Are you looking for a conversation starter this Thanksgiving? Well, look no further because this episode of This Is Purdue has got you covered. We first aired this incredible story in early July, but since our conversation was Shu-Lin Ruon, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University, there's been a new update on the whitest white acrylic paint that Shu-Lin and his team created at Purdue. Ever heard of the Guinness World Records book? Well, this paint has earned a Guinness World Records title. The paint appears in the 2022 edition of Guinness World Records, which is now available for purchase. The ultra-white paint, which reflects 98.1% of sunlight and deflects infrared heat, could dramatically reduce or even eliminate the need for air conditioning. You'll hear the full story from Shu-Lin in this episode, but breaking a record for the whitest paint wasn't the goal for the researchers. Curbing global warming was. 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Hi, I'm Kate Young, and you're listening to This is Purdue, the official podcast for Purdue University. As a Purdue alum and Indiana native, I know firsthand about the family of students and professors who are in it together, persistently pursuing and relentlessly rethinking. Who are the next game changers, difference makers, ceiling breakers, innovators? Who are these Boilermakers? Join me as we feature students, faculty, and alumni taking small steps toward their giant leaps and inspiring others to do the same. We did some analysis on using our paints on the hot climates in Reno, Nevada, or Phoenix, Arizona. Those are like hot and dry climates and will be sort of ideal location for using our paints. Our analysis shows that during the summer months, using the paints can save up to 70% of the air conditioning cost. You may have heard about this latest guest on This is Purdue through national media outlets like CNN, BBC, Fast Company, Yahoo, and oh yeah, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Shulan Ruan is a professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University. His giant leap as a Boilermaker, inventing the whitest paint on record in an effort to curb global warming. We'll get more into the paints effect on climate, but one of the most interesting things Shulan shared with me, when the team first started this project, they didn't actually set out to create the whitest white paint. And when we started the project about seven years ago, we had the energy savings and fighting climate change in mind. That's right, this invention is seven years in the making. Shulan explains. We started working on this in 2014. We tested many different materials, concentrations, and the different particle sizes, and so on. So it does take a lot of effort, and many students who graduated and then new students continued the effort to really make it happen. So using real cooling in paints really started in the 1960s. At that time, people were trying to create white paint that can reflect the sunlight as much as they can. At the same time, we know any surfaces when you put on the roof, they're going to emit their own heat to the surrounding as well. So the problem was that at that time, the whitest paint that people created can reflect 80 to 90 percent of sunlight, which means they absorb 10 to 20 percent of the sunlight. So that's still too much heat absorbed from the sunlight, and that's more than the heat they lose. Although they are cooler than the other colored paints, they cannot be cooled below the ambient temperature. A few years back, we started on this first inspired by a group at the Stanford University, which created multi-layer nanostructures that can do below ambient cooling, but was very expensive, not viable for buildings. So we went ahead and think about whether we can create the paints to be below the ambient temperature, because we had much better nanotechnology than half a century ago. So we eventually came up with this new paint formula with a few innovations compared to the commercial white paints. This new whitest white acrylic paint reflects 98.1 percent of sunlight. Compared with the 95.5 percent of sunlight reflected by the team's previous ultra-white paint. It deflects infrared heat, allowing buildings to cool below the surrounding air temperature. In fact, the team's tests have shown that the paint is able to keep a surface around eight degrees cooler than its ambient temperature in the afternoon, and up to 19 degrees cooler at night. But what makes this paint the coolest? A very high concentration of a chemical compound called barium sulfate. It's also used to make photopaper and cosmetics white. Barium sulfate was used in the paint in pigment particles of various sizes, which allows the paint to scatter more of the light spectrum from the sun. But the barium sulfate used had to be just the right amount. If they used a higher concentration of this, it would likely cause the paint to break or peel off, according to the research team. Shulin walks us through how this new paint differs from commercial paint. You can go buy it at a local hardware store. Tell us about what's in the paint. How is this different from if you go to the store and buy a regular can of paint? It has a few key innovations compared to the commercial white paints you can buy. I mean, that took us a long time to figure out actually each aspect, each innovation over the years. Now, first, the commercial white paints are based on titanium dioxide. So, the oxide reflects very well in the visible portion and near infrared portion of the sunlight, but it absorbs the UV. So, we first went out to look for materials that would not absorb UV at all, that those included oxides, carbonates, and sulfates. So, those were our candidates. But that's not sufficient. We came to realize that we needed much higher concentration in the commercial paints. So, commercial paints usually have less than 10% of the particle loading, and that's not sufficient to reflect sunlight for the energy purpose. So, we tested different particle loading and eventually landed at 60%, and it's an appropriate number to sufficiently reflect on the scattered sunlight.  