SEED OILS, CHOLESTEROL & HISTAMINES HIDDEN TRUTHS YOU ASKED, DOCTOR ANSWERS

Dr Pompa 0:00

Welcome to this solo episode, first time ever of Ask Me Anything. Oh, yeah. We asked you all what you wanted to ask me. And Andrea, you did that research and you're going. No, first of all, I want to tell you this right up front. Andrea has been with me for 10 years in this mission. I'm going to probably make you tell a little bit of your story. Full-blown autoimmune. She found me. And well, she has no full-blown autoimmune now, Hashimoto's the whole thing. But you have been serving this mission well. So you know, you can probably ask me a lot of questions that they need to hear. But this is going to be the episode that literally, like, you know, your questions are going to get answered. And this is going to be one you're going to want to share with everybody because it's all the questions that people have. You did gather these questions from our audience, am I right? Absolutely. Absolutely, yeah. Did you throw any in yourself? Well, you can do that.

Seed Oils And Cell Membranes

SPEAKER_00 0:52

Well, I might just throw a few in there just for fun. But no, these come from your audience. They're amazing questions. Absolutely amazing. It tells me that they're listening to what you're saying and what you're putting on your Instagram. So I'm really excited to ask you these questions. The very first one is actually near and dear to my heart, which is why do seed oils matter when you're eating?

Dr Pompa 1:12

Why do seed oils matter when you're eating? It's so funny that actually, did you put this here? I didn't. You know, it's right when you say that, my brain wants to draw a cell. Draw a cell, yes. Well, because here's why. I, you know, seed oils, look right now, how many years have I been talking about the dangers of seed oils?

SPEAKER_00 1:31

Uh well, as long as I've known you, and so that's about 12 years.

Dr Pompa 1:34

Yeah. Well, that and and it was so new to the space because I'm reading all this literature about seed oils damaging the cell membranes. I'll tell you why that's important in a minute. But fact is, is that uh I was just digging into membrane and how membrane disrupts hormone health and causes weight loss resistance, fatigue. All you know, if your membranes are destroyed, your health is destroyed. There's a saying, life and death begins on your cell membranes. Uh, you know, that is the truth. That's not my saying, it's just reality. But you do have a saying. I fix the cell and get it.

SPEAKER_00 2:07

Fix the cell to get well. Yeah.

Dr Pompa 2:09

And I have a lot of other sayings, some good, some bad. But the fact is, is that seed oils I've been talking about a long time because I've been teaching on the cell membrane. And seed oils disrupt the membrane. Hold on, let me back up one second, because not every seed oil is bad, right? There's seed oils that can be cold pressed, done right, protected, and it could be a flax seed oil. It could even be a sunflower seed oil. It could be a lot of seed oils that could be good, but that's not what's in processed food. So when you go in Whole Foods, your health food store and you see the potato chip, whatever, uh, the food and it has sunflower seed oil, corn oil, God forbid, vegetable canola oil, God forbid. Okay, you know, Whole Foods, you go to the food section and it has canola oil and everything. Okay, that is a fat that is now rancid. It cannot take the heat. The processing of the oils uh destroys the fat. Why does that matter? Yeah. And that's why I knew I was going to draw this. Okay, so that is a cell. Uh, the cell membrane is called a lipid bilayer. That simply means two layers of fat. Why is that even relevant? But here's the thing omega-6 fat is the king of that cell membrane. Omega-3 is important. Matter of fact, omega-3 and omega-6 are called parent oils, meaning that we need them. They're essential, they're essential fatty acids. Um, however, omega-6 is really the determining factor of that. So right now, everyone is anti-omega-6 in our space. The average American, I would say, not so much, but because you know, people that live in America do have too much omega-6. Why? Vegetable, canola oil, sunflower oil. It's in everything. But the problem isn't the omega-6, it's the rancity of that fat that makes its way because it's so important in this membrane. It makes its way right into the membrane, but because it's broken, so to speak, it's rancid. What happens is it drives inflammation. And now, if your membranes don't work, you don't feel well. Your hormones don't work well because the receptors are on this membrane that attach to thyroid hormone, insulin, estrogen, progesterone. Hormones do not work in the blood. They don't make you feel better in your blood. They do nothing in the blood, they're just carried in the blood. Then they have to attach to these receptors, get in the cell, and you feel well. You burn fat, you stay lean, your brain works, no anxiety, your gut works. But if something's blocking those, then guess what? You don't feel well. And you've heard me talk about how toxins are the number one driver of inflammation of the cell membrane, damaging these receptors. So toxins are the king. But these oils, and that's the question, seed oils are rancid fats that go right for the membrane. That's where they belong. So understand this. If I said one thing that lands, I think this would be it. The reason they're so damaging is because they're so important. But so we want good omega-6. Where do you find good omega-6? Real nuts, real seeds, very cold pressed good oils, um, grass-fed meats, etc., real food. I love vegetable oil. I love vegetable oil and vegetables. I love sunflower seed oil and sunflowers. You get the point, right? And by the way, we didn't even have the fish oil conversation. I hope someone asked that, but I don't want to derail this. Go ahead. Next one.

