and then you're in business. Until you said something, I did not notice the coil was actually in the interior of the sphere, that that's perfect fit, really nice. Yeah, and I think this is, I mean, I think we've all seen the like putting into props, to like models and stuff like that, but I think, you know, standing up right in enclosure, I hope folks can maybe get inspired to use it for props and things like that. Really cool. And then also I did put the little LEDs in clear heat shrink so that they can get knocked around without dying, basically, because it is just a circle of LED on the top. So it could. That's a great idea. Yeah, so you've ruggedized them a little bit since you're whacking them all around. This makes me think it might be interesting to do something like fill something with mineral oil and have like. Yes. Yeah, I, I brought that up with PT and the more that at the holidays, maybe we could do like a snow globe thing and make them fly around with a fan or something. Love it. Really cool. Hey, that's a lot of fun. And it reminds me of Samba de Amigo on Gamecube. Did you ever play the hockey game? Yes, I remember that. Awesome. Well, thanks for bringing that on. Is there a guide in the works already out? Yeah, a guide went live today, so folks can see how to make it. And I have, I do have the 3D files if you want those, but also go through how to take your own more DIY style. Yeah. And that's a DIY Christmas ornament. Yeah, the two halves and then cardboard tube and washi tape. That's really terrific. Super fun. I love it. And I'm sure that'll inspire a lot of interesting ideas. Thanks so much for bringing that on, Liz. No problem. Have a good one. Bye. All right. And next up, we've got Noe. Hey, Noe. Hey, what's up, JP? Not too much. Tell me what you're bringing on. Yeah. So let me share my screen real quick. Okay. Overhead time. All right. So I'm wearing these Apple AirPod Max headphones. And this week, PT had the idea that it'd be fun to make some accessories for it. So we have lots of accessories this week. Headbands and ear covers. So these headphones have these kind of cool mesh knitted mesh canopy. And that makes it really easy so you can install 3D printed accessories like these Lego compatible headbands. So you can just add them to the canopy like that. And it kind of protects it. But the cool thing is that you can now kind of customize your own headbands. Yeah. So you have some Lego compatible stuff for that. These are printed in Ninja Flex Cheetah. So it's nice and flexible. But unlike regular Cheetah, you can print it faster and it tends to have better quality prints, too. So this is some really good stuff. It's not as elastic as regular Ninja Flex, but it's got that flexibility to it. Yeah. We got an infant one. We got Blinka. And of course, we have some monster horns, some cat ears. And of course, my favorite, the unicorn horn, because we always like unicorn horns. So we made a guide where we have some guidelines on how to design these sort of headbands and also how to print these sort of parts. And then for the hard PLA stuff, we did these kind of ear covers. So they print without any supports. And then you print, you can print an additional Lego compatible plate and then glue those two together. So we got some cutouts here for the various features on the headphone. And they just press it on like that. And they're just going to stay in there. And they're nice and chunky, right? So you can have all sorts of stuff on the sides or whatever. And for Lego stuff, I've been really interested in the Lego dots kits.  They have these beautiful colors in different shapes. So it's like its own design language. So you can like make different combinations of different shapes. So this kind of has like these kind of fruits. You can make circles, semi circles. And they also have little prints on them as well. So you can have kind of like lettering there. So you can do kind of some quick messages. Yeah, so definitely check this out if you're looking for a different thing to do with Lego, because I'm kind of running out of real estate. So having them on the side of my ears would be really fun too. So you can print them in all sorts of different colors. And then we have some guidelines on how to design your own infusion 360 or any other kind of package. And for people who missed it, these specific headphones are from Apple? Yeah, these are the Apple AirPod Max headphones. I think they only have one model of them. So this is whatever model. One model, one size. So it's easy to make one standard for your accessories, right? Yeah, I think it's, yeah, I think it's like one size fits all. They got this nice kind of doable thing going on here, which is really nice. Cool. Yeah, it's it's fun. So if you are looking for a project with NinjaFlex or Lego stuff, check this out. We have all the files and and some guidelines that they will send. Terrific. Well, thanks for bringing those on. They look beautiful. I love it. And now I'm really interested in checking out that Lego dot system because yeah, they're definitely cool. Look for them on Walmart. I've seen them. They're on clearance sometimes. Get them on clearance, some people. Excellent. Thanks, Noah. All right. And next up we have Bill B paint your dragon. Hey, great. Boy, I was so excited for that headphone project. I saw it coming, you know, because we kind of worked together. You know, I was looking forward to designing something. So I grabbed the files yesterday. And just just by luck, like last week, there was a sale on the headphones and I had to go get it. They're pretty amazing. But I was thinking about music and like how you kind of like if you could show everyone what you're listening to.  Is there some music icon that only work in three dimensions? Yeah. These are amazing. Actually, I got I got to take these off because the noise cancellation is so weird. I put these on. Oh, funny. Oh, those are so great. So this was this was a pretty hasty first try. I'll come up with something more refined. That's right. I just I like this idea. It's like this is something that it can't be a sticker has has to be in three dimensions. Yeah. And now everybody knows what you're listening to. Yeah, it's got to be some divo. And for people who aren't familiar, these are these have some specific name, right? They're not just the energy dome. Yes, the energy domes. Yeah, they wear them as as hats when they're performing. And I'm so persnickety. There's like, it's not just a four layer cake with straight edges. There's there's a certain draft angle. Yeah, I can't do this on camera. Yeah. But I was very careful to get the proportions. Yeah, to match this. So I'll refine the model a bit and I'll put it up on, I don't know, Thingiverse or something at some point. But that's great. Oh, I had another idea. I haven't done this yet because I'm crappy at 3D modeling.  Mm hmm. Like, you know, film and orchestral music was to do Princess Leia Buns. Oh my gosh, yes. Thematic only works in 3D design. Oh, that's a good one. If people have comments in the chat, I'd love to know what other very specifically one band or even one song oriented 3D objects that could be printed. Yeah, not a sticker design. Yeah, has to be dimensional. All right, I'll think on that. Those are great. Love them.  I have not. No, I just finished printing them 30 minutes ago. Oh, I love it. Those were really great. Nicely done. Thanks for bringing those on. Yep. Bye-bye. All right. And that was just terrific. I love that. I want to get some of those headphones just for that. But next up we have America's favorite bot, Todd Bot. Hey. Yeah, that Philby's things are making me want to actually get those AirPod Max's now. Oh, man. So I want to show off. I've been playing around with displays in Circuit Python again. And here's one of these little cheapy iSquared C displays that you've probably seen on Amazon or whatever. And it's hooked up directly to a QT pie. Like it's just soldered straight down. And if you know QT pies, you look at them and you go, wait a minute. The power pins of the display will line up, but the iSquared C lines up with the SPI. So how are you doing this? It turns out that on a lot of the modern processors that Circuit Python supports, like the ESP32 series and the Nrf52840 Bluetooth chip, and to a lesser extent the RP2040, you can sort of just pick any pins you want to be the functions for things like iSquared C and SPI. And that's amazing. There's no hardware reason that the thing that's listed on the self screen has to be the thing that's listed on the self screen. Exactly.  And those are the, you've got the six PWM pins that can do analog, right? And that's, those are the only ones you could do. But like on these modern chips, it's sort of like, they're just a little config, it says which pin does what function. Yeah, these are suggestions now, huh? Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. And so you can do things like this, which is, you know, just kind of hook it up. So that's one thing. The other thing I've been working on is that, did you know that you can have multiple displays in Circuit Python? What? And it's like, and it's like, so one way is this, which is you just hook up two displays in parallel. And it turns out that works. But you see the problem here is that each display is displaying the same thing. Yeah. But if that's a use case for you, if that works, then, you know, like maybe you're making a two sided thing, you could have two displays, and it would just work. This is SPI, these are these little cool round displays. But then I was playing around because there is an example of a Circuit Python device that has two displays, it's the Monster Mask. And that did have a sort of a special sort of cut out for just doing two displays. But a while back, they sort of generalized it. So it's basically just a variable in the compile for the config for the board when you're compiling Circuit Python. And so you can just change that value and recompile your own Circuit Python. Yeah.  That's great. So now you have two separate, you're not just sending the same data to. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. If you notice, each eye is sort of like aimlessly wandering in different directions. It looks great. And you can choose all the different options. You can have like this is these are SPI displays, you can have like one SPI display and multiple, sorry, one SPI bus and multiple displays, which is what is going on here. We can have, you know, using that trick I just showed you, you can have multiple SPI buses and multiple displays to get like the maximum bandwidth per display. Right. And so you can do that on like, say, the RP2040. But yeah, it's a pretty cool effect. And this is on a QTPI. It's on the QTPI ESP32S3, I think, which means this could be Wi-Fi enabled. Yeah. But yeah, so that's the three things. I was going to show off. Great display stuff. Yeah, very cool. And so you said, what's the current limit you're finding with the number of displays you can throw on? It looks, I mean, there doesn't appear to be a hard limit in the code from what I can tell. I've gotten three displays to work great. I was wanting to get four displays to work, because I was going to wire up four of these little cheap displays to make like a little clock with like one display per digit. But for some reason, it was crashing on the fourth display, which is kind of a bummer. But the cool thing is, is that when you control C this to get the REPL, the REPL shows up on both displays. That's great. And this might be the reason why it kind of has a problem with multiple displays, like beyond three displays. Wow, that's pretty cool. Yeah, I really love that. I love these little round displays too. There's just something really nice about this. Yeah, so I want to do something with this. I don't know what yet, but, you know, it's a big enemy to project. If people want to look at any code examples or info about compiling for this use case, is that info that you've put up somewhere you're finding in some of the docs on CircuitPython? Yeah, I've got this up in gists and tweets and stuff. Because the compilation is a little bit weird, it's not like hard, but just like there's some details you need to know. Phil B has actually a pretty good guide on how to do it all. But for myself, I'm going to make a blog post that's like, here's the steps you need to do to go from setting up your checkout of CircuitPython to getting a UF2 file you can dump onto a computer and onto a microcontroller. So yeah, that'll be up in a couple of days. But yeah, display CircuitPython, it's so easy. Really cool. Thank you and creepy. Yes, thank you. Bye. All right, next up we've got Paul Cutler joining us. Hello. Welcome. Since we're on the topic of music, I've got a music project I've been working on. Let me share my screen for a second. So I have a website that I built in Python and it integrates with discogs.com, which is a catalog of music and I put my collection in there. And I can come to my website and hit random and it'll show me an album to play at random. But then... Well, do you have a screen share that you've added? Oh, I tried. Did it not? Sometimes you'll see a chrome pop-up that says it wants permissions and restarts and things. Oh, no, it worked. There is... Okay, so here's my website. And you can see the Queen album, I assume. Yes. Okay, so it chose Queen Sheer Heart Attack at random for me. And let me share my camera, if I can figure out how to change cameras. But I have a pie portal and that exact album is displayed on the pie portal. So my website sends a message via MQTT and it pulls the image down, changes it to a bitmap, and then it shows in my pie portal. But I can't figure out how to change my camera right now. But that's the basic project. Terrific. Can you pop it up just in front of this webcam when we see it? I should have thought of that. There we are. Yeah. It's hard with the light. Yes, it always is. So the player you're using that's spawning all of the info about what's being... How are you triggering the sort of... Here's what I'm listening to so the rest of the process knows what to play? Yeah, so I built a website in Python with FastAPI. And when it does the get request, when I hit the random button, it also triggers an MQTT message that the pie portal is monitoring for. And as soon as it gets that message, the website already has converted the image to a bitmap on my web server. So the pie portal just downloads it right to the web server and then displays it. So that's kind of fun. That's terrific. And I always ask this question, but if people want to learn more, do you have that up on a website that you can maybe share on the Discord or just say it out loud? Absolutely. It's in my GitHub. I'll put the link in the Discord. Super. Great. Thank you so much. Very cool project, Paul. Talk to you soon. Bye-bye. All right. And let's see, it looks like we may have one more person joining us. John, let's see if you're still here. Yeah, there you go. John. Hey, can you hear me? I can hear you great. Thanks. What's new? Not much. This is my first time calling in. So, thanks for joining us. Yeah, very great to meet you. My project isn't very exciting to see. But so for a while, I've been trying to figure out how to do some off-site backups without having to upload my data to Amazon or Google or whatever. I don't want to do that. But one solution I came up with is I've made this kind of keychain holder. And I'm not very good with my camera. But you can see here that I've got a USB port here. When I go and hang up my keys, plug it in. I'm going to plug it in there. And so when I hang it up at night, I plug it in and back up stuff overnight. And then when I take it in the morning, I plug it and take it with me. Oh, that's great. On my keys, right? Yeah. So you have a network in your house that's sending data you want to back up to your keychain holder and it's backing it up onto that thumb drive. That's the direction things are going. Yeah, yeah. That's great. That's where it finishes up. It's based off an Omega 2. That's my Wi-Fi chip I'm using. Not as exciting as the Raspberry Pi that everybody loves. But I chose it because I wanted to be able to put the USB port on the front here, right, instead of like off into the side. But yeah.  I actually used as an open look box. I can't remember what it's called. But it creates an encrypted container on there. Oh, okay. So you're back up. You can lose that drive safely. You'll just get another one. Yep. It gets lost. They try and figure out what's on it and you're out of USB drive. They don't have all your data. So that's really cool. I love that. I love the keychain idea. It seems like it's the most likely way to actually make it happen every night instead of like having to remember to go to the office and plug a thing in. So really smart, really cool. Super useful. If people want to learn more, have you posted any other details out there on the Internet? Yeah, yeah. So I've got a GitHub page that walks through setting it up. It's got all the board files, my sweet 3D printed case. Great. All the software I'm using to do it. So yeah. And your username that's displayed there, is that the GitHub that they can look for, think, learn, do one? That's my Twitter handle. But it is think, learn, do on GitHub. I'll paste the link to it in the chat. Great. Really clever project. I love it. Thanks for sharing that, John. And nice to meet you. Nice to meet you too. Thanks for letting me talk about it. Sure thing. Bye-bye. See ya. All right. Well, that is going to do it for our show Intel for the night. Thanks, everyone, for bringing on your very cool projects. Great to see those. Tonight there will not be an Ask an Engineer. That is actually going to happen tomorrow night. So a little shift in plans there. And then it'll be back to normal next week. I do have my workshop show tomorrow in the afternoon. So come on by for that. It's four o'clock Eastern time. Ask an engineer should be at eight o'clock Eastern time unless something has changed. But check our Discord for info on that or our blog. And that's going to do it. So thank you, everyone, for stopping by. Freighter for Industries. This has been show and tell with all of you and me, John Park. See you next time. Bye-bye.


