This interview features Chris Brandlin, a carnivore attorney running for Congress in Nevada's 3rd district, who shares his journey from law to politics driven by health advocacy. Brandlin discusses how medical education floods students with information without teaching them to question conventional approaches, leading many doctors to simply 'patch the boat with drugs' rather than address root causes. He emphasizes how functional medicine doctors who witness dramatic results from therapeutic carbohydrate restriction - like preventing diabetic amputations - can't 'unsee' these benefits and begin advocating for proper healing instead of symptom management.
Brandlin outlines his congressional platform focused on promoting American meat farmers through increased subsidies, reforming medical school curriculum to include nutritional healing, and protecting parental rights in education. He shares personal experiences with advanced therapies like hyperbaric oxygen treatment and stem cell procedures, advocating for reduced FDA restrictions on peptide therapy and regenerative medicine. The conversation reveals how political advocacy can amplify carnivore and metabolic health messages at a national level, with Brandlin planning a large Las Vegas meetup to unite the carnivore, ketogenic, and functional health communities.
Key Takeaways
Medical schools teach symptom management rather than root cause healing, creating doctors who 'patch with drugs' instead of addressing metabolic dysfunction through dietary intervention
Therapeutic carbohydrate restriction can prevent diabetic amputations and reverse severe complications, but this knowledge isn't widely taught in conventional medical training
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy and peptide treatments like BPC-157 offer powerful healing benefits with minimal side effects, but face unnecessary FDA restrictions that limit patient access
Political advocacy at the congressional level can drive systemic change in healthcare policy, medical education curriculum, and agricultural subsidies to support real food production
Medical School Training and Functional Medicine Approach to Diabetes
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and Peptide Treatment for Inflammation
Dementia Reversal and Carnivore Diet Cognitive Benefits
Supporting American Meat Farmers and Raw Milk Advocacy
Congressional Campaign Platform for Health and Agricultural Reform
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people, these are the tools we're given. You know, this is what we're taught. And, you know, you get into medical school and you're and you're just there and you're just you're just getting flooded with information and you're just trying to, you know, stay afloat, you know, because there's nothing like truly complex about medicine, you know? It's it's it's all straightforward stuff, you know. It's not like it's not like, you know, crazy, you know, like, oh my god, I just can't get my head around what a liver is. you know, it's like there there, you know, you can get into the minutiae of the, you know, the biochemistry and all that sort of stuff, but you know, typically in the practical realms of things and what you need to know. Um, it's not it's not complicated. There's just a lot of it. There's a ton of it. And so, you're just trying to stay afloat and you have to be apprised of all this information, how to apply it in a practical setting. So, there's a complexity in that regard. But, you know, you're you don't know you don't know what it's like to be a doctor. we don't know what if if you know this is the best way or if there's better alternatives. We just know that you know this medical system that that this is what we're being taught. And so it's not until you sort of get into it and you sort of see this other world other side of it and you're like well wait hold on a second there's a bit more here. Um but a lot of a lot of doctors, you know, like the functional medicine doctors you're talking about, they're the ones who've seen that and there's like wait well actually there's there's more here. We don't have to just you know patch up, you know, patch up the boat with with drugs and things like that. we could fix the boat, you know, we could actually, you know, do something proper. And um so most people have that mentality and when they see this, you know, as Dr. Gary Fecki said, you know, once you see this, you can't unsee it. Once you see, you know, the benefits of therapeutic carbohydrate restriction for someone with diabetes that needs to get their foot amputated and now they don't. You you can't unknow that. And then you go into the next situation where someone has a diabetic foot or something like that and you just go, "Hey, look, I know something that can work for this." You know, you don't have to just accept this fate and start getting, you know, body parts cut off, which is which is a horrible, horrible thing to have to do and go through as a patient. Um, but even as a for a doctor, you know, Gary Fecky was talking about how just awful it was. You know, you're taking off a foot or leg