In this insightful episode of the TPE Blueprint, Joe Fier sits down with Dr. Don Wood, founder of the Inspired Performance Institute and a leading expert on trauma resolution. Dr. Wood unpacks his unique perspective on how unresolved trauma silently runs in the background of our minds, sabotaging not only our mental state but also our physical health, detox pathways, immune function, and even our athletic performance. From military veterans to world-class athletes, Dr. Wood shares breakthrough stories and the science behind his method to “reset the system”—helping people move past deeply ingrained blocks for improved wellbeing and vitality.

Topics Discussed

• The Brain and Mind Model: How Dr. Wood compares the brain to computer hardware and the mind to software, with trauma as the underlying glitch affecting both psychological and physical systems.
• Trauma’s Physical Impact: Discussion on how unresolved trauma can disrupt DNA methylation, inflammation regulation, immunity, and detoxification—even for those with “healthy” lifestyles.
• Fight, Flight, and Healing Stalled: Why the body deprioritizes maintenance and wellness functions when trauma keeps it in a chronic fight-or-flight loop.
• The Concept of Emotional Concussions: The idea that even “small” or forgotten traumas—like childhood embarrassments—can severely limit performance and wellbeing.
• Signs of Hidden Trauma: How symptoms like anxiety and self-sabotage are often protective responses to unresolved past events, whether obvious or not.
• Dr. Wood’s Approach: An overview of his non-therapeutic, neuroscience-based process to reduce memory “resolution” and allow the body and mind to heal.
• Athletic Performance Stories: Incredible real-life examples of athletes and veterans who experienced dramatic improvements in performance and health after trauma resolution.
• Personal Story: Dr. Wood’s daughter’s miraculous recovery from Crohn’s disease and another autoimmune condition following trauma work.
• Integration with Detox Protocols: Why addressing the subconscious and trauma is crucial for technologies like Therapeutic Plasma Exchange (TPE) and other advanced detox methods.
• How to Take the Next Step: Information on how to explore Dr. Wood’s resources and methods further.

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Could hidden toxins and unprocessed trauma be colluding to derail your health?

So today on the TPE Blueprint Podcast, I'm joined by Dr. Don Wood, who's the founder

of Inspired Performance Health and creator of his patented method for clearing

trauma really quickly and unlocking peak performance and overall vitality.

Let's dive into it.

Well, here we go.

Dr. Don Wood, it's great to have you on the, the podcast here, the TPE Blueprint.

Um, how you doing today?

I.

I am doing great.

I'm, uh, I'm glad to be here and I, I appreciate the invite, Joe.

Of course.

Yeah.

And I've seen the work that you do, and I've seen a lot of your success

stories with where you're, you're just, you're clearing folks of this.

Subtype of trauma they've had in their life.

And you know, it just almost creates like, it's almost like opening the

curtains it seems like, for so many of your patients for what, the last 15 or

so years I think you've been doing that.

Yeah.

We, we, I started doing the research in about 2009 and then officially

launched everything 2015, so, Hmm.

Yeah.

That's about, but how long we've been working on it.

And

it's, you have an interesting, so the reason why, you know, we, we got

connected and I was like, okay, what you're doing is very fascinating in the

method, and I would love for you to kind of describe at least an overview of.

Of how you, how you look at it and how you handle these kind of situations

of, you know, pretty major traumas that, that you've worked with.

Professional athletes.

I know veterans, I mean, people that have just gone through some

pretty horrific stuff, but, you know, everybody has something I

feel like, you know, inside us.

Yeah.

And then you layer it with the toxin conversation and how.

That is also impairing our, you know, performance, our just longevity feel.

Good.

So I guess, what are your general thoughts there as we just start, and how

those all kind of relate to each other?

Well, I think this is what you're gonna find fascinating.

We talked a little bit about it is the brain is basically, I say

that think of the brain as the computer and the body's the printer.

