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The HeadRush Podcast with Paul Frase and Corey Berry takes you inside the reality of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) through the lens of football and rodeo. With firsthand experience in two of the most punishing sports, Paul and Corey share their stories, the lasting effects of head trauma, and the fight for awareness and support.
This is the HeadRush Podcast with Paul Frase and Corey Berry.
Paul Frase:Welcome to the HeadRush Podcast. I'm Paul Frase, and I played eleven years in the NFL. And our cohost, Berry, played, he actually rode rodeo.
Corey Berry:I didn't play rodeo.
Paul Frase:He he played he rode he rode professional rodeo for nine years. That's that's a lot of years. What is that that's is is that an average span?
Corey Berry:Some people have less. Some people have more. I mean, you look at Clint Corey, 18 time NFR qualifier. Bruce Ford, 19 time NFR qualifier to Casey Fields, six time NFL or NFL. Okay.
Paul Frase:So nine nine is a pretty sweet spot. That's that's impressive.
Corey Berry:Right. Period. I didn't make enough to get my gold card.
Paul Frase:Okay. All right. Well, he's ridden he was a bareback bronc rider, and let's talk about what we do at the HeadRush Podcast.
Corey Berry:I'd like that.
Paul Frase:At the HeadRush Podcast, we talk about everything related to brain trauma and brain health and wellness. We talk about traumatic brain injury, TBI, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, CTE, traumatic encephalopathy syndrome, TES, which is the closest you can be diagnosed to CTE while still living. And actually, Corey, is you are TES probable c t e, correct? Correct. We also talk about repeated head impacts, RHI.
Paul Frase:We cover how traumatic brain injuries can and will cause mental health issues such as depression, addiction, lack of executive function, memory loss, even suicide ideation, as well as degenerative neurological issues. These symptoms can be found on the Mayo Clinic and Boston University websites under Symptoms of CTE. Our mantra is how to cope and find hope. We focus our energy on finding therapies and sharing hope through education and by raising awareness. Corey, will you please do us the honor of introducing our esteemed guest and friend and doctor.
Paul Frase:I don't think she needs an introduction. Well, that's true.
Corey Berry:She's been on our podcast twice now.
Paul Frase:Three times. This is the third time.
Corey Berry:This is the third time that she's been on. She's also minding your doctor. Yes. She's a very big part of our lives.
Paul Frase:Yes. A very, very good part
Corey Berry:We our would know what to do without having doctor Damayo. Exactly. So our guest is with us is doctor Mizyl Damayo, the medical director of Paradise Behavioral Health located in Punta Gorda, Florida. Did I say that right? Punta Gorda.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Yes.
Corey Berry:But it's Florida, not Florida.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:However you want to say it.
Corey Berry:Doctor doctor Damayo is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology as well as the American Board, and you just corrected us on this. It's no longer of addiction medicine, but it's preventative medicine for addiction.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Yes.
Corey Berry:And doctor Damayo, primary areas of expertise are this ain't right. Addiction medicine, depression, and anxiety? No. That ain't her primary area.
Paul Frase:Well, that that was the the an old bio then. Doctor Damayo, would you fill us in?
Corey Berry:It's the BrainWell program.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Well, you know, I mean, I I guess I can talk about the, I would say, my journey to the BrainWell program. It it just started with realizing after ten years of standard traditional psychiatric practice, I really wasn't helping my patients. They've always coming back and saying that that didn't work. It quit working. You got something else, doc.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:You know? So I started looking more integrative, which is, it it's kind of a misnomer because, like, integrative really is a combination of traditional as well as, other novel treatments in psychiatry, which is still somewhat new because there's a lot of traditionalists in our field, and that's okay. And, you know, I'm not for the person who just needs their regular prescription of, Zoloft. And if they're doing well with it for ten, twenty years, I'm not gonna touch that. The only way I'll ever get involved is that if they decide they don't wanna do that anymore.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:So they come to me, or they've been on 20 medicines, and they think I can be a miracle worker and find the right medicine for them when I have to tell them, I'm sorry. That's a myth. Because when I do analyze what's going on with the patient, lots of problems. You know? And so it's not just one solution.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:So, yeah, I pull from everything. You know, standard medicines if they need it, the, holistic treatment if they need it. But it all starts with trying to figure out what I'm working with.
Paul Frase:So that goes into a term that, I've heard from you, psychiatry and Yes, of those facets that are involved
Corey Berry:integrative holistic psychiatry lifestyle management traumatic brain injury neuro endocrinology and TMS
Paul Frase:And Yeah. She she's Hang on.
Corey Berry:She's now doing soprano.
Paul Frase:Opening a new a new book.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:He said what you say soprano, but, you know
Corey Berry:She's singing with the sopranos. Doing capravado with the Sopranos.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Yeah. Yeah. That that's a new thing that we're doing. But, like, I usually start with TMS because most patients will benefit if they meet the criteria of major depressive disorder. And and that's really what a lot of my patients come in to see me for because they've been on everything else under the sun, and it's you know, even now, patients are like, no one's ever told me anything about genetic testing, which is, you know, which we'll get into.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:And, also, no one's ever considered how hormones affect how they feel, yeah, how they think. And then no one's ever even mentioned TMS, even though it's been around for thirty years. And it's a great, great treatment.
Paul Frase:And it's one of those modalities that's covered by insurance in some plans, correct?
Corey Berry:I did it. Yeah.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's, you know, with some insurances like Medicare, I mean, we don't even have to get authorization. Just Wow.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Get it done. Mhmm. Yeah. Yeah. They have to fail.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:And they've made it really easy. Like you just need to fail one psychiatric medicine. Right. Which other insurers Not so much. That's that's You pretty got something
Paul Frase:on your Yeah. Well, we're gonna we're gonna get to the Precision Psychiatry. You're gonna you got some. I I know. I know.
Paul Frase:I'm gonna ask you. We're gonna back up, and we're gonna get a little juvenile, I guess. That's alright. What what when was your last trip to Disney World or Disneyland? And did you run a marathon or a half marathon or no?
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Don't do that. Well, did five and ten ks. That's it.
Paul Frase:That's enough. Yeah. Was it a Disney? Was it a Disney event or no?
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Yes. It was a Disney event.
Paul Frase:Tell us about your addiction with Disney.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Guess it just happened.
Paul Frase:What's that?
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Since I live in Florida, you know, since I moved to Florida, it's been that way. Yeah. They're always fun. It was always things to do there.