and you just hear this kunk of like a human body part chunking into a trash can they have underneath it. It it's just like it's just like chilling. It's just an awful thing. That's why I do like some of my uh doctor clients and and colleagues uh that hey, you know what? For a very serious infection or condition or especially if it's very inflammatory, have you considered medical grade hyperbaric oxygen therapy? I will write you a prescription, but your insurance will probably not cover it, but it's probably worth saving your life. And that's what I did when I was having some skin infections right after like skin ulcerations right after the uh the uh the intestinal surgery. Yeah, I think I told you I developed like a very like one of the most rare skin conditions from so much inflammation that they considered it cancerous. But it's called pyoderma gang grinosum. So derma, you know, skin and then gang grinosum, you know, and you think of people gang green where you're getting these ulcerations on your body and it starts, you know, start off as a bruise and then all of a sudden you could put your fingers inside your body and touch your bones and it gets that bad. Oh god, don't do that. Yeah. So that's why precoction. Yeah. But you know what? It's kind of interesting that you're make me mentioning diabetic ulceration. So um with you know that's the main like a huge proponent of amputations for a lot of diabetic patients right is they're developing it's not only just getting bad blood flow it just yeah you're developing really bad kind of like circulation you're getting inflamed and infected limbs and that's where you like see like yeah you gota you got to cut it off I mean if that infection kind of spreads over you're going to have like the worst sepsis possible so yeah I actually met a lot of people were actually able to avoid amputation even though they already had it prescheduled because they did medical grade hyperbaric oxygen therapy. So I think a lot of functional medicine really needs to be investigated too. I I don't consider a lot of things that come out of functional medicine anything part of pharmaceuticals. Like I'm a huge proponent of peptides. So a lot of my clients over here functional doctors they promote peptide therapy. I'm sure you're familiar with like you know Joe Rogan speaks out of it because he's a big fan of it too is like you know BPC 157 is just like you know combination of amino acids when you put them in a certain kind of combination it can like substantially reduce your inflammation uh you know gut and systemic um you know there's other things for like joints and basically you know thyosin beta I mean people for are kind of prone to more infections despite the diet I mean they can consider time alpha 1 uh because that's to help to stabilize their immune system you have L37 and I actually started looking into more of the neutropics too. So um you know got like studies from Selen and Cax have been showing to basically you know reverse some some vascular you know some really bad aspects of vascular dementia. They can actually start regaining their memory again. Hey because I don't like the fact that a judge told me yet yesterday at mediation. I've known her for a long time but I had a 10-hour mediation yesterday when I came back to LA. It was a long thing. And as you said, we're talking about dementia like like so my case was um you know the person the the the person that had a $10 million estate um developed dementia uh like in 2023 but it was 20 2022 and it worsened. It became like you know accelerated dementia, severe dementia in 2023 and at that time he executed all these documents to transfer everything to his new wife. But you know we try to explain that you know oh he you know he's he was fine he knew what he was doing. I'm like, "No, but the judge like no, if you have dementia, it only gets worse." Which is more it is somewhat true, but it really depends on how you address it though, too. And I I'm think that is a huge kind of like cognitive component of the ketogenic diet too and a carnivore diet essentially is to Yeah, I I've realized that I've been so much more functional. I mean, I'm a freaking If you look at my if you look at my my college background, you're going to think I'm a party holic, but if you look at everything from this day, you're like, you're Yeah. I still exercise every week and I just don't eat a lot of I I have slipped on a little bit more tequila than I wanted to every couple weeks. It's, you know, go to a function, you have a couple shots. So, I'm trying to address that because I do think alcohol is poison. I'm not going to stick up for anyway. Um, but no, I think I think people need to recognize that diet can probably improve our test scores for our children. Did everybody think of that? I mean, does is the Department of Education doing since the 1970s, right? No, it's kind of been plummeted ever since Jimmy Carter. So, I'm so glad we kind of got rid of that. But no, we need to address like a lot of the benefits that you can get and people need to realize that we should all address metabolic