On today’s episode of the Meehan Mission podcast, we’re talking about SIDS, sudden infant death syndrome. Now, I know this is a scary topic for parents and especially when we’re told by pediatricians and other scientists that we don’t know what causes it. Well, is that the truth? I don’t think so. Today’s guest is Nic Hulscher with the McCullough Foundation. And this organization challenges science, brings us science, and puts the topics on the table that we need to discuss. So, please share this podcast with other fellow parents and friends that are seeking the truth. Cathy Meehan: Hello everyone and welcome to this episode of the Meehan Mission Podcast. I am just thrilled to bring you all Nic Hulscher with the McCullough Foundation. Nic, thank you for joining us today. Nic Hulscher: Thanks for having me. Cathy Meehan: You bet. I just want to let our listeners know if they need a resource, a place to go or information, I highly, highly recommend that they subscribe to the Focal Points newsletter. I mean, constantly you guys are pushing out material and these are the conversations that we really need to have because you guys are really bringing science back in to, you know, really expose some of the corruption in the medical industry and I really appreciate that so very much. So, thank you. Now, that being said, Nic, you all have so much material. I was like, what are we going to talk about? And I know near and dear to my heart is SIDS, sudden infant death syndrome. I have friends and acquaintances especially that we’ve met over the years of fighting for medical freedom that have actually lost their child shortly after vaccinations. It was labeled and diagnosed as SIDS. So I want to talk about that, but I also wanted to bring you on because the work that you guys have done on the determinants of autism spectrum disorder. I just wanted to touch on that first because that work that you all did really has catapulted the conversation more. So can you just give our listeners a brief overview of that work? Nic Hulscher: Definitely. Definitely. Well, so basically what we did in that determinants of autism spectrum disorder report was we scavenged the entire peer-reviewed literature on every single possible cause of autism. You know, what could be contributing the most. And so we found about nine factors. We found there was over 300 studies included in this report. And among the factors contributing to autism appear to be, you know, older parents, siblings with autism, environmental exposures. So, you know, heavy metals, even if you live near a factory appeared to be associated, as well as pesticide exposure and especially even living in areas that spray high levels of pesticides, as well as direct animal studies where pregnant rats are given glyphosate and the children have autism-like behaviors. So things like that, in-utero drug exposures. So if the pregnant mother is taking, you know, antipsychotics or anti-seizure medications or SSRIs, SNRIs or what are called these anti-depressants during pregnancy, it is also linked to autism. And so you have all of that stuff and you know you have maternal immune activation. So basically, you know, if the mother gets very sick and has a high fever, this can impact fetal neural development. And then there’s a few other things: the gut microbiome. So gut-brain axis disruptions appear to be very, very important in the link to autism. Usually most children with autism do have very dysregulated gut functioning. Then we got to vaccines and the evidence was undeniable. We found 136 vaccine-related studies, but 107 of them—so, you know, over 70% of these studies—indicated a positive association between vaccines and autism or neurodevelopmental disorders. So a vast majority when they look, you know, there is that association. There were 12 vaccinated versus unvaccinated studies and every single one found the same thing where vaccinated children have far higher risks of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders: ADHD, tics, speech delays, and learning disabilities. So that was undeniable. And then the studies that claimed there was no association were riddled with fatal flaws. But first and foremost, there was no real control group. No unvaccinated control group. So you cannot possibly derive an accurate risk estimate with no control group. And then when looking at all this evidence—and you’ll see it in the figure, the primary figure of this report—nothing else could explain the drastic rise in autism since the 80s other than the propagation of the vaccination schedule, which went from, you know, about just 7 to 10 doses in the 60s and 70s, then up to 72 doses by age 18 last year. None of them were tested in long-term placebo-control trials first of all, but a vast majority were never tested for autism. Only MMR was, and you know, a few others, but I mean none of the vaccines given before 6 months were tested for autism. And so yeah, it was undeniable that appears because every child is getting vaccinations, large amounts of them. It is the—and we concluded that it is the most significant modifiable risk factor for autism. And what that means is the biggest exposure that you can actually prevent and change would be the vaccinations. Cathy Meehan: Yeah. I mean, that makes total sense. I mean, I think we’ve all seen the chart where the increase in the number of doses and the increase in the number of autism cases—it literally parallels right up the chart for the first two years of life. And you’re right, it was after the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act where pharmaceutical companies, I mean, they created cash cows for the pharmaceutical industries. They didn’t have to prove safety. And you know that brings us into: but Nic, vaccines are safe and effective, right? I mean that’s what we all know, that you go to your pediatrician,