Corey Berry:Oh, hold on a second. I'm from California where Disneyland was started, and I wasn't addicted to it.
Paul Frase:Well, you're seven hours away from it. You're on the you were on the wrong end of California for Disney.
Corey Berry:That's true.
Paul Frase:Disneyland, so
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Yeah. You were on the North part. Yeah. I was in the South, but like it didn't really become a thing because I because people always ask me like, you know, what's the difference? I'm like, there's really no difference between the, you know, the coast, you know.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:It was like you're comparing different worlds. So anyways, they have a lot more things to do here, especially the year towards the adults and especially, like, the running a marathon. And, you know, my fiance has did that, like, three years in a row, and then he decided to do something crazy, which is the dopey challenge, which you're doing five k, 10 k, half full.
Paul Frase:Oh, gosh. Over over a three same week? Oh, three days.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:No. Yeah. Four days. Yeah. I know.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:He's crazy. No. Thank you. Hold on.
Corey Berry:You're marrying, not me.
Paul Frase:Well, there there's a lot to that that word precision precision psychiatry. I know you Lil forgot something in her bio. Oh. Let's see. She's on
Corey Berry:the board of directors of the HeadRush Foundation.
Paul Frase:I did not write that in. I'm sorry. Doctor, as you as we everybody found out that did we we are we already announced it last Okay. Yes, Doctor. Damayo is a special part of our foundation for the HeadRush Foundation, and we are very, very fortunate to have Doctor.
Paul Frase:Damayo be a part of our medical staff. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Is that that's what I forgot.
Corey Berry:That's what you forgot. Is you gotta thank the lady that shows up to vote for what she thinks is right.
Paul Frase:May someday I may have to have her vote against you. So I'll She very well could. You know what mean?
Corey Berry:All right. Welcome to my world. All right. So Doctor. Damayo, you talk about precision psychiatry.
Corey Berry:Mhmm. In your terms, in your profession, can you what does that mean?
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:You know, it just it's it's a step ahead or beyond just doing integrative. Because when I was learning about integrative, I was just throwing out supplements to patients, and they weren't happy. They said, I can't take this. So then I started applying precision. So I learned what to give and what not to give based on genetics, based on labs.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:So I'm not overwhelming them because, psychiatric patients, and they're already challenged and, with so many things, even with compliance. So I've kind of pared it down to what they really need. That's based on genetics. That's based on labs and based on what they're needing, based on cognition, mood, depression, anxiety, and adding all the other modalities at the end of it in addition to the supplements, what is best for the patient beyond the medications, beyond the supplements. And we figure it out from there.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:If the patient does look like they're having, hormonal imbalances, then we'll address that and move on.
Paul Frase:Tell tell us so so you are you you go over it really quickly. You say genetics and and a horm hormones. Right? Give us an example of why are you looking at genetics, doc? What does that mean?
Paul Frase:Tell us something that you look for and it helps you.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Yeah. There's a reason why a lot of patients don't respond to medications, and it's because we're failing to look at genetics. What is a patient capable of? And I think everyone's heard me talk about MTHFR deficiency. That's your poor ability to not metabolize folate to the activated folate that then becomes all those neurotransmitters, serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine, as well as, bringing down homocysteine because that is very highly inflammatory to the vasculature of the brain along with the heart.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:So we need to know these things. And I just had a patient yesterday. I think he I don't know. I think he had ten, twelve medications he was on, before, and he did bring in his genetic testing. Somebody did that for him.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:And he said nothing worked in this list. And I looked at it, and I said, do you understand that you're MTHF artificial? And, like, no. Nobody said that to me. I was like, well, maybe this is the missing link.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:And from there, you know, other complications can happen with people. Like, I look at also the brain derived neurotropic factor. A lot of people not a lot of people, but people who struggle with mental health and sometimes have a poor ability to make healthy brain cells. So that's a struggle, especially in somebody with traumatic brain injury. So if that's a problem, then we need to support that.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:How do we increase patients' brain derived neurotropic factor? The third one that I look at, and I'm doing a lot more now with genetics, but the third one that I was really looking at before too is the COMT gene. COMT, it's not a matter of like it's abnormal. We have to know is it high or low, And they're totally, totally different when it comes to, the approach. When you have high COMT, you're a rapid dopamine metabolizer.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:This is what we call the warrior gene. This is the this is what I call the ADHD gene because you run low dopamine. You rapidly metabolize it. And, so these are the ones that can't sit still, but they're actually pretty good in terms of working in a high paced environment. You want that person.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:And the opposite is the warrior gene, meaning they are low COMT. They are slow metabolizers of dopamine. And good and bad with that patient. I find it a lot with people who have anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, even in autism because these kids, these people with autism are just extremely anxious because they don't know how to socialize. So, but the good things about these patients that they are reliable, you know, these are the accountants, these are the people that really make sure everything is where it needs to be.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:But I also have to tell these patients that they have to not put too much on themselves even though they always say no good deed goes unpunished because they're great workers. But I have to tell them stop because you are gonna, have a meltdown if you do too much. Right? Because they like regimen. So those are the things.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:And then when you have somebody with MTHFR deficiency and a low COMT or a high COMT, then the problem also becomes worrisome because you're trying to treat one and gonna make the condition worse. So at that point, that's why I really need to know what the correlation is between those two genes. And, there's other genes going on too, like the MTR and MTTRR, and those are people who are poor methylators of b twelve. And it's not only that too. Some people are poor absorbers of b twelve.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:They just can't absorb into the gut just like somebody who has a problem with, who's had a gastric bypass. So I think I just had a patient the other day say, you know, once I found out all that, they couldn't absorb b twelve. They couldn't methylate folate. They couldn't methylate b twelve. Once I told them to take a sublingual, they're like, yeah.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:I think my mood is better because I was telling her to take a b twelve the whole time and and and ran some other tests, and they're like, you can't absorb it. You can't methylate it. I would say fifty fifty, the time a patient who is MTHFR deficient, they can't methylate folate. They cannot methylate b twelve. So this is why a lot of other integrative docs will just automatically tell them to take a methylated b twelve.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:But when it comes to precision, I need to know that because I don't want to tell them to take unnecessary things. So that, I guess, in a nutshell, is how precision psychiatry happens from a genetic perspective.
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Corey Berry:Me and Paul both are MTHFR, And low comp
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:I don't know why you guys don't, like, kill each other.
