Science moves faster/ Than doctors care to embrace/ Because drugs pay bills

WEBVTT 1 00:00:08.750 --> 00:00:13.750 And know what's up. It's John Emotions on Friday. It's November, twenty 2 00:00:13.789 --> 00:00:18.829 seven, almost the end of the month. Another daily emotions for you here 3 00:00:18.989 --> 00:00:26.859 from the emo do Joe. Yeah, I'm going to start a cannabis lounge 4 00:00:27.019 --> 00:00:32.420 where we don't actually sell cannabis. You can just join it like a monthly 5 00:00:32.460 --> 00:00:35.929 fee, like a gym, and you can just go there, hang out 6 00:00:35.969 --> 00:00:41.850 and consume your cannabis without being harassed and told them move along. Be Climate 7 00:00:41.929 --> 00:00:47.369 controlled, you know, entertainment options inside. Of course all this happens after 8 00:00:47.530 --> 00:00:51.039 covid but yeah, that's that's the EMO Dojo is going to be a cannabis 9 00:00:51.280 --> 00:01:00.520 lounge. DIG It. So I've been dutifully using the lifted transcranial direct stimulation 10 00:01:00.880 --> 00:01:07.269 device. What am I doing it right, transcranial direct current stimulation, t 11 00:01:07.670 --> 00:01:11.870 DCS. It's always hard for me to mix those words up because there's a 12 00:01:11.430 --> 00:01:15.989 in there somewhere. And is it the hyphen between the Trans of the cranial? 13 00:01:15.069 --> 00:01:22.579 Is it TANCD? Huh? Yeah, anyway, T DCS. I 14 00:01:22.700 --> 00:01:25.819 just remember because DC like the comics, and there's a little tiny tea in 15 00:01:25.900 --> 00:01:30.739 the front of it. Anyway, that's what I'm working on and using it 16 00:01:30.459 --> 00:01:38.609 regularly. Now it's pretty cool. I would describe the like it's it's fashionable, 17 00:01:38.769 --> 00:01:42.290 but it's not something you would wear in public. It is something I 18 00:01:42.489 --> 00:01:47.129 would wear maybe during a commute, but you're not supposed to wear it while 19 00:01:47.129 --> 00:01:52.000 you drive a car. So now maybe if I car pulled with somebody, 20 00:01:52.200 --> 00:01:56.560 I would definitely put on the lifted every morning in the back seat. I 21 00:01:56.599 --> 00:01:59.959 don't care what my friends are, regular acquaintances. It's that it's that kind 22 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:02.510 of esthetic. You know, if people know you and you know you're into 23 00:02:02.510 --> 00:02:06.829 kind of interesting things and you have a moment to explain what the hell it 24 00:02:06.909 --> 00:02:13.430 is, then sure, if you're around those regular people, the lifted neurostimulation 25 00:02:13.509 --> 00:02:17.020 device is fine. It's not so obtrusive to where you couldn't wear it like 26 00:02:17.139 --> 00:02:21.020 around the office or whatever. Like. Sure, if people are think you're 27 00:02:21.060 --> 00:02:24.539 weird, but they probably think you're weird anyway. So I guess my thought 28 00:02:24.620 --> 00:02:28.259 on that was like, if it's going if I'm just going to wear it 29 00:02:28.340 --> 00:02:34.129 around people that I'm comfortable with, people that I see regularly and that I 30 00:02:35.289 --> 00:02:38.689 I can explain what the fuck it is, then it could actually be a 31 00:02:38.729 --> 00:02:43.490 little weirder looking and the reason I bring this up is because I'm thinking, 32 00:02:43.569 --> 00:02:47.199 if it's doing whatever it's doing, if it's stimulating the parts of my frontal 33 00:02:47.319 --> 00:02:53.479 lobe up there, well, what other effects could we achieve if we had 34 00:02:53.639 --> 00:02:58.280 add little stimulators on different parts of your scalp that were aimed at different parts 35 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:01.710 of your brain? So I'm fascinated by that. I think that would be 36 00:03:01.789 --> 00:03:07.629 cool and not so goofy to where you couldn't wear it in the same circumstances 37 00:03:07.710 --> 00:03:10.389 that you would wear this now. I'm not talking make it like a gigantic, 38 00:03:10.509 --> 00:03:15.219 Dorky bike helmet looking thing or anything like that. I'm just saying there's 39 00:03:15.219 --> 00:03:19.740 a little bit of room probably for some other stimulators. I don't know what 40 00:03:19.939 --> 00:03:24.300 stimulating other parts of the brain would do, but I'm always up for an 41 00:03:24.419 --> 00:03:31.330 adventure. So I got a really cool email from the developers, the inventors, 42 00:03:31.330 --> 00:03:35.129 let's say, of the product, and he said he said he and 43 00:03:35.210 --> 00:03:38.810 his wife had listened to the podcast the other night where I was talking about 44 00:03:38.810 --> 00:03:44.159 the device and he thanked me for for sharing. So I appreciate that that 45 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:49.759 they are listening. So shout out to the the developers, the inventors. 