So you can put all the nutrients and all the paper and toner and everything

in the printer, but if the computer's not sending the correct commands or

not sending the commands, the body's not gonna get the maintenance done.

Hmm.

And so what I've been showing is, so people will say, well, I do everything

I do detoxes, I do, I eat right.

I use all these vitamins and supplements.

But the problem is trauma actually affects the DNA and the methylation.

So you could be putting all the best stuff into you, but it can't methylate it.

And people would say, well, why would that be?

How could trauma have that effect?

Because we know what trauma psychologically does, but people

have not connected up necessarily the psychological to the physical.

Is definitely connected.

So, and the sort of a simple way that I use to explain it is think

of trauma as it's constantly looping and running in the background.

And so it's like, as far as your mind is concerned, I talk

about the brain and the mind.

So think of the brain as the computer, the mind is the software.

Okay, so the physical brain, right, is obviously we know what that looks like.

It's physical, it's inside your skull, and the mind is the software

that operates inside that computer.

Mm-hmm.

So you can open up your computer.

You can't see the software, but it's the programs that are

running right inside the computer.

So the physical brain, the computer is subject to physical damage, so it

can physically have something happen.

You can get a concussion or whatever it is that can affect

the operation of the computer.

But when you think about the mind, those are the programs.

And programs are subject to glitches and error messages.

And so trauma creates glitches and error messages, which affect the computer,

which then affects the entire system.

And if you don't get in and reset that, then it's not gonna communicate

properly with the rest of the system.

So trauma continues to run and loop, and it'll show up as symptoms,

anxiety, it'll show up as depression, post-traumatic stress, panic attacks.

So when people come in and say, oh, I have anxiety, I say, well,

that's just a symptom of something.

Your mind doesn't get anxious for no reason.

So you don't just wake up one day and your mind says, well, you know,

let's mess with Joe and create all kinds of anxiety for him.

Just mess his day up.

It's anxious for a reason.

So this is probably the most important part of the concept of

what I talk about in our program tip.

Think of an emotion, a feeling, or a sensation as a call for an action.

Mm. The purpose of an emotion, like fear is to run and escape.

The purpose of, uh, anger is to attack something that's threatening,

so that makes perfect sense in a situation where you're threatened.

But if you think about something that was threatening from five or

10 years ago and you still feel that emotion, fear, or anger, it's a glitch.

How can you run or attack something that happened five or 10 years ago?

You can't.

So what does, what happens is, is gonna show up as a symptom.

And so people are gonna say, well, I'm anxious all the time.

Well, that's probably coming in from a fear.

What is your mind looking at and trying to get you to do?

Chances are it's trying to get you to do something about

something that doesn't exist.

Mm-hmm.

And so how do we treat it?

We medicate it.

So really all we're doing is blocking the memory of the event from five or 10 years

ago, but we're not fixing the problem.

So the problem is, is when that happens, as long as, and think of

it this way, sort of an easy way to describe it, your mind feels like it's

constantly being chased by a lion.

So you're in constant fight or flight mode as long as you're in constant fight or

flight, because this trauma is unresolved.

The body isn't gonna get much maintenance done.

Right.

So all the great stuff you're doing is not going to fix the body because

the body is in fight or flight.

What's the primary motive for the brain and the mind?

Survival.

Yeah.

And if you don't escape the lion, you don't, you're not gonna survive anyway.

So why would we want to waste the energy on maintenance

yeah, it's like, so your body is probably literally shutting down

these certain functions, right?

Like that that could be the, maybe the detox pathways for instance.

Uh, I'm just kind of assuming.

Exactly.

Okay.

That's exactly what it does.

Because what it says is, do we need to detox or we do, do we need to run?

We need to run.

We'll detox when we escape.

Now.

So the pathways, the methylation for all of that is shut down.

Not only that, it shuts down.

So inflammation increases with this trauma, and we're approving this.

We just published a study.

I. The inflammation, the genes that regulate inflammation are upregulating.

We can see that with IL six CRP, things like that.

