Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s can steal your confidence fast, but what happens when a diagnosis becomes a deadline to build something better?
Sylvia Worsham sits down with Mark Burnett, a lifelong builder and database programmer who links his neurological symptoms to environmental toxin exposure and refuses to accept a future defined by decline.
We walk through the moment Mark realized something was deeply wrong, including getting lost on a road he’d driven for 20 years, and why the standard “manage symptoms and wait” approach didn’t sit right with him. Mark shares the research rabbit hole that followed, from contamination concerns like TCE to a bigger question: what do Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and dementia have in common beneath the surface? That search leads to the glymphatic system, the brain’s natural cleanup and drainage network, and why restoring that function may be central to brain health, cognitive function, and movement stability.
Mark also breaks down the practical side, including how preparation methods can change a natural ingredient’s impact, why he focused on measurable tracking over hype, and what he’s seeing from customers, including healthcare professionals. We talk cost, subscriptions, affordability conversations, and the importance of working with a doctor as symptoms shift, especially around dopamine regulation and medication adjustments.
If you care about brain health, neurodegenerative disease prevention, environmental chemicals, or caregiving for Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, this conversation will challenge how you think about purpose, persistence, and what “fighting back” can look like.
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Transcript:
If you’ve ever struggled with fear, doubt, or worry and wondering what your true purpose was all about, then this podcast is for you. In this show, your host, Sylvia Warsham, will interview elite experts and ordinary people that have created extraordinary lives. So here’s your host, Sylvia Warsham.
Hey light bringers, it’s Sylvia Warsham. Welcome to Released Out Review of Purpose. And today is Mark Burnett. And he has quite a story to share with y’all. I was particularly touched by it because he mentioned two neurological diseases that are very common when you are at military bases or you’ve been exposed to war. And why this is so poignant for someone like me is as most of you know, my father served in Vietnam, and because of that service, he ended up with a meningoma. But most of his colleagues ended up with Parkinson’s disease, and so did Mark. Mark lived on base ever since he was a young boy and swimmed in those swimming pools. A lot of what they were exposed to was the natural, and he ended up getting Parkinson’s in early onset of Alzheimer’s. And he could have sat there and just be stunned and just quit life altogether. And yet, Mark chose different. He chose purpose, pain over purpose, uh, pain to purpose story. And he’s done just that. When people told him he couldn’t do it, he said, watch me. Yeah, I can admire that in any individual. So without further ado, Mark, thank you so much for joining us on the show.
Sylvie, thanks for having me. I look forward to it.
I’m ecstatic to really dive in. So please share with us this amazing story of receiving this diagnosis and what you ended up doing because of it.
Sure. Well, essentially in 2023, you’ve got to keep in mind we’re still sort of in Parkinson’s. I mean, I’m sorry, we’re still in COVID kind of era, wrapping it up and things like that. And I started to notice I started bumping into things, tripping over things. I knew I had some neurological conditions already. Uh I had root canals in all my teeth, if you can imagine that, uh, when I was like in my 30s. And um the dentist never could really figure out why, but I had this hypersensitivity that nobody could figure out. And um increased liver functions, things like that. That again, exposure to something. And only when the Camp Lajune um things came out that these bases were contaminated with TCE, which is used in wig glue, it’s used in brake cleaner fluid, it’s used in correction fluid, um, it’s basically a cleaner, also dry cleaning, and they dumped off base, they dumped all that TCE down the drain. It got into the aquifers there at Camp Le June, and that’s why we see all these Camp Lageune litigation going on. But then I developed Parkinson’s, which was 70% higher in that base than any other base the government tested, 500% higher in dry cleaning, people in the dry cleaning industry. So, and I should point out that Harvard uh was working on a study, their funding got cut. But I got to read part of that, and unfortunately, it may never be totally released, but they found people living around golf courses, people living around industrial sites were also getting a high amount of Parkinson’s. So it’s everywhere because we’re coming