So, a third key innovation that really pushed our paint to the performance we see today is not using a uniform size. That's kind of a little bit counterintuitive at the beginning, but our predictions showed us eventually, if you use a single size, it only reflects one wavelength of the sunlight really well, not the other wavelengths. So, once you have different particle size in your paint, each size would be responsible to reflect one wavelength in the sunlight. So, eventually, the whole spectrum of sunlight can be reflected effectively. So, these are the three key differences from the commercial paints. I can summarize again. First is a material that does not absorb UV. Second, high particle concentration. Third, non-uniform particle sizes. Throughout Shulin's journey with creating this paint and pushing the limits on their previous white paint, of course, came with challenges and roadblocks. The team had considered over 100 different materials, narrowed them down to 10, and tested about 50 different formulations for each material. To be honest, seven years ago, we didn't know that we would achieve such great reflectance today. We did run into a lot of roadblocks, but we're really happy that working with our students postdocs, we were able to overcome these challenges and that allowed us to arrive where we are today. So, each innovation actually came out of the challenges we were facing. For example, at the beginning, we were trying to push the titanium dioxide that is used in commercial paints to perform very well. So, we made many different trials based on titanium dioxide, different particle loading, different substrate. At that time, we didn't believe we were able to achieve this in a single layer, so we tried putting these materials into a two-layer structure and so on. So, after many trials, we were not able to get cooling below the ambient temperature and we came to realize it's the material's problem. So, that's how we set out to look for other materials, like bermsulfate, calcite, and so on. But even with that, we tested many materials, maybe as many as 100 materials. Some materials, we kind of expected them to work, but it didn't work eventually. We also had a hard time on the matrix material, like polymer to use. Some of the particle fillers, they don't really like the polymer. I mean, we're not able to disperse them so well in the polymer matrix or binders. So, we kind of explored that to find the good pair of the filler as well as the polymer to have a good dispersion. We came to realize the particle concentration was not high enough, so we tested many particle concentration. And the last maybe challenge I want to highlight is that after we've done all these, we were trying to explain the performance why it is 98.1%. So, using previous models, we're not able to match the prediction with our experimental data to be more specific. The theory says that reflectance should be lower than the experimental measurements. And we spend time on that, and eventually find out that that's because we have different particle size in it. Usually, previously, people just neglect the non-uniformity in the size. We found that it plays a very important role in increasing your reflectance from just above 90 now to 98.1%. So, I have to say that the innovations were pushed by the challenges we were facing, and that's how the science and engineering works. I love that quote. The innovations were pushed by the challenges we were facing, and that's how science and engineering works. As Boilermakers, Shulin and his team continued in their persistent pursuit of making this paint a reality. Let's dig further into how this whitest white paint can help our planet. Shulin's team calculated that if one half to 1% of the Earth's surface was covered in this paint, it would reverse the total effects of global warming to date. When applied to the roof and walls of a building, the paint can reduce the need for air conditioning and the associated carbon emissions. First of all, if you compare our paints with commercial white paints, we can see that it reflects 8% more of the sunlight back to the deep space, and it provides cooling by its own emission. So that will translate to about 10 kilowatts more cooling power from our paint compared to commercial paints if you have a 1,000 square feet one-story house. Okay, so what does that mean to the energy sort of a sector and the global warming? Now, on one hand, again, using that house as an example, you can save about 10 kilowatts our power every day, right? That power usually comes from burning fossil fuels which involves carbon emissions. So without using any power, our paints cause carbon emission in that aspect. The other very important aspects for the conventional air conditioners, they just move the heat from inside of your house to the outside ambient. But the heat still stays in the city. It still stays on the Earth. So that really contributes to the urban heat island effect in cities that create many issues in large cities, even