Dr. Joe Tatta: Welcome back to the Healing Pain Summit. My name is Dr. Joe Tatta. I am your host today we are talking about your mighty mitochondria, so it’s talking about how mitochondrial health and what it has to do with how you can decrease your pain. So my guest today is Dr. Susanne Bennett. She’s a chiropractic physician specializing in allergies, clinical nutrition, and anti-aging medicine. She is also the bestselling author of the Seven Day Allergy makeover, which is a step by step program to eliminate allergies and restore vibrant health. She has her own radio show called wellness for life on radio MD as well as iHeartRadio and she’s the founder and CEO of pure Regenix, which is a natural skincare line for health and beauty and check her [email protected] and welcome to the healing pain summit.
Dr. Bennett: Hey, thanks so much, Joe. Happy to be here and serve you all. Really excited.
Dr. Joe Tatta: Excellent. We’re so happy to have you here. Obviously, as a chiropractic physician, you have study pain, but there’s nothing like learning pain when you actually have lived through yourself and you have a bit of a story to share with us. Correct.
Dr. Bennett: You know, I’ve got a lot of stories in most of the people to know about my story regarding my son and his allergies and that’s why I wrote the book, the Seven Day Allergy makeover. But five years ago I was almost forced to retire because I had a terrible, terrible, um, head and neck injury. Then I went through and I, I definitely would love to share with you about that and what I learned from it.
Dr. Joe Tatta: Yeah, I mean head injuries or you know, actually it’s really popular now in, in medicine and physical therapy cause a lot of talk of preventing head injuries, um, as well as re rehabilitating them. But tell us about your story.
Dr. Bennett: You know, um, again, five years ago I basically, I was in a rush, I was getting ready to go to work and I did grab something in my freezer. And this is a freezer that I have in my, in my, um, garage. So it’s my second freezer and it’s one of the ones that has an upper freezer and then a regular refrigerator below. And I dropped something. And so I went from a full squat grabbing whatever, what fell out of the freezer. And I went right into the, the door, the freezer door that was open and it was, it’s a coronal plane injury. What I mean by coronal, it was in this manner and hit right into a, where I hit right into the door, straight up, right in the center of the crown of my head in. And basically I crunched my head and neck and it was like an accordion, you know, one of those accordions and I felt the pain shoot down both arms and legs.
Dr. Bennett: I had literally neurological symptoms, shooting pains, shooting sharp like nerve, shocking pain, John, both my arms and legs, um, both extremities. And I knew right away and as a car pregnant, that’s like, okay, that’s a upper cervical injury. Um, and who knows what happened to my brain itself. Uh, it was super, super scary for me. And, um, you know, I, I literally had to go back to go to work that day and I, and I do whatever could and that, but then slowly but surely the pain was excruciating. The legs got a lot better. But the pain down, my alarms were excruciating and I had numbness, bilateral numbness. Joe, I couldn’t feel my hands. I couldn’t feel my fingers. And that’s super, super scary for a chiropractor cause that’s really, you know, our bread and butter, right? This is how I do my work. And I w I at the time, of course I was doing a lot of muscle testing, treated a lot of young people and kids and, and I felt like I really had to retire because I couldn’t.
Dr. Bennett: Um, yeah. Oh, I couldn’t get over the pain and the neurological symptoms as a doctor, I immediately got all the things that I knew. What can I do, what can I do? And I did so much searching of how can I get rid of number one, the pain issues, neurological pain. But number two, I had a condition called panhypopituitarism. And what that means is basically my entire pituitary Glen shut down because of the concussion I had from the blow. I had swelling in my brain, swelling in the pituitary, and within four weeks from that injury, everything started stopping me. Like not completely, but enough where I lost my cycle at 48, I didn’t have a period because it affected my ability to communicate from my brain to my, my ovaries and I couldn’t produce enough hormones. Number two, I ended up having adrenal exhaustion, adrenal failure, not failure, but to the point where again, I was not functioning properly.
