#2262 - Dr. Mark Gordon

Joe Rogan (0:00)

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Mark Gordon (1:29)

Joe Rogan Podcast, checking in.

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The Joe Rogan Experience.

Mark Gordon (1:33)

Showing by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.

Joe Rogan (1:41)

Good to see you again, my friend.

Mark Gordon (1:42)

Hey, it's always great to be here. It's been a while. Four years, January 8th, no, January 15th.

Joe Rogan (1:49)

Was it really?

Mark Gordon (1:49)

Yeah, that long ago. Four years, jeez. Yeah, it's been four years.

Joe Rogan (1:52)

The last time you were here, right?

Mark Gordon (1:54)

Correct. Yeah, I think the last two.

Joe Rogan (1:56)

So that was like right after a couple of months after I moved here. Yeah, so almost exactly four years.

Mark Gordon (2:02)

Yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:02)

Crazy.

Mark Gordon (2:03)

Well, waiting was great. Waiting? Waiting, I mean the time, four years waiting to have another chat with you. Because so much has gone on since last we met.

Joe Rogan (2:16)

Well, tell me, what's going on?

Mark Gordon (2:18)

Where do you want to start? A? Z? Anywhere. Let's see. The family is expanding, which is great. All three daughters have been married and each has a grandchild, which is making me feel old. So I've ramped up, stepped up my hormonal treatment to keep me on edge because I want to be around a lot longer to take care of these kids or to be with the kids. They're just 16 months, but they're still fantastic. Unbelievable. I love it.

Joe Rogan (2:47)

That's great.

Mark Gordon (2:47)

Absolutely love it. But in the world that I work in, in the medical arena, it's been expanding rapidly. The new administration has a part to play in it, which is great, but even before that, the number of results that we're having, the outcome from TBI, PTSD and what have you, has been accelerating because of some of our testing that we do as well as our treatment that we've initiated that's changed since four years ago, since last time.

Joe Rogan (3:18)

What have you added in the last four years?

Mark Gordon (3:19)

Well, we've added a lot more neutropic, excuse me, not nutraceuticals, natural products into our regimen. I spent 16 years looking at the science behind things that can get into the brain and alter the inflammation that occurs in the brain. The whole premise of everything that I've been doing for the last 30 years has been based upon inflammation in the brain, and the inflammation is what stops all the chemistry and why we develop anger and problems. I don't know if you saw the article, which is called Influence of Media on the Mental Health of America, which used to be called the Trump Derangement Syndrome, but I got so much backlash from having that title. People wouldn't read it because of the title. It talks about how constant stress from the media, echo chambers, social media, reading all this bullshit, causes cortisol to go up.

Joe Rogan (4:10)

No doubt.

Mark Gordon (4:11)

And it shuts down the chemical that protects your brain called fractalkin. And then it starts dumping all this inflammation and causes loss of serotonin, so you become more depressed. It causes loss of melatonin, so you can't sleep. Generates another group of chemicals that induce depression.