Saundra Traywick on PANDAS, Autism Overlap & Autoimmune Issues | Donkey Milk Story
Cathy Meehan: Hey everyone, it’s Cathy Meehan and today I am excited that we get to introduce our community to Saundra Traywick. So, what’s special about Saundra Traywick? Well, I’ll tell you guys, I never thought I’d be talking about donkey milk on a podcast, but this woman is amazing. She is a resource and I want to introduce you all to Saundra so that she can talk to us about donkey milk. So Saundra, how in the world did you get to where you are? Can you give us a little bit of a background? Saundra Traywick: Well, first thank you for having me on. It is always humbling when people like you take the time to interview us and get our story. So I want to thank you for that and for everything the example you have been of courage. I’m just so—you’re a blessing to our state and to the children and the families that you help. So, thank you. Cathy Meehan: Thank you. Saundra Traywick: Yeah, absolutely. The question, how did we get here? Is that what you’re asking? Cathy Meehan: Yeah. How much time do we have? Saundra Traywick: Well, it was totally God that we always have to give him the credit because this was not a part of our plan. When our daughter was 6 years old, she was totally normal and very creative and very brilliant and doing all the things. And one day she woke up and she had extreme—actually the first symptom we noticed was extreme body odor and she was six. And then separation anxiety and then OCD washing her hands until they were chapped and nearly bleeding. hallucinations waking up in the middle of the night seeing spiders and bugs and snakes on the ceilings. And this was all within about 24 to 48 hours. So it was terrifying. Cathy Meehan: Oh goodness. Saundra Traywick: Yeah. And she was very, very creative and very artistic. She lost her ability to do her artwork and her—I would read them very high-level books and she couldn’t comprehend. I had to go back to simple, simple like fairy tale type picture books and she couldn’t even comprehend those. She had—by OCD we’re talking about things like I would prepare her food and take it to the table and she would say, “Well, you touched the edge of the counter and then you touched my plate and then you touched my cup and so it’s all contaminated” and wouldn’t be able to eat it. And so, and that’s a six-year-old, you know, and then the Chick-fil-A person handed her her cup and they touched her straw. And that’s not something a six-year-old would think through that this has germs and bacteria. So those all came on within about 48 hours. And terrifying. I was researching and you know—and prior to this I was already a crunchy mom. So I was already one of those that did the things right. You know I’ve had a lot of people say, “Oh, this happened to you because XYZ. You did this and this and this.” And you know, I was grinding my own wheat flour. I grew up on a farm in Kansas, you know, I was—we didn’t eat processed foods, so it—it was a shock and we were already very healthy, didn’t have her—she had not been really sick at all, all of the things. So, this came out of nowhere and we were one of the very fortunate and blessed few that got a diagnosis early. We took her to a couple different doctors and I was very careful. We had just moved and I didn’t have a pediatrician yet where we were. I was terrified if I took her into a pediatrician, they would take her away from me and say we had abused her. And this happens because, you know, overnight symptoms— Cathy Meehan: They’ll say, “Oh, you’ve abused your child.” Or something like that. Saundra Traywick: So, we went back to our pediatrician who knew us and I actually told him what was going on and said, “I need you to test her for strep throat.” She had no fever, no symptoms of strep throat. None of the things that you would say she has strep except she had really horrible breath at this point. And I thought that breath was because she was also terrified her toothbrush was contaminated and I was struggling to get her to brush her teeth. And we were about a week in at this point. Yeah. Cathy Meehan: Then he said, “No, that’s strep breath.” And she came back with raging strep. Saundra Traywick: which we didn’t have any symptoms of. So of course at that point we put her on antibiotics for the strep and we were told, “Oh, you’re going to be fine. She has PANDAS disorder—Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Strep. Get her on