health. You know, food is medicine and you won't need a lot of these pharmaceuticals. I think that should really be focused and expanded in not only the medical institutions and you know every kind of hospital they're kind of arranging it for any kind of nurse practitioner or anything but also put it with the AMD put the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics because they would be a subject defendant on a class action lawsuit that I may be taking. So I'm trying to collect a little bit more support. I can't find any other attorneys. I can find a few but a lot of them that don't want to take down the big medical institutions because they support them. Maybe it's because I'm I was born and raised in LA County. It's a very liberal state. So, these are the ones that are driving around with a mask on by themselves in their cars and yet they're still doing it. You know, four years later, there's like I said, they're they're probably sleeping with their condoms on. It's those kind of people that I need to get a better team to get with me. I know I already have a good amount of functional doctors that want to do this class action lawsuit. I'll do this during my campaign. I don't give a I I'm more than positive I can handle it. So um yeah you because I think there needs to be a focus on okay why is the medical board of California and all these other states teaching this and what is your affiliations with them you know with these pharmaceutical companies and well we're going to be restricting some of their funding and we want to change some of your curriculum but they're not going to want to do that and I think there is some kind of really sinister behavior of that. So I think that needs to be addressed and we you know we need to make changes across the board. I really want to save our farmers. Um, you know, when I came back from Budapest to United States in 2018, Dr. Sophia Clemens, who I just I'm still speaking with, she was talking about putting me as a case study in her new book. Um, she's like, you know, she we talk the first thing she did is like, hey, if you're going back to United States, here's a list of farmers that we recommend for you to buy your meat from. And one of them was Yeah. Yeah. No, it was I was so kind of intrigued. I was like, look, you got someone from Hungary telling you which meat farmers to buy from. you go to the United States that they kind of work with was US wellness meets they're known as gra you know um I think they're based out of Missouri uh and you know getting like bulk amount of tallow from them because it was hard to find tallow a lot of grocery stores and actually I think they they took out tallow uh during the lockdown I'm not sure if you remember that you know they took out they they stopped selling tallow at at Whole Foods and Sprouts for like two to three months. Wow. Yeah. They said backward, but they said there there's put they're trying to put restrictions and this is when you have the meat shortages. They put restrictions on basically the production of meat in farms. What I think needs to be addressed in my campaign as well. Hey guys, just want to take a second to thank our sponsor Carnivore Bar. 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But um I I just remember that he he made that's why I've already known of him before I even got there is because he's one of the few you know politicians that's speaking out to save our farmers. He was like the first thing he said on stage is like hey how would how many of you guys like real raw milk and I was like so you would never hear like any politician say that before then and I was so impressed. So good time meeting him. Um but yeah I think we need a balance. I think we need to change a lot of the curriculum in medical schools but also you know you know across the board. I think there needs to be a new way we address health problems. That's going to be a huge thing. I think we need to put a lot of limitations on Fizer. Um, you know, if I don't think all pharmaceuticals are completely bad. There are some that have a little bit more efficacy just based on the years of research that it could be promoted and they're a lot simpler and they don't have so many damaging side effects. But, um, that should be addressed. And um I also want to basically make sure that all the funding that we're going through and hopefully the Doge keeps finding some more interesting things like like the $50 million of condoms that we sent to Gaza. I don't know the purpose of that, but um yeah, that's another thing that came up too. But um I think there needs to be funds spent on the proper areas and I think we need more people to be outspoken on that. So that's what I really want to make on my campaign. I was fortunate to meet with Dr. kills a few weeks ago cuz I know you just I think you did a podcast with them like right before I met him by the way too. Um but yeah so he wants I told him that like since I'm mainly running in Las Vegas because I'm a dual residence I have the time and I'm spending most of my time in Vegas um recently and is I want to host the one of the largest