Disclosure, right at the top where it belongs: Neutronics Labs is a paid partner of The Mel K Show. Part of this episode was a sponsored segment, and we are compensated on orders placed through NeutronicsLabs.com/MelKIGF or with the code MELKIGF. Ron Oliver, one of my two guests, works with the company — when he describes the products, he is describing his own company's products.
Second disclosure: dietary supplements are not evaluated by the FDA and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Nothing in this post is medical advice, and none of it replaces a conversation with your own physician.
Executive Summary
This week on The Mel K Show I sat down with Dr. Bruce Fong and Ron Oliver, and what I expected to be a wellness conversation turned into something closer to a conversation about the American character. Both men kept circling the same idea from different directions — that our national instinct for the quick fix is now doing measurable damage to our bodies, and that a great deal of what is sold to us as a shortcut is a synthetic imitation of something the body already knows how to make. Dr. Fong walked through the mechanism on synthetic testosterone, and there is nothing mysterious about it: the pituitary gland reads a compound that resembles your own testosterone, concludes you are well supplied, and dials your own production down. Use it or lose it. Ron described a client who arrived at 44 with the consequences fully visible, and his line about the whole category has stayed with me — you can lose weight doing heroin and cocaine too, and that does not make it a good idea. We talked about professional athletes now advertising weight-loss injections on television, people who are by definition already athletes, and about what Dr. Fong sees in the bodies of some people using these compounds, which he compared uncomfortably to something he watched during critical care training. We talked about the unlicensed people putting on white coats on social media and issuing health direction to millions. We talked about Dr. Zelenko, hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, and a media campaign that told Americans not to use anything God put on the planet. And we talked about the harder underlying question — whether the soil is still delivering what it delivered to our great-grandparents. That is the gap the sponsored portion of the show addresses, and I have labeled every claim in it as a claim.
Scroll to the bottom for Key Takeaways.
The Isolate Problem — the Mechanism, Not the Opinion
The most valuable thing Dr. Fong gave us was not a position. It was a mechanism, and once you understand it you can evaluate a dozen different products without anyone's help.
Your body is a system, and it is designed to take a system. It is not designed to take an isolate.
Steroids are biochemically very similar to hormones you already produce. So when you put them on board, the feedback loop in the brain does exactly what it was built to do. There is a pea-sized master gland behind the bridge of your nose — the pituitary — and it controls all the other security guards. It reads the incoming compound, notes that it looks a great deal like your own testosterone, concludes you have plenty, and backs off.
And the old expression applies. If you don't use it, you lose it. That, Dr. Fong explained, is where the terminology of atrophy and shrinkage comes from. It is not an insult — it is a description of a feedback loop doing its job.
He extended it with the law of action and reaction. Put too much of one thing into an endocrine system and the system compensates. It will downregulate the benefit you wanted and upregulate something you never asked for. Ron's version is a locksmith's: you are trying to turn a key that was cut almost right. Sometimes it turns. Sometimes it jams. It is not the key that was made for that door.
The Bill, Itemized
Ron told us about a client who showed up at 44 years old. Steroids, of course — because that is what you do, right? You take steroids and you get big strong muscles, and it is safe and effective, which is presumably why the protocol requires monthly bloodwork, and why doctors recommend periodic blood removal to thin things out.
He said all of that dead-pan, and the sarcasm is doing real work. A regimen that requires monthly monitoring and scheduled blood removal is telling you something about itself.
Then the story stops being funny. The man's testicles had shrunk to the size of raisins. His wife was sitting right there and said, you don't understand — I can't find my husband's. They're gone. Everybody laughed, and then the room went quiet, because every man watching did the arithmetic.
Dr. Fong's itemization of what synthetic testosterone is doing while you are admiring the muscles: toxic to the liver, toxic to the kidneys, hard on the heart. And it causes the heart to grow. You wanted bigger muscles. You do not get to choose which tissue responds.
Weight Is a Number. Health Is a State.
"You can lose weight doing heroin and cocaine too. It doesn't mean it's a good idea."
That is Ron's line and it is the most useful sentence in the episode. The entire premise beneath the weight-loss injection boom is that a number going down equals health going up. Eleven words dismantle it.