Dr. Bennett: It affected my thyroid gland. I had hypo hyperthyroid issues from it. Um, I started basically prematurely aging within four weeks, everything started happening and I was prematurely aging for someone who is into health and wellness and, uh, want to do the best I can to take care of my body. It just, it was very, very difficult. So what I did was I did a lot of research to figure out all the things that ended up creating a problem. And the biggest problem for me, not only was it the fact that I had neurological symptoms, but I actually had what’s called sarcopenia and I started losing muscle mass in my body quickly. And that’s because I didn’t have enough hormones. When you don’t have enough anabolic steroids, right? That the HEA and testosterone because the, the effect of my ovaries, but also my adrenals, I basically ended up shrinking my muscles, started my muscle mass, I was losing muscle mass. And
Dr. Joe Tatta: how, how, how fast did you see your, your muscle mass start to fade? Cause obviously, you know, when you’re first injured, pain is the first thing that’s on your mind. And obviously like you said, the parasthesias, the, you know, numbness and tingling on all four is obviously concerning. But then you starting to see up to how many weeks are you starting to see your, your muscles start to waste away?
Dr. Bennett: Two weeks to two weeks. I’m going to tell you why. You know, Joe, when everyone’s in pain, we don’t want move it, that, that area that we’re, we’re in pain. You know, if you’ve got neck pain like I had, I didn’t want to move it. So when you don’t move your body, you lose your muscle mass. You know, when I was in that kind of pain, I was actually afraid to do things because if I were to get hurt again, that’s what’s going to make it be a major blow. But I was afraid that I was going to have more pain. You know, you get into these vicious cycles, that pain obviously makes you not want to move, makes you not want to exercise, not want to engage, not want to be outside, not doing anything that you usually do. It hurts. It hurts. And then of course, when you don’t move, you lose your muscle mass.
Dr. Bennett: So here’s a cycle that I was going through this vicious cycle of pain syndrome, neurological syndrome, not moving enough. Um, I lost my muscle within two weeks. You know, I’m not someone, if you look at me, I’m not someone who doesn’t exercise, you know what I mean? And I just could not believe how quickly I was debilitating. Um, my body was going such a debilitated state. So within those few weeks, knowing all the things that was going on, I just started like figuring out all the reasons what I can do, all the things I can do to build my muscle back quickly to get rid of the neurological symptoms obviously, but also too, to figure out what is it that I can do so that I don’t need to have surgery. Sure. I had five, actually, four were severe, but five altogether disc injuries. And that’s a central protrusion. Joe, you know what central producer means? It means basically the disc is hitting my central, my spinal cord in my neck. Right? So any new injury or anything that can damage those tissues, even more, I can have major debilitating neurological symptoms that could affect the rest of my life.
Dr. Joe Tatta: So you are, you know, four weeks out, um, you still have paresthesias in your hands and down your arms. You’re losing your muscle mass. Obviously. You know, you’re a caregiver, you’re a healer, you need your body. So what are some of the first steps? You know, you obviously probably started studying, you know, some extra research and you know, what are some of the first steps you could do? It’s helped to heal you, heal yourself,
Dr. Bennett: right? Right. So the first thing that I did was I took a look at how can I build my muscle back quickly without feeling like I’m going to have more pain. It’s very difficult when you’re in pain and people that are in chronic pain, they don’t want to do anything. So you’ve got to get therapy, which is what I did. I mean I did everything. I did physical therapy, acupuncture, I did egos. Whew. I’ve got chiropractic. I’ve got decompressions um, um, uh, decompression, uh, exercises and treatment. I bought every gadget I can, you know, use at home cause I was at work all day and yes, I did some stuff at the office, but I got um, led light therapy machine. I’ve got a specific uh, electrical stim machine and that really saves me, Joe, you as a physical therapist, you know what electrical stim is, but I had a special kind of electrical therapy that is a very, very high voltage and very low amperage.
