Full Transcript Welcome to A Regenerative Life 0:00 Hi, I'm Dr. 0:00 Scott Stoll and welcome to a regenerative life podcast where science becomes hope, food becomes a catalyst for healing and every conversation explores 0:09 the profound connections between personal health, human flourishing and the earth and future that we will share together. 0:16 But more importantly, we'll explore one of the most important questions of our time. 0:20 What happens when we actually begin living in alignment with the way we were designed? 0:26 Hi and welcome to my new podcast. 0:30 A regenerative life, the science of healing, and the power of the plate. 0:34 You know, when I thought about starting a podcast, my first thought was the world doesn't need another podcast and then I had a number of people that encouraged 0:44 me They said, you have experienced so much and know so many interesting people in this space. 0:51 Why don't you start a podcast so you can share the experiences you've had with other people? 0:57 and to help raise the collective understanding around this idea of regenerative medicine. 1:02 And my history goes back more than 20 years ago, when I was in my practice, practicing medicine just like I had been taught in medical school and residency, 1:11 and I heard a patient say something to me that I'd heard 100 times before, maybe even that week. 1:18 My patient said to be, Dr. 1:19 Stoll, can you help me? 1:21 I'm falling apart. 1:22 And this was a common statement that I had heard in my practice.
A Patient's Crisis and a New Question 1:25 I'd heard family members say this. 1:27 But this day, I asked a curious question. 1:30 And for all of us, this is really the importance of pausing to ask curious questions because it challenges our current understanding and paradigms. 1:46 Now, I had kind of a preconceived idea as a physician what I was listening for so that I could develop some kind a treatment plan to move things along. 1:57 Well, there was a long pause, which caused me to look up from my chart, and I noticed that my patient had tears in the corner of her eyes. 2:05 And she said to me, she says, Dr. 2:06 Stoll, my marriage is falling apart because my husband is really exhausted from providing daily care for me. 2:14 Well, now she had my attention. 2:17 And she went on, she said, we're facing financial bankruptcy because the cost of healthcare has really put extreme burden on our family finances. 2:27 I can't travel to see my grandchildren, I was in Pennsylvania and this was traveling to Washington. 2:33 Can't attend church or social activities. 2:36 Depressed and I really don't have many friends left. 2:39 And then she looked up and she said, can you help me? 2:43 Well, that was maybe the first time in my early practice that I had no answers. 2:49 There was no test that i could order, there was medication to prescribe, injection, anything that could do in that moment to actually meet her need, 3:01 which was helping restore her lost quality of life. 3:04 I realized a couple things in that moment. 3:06 I realize I had not been trained to help somebody restore their lost quality of life. 3:11 It was very well trained in differential diagnosis, interpreting MRIs, lab tests, doing procedures, prescribing medications, 3:19 understanding drug-drug interactions and side effects. 3:23 But now I've realized something for the first time. 3:26 Everything on her past medical history list. 3:29 was not being reversed, and the symptoms from those were actually undermining her quality of life. 3:37 They were stealing the vibrancy, the vitality, purpose, meaning, connection from her life I also realized in that moment I didn't know where these diseases 3:50 actually came from. 3:51 They had names. 3:53 I understood the pathophysiology, the biochemistry, and the way drugs worked. 3:59 And that was an important question. 4:02 What's the root cause?