The genes that regulate the immune system downregulate the genes that

regulate neuroplasticity, downregulate along with neurotransmitters, because

it's an allocation of resources.

We need all of our energy to fight or flight.

And it even physically does that.

So if you think about, you know, if you get scared and nervous, you feel like

you have to go to the bathroom, right?

Mm-hmm.

And the reason it does that is because it's saying there's blood flow going

to digest this to the stomach, right?

To start the process of digestion.

We don't need the blood flow there.

We need the blood flow to the muscle groups, right?

To the arms and legs to run.

So what it says is dump the fuel.

Get rid of.

Right.

Anything that we have to, because we don't want to process

the food, we wanna dump it.

It's a, it's a drag on us.

Wow.

When we're, when we're being scared, and so now we feel like

we have to go to the bathroom because your system's saying flush.

It's survival.

So sympathetic.

Yeah, so the sympathetic system is saying run, and you can't activate

the parasympathetic, which is your rest and digest, which is your detox.

All of those things are going to be considered not a priority until

you escape the lion, but the trauma doesn't escape until you address it.

And so that's what we do is then when we calm down the trauma.

Now the system can start doing its maintenance.

It makes perfect sense when it's looping.

How could your body get outta that cycle?

And it, and like you said, it's usually looping on something

that happened years ago that you have no control over the outcome.

I mean, the outcome's happened.

Right.

And for whatever reason we're locked in it.

And it, so what it's trying to fix is something that doesn't exist.

That's what I say.

It's a glitch.

But your subconscious, your survival brain operates in the present.

So everything for your subconscious mind is now, it

doesn't have any concept of time.

It's only the conscious mind that can think of time.

And so that 5% conscious, logical, reasonable, intellectual part of your

brain is not in charge of survival.

Yeah.

It's the 95% subconscious that's running everything.

A hundred gallons of blood, um, you know, every hour going through 60,000

miles of vascular, you know, tubing, you know, beating so many times a minute.

All of those things are being controlled subconsciously, and so that 5%

conscious mind has absolutely zero.

Say if there's a threat.

'cause it goes to the programming.

And then the programming, that's part of what you were born with, right?

That system is running the show, and so it's going to be all focused on survival.

It's pretty wild if you think about it.

It is, yeah.

We're our bodies and really the outcome of just how we feel is being run by a system

that we aren't logically thinking about.

It's just.

Doing?

No, it's just doing stuff and how do you know, uh, when it's time to like, I dunno,

I'm just thinking of folks that maybe there's not an obvious trauma, there's

not an obvious thing, but it's maybe we've coped with this feeling of like

this low level of anxiety for a while, or we go into a situation and they're

just like, oh, that's just how I am.

You know, like, how.

I guess, how do you address people that it's not so obvious, but

you know, there's symptoms and things that are kinda showing up

a lot of times when, so I, the key in why I use the four hours in the program

is I say we have to get the mind into optimal condition to start the healing

process until the mind feels safe.

It doesn't wanna do maintenance.

So that's why traditional therapy's not very good at trauma.

Because the mind is still not safe yet in that hour that you're with your therapist.

So by the time I get to about two hours in, I've got the brain and the mind into

an alpha, very relaxed, focused state.

And then people will say, well, you know, now I'm thinking about it.

You know, this happened to me when I was a child and this happened to me.

So high functioning people have learned to manage that fairly well, but it

doesn't mean it's not operating.

And so you could look at your computer and say, well, I'm running Excel,

but you don't know that four other programs are running in the background.

Mm-hmm.

And you think you're just working on Excel, but all those other programs

are drawing power and energy, but you may not be aware of it.

And that's what.

So when I talk about, obviously the big T traumas everybody knows about,

those are obvious, but I call emotional concussions, those little bumps

that you got along the way, right?

The teacher that told you you were stupid, or like my wife has a great example.

When she was in elementary school, the teacher pulled her up to the

front of the class and started firing multiplication questions at her.

