Optimal Human Experience with Dr Joseph Diruzzo
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Ep. 11 - Overcoming Stress, Increasing Positivity, and the Power of Nature
Does chronic stress, fear of failure, or lack of self-confidence sound familiar? Join us in a transformative conversation with Dr. Joseph Diruzzo, where we uncover the secrets to overcoming these common challenges and journeying towards the Optimal Human Experience. Through the lens of private practice and Oriental medicine, we begin to understand the power of nature in restoring balance. Stories from Dr. Diruzzo's practice and a dive into prenatal reimprinting and the surprising benefits of mushrooms for kidney health set the stage for this enlightening conversation.
Have you ever considered how our emotional state could impact our bodily functions? Together with Dr. Diruzzo, we explore the surprising correlation between fear and kidney function, and how a mother's emotional state during pregnancy can influence the fetus's biochemical environment. We'll tackle heavy societal influences such as the media's impact and the consequences of a lack of social connection. Yet, hope is not lost. We'll introduce you to transformative tools like neurolinguistic programming, hypnosis, and acupuncture therapy - all aimed at enriching your quality of life.
We wrap up the conversation with an empowering discussion on fostering positive behavior and optimism. We address the prevalent issues of deprivation, sickness, and the human tendency to use wealth as a distraction from inner turmoil. Could dopamine addiction be at the root of these negative behaviors? We explore potential interventions. Furthermore, we delve into the crucial role parents play in shaping their children's perceptions of internal control and resilience. So, come along with us and our resident expert, Dr. Diruzzo, and take a step towards your Optimal Human Experience.
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Speaker 2:Welcome to episode 11 of the Optimal Human Experience Podcast with Dr Joseph DiRuzzo. I'm Paul Andrew. I'm here with Dr Joseph DiRuzzo and the question must arise what do you want to talk about, except To get started? I'm going to read you a list of symptoms or problems or issues that people apparently frequently have trouble with, and what I'd like you to do is let's discuss. What are the commonalities and how do these things, how do you move from these issues down a path toward the Optimal Human Experience? How's that sound?
Speaker 3:Sounds good to me. Boy, that's ambitious, Isn't it Okay?
Speaker 2:well, take a deep breath, Sit down.
Speaker 3:Shall we reiterate the fundamental dogma of prenatal re-imperial?
Speaker 2:Not yet. Not yet. We shan't Hold on. Listen to this. This is more important. These are problems by gummy Fear of failure or fear of rejection, lack of self-confidence or lack of self-esteem, negative self-talk oh, I'm not good enough, I can never do that. You know what he's going to like me. Or limiting beliefs, procrastination or lack of motivation, addiction or compulsive behavior. And how about? Well, you know, end on this one. I could go for another 45 minutes. Chronic stress or anxiety. You look around and everywhere you turn you hear tales of these issues. So tell us the path from any of these, all of these, multiple of these, toward the Optimal Human Experience.
Speaker 3:You know this kind of harks back to the time when I was in private practice, practicing privately.
Speaker 2:Were you in the by chance, the department of redundancy department.
Speaker 3:I was there over and over again trying to find a resolution to an ongoing problem. Okay, but the you know you can attack any problem. You know, if you feel like you're fundamentally out of sync with the universe, then you attack problems. And if but if you're in harmony with the universe, all this stuff just goes away. But what really impressed me a lot about when I was practicing privately was people would come in literally with shopping bags full of pharmaceuticals. You know they'd be like 68 years old and they had had 12 heart attacks and 16 strokes and and they'd say, doctor, would you like to see my medication? And they would take out a shopping bag and they would line up all these drugs. And you know there's a medicine called diazide. What's it called Diazide? Yeah, it's called diazide. And so if you and I always looked at them, I said, well, this is an ominous sign. When I took the program and diagnosis and internal diseases, they would talk about ominous signs.
