Root Cause Solutions For You

Beyond Supplements: Dr. Vohn Watts Discusses Foundational Health

• Fabiola Reyes, BCHHP - Root Cause Expert, Cert. AK, CellCore & Nutrition Response Testing® and Quantum Nutrition Testing Practitioner • Season 3 • Episode 5

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Dr. Vohn Watts revolutionized his functional medicine practice with a profound discovery: addressing foundational health issues often eliminates the need for complex treatments. This game-changing approach focuses on preparing the body's "terrain" before attempting to treat specific conditions – much like a farmer prepares soil before planting.

The conversation reveals how Dr. Watts transformed his clinical outcomes by implementing a four-month preparatory phase that addressed nutritional deficiencies and toxic burdens before any treatment began. Remarkably, about 60% of his patients, many with autoimmune thyroid conditions, never needed to proceed to the treatment phase as their lab markers normalized through this foundational approach alone.

We dive deep into why random supplementation can create more problems than it solves, with Dr. Watts emphasizing the importance of knowing exactly why you're taking each supplement. He shares invaluable insights about proper detoxification preparation, revealing that detox shouldn't make you feel terrible if done correctly. The discussion also covers the crucial role of liver health in thyroid function, absorption technology in supplement effectiveness, and the surprising truth about "natural flavors" on ingredient labels.

Perhaps most empowering is Dr. Watts' core message: "Health isn't complicated". While modern wellness culture often feels overwhelming with conflicting advice, the fundamental principles remain straightforward – proper nutrition, addressing deficiencies, reducing toxic burden, and supporting organ function. As he beautifully puts it, "You don't have to be smart to take your health into your own hands."

Want to learn more about Dr. Watts' approach and products? Visit aegisformulas.com or find him on Instagram as docvohn where he continues his mission of making optimal health accessible to everyone.

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Fabiola :

All right. Hi everyone. Today I am delighted to have a very special guest, Dr Vaughn Watts, who is the chief science officer and co-founder of Aegis Formulas, and I have to tell you I think this is a very short resume from previous conversations with Dr Watts he has done it all. He's a chiropractor, he has thyroid experience as a practitioner you name it, he's been everywhere. So I think this is going to be a very fun conversation. I became acquainted with ages as a practitioner. I work on DNA analysis, blood chemistry, and one of the things that has been very obvious is that we need the support, the right support and the right formulation to really support our dna repair and just our chemistry, so that we can be very healthy. Dr watts, thank you so much for being here with us today yeah, I'm happy to be here.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

This is excited to have a great conversation awesome.

Fabiola :

tell us a little bit about yourself, your background, what got you into holistic healing, and I think you, from previous conversations, found foundational health. I think you're, if we could call you, maybe the father of foundational health, the concept of it. So tell us a little bit about yourself.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

I went back to school actually as a second, kind of a second career to good to go back and be a chiropractor. After the mortgage fallout in 08 I was in the mortgage industry and decided I want to do something totally different, and my mom was was always into natural healing, into chiropractic supplements, healthy eating back in in the 80s. I've always been around this and so it's always kind of resonated with me. So I decided to go to chiropractic school, came out and within a year of getting out of chiropractic school decided I wanted to focus more on functional medicine and so I moved more into the functional medicine realm. I really specialized in Hashimoto's autoimmune thyroid, thyroid dysfunction, which when you are dealing with that, you also work a lot with organ function and gut dysfunction, especially gut dysfunction where you're dealing with autoimmunity. And so I was in practice for a number of years and one day in practice I was a little frustrated with the patient that was not getting better the way I thought she should be getting better, and most a lot of the autoimmune thyroid patients a lot of similarities. They have a lot of similar symptoms, similar issues going on, and so when you see somebody who's not responding it doesn't make sense to you as a doctor. You're like, wait a minute, but I'm doing all the right things. And so this was our third blood panel, and by then I'm usually finishing up, like that's usually the final panel, to ensure everything is where it needs to be, and things hadn't moved yet.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