involved, you know, and in environmental chemicals, but also some people are genetically predisposed, you know. If family members or grandpa or grandma had that Parkinson’s, then the opportunity for them to get it is quite high. Um, now I also had Alzheimer’s, um, which uh started to affect me absolutely the worst was driving home down a road. I driven 20 years down that road and I got lost. I didn’t remember how to go home. And I’m a guy, so I do the dumb thing. I don’t press Google and say take me home. I’m just stubborn that way, right? And so I drive around until you run out of gas, so to speak. Um, but I finally saw a road that seemed somewhat familiar, went down it and made it home, but my heart was pounding. I was just like, this is unbelievable. I have Parkinson’s Alzheimer’s at the same time. And, you know, I was defiant. Um, the neurologist was giving me drugs from the 60s, the cardopa, the dopamine replacement things, which basically they said, you know, it might work about five years, and then we’ll just have to give you more, and then eventually you’ll get into freezing and hallucinations. And I’m like, this does not sound like the right path. So that’s when I really started studying. I’m I’m a database programmer by trade. I’ve started businesses before, I’m 67, and I said, you know, I don’t really want to start a business, but I’m gonna start a business on myself. So I spent six months um really working on what I had learned about Japanese studies reversing Parkinson’s Alzheimer’s and dementia in mice. And they were funded by Big Pharma. Uh they were a university in Japan, and when they couldn’t figure out how to make it into a drug, they basically abandoned it. And I was like, Well, how could you do this? I mean, but you know, again, big pharma is not gonna, you know, get into the supplement business. They want to make$10,000 a month, okay? And I just was like, Well, you know what? I found the scientific report, I read it. Then there was this beautiful woman who was in Holland uh who discovered the she was a scientist who discovered the gymphatic system in the brain, not lymphatic, but gymphatic. And she realized it was the holy grail of getting these things out of your brain that are causing the dopamine problems, causing these tangles and stuff to essentially form around uh the brain cells that were making dopamine, and also uh amyloid beta flex, which are Alzheimer’s-based. And she said this is the common denominator. And essentially it put the two reports together. You know, the Dutch and the Japanese weren’t in the same room, but I’m looking at both reports, going, wait a minute, this is explaining exactly how they did it. And um I sourced that product that the Japanese used, it took a bit. I had to learn how to make it, had to overcome a lot of, you know, how do you make this very, very ultra cold? Uh that was a key ingredient, a pre component, I should say. And then when I started taking it, um, I didn’t tell anybody for six months. I needed to be the next mouse. You know, that was my thinking. And I went from stage three, four Parkinson’s, right one step away from a walker, to in six months running in the Michael J. Fox marathon unaided. And people around me at the Michael J. Fox group, especially the Parkinson’s people themselves, were like, What in the world are you taking? And they were my first customers. They were basically like, you know, at that point I didn’t even have a label for the jar. But they were like, I don’t care. Um, what else do what choice do I have? You know, what are my options? And so that got me started building the company, and now we have six countries buying from us. Um, our prevented versions up on Amazon, uh, but the best place to get it is at our website. Uh, we give away a free book to everybody who wants to read my journey. I wrote everything down. So part of that was just you know figuring out, you know, how do I make it into a better product, how do I get it there, and overcoming these obstacles that you have in life. You know, it’s all about you know how you look at it and how you get through it. And for me, I was very young, I was probably 18 years old, and I met Norman Vincent Peale. And Norman Vincent Peel wrote the book, The Power of Positive Thinking. And I met him directly, and then he went on stage, and I was in the audience, and we were actually driving him back to his hotel afterwards, and um he told everybody in the audience to try to stand up, and half the people stood up, and the other half continued to sit down, not understanding the question. He said, No, everyone try to stand up. And again, some people sat down, others people stood up, and he goes, I’m gonna teach you one thing. There’s no such word as the word try. You either do it or you don’t do it. That was key for me for the rest of my life. You know, that was it. And I think that’s the power of positive thinking, exactly what he was trying to say.