46 00:03:49.800 --> 00:03:53.120 I don't want to name check them because they you know, you can find 47 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:54.990 out who they are anyway. But Oh, in fact they're on shark tank, 48 00:03:54.990 --> 00:03:58.590 because I went back and looked. I looked at their names in the 49 00:03:58.669 --> 00:04:01.590 email and then I went back to shark tank is on Hulu. So if 50 00:04:01.590 --> 00:04:04.710 you have Hulu, you can go check this out for yourself and yeah, 51 00:04:04.710 --> 00:04:09.270 it's the same people. So cool. It's kind of weird, like kind 52 00:04:09.310 --> 00:04:12.300 of Meta, that you see something that you're interested in on one screen, 53 00:04:12.860 --> 00:04:16.779 you type into a keyboard on a different screen and then the thing you saw 54 00:04:16.980 --> 00:04:21.100 on the first screen appears in your mail box and you put it on your 55 00:04:21.139 --> 00:04:26.810 head and then you can talk about it and then the people on the first 56 00:04:26.810 --> 00:04:30.850 screen can hear you talk about it through a different device on a smaller screen. 57 00:04:30.490 --> 00:04:35.449 So it's all very conceptual. This quite the construct we've built here as 58 00:04:35.449 --> 00:04:39.639 humans. But I wanted to go back to shark tank and kind of see, 59 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:44.240 like what really happened there, and I've kind of discerned what happened here. 60 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:46.920 So there's a couple things when well, for one, when you go 61 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:51.040 on Shark Tank, you're not just there for the twenty minutes, you're there 62 00:04:51.079 --> 00:04:55.470 for hours and does a whole bunch of people. It's kind of like star 63 00:04:55.589 --> 00:04:59.509 serves. There's people literally outside giving pitches to the producers like Hey, can 64 00:04:59.550 --> 00:05:01.110 I try mine? Can I try mine? It's a shit show. So 65 00:05:01.709 --> 00:05:06.540 the idea that they got into the shark tank to begin with is amazing, 66 00:05:06.899 --> 00:05:11.899 but it also reminds me of star search, where the producers kind of pick 67 00:05:11.980 --> 00:05:15.740 people they think might be wacky based on personality and or the device, or 68 00:05:15.819 --> 00:05:19.379 a combination of the two, just for a good show. And now, 69 00:05:19.500 --> 00:05:24.209 in hindsight, I get a sense that they may have been set up a 70 00:05:24.250 --> 00:05:29.009 little bit in that sense, which sucks. And here's why. The okay, 71 00:05:29.050 --> 00:05:31.490 so let me back up one step real quick so you know when, 72 00:05:32.329 --> 00:05:40.160 especially if you're taking medication for into kind of mental illness, you're supposed to 73 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:46.519 also do therapy. Medication alone won't work, because stimulating your brain from outside 74 00:05:46.519 --> 00:05:50.629 sources like medicine are great, but while your neurons are in that active state, 75 00:05:50.709 --> 00:05:56.189 you're supposed to be retraining it with better material. If you're reliving all 76 00:05:56.269 --> 00:06:00.389 the past old stories of your trauma and your anxieties and everything, you're going 77 00:06:00.389 --> 00:06:02.670 to keep bringing those up. If you just take the MEDS, and you 78 00:06:02.709 --> 00:06:08.379 don't get therapy. So it's a pretty simple concept of when the neurons are 79 00:06:08.420 --> 00:06:12.180 active and and flying around in there in a kind of fluffy sparkles, you 80 00:06:12.300 --> 00:06:16.019 want to reorganize them in a better way, and I think that's what they 81 00:06:16.019 --> 00:06:20.129 were talking about, and I actually I'd like to know more about the science 82 00:06:20.170 --> 00:06:25.170 of this. So when the developer we're talking to the sharks about this lifted 83 00:06:25.290 --> 00:06:30.410 