And so I remember that was the day when I discovered this concept of foundational health, and I remember closing the file and just thinking to myself it can't be that difficult. I got to be overcomplicated, because the one thing I know about truth is simple, it's never complex. And so, as I was going through it, I'm like let's just go through what we know physiologically. Right, I'm giving somebody some supplements to help them, but what is that doing? What does it do? First, right, as it goes into the body, goes into the stomach, gets broken down, then absorbs the gut, so on. And then that was my aha moment, because I realized about half of my patients had acid reflux, which is an indication that you have low stomach acid, which also was an indication that you're not going to break things down properly or sufficiently. So when it does get into the gut, you couldn't absorb as well anyways. Now, that's just one thing. But with autoimmune patients they also have gut dysfunction, all sorts of issues, and so they're not absorbing anyways.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

And so that's when I discovered this idea of functional medicine is root cause medicine. We're really trying to get to the root cause in what I termed as this foundational health. Initially he called it foundational medicine and foundational wellness, but just from a general, this is more of a concept that anybody can do. You don't have to be a doctor to abide by these principles. So this foundational health concept is basically, in my belief, is the human body is a self-healing organism. When put in the right condition, meaning when our organs are functioning at an optimal level, our body's designed to function well and to fight off disease and to fight off toxicity and all these other things. Unfortunately, we're so inundated, especially here in the US, with toxins and all sorts of other harmful things, as well as nutritional deficiencies, and so I realized and came up with a concept that before we go right into treating a patient, which a farmer, doesn't just go straight into a field and start throwing seeds right. They go and get the field ready first. And so that's where I kind of term that concept of foundational health. It's the preparatory work you do prior to moving into treatment.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

And so, with the concept that if our organs are functioning at an optimal level, then we can deal with any kind of disease or we can get past any kind of disease what's causing organs to dysfunction? And in my belief it's one of two things it's nutritional deficiencies, and we know with our foods now we're just getting all the vitamins and minerals that we need and that are necessary not only for organ function but for many other different physiological pathways. And then the other is toxic burden. So that could be parasites, that could be heavy metal toxicity, that could be molds, radiation, all sorts of different things, and also emotional toxins.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

When we think about stress and that's a simple one whenever I say emotional toxins, people immediately go oh, here we go, we got a doc. And I'm like hang on, think about what happens when you get too much stress. What organ does that affect? It causes your adrenals to not function the way they should, and so we know that. And that's a simple emotional toxin to stress. Now imagine trauma or PTSD or something else. Those kinds of emotional toxins can really help or can really prevent healing as well.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

So that's how I put the concept together, and then I changed, completely transformed my practice. I changed everything I was doing in there and I would tell every patient I'm not even going to treat you for four months. The first four months one, we're going to work on fixing your diet and your lifestyle. And two, we're going to ensure that we're not dealing with any nutritional deficiencies. And then, three, we're going to test to see if you've been exposed to anything toxic and if you have, then we'll go through and detox out those toxins and then after that we'll rerun your panels and we'll see where you're at, to give us a true baseline and from there then we can move into a treatment, move into functional, the root cause treatment.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

Now that we've got the terrain ready, what I found is about 60% of my patients never moved into the functional treatment phase.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

Just by doing that, their markers lab markers normalized, their symptoms went away, and so it was a very big change, not only for me as a practitioner, because I started having better results, but also sold my practice a few years later and went to work for another big supplement company and brought the concept of foundational management to them and turned out they sell a foundational protocol, which is they're still, I think, to this day their top seven protocol, and I trained a lot of doctors and practitioners on this concept of this precursor work and doing this before just moving straight into treatment.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

And so that's where we're at now. And then I know this is long here, but I I left that company, went to work for another, I did doTERRA for a year as a vice president of nutritional education and then after a year I realized I just need to focus on my own brand, and so I've spent the last six months just really dedicated my time towards Aegis Formulas, which is a company I started we actually launched July of last year, so I'm coming up on a year which is a company I started. We actually launched July of last year, so we're coming up on a year which is pretty, pretty exciting.