Now, was she deliberately trying to embarrass her?

I, I doubt it.

I don't think so, but you never know.

But it didn't matter.

So my wife, Bridget, right when she told me that story was sobbing, I. This

was before I developed the program.

She says, I felt so stupid.

I was so humiliated.

And so then if you said, you know, will you go up and stand up on stage and talk?

Oh, not a chance.

Mm-hmm.

Because what she learned, right, is that it's embarrassing.

You're gonna get called out, you're gonna be ashamed.

So she's high functioning.

But at the same time, if you ever asked her to speak in front

of anybody, she couldn't do it.

Yeah.

Was that a big T trauma?

No, but it's an emotional concussion that was affecting the way she operates today.

That's why so many people are afraid to speak in public.

Yeah,

because they got embarrassed at some point.

And the mind remembers that in high definition.

And so somebody says, oh, why don't you just go up and speak?

And the mind goes, what do we know about speaking in public?

Pulls up that memory.

Then they go into an active, right.

Sympathetic state.

They're in a fight.

They're in fight or flight stage about something that happened 50 years ago.

But you don't feel safe, right?

Like, or at least they went in that situation and I. I think that's

what the body is looking for, right?

It is safety.

So it's not that fight or flight.

We can just be calm.

Like you said, the alpha state, that's like ultimate, right?

That's the ultimate, that's the flow state.

Mm. But the mind doesn't get into flow if it's got a lot of unresolved

trauma running in the background.

'cause your mind's constantly searching its environment for

signs that it's threatening.

So say for example, you know, you had a situation and something and

somebody said to you, you know, Joe, I need you to do this, right?

And then you go, yeah, sure, I can do that.

Consciously, logically you go, yeah, I'm, I got all that.

And then as you get ready to do it, your mind starts to say, okay, do we have any

experience with these kinds of situations?

Then it pulls up an event below your conscious awareness,

you're not aware of it.

That was a threat.

Then it'll start to shut you down.

So when people say to me, I sabotage myself, I say, it's actually impossible.

That's one of the big myths.

It's impossible to sabotage a brain that is focused on your survival.

There's no way it's gonna sabotage you.

It's going to protect you.

So and so for my wife, you said stand up on stage.

Why would she be afraid to do it?

Why would she could not do it?

Your mind was saying, oh, don't do that again.

You're gonna get hurt.

So it would stop her from doing it.

That's not sabotage, that's protection.

And so give us an overview, and I know you obviously it takes longer than just

a, a quick, you know, 30 minute podcast episode or so, but what's an overview,

at least understanding of your approach?

So yeah, this isn't therapy at all.

This is basically, we're gonna reset the system.

So when your computer freezes up, what do we do?

Restarted, right?

This is what we're really doing.

So I'm gonna take two or three events in your lifetime that have been disturbing.

Similar like that, right?

That could be big T traumas, or they could be emotional concussions.

And I take you through a process that will take 'em out high

definition into low definition.

Mm-hmm.

So if I asked you what you ate for dinner last night, Joe, what?

What did you eat for dinner?

Uh, I'm trying to remember now.

I think it was, uh, oh.

It was, uh, some, some lamb, lamb ribs, smoked on a trager.

It was great.

Perfect.

So when I asked you that right, you started to look and look to the

side trying to remember, I mean, you saw pictures right, of what

you ate, maybe where you ate it.

Yep.

That's how you stored the information about dinner last night.

No animal does that.

Only humans.

That's why you can feed your dog the same thing every day.

They don't remember eating that yesterday.

So that's a new meal when they get it today.

But for you, you stored that information as what you ate.

Now it wasn't threatening.

Sounds like it was good, right?

But it certainly wasn't a threat to you, so your mind stored it

as a fairly low resolution file.

So that's now stored in our explicit memory.

Now, if you have a threatening event, all your senses are

heightened, sight, smell, hearing.