There’s so much to unpack here, Mark, in all honesty. Let’s let’s try to do that for the audience. You mentioned you could have stayed exactly, but the power of the mind is very powerful. You’re you’re correct to say whether you you can or can’t, you are correct. Right, we have choices in life that put us precisely in the moment that we’re in now, or in reflection, I would assume you look back and said I could have chosen differently, but chose this path. Can you talk more about before we unpack this on your intuition? Guide us how you chose to not give up. Where did you get that from?
Well, um, two well, first of all, Norman Vincent Fields’ statement there when I was 18, but then later, my father, who was a master sergeant in the Marine Corps, um, and I was at the Camp Legune base for three years, um, being born there, um, he always instilled on me when I was young, he said, you know, understand if the enemy is coming after you, you have to fight back and pick out the enemy. And that enemy, he said, means anything. Whatever it might be, okay, you have to fight back to hold your position. And those words stuck with me, you know, that that’s important to realize that the neurologist who was handing me a drug from the 1960s, Cardopa, which was derived from a plant also, okay, uh, and um I was like, is this gonna cure me? And they go, No. It only pushes you down the road a bit. And then I had a friend who was involved in the army and hauling uh he was a truck driver and he was hauling Agent Orange. And he was not in Vietnam, but he was at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in uh in Maryland, which were later also listed as a uh toxic chemical component of Agent Orange being there because they were testing it quietly there. So uh, you know, when he was still able to speak, you know, I said, Did you haul those cans with the yellow tops, you know, or orange tops? And he said, Yeah, I did. I didn’t know what they were, you know, but sometimes they’d spill in the truck or whatever, and you know, you just unload them and you didn’t think anything of it. Um, but he had Parkinson’s and dementia with Louis bodies, and he passed away from that. And I did not know about this at that time, but that was another incentive to see your friend you knew, you know, die, but also the change he went through, the caregiver that was taking care of him, his wife was just beside herself trying to keep up with all the things. It was it was just horrendous. I tried to help every way I could, but you know, what can you do? And I didn’t know about this. If I had, I would have said, take the my brain restore product I have. I mean, it’s helping me, but you know, not able to get it then to him in that amount of time. And I hadn’t even started testing it yet.
So, who does it work for, the brain restore? Can you share more about that?
Yes. Um, certainly. Well, Alzheimer’s, it basically, which is a form of dementia, um Alzheimer’s is uh probably where it works the fastest. Within about three months, you know, I noticed um, you know, I remembered why I went in the room. I remembered where I put my wallet. I remembered everything. Like my brain became really sharp. And the Japanese had pointed this out in their own things. Not only had they reversed the Alzheimer’s, but then they tested it with control mice, and the control mice got 20% better at memory. So these were mice without any neurological condition. So they realized that. The Dutch scientists realized that the glimphatic system was what was clearing these things out of the brain, and if you could just get it working again, it would do its job if you gave it enough time. So I kind of put those two things together. Again, being a database programmer, you know, you start with a blank screen, and there’s just a blinking cursor. And you’ve got to figure out where am I going, how am I getting there? You have to lay all that out. And typically, uh, we were early programmers before the web, actually. Uh, we were involved in the bulletin board side of the business. And um as it advanced into the web, we we I I hired a bunch of programmers that never completed college, they never went to college, but I’d come in and say, How what do you guys know? And they had programmed things on their own. I’m like, this is amazing. I love what you did, and I’d hire them. I said, You’re hired. He goes, Oh man, you’re the first job I’ve seen get because I’m supposed to learn COBOL or Fortran, so that’s old stuff. That’s gonna go away. The only people are gonna have that at the IRS. And uh, you know, we basically, you know, I had a team of misfits, if you want to put it that way, but they were intelligent misfits. You know, they were outside the box, and men and women, both with the unique ideas, and I put them together and we built things for some of the largest companies in the world. Um, we went on to be huge, and you know, it was you know, we were grassroots. You know, how do you start these things up? How do you get going? And um we were advertising, just to go off here a little bit, we were advertising in the Washington Post. It was costing us a ton of money to advertise in the Washington Post and say all these things we did and put in the company name. And one week I just