the narcissist greatly fears that you might realise this. When the narcissist is in the proximity of a person who has a positive attitude and is full of energy and new ideas, a person who is strong, powerful, a person who has the ability or capacity to do something or act in an honest, genuine yet confident and driven way, a person who has the ability or capacity to direct or influence the behaviour of others or the course of events. When the narcissist is in the proximity of a person like this, there is one main thing that they must do. They are attracted to you because of these qualities, abilities and talents. They admire that about you. They approve of it. They want to be around a person like that. They like your qualities, abilities and talents. It is impressive, attractive. That's what draws them to you. That is the reason why they chose you, but they didn't choose you to appreciate your qualities, abilities and talents or to respect them. It was all about what you are going to do for them. What are they going to get from you or how you are going to make them look good? They believe and hope that maybe your qualities might rub off on them or maybe they can mimic your abilities and talents or steal your ideas. It has nothing to do with appreciation or respect regarding what you're about or what you have to offer. It's all about you giving or surrendering everything that you have worked so hard to build over to them. Everything that you have worked so hard to establish your inner power and strength. They want and expect you to hand it over to them. This has a strong influence and effect on them. It is very beneficial for them, a potent source of supply. They begin by preparing or training you for this particular purpose. They get you to hand this over to them through deception, lies and manipulation. They trick you into believing that you are beneath them and that you are deserving of ill treatment or abuse. The abuse strips away your inner power and strength. They do this to capture you and keep you confined, trapped in a situation that you had no desire to be in until you become like a slave or a pet to the narcissist. You are made to feel as though you are their property and you are forced to obey them. You are under their control, forced to work excessively hard to meet their demands, forced to comply with their commands whatever they direct or instruct as though they have some type of authority over you and now have the ability to use or control you. You become excessively dependent or controlled by them. When the narcissist is in the proximity of a powerful, strong and dynamic person, this is what they have to do. They have to immediately become resistant or oppositional to everything that you're about. They refuse to accept or comply with anything that you're about. They act as though they don't see it or it doesn't mean anything to them. They have no interest in it or it has no effect on them. This is designed to prevent any success or development and it is very harmful and unfavorable to you. The narcissist is not being real or genuine when they act resistant or oppositional. They have a deep level of admiration and approval for everything that you're about. That's why they chose you. That's what made you stand out. That's what attracted them to you but they cannot acknowledge it or give it any consideration. They have to be resistant or oppositional.  They will refuse to accept or comply with your abilities, qualities and talents to prevent any success or development or they will compare you to other people or other situations to make you feel invalidated or not worthy. It is very important for them to become resistant or oppositional to everything that makes you a strong and powerful person. It is important for them to do this, to break you down, to demolish everything that you have established, everything that you have built, everything that you're about. They become opposite to whatever you are naturally confident in. They become perversely inclined to disagree or to do the opposite of what is expected or desired. They have to do this to create doubt or uncertainty within you. This is done so that they can then hold the ability to control you. It makes you feel insecure. It makes you feel uncertain or anxious about yourself and these experiences with the narcissist could cause emotional distress for you in the future as a result of arousing feelings or memories associated with these particular experiences. It's like they instinctively know how to affect you and provoke emotional distress within you. No one is completely secure or completely emotionally healthy. We all have certain insecurities or emotional triggers but the narcissist targets the things that you are confident in, things that you naturally feel strongly about. The things that you feel confident and strongly about is where they have to strike first because that is going to be the greatest opposition to them having the ability to control you. A confident person knows who they are, knows what they're doing, knows what they're about and what they're confident in and that is a very difficult target for the narcissist to break down. So they have to create false beliefs and opinions, treat you with a lack of appreciation or respect, especially the things that are the most easily perceived or understood, self-evident or apparent. They have to create false beliefs and opinions about those things and make you feel doubtful or uncertain about it. They have to become oppositional to anything that you are naturally confident in, even if it's something as simple as your favorite TV show or your favorite color. They always have to like something that is opposite to you. Deep down they may not even care about it. It's just about being oppositional to you. Going against whatever you're about, whatever you like, they can never agree with you on anything because they're trying to create doubt or uncertainty within you, but whatever you have no desire or interest in, that is what they will acknowledge and treat in a way that is apparently kind or helpful. Over time this creates a person who is not operating normally or properly and is unable to deal with normal social relations, a person who lacks confidence in the very things that they work so hard to build and establish to be who they are today. If they don't like all of these things about you, why did they choose you? Why did they have such a desire to be around you? Why did they have such an interest in what you were about? They are trying to brainwash you. They are trying to pressurize you into adopting radically different beliefs by using systematic and often forceful means. They are trying to control, influence, make full use of and derive benefit from you in a secret or dishonest way that would be considered unfair or underhanded. This is so that they contain you, making you less powerful and easier to control so that they can keep you as a source of supply. They want to keep you locked in a situation or environment where you are still able to supply them with your qualities, abilities and talents and the attention, admiration and respect that they require while making you doubtful and uncertain of your ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions. They don't like it when you display your ability to acquire and applying knowledge and skills.  When you're displaying this to them, it has a strong emotional effect on them because they lack the power to perform. They lack the strength and the positive energy. The more powerful you are, the more knowledge and skills, energy and new ideas you have, it intimidates them and impresses them so much that they are unable to act in a relaxed and natural way. They are unable to act in a relaxed and natural way because their mental process or mental function is designed in a way to protect them. If they were to acknowledge the truth and the reality of how overwhelmingly impressed they are by what you are displaying to them, they would feel inadequate or insignificant in comparison. It would cause them a great deal of psychological harm or emotional distress so they remain in a state where they are unable to express their true emotions due to the harmful or dangerous effects that it may otherwise have on them. When they have to acknowledge how powerful and dynamic of a person you are, it gives them an inferiority complex where they feel as though they are lower in status or lower in quality than you are. To protect themselves against these feelings of being inferior and what acts as a coping or defense mechanism is where their mental process or mental function disables these feelings, putting them in an unemotional, dispassionate state and under control.  If they were to do that, you would soon realise that they don't have anything to offer. They are lack of the power to perform and you would soon realise that you are giving your power away to them. That's why whenever you meet people like this, they immediately have to make you or what you're doing seem less important or less valuable than it actually is because they experience feelings of discontentment and resentment aroused by your qualities, abilities and talents. They desire to have what belongs to you so they immediately experience intense envy, jealousy and hatred towards you. They like and respect power but they don't like the thought or the idea of the power that you possess. They don't like the thought or the idea of the power that you possess to have an influence or an effect on them because that would immediately suggest and reveal that you are superior to them. They have to interrupt your natural continuity, sequence or course and crush your emotional strength and spirit, destroy your power and effectiveness, making you less powerful and easier to control and keep you in that state when you are unable to function, accomplish or fulfill an action or task. They cannot allow you to exist in that powerful nature and with the inherent features, character or qualities that you naturally possess. They don't want you to exist in that powerful nature of everything that you worked so hard to get to because you would naturally be superior to them. They want to be superior to you. That is the only way that they can keep you as a source of supply. They don't want you to display power and strength. They don't want you to have the ability to make consider decisions or come to sensible conclusions because you would naturally surpass them. You would naturally have authority over them. Anyone who has the power to give orders, make decisions or enforce compliance where they request is a threat to them. They are likely to cause damage or danger to what the narcissist is trying to accomplish. In most cases, when the narcissist finally decides to leave, it is because they have realized that you have realized your power and superiority over them. They try to strip you of your power and strength as something for them to use or exploit you for. When they finally decide to leave, it's because you have realized that they don't have any power. You have realized that they have tricked, controlled and influenced you in a way where you felt less than who you really are. They use brainwashing, coercive persuasion and thought control to make you conform to their wishes and demands, to make you feel as though you are inadequate, to make you feel as though you cannot deal with a situation with life. They cannot acknowledge or express their warm approval, admiration, respect, appreciation and compliments of who you really are because then they would be allowing you to have the opportunity to have power and authority over them. That wouldn't favor or benefit them in any way because they don't have anything to offer and they are lacking the power to perform. You would have no desire to keep them around once you've realized that they don't have anything to offer and they're not about anything. They have to interrupt your natural continuity, sequence or course and crush your emotional strength and spirit, destroy your power and effectiveness, making you less powerful and easier to control and keep you in that state where you are unable to function, accomplish or fulfill an action or task. Making you believe that you are equal to them. You are not equal to them. You are superior to them and they are fully aware of this. That's why they have to be against you.  They greatly fear that you might realize your power and superiority over them. Thank you for watching. I hope this video resonated with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. Click the bell icon to receive notifications for my future videos. If you would like to donate, my PayPal link is in the video description. Coaching queries you can email me at narksfiverrcoaching at gmail.com. Check out the new merchandise in the Narks Fiverr store where you can purchase your own Narks Fiverr t-shirt, tank top or mug. 