Now it's recording all of this in high definition.

So now that explicit memory is stored in high definition along with what you

ate for dinner last night, that stays on top because that was a threat to you.

So now, if you had eaten those lamb chops and there was a fire, right?

And you had to run, get outta the restaurant in order to

survive, the next time you went to eat those lamb chops, right?

Mm-hmm.

Your mind would've set, would've went into fear mode

it wouldn't associate too well with that, that,

uh, dinner ahead.

Yeah.

And would it connected up?

And then every time you thought about eating it, your mind

would go back to that memory.

Even though it may not stop you from eating it, but it would then you would

feel a, A great example is I had a guy and he said to me, he goes, well,

I don't know if this is a trauma.

He goes, but he says, A year ago I went into Chipotle and he says, and I

had dinner, and then I got so sick, I got food poisoning from the Chipotle.

He says, now, every time I drive by a Chipotle right, I feel sick to my stomach.

Mm. He

says, so let me understand if I've got this right.

He says, so what my mind is trying to do is stop me from going into the Chipotle.

And I said, yes.

A year ago.

That's what it's trying to stop because it's ago.

But he doesn't have the timeframe.

Doesn't know as now.

Yeah.

Right.

Because that's when you got sick.

So it's trying to protect you from something that doesn't exist.

it makes a lot of sense even more with this whole thing of high definition

and low def. So how do you, yeah.

How do you break from that?

Like is there maybe, is there a fast way that we can kind of, um,

I'm just thinking of something.

Actionable here for, for our short time together.

So I know this is a bigger process, but like breaking that, that kind

of, uh, that frame, is there a way that you can kinda show us now?

Well, that's what I, it'd be hard to do it now.

Okay.

But that's sort of what I do is the idea is I gotta get the mind

into that alpha brainwave state.

Yeah.

And then, so for the first two hours, the four hours, we

haven't even talked about trauma.

Ah, I see.

It's all about science and education.

Then by the time we get to the trauma.

I'll ask for, give me a, if we made that event into a movie,

I'm looking for the trailer.

Mm-hmm.

So I'll have them relive the trailer.

They don't have to describe it if they want to, they can.

I have different ways of doing it.

They can do it just visually or they can do it talking,

but I don't need them to talk.

So what I'm gonna do is take about a two minute highlight reel of that

and reset it from high def to low def. Because the mind will do the

alteration when it feels safe, right?

But it won't want to make that change when it's feeling threatened,

And I guess you're bringing, would you bring the consciousness

a little bit more to this whole subconscious thing that's been really

steering the ship for a long time?

Right.

It's, yeah.

Yeah.

And, and that's

having the understanding of it.

And that's why I spend so much time on the science and education.

'cause when you understand it, here's what they hear all the time.

This is making so much sense now.

Mm-hmm.

Now I get it.

Right.

They just never understood.

So they've been told there's something wrong.

Oh, I have anxiety, I have this, I have that.

And they go, well, no, that's just a symptom of something.

Let's figure out why.

Why would you mind getting anxious?

Why would you have post-traumatic stress?

Right?

So I worked with a, the most dramatic one was a US Army sniper who had

to shoot and kill a 12-year-old.

And so when he told me the story, well, he didn't even tell me the story.

Somebody told me the story and then when I met with him, he goes,

I can't talk about this anymore.

He says, I got arrested for throwing tables and chairs last week at the

va. And he said, and I said, well, I don't need you to talk about it.

He goes, well, what are we gonna do?

I says, we're gonna fix it.

He goes, well, how are we gonna fix it if I don't talk about it?

Because this is what he's been used to.

Right.

For years, eight years in therapy.

I said, all I need you to do is come up with a highlight reel.

You don't have to talk about it.

I'll just do it all visually with you.

I have no idea what you're gonna say or what you're gonna be watching.

By the time I was finished, I said, go back over it again.

Take a look at it and tell me what you're noticing.

And he said, with foul language, he goes, how the bleep did you do this?

