Warriors Heal Military Secrets To Conquer Sleep Health

What I love about you is I can, you know, so Ken has sleep apnea and I used to be on them all the time. Like you need to wear your CPAP. You need to wear your CPAP. And we started finding out that some of the soldiers that he served with, they were dying in their sleep. And a couple of them, they kind of questioned if it was sleep apnea. We all know somebody dies in their sleep. And they usually have sleep apnea and they're on benzos or they're on some sort of pain meds. Exactly. One of the things that I love about you, Boone, is you don't sugarcoat it. And the same with you, Jeff, in your group. You just are like, here's the facts. This is that. It is easier, in my opinion. It was great to show Ken that video that you made Boone of the CPAP like, oh, I don't want to wear it. It's not comfortable. I remember that one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because if I say it to him, it's different. And it probably sounds like that, you know, but if you say it as a warfighter, he's going to listen to you. So that's amazing. Now, those of you who don't know Jeff, because we've had Boone on the show before and I've talked about Boone a lot. Jeff, you're still active duty in the military, correct? Correct. And what do you do? Because like you have a medical background of some sort because you're very, very studied up on all of this stuff. So what do you do? So I'll go back. I was a recovery care coordinator, SOCOM care coalition advocate and liaison. But I self-taught. all this stuff, basically applying military intelligence principles to medicine, right? It's no different. If you understand the problem and frame a problem, you can visualize it. You can actually work at solving these problems, right? Resolving things. And I just adapted and adopted all these principles, frameworks, and processes that I did for 19 years in the military. And I put it to a new problem set, which was health. And, you know, I don't even like to say medicine because, Health and medicine aren't taught in the same school, not yet. Some places are just starting, but medicine, we look at acute things, right? Putting things back together, cutting medications, acute medicine, right? Then we have health. What I like to be is on the health side of things, which is preventative. I don't want to be in the medical side of things, right? So what I did is focused all my energy on that. I don't have a PhD. I'm not a medical provider and I don't want to do medicine, but what I want to do is prevent injury and illness and loss, right? That's what I did as a special forces soldier, right? I was an Intel guy and force protection was my main job. And if you can change that to force health protection, which the military does, and there's a whole website you can go to and look at it for these things. All we're doing is applying these principles to help people stay out of the doctor's office. Right. And then if you do have to go there, our doctors are the best in the world. There's, I wouldn't want anyone touching me besides our special operations medical community. Best surgeons I've ever seen, if we get blown up, they put us back together. We have the best at that, but when it comes to health, that's not their specialty. Their job is to keep people in the fight. And if you can understand that and you get frustrated with dealing with doctors that are in acute medicine, and you're like, why don't you look here and look there and check those things out? They're not taught that, and they're not allowed to do that. And if you can understand that, it takes some of that frustration out of dealing with the medical system, right? If you want to be well, yeah, if you want to be well, you have to go see someone who specializes in health. And even better, they have people called functional medicine providers that do health and medicine together, right? And we like to look at prehab, not rehab, right? So I don't, as my job in the army was to keep you from rolling over the IED, right? It was to keep you from getting ambushed. It was keeping you, you know, from getting, you know, some type of political implication downrange because you said, or did something that you weren't supposed to do, right? Third and fourth order effects of these things. Apply that to health, think of health. If I make this bad decision, what's the third and fourth order effect of this, right? So sleep was an easy one, right, Boone? So we looked at sleep. People say, I can't sleep, I sleep like crap, you know, I'm up all night staring at the computer. Okay, what can we do? Let's go back to the army, Boone, with composite risk management, right? Identify the hazards. What is out there that's preventing me sleeping? Caffeine? staring at Facebook all night, Instagram, you know, just mind going a million miles an hour in something. And all day you're putting stimulants in your body, you're eating before bed, you're doing all these things that keep you from deep sleeping, alcohol or prescription drugs, right? You use your prescription drugs to get you out of bed and then you try to use drugs to go to bed. Boone, you speak firsthand about that, right? Like the zombie cocktail and people wonder why they can't sleep. So If you go back to that, you identify the hazards, you assess the hazards. How are these things affecting me? Right. And then you implement control measures like composite risk management and then make better decisions and then continually assess. That's literally there's a five step process in the army called composite risk management. Apply that to health. Everyone can understand composite risk management in the military. You can understand how to take care of yourself and better your health just by applying that. That's principle and framework, right? It's an army system. And if you can do that, I mean, that's functional medicine. And it's that simple. It really is just understanding the environmental effects of everything you do in your day-to-day business, and then make better decisions, implementations, control the controllables, and then put a dent in it. And let's try to go back to, okay, I've tried all these things myself. How is it affecting my sleep, my health, my alertness, my weight? All of those things are controllables that you're in charge of, not your medical provider. And if you don't take ownership of your health and you blame all the medical doctors, why am I so messed up? You're never going to get better. And Boone, the second you took your health into your own hands, that's when things change, right? Everything changed. And... And again, once I started, you know, we joined the military when we're young, a lot of us, we don't have, and what do they tell you? Hey, do your job. We'll take care of everything else. We'll give you your food. You're going to, here's your barracks. You need medical. You go over here. And other than that, you're in formation. When you're done with formation, we're going to tell you what you're going to do for the day. You're going to do that. And that's that. Well, then what happens when you get hurt? All of a sudden they're like, well, you got to keep doing that. But then you don't have a sense of mission, which is also one of the factors for not healing. You have to have a sense of mission. We wouldn't