some antibiotics. She’ll be fine.” Which we were ecstatic because at this point I’m thinking she has a brain tumor. You know, something horrible has happened and we’re never going to get her back. Cathy Meehan: So yeah to hear, “Oh, we can just put her on a round of antibiotics and she’ll be fine.” Saundra Traywick: And I was like, “Oh, wow. This is great.” Well, wasn’t that easy. We actually started the antibiotics and some new symptoms popped up. So, a blinking tic, like blinking like that. Rapid, rapid eye blinking. She had a vocal tic of sorts where she would have to say “maybe” after everything she said. which now I know that was her a fear of telling a lie. And so she couldn’t state even, “I’d like a drink of water maybe,” because she was afraid it wasn’t 100% true. And when you know—you hear about these hallucinations and things—a nightmare. Cathy Meehan: Yeah. Saundra Traywick: It was—it was truly a nightmare. And you know we had never exposed her
Tracy Slepcevic’s Biomedical & Advocacy Journey: From Autism Diagnosis to Independence
Cathy Meehan: Hello everyone. Welcome to another edition of the Meehan Mission Podcast. On today’s episode, I’m excited to bring you our special guest. She is an author, an advocate, a speaker, and an integrative health practitioner. Join us as we talk about her son’s diagnosis of autism and her journey toward healing. She is a guiding light to other parents. I want to welcome Tracy Slepcevic. Cathy Meehan: Hello again everyone, and welcome to another episode of the Meehan Mission Podcast. Today I am honored to have Tracy Slepcevic with us. Tracy, it’s so great to finally meet you. I want everyone to know that I found a copy of your book in Jim’s collection, and you actually autographed it for him. Thank you so much. That means more than you know. Cathy Meehan: I really wanted our audience to get to know you because you are truly a warrior mom. I read through your book, and several members of our team read it as well. They could not wait for this podcast. So if you would, please start by sharing your journey and how you helped your son through autism and healing. Tracy Slepcevic: Thank you, Cathy, and thank you for having me. My journey began back in 2008 when my son Noah was diagnosed with autism. On that same day, my naturopath—who I always say was an angel sent by God—changed everything for me. Tracy Slepcevic: After Noah’s evaluation, I was overwhelmed and emotional. I ran into Dr. Joshua Burka in the hallway, and he stopped me, hugged me, and asked what was wrong. When I told him Noah had autism, he looked me straight in the eye and said, “Noah is going to be fine. I need you to go home and do your research. Kids are making great strides with biomedical intervention.” Tracy Slepcevic: At the time, I was a psychology student, so I didn’t even know what biomedical intervention was—but I was determined to find out. That moment was my fork in the road. I could either collapse into despair, or I could get to work. I chose to get to work. Cathy Meehan: I love that—those words of hope were enough to carry you forward. Other moms need to hear that. Tracy Slepcevic: Absolutely. I set a very clear intention that Noah would be fine, and nothing—not neurologists, not pediatricians—was going to convince me otherwise. I became a research junkie. I read books, attended conferences, and started immediately with a gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free diet to reduce inflammation. Tracy Slepcevic: From there, I worked with functional medicine doctors to address underlying conditions—gut health, immune issues, genetics like MTHFR, PANDAS, and high strep levels. I followed protocols carefully, but I also learned through experience what to avoid. Tracy Slepcevic: I caution parents about aggressive IV chelation in children and about hyperbaric oxygen therapy if ear pressure cannot be equalized. Every intervention must be done thoughtfully. Cathy Meehan: You were incredibly determined, intelligent, and focused. Did you have support during this time? Tracy Slepcevic: My husband and I were very much in this together. My family lived out of state, so support was limited. We struggled financially, bartered for treatments, negotiated costs, and sold nearly everything we owned. I became an expert at persistence. Tracy Slepcevic: When life felt overwhelming, I asked myself two questions: “What can I learn from this?” and “How do I move forward?” Those were my only options. Tracy Slepcevic: Today, Noah is doing incredibly well. He’s almost 20, works full-time, drives, and travels the world. Because of his journey, I’ve been able to help thousands of families through education, advocacy, and my nonprofit work. Cathy Meehan: That is such a testimony. It truly is a calling. Tracy Slepcevic: It is. This work is never about money—it’s about purpose. That’s why I created the nonprofit: to fund education, research, conferences, and scholarships for families who need access but cannot afford it. Cathy Meehan: Tracy, thank you for sharing your story, your wisdom, and your heart. It has been an absolute honor. Tracy Slepcevic: Thank you, Cathy. God bless you and your audience.