Paul Frase:Oh, we we we've been good. We have a good moral compass because we're where would you hide the bodies? So I'm
Corey Berry:in Texas. I can hide them anywhere.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Yeah. Well, there's lots of places in Florida too. You know?
Paul Frase:Well well so so let's let's get back to the
Corey Berry:That's why I don't go to Florida.
Paul Frase:So when you talk talk about MTHFR, you're talking about folic acid converting to methylfolate. Right? Yes. Is is methylfolate a b twelve derivative or or what?
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Yes. Yeah. Only body is able to activate it or you have to take the activated form.
Paul Frase:Oh, only the body is able to activate it. But and if you're if you have that you don't say I don't activate it too well. Mhmm. And then when when I took as low comp T and then we started taking methylfolate Yes, what did I tell you? Within two weeks well you said Paul you you know you might be a little anxious on this Let's let's talk in two weeks and two weeks later.
Paul Frase:We talked and I said Doc, I'm kind of anxious. What's going on? And you said, cut it in half or lower the dose.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:For those kinds of patients, I think I have you also just taking a super low Right. You know, methylated folate because patients like you, they need some.
Paul Frase:Right.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:You know? But not too much.
Paul Frase:Right. Right.
Corey Berry:So She doesn't have me on any. Right.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Yeah. Because, you know, I I don't want you to get too.
Paul Frase:Wound up?
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:You're already wound up.
Paul Frase:He gets he gets fired up. He's he's a you know, he's he's I
Corey Berry:was fired up yesterday.
Paul Frase:Holy cow. Alright. Give us an example about hormones. What what do you do with hormones? What do you what do you mean Yeah.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:This is the interesting thing that you still have to apply precision to it, meaning you have to look at the genetics. COMT is an interesting gene because it also metabolizes estrogen. You know? So it breaks that down. So if you don't know that and you're throwing a bunch of hormones, especially testosterone that converts to estrogen or
Paul Frase:estrogen I like the pellets. I like the pellets or big shots of testosterone. Is that what I should take?
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:No. You know, I don't know about that.
Paul Frase:I'm just totally kidding. Go.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Yeah. You you don't even wanna know how many women I've had to back off with they were on pellets. And, you know, they come in with anxiety, and their testosterone is higher than the men. And I was like, okay. I think we we need to tone this down.
Paul Frase:How how many of those feel felt better after you kinda toned things down?
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Oh, yeah. I have one I was working on for about a year and a half, you know, just trying to get her off the pellets so the anxiety goes down. And then I had to rebuild her back up with the hormones that I gave her, natural supplements as in addition to maybe do I need to give her, like, some appropriate estradiol, appropriate progesterone, and even testosterone. You know? Once we finally got that right, she's like, I feel perfect.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Like, you know, I'm not anxious anymore. I feel calm, and her husband's happy. So
Paul Frase:Right.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:So so, like, I always say, like, some you know, sometimes it's a a program, which we'll talk about, which I created at the time I met you guys. The Brainwell program can save, you know, relationships. So we we can get on to that. Yeah. So the hormone piece is, yeah, you have to be you have to know what your genetics is or else because I had this happen, and I didn't know that the patient was low COMT because that wasn't in his genetic test.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:And so I was giving him testosterone, and and then I reordered the test. And then, of course, he called me a week before I got the test results. I had a doctor. I'm getting anxious right now with this testosterone. And I said, oh, okay.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Let me look at your, you know, repeat genetic test, and he was low COMT. And so I said, okay. Stop that testosterone, and we need to back it up and, just do a little bit more natural, which is what, Mark Gordon taught me how to do, which is always the better way to go because you're not dependent on those chemicals unless you really have to. So, yeah, it was much better after I stopped the testosterone and worked on the back end increasing the pregnenolone only and because of the fact that he was a poor metabolizer of the estradiol, which increased his anxiety. So, yeah, so we have to know those things.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:And then and from there, I look at the hormones too. Like, I wanna know. I it's not because, like, you're a low t, low estrogen. Is there a connection between that and brain dysfunction? Because a lot of times, people don't even know they've had a brain injury, and they don't wanna believe me when I tell them, your labs are telling me you've had a brain injury, and that's why you're low TE.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:That's why you're low estrogen, or that's why you're low cortisol. And, yeah, it's kinda hard for them. And then they start walking back and said, yeah. You know what? Yeah.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:I think I remember. I got up real quick, and I banged my head into something. Mhmm. You know? Because people mostly think traumatic brain injury is just like a huge one where you wind up in the hospital.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:You know? But like if you yeah. As you know, Paul, you know, all those multiple hits
Paul Frase:Mhmm.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:And, playing NFL, riding Bronco, or even in the military prone to blast injuries, it it it causes a knock in the head multiple times. And then some you know, in those situations, you don't see those results. And I and we talked about this, Corey, like, most people don't go see a neurologist when they're having mental health issues from a brain injury. They come to the psychiatrist, and then unfortunately, most of the time, they just put them on whatever, you know, benzos or SSRIs or something that's really not treating the root cause. And then, you know, they come back and say, this isn't working.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:And then Mark always said, it's not treatment resistant depression unless you look at the hormones, and he was right. And I knew that was the answer. I just didn't know how to make that happen for my patients until I got with the Millennium Protocol. So that was eye opening for me. So, yeah.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Precision yeah.
Paul Frase:Really quick. Is there a correlation with are there some drugs or SSRI drugs, just to give an example are Do they work on every patient? Are there some patients that don't that don't respond to SSRI drugs and is that a genetic component or is that
Corey Berry:seventy five percent failure rate. Yeah.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:It's a combination of both. That's why you really have to know what you're looking at when you're in genetic test. Some patients just have Okay, SSRIs are, I would say, they depend on the receptor to pick up the serotonin back into the brain. Okay? So that's why they call it SSRIs.