Discovering Root Causes and Lifestyle Medicine 4:05 Because I was also asking myself, Can they be reversed? 4:09 Because I'm now realizing these diseases are stealing her quality of life, and I don't know how to stop them. 4:17 So it sent me on a personal learning journey. 4:19 I felt compelled, not only by that patient, but the realization now that all of my patients, my friends, family, so many people in healthcare, 4:30 are facing this loss of quality life because we don' understand root causes, And at that point in time, I didn't know how to reverse them. 4:39 It started me on this journey of trying to understand how do I restore lost quality of life? 4:46 Essentially, how I regenerate somebody's life. 4:50 Well, initially my focus was very myopic. 4:54 I was looking at disease processes. 4:56 What causes disease? 4:57 Where does inflammation come from? 4:59 What's the root of insulin resistance in type 2 diabetes? 5:03 How does someone develop atherosclerosis? 5:06 Why does the body attack itself in autoimmune disease and what's epicenter of auto immune disease. 5:13 Can we prevent it? 5:14 What are the environmental factors? 5:17 And then I began to discover answers in my research. 5:21 And through this podcast, we're going to explore all of those pathways. 5:26 So don't worry. 5:26 We're gonna get in some very interesting discussions about the root cause of disease, the epicenter of autoimmune disease. 5:35 and the environmental factors, the exposure, and some of our genetic susceptibilities that come from our ancestors. 5:43 And how all those things through an intersexual lens can either cause disease or, when we understand the root cause, can be the pathway to reversing disease. 5:54 So I began to understand that lifestyle is more important, critically important than I was ever trained or understood. 6:02 In fact, in medical school, less than 1% of our total education time today is dedicated to diet and lifestyle. 6:11 And yet the leading cause of death and disability globally today, is diet. 6:17 So there's this massive gap that we have in our education process and what's currently affecting people around the world. 6:25 Diet and lifestyle are the leading cause of death and disability, and yet only 1% of our education time in healthcare education is related to diet and disabilities. 6:36 There's a massive gap. 6:38 And that's what I've spent the last 20 plus years of my career studying—is that gap? 6:44 What can be done not only to prevent disease, not only to suspend disease, but what can be done to reverse disease to help somebody actually begin regenerating 6:57 their quality of life—regenerating tissue, regenerated lost function, generating energy—and then moving from there to regenerate lifestyles, 7:08 connections, relationships, communities, ecosystems. 7:14 I also began to see, for the first time in my practice of medicine, people coming back to life again.
Regenerative Medicine and Patient Transformations 7:21 I started to use my prescription pad for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and I would tear that off and give it to my patients, 7:28 things that I actually had the night before. 7:31 and they would go home and we would begin working together to help them change their lifestyle. 7:35 And they will come back a few weeks later and say, gosh, I haven't felt this good in 20 years. 7:40 In fact, my diabetes doctor and chronologist took me off my medications because my blood sugar's normalized. 7:48 I had a gentleman that couldn't walk to his mailbox without chest pain, taking nitroglycerin for chest to get to the mailbox. 7:55 Six months later, he's walking three miles chest-pain-free. 7:58 I had thousands of patients, because I have a very busy practice, whose lives were radically changed as I was using my prescription pad for breakfast, 8:07 lunch, dinner, mindfulness, lifestyle changes, movement. 8:12 And at the same time, I also was practicing musculoskeletal medicine. 8:16 I began to do a deep dive. 8:19 to answering the question, how can I begin healing damaged tissues, tendons, ligaments, muscles, cartilage? 8:27 And that took me down an entirely new road of regenerative medicine, which we're also going to talk about on this podcast. 8:34 So I began to combine these things in my practice and the entire tenor, the environment, and tone of my practices changed to such a degree that even my 8:45 staff began changing their lifestyles. 8:47 I had an assistant who had chronic Crohn's disease in her mid-twenties. 8:51 And she asked me one day for assistance and I helped her. 8:55 And to this day, she is still symptom free, radically changed her life. 9:00 I was asked to serve on the scientific advisory board at Whole Foods. 9:03 We started doing one week health immersions for their team members, which I still do today. 9:08 And again, I saw the incredible potential for transformation in just a week, when we just change for a weak and we give our body the opportunity and the 9:20 resources that it needs to begin doing what it knows so well to do. 9:24 Your body has innate intelligence on how to regenerate, repair, rebuild, restore. 9:30 It's just looking for the right opportunity, and right resources. 9:35 When we provide that, your body goes into overdrive. 9:38 And that's what I began to see. 9:40 Even in one week, people's medications being tapered down, pain going away, anxiety and depression being lifted in just a week. 9:48 It sounded like a miracle, but the miracle really was happening inside, at the biochemical level, where the body was taking the resources from the food 9:59 and the opportunity through rest and a good night's sleep and some mindfulness and movement, and putting all of that together in a magical alchemy that 10:10 we think we understand, but we really can't understand to the degree that it's happening. 10:14 37,000 billion billion chemical reactions happening every second in your incredible body. 10:21 and the body starts recovering. 10:23 And so I went on to start a not-for-profit called The Plantrition Project. 10:27 Please take a look, PlantricianProject.org, to educate healthcare professionals globally with this information. 10:34 I saw such incredible transformation in my patients.I wanted more clinicians and even people that are health enthusiasts to take this apply it to their 10:44 own lives, share it with their patients, and share with family members so they too can begin experiencing regeneration.