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I am very honored to introduce our next speaker, though, who is going to talk to us about a lot of the nature of open collaboration and open governance. How many people in here know William Hurley, a.k.a. Whirly? It's been around open source for a while. I just saw somebody tweet out a picture of Whirly at a Linux con circa, I want to say 2002 with a long board going up an escalator. Whirly has gone on to big things. He created, he's an author and innovator. He started a company called Honest Dollar, which was purchased by Goldman Sachs last year. I think just for the name. Sorry, I couldn't resist. But he's really been working with open source and creating innovative technologies his entire career. And, you know, his position now at Goldman, I think gives him a unique window into critical systems that affect all of our lives, and I'm excited to hear from him. Please welcome Whirly. There you are. Look at all over for us. All right, thank you. So, yeah, so all of that was true. And Mark Hinkel's the one who put the picture out. And I appreciate that. Where's Mark? Thank you for doing that, Mark. I appreciate that. That was a trip down memory lane. I really didn't need, but it's okay. So, I am in between two state-of-the-union type talks, and this is nothing like that. Essentially, I'm also gonna try to get this back on schedule. So this next 15, 20 minutes is probably the least valuable investment of your time so far. But that's just because if I help set the expectations lower than the rest of the conference, right, it's gonna be amazing. So, I wanna talk to you about how the impossibilities open source are endless. A few years ago, I spoke at another open source event, and everybody was talking about how we did it. Like, all software developers pretty much use open source, and all these mass systems are built on open technologies, and I don't know that we're quite there yet. But before I do that, I wanted to talk to you about something else. I wanted to talk to you about the law of unintended consequences. Because I think that's really valuable at where we're at in the development of technology and the lifecycle of open source right now. To do that, I wanna frame up a story from another organization. So I'm a member of the IEEE, and I go and I do a bunch of stuff with them, and one day, they call me, and they said, Whirly, we need to make some money. Cause they're an organization too, right, a non-profit, and I said, I said, lots of money? And they said, oh yeah, lots of money. And I said, how are you gonna do it? And they said, don't worry, we have a brilliant idea. See, we've got this guy, Tim Decker, he's this artist, but he's not just any artist, he's a speed painter, and we think he can help us make this money really fast. And I said, what are you gonna do? They said, well, we're gonna have him do three portraits, and we're gonna have him do Einstein, the Statue of Liberty, and Steve Jobs. And I thought, well, those all go together perfectly. So I said, okay, that sounds great. And they said, how are you gonna do it? And they said, well, we're gonna auction it off, but we're not just gonna do any auction, we're gonna auction it off, we're gonna make all that money on the internet. And I said, well, that's pretty good. And they said, well, you know, since we're using the internet, we like you to get to tweet these things out. And I was like, why? And I said, well, you have as many followers as Vanilla Ice. I thought, well, that's interesting comparison. And they said, but if you tweet it out, you make a lot of money. And I said, well, there's only one question I have. You know, my concern here is that it might break the entire internet. And they didn't believe that. I said, but I do wanna see you make all of this money, so I've got this. I said, here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna take my wallet out and I'm gonna give you $500 for each of these paintings in this auction. And then I'm gonna tweet them out so we know what happens there. And then the next thing I'm gonna do is just let you wait for the money to come in because it's just gonna roll in according to your plan. And I can get back to my more important plans been working on for quite a while now. And so we did this Einstein painting sold. It did great.  And Statue of Liberty, it also sold. But a really interesting thing happened when we got to the Steve Jobs portrait. And that's where the law of unintended consequences come in. You all know this. I don't have to preach this to you, but there's basically three types of these consequences. There's an unexpected benefit. So some positive outcome that comes out of this. And of course, there's the unexpected drawback and the perverse result. And so what happened with this is Steve Jobs painting had one person that bid on it. It was me for $500. And nobody else bid on this painting at all. So a few weeks later, this giant box shows up in the office and everybody's trying to figure out what it is. And I mean, this thing is huge. And I was like, I don't know what it is. I got back from traveling. I opened up the box and lo and behold, I'm now the proud owner of a giant portrait of Steve Jobs head signed on the back by Tim Decker, which is amazing. And it's really menacing. Look at that face. I mean, it's not like so. So I thought, well, this is clearly an unintended consequence. I was just trying to help these guys out.  There's unintended drawback, which is for some reason, people are fascinated by this, right?  And there's not, unfortunately. So I've disappointed hundreds of people. And then there's unexpected benefit. It's inspirational, just not the way you think it would be. And that's because when I'm sitting there working really hard and I get to an idea, I turn around, because I always turn away from my computer when I'm thinking, I see this giant picture of Steve Jobs looking down some menacingly and think, you know what, F you Steve, and I turn around and I make it happen. So it works. But when I was first in open source back in the day of the long boards and less facial hair and less gray hair and less a lot of things, actually more hair, one positive there, I kept hearing all these companies I've gone and talked to at the time. This is way back in the early days. Companies were afraid to open source. They're giving away the company jewels, so to speak. They're doing all of these things that are, they're worried about the unintended consequence. What if we do this thing we think is doing a good thing, but it damages our company, our share price or whatever the case may be. And I'd actually like to get everybody here to think about something else. I'd like to get you to think about the unintended consequences of not doing anything, right? It's kind of that old Rush song because none of you listen to Rush, right? Nobody in this room. It's a band from Canada. They've been around for a little while. But you know, if you choose the Eclipse Foundation for the win. Excellent reference. But you're Canadian, so it doesn't count. Unfortunately, sorry. We needed someone from like Kentucky to say that. And they'd be like, whoa. So the thing is, what's the unintended consequences of doing nothing? What's the unintended consequences of like, hey, we're all gonna keep doing these projects. It's great. But where can this open collaboration, where can this open source kind of philosophy take us? And so the first area that I'd like to encourage you to think about is quantum computing. And that's what this is if you've never been inside one. And basically, right down here is a little tiny set of atoms. And the rest of that's pretty much cooling. And it's in a big empty box. If you hit the box like that, probably takes them three months to reset that thing. But quantum computing is gonna cause for an incredible shift in everything. In security, encryption, in the development of pharmaceuticals, in millions and millions of things that we do. And I think this is gonna be one of the biggest things that happens and people have talked about it forever. And yes, there are like four quantum computers in the entire world. So we don't have to worry about like crazy AI or robots yet, but this is vital. And I think this should be democratized. I think everybody should have an equal playing field in this quantum space. I think it's incredibly important that we build emulators and things so that people can develop the hardware and build an open source operating system and build an open source programming language on top of that or incorporate other programming languages that already are open source. So that's one area I'd really like to point out to you. The next area is biohacking. How many of you guys do any biohacking? None of you? I completely do not believe that, because okay, that, right, yeah, obviously. There's more than one, because some of you were talking to me at the bar last night all about going to the biohacking conference in Austin.  But biohacking is huge and pharmaceuticals and all the different things that go with it. People right now, a lot of software engineers are micro dosing, right? None of you, though, right? You guys know what micro dosing is? There's a micro dosing is set of 100 milligrams of LSD. It's like 10 milligrams of LSD and you get in a flow state. And somebody said, you should try that.  I'm also from Austin. Nobody's really dropping a lot of LSD in Austin. They're doing things, but it's not that. But all of this technology around biomechanics, bioinformatics, biosystems, a lot of it is very proprietary. Even in the biohacking community, it seems like a very heavy software developer type community, lots of very creative innovators, thinkers. There's a lot of protection around ideas. There's a lot of protection around things. This is very dangerous. I think this would be a great thing to take some open innovation, some open collaboration to. I would like to know that in that time that I think, maybe I should try something like the micro dosing or the implant or the whatever, that there's a bunch of people who have done it who are willing to share that experience with me and the outcomes and there's data on it and things because we're not talking about messing with the computer in this area. We're talking about messing with your body. And while I have nine lives, you guys all only have one. So you want to be very careful. This is a super fascinating area to me. The third area is architecture. I travel all around the world and we live in such a great place for all of the politics and everything aside. We have a lot of things other people don't have, especially in the area of architecture. We don't have really great architecture, but there's a lot of people. There's a company in Austin that makes housing reactive. If you guys have heard of them, it's reactive housing and they make housing for disaster relief. So disaster hits that can pop up these things that are way better than tents and families can live in and it's super cool. And there's things like that going all around the world and I'd love to see these projects get together. I'd love to see these projects come and kind of open source some of those ideas, kind of open source these things, go through and figure out, well, okay, we solved this housing issue in an emergency in a very specific way and we're willing to share that out with a bunch of other people, but right now that's again another very proprietary area of industry because it involves government contracts so there's a lot of money in responding to these disasters. But it's not just that, architectures for everything, for aqueducts, for clean water, all of these things would be very, very useful if they were more open. And that leads me to the next thing, which is education. Now there's tons of examples. I'm not saying that in any of these areas there's nothing going on open source-wise, that there's nobody doing it. They're saying that it's in its infancy at best. And MIT has put out classes, Stanford has put out classes and things going on, but I'm not talking about college level education. I'm talking about elementary education, middle school, primary school. This is a huge opportunity to go out and not just open source, the tools and the things, but open source, the actual information. I think that's really valuable and I'll tell you where I think it comes into play. It comes into play in homeschooling, right? Because more and more people are upset in the states with the public school system so they're doing charter schools and they're doing homeschools. Both of those things could greatly benefit from a much larger reservoir of open sourced educational materials, curriculums, tools, things of that nature. I think that's super important. And so for the last thing, this is funny, it's ironic, Bruce and I did not talk, but he kind of mentioned this, I think that we need to bring a lot more open source to politics. Not because of the red versus blue arguments you hear and all of these things, but because of what Bruce said. We are at a moment in time where we can do anything. I mean, I remember when I was hardware hacking back in the day, I would wait and we would make something and we would send it to some company that would mess it up and we'd get it back and then we send it to China and somebody would make it and it'd come back. And kids these days can go on to Sparkfun or wherever else and order up whatever they want and there's open source hardware projects and open source software projects and they can build all these things. And as that happens and as the internet of things happens and all of these other things, things like security become very concerning. When that happens, I believe that governments are primarily reactive that they don't respond. The difference between reaction and response being very, very simple to illustrate. One is a voluntary action and the other is not, right? When you react to something no matter what you think, that's an involuntary reflex action and I'd rather see governments and lawmakers respond to these things whether it be quantum computing or open source education or any of these things and Bruce brought up security I think that's an incredibly valuable point. We're at a time where technology has already been outpacing greatly anything that the government can try to keep up with or imagine and that means there's more and more reactions and it's gonna get worse and when quantum computing comes along it's gonna get even worse. By the way, side note, you know what all those quantum computers in the world are doing? They're trying to factor two large prime numbers. I had no idea why but I have a sneaky suspicion Bruce is not happy about that. So open sourcing government, what does that mean? Well, we've got open secrets and people putting information but I mean actually public-private partnerships where you actually have a foundation that is doing work just like Linux Foundation does with all of these member companies past 1,000 this year which is an incredible milestone Jim, congratulations. But all of the just like that relationship that a foundation, a group of open source advocates that work within the government and how many of you volunteer for any government stuff or participate in any congressional committees?  They're like forehands and that's a problem because everybody in here, how many of you have complaints about something doing with politics or the government? More than four of you? Okay, well there's a problem there, right? I mean, there's a huge difference in people who are taking action after the fact, people who are just bitching about things that have happened and people who are going to get involved early. You know, what would be great in combining the education and the government thing? An open source civics class. How many of you took civics in school, right? They don't do that anymore. So people are like, electoral college, what?  If you understand the system and you participate in the system, then you can change the system. So that's what I'll leave you with. Thank you very much. I hope you guys have an amazing time this week at the conference. Jim, I'll hand it back over to you.


