Preface: Guided by Brilliance - The Mentors Who Lit My Path

Mineral Month Day 1 - Reflections on a career defined not by invention, but by the rare gift of recognizing it in others.

Throughout my career treating complex critical (and now chronic) diseases, driven by my curiosity, research, and willingness to “try” novel approaches to healing, I repeatedly identified powerful, innovative therapeutics and/or diagnostics. The list below is a timeline of my career interests and therapeutic discoveries, along with the mentors who inspired my research and use of the therapy:

1. 2008–10: Targeted temperature management (TTM) in post cardiac arrest states — me and Dr. Paul Mayo

2. 2008–2018: Physician performed bedside ultrasonography in the crashing, critically ill patient — Dr. Paul Mayo

3. 2010-2014 - Simulation Training - Director of Simulation Training Created and developer of a novel medical emergency response protocol (still in use) - Dr. Paul Mayo

4. 2018–2021: Intravenous Vitamin C in critical illnesses — Dr. Paul Marik

5. 2020: Corticosteroids in hospitalized COVID patients — Dr. Umberto Meduri

6. 2020–2024: Ivermectin, HCQ and dozens of other early treatments for COVID — Dr. Paul Marik

7. 2023–Present: Ivermectin, LDN, MCAS therapies, Blood-thinners, HBOT and many others in treatment of Long COVID and COVID vaccine injury syndromes — Scott Marsland

8. 2023–Present: Combinations of repurposed drugs to treat cancer (and gaining understanding of cancer as a metabolic, not genetic disease) — Dr. Paul Marik

9. 2024–Present: DMSO for a diverse array of illnesses — A Midwestern Doctor

10. 2024–Present: Chlorine Dioxide for a diverse array of illnesses — Dr. Jose Nasser, MD, PhD, Brazil, and others - Mark Grenon, Kerri Rivera, and the Curious Outlier

11. 2025–Present: Daily, low-dose ketamine for diverse neurological disorders— Dr. Mitchell Leister, and his mentor Dr. Rachel Wilkeson

12. 2025–Ionic Sulfated Minerals - to purify water sources, and support and enhance plant, animal and human health — Kacper Postawski and Matt Bakos

Choosing the Right Mentors

Now, I want to emphasize that I personally did not “discover” any of the above. Each came from my ability to see the genius of mentors who had first identified and then mastered their use.

I once read a powerful quote that I think aptly describes the skill for which I seem to have a unique facility, but I couldn’t find it despite numerous attempts. However, AI generated an approximation from my memory of it (if anyone can find the original, I would appreciate it), it went something like this:

“True inventive genius is less a spark of solitary creation and more the insight to see the brilliance already burning in others—and to kindle it into life.”

Reflecting on my career — one many consider especially productive — I realize much of my success came from the rare good fortune of being guided by an uncanny string of brilliant mentors that I partnered with and then helped steer their genius insights “into life.”

I remember my first mentor, Dr. Paul Mayo, with whom I worked in ICUs for the first two years of my critical care career, and who helped him teach a generation of doctors, both nationally and internationally, to use ultrasound for rapid, life-saving diagnoses. I always felt like he was the general and I was his competent lieutenant — an inspired workhorse, although admittedly intelligent, not even close to his level. But together we accomplished a great deal.

That pattern — me partnering with a genius, developing a synergy between us, and then scaling great heights — is best evidenced by my working relationship with Paul Marik. Although we were phone friends for almost two years before finally meeting in person, our first encounter was historic— and a nightmare: a global Pharma takedown of his pioneering work on IV-vitamin-C in Belfast, where I had just completed research providing the ‘smoking gun’ of how they “took him down.”’ My study showed that IV Vitamin C, when initiated more than 12 hours after admission to the emergency room, had no impact on mortality. It exposed how Pharma suppressed its evidence of the efficacy by delaying enrollment of crashing septic-shock patients into their trials by almost 30 hours. Although I did not know it at the time, that was indeed “my first rodeo.”

This ability — to recognize the genius in the innovations of others and help “kindle them into life” — shaped my career: from creating the curriculum of national bedside ultrasound courses with Dr. Mayo (now standard practice in our field), to editing the most popular textbook on the topic (now in its 3rd edition and 7th language), to research with Paul Marik on IV Vitamin C (later targeted by the global disinformation campaign above), to co-founding the FLCCC (where our protocols helped millions - also targeted by a global disinformation campaign), to building the Leading Edge Clinic with my brilliant and amazing partner, Scott Marsland.

I share this to lend some “street cred” to what I believe will be the most globally impactful scientific endeavor of my entire career.

Ionic Sulfated Trace and Rare Earth Minerals

My introduction to the potential health properties of minerals came from Kacper Postawski— the same man who produced the “Quantum Leap” documentary I wrote about in this prior post (a post that was later baselessly attacked by my former “friends” at TrialSiteNews). His website bio describes him as a “father, musician, businessman, filmmaker, author, sailor, poet, water science researcher, free energy and anti-gravetics enthusiast, and a lover of truth.” Clearly, my most versatile mentor yet.

As much as Kacper initially taught me, this journey would have never been possible without Matt Bakos of Adya Inc., a savant who was so bored in high school that he dropped out and joined the military. Bakos is next-level brilliant and one of the more interesting conversationalists I have met in a long time. He has been studying trace minerals for over 20 years, and the depths to which he has taken me in terms of learning the history and complex biochemistry has been dizzying.

Anyway, It was Kacper who first opened my eyes to what we now call ionic sulfated rare earth minerals—a discovery that resonates deeply with me because, like ketamine and ivermectin, it connects back to the same genesis: minerals that birthed life in the Earth’s depths, and the compounds derived from the earliest mineral powered organisms that evolved on its surface. I now see them as representing the twin origins of biology: the geologic and the organic.

Next: Chapter 1 - The Missing Minerals of Modern Life: How Depletion Breeds Disease

*Note: As this journey unfolded, it started taking me places I hadn’t planned on going. What began as pure scientific curiosity slowly turned into something more practical—a realization that these minerals might have real-world potential, not just theoretical importance. I didn’t set out to build anything beyond understanding, but sometimes curiosity has a way of dragging you into creation. I’ll share where that path led me a little later in the book.

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Upcoming Book Publications

Yup — not one, but two books are dropping from yours truly. At the same time? What?

1. If, instead of (or in addition to) this Substack version, you prefer the feel of a real book—or the smell of paper—or like to give holiday gifts, pre-order From Volcanoes to Vitality, my grand mineral saga, shipping before Christmas.

2. And if you want to read (or gift) another chronicle of suppression, science, and survival, grab The War on Chlorine Dioxide—the sequel you didn’t see coming—shipping mid-January. On this one, I say: “Buy it before they ban it.” Hah!

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