told the Washington Post, no, just put in expert programmers and our phone number. Nothing else. And they’re like, You’re crazy, that’s a waste of money. Nope, just put it in that way. I don’t want, I don’t want to tell people what we do. Well, I get these insulting, nasty people calling me, and this was hilarious. A lot of them are associations down in Washington, DC. Um, and they call up and say, Oh, you think you’re experts, huh? And I was like, Yeah, we do. And they’re like, Well, we got a problem down here, and nobody’s been able to fix it. I said, You want my team to come down there and take a look at it? I won’t charge you anything. And they said, Oh, sure. And I’d come down, meet with maybe five or six people, have one of my developers who was really sharp, he’d go over there and go, Oh, I see what the problem is. Click, click, is this what you want it fixed? Yeah, hey, wow. Uh well, we want the whole thing recoded. Then we had a hundred thousand dollar contract, all from just saying we’re experts, give us a call, and we’ll take it from there. And boy, did I take a beating. But you know, people, you know, don’t believe it. And it’s just like the product I have now. You know, people are like, how can such a simple product, you know, work? But then again, the Japanese proved it worked, you know, in mice. You know, my only challenge was could it convert to humans? And when I was able to use it and basically reverse my Parkinson’s to the most amazing thing now, it’s not written down yet, because I just got it. January of this year, a few weeks ago, my neurologist looked at me and she says, Well, not only are you not stage three anymore, I’m not even sure I can put you down as stage one.
That’s amazing, Mark. That is amazing. But going back to the original question, who is this for? Like, this is for people with Parkinson’s disease, people with Alzheimer’s, dementia, dementia.
Also realized from the uh the Dutch scientist, the the um woman who actually got into the glymphatic system, she said this could clear things like uh traumatic brain injuries, strokes, MS. I mean, she went into a whole list of things that they realized, these are all the things stuck. So we’ve sort of expanded our list. Uh, we do have some people taking it for long-term COVID. We have people taking it for MS. Um, and they’re starting to realize this is a center point that if you can get this drainage system, which it is, of the brain back functioning, whether it was damaged chemically or genetically, if you can get it back working again, these things will clear out, they’ll move into the bloodstream and be broken down by the liver just like you’re 30 years old. Okay, and that became the key to understanding wow, this could affect people who even had strokes by helping them recover quicker. Um, this could help uh football players, you know, or soccer players who hit their heads, you know, quite often or hit their heads against the ball and cause traumatic brain injury. It could actually prevent it. So um, we’re actually talking to a group right now that does uh older people play tennis a lot and they want to be a little sharper, a little quicker. The whole store franchise wants to take our product line. You know, it came out of the blue, but they’re like, hey, you know, we have a lot of people who want to play better.
So go like being the devil’s advocate, you realize I came from the pharmaceutical world, so I’m curious. What did the pharmaceutical companies have to say about this product?
Did they uh I think the the worst thing they said was, you know, when they were funding the Japanese, which they were, they were spending millions of dollars on that. And when that Japanese group could not make it into a drug, they tried. They thought they had isolated the elements and they gave it to the mice, didn’t work. Did not cure them in any way. Only the natural ingredient made in a certain way, which we reproduced and actually made it better uh in the way we make it. Um the pharmaceuticals abandoned it. And I really wonder how many things they throw on the floor, you know, and figure it out, but they can’t make it into a drug, no money in it for them. So, you know, they don’t care. And my other problem was the drug companies were making, they were taking cancer medicine uh that was used for cancer and converting it, and since they already had it approved by the FDA, they were now starting to use it for Parkinson’s. But the problem was it was breaking up the plaques, but they weren’t getting out of the brain. So it’s kind of like having a clog drain in your sink and you plunge it, and okay, there’s all the stuff, but it still isn’t draining. And to me, um, that seemed kind of stupid to do it that way. But then the British or the UK really hit them hard and said um they asked for approval there to use the cancer medicine, and the British said, way too expensive, doesn’t make sense, only helps 35%. We’re not showing out the money for it. And because it was like they had estimated, you know, has to be done by infusion, has to be MRIs done behind it, takes like two years, and only 35% improvement. And they said at the cost of a quarter million dollars in total amount that it would have to be paid. The UK said no, not at all.