Dr. Ken Stoller Speaks Out: Vaccines, Autism, Medical Gaslighting & the Truth They Won’t Tell You
Cathy Meehan: Welcome to the Meehan Mission Podcast. This is a place where we like to look at truth in medicine. We also take a look at the current healthcare system, and we want to empower parents with options and choices for their health and the health of their children. Cathy Meehan: In today’s episode, we sit down with Dr. Ken Stoller. He’s a pediatrician—although he doesn’t like the word pediatrician—and he’s been battling for transparency in the vaccination program for a very long time. We’ll also discuss the lawsuit he has with the CDC, because what are the long-term effects and outcomes of children who have gone through the complete childhood vaccine schedule from birth through their teenage years? I don’t think we know that answer. So sit back, enjoy the show, and let’s begin. Cathy Meehan: Welcome to the Meehan Mission Podcast. Today I am thrilled to bring to our audience Dr. Ken Stoller. Dr. Stoller, I’ve heard about you, I’ve seen some of your work, and I’m so grateful you’re here today. Dr. Ken Stoller: Thank you, Cathy. It’s great to be here. Cathy Meehan: For those who may not be familiar with you, can you tell us a little bit about your background and how you came into this work? Dr. Ken Stoller: Sure. I trained as a pediatrician, but over time I became increasingly uncomfortable with the direction of conventional pediatrics, particularly the vaccination schedule. I began seeing children with chronic illnesses, developmental delays, autism, autoimmune conditions, and neurological issues, and I felt that the standard medical model was not addressing root causes. Dr. Ken Stoller: I transitioned into integrative and functional medicine because I wanted to understand why children were getting sick and how to help them heal, not just manage symptoms. Cathy Meehan: You’ve been very outspoken about vaccines and medical gaslighting. Can you explain what you mean by that? Dr. Ken Stoller: Medical gaslighting occurs when legitimate concerns raised by patients or parents are dismissed, minimized, or pathologized. In the context of vaccines, parents are often told that adverse reactions are coincidental, rare, or unrelated, even when there is a clear temporal association and biological plausibility. Dr. Ken Stoller: When parents are told “it’s all in your head” or “there’s no evidence,” despite their lived experience, that is gaslighting. It erodes trust and prevents honest scientific inquiry. Cathy Meehan: You are currently involved in a lawsuit with the CDC. Can you explain what that’s about? Dr. Ken Stoller: Yes. The lawsuit centers on a fundamental question: what are the long-term health outcomes of children who receive the full recommended childhood vaccine schedule compared to those who do not? The CDC does not have this data. Dr. Ken Stoller: Despite claims that vaccines are “safe and effective,” there has never been a properly designed, long-term, fully vaccinated versus unvaccinated study. That’s a major scientific and ethical problem. Cathy Meehan: That’s shocking to hear, especially given how strongly vaccines are promoted. Dr. Ken Stoller: It should concern everyone. Science is supposed to ask questions, not shut them down. When questioning becomes taboo, we’re no longer practicing science—we’re practicing dogma. Cathy Meehan: What have you personally witnessed in your clinical practice? Dr. Ken Stoller: I’ve seen children regress after vaccinations. I’ve seen immune dysfunction, mitochondrial injury, gut dysbiosis, and neuroinflammation. I’ve also seen improvement when these underlying issues are addressed and when toxic exposures are reduced. Dr. Ken Stoller: That doesn’t mean every child reacts the same way. It means susceptibility matters—genetics matter, timing matters, total toxic load matters. Cathy Meehan: Parents are often told vaccines are one-size-fits-all. Dr. Ken Stoller: And that’s simply not biologically accurate. There is no medical intervention that is risk-free for every individual. Vaccines should not be exempt from that reality. Cathy Meehan: What advice would you give to parents who feel intimidated or silenced? Dr. Ken Stoller: Trust your instincts. Ask questions. Demand informed consent—not just a signature on a form, but a real discussion of risks, benefits, and alternatives. And seek practitioners who respect you as a thinking, caring parent. Cathy Meehan: Dr. Stoller, thank you for your courage, your integrity, and your commitment to truth. Dr. Ken Stoller: Thank you, Cathy. Conversations like this are essential if we want real progress in medicine.