Food, Earth, and the Regenerative Movement 10:51 We started conferences, we started a journal, International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention. 10:56 It's free, please sign up, continue to follow the studies. 11:00 And then I began to see something else. 11:02 I begin to look through a broader lens, kind of opening the aperture. 11:10 Where does my food come from? 11:12 And is that really important? 11:15 I began to see that the earth was suffering in many of the same ways that my patients were suffering—depletion of resources, 11:24 depletions of energy, inflammation, loss of biodiversity, just like our microbiome, and that the ecosystem of the Earth was also in a chronic disease state. 11:38 So I began to ask a bigger question, understanding that average person eats about 2,000 pounds of food per year. 11:47 What is the impact of 2 thousand pounds times 8.5 billion people? 11:54 not only on the individuals—we know that chronic disease is at epidemic levels globally—but also the impact of that food production on resources that are 12:06 being used to create food, the soil, water, inputs. 12:11 Are they organic? 12:12 Are the chemical in nature? 12:15 The impact of chemicals running off into waterways, topsoil, and nitrates going down rivers into the ocean creating dead zones. 12:25 The impacts of industry on resources like fishing, where we are hyper-focused on fish being healthy, but we're depleting the fisheries at a cost. 12:39 And so, I began to ask the question, what if we could do more than just regenerate our bodies? 12:47 What if, through a collective movement of understanding the incredible transformative power of a healing regenerative plate, 12:57 healing, regenerate connections and relationships? 13:01 What if we could actually begin regenerating our families, our local communities, or local ecosystems? 13:09 And what would the impact be of multiplied microcultures of communities around the world, beginning to take responsibility for themselves, 13:20 take responsibilities for the resources that are being used to create food for them. 13:26 What if we began to reconnect in meaningful ways, moving out of silos and compartmentalization that has become such a part of our Westernized society, 13:36 and we actually reconnected? 13:38 We reconnect with ourselves, our own hearts, our minds, our passions, and our beliefs that things can get better. 13:48 What if we reconnected with those around us in more meaningful, deep ways, heart to heart, understanding the incredible inherent value of every single 13:58 person and the privilege of having relationships with these people while we're here on earth? 14:05 And what if those relationships helped us to aspire to something greater? 14:11 To say to ourselves, we are stewarding the resources that have been given to us, which includes the earth resources for the next generation. 14:21 How can we stewer those resources in such a way that we regenerate those things that are damaged? 14:27 we regenerate things that are lost, and we hand this earth off to the next generation in better condition than we received it. 14:36 And so, this is that podcast. 14:39 This is a regenerative life. 14:42 It is this joyful, curious journey to explore questions from the simplest, deepest question, how do I reverse insulin resistance in my body and what is it? 14:56 How can I begin to bring autoimmune diseases into remission and restore my lost vitality and energy? 15:04 how can i begin reversing my heart disease? 15:07 to how can I begin even reversing a muscle tear? 15:11 How can i begin restoring and repairing relationships with myself and with others? 15:16 how Can we build healthy, happy microcultures and communities around us? 15:22 And then more collectively asking questions, how come we repair and regenerate the food system that creates 24 trillion pounds of food every year?