So your product is how much does it cost? Sure. And is it available? Do you guys make it financially available for people to access it? Or how does that work?
Sure, absolutely. Um, the product is um, well, the prevented version is$95 a month and it’s on subscription. If you buy it that way, that’s the price. Um, most people, all people buy it as a subscription because one you know, jar of it, which looks like this now, now we’re prettier. Um, okay. Uh, you know, the the point is it will work. I mean, you have to you really commit to like six months, so that’s why we have subscription services. The 2x is which is we call active, is more for people that are in the genetic world where they might be having slight of a problem or they’re already advanced. I’ve had people ask me, my my husband or wife is bedbound, she has Parkinson’s, can she still take it? Yes. The answer is yes. Because if we can get that glymphatic system working, then you’re gonna see improvements. We make everybody we can write down the improvements before you even start list everything. And we put a list up there free at mybrainrestore.com. They go to the FH. They can download it. And when they download it, they can actually look at where they started and then where they’re at. Because we want them to quantify it and say, okay, well, I went from a 10, which is worse, down to a 7. Or my partner now is able to button their own shirt. They’re able to get up and walk around more. They’re not forgetting things. These are all important aspects that will come on so slowly that you might not notice it. But if you write it down, you’ll notice it. And so we highly encourage people to do that. Another person I have that actually has a dopamine pump, this is where they would pump their chest and put dopamine into their system. He had to do it every three hours, just the function. And when he started taking to my brainer store, he went to every six hours. And then he went to every eight hours. And all of a sudden he got so excited. Can you not? He says, Give me your full name and address. I’m buying you a plane ticket. I want you to come down and see me.
That’s awesome. I’m I’m also curious on the rate of success. I know you’re sharing some case studies, but I’m sure you guys pull up reports on a monthly, maybe even weekly basis, I’m not sure, right uh, of how this product is actually performing. So can you share some data on that?
Yeah. Well, what I found interesting, and I don’t know how we got in this forum, but we we actually got into a forum, somehow maybe someone reposted something we had, and this was for doctors, and we started noticing that DR in front of uh the names when they’d order. So I started to talking to some of these people. Uh, one was a uh neurosurgeon, okay, and he said, I’m taking it, and be honest with you, I’m not taking anything else now because it’s working. And he goes, I can tell you as a neurosurgeon, if you can get those things out of the brain since you’ve got a path to do it, it’s gonna help and the brain’s gonna repair itself. I’ve been doing this all my life, but I have Parkinson’s, and this is where I’m at. Uh, we’ve got other doctors, you know, that I’ve talked to, um surgeons and other people, and I really look at their information real heavy because they take a more critical view of these things, but then again, they realize there’s nothing else out there and they don’t want to go down the dopamine road of just kicking the can down the road and eventually you pass away from it anyway. Um, you know, someone just recently, there was uh an actor just recently that died of Parkinson’s. Um you know, we look at the person who uh died, uh you know, we look at Bruce Willis, you know, he’s got dementia really bad. Uh there’s a lot of actors, Michael J. Fox. Um, I did uh I’m actually involved with that group a bit. Uh we do donate to them from our organization. We donate to the Alzheimer’s Association also. But in talking with them, they want me to speak at the at the Senate, uh, and they’ve asked me to be part of that. Um and but Michael J. Fox himself said he was on movie set, he got Parkinson’s when he was 29 diagnosed, very young. But he said, being on movie sets, there were people that would blow powder in your face or blow up something next to you, and he had no idea what they were doing. You know, he had no idea what chemicals were in there. He just came in for a scene, and you know, hey, this is gonna blow up, or we’re gonna put some powder in your face, don’t worry about it. He believes that’s where he got the chemicals which trigger his Parkinson’s at a very, very early age. And if we go back and look at back to the future, you’ll see him. He’s very jittery. You think it’s his acting? It’s not really his