His alternative framing is the one I want people to keep. If the goal were to burn as much fuel as possible, you would want a bigger engine — a V8, a V10, a V12. Muscle is the engine. So the objective is not primarily to lose fat. It is to build the thing that burns the fat.
Which is why people who have lost a great deal of weight sometimes look wrong — flabby, skin hanging, what people have started calling skinny fat. They did not build the engine. They lost it.
Dr. Fong took that somewhere I did not expect, and I want to be precise that this is his clinical impression from his own training rather than a study. During his internal medicine residency he did a great deal of critical care, and he saw patients who were swollen and bloated. Some lost that fluid gradually and recovered. Some lost it massively and fast, and that was the sign they were going the other direction. When the swelling left, the loss of muscle tone underneath became visible, and he described it as frankly scary to look at. He sees an echo of that in what is happening to some people on these compounds now. He described a resemblance he noticed. He did not say they are the same thing, and I am not going to sharpen it for him.
Who Is Actually Selling It to You
Here is the part I brought to the table, because it genuinely confuses me.
Turn on a game and you will see professional athletes advertising weight-loss drugs. Basketball players. Tennis players. People whose entire public identity is a body that works. A man who played professionally for thirty years now explains that he took the injection, and look at him now. Look at him now compared to what? The endorsement does not even make internal sense. It only parses if you read it as money.
Meanwhile the platforms are full of women who were slim to begin with — models, in many cases — promoting the same compounds to women who are not models and will not get that result.
Dr. Fong's addition was the sharpest thing said all hour: people are now taking health direction from social media over an actual clinician, and somebody just gets on there and puts on a white coat. They are not a physician. He says he has come across several of these. Then out comes the product.
The American mentality — and Ron says it is the Canadian one too — is the quick fix. I want it, and I want it now. That instinct is exactly the surface these people are selling into. It is not a personal failing. It is a targeted one. Ron's summary is worth memorizing: nothing dead is going to support something that is alive. People are injecting synthetic short-chain amino acids because a celebrity or a man in a costume said it was a good idea — and peptides are short-chain amino acids you get from food, which is where they came from in the first place.
What Was Actually Suppressed
Dr. Fong said something on my show that a lot of physicians still will not say out loud. He prescribed hydroxychloroquine, and later ivermectin, during COVID. He is still on Dr. Zelenko's protocol himself — vitamin C, vitamin D, and quercetin. I am reporting his statement about his own practice. It is not a recommendation from me and please do not take it as one.
But the pattern is why it belongs here, and the pattern is what I have spent years documenting. I was close with Vladimir Zelenko before we lost him. From the very beginning he was saying the simplest things available to a human being — vitamin D, get outside, zinc, quercetin. And the response was, in effect: no, no, no, don't use anything God put on the planet. Get it out of a manufacturing plant instead. Preferably one in China.
This is what I mean by hidden history. Natural medicine did not fade away because it stopped working. It was sidelined, deliberately, in favor of a model that could be patented — and the institutional names that ran that campaign are the same ones we trace in every other episode of this show. We have been kept uneducated, and purposefully uneducated, not only about our own bodies but about God and nature and what is already growing on this earth.
Homeostasis, Soil, and the Honest Version of the Supplement Argument
Here is the argument the sponsored portion rests on, and I want to hand it to you straight so you can judge it yourself.
Ron's position is that the soil is far less nutrient-rich than it was fifty, a hundred, five hundred years ago. Poorer soil means poorer grass. Poorer grass means less nutrient-dense meat and milk. The vegetables and the fruit follow. So even the cleanest whole-food diet money can buy does not deliver what it delivered for our great-grandparents. That soil-depletion claim is the load-bearing one under every supplement pitch in America, and it is the one I would encourage you to go read about independently rather than take from any of us — including me.
Dr. Fong's frame is homeostasis. Look up the definition of disease and you find a body out of balance producing a symptom. So the objective is balance: clean water, whole foods rich in antioxidants, movement, and sleep. He says glutathione is the master antioxidant and that most people are deficient because of poor diet.
Anyone selling you the bottle before the basics is selling you a shortcut, and this entire episode was about what shortcuts cost.
The Sponsored Segment, Labeled Honestly
Now the partnership. Every figure below is a company claim delivered by a man who works for the company, and none of it was presented on air alongside an independent published trial.
