127. Dr. Mink Chawla: Blood Filter Seraph-100 Shows Promise To End Long COVID

The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka

Gary Brecka

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 31 December 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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In this episode, Chief Medical Officer at Exthera Medical and President of Stavro Medical Division, Dr. Mink Chawla, reveals the DARPA-backed breakthrough that's revolutionizing medicine: the Seraph-100 filter. This ingenious device packs the surface area of a football field into something the size of your thumb, creating the ultimate biological "honey trap" for everything from viruses to cancer cells. Is this the future of medicine we've been waiting for? For those interested in learning more about the Long Covid clinical trial, they should contact [email protected]. The Seraph-100 filter is made by Exthera Medical and the co-inventors of the filter are Robert Ward PhD and Keith McCrea PhD. References: Use of the Seraph® 100 Microbind® Affinity Blood Filter in an adolescent patient with disseminated adenoviral disease A Multicenter Evaluation of the Seraph 100 Microbind Affinity Blood Filter for the Treatment of Severe COVID-19 Interim analysis of the COSA (COVID-19 patients treated with the Seraph® 100 Microbind® Affinity filter) registry Seraph-100 hemoperfusion for management of severe COVID-19: Assessment of serum and plasma analytes pre- and post-filtration Hydrogen acts as a therapeutic antioxidant by selectively reducing cytotoxic oxygen radicals Interactions between heparin and SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein RBD from omicron and other variants. Determining the efficacy of ExThera Seraph100 blood filtration in patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer through the liquid biopsy First-In-Human Rapid Removal of Circulating Tumor Cells in Solid Metastatic Neoplasia by Microbind Affinity Blood Filter Connect with Dr. Mink Chawla: Website LinkedIn Facebook 00:00 Intro of Show 02:33 Dr. Mink Chawla’s Background 04:59 Creation of DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration) 10:46 How Seraph 100 Filter and DARPA Technology Have Evolved 18:53 COVID, Removing Virus, and Inflammatory Mediators 19:56 Inflammation as Part of Our Defense System against Infection 24:08 Aging as an Immune-Overload 30:10 17-Year Old Who Had Kidney Transplant and Adenovirus Viremia 34:05 DNA is Retroviral 37:28 Long COVID and Biomarkers 44:09 How Does mRNA Vaccine Work? 51:07 FDA and Its International Harmonization Guidelines 52:42 T-Cell Exhaustion 57:13 Suffering from Long COVID 1:01:37 90% of Cancer Deaths Are From Metastasis 1:05:55 Implications for Longevity and Anti-Aging 1:09:21 Are Studies and Publications on Hydrogen Legit? 1:17:20 Power of Psychedelics 1:19:36 Extending Health Span and Clinical Trials 1:20:34 What Excites and Motivates Dr. Mink Chawla? 1:27:21 Final Question: What does it mean to you to be an “Ultimate Human?” ECHO GO PLUS HYDROGEN WATER BOTTLE BODY HEALTH - USE CODE “ULTIMATE20” FOR 20% OFF YOUR ORDER BAJA GOLD - 91 ESSENTIAL MINERALS PER PINCH! 10% OFF USE CODE "ULTIMATE10" EIGHT SLEEP - SAVE $350 ON THE POD 4 ULTRA WITH CODE “GARY” ELEVATE YOUR WORKOUTS WITH THE ULTIMATE HUMAN STRENGTH TRAINING EQUIPMENT COLD LIFE - BOOST RECOVERY & WELL-BEING WITH THE ULTIMATE HUMAN PLUNGE WHOOP - GET 1 FREE MONTH WHEN YOU JOIN! MASA CHIPS - GET 20% OFF YOUR FIRST $50+ ORDER PARKER PASTURES - GET PREMIUM GRASS-FED MEATS TODAY Connect with Gary Brecka: Website Instagram YouTube TikTok Facebook X.com LinkedIn The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka Podcast is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute the practice of medicine, nursing or other professional health care services, including the giving of medical advice, and no doctor/patient relationship is formed. The use of information on this podcast or materials linked from this podcast is at the user’s own risk. The Content of this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Users should not disregard or delay in obtaining medical advice for any medical condition they may have and should seek the assistance of their health care professionals for any such conditions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We have certain biologic systems that have enormous redundancy and inflammation is one of them.
0:05.1	Everyone thinks, well, this is such a bad problem, but if you cannot inflame, you die from infection.
0:10.6	Roughly 40% of our DNA is viral and that lots of pathogens that we catch, they're ones we always had.
0:16.6	And when our immune system gets run down, they just rear their ugly head.
0:19.5	Your immune system is getting beaten up and over time it just degrades.
0:24.6	And things like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, all these things which take out our loved ones, begin to emerge.
0:30.6	Prior to the age of antibiotics, cancer was rare.
0:33.6	So cancer is a disease of success.
0:36.6	Sometimes a difficult concept for people to really realize that all cancer, regardless of
0:41.3	its former origin, was a healthy cell at one time.
0:44.3	If you are a cancer survivor, they don't ever say this, but every morning they wake up
0:49.3	and they ask themselves, is today the day my cancer comes back.
0:52.3	If we could filter out and just give the immune system a break.
0:56.0	I was asked to join this DARPA program in 2013.
1:00.0	DARPA's singular and enduring mission is to prevent strategic surprise.
1:05.0	We want to develop a filter that runs like a dialysis system.
1:09.0	We want this device to remove current virus, current
1:12.2	fungi, and the future unknown pathogen.
1:15.9	As a physician, scientist, researcher, where do you see this technology five years from today?
1:22.0	What I think is the next most important value proposition scientifically is...
1:28.3	...Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast.
1:41.9	I'm your host, human biologist Gary Brecker, where we go down the road of everything anti-aging, biohacking, longevity, and everything in between.
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