Fabiola :

That's awesome and I really love your approach because we want to come out of a pharmaceutical approach. Maybe that's not working for us. Are we switching medication for supplements? How many of us potentially in the search for health have been on 20 different supplements at a time? That's not really real cost, right? That's not really. It takes a lot of energy and dedication and I get supplement bugged down and I'm like, oh my gosh, I don't want to take all of this. And if I, as a practitioner, feel that way, I can only imagine how some of my clients sometimes may feel like this're chasing symptoms. So really like your concept of really fixing the terrain and like you said when you didn't even get to that second phase, because you've repaired their functionality so that their bodies could heal and repair.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

Which is one of the reasons why I went away from the name foundational medicine, because there's no medicine really involved in this concept. It's really just. These are just foundational building health, building blocks and so going back and forth. So really it's just a foundational health, foundational health, two things ensure that you're not deficient essential vitamins and minerals and nutrients and two, you should probably periodically detox, at least annually, or at least go in annually and get some testing done to see if you've been exposed to anything, because usually most people understand is by the time you start showing symptoms of something, you're about 40 percent through the process of whatever's going on, and you can catch these things earlier just by going in and doing an annual checkup or getting an annual toxic burden lab test. Yeah, yeah, definitely. And with that too, it's important for people to understand when you I'm just not a I'm not a big fan of just taking random supplements and I'm not a big fan of taking it just detoxing to detox. For me, I feel like everything that just should be a purpose for why you're doing things, and so, unfortunately, we're so inundated with you can't scroll on instagram without hitting up how many ads for some supplement you should be taking. Everybody should be taking this, but should you or are you deficient at that? Because you do realize that, unfortunately, you could be doing something you think is good and then taking something simple like calcium supplement. Right, and maybe you're not deficient in calcium, but you're increasing your calcium levels, which means now that's going to change. And now you're dealing with vitamin d and phosphorus and in other minerals, where your body has to balance it. So you could actually be taking something you think is healthy because somebody said it's healthy, but if you're not deficient of it, it could potentially be causing issues down the road. And then the big thing with detox is, if you're going to detox, go get a lab run, see what toxins you need to detox. So then your detox can be specific to what you're actually dealing with, not just some detox that somebody's talking about online and selling. Know what you're doing and be deliberate with it.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

And then when you go to detox, it's very important you have to ensure you have no nutritional deficiencies, because you want your organs functioning right. You got to make sure have no nutritional deficiencies because you want your organs functioning right. You got to make sure your drainage pathways are open so that when you go to detox, you can actually flush the toxins out, and then you also need to have the energy, the cellular energy, to do it. So you want some good mitochondrial support so that you can get through detox. And if you do these things properly, you can detox without feeling crummy.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

A lot of people are like oh, detox, I'm going to feel like I have the flu. And it's like those that experience some of these what's called a Herx reaction. They experience it because their body was ready for detox and they went right into detox. And that's usually a key indicator for me with patients to say hey, pause the detox, let's go back, let's make sure your drainage pathways are open, let's, let's go back, let's make sure your drainage pathways are open, let's make sure this and this, and then we'll start back up. And so there is a preparatory thing ready for detox. If you want to have a successful detox and you want to have a detox, that's that miserable.

Fabiola :

I know right. Yeah, because so many people are like I don't want to do detoxes, I need to take time off work. Am I going to be in the bathroom all day? No, you do have to do it properly. I love your approach. Many of us need to just really take on that as a guide. So I love it. With ages, one of the things that caught my attention is that you guys do the 90 like SOMO, yeah. So could you explain that to us? Break it down super simple Explain that to us.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

Break it down super simple, yeah. So our whole goal. We have a three-pronged approach at Aegis. One is myself and one of my partners who's her name's Dr Jess Petras. She's a medical doctor, big online influencer with women's health. Her and I, both functional medicine doctors, we formulate all of our own products, so these are doctor-formulated products at clinical dosing, so at a dose that's going to be clinically relevant. So if a practitioner is using our products, they're going to see good results without having to amp up the dosage of some of these products you'd buy over the counter at a store.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

The other part is clean ingredients, so non-GMO dairy, so any of that stuff manufactured in the US. And then third, and one of the most important parts, is absorption technology. So we know that, with supplementation just across the board, this isn't any specific company, this is just general. If you're taking a capsule, you are absorbing somewhere between 20 and 40 percent of that capsule. The rest of it you do not absorb and it excretes out. That's a known scientific fact amongst most supplements. Now the way you can help to increase the absorption rate is by adding things like liposomal technology, which is kind of like a little for simplistic terms, like a little fat bubble that say we have vitamin C right, and this little fat bubble that encapsulates vitamin C and protects it through the very harsh environment of the stomach and also it makes it more. That fat makes it more has a higher affinity for being able to be absorbed into the cell.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