Dr. Bennett: Uh, electric muscle contraction, relaxation machine. It is a therapy that you got to get through prescription. But um, what it did was it saved my muscles. So what I did was I put these pads on my neck and contracted and relaxed, you know, and just got my body to be able to move, move the muscles and so that I can feel less pain of course get more blood flow, you know, and that’s what I learned. I learned two things from this whole experience that it’s ischemia, low blood flow to the tissues where you’re feeling pain and, and that, um, I had low mitochondrial, um, health. What I mean by that mitochondria is basically I lost a lot of my muscle mass, which is called sarcopenia, right? Muscle muscle mass loss and function loss. Another name of that is called sarcopenia. And sarcopenia is known for age related.
Dr. Bennett: I was definitely aging quickly. I felt like it was, I was going from a really healthy individual to someone that no more, no more cycle, can’t move very well, you know, I barely could get out of bed. I was so fatigued. All of that. That’s all related to the pain syndromes that we all deal with. So what I’ve figured out was it’s excuse AMIA, meaning low blood flow. And then number two, what caused a lot of my pain was that I lost muscle, which means I lost my mitochondrial function. And that’s what I want to talk about the most today is because the mighty Mito is, which is the mitochondria, is these little organelles that are considered are, are powerhouses. And in a lot of our stills, and I mean a lot of our muscle cells, heart cells, you know, liver cells, every cell nerve cells, the only, I’d say red blood cells, we don’t have any of these mitochondria organelles, but we want to save them because 10% of our muscle mass is made out of mitochondria.
Dr. Bennett: 10% now, to me that’s a lot of weight to think about how much that is. So as soon as you lose your muscle, as soon as you experience atrophy, all right, then you’re definitely going to lose your mitochondria. And why is it so important for mitochondria is that we need it for energy production energy so that you can heal those tissues. Building blocks, you know, you need energy to build protein synthesis to build those muscles back. You need energy so that you can detoxify all of the, when you injure yourself, if God, you know, all of these waste products, yeah, you’ve got waste products, dead tissues that needs to be cleaned up and how are you going to do that without energy? So sarcopenia to me was key to healing it. And you know, the people who are at risk of sarcopenia, like for me it was, I got an injured, I had a low hormone levels at the time and that’s DHA and testosterone, which of course then blew out my estrogen too.
Dr. Bennett: And that’s the reason that those are the individuals that are higher at risk. Other people are. Um, of course when you’re obese you don’t move as much. People who have lower levels of muscle mass in their body and they can’t function as well. It hurts when you’re much bigger skid and you just imagine how much more pain there is in the joints, how much more weight there is that you’ve got to move to carry people that are sedentary. You know people that whether or not it’s because they’re under a lot of stress, it just don’t get into the gym. Their day to day activity at work is literally being on the computer. You know all those things. That is also one of the reasons why people have circle PGR or end up having muscle loss. Having a poor diet. That’s a biggie. Now, I’ve always loved eating a lot of protein and animal protein.
Dr. Bennett: I’m a meat eater but I’m going to tell you that individuals who are vegetarian, individuals who are vegan, individuals who’ve got hypochlorhydria typical time digesting proteins are going to also have sarcopenia people. People in fact start experiencing sarcopenia at 30 years old and they say that every 10 years you are going to lose 5% of your body mass, 5% of your muscle. So super important that you end up eating really well can eating the right amount of proteins. So, um, I’m going to take a sip here. Like you said, that loss of muscle mass really directly correlates to your physical function. Oh, absolutely. LA, Los and all semester, which then means how do we build it back up? I was just mentioning that a lot of my patients have a, are vegans and vegetarians. Now with those individuals, I highly recommend an amino acid supplement.
Dr. Bennett: You’ve got to replenish the amino acids that you’re not getting because you’re having more foods such as vegetables and, and yes, there’s nuts and seeds and beans and you can combine it and all that, but I’m going to tell you nothing works better than amino acids. Um, well protein, meat, protein, but also amino acids. You can take it orally. Like, for instance, I take, so what I did back then when I was trying to get back my muscles, I took amino acids and, and I, I have my own, you know, acid forming called super eight aminos. But basically what it is is it’s eight essential amino acids necessary for the building blocks to build muscle, to build your brain, to heal your tissues and what not. So super important for vegetarians to do that. Another, another, uh, factor that causes muscle loss is oxidative oxidative stress.