acting. It’s the fact that he’s showing Parkinson’s symptoms very early on. It was just his kind of way he would move his head or you know, go like that. And so, you know, with that, um what we do is we were very open. We post our phone number up there on our website. Um, you know, we either get me or someone else. We want to talk to all the people. Uh we’re working to put together an app so that the app would allow people to, you know, basically on their phones score down, like, you know, I got a chin this month or whatever, remind them to take the product, but also remind them every month, hey, in where are your scores at? So that way we have a better matrix and understanding where it’s working, how quick it’s working. So we’re still forming all that, but we do know one thing that people that get the subscription, we’ve only had um less than 1% stop the prescription, or I should say the subscription. Okay. Um, and when I’ve talked to them, some of them were like, Well, I can’t get my husband or wife to take it anymore. They’re gotten too deep into dementia or something, and they don’t want to eat anything, and you know, so okay, those are problems. Others were doctors fighting back, you know, some doctors who just didn’t understand, just take my medicine, don’t take anything else. But what’s the end result of that medicine? You know, I mean, it’s not helping, okay? It’s just kicking the can. It’s like taking insulin for your diabetes, you’re still stuck. If you take Ozempic, on the other hand, you know, well, that gets your pancreas working again. And I make a great you know, relationship between our product and Ozempic. And Ozempic is basically you don’t have to take insulin anymore. And my doctor actually didn’t tell me to stop taking insulin when I took Ozempic. I got switched to it. And I’m like, I had a meter, so at 3 o’clock in the morning, it’s waking me up saying, eat a candy bar or you’re gonna go in a coma. You know, and that’s the problem. You can’t take insulin on top of Ozempic. And the same here, people have to eventually talk to their doctor about cutting back on dopamine because if the body starts making its own dopamine again and gets regulating itself, which we really want it to do, not just these ups and downs, but the body every 30 seconds figuring out what you need, that becomes incredibly important at that point.
It sounds like the obstacles you face, it primarily come from the medical world. Not believing that uh brain restore is going to produce optimal results. They’re relying a lot on the science of the history of what they’ve been practicing for over 50 years or more, right? Because Lugadopa was around for oh my goodness, what was Lugadopa like in the 60s, right? Um and so now we’re way past the 50 mark, yeah. 50 year mark, and that’s what they’re used to. It sounds like that’s your biggest crap, obstacle.
Yeah, true, and and interestingly enough, that that cardopa and L Dopa all came from a plant called the Velvet Bean in India. So it too, that’s the it was the British that, and I’ll use this word uselessly, rediscovered it when India, the people there had said we’ve been using that a thousand years to cut back on tremors. Okay, uh, but you know, a British scientist went there and rediscovered the velvet bean, which became eventually in a synthetic form and became cardopa and dopamine replacements. Okay. Um, so yeah, no, this has been entrenched for 50 years, and it’s the go-to drug for neurologists to hand people. But you know, the question becomes well, I know they don’t have enough time to read every scientific journal, but if they just read this one and and realize, wow, how did all those mice more importantly than anything else? How did they cure three neurological diseases from one ingredient? That to me was more than amazing because it’s like, wait a minute, these are different things. You know, one is based on tau, uh, which is a type of you know plaque that forms. Uh, another one is based on amyloid beta ratios in the blood and things like that, that amyloid plaque. So these aren’t the same. To me, I’m always that database program. What’s the common denominator here? Okay, and that got back to the gymphatic system, which I’ve asked some neurologists, they don’t even know what I’m talking about. What gymphatics? You mean the lymphatic? No, the gymphatic. You guys read anything? And basically, one doctor said it quite clearly. No, I’ve got two other patients in the in the other room. I got seven minutes with you, I don’t have time to read anything, you know, and that’s unfortunate where we’ve gotten to. We’ve gotten to this point where these doctors, unfortunately, are just knocking stuff out the door left and right, handing people it, you know, here you go. Bye-bye.
