Mental Health After COVID: Root Causes, Resilience, and Personal Responsibility

On August 14, 2024, Paula Sarlls, Michael Pierce, Lorne Levy, and Trent Loos joined the show. Announces upcoming veteran celebration featuring Iwo Jima survivors and Medal of Honor recipient Drew Dix, promotes Buy a Brick memorial program Explains functional medicine approaches to mental health, discusses how COVID lockdowns exacerbated existing conditions, advocates for building resilience in youth Reports declining mortgage rates creating refinancing opportunities for homeowners. Honoring Veterans at the USMC Memorial Start listening at 19:19 – Hour 1 Paula Sarlls, president of the USMC Memorial Foundation, announces the upcoming 47th anniversary celebration on August 24th in Golden, Colorado. The event will feature remarkable heroes including Jim Blaine and Al Jennings, both veterans of the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. Medal of Honor recipient Drew Dix from the Center for American Values in Pueblo will also attend, having earned the nation’s highest military honor for 56 hours of sustained combat action during the Vietnam War. Sarlls describes the memorial as more than just a monument, calling it a place of healing where lives are changed. The foundation’s Buy a Brick program allows supporters to memorialize veterans’ service with personalized certificates. Kim shares her own experience purchasing bricks to honor her Air Force veteran father and her father’s cousin Wilbur Newton, killed at Pearl Harbor, whose remains were only recently identified and returned for burial with full military honors. “And there’ll be a lot of veterans there, and these guys are just awesome.” Paula Sarlls, President, USMC Memorial Foundation Root Causes of Mental Health Decline Start listening at 29:52 – Hour 1 Dr. Michael Pierce, a chiropractic neurologist who helps analyze brain chemistry and brain waves, explains how COVID-19 lockdowns exacerbated existing mental health conditions. Pierce argues that when people were locked down and received experimental medications, they experienced flashpoints in turbo cancers, chronic illness, mental illness, and gut problems. He advocates for functional medicine approaches that address root causes through lab testing, brain scans, and dietary changes rather than relying solely on pharmaceutical interventions. Pierce emphasizes the connection between physical and mental health, noting that blood sugar problems, thyroid issues, and hormone imbalances inevitably affect brain function. He recommends finding functional medicine practitioners who perform comprehensive testing for markers of chronic inflammation that insurance often does not cover. For those struggling after COVID, Pierce prescribes an unconventional remedy: travel broadly to see how other countries and cultures responded to the pandemic, discovering communities that were not gripped by fear. The discussion turns to building resilience in young people who came of age during lockdowns. Pierce stresses that parents must complete the cycle of failure with their children, walking them through mistakes to ultimate success rather than stopping at the failure itself. He warns against creating victims, instead encouraging young people to develop strength and independence by studying history and connecting with communities of people who have overcome supposedly incurable conditions. “And the dirty little secret behind medicine is that the same methods will treat almost all chronic diseases.” Dr. Michael Pierce, Chiropractic Neurologist Mortgage Relief as Rates Decline ...