Dr. Joel Rosen: All right. Hello everyone and welcome back to another edition of your adrenal fix where we teach exhausted and burnt-out adults the truth about their health so that they can get their health back quickly. Really excited to meet with a colleague. Sean is who we are going to be talking about metabolic bottlenecking and thyroid and adrenals. Sean is an avid researcher, he is constantly in pursuit of deeper ways of looking at disease and chronic illness through the lenses of biology, biochemistry, genetics, epigenetics, and physiology, he has been dubbed the meta-medic metabolic detective of integrative health, oftentimes, he will be the last person to be seen, I can definitely identify with that after the people have exhausted every other therapy, I could go on and on. But Shawn, I really want to just get into the meat and potatoes. So thank you so much for being here today. Shawn Bean: And Joel, it’s complete honor being with you, because I’ve followed you for many, many years through my own journey. And a lot of your information has been Paradine and getting me to where I am today. In regards to back in the day, you were the adrenal guy, but we all know now that that whole methodology has changed. And what more of the box thinkers were more of the technicians, you know, the people that put you on the diagnostics on the car, and, you know, the people see the big picture, okay, I refer to this as the 40,000-foot view. Okay, it’s like being up the airplane and looking down, rather than, you know like many people are a specialist, you and I are specialists in being generalists. We’re generalized specialists. Okay. So that’s probably the easiest way I explain myself what do you do? I’m, I’m a specialist in media journalism. Dr. Joel Rosen: Right. Awesome. Well, listen, I mean, that’s very flattering to know and I appreciate the kind words so I always like to know a little bit about you and I do know some somewhat of your personal story. But for the listeners that may not know, let’s talk about how you became the generalist. That’s what you do. Shawn Bean: About 20 years ago, I was a natural bodybuilder. To make a long story short, we started the ordered alteration and circadian pattern. I read an article where bodybuilders were getting up at like three o’clock in the morning, you can go back to bed because I’m making no more keep you in protein synthesis. You know, you know, we had a saying that you had to eat every two hours or go catabolic. We know that to be a bunch of nonsense right now. Okay, there are a lot of myths out there that we had no idea about that were disproven. So what happened was, I started getting up at three o’clock in the morning, eating my meal. I read that article from Jay Cutler, who eats like 12 times a day, and I was eating about 10 times a day. And my whole life revolved around feeding myself. I mean, the number of calories I was eating, I was probably around five 600 grams of protein, 400 grams of carbs, and probably about 135 grams of fat to maintain my 225 pounds, you know, four to 5% body fat composition. Because being a mezzo month, we had to eat calories because I had a fast metabolism. And I rarely ever did cardio. So what happened there was because of the circadian pattern, I started to have sleep disturbances, I started having museological dysfunctions, and there are warning signs before I even went into contest time. When everyone get done contest, we went decided to have sushi. So being stressed, my immune system was compromised, we were at the sushi bar for about five hours, and I think I put on between 15 and 20 pounds of water weight in that timeframe because, after the contest, you get done, you can literally see yourself growing. You know, it was insane, because of water retention. And then I started to feel icky afterwards and like and then I started out with mountain direction problems. I went to the doc you know, the whole story, go Doctor GI doctor, nothing wrong, you know, it’s like you got a guy coming in your office now that was like 185 pounds, and then, you know, six weeks later at 240 pounds, you know, the first thing out of the mouth of steroids. Like dude, I hadn’t touched that stuff in years prior for this stuff happens so we can go down that rabbit hole. Okay, and they always want to so I walked into the doctor’s office, and they text my testosterone came back 35 to 35 total, which now we know is basically what is called unit which is basically castration level. No no and explanation. So he gave me like five milligrams of Androgel, which we knew was a total joke, but did nothing. So I started to look at my labs, and I started to know the alkaline phosphatase was low. I brought this to his attention. He didn’t recognize it. I started to notice my thyroid was off even though it was in a normal range. But you know, the basic stuff that we know now we’re like, Well, this is what’s going