pose some theory of kind of a threat to health. On the other hand, the heat is on the Earth and contributes to warming the Earth up. So totally different from that, our paints on the roof, it kind of sends off all the heat from the Sun and from its own emission directly through the atmosphere and the loss to the deep space. So the heat totally goes off the Earth. To put it in perspective, 10 kilowatts is more powerful than the central air conditioners used by most houses. New York recently coated more than 10 million square feet of rooftops white and California has updated building codes to promote cool roofs. And painted on top of your average 1,000 square foot ranch house, the team estimated that a coat of this super white paint alone could save an estimated $1 per day on your electric bill during the summer months. I'll let the expert break it all down for us. Now we can use that 1,000 square feet single story house as an example. Our paint compared to the commercial white paint can provide 10 kilowatt additional cooling power. If we use a typical air condition or efficiency numbers, so that translates to save about 10 kilowatt hour electricity per day for this house. If we use like 10 cents per kilowatt hour price, that's about one hour per day saving for the house. So I can give you another example. We did some analysis on using our paints on the hot climates in Reno, Nevada or Phoenix, Arizona. Those are like hot and dry climates and will be sort of ideal location for using our paints. Our analysis shows that during the summer months using the paints can save up to 70% of the air conditioning cost. In other words, in certain days when it's not too hot, you do not need to turn on your air conditioners at all. The paints will just provide enough cooling for the temperature indoor to be more to be comfortable for human beings. If the outside becomes very, very hot, you need to turn on your air conditioner still. But the paints can offset a lot of heating and can reduce the demand for the air conditioner. So overall, it saves up to 70% of the power considering the typical weather over a few months in the summer. So what if people don't necessarily want a white roof? Do you guys have plans for the future of taking this formula and creating different colors with it? Sure, yeah, that's a great question. First of all, I want to sort of highlight the many locations people do like white color. For example, we got a lot of inquiries from the Middle East, Africa, Central America, South America, or even the 1,000 part of the United States. It's good to know that many locations like Greece, they were painting their house already in white. They were asking us whether they can get our white, which is whiter than the commercial white available these days. Like in New York, they were painting like a million square feet of roof area to be white to mitigate the urban heat and the effect. So people were already using white. But yeah, of course, other people may not like white, you know, they want other color. So that's definitely in our mind. Our white paint provides a great platform actually to develop color paints that are cooler than the other commercial color paints. Because, you know, our white, the brown sulfate base can be a base pigment. Just like the other colored commercial paints, they are based on TiO2 or titanium dioxide. So we can modify the paints to be based on brown sulfate. And we are optimistic that the color paints created this way should be cooler than the color paints on the commercial market. It may not necessarily to cool below the ambient temperature anymore because color paints means you've got to absorb some portion of the sunlight to show the color. Yeah, that's something we're working on right now and that we hope to report some results in the future that we have cooler color paints than the color paints you can get on the market today. If you're ready to run out to the store and grab a can of this paint, it's not on the shelves just yet. The good news though, this paint isn't going to be crazy expensive. It'll be comparable to a normal can of paint. Our lab can only produce like a small amount for painting samples or like a cardboard or so. But we are working with a large corporation towards commercializing our technology. So we need to do more testing and optimization of the paints to make sure it has a long-term reliability. It can untie dust. It can last for many years. Yeah, we are working hard on that. And hopefully we will see this eventually on the market. If we do everything quick in a year or two or so, we do get a lot of inquiries from people from the hot, especially from the hot climate. A large customer would be in India, very hot. If you use too many air conditioners, the heat and the effect is very serious there. So yeah, pushing this into the market will really help a lot of people that really have the cooling needs. The cost is comparable to the commercial paints. So the barren sulphate pigments is actually slightly less expensive or maybe at most comparable to titanium dioxide. And beyond that, the manufacturing process of our paint is compatible with the industry practice right now. So we expect that the final cost of our paint should be comparable or even slightly cheaper than the commercial paints on the market. Shulin realized this paint would make waves in the science and engineering industry. But what he didn't know was that artists and even art museums have reached out to the team about the ultra-white paint. Why? Artists have expressed interest in your work as well as, you know, obviously