device. The moment the guy was about to explain to Lori how it worked 84 00:06:30.689 --> 00:06:34.079 and it was about to talk about how, while the neurons are excited, 85 00:06:34.439 --> 00:06:39.360 you should be doing something else. In other words, this isn't a device 86 00:06:39.399 --> 00:06:43.279 you put on your head and meditate in silence. This is a device you 87 00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:46.199 put on your head, like I could be doing my podcast right now with 88 00:06:46.319 --> 00:06:49.269 it on, or game. I play call of duty the other day, 89 00:06:50.189 --> 00:06:57.350 do some computer work. I watched documentaries about arcane subject matter and things like 90 00:06:57.430 --> 00:07:00.029 that. So yeah, you just get about your daily business and try to 91 00:07:00.069 --> 00:07:05.220 feed your brain with more positive or interesting things. To my estimation, that's 92 00:07:05.259 --> 00:07:09.139 what you should do. So that's what I'm doing. But the moment the 93 00:07:09.259 --> 00:07:13.939 developer was trying to explain this to Laurie Mark Cuban jumps in there and interrupts. 94 00:07:14.540 --> 00:07:18.329 He just starts reading the Vuggin warning label off the box. Well, 95 00:07:18.569 --> 00:07:21.329 of course there's a warning label. It's supposed to be there. So reading 96 00:07:21.370 --> 00:07:26.529 the warning label off the boxes like, are you trying to snitch on somebody, 97 00:07:26.569 --> 00:07:30.720 because you're reading what they're telling us. So, anyway, the warning 98 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:34.079 label wasn't the issue. The issue to me was that Mark said, well, 99 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:39.560 if this doesn't have any medical efficacy, then what's the point? That's 100 00:07:39.560 --> 00:07:42.720 kind of shameful in my mind, because here's the point. This is a 101 00:07:42.800 --> 00:07:47.430 scientific device. It's not a medical device. The medical establishment is generations, 102 00:07:47.550 --> 00:07:51.550 like human generations, forty, five, sixty, eighty years behind science. 103 00:07:53.230 --> 00:08:00.180 There is proven science for lots of things and in fact the science of neurostimulation 104 00:08:00.420 --> 00:08:07.100 is proven and it's been also tested by medical doctors and neurosurgeons and the whole 105 00:08:07.139 --> 00:08:13.569 range of people that are interested in brains have tested the science of neurostimulation. 106 00:08:13.370 --> 00:08:20.170 However, that doesn't make it a medical device because the medical establishment hasn't seen 107 00:08:20.290 --> 00:08:26.050 fit, they haven't created enough intention or desire or profit motive or whatever to 108 00:08:26.410 --> 00:08:31.759 look into this because, frankly, neurostimulation is a cheap way to fix things 109 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:37.000 if it really works right now, hypothetically speaking again, there's no medical claims 110 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:39.480 on the device, and I'm certainly no doctor, but imagine it if a 111 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:45.669 divice that costs a hundred and fifty dollars actually worked and you didn't need your 112 00:08:46.070 --> 00:08:50.870 prescriptions that cost a hundred fifty dollars a week because you're now using the device 113 00:08:50.990 --> 00:08:54.350 that cost a hundred fifty dollars once. So I'm not I'm a fan of 114 00:08:54.429 --> 00:08:58.500 conspiracies, but I see conspiracies for what they are. But in this case 115 00:08:58.379 --> 00:09:01.740 there there's in a sense of conspiracy of silence. or I mean, here's 116 00:09:01.740 --> 00:09:07.139 another example. I'm in the cannabis. They also use catamine for depression. 