Paul Frase:Serotonin reuptake something something.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Yeah. I don't know what's going on. I'm still sick. So so now you're seeing it, Paul. Anyways, yeah, reuptake inhibitor.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:And and there's people that are born with a genetic predisposition to not have those things functioning. So in those cases, then you have to go with a non SSRI. There's also people that don't have good serotonin receptors. So those things are not good. SSRIs are not good for them either.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:And but then you come across a patient who's also, like, yeah, the low comp T where they can't, and they can't take SSRIs, and you're like, okay. This is gonna be a real challenge. And then that's when I put on my integrative hat and go more holistic. It's like, you're gonna have to do this in order to not make the treatment cause harm. So that plays into a factor too.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:And there's another thing I've noticed too. Yeah. As somebody who is low T and maybe you even know that they've had a head injury and they're not responding to psychiatric meds, then you better be checking that testosterone because it could probably be low. And this is what I noticed too. Even with standard psychiatric treatment, even with TMS, which we will get into later, if you have a lot of inflammation, toxins, that really interferes.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Even with standard treatment with people that I know that are not low dopamine metabolizers and I give them L methylfolate because they're full of inflammation, they can't tolerate the L methylfolate, not even at the lowest dose. So each patient is unique. So I guess that comes with also the precision with it. Like, no two person is alike, and that's kind of fun for me. You know?
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:I like the challenge.
Paul Frase:This episode of the HeadRush Podcast is brought to you by our personal doctor and team of doctors, doctor Mizyl Damayo, and she's with the Paradise Behavioral Health, and we are in the
Corey Berry:Brain Well program, which is also part of the Millennium Health Center. Doctor Mark Gordon, you've seen him on Joe Rogan and even on our show, the HeadRush Podcast, and the hormones. And Mizyl is awesome. We love her.
Paul Frase:She's she's our doctor of psychiatry. She works at the Mark Gordon program with the hormones, and she adds her twist of genetics. And it basically is melding two wonderful mediums together, and we're getting great help from doctor Mizyl Damayo.
Corey Berry:So please check out her website at paradisebehavioral.com. She's Look up the Brain Well program.
Paul Frase:Get involved. She's sponsoring us. They're they're sponsoring us for the next year. So we are excited to to have them on board and and and shout the new the good news to everybody that is watching these broadcasts.
Corey Berry:So Is she helping you, Paul? Absolutely. She's helping me. So go check her out. Paradisebehavioralhealth.com.
Paul Frase:So we've we've talked about different components. We've talked about genetics. We talked about hormones. We talked about inflammation. We've talked how did that all come together for your program that you have, the Brain Well program?
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Yeah. We have to get away from that notion that there is one treatment for all. So that's where the precision comes in. Run the labs, look at inflammatory markers, look at methylation in your genetics, look at vitamin deficiencies, look at hormones, look at the brain hormones. And sometimes I have to have patients do a tox panel and in order to figure out where the inflammation is coming from.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:And this is where also I've started getting into, looking at the omega six three ratio. Sometimes that's a problem. No matter what I do to the patient, even if it's like something that I think will be good for them, if we do not get the brain healthy and it's, too much omega six, not enough omega three, then we're in trouble with neuroinflammation. So no matter what I do, they're not gonna get the best benefit, whatever it is I offer them, including even hormones. When you talk about hormones and if you know that they're full of inflammation, we need to make sure that they don't have toxins like BPA, which is found in plastics because it causes endocrine disruption.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:You may see a woman that is, I would say, low estrogen, and you give that, you know, estrogen to her, and she starts having lots of side effects. Maybe it was the inflammation full of BPA. They're already sitting on those estrogen receptors, and you weren't even aware of it. And you're like, well, that should have helped you because you're low estrogen. But, well, it's a it's a challenge to try to figure out what is happening with a patient, but if you understand yeah.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:You you have to look at the patient holistically. And all these things happening toxins, inflammation, brain injury, hormonal imbalance, genetic issues I think it's important. We have to think about that before we make the next move on a patient.
Paul Frase:And so you decided to change the way it works. Yeah.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Yeah. And so that came to where I wound up creating the Brain Mode program because I I thought, like, once I learned about Millennium Protocol, that was the end all. But then, yeah, Mark was really stressing a lot more about inflammation and even gut health at the end. So, there are genetic markers for people who have are prone to poor gut health, and, we need to address that. And we gotta make sure they're taking a good probiotic.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:And sometimes even if I'm struggling with a patient and I've done everything right, then I and nothing is working, then I do refer them on for GDI mapping, and I'd be surprised at the things I do find there. That's just well, we can talk a little bit more about that, but it really it it talks about what's going on with your gut. How is your gut health? What is in there that's preventing you? Because the gut is like one of our it's it's sometimes considered a bigger brain than our brain because it is also making serotonin.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:And so if that's not healthy, then what feeds the gut feeds the brain. So the brain is also gonna be full of inflammation.
Paul Frase:That's one thing, what you're talking about, neurosteroids and neuroactive steroids and you know dumb it down doc please so neurosteroids are made in the brain and the neuroactive are made in the gut and but they but they go to the they go to the brain eventually
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:the
Paul Frase:gut there's all this talk about the gut and the brain being one.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Yeah. You know, they call it the gut brain access. At first, I didn't really quite understand, like, what's my what's the gut have to do with the brain, you know, until, like, I went to a lecture, and they really explained it. And I'm like, yeah. You know?
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:What you feed your brain comes from your gut. So, you gotta eat healthy. You gotta avoid inflammatory foods, avoid toxins, and, then maybe you'll have a healthy brain. Maybe we don't need to give you any psychiatric medications. And, that's happened for some of my patients that I just tell them, you know, you need to avoid certain foods.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:You need to work on getting your brain healthy. And, I even have somebody, just two weeks into the protocol of getting their brain healthy, removing omega six and increasing omega three, the anxiety has gone down. The neurologic nervous system hasn't. So, it's amazing what you can do for patients outside of standard treatment because, as yeah. Corey brought it up.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Like, I think really, yeah, seventy five, maybe eighty five percent of patients after the fourth medicine, they don't respond to medications anymore. So we got to look at things from a holistic comprehensive perspective to figure out what's interfering with the treat. Maybe the treatment is really not what it is. Maybe we need to work on balancing the hormones. Maybe we work on removing inflammation.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Because I what I do with patients, if I do find a lot of inflammation, I don't even go with hormones yet. I say we need to bring down that inflammation. And sometimes fifty fifty is they get better, but the other you know, times, I was like, well, okay, doc. Let's let's work on my hormones now. It's like, you're ready.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:And I don't have those abnormal anxiety reactions that happens when I work on bringing down the inflammation first.
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Paul Frase:Yes. You do.
Corey Berry:Not to mention, I gave myself two concussions in the last month.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:What are you doing? You're, like, putting insult to injury here.