meetups but I want to get I don't want to restrict it to the carnivore community. That's going to be the main thing. It's a meetup me. Okay. Uh so it it you know I I sent you the flyer. We'll cut I think it's on my my campaign website now too. We have a separate page on that too for the the meetup. We're expecting a huge crowd and I'm working with a bunch of like you know um farmers. I want to get a bulk amount of meat. You know buying 400 pounds of meat is going to be very expensive. I'm not sure if you ever done that before, but it's it's especially if you're buying quality meat too because you're trying to promote the farmers. Um so I'm I'm going to I'm using my life savings for this campaign as you could see. But anybody that uh that promotes and uh fundraises the campaign, it's just going to go back to them because I want to make this event primarily for the carnivores. Uh but I'm also extending it out to the ketogenic community as well as the functional health community and everybody that just wants simply just wants to make America healthy again. So that's why I started working with um uh hyper oxygen clinics over in Las Vegas. Uh the one that I've been recently going to um that I do is you know especially when I had like to go from California, drive to uh uh Vegas, fly to Austin, Texas to meet with Dr. Keltz is there two days and then fly back to Vegas and then drive back to LA at midnight. And you can see I can like really wear you down, right? So I'm I'm beating myself up, but I'm I'm including hyperaric oxygen therapy every week. And I go to Desert Moon Wellness and I like them because that's where all the UFC fighters go, too. So you get to see like the Hall of Fame basically on all the UFC fighters that go there. It's like right like you'd be amazed but there's almost all the UFC is like going to this like clinic and treating. But when you think about it how hard they train. Yeah. They're going to get inflamed. They regenerate faster. That's the best thing about hyperbaric oxygen therapy. It's oxygen. It's not like you're injecting anything. You're basically you're getting a very like um you know amount of like pressure in a controlled like you know um in a closed environment. But yeah, I've been benefiting that red light therapy. Um, yeah. And I'm actually I think there should be more research on peptide therapy because peptide therapy and stem cells I think should be investigated a little bit more. I know the FDA is putting a lot of restrictions on that, but uh one of our mutual colleagues uh Dr. Sabrina Sult uh from Arizona. So, uh I I told you um right before I went skydiving the first week of this year, she uh I think a couple months before right before uh right before the new year, I saw her and uh I said, "Hey, you know, I've been traveling back and forth. my tailbone. It's, you know, I fractured this before. It's just a sensitive thing. You know, if you ever had like fractured tailbone and if it gets inflamed, it's a pain in the ass, literally. Right. So, it was hard to fly and I was getting the back was tightening out as a result. But, um, yeah, she actually um took out uh my bone, but I didn't have enough fat on me even of so I so she's like, "Look at you. You don't have enough fat. You have to have like a stick of butter on your back. Basically, you have to grab it. It has to be a stick of butter. That's how much fat or atapost you need for an atapost uh derived stem cells." Okay, so the main two stem cells from your own body is fromatopose or your bone marrow which is part of your pelvis. I was so impressed I got to promote her because look at been through a lot of painful experience in my life. Even though I build up tongues I know if something's going to be painful but I didn't feel anything. It was perfect. She drilled a huge plunger right into my pelvis, sucked out all the bone marrow and put it through a centriuge, kind of concentrated to get the stem cells extracted, and then she injected it right in like next to my tailbone and along my like my L4 L5. I felt amazing. Not only did I go sky uh diving right afterwards. I think I did that a little too soon, but I didn't feel anything when I landed because usually even when you brace 10 feet before you land, because I used to do a lot of skydiving, um you always feel that kind of impact on your hips and your joints and everything right when you land, especially if you have to like, you know, uh turn a ball. But I didn't feel anything. I was like, "Holy I think there should be a little bit more focus on functional medicine." So, I do promote Dr. Dr. Schult, too. I was like I told her, I was like, "Look at you know what? I don't, you know, I don't let needles near anywhere near my ass, but um it's only going to be you if it's if in the future. So, it's all right. Her husband that. But it's it's all right. She does good work. And that's why I think the carnivore community is very interesting because I think with niche expansive, we should have people from like every kind of like, you know, every different industry that has the carnivore community. Like, you know, we should