Dr. Bennett: When you’re under a lot of stress, when your environment is really toxic, polluted, when you’re eating foods that are loaded with pesticides and chemicals, you really drive down, uh, your level of, of um, those antioxidants. They, you use it all up and there’s too much oxidations that really, really reduces your level of ability to build muscle. And then number two, you’ve got to remember when you are stressed out, cortisol, cortisol comes into play and that is the hormone that we need to deal with stress. But too much of it will cause catabolism, meaning it’ll break down our muscles. So these are the, these are the reasons and let’s not forget, there’s a lot of other reasons why we’ve got, you know, um, uh, problems in our body that, that, you know, promote sarcopenia, including inflammation and gut issues and things like that. But I don’t want to focus so much in that because I really want to show you how can we fix all this? You know, what can we do, what can we do right away and, and, um, and to prevent, prevent is basically you’ve got to exercise, you’ve got to use those muscles.
Dr. Joe Tatta: So on this summer we have both clinicians as well as, you know, patients who are interested in healing themselves. What, let’s get a little scientific for a minute. Let’s talk about our mitochondria. We obviously know that the powerhouse of the cell, they give you power and energy, but what specifically in that, um, chain of mitochondria health do we need in our diet? How do we get it?
Dr. Bennett: Well, you don’t get mitochondria. It’s not like you…okay, very good. Thank you so much. So, um, there was a lot of great nutrients for the mitochondrial health. I love using they, if you think about it, what is the mitochondria but the cells organelles that need oxygen, that need to utilize the nutrients to build ATP, adenosine triphosphate. Now ATP is literally the energy currency in our body. It’s in fact the only, any controversy in our body that makes everything will work better. Any, every single worked better. So we, we, we want to do is we want to make sure we get the nutrients where that’s going to feed the mitochondria, the nutrients. Number one, fossil whippets, fossil lipids such as phosphatidyl, Syrian phosphatidylcholine and glycerophosphocholine. I love GPC. So when I favorite foods and I, it’s very difficult to get in food. So what I do is I take it by supplementation.
Dr. Bennett: Now when you take it with supplements, it’s important that you do take it with food. And the reason this exists, these are fat soluble, um, uh, substances. And why do we need these phospholipids? Cause it’s uh, mitochondria has these double lining. There’s an inner membrane outer membrane and all of them, those membranes are made up these false phospholipids, super poor. That’s number one. Coke, cute 10 cookie 10 is literally that rate limiting nutritional factor that’s important for what’s called electron transport chain. This is the way that we actually use the mitochondria. They go to 10 is a stimulating factor that brings the oxygen and sugar in to the cell utilizing oxygenation and breaking that, that set the street down for ATP production, whether it’s fat or sugar. Right? That’s a super point to get cocuten. I like to use at least a hundred milligrams twice a day, and that might be a lot.
Dr. Bennett: Some people might say that’s a lot, but that’s what I do. If you look at me now, I’m not like a very slow talker. I’m, Sona moves a lot and I mean energy and that’s the reason why I want to make sure I get plenty of cocaine. There are some drugs that people take to actually deplete their coterie time, correct? Yes. Those are called Statens. Anybody who are on stands for high cholesterol. That’s a totally different story. I mean, I have my own say about that. I love cholesterol. I think cholesterol is super important. It is a one of those master hormones. Uh, precursors that we need to make. If we’re the building blocks of testosterone, estrogen, progesterone, DHE, a pregnant alone cortisol, aldosterone, every one of these hormones we need cholesterol. Cholesterol is a mother hormone. So it doesn’t make sense for me to drive that down.