Alana Newman – Why Branding Matters More Than Ever in the Medical Freedom Movement
Welcome to the Meehan Mission podcast and today I’m introducing our community to Alana Newman. Alana is the founder of Brand Therapy. She’s an author and she’s also the host of her podcast, The Speaker Salon. So she is a very creative strategist and she hasv success in the music industry, documentary filmmaking and content production. Alana is one of those movers and shakers that helps you identify and craft your identity, especially when it comes to making lasting impressions online because this world is so competitive nowadays. So if you need help with your branding, then I hope you reach out to Alana and I am excited to share her expertise with you. Cathy Meehan: Hello everyone. Welcome to another edition of the Meehan Mission Podcast. And of course, as always, I like movers and shakers and people that can bring us a wealth of information to help further our careers, our health, just get us in the know. And today’s guest is Alana Newman. And Alana and I actually met—guess where?—in the medical freedom movement of course where all of us disruptors kind of gather. And I was just so excited that she agreed to do a podcast because everyone needs to figure out about marketing branding and what all is actually going on and Alana is just at the top of the field. So, Alana, if you would please introduce yourself to our listeners. I’d love for you to give a little bit of background on you and with your company, Brand Therapy. Alana Newman: Thank you, Cathy. I adore you. I’m so glad we met in Austin and I actually—we’ve online been entangled for a few years because it was you and Dr. Meehan who helped me with my kids during COVID and the mask mandates and you guys were the people who allowed my kids to breathe freely at school when they were requiring doctors’ medical exemption. So I am eternally grateful for you and for Jim for providing that and my interest in health freedom and the medical freedom movement has really informed just my role and how I want to contribute. And so I was a stay-at-home mom for a long time, but my history is art school and branding and I’m basically really good at Photoshop. And when COVID was announced, I knew that it was a scam and I started building a new brand called Health Freedom Summit, an online conference and was working that for two years and trying to give our people more dignity. So with conferences, with branding, with associations and graphics and imaging, you know, we were competing with big pharma in the COVID narrative. And now I have a book, it’s called Beauty First Method: Instantly Communicate Your Value. And I’m basically trying to help our people compete with big pharma and with our story, with our image, with our trustworthiness, and with our offers because what they try to do is they try to destroy everybody’s businesses. They make it so that we can’t go to work or participate in society unless we take their shots. And so I think the remedy to that is we are independent. We have our own businesses. We’re doing our own thing. And that requires branding and marketing. And so I am really fighting for freedom. And my biggest skill is that I have a trained eye and I know how to use Photoshop. Cathy Meehan: Yeah. Well, and I can attest to that. You have a great eye. In fact, I see a lot of marketing materials and programs and I’ve always loved your branding. You can tell when somebody just has that natural eye and they get the words right, they get the layout right, they get the colors right, and they get your attention. And in today’s world, you’re right, the competition is fierce. And especially the fact that there’s a lot of us that are independent, like we’re an independent clinic. I mean, how do we compete with these huge corporations that have unlimited budgets and they have unlimited resources? So, that’s really why I wanted to bring you on because when it comes to branding and imaging, how do you go about finding a specific person’s—like what their brand’s going to be like? Where do you start? It is so personal and excruciating for people to build their own brands that’s based off of like their soul. Alana Newman: And it’s so crushing when you are rejected based off of what essentially comes down to an expression of your soul. Like for someone to—for you to make an offer and put yourself out there on the marketplace of ideas and the marketplace of products and your babies, your brainchildren. You put your brainchildren out into the world and when people are like, “Oh, no thanks,” it’s soul-crushing or it can be. And so it’s a delicate process of collaborating with someone you trust and iterating. You iterate, you attempt that and you put it out in the world and what do you think of that? And I have a methodology that I work with people when they’re building something new that kind of takes some of the difficulty away. And the first thing is: who do you serve? That’s the number one thing is like whose problems do you not mind getting all up in and suffering alongside people? And with the case of Mindset for Kids and Meehan MD, you guys serve parents and kids and so you suffer alongside parents and their traumas and their woes and their worries. I’ve tried to kind of narrow my audience down to the health freedom movement to the best of my ability, but freedom-minded people in general, I’m interested in your problems. I am interested in helping you overcome things. And I think that’s where it starts. And then from there, after the “who do you serve,” it’s vibes. It’s so much of just