Why am I able to think about it now and I'm not shaking and crying?

Wow.

And they said, because for eight years your mind's been trying to

get you not to pull the trigger.

It saw you shooting the boy now 'cause your subconscious operates in the now.

So if your mind saw you shooting a 12-year-old, it was trying to stop you.

But you're not shooting a 12-year-old.

It doesn't exist.

So for eight years, your mind's been trying to get an action.

By using the emotion of fear and anger, it turned to anger

'cause his mind was so mad.

Why did I do this?

Why did I shoot that?

Boy, I shouldn't have done this.

This is what he kept looping over, and so it kept running in the background.

So my wife, who had a traumatic childhood as well, would always say things like

this to me, don't you wish that never happened, or Don't you wish we never

did that, or We never met that person.

And I had the opposite.

I had an idyllic childhood, so I used to just go, why do you

wanna have this conversation?

It didn't make any sense to me.

What I didn't understand is she was trying to go back over it and fix it.

But she didn't know that that's what she was doing.

It would just make her feel better.

So she could think of, oh, imagine how much better it would've been if this

had have happened this way, but it didn't, and then it would loop back in.

Mm-hmm.

And her mind would constantly be calling her into an action that

she couldn't do, and that takes away from your enjoyment of life.

So she lived with a very violent father, and so she was always living in fear.

Now she's living with me.

She's out of that household.

It's still running.

Mm-hmm.

And so she'd be, if I said something as simple as, well, no, I don't

really like that, she could tear up and start to cry and she'd

say to me, why are you mad at me?

And, and Joe, I'd go, that doesn't make any sense.

I'm not mad.

Why are you thinking I'm mad?

Her mind was going back over if I was tired and my vocal chords

were just a little tighter.

Mm-hmm.

She, that sounded like I was yelling at her.

Yeah.

Slight tone shift there

Very slight.

Well, you guys know all about

this with

how voice Right.

Makes a difference.

Uh, it's huge.

Yeah.

No, it's, it's true.

I mean kids, you know, you see it in, kids are so receptive to Yeah.

The different changes.

'cause you have a 5-year-old and Yeah.

I'm like, ooh.

And I could see how they're listening for it.

Oh yeah.

And it sure is imprinting, you know, for, for later as well.

So I. I mean, I'm just thinking of so many people.

I mean, everybody has some kind of underlying, you know, yeah.

Small tea at, at minimum, you know, just school kids, you know,

just, just being, being them.

Talk to me really quick on the, um, the, uh, the physical side.

'cause I'm, I'm thinking of how, maybe it's a, a success story or

someone that you've worked with where, you know, they're, they're

coming in and I'm thinking of, you know, toxins, vitality, just like a.

Physical change through clearing a trauma, you know, using the process?

Well, the, the best one is why I got into this in the first place is I

got into this to save my daughter.

Ooh.

So my daughter, when she was 13, was diagnosed with Crohn's.

And they said there's no cure for Crohn's.

We don't know what causes Crohn's.

And so she lived with, with Crohn's for a while, and they cut out 24 inches of her

intestines over four different operations

and

said, well, there's nothing you can do.

Eventually she's gonna end up with a colostomy bag.

And so what you would see is.

All of those toxins building up in her.

They would constantly be doing things, trying to help her.

They had her on anxiety meds, depression meds.

They had her on steroids, they had 'em on all kinds of

things, but nothing was working.

And so what I found is that as long as the trial I, we didn't know about it.

So we didn't find out.

She ended up with a second autoimmune called idiopathic pulmonary hemo

acidosis, which is where the iron builds up in the lungs.

Right, and it starts to empty out in or e empty in the blood

empties out into the lungs.

And so both of them, they said, no cure.

We don't know what causes them.

So that's what set me out off on the research trail to try to figure it out.

And so I kept connecting trauma up to a lot of these autoimmune disorders.

We didn't know she had trauma.