So we're going to talk about another, fixing another part of the environment. We've talked about the payer environment. We're going to be talking a little bit now about environmental medicine. Keep your tweets coming in. We've had a couple on hashtag Functional Forum. We're going to have a panel here in a minute. So I'm going to get everyone's tweets from people who are watching at home, and we'll deliver it to the panel. So the next speaker is another bolder native. I think you're going to see that she got a little bit mad too, right? She got a little bit mad when she realized that health care, the way that she had learned to practice it, was not helping out with the things that her patients were dealing with. So please give a warm, bolder welcome to Dr. Jill Carnahan. August 6th, I was hiking just down the road at Sanita's, my favorite weekend event. And I was walking up the left side. They call it the goat trail. And I started getting short of breath. I don't know if any of you remember August 6th, but if you remember this headline, we had the worst air quality in the entire world. I moved to Denver. One of the reasons I moved here was I loved to ski. And the second reason was I loved the crisp, low humidity air and the great air quality. And I don't know if any of you were outside the day. I obviously did not look at the weather forecast, and I did not take that into account, because by the time I was halfway up, normally I could do that whole loop in about 90 minutes, I had to turn around because I was so short of breath. And you saw the picture before, I was, fortunately, I loved to bio-hacking in my fridge. I had nebulized glutathione in NAC, so I went home and pulled out my nebulizer for the first time ever. And what's funny about that picture before is it's actually upside down, because I didn't know how to use it. So it wasn't puffy. And it was like, there's no smoke coming out. I'm like, what is wrong with this thing? And I did it for over an hour, and the juice was still in there. And it took me, you know, calling a friend to realize that I had to turn it the other way to get the nebulized treatment, so so much for really knowing how to do a nebulizer. But I learned, and this headline then came out the next day, and they said that day, being outside for an hour, was the equivalent of smoking two cigarettes. So air quality, big issue. What is in welfare? Smoke, I actually wrote an article about this recently because what's happening is our patients' labs, I'm seeing TGF beta, MMP9, all kinds of abnormalities from the wildfire smoke, the kinds of things that I would have used to seeing only from a massive mold exposure. So this is epidemic, and you can see the list there. This stuff is really toxic. If your practitioner is listening live, I'm sure many of you are nodding your heads because you've seen this pandemic, and you've seen how the air quality also affects people's susceptibility to COVID, right? If you look at some of the maps, some of the air quality meters and the rates of COVID, there's definitely correlations to air quality as well. So this is a big deal. Our air quality is suffering. And then massive amounts of flame retardants are being dumped in the environment. Now as a mold expert, this is fascinating to me because if you read this, one of the things that these flame retardants are doing, they're causing these small ponds affecting water quality, and they hinder this dilutional effect, and we're getting algae blooms, which if any of you out there know about mold-related illness, there are other biotoxins besides just mold that can cause the same illness, and one of them is algae blooms. And if you've been watching the news, you've noticed algae blooms are on the rise. Could it be partially related to this massive increase in wildfires and the use of flame retardants? Who knows. And the air quality matters because did you know it's linked not only to brain cancer rates, but Alzheimer's disease and many, many other medical things that we're seeing in epidemic proportions. And that's just the air. Look about our water. And I just grabbed this in two seconds on the internet, but you can find thousands of other headlines just like these about our water quality supply. And you know, I always say, it's interesting. Look at this one. US scientists actually laughed at this. High amounts of toxic rubber glove chemicals in fast food. Well, first of all, we probably shouldn't be consuming fast food, but second of all, if we are, we're getting toxic rubber metabolites in the fast food. So our air supply, our water supply, our food supplies we heard from Robin this morning is massively being affected. And here we are in our offices as functional medicine or integrative medical doctors giving out supplements for changing diets and all of these things. But sometimes we forget the basics. And tonight I want to just give back to the basics because you can be an expert in prescribing NAC and glutathione and sulfoethanes, et cetera, et cetera. And these things are important granted. But like all of our speakers tonight, if we don't get to the root cause, which is back to the basics, clean air, clean water and clean food, we've lost the battle. There's no amount of supplements or great diet that will change an environmental insult that's causing illness in our patients. So that's what I want to take just a few minutes to talk to you about tonight. So just a little background, I love environmental medicine because it really does matter and make a difference in our patients' lives. And I always like to talk about the toxic load because that's really the elephant in the room and it's exponentially increasing because our environment is becoming more and more toxic. We're all now swimming in toxic soup. We're getting it, like we said, as I showed you with the headlines in our air, in our water, and in our food supply. So what contributes to total toxic load? I like to divide it into two categories of endotoxins and exotoxins. The exotoxins are the things that come from the outside. So those are things like chemicals, pesticides, stalates, parabens, glyphosate, which we saw that shocking map this morning that was from five years ago and is only getting worse. Things like mold in the environment, heterocyclic amines, et cetera, et cetera. And then there is the endotoxemia, the endotoxins. These are things that come from inside. And these are just as bad, things like LPS, the bacterial coating on the microbiome components that when it leaks across the membrane in a leaky gut causes massive damage in the immune system. We know LPS endotoxemia is one of the number one causes of cancer, diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and even things like depression, anxiety, and insomnia. It's epidemic, and this all starts in the gut. Acetylaldehyde, it's a similar byproduct of formaldehyde, and it's a byproduct that's made when you have overgrowth of fungal elements in your gut. You know that hungover feeling? That's acetylaldehyde too, because when you drink alcohol, the byproduct of a hangover that causes those symptoms is acetylaldehyde. So did you know there's actually something called, in fact, last time I was in E-town, I talked about auto brewery syndrome. Did anybody remember that? It was a funny story about a guy who kept getting drunk, but he didn't have any alcohol, and the police pulled him over, tested a positive blood alcohol content, and he swore he was not drinking. But when they took him in to observe him in the ER and they had him abstained from alcohol, which he insisted he wasn't drinking, they measured again a blood alcohol content after a meal of beer and pizza. And it was because his own gut was causing fermentation and creating alcohol in his blood, which raised the limit in his bloodstream to above the legal limit. Now what's funny is after I gave that talk and it was live online, some of my patients and fans found it. And would you believe I got calls for DUIs? They said, hey, Dr. Carnahan, can you help me? I thought this was a great excuse. So I just put this slide here, I'm not gonna read these, but as your eyes gloss over the different symptoms, we all have many of these symptoms. And this is so common, the epidemic of all of the mood disorders and gut disturbances and skin issues like acne and even menstrual irregularities or male hormone decrease. All of these are related to our environmental toxicity. And I bet many of you in the room can either relate to these or you know many of your patients that have these common symptoms. So as I'm working on my book and documentary, I recently interviewed my grandmother who's my only living grandparent in that generation. And I found a fascinating story that I wanted to just share briefly with you tonight because this isn't even just our culture today, but it goes back generations for me. And for me it was a big aha because it also reintegrated my desire to deal with environmental toxicity and the importance of it because of how it affected my grandparents. So this is a photo of my grandmother on the right, the older daughter there. Right here is my grandmother. She had a younger sister, a younger brother and a very younger sister here. And this is my great grandparents. They grew up on a farm and my great-grandfather was farming until my grandmother was about 14 when he bought a dealership in town in Washington, Illinois. And his last name was Essex who we call this the Essex Chevrolet Company. He moved his entire family above the auto body shop right here into this apartment on the second floor. So my grandmother at the age of 14 moved in there with her younger siblings. Now you might know where I'm going with this because they lived above an auto body shop with diesel fuel.  