Speaker 3:You know, somebody comes in and their their ankles are so swollen they look like they're standing in two uh, waste paper baskets and that's an ominous sign. That's see, I timed that. I timed that comment just when you were taking a drink and it was perfect, helping for a spit take. Yeah. So you know, if, if I, I would say to people all right, I want you to go home and eat a big bowl of cooked carrots twice a day, and I would say to people well, let's smooth out your blood system, your blood sugars, and I'd say I want you to eat oatmeal, big bowl of oatmeal twice a day, and with a couple of eggs, cook some eggs into the oatmeal protein and and the oatmeal, and they'd get better. I'd give them herbs and they'd get better. I'd adjust their back and they'd get better. I tell them to eat it. I'd give them herbs and they'd get better. I'd adjust their back and they'd get better. I'd tell them I want you to soak your feet in hot water, hot salty water, draw the toxins out of your system, and they'd get better. It seemed like everything. You could do, almost anything, and it would improve their health. And if you improved it a little bit here and there and you're in there. Eventually they got better. Sometimes it was very rapid. So my tendency is to say we came from nature, we returned to nature and, in the end, nature is all there is, and I listened to people talking about health and behavior and codependent behavior, and he's manipulative, and these people are just wildly out of sync with the natural order.
Speaker 3:What is the fundamental format of prenatal re-imprinting? The fundamental format is that the prenatal period is foundational in terms of everything we are, everything that we do and who we are. So we can begin attacking these problem states by changing some of the prenatal patterns. However, let's talk about something different. In Oriental medicine, there are foods that are more specific for one thing than another, and they talk about mushrooms. Where do mushrooms grow? In the forest, yeah, and the forests are often wet, and if you look at a mushroom, it sheds water. If you eat mushrooms, it goes into your system and helps your kidneys shed water. I don't know why it works like that, it just does so.
Speaker 3:When I was a little boy, my father, who was a woodsman, took me into the woods and he showed me different kinds of mushrooms and I learned which ones are good to eat and which ones are really not so good to eat. And I was in upstate New York with my son, jonathan, and we were out in the woods three days after it had been a heavy rain. What happens characteristically about three days after a heavy rain Mushrooms, baby, mushrooms, baby. We came upon trees fallen down, trees that were loaded with mushrooms. I took off my shirt, I tied the sleeves, I filled the shirt full of mushrooms. I had him do the same. We had mushrooms and we took them home, cleaned them and I fried them a little, a little olive oil and garlic, and we had mushrooms.
Speaker 3:Honest to God, it was such an experience of physiologic health care. It strengthened my kidneys to an extraordinary degree. So whenever you see a person in normal society eating the standard American diet, you're seeing somebody who's had the micronutrients of their food removed and, characteristically, sold to the farmers so that they can feed them to the pigs. The pigs are healthier than most of the clients I had. Did you ever go to the grocery store and you see, like a frozen chicken? And it would say chicken parts removed. Mm-hmm, right, yeah, well, guess what I had patients and guess what they had had Parts removed, parts removed, you know one of my favorites Parts removed.
Speaker 3:Yeah, everybody. These parallels are all around us. One of my favorite writers, james Howard Kuntzler, said about the time in America in 50s and 60s when people were smoking. They would go to a factory and the factory would have a smoke stack and a chimney and you'd see, before work people would gather around the base of the chimney. And what would they do? They were smoking too. They were smoking cigarettes, marbles, you know camels, how's your sex life? I said to do a guy one time. He said, well, I'd walk a mile for a camel. I said, oh, oh, oh, we came from, we come from nature, we return to nature and the end result of microprocessing our food and removing everything out of it that's good for you. That might spoil. I used to say to people you have something in your pantry, it's been there for months, it hasn't spoiled. Why not? I said, well, I don't know. And I'd say, well, the answer is it's already spoiled. They took everything out of it. Was any good?
Speaker 2:Can't go down any further. It's done. Did you ever see a picture of that? Wasn't a Big Mac? I think it was like a quarter pound with cheese or something McDonald's hamburger Like six years old. Oh, longer than this. I think it's up to like 20 years old now and it still looks just like it did when he handed it to him.