Corey Berry:Yep. I went to step off a step, and my knee gave out, and I went down. Mhmm. We went to Sam that Wednesday and she goes, you gave yourself a concussion. And then during the ice storm here, what, a week ago?
Paul Frase:You tried to go ice skating?
Corey Berry:Yeah. I tried to go ice skating in Dallas Stars. Right on my head.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Oh my goodness.
Corey Berry:And so yeah. And my and I my gut and my brain are all messed up still, and it's not your fault. It's not no one's fault. You know? It's just how I am, and I don't know how to get the inflammation off.
Corey Berry:I'm gonna try that Violight The photo? Therapy. Photo biomodulation? Photo biomodulation.
Paul Frase:Yes. I mean, when do you you've been
Corey Berry:But I gotta say, you go back we've been together a year now. Nice cup. A Mac Parkman cup. Keep it clean.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Yeah. Yeah. I think it's been a a year. Yeah.
Paul Frase:Yeah. It's been
Corey Berry:So if you go back and look, when I first started, my testosterone was at three when I went to the urologist.
Paul Frase:Okay.
Corey Berry:They put me on two hundred cc's a week of testosterone, TRT therapy.
Paul Frase:Zipionate?
Corey Berry:Zipionate. And then I met with Mizyl, and she's like, you're outrageous. And Yeah. She goes, let's start doing this and doing this and pregnenolone and all these other supplements, which I'm still doing today, folks. But it got me down to where I only used three quarters of that two hundred cc.
Corey Berry:Mhmm. Then I went down to using half of that 200 cc. Then I went down to using a quarter of that 200 cc. You know how much testosterone therapy I do now?
Paul Frase:No. What? How much?
Corey Berry:None. Really?
Paul Frase:None. When what were your last blood?
Corey Berry:What was my last blood?
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Just phoned it right now. Yeah. You know what? You you this is funny because this is I think you were off testosterone. Your total was 800.
Paul Frase:Still 800? Pretty darn good
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:for That's without the
Paul Frase:shots. Yeah.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:So this is the last one. Yeah. Alright. That I did for you.
Paul Frase:How you were you were crazy up there when they were had you in the
Corey Berry:18 hundreds. 13 hundreds. Oh gosh.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Yeah. So so that that speaks volumes to the program that there is a way to treat low T without having to always go towards testosterone replacement.
Paul Frase:I know doctor Gordon, he told us a lot about when when we were at the Mac Parkman Foundation event, the global summit, I don't know, in May. International Summit. March, April, May, whatever it was. We saw you there, obviously.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Mhmm. Yeah. That was fun.
Paul Frase:Yeah. That that that was that was fun. But he was talking about the Motrin or the ibuprofen, high doses of that actually drive T down
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:to
Corey Berry:I stop quit taking it all together.
Paul Frase:I mean he was he was saying the veterans were coming back after taking eight hundred milligrams twice a day type of thing that what do they used to call or I heard a veteran say that they used to call it vitamin something.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:I mean obviously vitamin m
Paul Frase:maybe that maybe that yeah, that would be the obvious choice.
Corey Berry:Yeah. I used to take a leave and ibuprofen Tylenol together because it makes it more chemical like
Paul Frase:are they like protagonist or I mean,
Corey Berry:they're It's more like a pain reliever big Synergistic. Synergistic. Right. And I I haven't touched an Aleve or an ibuprofen in months. Mhmm.
Corey Berry:And I'm hurting And I mean, when I get hurting real bad, I got a pain pill. I reach down in the bottom cover and go, you know, it's been about four months. Let's go ahead and relieve a little bit of pain for today. Mhmm. But, again, you know, people like me and you and competitors and athletes that beat up our bodies, if I don't wake up in pain, I'm dead.
Corey Berry:There's no such thing as me ever being out of pain, is there for Right.
Paul Frase:No, there's always something. There's always something I could complain about.
Corey Berry:You know, so I mean, it's just the way of life. So if I can deal with a little bit of pain and keep me away from that IV profin and all of that stuff. I'm miles ahead after talking to Mark Gordon.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Mhmm.
Corey Berry:I don't wanna destroy my testosterone. I've already done that. Now I gotta rebuild back up. Why would I wanna destroy it again?
Paul Frase:And you you said you just said something about ten minutes ago that you're just know, your gut and your brain is totally messed up. You're no. You're you're doing you've done you are taking strides to clean up your diet. You've been doing really good. You've you've lowered your sugar intake.
Corey Berry:Oh, yeah. I don't I mean, my diet, but my gut and my brain are still messed up. You know, with the diet I'm on, I should be able to wipe my butt with a bamboo stick.
Paul Frase:Oh, bamboo stick.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Oh my lord. But I well
Paul Frase:Just go go on a keto diet, and then you can't even go to the restroom.
Corey Berry:Right. And so, I mean, it's I still got a lot of inflammation, and I'm sure these last two concussions didn't help any. Right. If not, made everything worse.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Well
Corey Berry:Started me back at ground zero.
Paul Frase:No. I don't think ground zero because you've you've been you've admitted that you are feeling better and doing doing more more. Would you have driven would you have gone to work out at the gym two years ago?
Corey Berry:Not a chance.
Paul Frase:And you you actually I I hear you probably two sometimes three times a week, you're saying you're you're going to the gym. Right. Oh, that's that's Yeah.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Corey, this is remember what was your one goal when you came in to see me? Do you remember what that was? No. It was you said you wanted to walk your daughter down the aisle.
Corey Berry:Oh, yeah. And I did.
Paul Frase:And you did. You even danced. You even, like, took the first dance.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Well, I have
Corey Berry:to as a proud papa.
Paul Frase:Yeah.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:But I I know with the way your brain was prior to me working with you, you saw that there's absolutely no way. So, this is what I have to tell my patients. You know? Baby steps. Yeah.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Not only that. I mean, like, it's all about how much damage is in your brain. You know? But How long
Paul Frase:does it take you?
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Yeah. Mhmm. If if you're seeing progress, then, you know, we just keep going forward with it and give it time because it's all about the plasticity of the brain too, that, it does heal. We are designed to heal. So, yeah, try not to knock your head too many times after.
Corey Berry:I don't think there's a healing process in me. I think it's
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Oh.
Corey Berry:She has kinda maintained now. I think I've gone from the Paul Frase, we can cure this. It's all inflammation in the brain. I can be a 100% to you know, I think if I can just maintain the level I'm at now where, yes, yesterday was a real bad day, and I've had a couple of them. And my short term memory is what did I just say?