all of the attention you're getting from the scientific and engineering world. But how does it feel to know that there may be art created with this paint someday? Yeah, that's a pleasant surprise. Again, as we published our work, we didn't really emphasize the color aspect, but it's great to know that the artists got interested in this and they have a need for the, you know, to push the whitest white to create a unique artwork. Actually, I have quite a few museums who contacted me asking for samples to donate it to their collection, you know, the whitest that they can have. So I already agreed to send them samples, you know, including the U.S. as well as from overseas, such as Singapore. Some of those museums, they have the blackest black, the venta black, if you know that. Yeah, they want to put the white as a counterpart in their collection. So that's really interesting. Other artists already kind of emailed me asking about where they can get the paint or their interest of creating these paints. Definitely something interesting and we're thinking about and it's good to know there is a market on the art side, you know, aside from the energy and the climate aspects. I didn't expect people who are interested in so white, because the white is, to me, before all these, like a boring color, right? You're like blue or red or so. I mean, it's kind of quite educational to me to see there are so much interest just into white and the black. And what about all of the attention Shulin and his team has received in the past few months? It's not every day you get mentioned on an Emmy winning late night show. At this point, you've been featured in hundreds of articles, you know, you've been on CNN, you've been on the BBC, Fast Company and Jimmy Fallon even mentioned this paint on the Tonight Show. That's crazy.  Yeah, well, it's definitely excited what I expected. You know, every time we saw like a big news outside of our expectation, we say, wow, particularly the Tonight Show and so on the Jimmy Fallon. So it's great to get this level of publicity for paints. But we are really glad that our work together with the work in the field now has kind of contributed to raise the awareness of the amount of public about how important it is to save energy, to help our environment and combat climate change. I think that's the point that, you know, with all these media, you know, reaches out to the corners over the globe. You know, we kind of contributed to to that aspect. I mean, how the paints can help. You know, something as simple as paints can really help, you know, extremely important issue of the climate change. Right. And you guys are certainly contributing to that conversation. So were you surprised by all of this media attention, too? Yeah. Well, we were expecting coverage by a lot of the media, but we were surprised by a certain coverage, like the talk show, right? Right. That definitely, yeah. Then we got people from weather stations. They came to Purdue and shoot videos in our lab, too. So that kind of really amazed us on a climate site. Yeah, but, you know, these talk shows, they definitely help spread the work and, you know, help. Although maybe they didn't really focus on the energy climate site, but when people get more into either the news articles or even our paper, I realized that, you know, the paints can help. So using white paints to help on our climate has been there for some time, but the people were kind of resistant to that if they don't like the white color. So I hope this artwork can contribute a little bit to the people's willingness to think about using paints to help our environment and our deers sort of the sustainability. Yeah, I think really, I think that would be great if our work made a tiny bit of contribution towards that. As for the Purdue University community, Shulin shares this invention would not have happened without the resources and talent Purdue has at its fingertips. Purdue definitely played a critical role for all these that we have achieved. Just a few aspects, you know, Purdue has very strong academic reputation that help our lab and others lab to attract the best students and postdoc fellows and the researchers all over the world. So I would say that without the high quality of our students and scholars, this work wouldn't have been possible. A lot of my students who worked on this project, they came up with the solutions to the challenges we were facing. So that's really, really important. I feel the support from students, from colleagues, from the administration and from industry members. So Purdue really provided in the right and all the necessary resources including human resources and the facilities. In the meantime, what's Shulin thinking about next? Well, naturally, he's already contemplating what he and his team can achieve in the future. Thank you for the great questions that really inspired me to think about our journey over the many years and how the students contributed and then many graduated or completed their postdoc experience and have their own successful either academic journey or even the industry. It's a great moment too also to reflect all those and look forward what we are going to achieve in the future. If you'd like to learn more about Shulin and his team's research on this ultra-white paint, please visit purdue.university. slash white paint. Thanks for listening to This is Purdue. For more information on this episode, visit our website at purdue.edu slash podcast. There you can head over to your favorite podcast app to subscribe and leave us a review. And as always, Boiler Up!