SPEAKER_00 5:36

Well, I'm gonna actually add one more piece to that. So, you know, with seed oils, how do you find a good seed oil that you can take? So, like pumpkin seed oil, sunflower seed oil, how do you find a good one?

Dr Pompa 5:47

I'm I'm not here here to promote anything, but you can find it online. Andrea's seed oils um is a good one. He has a patented cold press process that he does. Um, I'm sure there's others out there. That's just the one a lot of our coaches and doctors use. Um, when you open the bottle, you smell sunflower. It smells like sunflower seeds, right? Is an example of that. Um, so and by the way, olive oil um can take heat better than a seed oil. I should explain that a little bit. Um, but yet olive oil too can be overcooked, it can be overheated, it can be overdone, and it becomes bad. It's a mono unsaturated fat. And it's worth the very quickly on this, okay. Yeah. We can tell how it's part of the answer to that question. We can tell how fragile a fat is by how many double bonds it has. So right now, what's in vogue is um frying your French fries in tallow, right? Which, by the way, caution, because that is getting very popular in restaurants are doing it. But what we have found is when we sit down and we go, well, okay, so we have, we tell them we have a uh vegetable canola oil allergy, right? And you could say hexane allergy because they contain hexanes if you want to be more technical. But when you do that, they get more serious in what they're actually cooking in for you. And then they come back and say, Well, you can't get the tallow fries because we blanch them in canola oil first. They do that to make them more crisp. See, they think tallow fries is the craze because people love the taste of tallow fries. Maybe the case for some people, but the craze was started because people are running from seed oils and know you can actually fry in tallow. So be careful there, ask the question. But my point isn't that. My point is that tallow is a saturated fat. That means you can fry in it. It's gonna take a lot of heat. Saturated means no double bonds. Keep that in your minds. No double bonds. No double bonds. So let me say this: the more double bonds, the more fragile. Okay, so follow me on that thought. Okay, so I said olive oil was a monosaturated fat. That means it has one double bond. That means it can still be denatured. You can't fry in olive oil like you can tallows, saturated, right, versus not saturated. Take it a step further. Seed oils have two and three double bonds. So that makes them far easier to even just in the processing, sunlight, they can go rancid very easily. That's why we want to stay away from processed food, right? Olive oil, better. Coconut oil, better. Okay, one further step from that is fish oil. It has five and six double bonds. So you tell me after that lesson, which is more fragile, fish oil or seed oils. Many believe uh fish oil goes rancid, even if you somehow press it right, get it right out of the fish, the moment it goes in a human body, they you know, feel it absolutely starts going rancid before you even are able to use it. So a lot of debate on that. And I could do a whole segment on that. That's not the point.

Parasite Cleanses And Safety Risks

Heat Stability And Fish Oil Debate

SPEAKER_00 8:48

So next. Great. Okay. Have you ever done a parasite cleanse? I have. Yeah.

Dr Pompa 8:52

I just developed a parasite product in my cellular solutions line. I basically put in and everything I wanted in it. And I was taken from here, taken from there, but I made it in one product. And it it targets um small parasites and large parasites because different things work differently for the microorganism parasites versus large parasite. I would say I do one a year just because I do travel to places that I could be contaminated. And by the way, I I know that people talk about um, you know, raw meat, sushi, et cetera. But the biggest culprit is raw lettuce and things that end up on counters in kitchens, um, that you know, parasites can be, you know, just like when you get poisoned um in Mexico with the bad water, typically it's not drinking the water as much as it is eating the lettuce, the salads that the water's on it. And those so that if the bacteria there, parasites could be there. So it's it's not as simple as just saying, well, I don't eat raw meat or raw fish. Not that simple. But so once a year I do a parasite cleanse. What I would recommend people is um if you get symptoms during it, like you know, you don't always see parasites because some of them could be microorganism type of parasites. You won't see them. But let's say you get crushing diarrhea, you get bloating, you get symptoms of any during this parasite cleanse, my suggestion would be instead of a month, do two. Instead of one that year, wait a couple months and do another one. You know, meaning do more if you get symptoms. If you don't get symptoms, you're probably good.