And then, with nano, is a whole nother level, and so what it does is nanotechnology, just basically it takes we'll just say vitamin C again. I'm going to just use an example. We wouldn't do it with vitamin C, but hypothetically say vitamin C and they take and they put it through I believe it's called a sonicator which basically makes that, it kind of disrupts it a little bit until it can break it down to smaller pieces, down to, I think it's anywhere between one and a hundred nanometers, pieces down to, I think it's anywhere between one and a hundred nanometers. So that makes it really small, which then anything that's small, the small things, have a much easier time getting through the cell.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

And then, when you take that nano and then you also encapsulate it with a liposome, so you make it nano liposome. Now you dramatically increase absorption rate and, depending on the product, you can have as much as a 95% absorption rate, whereas with a typical supplement you're maybe 40% on the high end. And so I always say this it doesn't matter how clean or how good of a product you have if you're not absorbing it. I mean, that's a key element to even if you have a great product, you still want to be able to absorb that product and be able to utilize those ingredients in you.

Fabiola :

Yeah, sometimes they can be expensive, so we're spending money on things that we're not absorbing, then what's? Maybe? Potentially, that's what we're not feeling better. It's not just that we're addressing the unwanted conditions, but if our tools are faulty, then potentially, yeah, we're not going to get where we want to be. Yeah, I like the nano gluten B. I think that's one of my favorite products so far. I take it myself, my husband takes it and, because I'm doing a lot of DNA testing, if anyone's come up with the MTFHR mutation, I'm like this is such a great product because most of us also have all kinds of SNPs regarding glutathione right, which is a great antioxidant, and so I just really love that formulation. What is one of the things that you think that people make as far as the biggest mistake? You talked a little bit about detoxing without properly being set up to do that, not focusing on nutrient absorption. We just talked about the, the delivery of supplements. Is there anything else that might come to mind that you're like? You stop doing this, probably you'll get better?

Dr. Vohn Watts:

yeah, also, the big thing too is when you're going to buy a supplement. Like I said, we're so inundated with information now on social media and with these all the experts telling us what products we need to be taking. It's also very important to look and see look at the back of the bottle, look at the ingredients, ensure that, because you could be thinking you're taking a good product, you're taking a supplement, you're trying to be healthy, and then you go look at the ingredient deck and there's some ingredients in there that are not good and so actually could be counterproductive. And, depending on what you're dealing with, say, a Hashimoto patient, some of those ingredients can actually trigger or basically make your the autoimmunity even worse. So it's important to know what you're taking. Read the ingredients, understand the ingredients, understand the absorption, that technology, that using. How much of this am I absorbing or am I just buying expensive? I said, am I buying expensive? P? Yeah, so those are the big ones. Really understand what you're taking, the ingredients, and how much you're going to be able to absorb of that.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

And then I guess, the third one, what I touched on before I'm a firm believer in you shouldn't be taking anything that you don't know why you're taking it. There's a purpose. Like you say, hey, I'm taking vitamin D because I'm clearly vitamin D deficient, we ran a panel and showed a deficient. Or I'm taking this or that. There's some exceptions when you're dealing with, like anti-aging and stuff. But I'm talking more from just a regular health, like we're talking actual health health.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

Know why you're taking it.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

Don't just take it because a friend said, hey, you should take this, everybody should take this.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

Or an influencer says that If you're concerned that you might like this might be something you should be taking, there's always a way to find out, and so my biggest point is don't take a bunch of stuff. Know why you're taking it and then, even if you are taking a bunch of stuff, you know why you're taking all of it. You need to understand too, when you take a lot of supplements as well, that really taxes your liver because everything has to process through the liver and so you can really you can cause liver enzymes to elevate. You can cause some other issues if you're not also taking a really good liver support product, which is one of the big things that nanoglutathione helps with the liver's natural ability to detox and some really critical antioxidant that we have. But big thing is it's providing support for the liver so that liver can, given a little bit of what's called a little added jet fuel, that kind of help it work better and more efficient, especially since it's going to have to work harder.