Dr. Bennett: You’ve got to figure out why is it that your cholesterol is high. There’s other deeper reasons. And you know, our friend Johnny Bowden will be able to share a ton of information about that. But I will tell you that anyone who’s on Statens, if your doctor needs to really tell you, you need cocuten because when you are in Statens, what does it do? It depletes it. And guess what? One of the symptoms of Staton problems and, and the um, sensitivity or, or overdose of statins is actually muscle pain, muscle pain. So everyone out there, if you’ve got, you know your doctor’s given you cholesterol cause you’ve got an a very high cholesterol level and then you’re starting to experience aches and pains, can’t walk, gets cramped, cramps in your legs, frappes in your arms. You feel so exhausted and tired, it’s because you’re actually killing your mitochondria’s secondary to the depletion of cocuten.
Dr. Bennett: So super important. Excellent for me making that. No. So another ingredient that you want is glutathione. You know, glutathione is the actual master master antioxidant in our body. There’s only two ox antioxidant that’s actually made in our body. Everything else, we get it in food. The two that we make is the gluteus Lyon and then super oxide dismutase sod. But I want to tell you about glutosiome glue. Zion is difficult to make. It really is. You need a lot of nutrients in our body. And guess what? You need three amino acids, you know, glutamic acid, glutamate, uh, you need cystine and glycine. These are all, I mean, as I was at uni. So you’ve got again, have more protein. It just keeps on going back to why you need the protein level. Another nutrient that you need is L-carnitine. If and they go on a chain, Joe, it’s found in land.
Dr. Bennett: Actually. It’s a lamb is a really good source of L-carnitine. Yeah, I love of course. Why? Why I love lamb is because they’re always free range, you know, and they don’t ever juice them up. They don’t ever give them any type of, of um, uh, antibiotics and things like that. So I’m a big, big believer of lamb so’s bison. Bison actually has a lot to of L-carnitine, but what I want to tell you oftentimes are deficient in L-carnitine cause it’s very difficult to find in the foods they’re eating, even though it’s down in beans, but not, not that much. That’s right. You’re absolutely right. So what does L-carnitine, but it does is shuttles. It shuttles the fats into the mitochondria. And remember I said earlier, that’s…the only way we make energy in ATP is to get that fat into mitochondria. So L-carnitine, I’ve been taking L-carnitine since I was in chiropractic school, Joe, long time, like about 28, 29 years. And it’s one of my ways that actually keeps my body slim school 29 years ago, by the way, Joe, I’ve been practicing. Oh my God. It was 1985. I started 1985. That’s 30 years jail. I started chiropractic school in 1985.
Dr. Bennett: Thank you so much. Another nutrient that you people don’t talk about a lot about if Pantheon Pantheon is another way. Also it’s a beef type of beef and it’s shuttles fats also from the bloodstream into the cellular membrane of the mitochondria. So those are the nutrients, Oh, let’s not forget B vitamins. We all need B vitamins, right? Why is it me all the BS? Because those are all the cofactors necessary for the Krebs cycle, which again, prep cycle has to do with energy for production. This is also held in the mitochondria as well. And then magnesium, manganese, those are all too important. Cofactor is also required to produce ATP and energy. Um, critique. Have you heard of creatine? It’s one of my new formulas that I’ve been, um, you know, using quite a bit and that’s also increases your energy level very, very important for energy production and um, that will increase also the ox water, water and oxygenation into the cell.
Dr. Bennett: Also use that. Then, uh, there’s two formulas that, um, actually there’s three. There’s three formulas that I use was very strong and was virtual, super important for making. They found that you can actually create what’s called mitochondrial biogenesis. It makes more, makes more mitochondria as well as curcumin to or rec. Have you heard of tumor at the root? We all know too because it’s such a great, um, inflammatory, you know, control console, the inflammation in our body and tumors. Just one of my favorite, favorite routes. And I’m lucky enough that at my farmer’s market, there’s a guy there that sells tumors regular. So I get that and I put in my green drink. Again, it’s, it enhances biogenesis, increases oxygenation, increases your ability to make and replicate, replicate, um, uh, the mitochondrial, mitochondrial mitochondria numbers I should say. But there’s one other I want to share is Sheila sheets.