SPEAKER_00 10:26

Is there anything out on the market that we need to be aware of that could actually hurt us if we're trying to do a parasite cleanse? So can I just go to the grocery store and buy a parasite cleanse?

Dr Pompa 10:36

No, look, not everything, just like food is not created equal, right? Um, most of those cleanses you're buying in a regular store, the herbs just don't have the kick, the potency, the vitality that really you're looking for to, you know, the potency to kill something like a parasite. So it could have um black walnut uh in it, but uh, where did it even come from? Listen, most if a supplement is cheap, they probably got their ingredients from India or China. And a lot of parasite killers come from India and China, but they're contaminated because they're grown in environments that have a lot of heavy metals. So most of them have very high levels of lead, mercury, arsenic, et cetera. So be very careful. Um, so yes, it could be dangerous. At best, it could just be not as effective because it's grown in bad soil. You have to know your source.

Cholesterol Myths And NMR Testing

SPEAKER_00 11:28

Yes, know your source. Excellent. Okay. Next question is is there any natural ways to lower cholesterol? Which you can answer that question, but maybe take it a step fuller a step farther and tell us why, what they need to be looking at with cholesterol, because I know that just having lower cholesterol is not the answer.

Dr Pompa 11:49

We're in uh right now we're in Arizona, and um we're at a restaurant called Amelia's. If you come to this Arizona, Scottsdale. I think Amelia's is what area is that? Scottsdale. Is it Scottsdale? Okay. Um great restaurant, by the way. We were there, and then my I spotted uh Dr. Jack Wolfson. He's a top cardiologist, right? So I was I said to my daughter, I said, Hey, film this. What are you gonna do? I said, film this. Just follow me with a camera. So I'm seeing it to you have to look for my Instagram for this. Um and it wasn't even that long ago, maybe a month ago. Anyways, I saw Jack and I said, I went up, he knows who I am, right? So I went up, he was like, oh, Pompa, right? You know, but I said, Jack, top cardiologist, does cholesterol cause heart disease? He said, absolutely not, right? Okay, I'm like you heard it from him, not me. Um look, the old levels of what we would consider normal total cholesterols used to be like 300. I some say even 350. I wasn't uh back around then, maybe. Uh then it was lowered to 250, uh, which is definitely a better normal if there's such a thing. And then it's now below 200. If you're 205, you're getting put on a statin today. I think a lot of uh, I'm not gonna throw every cardiologist or doctor under the bus for that. I think a lot of doctors have pulled off of that, but there is a good chance. Put it this way the recommendation will be statin over, you know, anything over 200. Uh LDL consider the bad cholesterol. If you're over 100, you're landing yourself on a statin. But the bad cholesterol, as we say, um, isn't really so bad. Uh it's not so bad. Matter of fact, I would argue it's the most important cholesterol. Why? Because all your hormones come down from LDL. Um, okay. To answer your question though, is there a time to lower cholesterol? There is, but not paying attention to total cholesterol because when you look at like the Farmington study, other studies from Cochrane collaboration, um, it they there's no correlation with high cholesterol and heart attacks. And so that's shocking to people, but it's true. But where is there a correlation? The number of particles of cholesterol, that means um that cholesterol doesn't float around your blood like people think. It's carried in a particle. So, like this is a particle of cholesterol. That's not a cell this time, it's a particle. And if it's full of cholesterol, we consider that high LDL. We'll call it. So we'll say that is high LDL. Now, if a particle is lower, then we would consider that low LDL, right? It's not carrying a lot. So looking at the total, we're looking at the amount of cholesterol in the particle. All right, so my camera guy told me he couldn't see it, and he's probably right. So he gave me this. That's really good. Uh okay, so LDL, this is a particle carrying the cholesterol. If it's very full, that's high. If it's not very full, that's low. Okay, here's the analogy I'm gonna give you to prove a point. So if there's a traffic jam, so first of all, imagine the car is being the particle, and how many people are in the car is how filled that car is. Make sense? So if you have a lot of people in the car, that would be high LDL. If you only have one person's car, that would be low LDL. So good analogy. Cars carrying the people, the people are the cholesterol. Okay, in a traffic jam, what matters? The number of people in the car or the number of cars. Right. So that means that how many particles you have could in fact be a problem. So if you get something called an NMR, NMR test, that looks at the particle number. And if you have too many particles, then that is shown to be not good. The size of the particle, smaller particles are more damaging because they can actually make their way into the arterial wall and drive inflammation. And by the way, that is the real cause of heart attacks and strokes. Inflammation, not cholesterol. So small particles can drive more inflammation. And that's a problem. So that NMR test looks at the size of the particle uh and the particle number. Things like niacin can drop the particle number and actually, you know, the the small get rid of some of the small particles. Plant sterols. So there's some different things you can do. Um, enzymes, systemic enzymes, like there's a product called vitalzyme cardio. Um, but, anyways, that's what I would do if you wanted to lower that type of cholesterol.