get more vetinarians, you know, involved in the carnivore. So, what are you gonna feed your pets, right? Yeah. I told you I feed my French bulldog, you know, Remy, he loves raw beef. So, uh, it's he's thriving. His gut and his bowel movements are like so much better. He's not getting any itchy rashes. So, yeah, I think I think there should be a really huge focus on the health moving forward. I'm really hoping we can do that. And I really want everybody to go to uh and including you if you can make it. Um, you'll get a special it'll be a special guest speaker if you can make it, but um yeah, it's going to be July 19th and Dr. Hilts is actually helping me promote it because he asked me to host it and uh uh he's going to be uh one of the uh co co-promoters basically. So, museum. Yeah. Well, if if I'm if I'm around then, yeah, I'd love to. And um I definitely help help promote it as well. Um Chris, I know that you have another meeting coming up in a few minutes, but you know, yeah, we we touched on a few things about um about the different things that you wanted to affect when you went into Congress, but you know, you know, just to you know, just to sort of get that in one place, what are what are the what are the things that you're hoping to achieve by running for Congress? Running for Congress, I think I need to be I think there's a lot of voices that need to be heard at higher levels. And I addressed this at your uh was it ketocon or um what was the one that you had in Texas last year? You spoke with Bella, Dr. Kels Baker. Oh, that's your health. Hack your health, right? Um you know, I actually posed a question. I don't think you if you remember but I think like a couple people answered but you know I I don't you didn't address the question but I think a couple other people addressed it but I asked like you know how do you think we can improve the health you know basically by you know if we can get if we try to do this at a congressional level like how can we then like oh just word of mouth and that was the only thing like you know tell like yeah but the the people need to recognize and this is what my strong belief is that the people at the congressional levels have so much more power and influence over the people especially because you're going to be, you know, you're going to be looking at people that are running your country on telling you what to do. And I think there needs to be a little bit more promotion at that level. And if I'm telling that everybody that we need to readress, you know, our public health at a national level and also addressing some of the, you know, the balance of our equities and putting our money where it should be going to not only kind of health, but proper forms of education, but also I think a lot of people I really want a lot more subsidies to American meat farmers. These are people that put real food on your tables. I met with these meat farmers. I'm actually going to be they're going to be at Meat Talk with me on uh in um in Tennessee in May. But yeah, I think they should be a lot more focused and I think there should be more government grants going over to them basically to hey, you're putting because I I I like the fact that gas prices are going down a little bit, but have you seen the prices of meat in the last like four years skyrocket? It was just amazing. I think we need to make it more affordable because that should be the primary thing on everybody's plate. So that's going to be one of my huge components. And then my other thing is my my concern with um schooling. So um I I can't make this too political, but my um they're installing my nephew with a brother that I really respect. Um we found out that they're installing tampon machines in the boys's restrooms and these kids are like 10 or 11 years old. So I think that is a merry moral issue. And I didn't like the fact that not only trying to take him, but they're trying to take a lot of my friends kids over in Long Beach Unified, they're taking kids to drag shows um without the parent consent. And I I'm really worried about uh the mental health of our kids. So in addition to addressing their physical health, I think their mental health needs to be addressed, too. I think we need to have good true traditional values. Um and I think that should be a huge concern for our kids going forward. So um that's a that's one of the the major issues. cuz I know I'm going to get a lot of backlash because everyone's like, "Oh, you're just you're transphobic." I'm like, "No, uh there's only two genders. You shouldn't be confusing the kids at this early age. You're really screwed up with their development." And you could see that the mental health of the kids completely plummeted for the past, I'll say, a couple decades at least. Hey everyone, really happy to announce a new sponsor for the show and for everybody down in Australia. Stockman Steaks, who are delivering highquality grass-fed and finished pasture-raised beef and other meats, flash frozen and vacuum sealed to your door. Something that I've been enjoying a lot of myself recently as well. They also have a great range