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