EPISODE 371
From Pharma Insider to Microbiome Revolutionary With Alex Martinez
In search of the next miracle “cure,” Big Pharma has become very proficient at developing highly effective and obscenely profitable drugs aimed at treating rare diseases (think $750,000 per year) at the expense of ignoring newer, safer and effective treatments geared to a wider audience.
Alex Martinez, CEO and cofounder of Intrinsic Medicine, shares his amazing journey from being a healthcare attorney who witnessed the good, bad and mostly ugly in Big Pharma to revolutionizing how we care for the human microbiome this week on Spirit Gym.
Learn more about Alex’s Intrinsic Medicine company at his website. Find him on social media via LinkedIn.
SHOW NOTES
8:47 “The mission was attractive to me.”
12:27 Alex got the education he needed while ground-truthing at the same time.
20:50 Why is Big Pharma’s disproportionate focus on drugs that treat rare diseases?
30:16 Evolutionary biology.
39:07 Alex is a very intelligent vegetable.
44:42 Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) formulated with information molecules.
51:53 The fecal transplant isn’t new science.
1:06:46 Freediving helped Alex look inward toward the microbiome.
1:13:26 “What’s inside of us is all around us.”
1:25:05 The human milk oligosaccharides in breast milk serve as training mechanisms in a baby’s gut.
1:36:05 Is it possible that HMOs could work one day like fecal transplants?
1:44:47 Where do these HMOs originate?
1:50:33 Formulating infant formulas that aren’t inflammatory should be the norm but aren’t.
2:07:29 Creating an ethical regenerative business by integrating humanity into it.
2:12:49 Humans are so good at finding comfort in dis-ease.
2:25:34 Where probiotics went wrong.
RESOURCES & FURTHER READING
Fructooligosaccharides (FOS)
The work of Fritz-Albert Popp and Masaru Emoto
Paul’s Living 4D conversations with Dr. Nathan Riley and Dr. Ibrahim Karim
The Abdominal and Pelvic Brain by Byron Robinson
Science in Agriculture: Advanced Methods For Sustainable Farming by Arden Andersen
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