of specialty items such as highfat keto mints and carnivore beef and organs mints with liver, kidneys, and beef heart as well. So, use code chaffy today for a free order of beef mints or another specialty gift along with your order at stockmanstaks.com.au. and I'll see you over there. Thanks, guys. Well, the thing is, too, is that, you know, doing it without the parent um you know, not only their consent, but their knowledge. I mean, that that's out of bounds. You know, if you want to raise your kids any way you want, that's your business as long as you're not hurting them. But um you know, uh but taking that that um say out of the parents hands, I think that's that's criminal. You know, you don't you don't get to do that. I mean, you know, there I mean, there were there were kids in my class, you know, when I was growing up that they they their parents didn't want them to be part of sexed. They didn't want them doing that. Well, was part of the curriculum. Yeah. Well, I don't want that. Fine. Okay. So, kids got out of that. They had a say. Parents had a say in in what happened. And um now they're saying no, parents aren't allowed to do that. At least in certain areas. Some places they do still have have a say, but you know, you obviously um there there are cases where they are sort of doing this without the parents permission or knowledge. And that's not okay. If the if the parents are okay with that and they want that to happen, you know, that's one thing. But when you take the choice away from the parent, uh that's that's the problem for sure. No, I think just in general, um I'm very outspoken. I don't mind threats, but I think we need I think we need myself and a lot of other people, too. I need we need really strong men and women to carry this country forward. And I don't think we could ever make up for the past, but we need a positive movement forward. So, that's what I'm willing to do. Yep. Very good. Well, Chris, thank you so much for that. Um, this has been with Chris Brandlin, the carnivore carnivore lawyer who's hopefully going to be the carnivore congressman and uh will be running in Nevada. What what district are you running in? Third district of Nevada. And uh you can find all the information on my campaign as well um as the meetup if you go to chrisbrlin.com. So uh you'll get the spell in my last name, but um and we'll have a link on that for the Las Vegas meetup. And we're just asking people to uh to basically sign up just to get information because I want to make sure I get a good headcount because I want to make sure if I have to spend a little extra money because I'm going to make this very affordable because a lot of people are telling me that they don't want to travel to a lot of these functions events. They're restricted money. I'm going to make this the most affordable meetup and I'm actually going to be taking uh eating most of the funds myself. Taking the brunt on that. Yeah. So, I'm going to take it, but I think I'm going to get good karma at the end. So, I'm willing to pay a lot of my finances towards it personally to make it better. So, that's good. Well, that's uh what's really appreciated and um I'm definitely happy to to help promote that as well. Uh Chris, thank you so much for coming on. It's great to see you know people like yourself that you know think that you know they they've got something some way that they can help um the community and the society as opposed to just trying to to to benefit themselves. So really glad to see um and that's the thing you're saying you're spending your life savings on this. It's not like you know you're you're trying to do this to to cash out. You're trying to do this because you know you think this is something that is important to do. My estate value will go down. I'll promise that and I'll substantiate it too. What will go down? Sorry. My my overall estate value basically. I got I got stocks and all this everything, but I got different investments in different states, but I'm telling you right now, I'm selling them off to pay for this. So, I already know it's going to go down, but I I feel it's going to be worth it at the end. So, that's what I'm praying for. Well Well, good for you, man. And good for you for for, you know, stepping up and and uh trying to make a difference. So, we appreciate that. Um, Chris, pleasure to see you again and uh good luck in the election. I'm sure we'll we'll talk again soon. Thanks a lot, Anthony. Thanks, man. And thank you everyone uh for joining. Please do go to uh Chris's website and join us in Las Vegas for the meetup in July. I will do my best to to be there as well. And either way, there'll be a lot of great people there. So, thank you all very much and we'll see you next time. They're explicitly not trying to cure disease. They're explicitly trying to treat symptoms so that you can give them that medication their whole life because that's what any any good drug dealer does. You hook them early, you get them young, and you keep them for the rest of their life so you get that that return, that that comeback. and they're addicted. And they have