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Behind The Shield

Joshua Strom (Chaplaincy, Mental Health and Hurricane Helene) - Episode 999

Behind The Shield

James Geering

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Fitness

4.9667 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

Joshua A. Strom is a seasoned emergency responder and Director of First Responder Lifeline, a faith-based nonprofit dedicated to supporting First Responders in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. With an extensive background in firefighting, search-and-rescue, and wilderness medicine, Joshua co-founded First Responder Lifeline with his wife, Jessica H. Strom. Together, they address the mental, physical, and spiritual needs of the first responder community. Married for nearly 15 years, they have three children, deepening their commitment to family and service.

We discuss a host of topics from his own mental health journey to responding as a chaplain to the communities devastated by Hurricane Helene.

https://www.firstresponderlifeline.com/

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0:00.0

This episode is sponsored by Transcend, a veteran-owned and operated performance optimization company

0:05.9

that I introduced recently as a sponsor on this show.

0:09.5

Well, since then, I have actually been using my products, and I have had incredible success.

0:14.4

There was initial blood work that was extremely detailed, and based on that, they offered supplementation.

0:20.6

So I began taking DHEA, BPC 157 for inflammation

0:25.3

based on the fact that I've been a stuntman, a martial artist and a firefighter in my whole life,

0:29.9

lots of aches and pains, dihexa to help cognition after multiple punches to the head and shift work

0:36.1

and peptides. Four months later they they did a detail blood work again,

0:40.1

and I was actually able to taper off two of the peptides

0:43.2

because my body had responded so well to just one of them

0:46.3

that it was optimized at that point.

0:48.5

So I cannot speak highly enough of the immense range of supplementation

0:53.4

that they offer, whether it's male health,

0:55.6

female health, peptides to boost your own testosterone, which I would argue is needed by a lot of

1:00.7

the fire service, or whether it's exogenous testosterone needed, especially after TBI's or advanced

1:06.5

age. Now, as I mentioned before, the other side of this company is an altruistic arm called

1:11.9

the Transcend Foundation, which is putting veterans and first responders through some of their

1:17.2

protocols free of charge.

1:19.9

Now, Transcend are also offering you the audience 10% off their protocols, and you can find

1:25.2

that on Jamesgearing.com under the products tab.

1:28.8

And if you want to hear more about Transcend and their story, listen to episode 808 with

1:34.5

the founder, Ernie Colling.

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