She would always have these headaches and migraines and she was super chemically sensitive. She could barely drink water. I'm just shocked, I'm listening to her tell this story. Well the rest of the story is as I went through my family history. My great-grandfather died of liver failure. My great-grandmother died of liver cancer. My grandmother's brother died of metastatic cancer to the liver. My grandmother's younger sister died of metastatic melanoma to the liver. And the other sibling died of lung cancer metastatic to the liver. So this was just the story just this year that I found out about my family. The generations back and a massive environmental toxin probably benzene and lead from the diesel fuels and it affected almost every one of them. My grandmother's still living but guess what? She was 14, she was working in the office so she was not in the home for most of the time as she told me. And then she married at age 15 or 16, she married very young so she was taken by my grandfather and they went off, this is my grandmother and grandfather in their Chevrolets from the dealership. And they went off and got married so she was saved from some of the toxic effects and she just turned 90 and she's still going strong. But this really matters and again to me it just drove home the passion I have about teaching on environmental medicine because this is my family. So let's dive into just a little bit of basic principles of detox because I wanna leave you with a little practical information. Okay so basic principles of detox, we have optimizing elimination and excretion. We have the phase one and phase two of the liver which I'm gonna talk to you about some very important nutrients that all of us are using. Mitochondrile function is key because the mitochondrial are inadvertently affected by toxins and often energy production is down and fatigue is probably one of the number one symptoms of environmental toxicity. And then the liver transformational detox. So as you can see here, busy slide, all I wanna bring to home tonight is just that there's phase one and phase two of liver detox. And when we're treating this we use the nutrients that support those phases. So phase one you need B vitamins, you need folic acid, you need glutathione, and phase two you need methionine, you need sulforphanes. The interesting thing about phase one and phase two is when you have an environmental toxin and it's biotransformed by the liver, you take that toxin and put it through phase one and into an intermediate and then that intermediate is taken into phase two and excreted into the bile acids and the bile is stored in your gallbladder and then that bile is excreted into the gut. Now what we call the enterohepatic circulation which is how our bile is reabsorbed. It's actually incredibly efficient, about 95% efficient. And this is one of the reasons with mold toxicity and a lot of our toxic problems. We use binders because if we don't actually go in there with an electrostatic charge particle like clay or charcoal and grab onto that bile acid, it'll just do a merry-go-round in the gut and be 95% effectively reabsorbed so that you remain toxic. Now the interesting thing about this is this intermediate which is hidden by the red line there. That thing I said comes in between phase one and phase two. It's actually more toxic than the original toxin. Which means if you drink coffee which up regulates phase one, cytochromes, or you push phase one without supporting phase two which requires leafy greens and sulforaphanes and a lot more intensive support, then you get stuck in the middle and you get a lot more toxic. This is just a slide kind of a take home kind of thing. I won't read these all but these are some of my favorite detox nutrients that cover all the cycles. One of the really important ones you'll see on there is sulforaphanes which is from broccoli sprouts. That particularly supports that phase two so you don't get stuck in the middle. Glutathione, methylated B vitamins, SAME, glycine, glutamine, et cetera. And one reason we use vitamin C, glycine, glutamine and NAC or those are all precursors to our master detoxifier, which is glutathione. And then the gut. Let's not forget the gut. One of my other favorite organs. So critical is the gut and detoxification and we must support this with collagogue herbs. These are things that cause the secretion of bile acids. Things like probiotics. I'm especially fond of spore based probiotics but there's many other types.  Yes, I'm an MD and I do talk about coffee enemas. My story there is I went to Switzerland and I was with, I was like by decades the youngest one there. I took two groups, one in 2018 and one in 2019 to the former Paracelsus Clinic. It's now called the Swiss Mountain Clinic for a one week liver and gallbladder detox. Sounds like a great vacation, doesn't it? So I went there with this group and what happened was I guess older retired people are the ones that have the money and the time to go to Switzerland to deliver gallbladder detox because the average age was about 95. And so I was amongst these elderly people and they were all just running around taking hikes up the mountain, doing their detox, drinking their bitters and I was like, what in the world?  So what's the difference? And one of the things they incorporated into their program was daily coffee enemas and colon hydrotherapy once per week. And I realized there was a power there. So I came back to the States and started talking about coffee enemas and now that's one of my claims to fame but I'll tell you what, it really does enhance the gut detox because by doing that enteropathic stimulation in the colonic receptors you increase production of glutathione by about 600%. So it's a great way to support detox. So back to the basis, like I said, we're gonna kind of finalize this detox segment on clean air, clean water, and clean food. This is just a picture of me in my office amongst one of my five Austin air filters. I think we have literally the cleanest air in Boulder inside my office and this filter actually filters out micron particle sizes that would filter out the COVID virus. And I will tell you this interesting factoid in the 18 months since the pandemic started because we're an essential medical office that entire time I have had my full staff working in person at the office and not one of us has gotten sick. So go figure, we actually practice what we preach. Clean water, just drinking clean spring water filtered and leaving out the plastic bottles. And then clean food as Robin set us up so nicely this is absolutely essential, organic, non-GMO, pesticide free, local whenever possible, grow your own whenever possible but food is so core to what we do and there's no amount of supplements that can outdo a poor diet. Now I wanna end, like I said, Robin just could not have set me up better for this because I wanna end with my own story. This is the farm where I grew up in central Illinois. And I'm so proud of my family because after what I'm about to tell you my brother took this seriously and he switched his entire 10,000 plus acres that they farm over to 100% non-GMO and they're bit by bit by bit switching over to organic. And if any of you know farming in central Illinois that is unheard of, especially with the big agribusiness that's happening. This is the actual homestead and the bins of the farmhouse where I was born and grew up. And this is my dad and my brothers and I and Jamie, this is before my youngest brother was born. So there's us on the farm. So my story began in relation to toxicity in 2001 when I was in medical school, 25 years old, prime of my life pursuing my dream of becoming a physician. And I found a lump in my breast. Now I wasn't too worried because 25-year-olds don't get sick, do they? But at the insistence of my friends and family, I went and I got ultrasound and mammogram and I remember sitting with a radiologist as a medical student, everything's a learning opportunity. So I sat beside him in the dark room and looked at the images of my own breast. And I saw the fear in his eye as he looked at me and said, Jill, if you were 55 years old, this is highly suspicious for ductal carcinoma, also known as breast cancer. And I knew what he meant. And I'm very intuitive and I also knew what the fear in his eyes meant. But still I had hope until I got the biopsy and I got the call from Dr. Smith and her voice cracked over the phone. And you know those times in your life when your world changes, many of us, pandemic times, many of us when the World Trade Towers went down, many of us, all of these types of experiences, maybe someone you love passed away and you get the phone call. I'll never forget the chair was sitting in the color of the wallpaper every single detail about that day when Dr. Smith called me and said, Jill, you have aggressive breast cancer. The cells in the cancer are growing very fast, very rapidly. This is extremely life-threatening and you are in for the battle of your life. And I was 25. I grew up on a farm where we drank water from a well where atrazine is still legal in the U.S. and it's banned everywhere else, where when I was 35, 10 years after my diagnosis, I finally looked up online, I Googled atrazine and about fell off my chair. The brightest, hottest spot, kind of like that Glyphosate map that you saw earlier from James, was Wright's Mac Deb on top of the farm I grew up on in Central Illinois. Atrazine is a known endocrine disruptor that causes ambiguous genitalian frogs from the Silent Spring, if any of you read or heard that book or movie. And as I studied, because my question was why, I lived well, I ate well, I didn't do harmful things to my body. But I have no doubt that maybe even in utero, my mother was exposed to endocrine harming chemicals and I was born with very poor detox genetics and that cancer cell probably started to grow at age 10. And by 25, it was an aggressive tumor that I battled my life against. So this matters. And I'm here today with such a passion about environmental toxicity and about our farms and our farmers. It's funny, because I did not plan to talk about farmers and their plight, but Robin set it up so beautifully because this is where it starts, guys. It starts in our communities, on our land, on our soils, our water supply, our clean air, our clean water, and our clean food. And I'll tell you what, if you don't start to care right now, you won't have a choice in five or 10 or 20 years because of rates of cancer and autoimmunity, neurodegenerative disease, Alzheimer's disease, they're gonna, I don't care how many functional doctors are out there, our system will be broken and overwhelmed and we will not be able to go back. So it matters. This was me when I lost all my hair and I battled my life with three drug chemotherapy that completely destroyed my gut, led to a diagnosis one year later of Crohn's disease. Both of them I've overcome through functional medicine and living well and completely cured of both of them. But this matters. This matters. Our clean air, our clean water, and our clean food. And I just wanna leave you with this thought so it isn't too depressing. You know, the things we go through, they make us who we are. And every one of you in this audience has a reason or purpose for what you do.  