Paul Frase:Yeah. Right.
Corey Berry:You know
Paul Frase:I saw Susan pointed to your calendar, and I saw like three or four in a row happy green, happy smiley faces. You had four days in a row that were pretty darn good, and then yesterday went to heck in a handbasket.
Corey Berry:It went a lot further than heck. It it it was destroyed yesterday. Yesterday, I did a bunch of memory loss problems. I put the milk in the cabinet.
Paul Frase:I But it was almond milk, so you could you could have gotten away with Right. Having it in the cabinet for a day or so.
Corey Berry:I took out the p trap in the kitchen to clean it up. And without think to clean out the p trap. Mhmm. I grabbed it, put it under the sink, turned on the water, cleaned it out on the sink, set it on the counter, washed my hands, dried it, turned off the water, and I sat there and went.
Paul Frase:Why is there water draining out of the cabinet?
Corey Berry:I know the floor and on my feet. Mhmm. It's like, oh my god. I forgot to put the P trap back in.
Paul Frase:That that started your cascading event. Yeah.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:That tells me you need to keep going. And I think you're on that one product, doctor Goran, has NeuroShield. I think
Corey Berry:it's great. I don't I don't go anywhere with I was actually on the NeuroShield. And what was the other, the spray? Dinotropin?
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Dinotropin.
Corey Berry:Right. And the clonal glaucoma Dinotropin. Okay. And then my cell said, no. No.
Corey Berry:No. Don't do both. Do one or the other. So I went back to the NeuroShield.
Paul Frase:Right. Yeah. So And that's why why did you say that to him? Because of his genetics? And
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Mhmm. Right. Yeah. It's it's a lot of those, like, growth hormone stimulators are full of proteins. So I'm trying to remove anything with you, Corey, that is that could potentially, you know, make things worse for you.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:So try you know, we have to weed out of all the triggers so we can start healing.
Paul Frase:Well, the proteins cause inflammation. I mean too many
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:proteins or no? It's the buildup of dopamine. Oh, so okay. Yeah. So we try to remove those things since, you tend to keep those higher anyways.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:So that's why, you know, we try with a lot of the patients who are, you know, low dopamine metabolizers, we have to be careful, even telling them keto diet. Keto diet is great for the brain. But I had one patient who was low comp t, and her nutritionist said, do your keto diet. And she did, and she got more anxious.
Corey Berry:So Oh, yeah.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:She back to me and said, yeah, doc, you were right. You know? You know, I should have listened to you. But there are cases that people with low dopamine metabolism can do keto. It all depends on whether their hormones are where they need to be, especially pregnenolone because that counteracts anything that dopamine does because pregnenolone increases GABA endocrine.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:So I see this in people who naturally run high in progesterone, pregnenolone even in men, and they have that genetic issue. And they're like, yeah, I have no anxiety. So it's all about balancing everything and how one plays against the other.
Corey Berry:So let's go you got my file pulled up right now. Right?
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Yes.
Corey Berry:Let's go back and look at my first and my last and explain the differences in my hormones and everything.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Yeah. So let's see. That was the last no. I'm sorry. I I look up that was May.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Man. Oh, sorry, Paul. I was looking at yours, Paul.
Corey Berry:Yeah. Okay. Let's do Paul.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Gave you the wrong ones, Corey. Sorry. Oh,
Corey Berry:you're at 800 Telethron.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Yeah. And you're not making anything.
Paul Frase:I wanna see I wanna hear where where you are now. 23.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Okay. I the last one that I did that I ran the labs for for you. Let's see.
Corey Berry:Two, three months ago.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Yeah. No. That was this was September. So let me take a look at what did I do? Okay.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:I'm looking at it's easier for me to look at the Millennium report, which I did in October. Okay.
Corey Berry:Because I know I gotta do labs
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Yeah. Probably next month.
Paul Frase:Yeah. I do too.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:So yours, without any testosterone placement, your testosterone was 500.
Paul Frase:500, which is not it's not bad.
Corey Berry:I need a little higher.
Paul Frase:He he wants it a little higher.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:He wants it like Paul. I would love to
Corey Berry:have an 800.
Paul Frase:My my buddy my buddy who I played well with years and years ago, he was selling
Corey Berry:My wife wouldn't, but He
Paul Frase:he my buddy was saying, oh, I've got the pellets, I'm I'm I'm up to 1,400. And I'm like, I don't want muscles on top of muscles. I just want to be, you know, normal. You know? Anyway Yeah.
Paul Frase:Lose. Yeah. So
Corey Berry:But let's go back now since you got my file pulled up. Go back from a year ago when we started to now Yeah. And how much of a balancing act I did and what's improved. Mhmm.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Yeah. So I don't know why I no. This is not right. Okay. I don't know why your first Millennium protocol is not here.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:I gotta look at it. It's just there's a lot to go through. Okay. Yeah. So I think you did your labs in I think it was May, but I don't think we got down to working with it.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:So at that time, you're you're oh, okay. This is February 2025. Your testosterone wasn't was high because you were, like, on those replacements. And let's see what else is going on. I don't know why I'm not finding your original.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:This is so weird. Okay. Actually, it was 2024 Yeah. That I did your first set of labs. So let's take look at this.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Yeah.
Corey Berry:So over a year.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:I'm looking at your I'm looking at your chart, Corey. I'm not looking at Paul's.
Corey Berry:Paul's was 2023, right, when you started with
Paul Frase:Probably. Or or Yeah.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:This is 2024. Okay. Your testosterone, when I first checked in '24, it was is when you were on TRT was, like, 1,400. And, of course, you killed everything else prior to it. You had no pregnenolone.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Nothing prior to it, and this is why you were struggling with anxiety and some memory issues. And it was like doing more harm than good. Of course, you still have quite a bit of inflammation at that point. So let's look at I think we checked it in February 2025. So let's see.
Corey Berry:We checked it just a few months ago.
Paul Frase:Yeah. She said
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:she's still at the the next one.
Corey Berry:Oh, okay.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Yeah. Yeah. I'm looking at the next one. Your progesterone went up, and, I like to keep it there even for a male because of you and your rageous. You know, I like to call the progesterone the peace hormone.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Okay?
Paul Frase:Oh, that's the peace hormone.
Corey Berry:She wants to give me the female.