Welcome to the original gangsters podcast. I'm your host Scott Bernstein quick hitter edition. We're going out to New York City specifically Hudson Valley The feds are digging again for bodies connected to the Gambino crime family. It was just back in November that FBI agents NYPD Orange County officials descended on two different farms In the Hudson Valley about an hour Outside of New York City one in Goshen and one in Campbell Hall over here at the OG as well as at our Sister Publication Gangs report we've been telling people since November that these are two horse farms that are directly connected to the top level of the Gambino crime family the Sicilian wing that has had control of The organization for about 15 years now took over after Oh, the final era of the Gotti regime and some guys that came right after Gotti and These two places that are being dug up again Are our places that I've been told are retreats as well as safe houses and potentially mob hit victim graveyards so the names that I know that have been up there on a pretty Semi-regular basis have spent time up there Are the top hitters we're talking about Italian Dom Sheffalu Lorenzo Manino the former Boss the the assassinated boss Frankie boy Cali and then the couple regime of the The zip crew and in Bonanno or sorry the zip crew in Gambino land right now Joe Brooklyn Lonnie who's directly under Lorenzo Manino the acting boss for Dom Sheffalu who is the official boss These guys use that place as a as a getaway spot Go up there party hunt I was told by very good sources that Italian Dom at his 70th birthday party up there back in 2018. This was a place that Frankie boy Cali Who was killed back in 19 by a Mentally deranged Staten Islander had nothing to do with the mob but I Was told that that Frankie boy who was acting boss before Lorenzo? this was a a Place that he loved a place that he went and relied on quite a bit as a place to take women he was quite the ladies man all due respect to his family and This was a spot that this Sicilian Branch of the family would use as not just a safe house to hide various people and things But also for for Sicilians that were on the run from the law could allegedly come here and hide out at at those two farm sites and it's Because of that. It's it's not Hard to believe that we have Interpol and Italian Police detectives that are also involved in this investigation We all know that at the time that they dug in November. Joe Lonnie Joe Brooklyn was the Head of the snake of a 10-person Extortion and racketeering indictment that came down and dating him and several other members and associates of the Gambino family Jerry Capaci reported that Joe Brooklyn had flank Lorenzo Manino at a State funeral with the Luccheses back in 2022 which kind of shows his standing So they're back up there digging. I have to believe that They had gone there in November to You know check the ground do their Their ground penetrating radar all the things you had to do to kind of see if there was something there then over the last four or five months They've run it up the flagpole and and has seen if it could fly the fact that they're back there tells me that it's It's flying and and that there's at least something there that they're gonna excavate in the next few Hours or days Whether that's a body. I don't know there. They want it to be and then it leads to the questions of you know, are these Cold case murders or these people that disappeared in the last Couple years five ten years 20 does just go back before they had control of the property This you know, was this a property that they had gotten from other members of organized crime that might have had bodies up there How does the gaudi era Slide into this Again, this is pure speculation, you know, they've never found The body of the man that accidentally killed John Gotti's son Frankie boy Who knows maybe he's there I don't know Only time will tell but just wanted to give everybody an update We'll keep you a abreast of everything that's going down in the Hudson Valley related this gambit Gambino crime family search for bodies Please like subscribe share the word spread the word About the OG podcast for Benny behind the glass. I'm Scott Bernstein. I'm out


Most of us don't keep in touch with our network often enough. Do you realize that your friends and family probably don't even know what you really do for a living? Or what kind of business you're trying to build? Seriously, go and ask any of your friends. Hey, how would you describe what I do? And they probably can't do it very well. So your friends, your own friends and family don't even know what you do for a living. Okay, and who your ideal clients are. And so they don't think about your business often enough to be able to refer new clients to you. It's true. So most of us do not do a good job of keeping in touch with our own friends and family and our colleagues, our past clients, the people who have inquired with us in the past about our services, the people who might be interested in what we do, who are, you know, acquaintances of ours. We need to do a better job of reconnecting with our network. And that tends to lead to more clients. But the thing is, when we reconnect with our network and we use it as a sales tactic, like, yes, of course, doing this can lead to more clients. But when I'm reconnecting with you and I'm like, hmm, how are you doing, Mary? How are you doing, Sue? Oh, by the way, I have openings in my client.  