What This Podcast Will Explore 15:34 Is there a way that we can actually grow food and regenerate soil, regenerates the biodiversity of life, creates living ecosystems in our farm fields and 15:48 meaningful wages for our farmers. 15:51 I'd like to just pause for a moment and to say that it's my desire through this podcast to elevate farmers to the role of healthcare provider. 16:00 regenerative organic farmer that is carefully growing food and caring for the earth to provide food so that we can go to the store and buy it is a healthcare worker. 16:13 They are providing health for earth, for that ecosystem around their farm, and for individuals that are purchasing food.They've often been pushed to side, 16:23 forgotten even denigrated, but I want to elevate farmers to a new role. 16:28 They are participants, they are leaders in this regenerative movement. 16:33 And then what if we collectively catch a different vision, and this, in 10 years, becomes something that governments are interested in? 16:44 and we could actually begin regenerating soil, air, water, and hand this world off in better condition. 16:52 Wouldn't that be exciting? 16:54 Well, we can do the best that we with our own resources. 16:59 And that's what I'm doing with this podcast. 17:01 And I want to take you on a journey with me. 17:03 I wanted to introduce you to some of the most incredible people that I've met along my journey. 17:10 Doctors, government leaders, farmers, individuals who've transformed their lives through this kind of science. 17:20 I wanna teach you the science of healing, down to the deepest levels. 17:24 We're gonna do a deep dive into biology and I'm gonna give you biology 101, 201, 301, and ultimately PhD level science that you will understand and it 17:38 will inspire you and cause you to look at your body with awe and wonder, perhaps in new ways that your not ever imagined before. 17:47 I want to take you down a journey of regenerative medicine, musculoskeletal medicine building a healthier structure, muscles, 17:54 bones, joints, connective tissue. 17:57 How do we do that? 17:58 From the types of exercises to our sleep to regenerate treatments that are available today, I wanna introduce you to those leaders. 18:06 I'm gonna introduce to people in the agricultural arena. 18:11 amazing farmers and scientists, and teach you about the power of soil and regenerative organic practices to not only create healthier food, 18:22 but a healthier environment for the world and for future. 18:26 We're going to go down roads of exploring, regenerating relationships with ourselves and others, improving our communication skills, 18:34 understanding behavioral science, and translating all of the incredible science of lifestyle and diet into a livable lifestyle. 18:44 The science is only as good as it is translated into lifestyle that is sustainable. 18:49 And I'm going to take you deep into that science as well to help you understand how to create something that's fun and vibrant, 18:55 food that is delicious, and a lifestyle that becomes an enhancement and not a burden. 19:01 The podcast is going be filled with joy, with laughter, incredible conversations. 19:08 I'm always curious and I am looking for new individuals to interview, so we're going to learn new things together, which is really going be exciting. 19:16 I love to ask curious questions and we are going do it together by finding leaders from around the world to join us on this podcast and answer those questions. 19:27 And I want to connect with you, I wanna hear your questions, answer your question, get to know you and take you on an exciting journey with me. 19:38 So you ready to join me on this podcast? 19:40 We are going to have an amazing time together. 19:43 It is possible to live a regenerative life. 19:46 And I want to encourage you, it is possibly to feel vibrantly alive again.
Join the Journey 19:50 it Is possible live fully alive, to wake up with energy in the morning, To have hope in your heart and vision for your future. 19:59 Its possible have regenerated healthy relationships to reconnect to all parts of your life in meaningful ways. 20:08 It's possible to see a different future and actually achieve it. 20:13 And we're going to get there together by having conversations with experts from around the world that are not only going give us the science, 20:20 but they're gonna give the pathways to application. 20:24 So thanks for joining me on A Regenerative Life. 20:26 I'm Dr. 20:27 Scott Stoll. 20:28 and I will look forward to seeing you on my next podcast. 20:32 Go make it a great day. 20:33 Thanks for listening to a regenerative life podcast, if this conversation inspired you, follow the podcast share it with someone you care about and join 20:42 us changing the world one bite, one conversation, One connection and one life at a time. 20:47 Please visit PlantritionProject.org or Dr. 20:50 Scott Stoll for more information.
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