January 20, 2023 Show with Dr. Rhett Bergeron on “The 2023 Faith & Medicine Conference in Cumming, GA”

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And I'm thrilled to have a first-time guest on today who comes with the highest recommendations from two dear friends of mine, one of whom is no stranger to the Iron Sharpens Iron Radio audience, Dr. Joseph C. Moorcraft III, whose ads you hear every day on Iron Sharpens Iron Radio.

He is, or should I say, Heritage Presbyterian Church there in Georgia, is one of the key sponsors of this program, and Joe and his wife, his lovely wife Becky, said to me, you have got to get Dr. Rhett Bergeron on the program, and he is a regenerative medicine physician and addiction treatment specialist with Real Health Medical, and they have conferences called the Faith in Medicine Conference.

So I always take up Dr. Moorcraft and Becky's strong recommendations every time they recommend a guest to me. I immediately jump on it, and I did so with Dr. Rhett Bergeron. And we are going to be not only talking about his own salvation testimony, but we're also going to be talking about the upcoming 2023 Faith in Medicine Conference in Cumming, Georgia.

And it's my honor and privilege to welcome you for the very first time ever to Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, Dr. Rhett Bergeron.

Well, thank you, Chris. It is quite an honor to be a part of the program, and greetings to all of the listeners. And likewise, I take the same recommendation from Pastor Moorcraft and his wife. They had urged me to contact you over the last year, so I'm glad the Lord brought us together, and thank you for your diligence in reaching out.

Amen. Well, tell our listeners about Real Health Medical, first of all.

Okay.

Real Health Medical and the Faith in Medicine Conference

So it is a functional medicine clinic, which means we integrate what we feel is the best of more traditional, conventional health care and what's available to us from a environmental, nutritional, regenerative medicine perspective.

And we're a team of practitioners and clinic workers working together. There are physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, health coaches, detoxification coaches, IV nurses, and a number of other therapies.

So we work together to try to truly determine the cause of the illness or symptoms in our clients, and we work to build an individualized health or wellness program to restore their health, improve their symptoms.

And we try to look at it on mind, body, and spirit, because each one of those are real aspects of who we are, and they interact, as we all know, and each of them can cause symptoms, and so we try to truly be holistic in our approach to health care.

So that's what Real Health Medical is. We started about 15 years ago. We're just slightly growing year to year, and we actually have three clinics in the Atlanta metropolitan area, and that's what Real Health Medical is.

And if anybody wants to investigate this fine health practitioner firm, go to realhealthmedical .com, realhealthmedical .com, and we'll be repeating that later on. Now tell us about the upcoming Faith in Medicine conference there in the Atlanta area.

I'll be glad to do that. Let me mention one last thing about Real Health Medical, the clinic. I think our audience might appreciate our mission statement, and it is to advance the kingdom of God and improve the lives of those we serve by providing an integrated medical and wellness center for the healing of mind, body, and soul through Christlike love.

Amen.

So that's our mission statement. And to your next second issue about the Faith in Medicine conference, so this idea came to me, oh, probably 10 years ago. And in the Atlanta area, there are quite a number of, you know, Christian health care practitioners, whether they're medical doctors or osteopathic doctors or chiropractors or, you know, massage therapists, naturopaths, nutritionists.

There's a wide, you know, variety of health care practitioners. And I thought that we needed to know each other. And I thought that if we knew each other and we can encourage each other, minister to each other, learn about the scriptures and how they apply to health care and grow and how we live out the truth of scripture and manifest Christ, that would be a noble goal.

And I thought that one way to do that would be to bring together these practitioners in a conference. So 10 years later, and that started in 2021, we had our first Faith in Medicine conference. And it was primarily, you know, aimed at health care practitioners and their staff.

We didn't want to leave out their, you know, clinic admin staff because they tend to get left out of, you know, doctors get to go to conferences, but the staff, you know, get left behind. So we did that the first year in 2021, and it was almost canceled because of COVID.

But in God's providence, a facility within a week's notice allowed us to, you know, shift venues. And so we had a place to meet. The conference went so well in 2021. We said, you know, the public's got to hear these truths and these speakers.