have joined the military if we weren't a certain type of people. And so that same type of people needs to be influenced, needs to be promoted. It needs to be encouraged. I see too many guys who get in this situation where they're going to the hospitals, they're listening to the docs, they're kind of listening to their friends, and they get, this is a problem we have in our community. I'm going to tell you, and I'm hoping this book kind of breaks that. We have created our identity around being disabled because that's what they've said we are. Okay. And that's what we think we're supposed to do. We're supposed to hang out with the other disabled guys. Okay. We've got to get rid of that mentality, but we can't get rid of it until we understand one, it exists. Two, we take responsibility for it. And three, we have a pathway to get out of it. And that's what this book really does. A lot of guys buy this book. simply because they want to check themselves. You know, they got that kind of integrity. I want to check myself, make sure I'm doing it right, because I don't want to be doing it wrong. And that's a military mentality. And a warfighter can talk to a warfighter like nobody else can, because we're not going to let any bullshit fly. We're not going to let you get by with some stuff that you say is the problem, but it's really not the problem, because we've used that excuse too. You know, it's these things. And I think Jeff is absolutely right. If you take the military mindset, start putting your health into military terminology, a mission focus, we just get better because that's how we're built. We just haven't put it out there enough. And now is definitely the time. And I love it's all in one spot because, you know, we've had a million posts, what, since 2010, boom, tons of posts and it gets lost. Everything's lost. You know, you try to search the groups and you can find certain things in the groups, but That's even still really hard. Just when I made a post a couple of days ago, there was a veteran who wrote me and he said, well, I have TBI. There's nothing they can do for it. And I'm like, oh my gosh, there's like a million different things that we can do like to help with cognitive improvement and things like that. But I love that you have the book because it's easy to reference, like you said. And I really appreciate the fact that you wrote it so that people with a brain injury can actually process it because that's a big deal. Yep. It's a big, it's one of the things that stands in the way. One, you got to have accessibility. You have to have access to your target audience. And a part of access is, can they understand what the hell you're saying? That's how you get access to target audience. Can you physically get access to them? Can you mentally get access to them? And this is what this book does. There's a lot of side-out principles put into this for the purpose of good. You know, we're like Spider-Man. We got to use our powers for good. This is what we were trained in. This is what we use. And this is what gets through. I think this is, I wish we would have written this book 10 years ago, but at that time we didn't have everything compiled. Now we do. Now we can set it straight. And look at how much more information we have. I mean, we have, we've talked about like brainstem cell therapy and all sorts of cool new things. People are even using ketamine. It's in the book. We talked about it in the book. That's awesome. I'm going to buy the book as soon as the show is over. So where can people buy the book? Right. Just go to Amazon, look it up, look up FPL, just FPL, Boom Color, Jeff Dardia. It's right there. And it's cheap. It's $9.99. I mean, you're out of there for 10 bucks. It's easy. Awesome. Awesome. And then the proceeds of this book, how much of the proceeds are going to task for Stagger? I forgot what we said, Jeff. We haven't got the first Royalty. I'm still active duty. So it all goes to charity on my end. Yeah. I think at least half is going to a task force dagger. So that's a positive thing. Task force dagger is amazing. We encourage everybody to go check out, check out the task force dagger foundation. I I've always been impressed and all the guys that are working there, they're just some no excuse motherfuckers. And, and that's, that's where I think we need to be. Yeah. It's, it's all run by us. So everyone there, we got a couple of volunteers and, but the majority of the meat potatoes, they're board members that are all tier one guys, SF guys, Rangers. And we even got seals on there. So we're, we're, we're all of SOCOM now. So we're trying to get, you know, representation for the entire force, but, and we also support not only the warfighter, but all the support MOS's that are included with that. And then also family members. So it's a family organization. And like Boone said, it's, you know, we're, we're turning the corner. Now we've been focusing the soft health initiative program started in 2000, end of 2012, beginning in 2013. We've been hammering at home, toxic exposures, brain injury, PTSD, sleep disorders. We've been hammering it. Now it's, you've seen how long it took flash to bang, but all the other organizations are doing that now. So we're going the right direction. Everybody's speaking the same language. Now people understand there's a lot more than just missing limbs and bullet holes. But a lot of these injuries that are causing people to kill themselves or the cancer, right? Cancer and suicide leading cause of death where we were. So a lot of effort going in. It's amazing to me that we're all kind of talking about methiquine in 2010 and the, you know, the news wasn't putting it out there. And then all of a sudden you hear all of, you know, oh, methiquine has all these side effects. Well, we told you so. Or, yeah, in the burn pits, I remember. I remember Boone talking about the burn pits before that was even, you know, they, before they had the burn pit registry at the VA. Imagine that breathing toxins is toxic. Imagine that. And we have to do a big scientific study about that. Oh, wait, just on the burn pit things. Keep an eye out. Cause I'm getting ready to do some other stuff on burn pits because there's no reason our nine 11 first responders are And the guys who are affected by burn pits, there's no reason they shouldn't be getting stem cell therapy right now. There's no reason they shouldn't be, you know, knee deep and functional medicine right now. And that message has to get out. It has to get out very, very quickly because these burn pits, a lot of people ignored it over the years. It's like, oh, yeah, some guys got it because they were close to them and everything else. Well, guess what? Now cancer's popping up left and right. And it comes from a lot of it comes from the heavy metal toxicity. Jeff talks about it all the time. The burn pits, that's a big part of that. So again, this, we're getting ahead of it before it completely explodes. We want people to understand it. Keep an eye out for what's about to happen with burn pits because we're about to go full force on that one too. That is good. Well, you guys are welcome on my show anytime. I will disseminate the information as much as I can, as often as I can. I think it's very important. I think it's a national emergency and it needs to be addressed.