Eric Barber — Transforming Health with the Barbaric Challenge
Cathy Meehan: Hello and welcome to the Meehan Mission podcast. So, this is a special episode for me because many of you know the past year and a half since Jimmy passed, I have been so stressed out. I knew I needed to do something and take charge of my own health. So, I went online and found a fitness trainer and I completed a 90-day challenge and it literally changed my life. So, I wanted to bring on Eric Barber. He’s the founder of Barbaric Training, and he takes his 30 plus years as an athlete, gym owner, and personal fitness trainer and creates programs to help people like me. So, I wanted to share that with our community in case you or somebody you know is ready to take the health into their own hands this year. So if you need help, this podcast is for you. Welcome to the Meehan Mission where you know we like to challenge the conventional ways. We like to focus on optimal ways of health and we also like to introduce our audience to movers and shakers out there to help them. So today I am joined by Eric Barber and Eric is the creator of Barbaric Training. So I want to be upfront with everybody. I actually found Eric online because I was going through my own little health journey. After Jim passed, I was highly stressed out. I had really stopped motivating my own health journey and I knew that I needed somebody to help and guide me. So I found an online trainer. I mean, like, I didn’t even know they existed. So, I actually just completed his barbaric challenge. It was a 90-day challenge, and I am telling you guys, it transformed my life, my health, my weight. It was such a phenomenal experience for me that I’m going to keep doing it. And I really wanted to share my journey and share Eric with everybody because guess what? It’s 2026. Everybody’s talking about New Year’s resolutions. What are we gonna do? And I had a very wise person tell me, it was my son James, that if you’re going to make a new habit, you need three things. You need a goal, you need a guide, and you also need to never quit. So, I’m bringing Eric on for those people who need a guide because I he just might be the right person for you. So, Eric, will you please introduce yourself to our listeners? Tell us a little bit about you and how it came about to create barbaric training. Eric Barber: Sure, I’d be happy to. I got my personal training career started in 1989, back before personal training was really even a thing. I think it was 1990, word started really spreading within the gyms that personal training could be another source of income. And I got to be on the ground floor of all of that. I remember back then we just kind of didn’t know what we were doing, but we were just led by passion. I had an absolute passion to help people. I had come out of a very skinny, awkward background, getting booted up a lot and basically found the gym and started putting on some muscle and getting confident, that kind of thing. So, trained all through the coached people all through the 90s. I did a couple of bodybuilding shows just for fun to get that experience. And then, did that all the way through 2005, 2006, came across CrossFit and I was one of the, well, I was the first CrossFit gym in Tulsa, Oklahoma. And after those, did that till 2017, moved to Colorado Springs and opened up another CrossFit gym in Colorado Springs and did that for two and a half years, I think. And then COVID hit and yeah, so I’ve been doing this for quite a while now. I went through a divorce and kind of lost my way a little bit, tried to do some other things, but God just kind of led me back into personal training. About two years ago, one of my clients was like, “Eric, why aren’t you coaching people online?” And I was like, “I don’t even know what that means.” You know? So I looked into it and the client was telling me, “Hey, you know, you essentially are growing your net over a pond. Why not throw it over the ocean?” And I was like, “Well, that might be a really cool way for me to be able to take everything that I’ve learned and help more people with it.” So, the last two years have been all about learning how to project myself out there on social media, which I’m not that great at just yet, but it’s been a journey. So, I think in total 35, 36 years of personal training. The last two of which have been online only. Cathy Meehan: Yeah. Well, it sounds like you’re kind of like the innovator, mover, and shaker. You started being a fitness trainer before it was even real and then now you found the opportunity to go online, which I’m assuming, you know, a lot of people went online for COVID, but then you even went beyond that. And he’s right, there is a multitude of people out there who really are searching for guidance or a trainer. They don’t know where to start. There’s so many things online nowadays. What should a person be looking for if they want to get started and there’s all of this information online and also kind of like what’s real that’s online because you see all of these ads popping up for personal trainers. Eric Barber: So great question. I think that if a person has zero experience in the gym, literally walk into the gym and everything looks like a torture chamber, right? Then at that point, I think that they should get
Attorney Greg Glaser — Inside the Medical Freedom Movement: Vaccine Law, Parental Rights & More