So in 2022, we expanded the conference to include the public, and it was quite a blessing. Even over the whole course of 2022, I kept getting very positive feedback. You know, not just a week later, but even months and months later.

And so it was very encouraging. And so we're coming up in two weeks in our third conference, February 3rd and 4th in Atlanta, Georgia. We'll have the 2023 Faith in Medicine Conference.

And I really hope that one day you get to meet my own personal physician who seems to be right on the same page as you in regard to philosophy of medicine. His name is Dr. Joel Yeager, and he and his wife run Heritage Family Health in Newmanstown, Pennsylvania.

Wonderful Christian brother. And he co-authored with Dr. Daniel O 'Rourke, a cardiologist in California, and Ernest Springer, a dedicated Christian man. They co-authored a book, very valuable book, called Coronavirus and the Leadership of the Christian Church, A Sacred Trust Broken.

They were very opposed to the shutting down of churches during the so-called pandemic. And they also are warning people about the dangers of the coronavirus vaccines and the fallacy of mask mandates and so on.

So I hope that you get to meet Dr. Yeager. In fact, even his co-author, Dr. Daniel O 'Rourke and Ernie Springer.

I'm looking forward to that. It's duly noted, and it's on my to-do list.

In fact, yesterday I interviewed a dentist who's also on the same page with you, Dr. Anthony Silvestro, who is not only a dentist, but he is a theologically reformed Christian apologist and a presuppositionalist.

So you've got to meet him, too. In fact, I'll send you a link later on of the audio of the interview we did.

And for our audience's sake, maybe they heard, but where is Dr. Silvestro located?

I believe Dr. Silvestro is in Ohio. I think that's where his practice is. I'm almost certain. And I'll find out all of that information for you. Well, if anybody wants to attend this Faith and Medicine Conference, and by the way, just to list the speakers, Chris Strevel, who happens to be the pastor of my dear friend John Otis and his wife Christine, Susie Griswold, Dr. Joel Robbins, Dr. Grant Scarborough, Dr. Lou Priolo, who I know from years ago when I worked part-time, in addition to my work with a major radio station in New York, I worked part-time for Calvary Press Publishing, and they brought a couple of Dr. Priolo's very first books into print, and Martha Peace, who I have had the privilege to interview on this program as well.

So that is the lineup, and if anybody would like to find out more about it, go to faithandmedicine .org, faithandmedicine .org. I'm going to give our listeners our email address if you have questions for Dr. Rhett Bergeron.

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Please only remain anonymous if your question involves a personal and private matter, and obviously when I'm interviewing a physician, I could very readily see that some of our listeners would have personal and private questions about their health and so on.

So we will definitely grant your request to remain anonymous, but if it's just a general question, please give us your first name, city and state, and country of residence. Well, now it's time to continue the tradition on Iron Sharpens Iron Radio.

Whenever we have a first-time guest on the program, we have that guest give a summary of their salvation testimony, which would include any kind of religious atmosphere in which they were raised, if any, and also what kind of providential circumstances our Sovereign Lord raised up in their lives that drew them to himself and saved them.

And let's hear your story.

Well, thank you. That was actually the very subject matter of a men's Bible study that I was a part of this morning, so this is very appropriate. I was raised as sort of a combination of a Catholic and Episcopalian, and I, in retrospect, in my sort of junior high, you know, teenage years, I could certainly see the Lord working to draw me to himself.

And one of the things providentially when I was a senior in high school, the group Young Life came to our public high school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and these college students were very faithful at sharing the gospel and many of the passages and truths in the Book of Romans, and they really captured my heart and mind.

And then God used that over the next two years of when I was in college to sort of burn that into me and give me a longing to hear more, began to convict me of my sinfulness. And then about right in the middle of college, I was back in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and I met two friends from high school who had been saved, and they were sharing the gospel.

And so we spent about three hours talking, and they were sharing, and they began to open up the scriptures to me, and it was the most wonderful conversation I had ever had in my life, probably. And so I went home and started reading the scriptures and, of course, pulled out a dictionary because many of these words were unfamiliar with me, to me, and so I did this for about four days.