SPEAKER_00 16:24

Yeah. And can anyone go get that NMR test?

Dr Pompa 16:27

Lab Corp does it. Great. Everything's here's the one catch. If a doctor doesn't know how to read a test, he typically doesn't want to run a test. So what people have to do typically is say, Oh, I don't expect you to read it because maybe you don't, you know, understand, but could you write me the script for so I can go to Lab Corp and get it? The tests are so well done, they explain themselves. You don't need someone to read it. It reads itself.

SPEAKER_00 16:49

That's right. So before you start lowering your cholesterol, you should test to see what your cholesterol actually is.

Dr Pompa 16:54

Yeah, with an NMR.

ADHD Without Medication

SPEAKER_00 16:55

With an NMR. Mm-hmm. Great. Okay. Uh is there any way to self-regulate ADHD without medication?

Dr Pompa 17:04

I thank God there is, because there's a time and a place for medication, but I can tell you my son who runs this company is ADHD, meaning it's part of who he is. And a lot of times that's true. A lot of times it's sugar diet and toxin driven, right? So there's, let's just call there's functional ADHD and there's driven causative AG ADHD. Um, I'm dyslexic, right? It's like, and it's my superpower. And so ADHD, if you look at people who run companies, like my son runs this company, he can have five, eight balls in the air problem solving. I can only have one because I don't have the ADHD power. Um, but anyways, they typically run big companies because their brain's able to multitask, right? So there is a blessing ADHD. Now, there is a curse ADHD. Curse is the wrong word. That's horrible. Um, there is one that's more pathological, so to speak. And um, but uh look, first of all, this sounds trite, but getting the dyes out of food, there is such strong evidence. Maha right now, me being on the Maha board, there is so much evidence that you know these dyes are driving ADHD. They're neurotoxins, they're excitotoxins, they excite the brain all wrong, artificial sweeteners, diet cokes, all of that, too much sugar in general. There's so many different chemicals that are in processed food. Okay, it's called ultra-processed food, meaning you and I ate white bread growing up. We ate pasta growing up. Where were all the conditions? Where was all the autoimmune? Where was all the ADHD? Where was it? We we didn't see it. That's right. We ate processed food. Ultra processed food isn't more of it being white bread or white pasta. No, it's chemicals this long. So here's the same three ingredients that we ate as kids. It was processed, and then there's this list of chemicals you can't read. Right. That's ultra-processed food. You get the dyes out, you get ultra-processed food. If you can't read it, don't eat it, definitely don't give it to your kid. And you know, watch what happens to their brain. They, their brain goes like, you know, starts firing. But what breaks my heart is when it's the, you know, it's just the way the kid is and learns because they're curious, right? That is what I would call functional ADHD. And look for that kid to start and run a company. That's right.

Histamine Intolerance And Leaky Gut

SPEAKER_00 19:25

That's right. Yeah, excellent. That's really good advice. Okay. Can you tell me? We're going to talk about histamine now. We're doing a lot of questions on diet. So obviously, people really want to know about food. Um, but tell me a little bit more about histamine intolerance.

Dr Pompa 19:41

It's a new thing, right? I mean, it's at least it's gotten very popular. Um, so let me start here. Many healthy foods have histamines.

SPEAKER_00 19:51

That's right.