We asked her, they said, I kept saying that the research is pointing

me in this direction, but you are not somebody who has trauma unless

there's something we don't know.

I. And then she disclosed to us that when she was sick, she had trauma

that she never shared with us.

So now definitely that's what it was.

So the unresolved trauma created inflammation and inflammation compromises

the immune system, neurotransmitters.

So now what's gonna happen?

She was getting ear infections, throat infections, constantly sick, and

they just kept putting on antibiotics and all kinds of different things.

None of that was working.

Her system couldn't get rid of anything because it was

in constant fight or flight.

Wow.

So once I got understood this, developed the program, took her through the program.

She doesn't have Crohn's anymore.

She doesn't have the lung disorder anymore.

And, uh, medical community, well, that's impossible.

Crohn's doesn't go away.

It's either medicated or it's active and neither are true.

She's on any medication and it's not active.

And that's been years.

Wow.

So that's what the sy the system, as you know, our minds

and bodies are designed to heal.

Yeah.

They, they're set up to heal.

The whole system is all based on getting back to homeostasis.

Yeah.

What's interfering with it is unresolved trauma.

Wow.

And it's that layer, that subconscious layer that really is operating, I guess

it's, it's almost like above everything, even though it feels like it's that quiet

little thing that, that doesn't really.

Matters so much, but it matters.

It, it's all, it's everything.

It's running all the body functions,

everything.

So there's where the toxins are gonna build up, right?

Because the system is saying, as soon as we escape, we'll work on maintenance.

It actually affects even the mitochondria and the cells.

So when I work with athletes, I say, we resolved the trauma,

you're gonna perform better.

And we got all kinds of examples of people making personal best and breaking records.

Tell me a couple of this.

So Well, that's how I met our friend Joe Polish.

Yeah, yeah.

I was working at, I was speaking at the uh, 2019 Spartan World

Championships and Joe was there.

Somebody told me, oh, you gotta go to meet Joe.

Listen to him speak.

And so I did.

And then he asked me, he goes, well, I heard you're working with somebody

you know at the World Championships.

I said, yeah, his name's Rob Killian and Rob's Special Forces Green Beret.

He was running the World Championships on Sunday and I worked with him on Friday.

There were three guys that were favored to win all the races.

Rob beat 'em all, and I said to Rob, I said, I didn't make you faster.

You are always that fast that mitochondria is affected by trauma

because it's pulling energy.

So it's, think of it as you've got this open program and your

computer's running slower.

Well, of course it's gonna run slower.

There's too much drain on it.

And trauma creates a tremendous drain.

Now, you take that in world class athletes like Rob, right?

And you give them that small little percentage increase that translates

into fifth place to first place,

especially with the mitochondria.

It's the what?

The courts, the root of all the energy.

You know, all the energy, a

TP, the millions of mitochondria in every cell, right?

Yeah.

You just compromise that.

Another gentleman, Marco Chito, he's a double amputee, lost both his legs

to a frostbite, a suicide attempt, but they started training him to run

in marathons again with, 'cause he was a marathon runner from Kenya, and

so they built him blades to run on.

He goes through our program nine days later, runs in a marathon, takes

15 seconds per mile off his time

per mile,

and then And then, uh, about a month later, runs in the Boston Marathon

in 2019 and breaks the world record.

Wow.

And then two months later, runs in the Chicago Marathon, breaks his

own world record by another five minutes, and gets signed by Nike.

Now he's a Nike athlete.

I don't take credit for any of their success.

They're phenomenal athletes.

I just allow that energy to release, that gives, puts 'em back to what their

true potential is and they can perform at their highest level, but that's for life

as general as well for overall health, all of those kinds of things, right?

I believe 80% of the things that we're seeing and diseases and all

of this are psychological based.

It's having that much of an interference.

Do you believe that kind of resolving this trauma is the missing

piece in personalized healthcare?

I believe that a hundred percent.

And that's what people haven't understood.

