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(0:00) Introduction, welcome, and self-improvement (0:39) Dr. Alessi on bloating as a health signal (1:40) Sponsor: Free webinar on Total Gut Reset (1:55) Matt Tack's personal health journey (3:30) Importance of blood work and initial findings (4:57) Detox process and initial challenges (7:09) Hormone replacement therapy and its impact (12:30) Call to action: Understanding and optimizing your health (14:59) Sponsor: Special offer for podcast listeners (16:13) Closing remarks and contact information00:00:00
Want you to really think about why your story matters, why just getting a little bit better
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every day, why casting a vote to who you wanna become makes you that.
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Makes it just that one decision can make that, and then those compound over time.
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And it's such a unique thing when you can cast that vote.
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You're like, man, I got a little bit better today.
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And you cast it the next day.
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I got a little bit better today.
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And, usually, that comes with more knowledge.
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Welcome to Health Decoded, your number one source for real health information with your
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host, doctor Alessi and Matt Tack.
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Health Decoded listeners, if you're dealing with bloating that just won't go away no matter
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what you eat, no matter what you try, I need you to hear this.
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The bloating isn't the problem.
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It's a signal.
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Every external symptom you're experiencing, the discomfort, the fatigue, the frustration has a
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root cause.
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And in my years of clinical practice, it almost always leads back to the gut.
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Nothing else in your body can fully heal until that foundation is restored.
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I built this framework from my own health journey.
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I was that patient, frustrated, dismissed, searching for answers.
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I took everything I learned, refined it through years of clinical testing, and have since
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helped hundreds of patients achieve complete relief from their symptoms.
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That became the Total Gut Reset, a step by step protocol with one goal, reset your gut in six
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months or less.
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If you're ready to learn exactly what's causing your symptoms and eliminate them for good, I'm
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hosting a free webinar where I walk you through the entire framework.
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The link is in the show notes.
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Go ahead and register, and I'll see you there.
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Welcome to another episode of Health Decoded with your host, Matt Tack.
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Hey.
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I'm excited to be here with you today.
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And just, this one's gonna be a little bit different.
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This one's gonna be a monologue with me just sharing my story.
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And I think, I wanna title this episode as why your story matters.
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So for me, back a few years ago, I was dealing with intense brain fog.
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I literally didn't know what I was doing past 3PM.
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I would sit at my keyboard in front of my computer as an entrepreneur and really just
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like be baffled.
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I was like, I cannot even think anymore.
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I gotta lay my head down.
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I was just so tired all the time.
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And I just didn't even know what to do half the time.
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I was in really excellent shape too.
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I I worked out every morning and I got to the gym.
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I did CrossFit.
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I did all the things that I thought made me healthy.
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And little did I know, I was not actually doing the right things and the small things that
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happened.
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So I had a previous episode on habits and building habits, but I read this book by, James
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Clear.
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And James Clear has a really cool quote in it that said, every action is a vote for who you
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want to become.
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And so I I took that to heart and I really had to figure out, I'm like, well, is this what I
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want to become?
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Do I want to think, feel this way all the time, especially at three p.
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M?
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I think I'm like a well organized entrepreneur.
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And really, I just I like I wasn't efficient.
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I wasn't getting things done properly.
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And so little did I know I had a friend in Doctor.
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Alfred Alessi that I reached out to.
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I actually ran into him at a at a coworking space of all spaces, and we connected and we
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talked.
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And I said, Look, man, I'm having all these problems.
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Could you help me?
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And so I became a functional medicine patient at now what we call affectionately call Ascend
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Functional Health.
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And so what did that look like?
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Well, he took me through my blood work.
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My blood work was the first thing that we got done.
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And what came back really shocked me.
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I had inflammation really all over my body.
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I'm not going get into the true sciences.
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I'll let Doctor.
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Alessi handle all that.
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But I had inflammation in my body and did not realize what was going on.
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And it was impacting me.
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It was impacting just the way my cognitive focus every single day.
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And so I really had to figure out like what were the next steps.
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And so he really guided me through that.
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So when the blood work came back, he sat down with me and we really invested.
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And this is the really cool thing that I did was I really wanted to understand my blood
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work.
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And so that's what's really cool about doctor Alessi.
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He's always education first.
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And so we sat down and we walked through and I had a bunch of questions for him.
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I'm like, look, what about this?
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What about that?
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What about this?
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What about that?
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And so, hey, he's like, we're we're gonna keep it simple, stupid.
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We're gonna go through a detox first.
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Like, that's what you need.
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Your body just needs to detox.
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You need to thank your body with a detox.
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And so I was like, hey, man.
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I'm all on board.
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Let's figure this thing out.
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So I got through the detox.
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I did about three months worth of detox.
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I said, hey, man.
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What's the next step?
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What's the next step in this probably what's the what's the next step in this progress that
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that can make me feel even better?
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And so I slowly I I will tell you, backtrack a little bit.