Paul Frase:Well, cashews cashews are are nature's natural Prozac, aren't they? Some something like that?
Corey Berry:I don't know.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:I don't know about that, but that goes, you know, there are some good things in there. Okay. And then so the last one that I did for you was that and this was already and this was, like, September. So let's take a look at that. And that was the one where you were not on the testosterone.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:And then you're Clomid. Were you on Clomid at this time?
Corey Berry:I still am. I'm three days a week.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So we worked on supporting the luteinizing hormone with the Clomid, clomipine. That helped in addition to you taking pregnenolone, which is the mother of all hormones.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:So, like, it created all those things. And so this is a testimony that we don't have to use shots because that kind of disrupts everything else. Mhmm. So now your, yeah, your pregnenolone is good, your progesterone is good, and your testosterone.
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Paul Frase:I'm going to ask you one more medical question. We're coming down to the end. There's a term that Doctor. Lewis uses in his book and Doctor. Gordon uses, and it's neuro permissive.
Paul Frase:And I think all of this wraps into helping to create a neuro permissive environment. And can there actually be healing in the brain with a neuro permissive environment? Neuropermissive environment? Just a question.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Yeah. Well, yeah. But we need to know what's causing all those problems in the brain. Is it talk is it continued head injury? Even, bad relationships and, toxic relationship, toxic workplace, it'll cause us inflammation in the brain.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Mhmm. So we gotta remove all those factors if we can help it. But then, you know, even therapy can help, trying to teach you know, trying to learn relaxation skills and doing exercise, relaxation exercises. You know, all those things will also bring down inflammation along with removing anything in the diet that could be causing it. You mentioned Mike Lewis.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:He really turned me on to the omegas because I was like, what is this? You know? Right. Then I finally started reading in more into it. I'm like, yeah.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Because if your omega threes are low and you have too much omega six, that causes neuroinflammation. And, it's using omega six to build the brain cells instead of the omega three because you don't have enough of it. And so, yeah, we we have to give the brain that neuropermissive environment, antioxidants, in addition to a good diet, the kind of exercise that you need based on your genetics,
Corey Berry:All those things. In layman's terms, can I be healed, doc?
Paul Frase:Demon's out.
Corey Berry:Well, you're
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:on your You're on your way. But I find that with mental health, even with patients that are not on psychiatric meds, I still see them. And it's because they have some genetic issues that maybe they haven't really attended to even though I told them you shouldn't stop that supplement. You know? But, it it's
Corey Berry:it's I a stop everything you tell me to.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Mhmm.
Corey Berry:If you told me to quit walking on my left shoe, I'd quit walking on it to maybe feel better.
Paul Frase:Well, you didn't use How? He's that power. He stopped you he stopped you, using the Copenhagen. Right?
Corey Berry:Yeah. I don't I don't do no more nicotine or tobacco.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Wow. Are you do you miss it?
Corey Berry:No. I got fake chew I put in my lip now.
Paul Frase:He can swallow it.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Better than nicotine.
Corey Berry:It's all it's all
Paul Frase:Natural. Right? Natural. Like organic and straw. You put in straw.
Paul Frase:They they're not paying us for advertising.
Corey Berry:So I know. That's why By the way Maiden Cappel.
Paul Frase:Oh, is it really? No. Doc, doctor Mizyl Damayo, thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Paul Frase:Thank you. You've been a a game changer in both of our worlds.
Corey Berry:A 100%. Yeah. She's been a game changer on the HeadRush Podcast. Yes. Yep.
Corey Berry:She's And we love to have her come on and talk. We love to have her on our board of directors. We see a lot of good things come from doctor Damayo, and I am pleased every day. We're to know that I'm a take you know, I'm gonna say something right now. I have reached to a point, and it's taken a lifetime.
Corey Berry:If you wanna get better and feel better, you get with the right doctors. You get with the right people around you. You circle yourself around people, and you eliminate the evil people. If I can get on my phone, I can text Mizyl Damayo 247. I can text Jeremy Tanner.
Corey Berry:I can text doctor Kateser. I can text Crystal. I can text Mark Gordon. And this is because I am circling myself around people that care about my health and my well-being. I could even text Chris Nowinski.
Paul Frase:Yes, you can.
Corey Berry:You know, so I mean, you look and I've called Michael Osco, you know, I got direct numbers to a lot of people. And if you wanna feel better, if you wanna get better, you hook around doctors that are there for you and not just for because they went to school for, what, twelve years to get a
Paul Frase:degree? I
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:And including, I guess, elementary and high school.
Corey Berry:No. I'm I'm college is what I'm talking about.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Yeah. Yeah. Twelve years.
Corey Berry:Nineteen years altogether, but twelve years of after high school.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:So Yeah. It is a long time.
Paul Frase:Tell us about everything has culminated into what you have developed called the Brain Well program.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Yeah. The Brain Well program is just a compilation of using principles of precision psychiatry, but we gotta do the work with genetics. We gotta do the work with labs, hormones, even a tox panel. And then from there, we correlate what's best for the patient. And, because sometimes one thing may be they need it, but then they have conflicting genetics, and we don't do that.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:So, yeah, this way, I'm giving patients the proper kind of, supplements. Yeah. I have patients who come all the time, like, you know, asking me, what about this doc? What about that doc? And I'm like, if you don't hear coming out of my mouth, don't bother.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:But, of course, you know, you can ask. Okay? But because you would just be wasting your money. I don't want my patients to be doing that because they're already challenged and frustrated with what the whole world and social media tells them. So, it's very important that, you work with a doctor that understands these things.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:And, you know, did I come to this all on my own? Yes and no. I've been very blessed.
Corey Berry:A lot of help.
Paul Frase:Well, you've you've cherry picked some really wonderful brains and people that you knew could bring wholeness and completeness to your program, your brain wellness program. And you've initiated a lot of that content as well. I mean, I've never heard of a doctor of psychiatry taking genetic testing. Really? Why are you doing that, Doctor.
Paul Frase:Damayo? Really? And now we know. Yeah. I mean
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Well, it's all about how you use the test. So but at the end of the day, we are adding, you know, I do have the TMS, but then I also added vagal nerve stimulation. It was, you know, treatment back then. It kinda fell a favor, but they redid the study and actually did show that it does have ability to treat treatment depression disorder and treatment resistant as well as bipolar. So, I have one patient on it.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Struggle. I had I gave him two TMS. He was on HRT. Nothing. And he was really good at following things until you know, because he was desperate as well.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:So I was like, well, do you want an implant on your vagus nerve? And, you know, he's not a 100%, but he's like, I feel better.