Fabiola :

Yeah, you're right. I just had a consultation with a client and he was taking a methylated bean and he's like I'm thinking B-complex, b12. And I'm like, could you go get your bottle? I like to make sure that it's on the right one, cause sometimes I do that. Sometimes I see something. You know, I'm going to try this. I like to experiment as I find new things. And we're reading the label and it had synthetic vitamin C and it had natural flavors, and I get paranoid about natural flavors. I don't know what's in it, right? So I just automatically say no to that. And he's like, wow, no wonder, maybe I haven't been getting the benefits of his methylated B12.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

Natural flavors is a good one to bring up too, because I can't speak for everybody, but I'll just speak in general terms for us as a company, because we are aware of ingredients, like we have when we work with other manufacturers. We have one that says natural flavors on there. So if it ever says natural flavors on our bottle of ours, we then define what that means, because natural flavors, even according to the FDA, it has the essence of a natural flavor, so it doesn't necessarily mean natural. It could be completely synthetic, and so we always ensure, like our natural flavors, that it says derived from lemons. So we find it actually does come from a natural source and we go out of our way to do that and we talk to our manufacturers. Most of the people they work with don't do that, but most of them are just using regular natural flavors and so when you see that there's probably in this is natural flavors, that's an easy out to have to disclose what's actually in there yeah, and I bet 99 of the time it is synthetic.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

And if it wasn't synthetic that means they went. They went a harder route to make that supplement and when you do that, like what we do, we make it a point to put that on the label. So if they they're not putting on the label just you can't guarantee for everybody. But there's a pretty wide assumption that if it just says natural flavors and doesn't define what it is, that means it's probably synthetic.

Fabiola :

Wow, yeah, thank you for saying that you want to be transparent.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

Yeah, Like every ingredient that's in any one of our products, we have an entire ingredient index so you can go click on the ingredient index under the science section and you can learn about any ingredient, and so every ingredient of every one of our products is in this list that you can go read about and understand why it's in there, what it does, where it's from.

Fabiola :

I love it.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

It's all about transparency, right.

Fabiola :

Yeah, of course you build that relationship right. You trust and I'm most likely to trust someone who has been transparent versus someone I have to chase around for answers and maybe not get any response. What are some of the projects that you're, like, super excited about that might be coming up in regards to foundational health?

Dr. Vohn Watts:

Yeah, so I actually I finally finishing a book here, so it'll come out this summer. I'm finally finishing a book here, so it'll come out this summer basically explaining the concept and really the whole purpose of the book is to empower people to just take health into their own hands, which for me, that's the biggest thing. A lot of these concepts, if just implemented in your daily life, you get a huge health benefits. No-transcript. Really, there tends to be one of the spouses and oftentimes it's the one that's staying home, that is one of the in charge of the family's health and really is invested in that, and so you're seeing a lot of these moms out being more empowered, wanting to make sure that what they're providing for their kids is the right choice and healthy. And so if we can, if I can be a little part of that to just say, hey, here's a concept of how to do that and it's not expensive and it's you don't need to come to me to get it Like, I'm just showing you. Here it is.

Fabiola :

And now you have it. If that can impact people and really helping people take control of their own health, then that's. That's the mission. That's a home run for me. That's awesome. What any other product that you wanted to highlight like? I'm in love with the nano gluten b, but is there one that you have a favorite one of yours?

Dr. Vohn Watts:

I have a new. Oh my goodness, where's it at? Where'd I put it? I thought I had one here. You know what I'm going. I might have one in my wallet. Actually, we have a new product out. It's a new technology. It's a strip. I thought I had one in front of me. So it comes in a little pouch, you open it up and it goes right on your tongue Like a Listerine strip.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

But it's a supplement, and so the one we first rolled out it's called Calm and it is as two trademark ingredients, zimbrin and Zynamite, which have both been clinically shown to help decrease the effects of anxiety. This is, it's great for helping to just calm the system down. We paired that with another product and created a kit called our Fight or Flight Kit, which really helps calm down the nervous system and so for those people that kind of have that propensity to get a little amped up, it helps calm them down. But that strip is amazing because it's not a pill, it's not a capsule, it's not a liquid, it's not anything, because it's not a pill, it's not a capsule, it's not a liquid, it's not anything, it's just a simple strip. Keep it in your wallet, you can keep it in your purse, throw a couple in your kid's backpack.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

Very simple Tastes good Tastes like a. I think it tastes like a honey tea or something like that. Somebody else has said it has like some other good taste, but I think it kind of just tastes like honey tea, but phenomenal product. And then we're rolling out an allergy strip in July and then after that we're going to be rolling out some really big stuff. We're keeping close to the vest until later this year, but some really big things coming up with strips. So we're going to be rolling out this new strip technology, which is pretty amazing.