I. So that's why, you know, you have all these people who

are saying, well, I eat right.

I take care of myself.

I do all these things and, and I'm still struggling with weight,

or I'm struggling with, well, the system's not doing its maintenance.

You're trying to override it and hijack it or biohack it.

But what you really need to do is fix it and then start all of that stuff.

Then the system will, you know, start to detox itself naturally,

which is what it's supposed to do.

I mean, I, I could just see a, uh, integrating the two, you know,

integrating where you can release trauma and, and clear out the

subconscious on the software level.

Yeah.

And, and then you have something like TPE Therapeutic Plasma Exchange, other detox

protocols to now, you know, you basically have cleared out or reset the software.

Yep.

So then now it's more the hardware, uh, and it, you know, that cleans

up on the toxin side of things.

Yeah.

So the therapeutic plasma exchange will be more effective.

It's not that it's not effective, but then it's gonna loop back into,

right, like, I'm gonna have to redo it again because it's not, because

the system is constantly saying, pause, pause, pause until we escape.

So you can go in there and make a change, but it's like painting over rust

uhhuh.

when the rust bubbles back up, it's gonna go back into the,

it's, uh, fight or flight mode.

But we're, we're seeing it all the time, and it's, it's a world changing thing

when you can show that the whole system, for example, a good example is they're

using, um, TAC for a lot of veterans.

They're saying, oh, this is what's chilling them out.

We need to chill them out.

And so, uh, anandamide, which is a natural endocannabinoid in our system.

Right.

What they said is, well, these veterans who are suffering from

post-traumatic stress can't produce those endocannabinoids to calm down.

And so I was talking to somebody one one time about this and they said, THC sort

of mimics what the end canids are doing.

And so I said, do you know why they can't produce endocannabinoids?

And they said, well, no.

We just know that they can't.

Right.

They've got post-traumatic stress.

Mm-hmm.

And I said, so here's the brilliance of the brain.

Do you want your veteran, your warrior right in battle, chilling out?

Not at all.

No.

Would the mind and the brain think of chilling you out

in the middle of a battle.

It won't do it.

So it won't produce that chill molecule that you need to calm down.

Because the mind thinks with these veterans with post-traumatic stress

that the trauma is looping, keeps them away from wanting to chill out.

Mm-hmm.

Because you're not gonna calm down when you're being hunted.

The brain would never come up with that idea on its own.

Could it.

So that's what it's doing.

So it's basically keeping you in fight or flight.

Now you can't feel calm, so they put in THC, they biohack it to chill

you out, but it doesn't last, right?

So you need to keep using it, using it.

But if they could just get the post-traumatic stress cleared out

by getting the trauma cleared, now the, the natural system will

take over, but it's in pause.

It's in freeze mode.

Yep.

That's, that's why the same thing with any other things that you're doing.

Even the plasma exchange, right.

Will work like the THC and then not work because it'll

go back into fight or flight.

Yeah.

Your body's still stuck in that loop, that subconscious loop

that's running 90 plus percent of your body functions essentially.

Yep.

Man.

Well, Dr. Wood, this is fascinating to say the least.

Um, what is the, where can people go and explore more, reach out to you if

they want to chat and, and learn more?

Um, they go to our website, which is the inspired performance

institute.com or, um, I'm on Instagram, Facebook, all of those things.

They can reach out any of those under Dr.

Wood or Dr. Wood, PhD.

Beautiful and your success story, like there, I urge you guys to definitely check

out, just re or watch, look at some of their stories, watch some of the videos.

'cause like you're, you're working with some top athletes and we

talked about veterans and just.

Normal people as well.

I'm like, but it works all the same.

And it's, it's fascinating from everything I've seen.

So Thank you.

That's pretty interesting.

Yeah.

Well, thank

you for the time.

I really appreciate it.

Of course.

Well, I appreciate you and uh, we'll, we'll be chatting soon, I'm sure.

Sounds great.

All thanks.

You got it.