Dr. Bennett: Let’s show is cheetahs. Tell me what, what is that? I’ve never heard of that actually, you know…is, to me it’s like an ancient, it…comes from the high Himalayans and you can only harvest it during the summer months. And I’ll tell you why. Sheila gee, is this Brown gooey? Sapp and it, it, it, um, comes out of the rocks in between the rocks in the Himalayas and between the rocks, this Brown Uzi set comes out and what they’re saying and I mean the studies had been showing us, I’ve been using…for about the last five years in fact. And it was one of the reasons why I got that was because, um, I know that, um, I learned that shows you, it helps with dementia and increases oxygenation. So she loves you. It’s like an adaptogen. You remember I said it’s in the Himalayas and what they are finding, they found out the researchers, and particularly I have made a…there isn’t an Eastern Indian doctors.
Dr. Bennett: They found out that the… Has the ability to help you deal with hypoxia. Remember I said low blood flow ischemia and mitochondrial deficiency is reason why we have pain. So what means is, excuse me, is basically low blood flow, low oxygenation. Another word also is, um, another way of looking at is hypoxia. So she was, she helps with hypoxic conditions and they would use Sheila if you were those Sherpas that mountain climbers. And people that live in the Himalayas as well as the Tibetans, they all would find this a resin is goo goo and they, what they found in the goo was that it was a mixture. I mean this is the craziest thing and it’s such an ancient food and that’s why I love it so much. It’s a mixture of fulvic acid and it’s like an herbal, uh, mineral, uh, you know, mixture of fulvic acid, minerals, all the plants and even animals, the dead debris called humus, you know, it’s called humus.
Dr. Bennett: You know what us is basically the dark soil, the top soil, um, uh, that is made when everything decomposes right and breaks down just part of the ecology of life. And that is basically what is in, that’s so strong in Sheila. So Sheila, she is difficult to find. The truth is mattered. It is. And what I ended up doing five years ago, because I wanted it for my own brain and my body because of my illness and my illness as much as my, my injury was that I created a drink called jingle and shows you, you just, you can’t go. And just eat it raw because it will, there’s stuff in it. It’s damaging. You’ve got it, process it probably. So I found a great, uh, uh, menu company that you know, harvested that and I got some. And then I created a powder called Gingy.
Dr. Bennett: And the ginger basically is a herbal tonic and it has all these great powders, um, that will help you with your energy level and build, build your ability to use oxygen, um, make more mitochondria. And I love, I love my shoulders, so I use a little bit of Schiller G, um, in that drink ginger. And I put in my green drink every day and drink it and it gives us, gives me a lot of power and a lot of energy. Uh, another thing that you got to remember is, um, I did talk about oxygenation, right? And she loves each one of them. But how else do you bring in oxygen is you’ve got to exercise. Exercise is going to be the way you’re going to reduce your pain, build your muscle, optimize and build more mitochondria. So what I want everyone to do out there is start, um, not only exercising, but even just moving, moving every day.
Dr. Bennett: Um, and I, by moving you can get more motion, more blood flow into your joints and let’s say that you’re bedridden. Some of these people out there might be listening right now and they’re like, I can’t get out of bed. Well you know what, in your, when you’re in bed, at least move some of your arms, move your leg one at a time. You just got a move to get those oxygen pumping into those muscles. And you could even use rubber band exercises. You don’t have to do, go into the gym and lift weights. You don’t have to do all of those things that everyone are so like concerned about. No, you can get rubber band exercises and just be at your desk. In fact, when you’re reading, like you and I are talking right now, Joe, I am standing.