It's not the best way to reconnect. The other person knows that, oh, okay, you're just reaching back out because you want to tell me you've got openings for your clients. And that's okay. You know, people get that. People get that, you know, we need clients, et cetera. But wouldn't it be better if we, if I reached out to Mary or to Sue because I genuinely care? What a concept. I reach out to Mary or Sue because I genuinely like them. So this is a concept instead of networking. I call it net caring, net caring. Now, I thought I came up with it, but I didn't because I Googled it and I guess people had been using it for many years. But I like the term net caring instead of networking. So what this means, again, is you look at your contact list and look at your friends that you have not been in touch with. Look at your past clients.  Look at the people who are in a similar industry or in your industry, but don't have the exact same business so they don't feel competitive. Look at all these people on your contact list.  Reach out to them and say, hey, John. Hey, Tina. Hey, whatever. I just wonder how you were doing. And before you reach out, actually, it would be better for you to take a quick look at their social media. Take a quick look. What have they been posting lately? And see if there's anything you want to mention. Say, oh, yeah, I really appreciate that you wrote about that. How are you doing in these times? And here's what I've been up to. But I've always appreciated this and that about you. You reach out. So the first thing we really need to do is to actually do whatever, I guess, spiritual practice to get into a place of caring, a place of genuine love. Because when you reach out from a place of genuine love to somebody else out of a sense of caring, out of simply you like them. Appreciate something about them that you genuinely appreciate. You're just reaching out. And of course, those kinds of connections can lead to conversation which leads to client opportunities. It's a very natural thing. But it's not because, oh, hey, I'm reaching out to you because I need clients. And even though it's okay to do that, it's not the most ideal way. And it's not the most enjoyable way because you probably feel awkward doing that, pitching somebody that you haven't talked in a long time. And they probably feel awkward as well. So remember that very few of us do a good job of reaching out to our network. And so if you do that, you're going to be one of the only people who stand out in that person's mind because very few people reach out to them. Reach out in a genuine sense of appreciation for who they are. What do you like about them? Remember that. Reach out in that way with that kind of heart. And then see where the conversation leads and see how you can be of service to them, benefit them. And very naturally, if they need something you offer or if they know, if they're probably ask you how you're doing too. And then you could talk about how you're doing and how your business or whatever. But it naturally leads to opportunities. So I hope this is helpful. Remember net caring rather than networking. And the world will be a better place if we all did this. We would all feel more connected. We would all be able to have more opportunities for each other because we have opportunities for each other. It's just that we don't reach out to each other. Right? So I hope this helps remember your past clients, the people who have inquired about your services in the past, your colleagues, your friends that you haven't been in touch with for a while. Think about them. Appreciate them. Reach out today. All right. I wish you well. Take care.


Usually, you should trust your doctor's advice. But there are times where you shouldn't. Now, in this video, I'm going to show some actual clinical case studies from my practice about people that were dismissed or mistreated or in the worst case, recommended advanced or invasive procedures and surgeries and medications that they did not need. Now, when I was 22, let's go back 15 years or so here, there was this odyssey that I went on that I've talked about here in many of my videos where I had a long history of digestive illness and I went to all of the Ivy League trained specialists and physicians. Remember, I'm from Connecticut. That's where Yale is and Harvard is not too far away a couple hours away. And yet by going to all of these specialists, not only did they not know what I had on top of that, they weren't even able to actually treat it. So here I was on this weird odyssey with something that is really impacting my quality of life and something that even the best specialists were not able to diagnose or treat. And that is what made me go to China and go all around the world looking for great healers. But what did I actually conclude and what did I actually learn? Well, in this video, we're going to jump in. I'm going to share more and share three case studies from my practice. Hey, guys, I'm Dr. Alex Hine, board licensed acupuncturist and doctor of traditional Chinese medicine. Now, I'm also author of the health book Master of the Day. So let's jump in. Case study number one. The woman who was told she needed an irreversible surgery. Now, this is a brand new patient case study I'm featuring here on my channel. Someone who was in her early to mid 20s and had a very, very bad pap smear. Now, the pap smear result showed that more than two-thirds of her cervix was covered in pre-cancer cell. And typically, they do a procedure called the elite procedure, which is an electro surgical procedure where they basically shave off the top layer of the cervix and there is often a permanent decrease in potential fertility and the ability of a woman to actually have a child. This particular patient was not only not told about the risks involved. She was