117 00:09:07.220 --> 00:09:11.090 Now they're working on Pilocybin, you know, magic mushrooms. So the medical 118 00:09:11.129 --> 00:09:16.370 establishment doesn't research cannabis, ketamine or PSILOCYBIN. That doesn't mean they don't work, 119 00:09:16.370 --> 00:09:22.250 it means the medical establishment is slow and moded, motivated by something other 120 00:09:22.289 --> 00:09:28.120 than human kindness and trying to cure illness, like probably money. You know. 121 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:33.759 That said, I don't have a problem with the including neurostimulation in the 122 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:37.909 realm of reality of things that actually do work, but what part they're working 123 00:09:37.950 --> 00:09:41.110 on remains to be seen right like in one. Like I said, I'd 124 00:09:41.149 --> 00:09:46.830 really do want to know about that. The regenerating new thoughts, like the 125 00:09:46.870 --> 00:09:56.220 whole idea of doing medicine with therapy or doing neurostimulation with whatever. Like perhaps 126 00:09:56.980 --> 00:10:01.740 neurostimulation with therapy would be awesome. I would love to dry that. In 127 00:10:01.860 --> 00:10:05.500 fact I will. I don't have a therapist currently. I mean the gap 128 00:10:05.700 --> 00:10:07.850 between insurances. I don't have in Arran. So I would like to get 129 00:10:07.850 --> 00:10:13.009 some telehealth going or something like that, even a peer to peer zoom call 130 00:10:13.210 --> 00:10:18.850 maybe with a depression group or something where I can share and hear others feedback 131 00:10:18.490 --> 00:10:24.639 while I'm wearing the neurostimulation device. I'm a goofball. I would definitely do 132 00:10:24.759 --> 00:10:28.320 that. Like it's not so weird looking where it would look out of place 133 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:30.960 on a zoom call. I've seen a lot of weird things on a zoom 134 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:37.269 call and a lifted neurostimulation device would not look that strange. So anyway, 135 00:10:37.350 --> 00:10:43.309 on UN Shark tank they never got to explain fully how it worked because mark 136 00:10:43.429 --> 00:10:50.220 interrupted after Lori asked the question and once mark interrupted the the inventor's kind of 137 00:10:50.259 --> 00:10:52.940 like me, it's like well, and again back to the other point. 138 00:10:54.059 --> 00:10:56.980 They weren't there just twenty minutes. This is after hours. And then they 139 00:10:58.059 --> 00:11:03.580 caught all the video of the inventor looking flustered like I would be, and 140 00:11:03.820 --> 00:11:07.409 then then Robert got into it with them a little bit on the show, 141 00:11:07.129 --> 00:11:11.889 and then Kevin said he's about to go down as like one of the crank 142 00:11:11.929 --> 00:11:18.720 demonstrations in Shark tank history, which I totally disagree with. I don't yeah, 143 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:20.600 yeah, was it didn't seem that bad. I mean, if they 144 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:24.720 edited that Shark tank to make them look as crazy as possible and that's the 145 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:30.440 worst they made them, it's not that bad at all. The sad thing 146 00:11:30.559 --> 00:11:35.549 is, though, they're just shitting on technology, scientific technology, again, 147 00:11:35.669 --> 00:11:41.590 not medical technology, but they're shitting on proven scientific technology that can stimulate the 148 00:11:41.629 --> 00:11:46.870 brain and proven research that shows that this can help depression. So you got 149 00:11:46.950 --> 00:11:50.019 the sharks basically shitting on it. Let me say that more correctly so the 150 00:11:52.620 --> 00:12:00.419 transcription gets that right. Shark tank is shitting on scientifically proven technology because they're 151 00:12:00.500 --> 00:12:07.889 beholding to the pharmaceutical industry question mark. I'm just playing. I have no 152 00:12:07.929 --> 00:12:13.370 idea, but it makes you wonder like, why be so dismissive so quickly 153 00:12:13.090 --> 00:12:16.519 and try to frame the guy as a Kuke? I don't know. Go 154 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:22.360 check it out. So Anyway, Hulu, season twelve, episode five, 155 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:26.519 and if you want to check it out for yourself, go to get liftedcom 156 00:12:28.080 --> 00:12:33.110 get get and lifted as Elift ID lifted like your it. Get it that 157 00:12:35.110 --> 00:12:37.710 all right? So cool. Yeah, like I said, it's Friday. 158 00:12:37.909 --> 00:12:41.990 I'll be back here tomorrow, Saturday. Daily means daily right now, so 159 00:12:43.110 --> 00:12:46.340 until I figure out something else to do, it's going to be daily. 160 00:12:46.500 --> 00:13:00.769 I have a great night. Talk to you tomorrow. And now back to 161 00:13:00.850 --> 00:13:01.129 the wall.