Speaker 3:40 years ago, my acupuncture Oriental Medicine teacher, misha Kushi, used to say in years come, you will pay a horrendous price for removing the micronutrients from your food. You will pay and see. You see it walk down the street. Over the last 10 years the chickens have really come home to roost. So these feelings of parts removed, parts removed yeah, sure, everybody's got it. And while I went in and had my gallbladder removed, I had this right that I looked at an x-ray yesterday and the fellow you know he's got back pain, horrible back pain. He thinks he strained his back. He's got a hole in one of his hip bones about the size of a quarter. I don't know. It doesn't look like it's metastasized, but it looks like cancer to me. So all of these things, there's commonalities, there's things that they all fit together.
Speaker 3:When people have feelings of lack of motivation and so on and so forth, where was the set point for all of this? Established Pray tell in the prenatal period, under conditions of what? Fetal or maternal distress? So I'll say to people what's wrong and they'll say I don't have much motivation. I'll say, okay, put your head down, take a deep breath, don't Imagine yourself floating in the amniotic fluid. Is your mother active or is she kind of just sluggish? They go oh, she's sluggish, she's not moving. I'll say well, do you feel like you have adequate oxygenation and adequate movement, or does it feel like you're just kind of? There's a phenomenon known as hypokinetic disease, where people just don't move enough. And they'll invariably they'll say well, my mother, just she doesn't want to do anything, she's not moving. I'll say all right, let's do a gated image, guided fantasy. Have your mom get up open the windows, take a broom, sweep the floor and enjoy normal and active activity within physiologic limits she's not stressing herself and have her sing a little bit and have her breathe the fresh air deeply. Then I'll say how's your feelings of inadequate motivation? And they will say why, by golly they're gone. So much of the things that you have mentioned have the commonality of blood stagnation, blood stagnation. And if the set point is established in the prenatal period, where people just don't move a whole heck of a lot, they will fight their entire life to be motivated to get up and feel like doing things, and so on and so forth, and they're fighting a losing battle because the set point and the molecules of emotion that were established during the prenatal period will tend to always come back, always come back, always come back. And the remedy is we're looking for the optimal human experience.
Speaker 3:So many times I'll say to people imagine your mom and dad sitting down to a table and there's baked salmon and there's fresh greens and there's cooked carrots and there's nuts and berries and there is a wonderful powerful root, licorice root and rhubarb root, and there's all these various roots. They give strength, they are strong, they burrow into the ground, they burrow into the ground, they're strong. And so in Oriental medicine you look for the characteristic of the food and not so much the vitamins and minerals. But if they're strong and the fruits grow up toward the sky, they grow up toward the sky and they're full of vitamins. Roots burrow into the ground, they're full of minerals.
Speaker 3:And you look at what's the characteristic of this food, what's the characteristic of white bread? So I will have people in guided fantasy sit there and eat food that is full of essential amino acids, full of essential fatty acids, just strong, healthy, good stuff, in a positive mental attitude state where there's rapport and enjoyment and happiness and satisfaction and all the worries of the world have gone away. Next thing, you know, guess what? What we're trying to do is re-establish the proper set point so that they have motivation as a normal physiologic expression of a healthy human body, and this is called the optimal human experience. You guessed it.
Speaker 2:Okay, that's about half time. Just want to say real quick If you want to learn more, please visit optimalhumanexperiencecom. That's optimalhumanexperiencecom. There's videos on there, past podcasts, lots of stuff. Now, sorry to interrupt you, but, boy, I did a good job. You know, I was listening to a comedian the other day, norm McDonald. I don't know if you know Norm McDonald. Anyway, he was talking about how he had read an obituary of someone who had died after a long bout with cancer you know, a long battle with cancer and he lost the battle. And then Norm says well, you know, I don't know about that, because you know if the guy dies, then the cancer dies.
Speaker 2:So seems like it's more kind of a draw he didn't lose. You know, he got at least a draw out of the deal.