only later told that she would likely have to do this multiple times. That the first procedure wasn't even a guarantee and that each time would have a subsequent decrease in her fertility or her ability to actually have a child. So as someone who was 26 and was in the medical field herself from a family of physicians and doctors, she was not very eager to do that. Now, take a look at the results Alyssa had from seeing me and taking these traditional formulas. My regular appointment, so I was sent to get a cervical biopsy to find out what was causing the abnormality. And then the biopsy came back with cervical intraepithelial dysplasia. So basically, pre-cancer results, it was stage two to three, I believe. The doctor at the time recommended a series of things that were all, in my opinion, really aggressive and abrasive treatment options. One was a cervical biopsy and one was some kind of laser electrosurge. He said it's not guaranteed it would work the first time like they remove the abnormal cells and then it may come back. So I left really kind of shaken after that appointment because to me like you can't even guarantee it's gonna work and it's very aggressive and they do you for it and it's in the operating room and you know it's a hefty thing. Sad part is no alternatives were offered so I'm lucky that I was pointed in your direction but for those other women you know if even if this video helps one then you know I did my job. Alyssa was told she needed an irreversible surgery and that there were no alternatives. They were wrong and they call me the quack. If you guys are interested in some of these healing principles that I've worked with my patients on, I put together a free guide for healing practices from traditional Chinese medicine. It's a link right below this video. You'll also get my weekly video newsletter if you sign up as well. I'm also taking a limited number of new patients in person in Los Angeles or virtually via telemedicine. You can reach out in the description below. You can call or contact my practice to learn more. Case study number two. The woman that was told she needed heart medicine for her palpitations and frequent arrhythmias. Now this particular person really is a composite of many patients that I've seen because while lots of people come in with heart palpitations and arrhythmias, typically if they don't have any kind of cardiovascular issues and most that come to me don't, they're under 50, it's typically just stress and the stress can easily disrupt the electrical signals to the heart and with the nervous system overall. So for this particular woman, she was in the medical profession herself and she had been given beta blockers due to an irregular heartbeat that she was experiencing. Now she said something was very very distinct and very funny about her palpitations and the arrhythmias she was getting. She said, you know what's interesting, most often I get them after meals or I get them after meals and then when I lay down or when laying down at night. Now intrusional training medicine is a very very distinct kind of palpitation that is not due to the nervous system, right? Not due to people working a lot and being stressed out, it's a palpitation that is due to dysfunction in the digestive system and is related to the functioning of the vagus nerve. So if you Google the vagus nerve, you'll see some nice pretty images about where it connects to, where in the body, where it innervates and where it originates. Now what's interesting is that for people with this sort of pattern, we just call them digestive palpitations, it is related to dysfunction of the digestive system in the stomach, not the heart or even really necessarily the nervous system in that way of stress response. So for these kinds of people, anything that overinflates the stomach, a large meal, excessive liquid, people who have acid reflux or are prone to indigestion, will get a giant palpitation or a series of palpitations that is associated with eating only or when they lay down. So for these kinds of people, it is very easily remedied by a couple of traditional formulas in traditional Chinese medicine. So for this woman, cardiologists put her on a heart medication that he said you were going to need for the rest of your life. Thankfully for her, she came to see me and in her case, she ended up actually taking a formula for fixing some of the upper GI issues that were going on and lo and behold, she was able to stop the beta blocker medication that she was taking for these palpitations and arrhythmias. That is a very common case study I see in my practice of where anytime someone comes in with palpitations or arrhythmias, they're given beta blockers even though they're 25 and obviously going through a high stress phase of life, the palpitations will be gone in three months and they're medicated right until the day they die. Problem? The majority of these patients and these people are too afraid to stop because it's the heart. It's terrifying right? You don't want your heart to stop. You don't want to have a heart attack. You don't want to have a stroke and yet the cardiologist putting the fear of the Lord in you is ridiculous in many of these cases. Case study number three. The man who was told he would need antidepressants forever. So this man was on three antidepressants when he came to see me, which already is quite a lot for depression. So this was severe treatment resistant depression. This is someone who was so clinically depressed that three antidepressants was what it took just to get him out of bed and functioning to keep his job to feed himself right? This was not like a high