Fabiola :

That's awesome. And going back to when you were saying about nervous system needing to be regulated when stress and anxiety are present, how hard it is to heal and repair, with this, we're supporting that because sometimes it's hard and we're detoxing from mold, having detox from mold and working with people who do that, who need to detox it. Sometimes the nervous system gets so dysregulated because of this microorganism right? So if we can do anything to help calm down the nervous system, then we'll definitely be utilizing it.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

And my partner, dr Jess. She works with a lot of patients, a lot of women, who they are in this fight or flight. Their nervous system is really amped up, and so this was part of the. This is part of things we're trying to create as a solution also, not only for other practitioners but for her with her patients, because one thing she's learned and she's educated on is it doesn't matter what's going on with the patient. If their nervous system is all over the place and you try to start treating, you're gonna have a difficult time being successful as a practitioner. And so she spends time with a number of patients really trying to help.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

First things first is get their nervous system balanced out and calm down and then moves into treatment. And that's another key indicator to look for. If you're somebody who's in that fight or flight and you've noticed that you've tried to do certain things and you're not having results, you have to address that fight or flight first. You have to calm the nervous system down first before you start going into any kind of treatment. There's an order of things too. When you're going into your health, like we said, you want to make sure you know that foundational health. You also want to make sure your nervous system is. That's even before that, and so there's certain things that you've got to fix before you move into other things if you want to have the results that you're expecting to have.

Fabiola :

Yeah, yeah, awesome. And liver. You talked a little bit about liver. You mentioned a little bit about Hashimoto's and thyroid. From previous conversations I know that you're a thyroid expert as well. What's with the liver? How important is it? As a practitioner, obviously, I know it's very important, but sometimes this is news to people how important the liver is pretty much for anything.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

The liver. I can tell you this. I can tell you this I remember years ago, back when I was still in school and my biochemistry professor was talking to we were talking about, I think, outside and we were getting ready for boards, to take our boards and a Venezuelan guy. So you got his accent and I lived in. Actually, I lived in Venezuela back in the 90s for about a year and a half, and so I love the Venezuelan people, I love the Latino culture and so I love the Venezuelan people, I love the Latino culture, and so I just we connected because we had that little Venezuelan connection and he looked at me and he said if you have a, if there's a question on the board and you don't know the answer, but liver is one of the four answers. You select liver, he's always select liver. He's.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

It's so important, it does so many, many things. It's our master detoxer, right? So our liver naturally detoxes things out. Unfortunately, it wasn't designed to detox, for humans to be exposed to as much toxins as we are now these last 40 years, but it is meant to help detox it. Also, it's a big one for the thyroid, so 60% of your thyroid hormone to convert it from inactive to the active form. 60% of that conversion happens in the liver. So that's one of the key things I look at right away. Whenever I look at thyroid panel, I also run a liver panel with it because I want to look to see what's going on. Is there a correlation? Do we have a thyroid issue or actually do we just have a liver panel with it because I want to look to see what's going on. Is there a correlation? Do we have a thyroid issue or actually do we just have a liver issue and we're not converting hormone? And then there's a number of different patterns you can look at, but hormone regulation liver is extremely important.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

It's a very resilient organ, believe it or not, which says a lot that you're starting to see a massive increase in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, which brought on by massive consumption of ultra processed foods and really sugar. So now you're seeing kids with basically an alcoholic liver, which says a lot because a liver pretty much regenerates every 90 days and you can actually take a liver out of one human and has three lobes and you can put that one liver into three different people and they'll grow into full livers. So it's a very resilient organ. So it says a lot.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

If you're dealing with some liver stuff, then you're probably been exposed to some pretty rough stuff or your diet is resin needs some real attention. The nice thing about it, though, with the liver too, is I see a lot of people they get a little concerned because they've gotten out alcohol, alcoholic, fatty, liver disease or some definitely elevated liver enzymes, and they get real concerned. But the reality of it is that is that is something that can be easily reversed with diet and lifestyle and some really good liver support, and so you just gotta get the right guy, but it's becoming a real issue. So liver is very important and we're starting to see more and more issues with the liver as our diet and sugar consumption continues to increase.

Fabiola :

It is such a stressor. And then you have to think am I missing other minerals, Am I missing other nutrients? That is causing this? Is there parasites? Is there mold? You have Tadka right, One of your supplements.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

Yes.