Speaker 3:Now people fight with cancer and they have battled cancer and then they have a war with these and it's awful because they're fighting and they're having a war and then, oddly enough, they fight with their wife and they fight with their kids and they fight with their and they fight with their neighbors. Shock, and there's a you know, yeah, shocking there. And all of these, all of these extremely oxidative or adrenal hormones generate free radicals, sulfoxide radicals, single at oxygen, just all of these free radicals, and they degrade the system, they degrade the immune system, they damage the chromosomes, they give expression to cancers, et cetera. And there's the, the, the incidence of cancer these days and other degenerative diseases, metabolic syndrome oh my goodness, it's just all over the place.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I have read different theories on that. Cancer can't exist in a state of high oxygen, oxygen oxygenation. If there's a lot of oxygen around, the cancer, cells can't survive in that environment.
Speaker 3:I've heard. I've heard that they exist primarily in an anaerobic situation, where, where there's just not enough oxygen. Doesn't that jive with a prenatal set point for lack of of of fundamental oxygen up to the optimal state? Yeah, if mom has got, you know, if mom is just not moving around much.
Speaker 2:I'd explain.
Speaker 3:I'd explain further, but honestly, god, what's the use? You know Right right.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm looking through this. You know this short list of things. I read at the beginning and and I can see where, certainly the set point during the prenatal period makes a lot of sense fear of failure, fear of rejection.
Speaker 3:But then fear, of any fear, of anything has to do with kidney function. Any fear, any fear, yeah fear.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, how would you? How would that relate back to the prenatal state? Are you saying that the mother had potentially some kidney issue and was experiencing fear and that imprinted the, the prenat, or how would that work?
Speaker 3:You know, some of these things are so universal in in the industrialized societies. Every time I turn on the TV or YouTube or whatever, and I'll see somebody with like circles under their eyes that you could pitch our shoes into. I mean, there is literally no one whose kidney function is optimal. They just, you know, and it's not measurable by ordinary laboratory tests, although they'll give you an indication. You just look at people's face and you'll see everything that's going on.
Speaker 3:For myself personally, if I have a lot of green smoothies and I have plenty of brown rice and I get to bed, the circles under my eyes just simply go away. If I get some bad news, or if I, you know, have a big chocolate bar or something like that, the next day, there they are again the circles under the eyes. So you know, when you see people who've got big circles under their eyes, you can pace the reality by saying well, I'm afraid I have bad news. They'll go. Oh, you're afraid, you know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I was scared that this was going to happen, you know, sometimes. And they'll sit there like a giant, has grabbed their head and is nodding their head for them. Oh yeah, I was afraid of that too. Oh yeah, that's terrified me. I've been afraid of that and my mother used to be afraid of that, and you know there's a lot of people that I know are just terrified of this fear. Kidney function and kidneys they require a certain oxygenation. If the oxygen in the kidneys is sub par, is sub optimal, they will develop free radicals. Oxygen at a certain concentration is a free radical quencher and it's just. You know it all fits together If you think about it.
Speaker 2:And then, okay, so fear kidneys, lack of self-confidence, lack of self-esteem, those are kind of the same logical type or in the same arena lack of self-confidence.
Speaker 3:You know, I was listening to a podcast the other night and these guys were asking women, do you like men with confidence? And they went oh yeah, we want a guy with confidence.
Speaker 2:Well, so we can crush it out of them. Sorry.
Speaker 3:My question is okay. So you have confidence. What specifically is that the good ant that warrants self-confidence? And these guys will be like 20 years old. They'll be confident as hell. They won't know anything, they can't do anything and they, you know, have no idea what's going on in the world. But they have confidence. Yes, they have confidence. Lack of confidence Think about it. It can be usefully thought of as a form of incongruity Maybe I can, maybe I can't. Maybe I can, maybe I can't. So if the mother is not sure that she wants the pregnancy, well, maybe it would be nice to have a baby. Well, I don't know if this is the right time. Well, George just lost his job. Well, I did want a baby. Well, my mother says having a baby is a good thing. Well, I don't know. Everybody, Everybody, Everybody sings me that's not the right time. What do you think would happen to a pre-nate under those biochemical circumstances, with those molecules of emotion?