I remember back in medical school, I was the crazy one. I started an integrative medical club at Lay Old and I brought in massage therapists and chiropractors. And my colleagues thought I was crazy. And you know what happened? Every couple of months I get a call from one of my colleagues, or of text. And they say, Jill, my husband, he's really sick. And I don't know what to do. We weren't taught this in medical school. Do you have any ideas? Or could you see him? The world knows that our system is broken. Physicians, even in conventional medicine, know that they don't have the answers. And even we know, as functional integrative physicians, we don't have all the answers. But at least we know where to look. And it starts with clean air, clean water, and clean food. Thank you. Thank you, Jill. Thank you so much. Why don't you stay up here? Let's bring on the chairs because we're gonna have the panel now. That was super, super powerful and super grateful for you sharing your story and so much value there. We've got some questions coming in via Twitter. I might call on a few of you in the audience for some questions here. So you're gonna have, why don't we bring up Dr. Tusek and we'll bring up Dr. Chris Shea here as well. And yeah, let's get you guys mic'd up. All right. So Jill, actually, I wanna just start with you because I didn't know actually that you were from Peoria, Illinois until last month when I met Jeff Robbins, or I hung out with Jeff Robbins. And he thinks that his meetup or his community in Peoria, Illinois was like the first one in the country and you were there too. And I just wanted to ask you, as far as like getting people, getting helping doctors to come to this new realization of what's needed, what sort of confidence does it create to have this sort of community where you can meet with others who are doing it differently? Well, like I said, back in medical school, I felt like the only one. I felt like I was crazy. And yet I knew inside I was doing the right thing. So I think the collaboration of doctors getting together is giving us empowerment to go forward, knowing that we're supported because otherwise we're all islands, we're all aliens. But the truth is there's more out there than not. There's more docs that are being, they're lacking the tools that they need and they're looking for answers. And you can see that with all the educational programs. They're bursting at the seams. Yeah. Dr. Shade, you're hosting the crew down here before the pandemic. You had in your new offices down in Louisville, you had 100 practitioners there. Why did you decide to get involved in helping organize the practitioner community? Well, that's where I got my start in all of this. It was the original, what were they called? The Colorado Functional Medicine Meetings? Yes, and we have one of the organizers of the original Colorado Functional Medicine Meetings. John Scott and Cheryl Gray. And I had started my company originally just all I wanted to do was measure mercury levels and people doing metal chelation challenges. And got myself really sick doing that. And I was watching all these meetings. I would come every month and I would see these wonderful people lecturing and I was watching Bob Roundtree speak and Nigel Plummer speak. And I say that I was going through the dark night of my biochemical soul as I was trying to use key laters to overcome basic deficiencies I was having in my detoxification system. And just getting sicker and sicker till I had this vision that I had to change how I was trying to do this. And in my case, it was going from trying to push things through the kidney to try to make my liver work better, make my GI work better, make my microbiome work better. And it was just in that space that all of Quicksilver Scientific and all that we do, all that we make and all that we push in creating protocols for trying to line up people's detox at their immunity, that was all born out of that. And it was born out of that collaborative environment and just being able to watch all those things and talk to each other and support each other. And one of the worst things that happened during COVID was the loss of that face-to-face community and the divisiveness and the derision and the division of our community into do we vax? Do we not vax? You're bad, you're bad. And everybody quietly sitting back not talking to each other, not fertilizing each other with the ideas that it takes to get through a crisis like this. And so I'm so glad to see us all sitting in a room together, unafraid together and sharing our energies and our love together. Thank you, Chris. Yeah, I appreciate that. So, David, I want to ask you because, you know, these guys are sort of deep down the rabbit hole, right? Practicing very, you know, deep detoxification, deep functional medicine. But you're delivering, you know, functional medicine light, should we say, inside cloud medical. So for doctors who are watching this who, you know, don't want to go so deep into that care, what does detoxification look like in the cloud medical protocol? Kind of detox for everyone.  And, you know, my journey kind of started with the other functional medicine societies like A4M and IFM and, you know, even as a medical student back in the old days, we had ACAM and the American Academy of Environmental Medicine. And so I started going to all of these conferences and, you know, slowly but surely implementing those strategies into very conventional mainstream primary care. And, you know, learning about different types of supplements and, you know, protocols and processes. So I think that if we look at, you know, the way that we approach our bodies with, we typically start with the five pillars of health of my practice, which is hydration, nutrition, exercise, sleep and stress reduction.  And so supporting our patients along all of those angles, you know, on the body, certainly the nutrition and the, you know, the source of where we get our clean water, you know, I think is really, really important because if you detoxify tap water with all kinds of filters and everything, you're also pulling out the really nutritive minerals that are in there. And so, you know, how do we replenish those things? We are very fortunate that we live at the foot of all of these amazing springs so we can actually drink fairly clean spring water. And, you know, certainly there's a time and a role for the wonderful supplements that Dr. Shade's company makes and many others. Awesome, right. I wanna have a question here. Dr. Carlton Lewis, MD, I don't know where you are in the world, but you tweeted in this question. This is for Dr. Khanhann, but maybe anyone can pipe in after you first, Jill. What do you suggest for patients who can't tolerate sulforaphane or cruciferous vegetables to support phase two detoxification? So food, food is medicine, right? So leafy greens are great sources of a lot of the other, and vegetables in general. And I'm assuming if they can't tolerate, they may have SIBO, which is a problem with FOD mounts, but there's lots of other things, including starting with leafy greens. Could I just throw something in there? Sometimes, you know, I have a lot of very sulfur intolerant people, and so the crucifers, the garlic, the onions. When I first got into detox, it was all with the worst of the worst. So everybody was a limey, a moldy, autistic, and you had a lot of sulfur intolerant people there. And in fact, the strongest phase two detox stuff are also the most toxic on a sulfur level, so sulfuraphane. So we'd often have the mused polyphenols, which are not quite as strong for a regulation of phase two but they're much better tolerated. And often in the early stages, we'd say stay away from all of, now it's certain kind of sulfur. So crucifers and alliums, those are really toxic solfers.  And so staying away from those food groups in the beginning and going with polyphenols like green teas, pine bark extracts, some of the ayurvedic things like kerataki and malaki can be a lot better tolerated. All right, well, let's have some questions here in the audience. So if you wanna ask a question, put your hand up, I'll come around and give you the mic and you can ask a question to this amazing panel. I see Cheryl here, I'm gonna pick on you because Cheryl Gray runs the Environmental Health Symposium, really awesome conference. If you wanna go back into the Functional Forum archives in April, 2017, I think we made a show about your conference with the late great Walter Crinian. So do you have a question? So my question really is, is that there's so much talk about functional medicine, but really environmental medicine is at the core. So for people looking to start an environmental medicine, what do you recommend? Great question. All right, what do you guys recommend? Well, you mentioned quite a few of the organizations, but I still think some of the best. EHS is a great one, Cheryl. ACAM is still out there. IFM is one of the leaders in the basics. A4M I feel like has more cutting edge programs and I'm on faculty for all of them, so we can, but any of those are great sources of education. I think one of the interesting, I don't know if it's a distinction, but if you look to Dr. Tusek, there's a function on primary care, there's focus on primary care and then there's interventional care. Like, so primary care, how are we gonna set up our basic health and then interventional, I've got a problem now. And with this problem, I have to go and I'll have to do this round of detoxes, I have to do some, maybe some peptide injections, HBOT, some sort of thing like that. So I think as we go, we'll sort of