You know, it just I’ve never heard of brain restore, and because of the history, my father was a doctor, as you know, like we discussed it. Right. And he had strokes and meningomas due to exposure to Agent Orange. Yeah. And it sounds like a product like this, and he had dementia because when you have you have vascular dementia every time you go under the knife, it gives what I understood, and that’s what he ended up with. Yep. Um, so I’m just curious why I had never heard of it.
Well, I think you never heard of it because the gymphatic system by the Dutch scientist, um, woman that discovered that. Um, well, she had said it was the aha moment, and scientists started studying that. If you look up the gymphatic system and Parkinson’s of the glymephatic system and Alzheimer’s on Google, you will get a very straightforward answer where it says this is like the key. Okay. Um, she understood that and her team understood that, but they didn’t read the Japanese study because that was found in 2012, 2013, it was considered the aha moment, but the Japanese didn’t study this until 2024. So that was the disconnect there. So the My Brain Restore product, okay, um, was only tested at that time in 2024. It’s when they started doing experiments, so they got their money to go work on it. But they had to have some idea it was gonna work because they particularly picked only one cultivator of this plant called Zizifa. Never heard it before in my life, no idea what it was, but this Zizifa produced the fruit, and they realized the seed of that fruit was key. Now, Zizifa sometimes is sold um on Amazon, you’ll see it there and some other places, but it’s cooked, or it is in uh made for hot tea, which was an old Chinese way of getting to sleep a little quicker, okay, which every Parkinson person would love to have. But uh they the scientists said, well, when we did that, it didn’t work. It never so that’s why it was never noticed. Because they’re like the traditional way of making it, the heating it destroys it. Uh an idea that I mean I’m allergic to pineapple raw. Okay, so the opposite effect is if it’s cooked into something like um you know uh sweet sour pork or it’s cooked in some other dish, doesn’t bother me in any way. Because it chemically changes itself when it’s cooked, that heating process. This is just the opposite. If you eat it, you destroy it, if you keep it in its natural form, and then when you mill it, because mills, our mills run at 30,000 RPMs, so when they’re grinding that seed, they get hot. We had to figure out a refrigerated way to refrigerate the mill down to around 50 degrees and keep it at that temperature. So that’s the hard part of making the product, but then it contains you know the product, and this is what the product looks like. It’s air-powered form. We do this for another reason, I’ll explain in a minute. I don’t know if you can see that. And then we use a foam top. And we use a foam top, we put a seal on the side, but we use a foam top because we want it to reseal to keep the oils and other components all fresh in there, and we tell people to use it within the 30-day period. It has like a three-month uh best use date, but um you know they should use it right away because it is freshly ground in that way. And again, this is following the scientist and where they went. Um, so it’s it’s you know, I think people didn’t really put the puzzle pieces together where I was used to putting puzzle pieces together in databases. You know, our team worked on databases, and you know, everybody in each room was working on a component, but we had to meet in the hallway or meet in a meeting room and go, wait a minute, did you come over this? You know, we we figured out ways, and you know, we figured out how to get rid of bugs and fixing it. So to me, I was already figuring out all the elements of how do I ramp this up, how do I get going, how do I deal with international sales, which has sort of bloomed a little faster than I expected. Um, but Parkinson’s is all around the world, you know, Alzheimer’s all around the world. Um and so you know, there’s people that want to buy it everywhere. Um and and so I guess you know, it’s the tenacity I had, you know, to not let go, to keep moving forward with it. I could see its improvements. At first I didn’t realize it. You know, you don’t notice being normal, I gotta tell you. Um I didn’t notice not tripping. I had gone out and bought steel-plated shoes because I had hit my toes so many times I had hurt myself immensely, actually knocking myself out one time, which is the most common problem with Parkinson’s. People fall, break their leg. I think of Michael J. Fox said he’s broke like every bone he has, you know, um, at least once. So to me, when I stopped falling and I started navigating normally, I was just didn’t notice it. You know, I didn’t make logs. And um, but then that when I ran in that Michael J. Fox thing and made it all the way through, and my wife was like, Don’t do it, you’re gonna fall and break your neck, you know, because she knew how I was before. And when I finished that race, I was like ecstatic. And it’s on the front cover of my book. Uh I put it on there, my book’s free. Um they can just go up the website and go to FAQ and go to free PDFs and download it. Um, and I wanted to write my story, but not to make money off that. You know, it was more about how I got through all these things, my my past and you know, how I did all these things. I wanted to share that with people. I wanted people to have that same encouragement, you know, that I was facing two neurological diseases, I’m 67 years old. I mean, what do you do? You know, I mean, that was not a good outlook. Uh sometimes I make jokes about it. People say, like, well, how do you deal with it? I said, well, you know, you fall downstairs because of Parkinson’s, but because of Alzheimer’s, you can’t figure out why you fell down.