Dr. Bennett: Yeah, right. Stand up, stand up. Take a desk here and I’m standing because I want to use my muscles, right? But what you got to remember, you while you’re studying and reading your book on your standup desk, you can be using little bits of rubber bands to strengthen up your upper body. Even you be a little bit, let’s a squatting, doesn’t matter. You just got to start moving and you gotta start somewhere. Yeah. At this point you’re, you’re fully recovered of course. So give us some ideas, congratulations. But give us an idea of what your weekly movement is like, you know, these are a certain sport you like or certain activity that really feed yourself. What do you do at this point? Well, so after doing all the therapies, you know, and I mean, you should have seen me. I don’t know. I don’t know if, um, you know, with how you are with physical therapy, but with physical therapy types of well gadgets.
Dr. Bennett: I had tons of it at home. Uh, you know, Joe, I don’t, do you know Brenda Marshall? You have random Marshall, he’s a wide receiver for the New York giants jets. Right. And I saw Brie, I mean just a brief, like my husband was watching something on, um, on the, on the show, on TV and here’s this guy. And he tells us, you know, the only way can really up level so that he can recover quickly was having the right nutrition. Again, food and nutrition, proteins, amino acids and whatnot. And then he showed us his whole variety of gadgets. And I’m not telling you that’s what you need, but I’m just sharing with you. That’s the way I had to deal with in the beginning. He had all his gadgets, uh, you know, on DV, showing him how he has these infrared machines and, and ice machines and all these machines.
Dr. Bennett: It was really fun. But anyway, I just went for a side side. It’s a great point cause sometimes it’s not just one thing that’s going to get you to some variety, different approaches to exactly. Yeah, exactly. So my routine every day is this. I wake up and I’m very routine based and I believe all humans should be. We are routine people that work with the rhythm of the sun and the moon. And we want to wake up when the sunrises, we want to go to sleep pretty much when the sun goes down or at least close to it. And so when I wake up, I do my body balancing technique, which is a tapping technique that I do. But I also do this one technique that can show you right here, Joe, I don’t know if you’d like to learn it. Sure.
Dr. Bennett: So, so this is the way that I learned this from a, uh, chronic healing master, dr Cho as even a doctor show up. And what he believes is that, um, if we can increase the energy connections in our body from our left brain to, um, the meridians, then you can optimize your energy and the blood flow to your brain and the rest of the body. So I started doing this, uh, way back when, when I started getting my injuries. And what you do is you use your first hand, your left finger, which is your thumb the front and the back. You was your forefinger pinch that year. Okay, so pantry here, low basically with your left hand first, right on that right ear. Look, you pinch your other ear with your right hand and from here you breathe in and you do a squat. Breathing in, breathing out, you stand up, breathing in, breathing out.
Dr. Bennett: You do that about seven times, 10 1214 times, all in a degree of seven reps and that will increase your oxygenation up to the brain. It’ll stimulate your pituitary gland because I’m the left ear. When you touch it is stimulating your pineal and your right brain, your right here. When you’re stimulating with your hand or their hand, you’re stimulating your pituitary gland and your left side of your brain. So it’s a way to enhance your brain functions. Another name of it, I believe it’s called super yoga, super brain yoga. So if you look up super brain yoga, you’ll find that exercise.
Dr. Joe Tatta: What I love about that is it’s so easy, so quick and you can just do it at your desk as a little break basically.
Dr. Bennett: I mean, I mean like literally just doing that right now, I’m already strung to feel energy. My skin’s a little damp and I can already feel the blood flow and the lymph flow. So I do that. And then I go get my greens. You know, first in the morning I get my greens together, I put my jingling in there, mix it up, drink it. If, if, um, I don’t like cold food, you know, I don’t like cold drinks. I don’t drink, drink a Greek green drink that’s cold.