Paul Frase:Wow.
Corey Berry:You
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:know? Like, at least he has hope because he always come in and be just glum. So and then we're adding another layer with Sprivado, and this is the only FDA form FDA approved form of ketamine. It is the it's esketamine, which is the stronger, portion of the ketamine between the two. But I like it because I know I'm gonna get a consistent level because it comes from the manufacturers always gonna be the same, and they are the company is actually really good at supporting us.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:So I'm excited. I think my first two is next week, so that will be good. It is also really good for, brain derived neurotropic factor as well. It's it's better for people who are really glum depression Because what it does, it actually elevates the glutamate at that time because that's also a theory why people are depressed. And because they don't have enough glutamate, they have too much GABA in them, so this product, this medicine kind of balances that.
Paul Frase:Well, thank you so much. You've been a wonderful friend. You've been a wonderful sponsor of the HeadRush Podcast. You've been answering our calls and and saying, Paul, what do you have this time? What's going on?
Paul Frase:Thank you very much.
Corey Berry:Hey. Hold it. Before you get there, you called me up a couple weeks ago and say you got in trouble by doctor Damayo. What did I what was it for?
Paul Frase:I don't what did I what did I do wrong doc?
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:I don't remember.
Corey Berry:We're gonna let you off the hook.
Paul Frase:We'll figure it out now. We'll bring it back up. We'll start the next episode with with the what I got in trouble for. Yeah. What what did we miss, doctor Damayo?
Paul Frase:Is there anything you want to cover, please?
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:You know, if anybody's interested, they can just go to the website paradisebehavioral,um,.com/brainwell. And, even if you're not in the state, we can still maybe help at least create a treatment plan for you based on the data that you send us. But, I can really, really do a lot of good work for people in the state of Florida, because I can do a little bit more intensive if the patient desires that.
Corey Berry:Amen. Well For me in Texas, she's limited on what she can do for me, and she's probably happy about that. Could you imagine if I was in the Florida Metroplex or something? You'd be like,
Paul Frase:doctor Damayo, knock, knock, knock.
Corey Berry:She'd have me fired and gone.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Oh, you don't even bother me. So, yeah, you'd say that. But, like, yeah, you have my number, but I rarely hear from you unless you really need me. So, you know, I appreciate that.
Corey Berry:Keep me feeding me to the gators. Well,
Paul Frase:thank you for everything.
Corey Berry:Oh, yeah. You forgot word of hope.
Paul Frase:Yes. Well, I I've we always end the podcast with a word of hope. Can you share a word of hope with our listeners?
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Yeah. I think I said it before about not giving up. But then surround yourself with people that will bring you more hope and get rid of the negativity. Because if you do that, then, yeah, you will progress. You will get better.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Mhmm.
Corey Berry:Hang out with winners, you become a winner. Hang out with losers, you become a loser.
Paul Frase:That's why I hang out with you. No. For the winner part. The winner part. Not the not the loser part.
Paul Frase:Oh, thank you. Appreciate it. Alright. Can we do this again sometime possibly down the road?
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Sure. You know? Maybe I have something else new. Oh, yeah. Well, there are things still coming forward.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:We will I'm working on an AI, software that will put a treatment plan together instead of me having to manually do it all the time.
Paul Frase:Right.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:And that will include, explanations explanations from the Millennium Protocol, which is Doctor. Gordon's part of the software. You know, I will include that in there.
Paul Frase:That's
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:great. Then once I finish that, I will finish my BrainRule University. So, like, if anybody else was interested in do being able to do what I do, I that should be coming hopefully by the end of the year if I don't get too distracted with too much work and travel and going to Disney. So Going
Corey Berry:to Disneyland is gonna be the biggest distraction.
Paul Frase:Disney World. Disney World. Disney World. Hey. If if you have the year pass for Disney World, can you go to Disneyland as well?
Paul Frase:Oh, really? Mm-mm. No.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:No. You gotta buy separate.
Paul Frase:You have to buy? Okay. Alright. Yeah.
Corey Berry:I'm sure she's got that million mile Gold pass or Gold pass or whatever at this point.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Oh, one more thing, though. When talking about Disney, I I did do my Asia Disney trip. Like, I hit all three parks
Paul Frase:in the Really?
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Yeah. And I think Shanghai was the best. Really? I wouldn't go back there. No.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:But it was the biggest one, and I really enjoyed that.
Corey Berry:Have you done Euro Disney yet?
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Mhmm. Yes. I did. So that was my goal, to hit all the Disney parks in the world. So
Paul Frase:So you the j j Japan? Isn't isn't there one in Japan? Okay. And you want Yeah.
Corey Berry:She's the ambassador of Disney now.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:I know I should. Right? But, anyways, it's it's just something fun to do. So yeah.
Paul Frase:I know you enjoy it. So and and you you've you've taken your daughter many times. Right? Yeah. And you're
Corey Berry:so MIC, see you real soon. Okay. K e y. Why? Because we like you.
Corey Berry:Thank you. Alright, guys. We'll see you again.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Be well. Love you all.
Corey Berry:Love you too. Too. Bye bye. Bye.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Bye.
Corey Berry:Another great episode with Mizyl Damayo.
Paul Frase:Yeah. That was a lot of family.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Care.
Paul Frase:Yeah.
Corey Berry:Yeah. We're just wrapping up, and we'll be right back with you in two minutes and two seconds. No.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:I'm like, yeah. I'm still here, though. I can hear anything you talk smack about me. So.
Paul Frase:Well, you know, we know. We we don't I've never have you ever talked smack about one of your physicians?
Corey Berry:All the time. Before the team I got now?
Paul Frase:Oh, before the team you you got now? Yeah.
Corey Berry:The flipping neurologist I had to deal with before Tanner and Kater, before I mean
Paul Frase:So there's difference well, obviously, we we already talked about it. I've never I've never seen somebody that put so much into actually a comprehensive I call it a comprehensive How are you doing?
Corey Berry:I'm off right now.
Paul Frase:You're off right now. Okay. Thank you for the Okay. Bye,
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:guys.
Paul Frase:Take care.
Dr. Mizyl Damayo:Mhmm. Safe.
Paul Frase:Love you. Take care. Bye. Bye. Alright.
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