I met TK Nguyen at CHS earlier this year, and was inspired by how he went from owning his own pharmacy, and dispensing too many pain pills (opiate crisis) to developing his own pain cream to help people get off pain pills.  I invited him on the show to tell his story, and moment. And this episode is not without some excitement (his pharmacy was raided by the DEA), some agreements (the overuse of opiates for chronic pain and needed alternatives), some disagreements (energy healing and placebos versus pseudoscience) and

 

In this episode we cover:

Why TK quit corporate pharmacy, how he felt compromised managing corporate pharmacy.

What smart business practices he did to build his own pharmacy from the ground up

How multiple DEA raids and opiate crisis politics ended his pharmacy

How his wife’s temporary paralysis inspired his pain cream (and my MD explanation of what happened)

Possible medical explanations of paralysis, including discussion of psych causes (conversion disorder), complicated migraines, Todd’s paralysis (temporary paralysis after a seizure), spnial cord transection.

Mind body, the placebo effect, energy medicine, pseudoscience and relief of pain

Fight or flight cycle, stored traumatic memory,