Fabiola :

You have Tadka and it has milk thistle you mentioned.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

Yeah, tadka is one of my favorite products that we have. I love all our products, but that's one of my favorite. Tutka is an amazing product. It's a bile product, so it really helps with outflow and we need bile to help emulsify and break down fat and stuff and so it helps with digestion, it helps the liver and the gallbladder and we also and with that tutka in a lot of people heard of Shilajit, which is a shimacum fulvic acid. You know that there's a lot of great health benefits to that, but we added in milk thistle and NAC as well, which are two really good ingredients for liver support. And so when you combine and now when you take that Tudka Max and our NanoGlue B and you combine them together, that's our liver gallbladder support kit, which is a phenomenal two product punch.

Fabiola :

I love it, yeah. And then you're supporting liver, you're supporting digestion, you're supporting your thyroid and gosh everything else kind of important gut health is for thyroid as well, as you were mentioning. Yeah, Good production of acid and stuff like that Wow.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

You're just full of knowledge, dr Watts. Oh, thank you. You tell them when you do, when you sit in a certain space for a long while and you're constantly looking to. I'd say I was different. I don't know how most practitioners are doing their practice, but like I wouldn't have a patient come in and we'd sit down and we'd go through their file and we'd go through their blood panels and go through their history.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

I don't usually just give them a protocol and they walk out the door. We usually meet again a week or so later and it gives me time to really dig in and go through it. And also oftentimes I find myself having to go in and research because there'll be something that's new, something I haven't seen. And so it's that constant desire to research and to find the latest and greatest research that's out there, because the latest research doesn't always, and it seldom, aligns with what the standard protocol is that's out there, whether it be in Western or alternative medicine. So just staying up to date and in the specialty you're in helps you. Just helps you help more people.

Fabiola :

Yeah, that's true, you have to be your own practitioner and I think all of us collectively together we can really achieve that state of true wellness and health that that we know that we can have if we remove the stressors that we've run into.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

Absolutely yeah.

Fabiola :

What a great conversation. I just I wish I could just have you as my mentor and be like what about this, what about that? So I is there anything else that we've covered? We covered so many key data with your mission, the company that you're leading with Dr Jess and your team. Anything else that you want to leave listeners with before we?

Dr. Vohn Watts:

end up. I'm trying to get out of this foundational health and really helping people understand some basic concepts that can really transform their health and not only transform it, help prevent them from future issues because their body is operating the way it was designed. But, at the end of the day, it all comes down to one simple statement, which is health is simple. It's not as complicated as people make it out to be, and don't be afraid of taking your own health in your own hands researching, researching, read, talk to practitioners but you can take it in your own hand, and really a lot of it starts with diet and lifestyle Diet, lifestyle, nutritional deficiencies and toxins, and so if you can address some of those things and most people can address those on their own without having to go to a doctor. Now, some of these toxins are a little more complicated, and so it's probably highly recommended to work with a practitioner, especially like mold and some of these other ones, but at the end of the day, a lot of these things you can take care of yourself.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

Being healthy is simple. It's not complicated. I think there's a lot of people online talking, and it seems so complicated because there's a lot of smart people online talking, and so it gives us appearance that these people are so smart. I have to be smart, and it's like you don't have to be smart to take your health into your own hands. So health is simple, anybody can do it.

Fabiola :

Yeah, we don't have to get a PhD before we can get healthy, like we can just do. Like you said, keep it simple, the power of simplicity per se.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

Absolutely.

Fabiola :

How would one anyone listening? How would they go about finding your company?

Dr. Vohn Watts:

Yeah, you can go to Aegisformulascom and it's spelled. It's a Greek word, it's A-E-G-I-S, which is a shield, and so Aegisformulascom. Or you can find me I'm Doc Vaughn on Instagram, or you can find Dr Jess MD as well. She's got a pretty big following, provides a lot of amazing information. So, yeah, that's where you can find us, or online, or you can reach out to us as well.

Fabiola :

Awesome. Thank you so much for your time. We've learned so much. We'll make sure to add all the show notes at the bottom with your information so anyone can find you, and once again, I really appreciate your time.

Dr. Vohn Watts:

Thank you Appreciate being on here.

Fabiola :

Yeah, awesome. Thank you so much, everyone. Until the next episode.