performing executive type. He was so severely ill that these three antidepressants was what it took to just sit up and work remotely in bed. That's how bad it was. Now these kinds of cases are really the bottom of the barrel conventional medicine. They'll just throw antidepressants at you until the day they die when it stops being responsive they increase the dosage when that continues to happen they add another medication and on and on it goes. It is a classic system here but for this particular man he knew that he wanted healing and after 10 years of being on three antidepressants of various kinds that is not an easy thing to do for anyone. Generally these are considered hopeless cases in conventional medicine and they won't even discuss the possibility of getting off. They'll just say well if you still feel bad just take it again. It's understandable from a logical point of view but he knew he wanted healing. He was concerned about some of the side effects in other parts of his life and he wanted to get off of them. Now for this particular man what we started off with was a formula that treated what we consider the kidneys. Now the kidneys in traditional Chinese medicine they overlap with the anatomical kidney the genitourinary system so people who have issues with libido erections that kind of thing and also urination. So a lot of formulas we use to treat let's say urinary dysfunction are treating the kidneys in traditional Chinese medicine but there's one final class which is the adrenal and stress hormones. So a lot of the time what looks like adrenal exhaustion people who have severe depression severe fatigue or they have like a hypothyroid picture we treat it as kidney deficiency kidney yang deficiency as they say in traditional Chinese medicine. So for this man we started him off on a basic formula to get his strength back when he came in he was complaining of severe fatigue insomnia acid reflux every day and really just all of the primal kinds of hungers were not there the desire for life the desire for food the desire for sex the desire for connection the battery the primal battery charge was gone that's what severe clinical depression is. So we gave him a battery recharging formula as i'd like to call it to my patients and nothing changed in a week or two but after three or four weeks i noticed that he would come in and he would say you know i'm not really feeling that much better but he started building this business that he'd wanted to build for a decade and then after another three weeks it came in and he said you know what i just uploaded my first youtube video and then i've been working on this little novel that i've wanted to work on for a while and then you know i've always wanted to volunteer at this local school and so what was incredible to see was that he said you know i'm not feeling better but clearly all the evidence was there that he had so much energy that suddenly he left his house for the first time in three weeks he cleaned for the first time in over a month he reached out to an old friend for the first time in six months half a year and after two months then he said you know i think i'm actually starting to feel better went back to his pcp they were able to get him off one medication he felt fine on and on and on this journey and this story went three months six months all the milestones nine months a year year and a half after about a year and a half for two years finally he came in sat down one day and said you know what i think i'm finally ready to move there's some things i've always wanted to do and i want to work on and these trips i want to take and i'm feeling good and i feel like i'm strong enough to do that now a month later he reached out and said you know what i've worked with my pcp i haven't been on any of my antidepressant medications and besides a little bit of fatigue i don't feel down i don't feel anxious i don't feel like i'm sleeping poorly just a little bit of fatigue but it's nothing i can't handle anymore so this person was a perfect case study of treatment resistant depression it was very very difficult case east or west and this is the kind of person that if you say oh you know doc is there an alternative for this something i can use it yeah right you have treatment resistant depression there's nothing that someone can do for that and yet we were able to not only treat it symptomatically but get them off the medications so these three people one was told they would need surgery one was told they need medication for life for the heart one was told they need multiple antidepressants to the day they died and thankfully they did not the reason why i share this video is because there are lots of alternatives that can help you and there are alternatives to medications in many cases but they're not things typically your physician is educated on and therefore they will not recommend because they do not know and they don't trust so my desire to shoot this to share this is to let you know there are alternatives now if you guys are interested in some of these healing principles that i worked with my patients on i've launched a brand new program introduction to healing with traditional chinese medicine a new online course to help try to keep this channel as ad and sponsor free as possible rather than me shelling out some supplements or sponsoring some company i really know nothing about and probably honestly doesn't even relate to you that much i've launched a series of online programs on how to heal with tcm so there's a link right below the pinned comment below this video we'll have more and then i have a great related video for you right here