differentiate those two. And the same person can be doing both of those, but how do we lay down basic care and then how do we integrate light detoxes into that versus a strong environmental, like, you're sick now, we gotta figure out what's in you and we have to start getting that out. Yeah, a couple of things I wanna share on that, just from my experience as well is that one, doctor's office is starting with a group detox for their patients as a way to introduce patients to the concept has been a really easy way to introduce it to patients in the office and many companies have tools for that, but one other thing I wanna share is that, telemedicine has evened out at 38 times its level since before the pandemic. And ultimately, when you do telemedicine, you have an entrance into someone's home pretty much, like, unless they're doing their call at work. And if all medicine is environmental medicine, the majority of time people are spending in their home. And one of the things that we've seen in our virtual groups is, you know, people say, well, look, I'm mainly eating salads and that kind of stuff. We're like, okay, let's go and look at the fridge. Like, let's go and take me over to the fridge and let's have a look. And ultimately, I think there's something really powerful about telemedicine in seeing patients where they actually live, where they spend the majority of their time. And I've heard from so many clinicians who have shared that it's been an interesting window rather than having someone in their office where they're just really disconnected from their home. That's been an interesting side effect, should we say, of this growth in telemedicine. All right, you got a question? I do. Thank you guys for being here. This is so nice. Pharmacogenomic testing, are you testing for SNPs and which ones? And then if you're testing, which testing companies are you using? Jill. Gosh, there's a ton out there. Intellect's DNA is my new favorite. I think it's the most powerful tool right now. But there's so many other, you know, Bob Miller's company has a great platform that a lot of docs are using. And there's a lot of other side companies that have little, you know, the DNA company, Intellect's DNA, the Bob Miller platform. And honestly, they all have the same things. So for me, it's which platform is gonna give the physician the best interpretation and the best data? Because as you guys know, if you're doing this, it's completely freaking overwhelming the reports. You get 50 pages or more or hundreds. And there's no way, at least in my clinical visits, to go through all those genetics in that visit. So what I want is a company that's kind of fine tuning and highlighting the keys, and then giving me something really clear to give the patient. Because what happens when I give them a 100 page report, they want to go through every page. And I don't have time to do that. Absolutely, yeah, I want to ask you, Doc, because I know a lot of doctors that go from conventional care to DPC often bring in genetic testing as opposed to functional medicine as like their way of differentiating themselves and saying, hey, we do personalize medicine. Look, we've got these tests, but then have no idea what it means or no way of interpreting it. And it's actually not that useful to the patient or the doctor because it ends up sucking up a lot of time. Have you mentioned in that direction or do you think, as doctors transition, are there more high leverage, high value things that doctors can do to deliver personalized medicine but without having to go through all of that? Yeah, I mean, I started this journey a long time ago back in the pathway genomics days and they were trying to pioneer liquid biopsies and all sorts of things, probably 10 years ago. And Intellect's DNA probably is my fear, that's who I used to sequence my entire exome. And I found the same thing that Jill described, which is the report is so thick and burdensome to really sort through. So the thing that I recommend for most of my patients are the really, really actionable genetic information gathering systems like color genomics that actually looks at the particular genetic variants that are directly correlated with a significant increase risk of different cancers. Is that reasonable in primary care or in like what you're doing? Like, is that a reasonable use of time, have you found? That particular one? Well, just what you're talking about right now. Yes, absolutely. I mean, it's very fast, it's very cost effective.  Color genomics looks at the 35 major cancer genes and it's 249 bucks. So that's a test that we recommend for many, many people. And then, you know, for people that have various mood disorders, difficult to treat psychiatric conditions, I think the pharmacogenomics testing is also very useful, very affordable, very easy to sort through. But doing an entire metabolism, I mean, the problem too is all of the GWAS studies are so difficult to interpret, the genome-wide association studies to see which of these genotypes actually directly correlates to the phenotype. But I would look at pharmacogenomics and the oncogenomics as two that are super appropriate for primary care. Awesome. All right, we've got time for one more question. I'm gonna put Dr. Christopher Mote here on the spot for that question. One, because he's one of my favorite doctors, Cornerstone Health Community Centennial Colorado. Also, he is hiring. So if you're a doctor and you're gonna come and work for Dr. Mote, so that's the cost of admission you have to ask an awesome question. So I'm really grateful that you're here, because when we opened our clinic five years ago, we looked at the DPC model. What I saw people who are really skilled at functional medicine doing it at the deepest level 20 years ago, Jill, nobody better than you, they got in the weeds so deep and I thought, okay, then I had to go back to school as a chiropractor to become a medical physician. And I said, how do you blend that? I got in it to change the system. So I decided to stay in the system. But when I listened to you talk about it, there's a lot of primary care that can be delivered and the administrative cost taken out of it. So, but when I wanted to put the functional medicine, the deeper functional medicine, you can't do that for a cup of coffee a day. And so now you're causing me to think, maybe there's a way that we could be blending the DPC, but still have a plan on the side for functional medicine, do you do that? Do you offer people a separate track within your office to do concentrated functional medicine perhaps? Yeah, I think it's a great question. Chris hinted at it. So I'll answer it like this. I was sitting recently with a patient of mine and after two minutes of speaking to him, I said, here's what's gonna happen. I'm gonna call the CAF lab and you're gonna have a stent in the next 60 minutes. And that's literally exactly what happened in a 90% blockage in one of his main coronary arteries. I wasn't gonna put that stent in for him, right? And so similarly to our network of specialists that we trust, a number of my patients, we've referred to Dr. Carnahan, for instance, and Nature Med Clinic, which does a lot of advanced care for people who are suffering from Lyme and mold and other disorders. So we've developed a network of people who we've identified as particularly superb at treating various specialized disorders. So will I take on a severe, patient with severe chronic Lyme, mold, and all of the other co-infections independently? No. But those people need to have someone, I believe, to soundboard who could at least understand what's going on on a global level and still do their pap smear and still repair their laceration on their hand when they cut themselves and still do the colon cancer screening for them and to sort of put it all in a framework and a container of health that I think the primary care physician or the primary care provider community is best suited to handle. That's a great answer. And the community that you would trust, the only way to scale for practitioners to learn that is to be in community and meet other practitioners. And that's what we've heard from practitioners all across the country that have been in these communities is that that's the best way to find. Jill, one last word here and we'll... Yeah, I was gonna say this works so well because I literally on my website, you must have a primary care doctor to see me. So I don't do primary care. It's exactly what you said. Like we are such a complimentary piece of the puzzle because I need people like you to do the pap smear and do, because I don't have time for that. I wanna dive deep and do that, but I think it works so wonderfully. And so I think you're right, Chris. I think it's hard to do both because I don't do the primary care. All right, everyone, I'm proud of us. You know, the last time we did this, we went two hours too long and we didn't do the food before so everyone was having like hypoglycemia in their seats. Everyone ate at a time. Yeah, we did it. We stayed within time. Thanks everyone for watching. Can you put the slides back up?  So the December Functional Forum, first Monday in December, we have it's all on the gut immune interface. And I just wanna share one quote from that which should intrigue all of you. It's from Dr. Tom Williams. And he said, the innate immune system is more adaptive than the adaptive immune system. So definitely tune in next month for his thoughts on that. January 2022. So for those of you who follow the Functional Forum closely, you know that this year was, last year was the year of resilience. This year has been the year of the reinvention of medicine. And next year, the theme is growth. So that's gonna be clinical growth, practical growth, personal growth, community growth. It's time to grow this movement and really grow to fill the capacity of what we need to do. Here's the map that I showed earlier with Glyver State. You know, here's the map that Dr. Tusek shared of the Direct Primary Care Clinics. This is the map of the practitioner communities. It's time to scale all of these. Thank you so much for tuning in and we'll see you next time. Thank you.


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