Cathy Meehan: Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of the Meehan Mission podcast. I’m Cathy Meehan and today’s special guest is Greg Glaser. He is an attorney that lives in California. And as you know, I love to introduce our audience to people that they may know or they may not know to get a little bit of insight in what they are doing in their particular industry. And Greg, I know that you are an advocate for medical freedom when it comes to rights. So can you give our audience a little bit of background on how did you pick of all topics and all areas of law to go into medical freedom? Greg Glaser: Sure. As a lawyer, I realized very quickly that vaccines was going to be the way that we could lose our constitutional rights. It’s the one invasive procedure that the government forces on others without their consent or coerces upon others as we saw during COVID. So I got in early about 15 years ago in working with the pandemic response project and then became the general counsel for Physicians for Informed Consent where we educate about the risks of vaccines. So yeah, my focus has been the constitutional side—your rights—and what that looks like is day-to-day I help parents and schools navigate the mandatory vaccine law in California which hopefully we’ll be able to overturn soon. Cathy Meehan: Yeah, that would be great. You know, we get parents that contact us looking for vaccine exemptions for their children in California, and you know, honestly, we don’t have a lot of good news for them. What is the latest on vaccine exemptions for kids in California? And what type of calls do you get and how are you able to navigate through that and guide them? Greg Glaser: Sure. Well, there’s a lot of creative solutions. The key thing to remember is you never have to get vaccinated ever. There’s always a way. There’s always a solution. We just have to find it. So, I encourage folks to call me and then we can go into more detail on what that looks like. Cathy Meehan: Yeah, absolutely. Well, and I will be sure to include your contact information in the description below because I know that we will be sending people your way when they’re specifically in California and looking for those vaccine exemptions. Greg Glaser: Yeah. And also, I don’t charge you. It’s a free service and we do it through Physicians for Informed Consent. So you can send them either to me or PIC and our goal is just to help parents. We are there to support and the parents are doing the heavy lifting which is raising unvaccinated children which is amazing. That’s the future. And so we’re happy to step in and do what we can to make sure that your school experience goes well. Cathy Meehan: Oh absolutely. Well, you know, I want to talk about Physicians for Informed Consent because a lot of people don’t realize that there is this growing group of not only attorneys but also physicians that are really starting to be those critical thinkers that we need and they’re kind of digging into the information and some of that censored data that they can’t find. And with you helping them, are you guys seeing like a big growth in the area of physicians really coming over to our side? I mean, I don’t know if that’s really the term, but how is that going? And not only physicians, but also attorneys. Greg Glaser: Yeah. Well, you know, I’m really glad that you asked. The attorneys are coming over our side a lot quicker than the doctors. COVID was the sea shift where we just grew exponentially. This is right up our alley. This is what we do day-to-day. We are on the front lines of social media, LinkedIn, X, Facebook, and we’re debating the doctors and the PhDs. We’re on the front lines because a lot of people are kind of afraid of that. They don’t want to debate the doctors; they want to say what they want to say, but they want to say it to the choir. We go right in where the fire is and we debate them on their own turf and that is a service that we offer to the community and we make change there. So folks can follow us at physiciansforinformedconsent.org and follow us on any of the platforms, especially X. Cathy Meehan: Yeah, that would be great. You know, specifically, we are constantly interviewing pediatricians to help join our mindset kids programs and we are finding some of them are kind of iffy and they’re still vaccinating. And again, I have to tell everybody I don’t tell you not to vaccinate, but I’m definitely going to point you in the direction of where you can get some more knowledge so that you are going to be able to make your own decision about why you aren’t going to vaccinate. But I think maybe I should start sending some physicians over your direction also so that they can gather some of that information that they haven’t found. Greg Glaser: Yeah, I would say there are four doctor’s organizations that are really leading the way and we all support and love each other. And we all kind of have our own focus. One of them is MAPS. That’s the pediatric group. They’re amazing, and I’ll be there in September at their conference in Scottsdale. The next one is the Independent Medical Alliance (IMA). They were known as Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance. And so they’re doing great work. They have a journal and they do educational outreach. It’s a great way to bring on doctors. Their thing is treating chronic disease. So they’ve never been more relevant than right now because of what’s happening. And Kennedy’s reports coming out August 12th. It’s a very exciting time. So
Dr. David Brownstein And The Misleading Nature of Statin Studies