Dr. Joe Tatta: Is that difficult on your digestion when it’s cold or
Dr. Bennett: it is, it shuts things down. You contracting your blood vessels. And remember I told you that ischemia, you know, lack of blood flows, not good for your body. It’ll cause more pain, you know, um, you, you want to, so the reason also, the reason why I like the greens is that they’re super antioxidants and, and there’s chlorophyll and what’s chlorophyll? It is a magnesium in the middle of the chlorophyll, a substance and magnesium. It also carries oxygen. So there’s a lot of reasons why you want green drink. And after that I have my breakfast. I know I jumped in the shower and then, um, get ready. And then I’m a breakfast and I eat usually a very, very big, uh, protein breakfast with some carbs and veggies. Then I’m ready to go to work. Excellent. That’s it. Yeah. Incredible. Oh my goodness. I’m, I’m starting to have my,
Dr. Joe Tatta: so as, as you damned, I just want to tell people that obviously dr Suzanne Bendon is a powerhouse of knowledge as well as energy. Make sure you go to her website, which is dr suzanne.com and she got lots of free information as well as some free giveaways. She has a great handout on the, on the whole page of our website on the healing pain summit.com. So make sure you go and you download that and get your free handout and tell us what you’re up to in the future.
Dr. Bennett: Wow. Gosh, there’s so much going on. You know, I love my radio show. I’m on radio MD wellness for life and as a talk show host, it’s, it’s been, I didn’t realize I would love it so much. So I’m really working on that. I see a ton of patients still in the office Monday through Wednesday. Um, I’ve got, you know, a lot of fun things that we’re doing with, um, friends like you and doing more interviews and doing a lot of summits and getting involved and, and uh, I’m really, really happy, uh, the direction that we’re all going. And I, I’ve, you know, broadened my, my area from, um, allergies and I went down into the gut of course. And of course now we’re working a lot on the mitochondria health and energizing body. So, um, would that, I want to share my last fun thing. Tell you what I do is that, I mean, I believe that, you know, we don’t last enough, Joe and laughing is one of the best ways to improve your energy and improve your oxygenation and really reduce pain. I mean, they’ve done studies where people last more and, and watch those funny, funny TV shows and read those comics. They all have less pain. So I’m going to, I want us to do a little laughing exercise.
Dr. Bennett: This is my last day. So I learned from dr Taniguchi that by laughing a specific way, even if you’re not, if you’re, even if you’re not happy, laugh anyway, and you do this every day and he has a special poem that that says, repeat after me, Joe. Spirit of joy, spirit of joy indwelling me, indwelling me, ever present, ever present. I call you forth now. I call you forth now. Now put your hand on your belly, your back. You don’t have a valet. I don’t have a belly. I have a stomach. Oh, stomach. I’m so sorry. You’re so right. Let’s, let’s put her hand on her stomach and you gonna arch your back and you’re not gonna. You’re not gonna laugh. Ho, ho, ho. You’re going to laugh. Ha ha ha. So watch this and you do it together. Ready one more time. Now that is so infectious. You just can’t help but laugh.
Dr. Joe Tatta: No, it’s true. My face is red as a tomato, so I know that it makes you feel good.
Dr. Bennett: That’s what you want. You know, four year olds left 300 times a day and an adult who was 40 years old only lasts four times a day. Now, if you do this every day, get yourself moving. Get yourself with that, that laughing exercise, you know, do the, the super brain exercise and eat the right foods. Get some of those amino acids, all those nutrients I talked about with the mitochondria, you’re going to really help yourself and lose that, that pain. Get rid of the pain once and for all because you’ve got so much to do. You’ve got so much to to provide an end give to your children and your family and everyone and we all have a mission, don’t we? And we want to do it pain-free.
Dr. Joe Tatta: Yes, that’s right. You know, please go on. Go on. Dr Suzanne’s website, dr suzanne.com. What I love about the laughing is that I always tell people, if you don’t have a plan for pleasure, you’re going to wind up in pain. And Suzanne, the dr Suzanne Bennett, really gave you strategies for your nutrition, for your movement, you know, tips for recovery, her own story. Um, specifics about your mitochondria, just everything you could possibly need to get, you know, get started and recover. So please check her out. Um, I want to thank her for being on the healing pain summit and for a good laugh.
Dr. Bennett: Thank you everyone. Thank you, Joe. Thank you so much. Really, really appreciate it.
Dr. Joe Tatta: All right, check out drsusanne.com and we will see you in the next episode.