Neutronics Labs states it has been in business twenty-five years and has sold well over ten million bottles. Ron says everything is third-party tested, with no fillers, no synthetics, no chemicals, no drugs, and no heavy metals. He cites a 98.6 percent absorption figure via a liposome delivery system, and describes the flagship IGF-1 Plus line as carrying four hundred bioavailable active ingredients. The line also includes Man's Edge, a sleep spray taken as six sprays under the tongue about fifteen to thirty minutes before bed, a prostate formula, a joint formula, a stress formula, and a pet formula. The routine is roughly thirty to sixty seconds, three times a day, sublingually. There is a thirty-day money-back guarantee.
The founder is Rick Lantini, described by his colleague as a military veteran who came to this after watching deer antler extracts help save his cousin's life, and as a man who will not put out a product he does not believe in. I cannot verify a stranger's biography for you; I am telling you what was said about him on my show.
Rob and I took the protocol every day for a month before I would say anything publicly about it. What changed for me is not dramatic: I wake up with energy I did not have, and the sleep spray ended the three-in-the-morning wake-ups I have had for years, with no grogginess afterward. That is one person's experience over one month. It is not a trial, and I was a genuine skeptic at the start — in the beginning I thought Ron was just a very enthusiastic guy.
For completeness: NeutronicsLabs.com/MelKIGF, or the partners page at themelkshow.com. The code MELKIGF gets an extra ten percent off a first order, AutoShip saves up to fifty percent, and a free 300,000 IGF-1 Plus with Long Jack is included on the Man's Edge AutoShip.
Key Takeaways
- Neutronics Labs is a paid partner of The Mel K Show, Ron Oliver works with the company, and we are compensated on orders through our link. Supplements are not FDA-evaluated and nothing here is medical advice.
- Dr. Fong's mechanism: the pituitary reads synthetic testosterone as your own, downregulates natural production, and atrophy follows. Use it or lose it.
- Per Dr. Fong, synthetic testosterone is hard on the liver, the kidneys, and the heart — and causes the heart to grow.
- Ron Oliver's reframe: you can lose weight doing heroin too. Muscle is the engine that burns fat, and losing the engine is not health.
- Dr. Fong compared rapid visible loss of muscle tone to something he observed in critical care — his clinical impression, not a study.
- Professional athletes advertising weight-loss injections is an endorsement that does not make internal sense, and unlicensed people in white coats now direct more health decisions than physicians do.
- Dr. Fong stated he prescribed hydroxychloroquine and later ivermectin during COVID and still takes Dr. Zelenko's vitamin C, D, and quercetin protocol.
- Soil depletion is the load-bearing claim under every supplement pitch in America — research it independently rather than taking it on anyone's word, ours included.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this post an advertisement?
Part of it is, and I would rather say so at the top than bury it at the bottom. Neutronics Labs is a paid partner, we earn on orders through our link, and Ron Oliver works with the company. The material on steroids, weight-loss drugs, and social media health advice is editorial. The product segment is sponsored. Now you can weigh each part on its own terms.
Are you saying testosterone therapy is always bad?
No, and neither did Dr. Fong. He described a mechanism that applies whether a compound is called therapy or not: an outside supply of something resembling your own hormone tells the pituitary to stand down. That is a genuine trade-off to discuss with a physician who knows your bloodwork and your history. Nobody on a podcast can make that call for you, including us.
Do these supplements actually do what Ron says they do?
I have told you exactly two things: what he claims, labeled as his company's claims, and what happened to me over one month, labeled as one person's experience. I have not seen an independent published trial and I will not imply that one exists. There is a thirty-day money-back guarantee, which is the only reason I am comfortable saying try it and judge for yourself.
Why believe natural approaches were suppressed rather than simply outcompeted?
Because we watched it happen in real time. Dr. Zelenko was saying vitamin D, sunlight, zinc, and quercetin at the very beginning, and the coordinated response was to attack the idea that anything growing on the earth could help — while a pharmaceutical answer was fast-tracked. You do not need a theory for that. You need a memory.
What should someone actually do first?
The unglamorous things, and Dr. Fong said so himself: clean water, whole foods rich in antioxidants, movement, and sleep. Homeostasis first. Everything else — ours included — is supplementary by definition. Build the engine before you chase the number.
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