on, but back then they had no clue. So fast forward. I had gi problems and then once that happened, I moved into a house with mold in it and then I About a month after moving into the house and mold, I suspected a parasite, and actually two years later I found out the place I ate sushi got closed down by the health board for preparation of food, so I was correct about that. But then I went into a house with mold as a chaperone to a person that had. He was cerebral palsy. My mom started cleaning the house you didn’t tell me 15 years later, by the way, that there was black mold there. So about a month in I woke up with total amnesia. I didn’t know who I was stuttering slobbering, I was a stranger in a strange land. And that’s when my whole life changed. And we started down these rabbit holes, the doctors, you know, your Oh, your, your, you know, they put you on thyroid medicine. And next thing you know, it’s like, Oh, your thyroid levels are beautiful, and you still feel like crap. And here I was, you know, I had lost over 90 pounds of lean muscle tissue and even eaten a lot of calories. So it was major malabsorption issues going on? So we went down that rabbit hole. Then they tested my adrenals. The nurse said I don’t know how you’re walking around and my total, my total cortisol levels were at my total cortisol levels were at two on the serum. So therefore I was clinically called Addison’s borderline, Addison’s, but it wasn’t able to do anything. So in that scenario, what happened was is then I went through, and I’m like, Doc, find out what I’m deficient in and put it back in. Because of the malabsorption issue and that was what I originally started with anyway, in the first place. Because that threw me off because I knew I was deficient in things, everything. You know, it wasn’t absorbing, like I said, I lost. They said I wasn’t as big as I was, I would have been dead. Because I went from 235 pounds at a low percent body fat down to 165 pounds, I liked 14% body fat and less than nine months. So there were a lot of things going on there. So this led into another and this led me down the rabbit hole of heavy metals. I think the biggest thing that helped me was what was known as the PK protocol. And the PK protocol was the phospholipid IVs with the methyl p 12. And the methyl Foley together helped out tremendously. Within six weeks, I had gained most of my strength back, getting back into the normal swing of things. I walked back into the gym. You know, six weeks later, they thought I had AIDS and here I was back almost some factors on my own strength. Now that led into I was doing really good always back on things. And then I hit fluoroquinolones. Because I was going into my gut, I knew my gut was still off. So I decided to have a parasite test parasite test came back, the parasite test came back with an organism. The drug they recommend it was Joe, Joe myosin, I went to the pharmacist, and they gave me a drug, they gave me Levaquin instead because it was a replacement for GM myosin. And then I took three days of that I felt like my wrist, I felt like it was going to muscles right off. And that’s when my GI tract, just like, never healed. And after that, then it just started into like one episode of mold right after another, making me more susceptible. And then, just within the past four years, I got a bad mold hit and I had to go through it all again. But my knowledge base was much stronger. But the difference was is we did not have electromagnetic fields 20 years ago. So the electromagnetic fields made the biggest impact on my recovery. And when we moved out of the house of mold, which was great, I felt good, but the thing is we moved into a condo, which was basically right by the, you know, with 35 WiFis going, and here I was trying to get, you know, push my way through, and then we had a gas stove. So you had the overload of the phenol pathway going and the overload of the phenol pathway. I started noticing little white spots coming up. And we’re starting to see this more and people have coded to, we’re starting to see these little white dots come up with no known explanation. Upon clinical research, I found an article showing that they were actually phenols coming out through your skin as a result of the inability to break it down, I do have a phenol sulfotransferase issue going on, which I had to do to salt to one multiple salt 21 genes. So as you can see the patterns going on. So this is where I’m at today, recovering from another mold hit and I wax and wane when I get a mold hit what happens is it hits my dopamine receptors if my acetylcholine receptors, I can go from the Parkinsonian to the end Jean Mesquita is my, I can never pronounce that word. But you go into acetylcholine deficiency. So there are some times where, you know, I might wake up stuttering, I may have plus have Asperger’s, I noticed that the mold making my Asperger’s symptoms 10 time