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, this sounds good. No, maybe it doesn't. Oh, I don't know. This might be oh, no, no, no, no, no, I'm not sure. Yes, oh, and positive that I'm not sure. Yeah, I was a bit be some confusion.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and the amazing thing is is like almost nobody knows where this stuff comes from. I've listened to you know, dr Phil, and what Jordan Peterson a nice man, a well intentioned man, brilliant guy best vocabulary. He's got almost as many words as whoever it's huge words and does he understand the significance of the imprinting of the prenatal period? Apparently not, not yet.
Speaker 2:Not yet no.
Speaker 3:Okay, he's a good guy Really.
Speaker 2:Okay, so and so what about procrastination, lack of motivation? I think you kind of already touched on that a little bit.
Speaker 3:You know, what helps women with procrastination when they're pregnant is a line of cocaine. You know that really helps them a lot. That's really they are. They are no longer. They do not procrastinate after that.
Speaker 3:Well, what is what is procrastination? It's toward and away from simultaneously, right, uh huh. Okay, so they got a real toward circuit and they got a real away from circuit and they can't quite bring themselves to do it. In the end, physiology and psychology are the front and back of the same thing and, as we've said over and over again, a sperm meets an unfertilized egg, forms a fertilized ovum, divides into two, four, eight, 16, 32 cells. This is really an extremely formative period. And if mom is motivated and she's out and walking around, normal physiologic exercise, she's making the space nice for the baby. Then the baby gets the complex generalization there's a place for me gets a complex generalization there's resources for me, gets the complex generalization that things, I can make things nice for myself.
Speaker 3:If mom is just whacked out and stressed out of her mind, then she's going to have a baby whose life later on is what Wacked out and stressed.
Speaker 3:Wacked out and stressed, that's all there is to it. This is so straightforward Once you understand the molecules of emotion this is so straightforward and understand the prenatal period reigns supreme. All you have to do to improve your life is put yourself in the prenatal position and start doing meditations where you're with nature and you're happy and mom is happy and the food is good and she's drinking plenty of fresh, clear water, breathing plenty of fresh, clean air and the next thing you know, you start to calm down, relax, calm down, get centered, and then the problems that you had in life begin very slowly to go away and you begin to experience the optimal human experience and all of the tools that we have neurolinguistic programming, brown rice, milton Erickson's hypnosis, dave Dobson's other than conscious communication, michio Kushi's, oriental diagnosis, facial diagnosis, acupuncture therapy it all fits into the grand scheme and ultimately we came from nature, we are part of nature, we return to nature and finally, in the end, nature is all there is.
Speaker 2:So, looking at this list, I think you just summed it up that every one of these and I only read the first five or six of this list of very common issues that people say, oh, I have trouble with it, I have trouble with it, lack of support or lack of social connection I can see where, okay, that makes perfect sense.
Speaker 3:If the mother during the prenatal period felt like I'm not getting any support or I don't have a social network, I have no one around to speak with or talk to or have any kind of In a culture where turn on the TV and notice the degree of rapport, deprivation, sickness, and then turn on a radio talk show or TV talk show and notice the argumentative, antagonistic syndrome firing off and people you know. James Howard Consellor says that people have a feeling of being separated and alone and they have boredom and antagonism and the life is meaningless. I was watching a video tape of some people out in the African bush and one guy killed a some kind of wild abuser, something, and he brought it home for the tribe to eat and he said somebody asked him what's the greatest you know joy you've ever had in your best day of your life? And he said it was when I killed that beast and I brought it home and we all had plenty to eat and we were dancing around the fire and everybody was happy and I was the hero because I made a contribution and we were all in rapport and we all thought it was great that we had plenty to eat and life was good and I was the hero.
Speaker 3:And yeah, that should be. You know, people's lives should be an ongoing contribution to others for which they're adequately and properly rewarded. They shouldn't be battling with nature and fighting a cancer, and warring with their neighbor, and all of this stuff is just profoundly maladaptive, it's profoundly unnatural and it is so commonplace. This concept of rapport, deprivation, sickness oh my God, it is pandemic. It is all over the place, all the time.