Dr Pompa 19:51

Okay. So is it the histamine or is it something else? Knowing that all these healthy foods that for years we ate and had no gut problems, no problems, would logically state that it must be something else besides the histamines. Well, your logic is correct because it is the amount of leaky gut, meaning things that should be going through the gut and you absorb the nutrients and the things you should absorb. But other undigested proteins end up in the bloodstream. You make antibodies, and then people feel like crap. Okay. They have reactions. Histamine can do this, gluten can do this, lectins can do this, oxalate. These plant toxin allergies are now very in vogue. Is it the plant toxins? Many doctors are arguing it's these lectins that are a problem. It's the, okay, we've eaten these things for thousands of years. It's the leaky gut that's the problem. So the better question is what's causing the leaky gut? All the chemical explosion in the last 50, 60 years, for sure. If I had to isolate one, it's one that right now is being legislated. Billions of dollars have been awarded because of the damaging effects, even causing non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Um, and that is a chemical called glyphosate. The moment it touches your gut, it reacts with something called zonulin, opens up your gut, even in healthy people that don't have leaky gut. Now they'll shut back down, but they still put into their bloodstream things that it should that shouldn't. Do that again and again and again on a standard American processed food diet, and now you end up with gut that stays open, and histamines cross over, you make antibodies, and now someone tells you to stay away from histamines, you go, I feel better. That was my problem. Those damn histamines, no, your problem's your gut. You need to stay away from glyphosate. That means everybody needs to be organic today. Yeah. I do have a trick. Um, you know, gut enhancer is a product that um that I created by taking that with food. There's another product, Ion, uh Zach Bush created. Taking these types of products with humic acids in it. Tend to lower that danger of glyphosate reacting with your zonulin opening up. So there's some things we can do, but staying away from non-organic foods.

SPEAKER_00 22:09

Yeah. Would you say then that a good first step would be to remove the foods that are you're reacting to, then heal the gut, and then you could add those foods back in.

Dr Pompa 22:19

That's great. Yeah, exactly. That's good advice because if you're reacting, remove them, deal with some of your symptoms. Yeah. Right. And and then deal with the problem.

SPEAKER_00 22:28

Yeah. And you know, gut enhancer and ion, those are great products. Those are tools, not a crutch. That's right. So, but if you let's say you're going to be eating somewhere and you choose that you're going to eat that food, maybe you take that before you eat that food. Exactly. For that moment. Yes. Yeah.

Dr Pompa 22:44

Yeah. I mean, because people are going to say, hey, I have to go on business things. I get that, right? It's like, and so do I, right? So, but that's just what I do, right? I went, I went to uh dinner um last night and I took my gut enhancer.

Lymph Support And Drainage Tools

SPEAKER_00 22:58

So yeah, great. Okay. We have another question. This one's a little different. It's about the lymphatic system. So, what are your thoughts on lymphatic supplements or lymphatic therapies?

Dr Pompa 23:09

Um, you know, I'm big on first of all, both work. I and and I think you can do both and both have a positive effect. Um, I'm big on a lot of the therapies for people who have a really stagnant lymph who are very sick and challenged. A lot of the lymph brushing, lymph slapping, lymph techniques. Um, there's different lymph, you know, you know, vibrating machines. That it seems like people with really stagnant lymph do better with the therapies. There's even something called lymph massage, Brazilian lymph massage that, like, oh my gosh, transforms people. So I'm probably bigger on that for very, very sick people. For the average person, the supplements are good.

SPEAKER_00 23:52

Excellent. Are there any supplements you recommend for lymphatic drainage?

Dr Pompa 23:57

Yeah, I'm I'm always trying to think of things people can get. Uh, you know, I'm not here to sell someone a product, but I am here to kind of point them in the right direction.

SPEAKER_00 24:04

I can tell you my two favorites. Yeah, please. Yeah. So one is cellular solutions drainage enhancer. Love that product. And then the other one would be Desk Bio. They have a lymph product called uh Lymph Plus.

Like Share And Closing

Dr Pompa 24:16

Yeah, our coaches use that on both of those all the time. So there's some good advice.

SPEAKER_00 24:21

Great. Well, that's all the questions we have for this episode. This episode. For this episode. We're gonna do more of these. We're gonna do more. All right. Yeah, we're gonna do more. This has been great. Thank you for taking the time to explain all of these questions.

Dr Pompa 24:32

Well, stay tuned. If you like it, give it a thumbs up because we have to know what you like, right? And and again, these are questions you all have asked. And uh please share this because if you had this question and enjoyed the answers, many other people do. So like, share, and I'll see you on the next episode of the Dr. Pompa podcast.