And at the end of four days, I had, you might say, a new heart, a new mind, and I called these two friends and I said, where do you go to church? And they told me, and I said, I'll meet you there Sunday morning.

And from that three or four-day weekend, God had captured my heart and regenerated me and within about a year brought me to the Reformed faith and so that's probably a good synopsis of my conversion.

Well, you've got to tell us how you came to discover the Reformed faith and come to embrace it, and how quick of an experience was that? Because some people struggle for a long time, even years, perhaps even decades, before they finally surrender to God's sovereignty, even though they are regenerate Christians.

With me, it took a couple of months after I first became a born-again believer, but tell us your story about that.

Well, thank you. So this first church that I attended was a charismatic church, and there was a Sunday school class that was supposed to be for the ladies only because it was taught by an older woman, but she was such an excellent teacher, and she kept quoting the Puritans and Martin Lloyd-Jones and A .W. Pink and Spurgeon that just men started going to the class, and it was just full of truth and great power, and after months of going to that class and then leaving, you know, you'd leave to go from Sunday school to church, or to your main preaching and worship service, I just lost complete interest because it was sort of a charismatic environment and there just wasn't the content, and it was very emotionally based, and I just lost interest.

In fact, I thought I was backsliding because after I'd go to Sunday school, it was so just absolutely wonderful. That's all I needed and wanted to hear, and so a few months went on, and I struggled about that, and then in God's providence, I was on the campus of LSU University in Baton Rouge, and I saw another friend from high school who had become a Christian, and we started talking, and he invited me to a Bible study that was taught by a man who was becoming reformed, and this man, he's actually a pastor in Pensacola.

He may have been a—his name is Jeff Pollard. He pastors in Pensacola, Florida.

I know him very well. He is the president of Chapel Library, and I make use of those wonderful booklets very often.

So obviously being brought up in Louisiana and Baton Rouge, Pastor Jeff Pollard was quite well known. Before he was a Christian and before he was a pastor, he was a very prominent rock and roll music artist, and I was quite familiar with that, so when this friend of mine at LSU invited me to Jeff's Bible study, it was an easy go to go, you know, to go attend, and Jeff was quickly becoming reformed.

God had saved him just two years before that, took him out of rock and roll music, and he was going through A .W. Pink's book. I believe it was called Profiting from the Word, if I remember correctly, and I attended that Bible study for a number of months, and then I began to struggle because you can imagine this is a very simple concept, but as a young believer, you know, some of these things were new, but he would teach that the evidence of a spirit-filled believer was a holy life versus the charismatics.

They had a different, you know, definition of what it meant to be spirit-filled. So after, you know, continuing to ponder these things and search the scriptures, and it didn't take long for me to see that, you know, the reformed biblical teachings that he was presenting were completely true, and so God drew me away from the charismatic church, and that wasn't very difficult, and then so within a year I was hearing reformed teaching and preaching, and that was how I became reformed in my view of the Christian faith.

Amen, and a lot of folks who have that experience consider that being born again again.

Yes, I do remember thinking that.

Well, we do have already a couple of questions from listeners. We have Mike from Monroe, New York, who asks, Are you familiar with the work of Dr. Jack Cuozzo, and I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right, C-U-O-Z-O, who published the book Buried Alive, and have you read Bobby Kennedy's book on Dr. Fauci?

I have only heard of the book Buried Alive. I have not read it, and I am familiar with Bobby Kennedy's book on Dr. Fauci. I have wanted to read it, but have been quite busy with my medical practice and, you know, getting prepared for this Faith in Medicine conference that I have not quite gotten there, and the only other thing I'd say about that book, I have no doubt about the truth of it or the content.

I think being on the inside of medicine and being somewhat familiar with politics, because back in Louisiana, I was very involved with the Republican Party for years, and I'd run for state senate and state representative, and so my eyes were opened many, many decades ago to the reality of the state of politics in America.

So I'm not sure how much time I can spend reading the book. We only have so much time, and I'm quite convinced of how evil this man is and how he has not served this country or people in any faithful way, but anyway, I'm familiar with that book.