So tell us uh the name of the book and what’s your website? You’ve referenced the website, but not really the website. And any last words of encouragement you want to leave us with?
Sure. Um, well, I think the biggest encouragement, well, first of all, the the website is mybrainrestore uh calm. And if you go there, I encourage everybody to read everything, go through everything, go through my journey, download the book through the FAQs, you’ll see the free PDFs, um, and read everything before you make a decision. But we also have a section up there for healthcare providers. So if your doctor gets funky, you know, they can go up there, make them read it, and we put a summary of the mouse experiments up there and everything. Um, but you know, also make sure they get the subscription versions, those are the best. If they have a problem with affordability, they should um talk to us. We have a phone number. Humans answer the phone, they’re here in the US. Okay, so we we want to talk to everybody. Um, but also we’re looking at putting together a nonprofit that’ll help assist people with you know those kind of payments and things like that and what they pay for, which would help fund it. So we’re looking for someone to run the nonprofit section so that they can assist people in that way because we think that would be very helpful. We don’t want people to be left out. That’s that’s sort of important here. Um, this is a you know, unfortunately, millions of people have this disease, and it just it’s one doctor said it’s a pandemic, you know, of Parkinson’s with all the chemicals and things in the air and stuff like that. We got forever chemicals, we got you know golf courses you live next to, they’re spraying paraquat on things, yeah, farms, you know, it’s it’s brutal. So it’s not gonna get better. We need a way to fight back.
Okay. But you didn’t mention the name of your book.
Can you oh yeah, the the name of the book is basically how I beat uh Parkinson’s Alzheimer’s um is is the name up there. Um it’s uh available only at the website right now. We’re working on Amazon to get it up there and eBay. So those are the two places it’ll also be.
Okay. Well, thank you so much, Mark, for joining us on release.reve purpose. Your story is truly inspirational, and I’m glad that you stepped into your light. You became the light, just like scripture says in Matthew, my four Matthew 5.14, to be the light. You were the light, you were the light that guided into the the creation of this product that it sounds like it’s it’s giving even neurologists, like neurosurgeons and neurologists who are also suffering from Parkinson’s uh some relief, some some improvement. Um, from you went from stage three to like now, you’re not even considered stage one according to your neurologist, which is phenomenal. And I’m assuming that on your website you have some uh case studies of people that have uh like where they started and where they’re currently at after taking the product so that they can have all the information on there and they can make better choices for their health. And I just want to thank you for having the courage to turn inward to look at your pain and and decide to fight back and say, I’m not gonna take this sitting down, I’m gonna do my part to make this world a better place before I actually leave it. And um congratulations on finishing the end for the Michael J. Fox Foundation and for your collaboration with them because the more people work on this on these issues in collaboration and not competition with each other, right, the the more humanity will win.
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Right? So uh I just want to thank you and and thank the listeners of release out reveal purpose for for tuning in and for um hearing Mark’s story. All all of its uh uh parts to a story and and for allowing me the honor to guide you in this story, Mark. So have a wonderful and blessed week. And talk to y’all later. Bye now.
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