Cathy Meehan: Today we have another edition of the Meehan Mission Podcast. I’m your host, Cathy Meehan, and we have the honor of talking to Dr. David Brownstein. He is out of the state of Michigan—Go Wolverines, like he will say! He is a holistic integrative provider who is one of the rarities in the medical community because he is a critical thinker. Now, Dr. Brownstein has authored over 17 books. We’ve covered a couple of his topics, and today we are covering his book, The Statin Disaster. So, sit back, take some notes, and enjoy the podcast. Welcome to another edition of the Meehan Mission Podcast. I’m your host, Cathy Meehan, and today my special guest is the wonderful, brilliant Dr. David Brownstein. And Dr. Brownstein, I am just so flattered that you like to come on our show and help educate our audience because you are full of a wealth of knowledge. And really, what I wanted to talk about today so that we get to the point is your book, The Statin Disaster. I will make sure that we have links to this in our description and everything, but I really wanted your take on what is going on in the medical world when it comes to statins. And not only that, we might even have to back that up a little bit: why are physicians even actually prescribing statins? So, can you just take it from there? Dr. David Brownstein: I’m happy to be here. So, I write my books—I’ve written 17 books—for one of two reasons: either I’m annoyed about something or I’m excited about something. And that statin book was an annoyance book. Once I started looking at physiology and biochemistry, and looking at the pathway of where statins work in the human body and seeing the enzyme that they blocked—which is called HMG-CoA reductase—and seeing downstream what happens when you block that enzyme, there’s just no way on this earth that we were properly designed by our Maker to block that enzyme and expect a good long-term result. It’s just literally impossible because statins work by poisoning that enzyme, HMG-CoA reductase, and it’s the rate-limiting enzyme for making cholesterol. So if your goal is to lower cholesterol, statins are the perfect thing to do that, because they do that. However, downstream from cholesterol are all the adrenal hormones and sex hormones such as DHEA, pregnenolone, progesterone, estrogen, and testosterone. I got started in holistic medicine 30 or 35 years ago from treating my dad, who was suffering from severe heart disease. He had a first heart attack at 40, a second heart attack at 42. He had a couple of angioplasties and bypass surgeries over the next 20 years. When I finished my residency, my dad was suffering from continuing angina for 20 years, popping nitroglycerin pills like they were candies, and he looked pale and pasty; he was going to die at any moment. I was just waiting for the phone call. So, I was practicing conventional medicine. I didn’t know anything holistically, and I wasn’t interested in anything holistically. I used to tell people, “Don’t take anything that I wasn’t taught in med school,” which, of course, the only things I was taught in med school were drugs, how to diagnose pathology, and how to prescribe a drug to treat that. So, here I was out of medical school and out of residency, waiting for the phone call that my dad died. I was about six months into practice. I went into medicine to be a conventional family doctor. I didn’t grow up in a household taking anything alternative. We didn’t take a vitamin and we didn’t question anything in medicine. We went to the doctor when we were sick, took whatever they told us to take, and that was how I grew up. I started practicing medicine that way. And around six months into that, all of a sudden, I get this anxiety bubbling up out of nowhere. I lose sleep for a couple of nights, and I’m getting ready to go to work and I blurt out to my wife, Allison, “I don’t want to be a doctor anymore.” We met at orientation at the University of Michigan—the winningest college football team—and I had no Plan B from when I met her. Plan A was to be a family doctor, and there was no backup. I blurted out to her, “I don’t want to be a doctor anymore.” I’d never said anything like this before. I was happy through the clinical part of med school. She said, “What’s wrong?” Remember at that time, we had $100,000 in student loans—and that was 35 years ago. I said, “I’m not helping people. I’m just prescribing drugs to treat symptoms—not treating the underlying cause—and then more drugs to treat the problems caused by the first drugs.” She said, “What are you going to do about it?” I said, “I don’t know.” The short version of the story was I met this chiropractor as a referral from a patient. Before that, I never referred to them; I used to tell people don’t go to them because I thought they were dangerous, even though I didn’t know what they did. But the chiropractor that I met was Dr. Robert Radtke. He was doing functional biochemistry and looking at these biochemical pathways to see what inhibits them, what stimulates them, or what supports them—with the idea that if we support human biochemistry, the body is pretty well designed to take care of itself through an entire lifetime, including old age. So, it was a new way of thinking. He brought me a book, Healing with Nutrition by Jonathan Wright, an allopathic physician. I read that book until the middle of the night. I woke up the next morning—I still hadn’t slept—but I was excited now. I called my dad and I said, “Hey, I want to do two blood tests on you.” I checked