Speaker 2:Well, and it doesn't help that the I don't know if we talked about this before, but there was some fellow who was going and doing charitable work in Africa and out in the bush and he says, yes, in this tribe they subsist on less than a dollar a day. And I thought, wait a minute. They go out and they dig roots to eat, they go hunt for food. They have water right there in the river and the creek that comes by, or the well, and what do they need the money for? They're not. There's nothing to buy. There's nothing they need to buy because all of their basic needs are taken care of and they seem to be happy, other than the fact that you came there and said what?
Speaker 2:You don't have any money. You need money. We've got to get you some more money. You should start a business and then you can have a business and then you can get money and then you can buy stuff. Well, what stuff, I don't know? Stuff that seems cool, that you might think you like or don't really need it, but it's kind of cool to have. That's why you need money. You need more than a dollar a day.
Speaker 3:A lot of what people do when they're spending money is they keep themselves distracted from how horrible they feel deep inside. That was one of Dave Dobson's things. You see people sitting around judging other people. That's a big pattern. Other people will be doing things to distract themselves from their profoundly negative and unpleasant internal state. What was it? Yogi Berra said something like you'd be surprised what you can see if you look. Remember that one.
Speaker 2:I'd be surprised, I tell you. I think I know with my kids. What I've noticed is a daughter in particular who is so excited about getting anything new, whether it's a trinket from the little 25 cent machines at the grocery store or some new toy or new outfit or whatever it is but it's that dopamine hit. I think she's addicted to dopamine because she's happy for a few minutes and within a day that thing's forgotten and then it's on to the next thing. Oh, but look at that, it's so cute. I really, really, really, really love this.
Speaker 3:Let me ask you, Daddy, how can you positively intervene?
Speaker 2:I'm thinking duct tape a closet.
Speaker 3:Why don't we try something a little more conservative? You asked me.
Speaker 2:You didn't say a good idea. You asked me how I would do it. Go ahead, you're at war with the universe again.
Speaker 3:That's right, it's all against me Notice her external behavior on the days in which she's kind of down. I'm making the assumption there are days when she's down or she's just not Sometimes, sometimes yeah.
Speaker 3:All right. So notice her external behavior on the days in which she's down and in usual judgment you know it's not up for people, it's not good for people to be up in manic all the time but model back to her her external behavior when she's down, If her head is inclined 30 degrees to the front right and she's always kind of looking around. Model it back to her outside of awareness. Begin straightening up just slightly, only as fast as her unconscious mind will, in rapport, Come along with you.
Speaker 2:You got it yeah isn't that slick.
Speaker 3:Okay, I'll notice, then notice the Characteristic words that she uses, the criteria in days that are down. Now you don't want to be, you know, you don't want to stick her into a permanent dopamine high, but if she gets down, notice the characteristic words and begin putting those words together in Sentences that are more positive, mm-hmm right, and model back to her external behavior, outside of her awareness, just only as fast as her physiology will allow. Begin to straighten up and Assume the optimal human experience, the optimal posture, the optimal optimism, the optimal everything okay and that I have homework now.
Speaker 2:I got to write this down. That's that's it for episode 11 of the optimal human experience podcast with dr Joseph Deruso. I'm Paul, andrew, and we'll see you next time.
Speaker 1:This has been the optimal human experience podcast with dr Joseph Deruso. For the latest videos and courses, visit optimalhumanexperiencecom. Join us next time for the optimal human experience podcast with dr Joseph Deruso.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so let me write this down. Model behavior outside of conscious.
Speaker 3:Where Straighten up?
Speaker 2:Stand back.
Speaker 3:Stand back, give her plenty of space. You don't want her to feel, you know, oppressed. But then stand up and notice if she comes along with you, and then stand up only and you may have to go back. You know, stand up only as fast as she'll come with you. You're literally installing the physiology of the optimal human experience.
Speaker 2:Well, and here's my success metric quits asking for the s Once you quit, every time you go to the store. Oh,