Well, thank you, Mike, and continue to spread the word about Iron Trump and Zion Radio in New York State and beyond. We have Cindy in Findlay, Ohio, who says she is responding to our conversation about Dr. Anthony Silvestro, the dentist.

I was right. His practice is in Cleveland, Ohio, and his church is in Medina, Ohio. So thank you very much for clarifying that, Cindy, and keep spreading the word about Iron Trump and Zion Radio in Findlay, Ohio, and beyond.

We're going to go to our first commercial break right now. If you have a question, once again, for Dr. Rhett Bergeron, send it to ChrisArnzen at gmail .com, C-H-R-I-S-A-R-N-Z-E-N. Give us your first name at least, your city and state of residence, and your country of residence.

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Give us your first name, city and state, and country of residence. Only remain anonymous if your question involves a personal or private matter. Dr. Bergeron, one of the things I wanted to ask you about before I go to any more listener questions is the fact that, as I said in introducing you to the audience, you are an addiction treatment specialist.

And I'm fascinated to hear what your ideology and protocol is in that regard because I am a former drunk. I was a drunk when I was a teenager, drinking at the age of 15 like I was a 60-year-old sailor.

And I came to Christ, was sober for 18 years, and tragically fell off the wagon when my wife became seriously ill and eventually went home to be with the Lord, spiraled me in such a deep depression that I began to drink again more heavily than I ever had before I was saved.

And thanks be to God, I admitted myself into Hebron Colony, which is a Christian addiction recovery ministry in Boone, North Carolina. And I left that place having zero desire to touch alcohol again. And by the way, I'm not saying this to lay a guilt trip on anybody who socially drinks as a Christian moderately and responsibly.

I believe that is a liberty for Christians as long as they don't sin in becoming drunk. Drunkenness is a sin. It's even a damnable sin, so the situation should not be taken lightly when you are drinking socially and moderately.

But the whole concept of addiction treatment is obviously near and dear to my heart, so I want to hear exactly your ideology and protocol, as I mentioned.

Well, let me clarify something. I don't consider myself an addiction specialist, but we do offer what I believe is a very effective detox program to initially have someone withdraw from whatever medications or recreational substances they're using.

And it's very safe. It's very effective. It reduces the overall withdrawal symptoms by about 50 of the intensity or the severity of that. And then by the end of that, you know, basically 10-day process, a person's cravings are completely removed and they feel good.

Their mind is clear. Their mood is so much improved. Their energy is improved. And so now they're at the right place, you know, to start receiving, you know, counseling or coaching. And so the primary basis of this treatment is a therapy called NAD.

And it is part of our biochemical metabolism. It's a regulatory molecule in our biochemistry. It is made internally in our bodies from vitamin B3 or niacin. And it is just, we describe it as it resets your cell receptors for neurotransmitters.

And it happens to improve all of your biochemistry, not only in your brain, but your entire body. And so it really helps to improve every aspect of your, you know, internal physiology. And so I first heard of this about 10 years ago.

I had heard of that particular vitamin or nutrient in years past, but I had not had time to look at it closely. And then someone approached me and there was an addiction clinic in Atlanta, Georgia that had been around for a number of years, was very successful.

It wasn't successful in its marketing efforts, but in the 200 or 300 patients that it had treated, they had a 95 long-term success record. And NAD was the primary part of that program. It's administered intravenously.

It takes anywhere from four to eight hours to do so. And there's other things that we've included in our protocol, but it's very effective. And it's also, we're not unique in offering this program. There are more and more clinics and psychiatric health institutions offering this around the country.

It is not typically covered by insurance, but that's my experience with it. And it's very effective.

And this is specifically for those addicted to alcohol or is this also in regards to other drugs?

It's any drug.

Wow.

In fact, often a new patient or client will walk in on a Monday morning, and that morning is the last time they take whatever substance they're using. And then, of course, the next three to four days can be a little bit challenging as you're going through withdrawal.

But again, this IV program, mainly NAD, but we also add vitamin C, magnesium, B vitamins, calcium, glutathione, phosphatidylcholine, a number of things such as that. And that reduces your withdrawal symptoms by 50%.