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Over the first month, did not see like, I feel like I almost felt worse to an extent.
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And so I'm like, what?
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What's going on here?
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And it was just new habits I was forming.
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Right?
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And I had to really come back and and is this right for me?
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Right?
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My mind wanted to work against me.
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Is this the am I doing the right thing?
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And then the second month, I stayed consistent with it, and I asked more questions.
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And then it was it wasn't until really the third month that I see real change.
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My body felt a little bit better.
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I felt like it was going in the right direction.
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And so I said, what's the next step?
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And so the next step was, well, we looked at the hormones then.
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And what I learned throughout the process of this all was I had to make the first right
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decision.
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The first right decision for me was just getting my blood work done and getting educated
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on this.
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And so that was the first thing that I need to do to make the vote, cast the vote in terms of
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the direction of who I wanted to become.
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That was just getting my blood work done.
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The next step was asking better questions.
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So I started asking questions.
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Well, what does this mean?
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You know, what are what are my cardiovascular, infla inflammatory factors?
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What is what is my thyroid?
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What does it do?
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What what supplements might I need?
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Which was a little bit later on, but, like, what supplements might I need to counteract
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this level of inflammation?
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And so, again, that was just the next step.
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The next step was a detox.
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He guided me through that.
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Hey.
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I need to get you into a detox.
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So, hey.
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We're gonna take some stuff away.
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We're gonna add some stuff back in, and we're gonna reinoculate this thing.
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So I had a small amount of gut issues, not major gut issues.
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The main thing was my thyroid in my case.
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And so throughout the course of time, it was month three, it took me a full three months to
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get through my detox.
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Some things, you know, I will say we see people all the time at the clinic, but sometimes they
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can be as minimal as one month to six months.
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So for me, it was roughly around three, just getting that those inflammatory factors outside
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of my body.
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And then the next step was I met with our PA, which is our physician's assistant.
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And the physician's assistant, Doctor.
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Alessi, guided me towards doing hormone replacement therapy, which is something that we
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offer at the clinic as well.
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And that was because after my detox, after getting the inflammation, my body was now ready
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to receive.
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And I did not realize that there were steps in the process that I needed to take.
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And I couldn't go directly towards, like, a hormone replacement therapy because my body
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wasn't ready to receive it.
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And so there's a lot of preparatory things that need to happen, the detox in this case, that
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needed to happen to optimize my body in order to allow it to receive other things.
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And I had it in my head.
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I was like, oh, I don't you know, that that scares me.
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That's a scary thing.
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TRT or hormone replacement therapy is is not something I wanted to get involved with.
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But the reality is, and this is why I stand to you today why your story matters, it absolutely
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changed my life.
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So after going through the detox, I got rid of all the inflammatory factors that were in my
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body.
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Once I removed that inflammation, I got onto TRT and started doing testosterone replacement
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therapy.
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And I'm not telling you within two weeks, my mindset completely changed, my energies
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changed, Everything that I did on a daily basis changed so completely, so drastically, which
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now two years into this road map, I really have been able to optimize everything I do.
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Like, from my workouts, they're very rigid, but I do functional training along with resistance
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training and just I'm not gonna go into that level of detail.
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What I really wanna hone in is why the why my story matters.
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Because my story matters because now I could show up for my wife.
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I show can up for my kids much better than I could two years ago.
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I was such in an awful place.
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I never wanna be in that place ever again, and I I often go back to that place just for a
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moment just to see, wow.
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Like, I do not wanna go back there, man.
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I was in so much pain.
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I was in just so much so much intense brain fog.
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I was in a state of depression too that I do not wanna go back there.
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And today, I just live with this, like, this new confidence.
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Right?
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This new flower that's ready to bloom.
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I look for things, new things every day to learn and grow.
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And so that is truly why my story matters.
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My story matters because of the fact that I chose to cast that vote, that initial vote,
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that initial vote to just get my blood work done.
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I know something's going on.
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I know I can be a little bit better.
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And then the next thing, yes, I I'm in it.
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I'm fully I'm fully in this.
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Tell me what I need to do next.
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Okay.
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I'll do the detox.
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I'm fully, fully in it.
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So I do the detox, and then I get done with the detox and, hey, I want to cast another vote.
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I want to cast another vote to become something better.
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And then it's TRT.
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TRT.
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Then I want to cast another vote.
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And so I look at in the most granular way my blood work now because I get it done almost
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three times a year.
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And when I look at it now, it's all in my microsupplementation.
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What do I need to add in?
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And I I add in CoQ10 and I add in Omega threes and magnesium and zinc and all these other
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things that I add in to really optimize my sleep because sleep is so imperative.
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We've done a number of podcasts on sleep and how that is, but really, truly, what I wanna
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hone in here.
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Right?
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I'm not gonna beat this with a dead horse, but I want you to really think about why your story
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matters.
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Why just getting a little bit better every day?
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Why casting a vote to who you wanna become makes you that.
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Makes it just that one decision can make that, and then those compound over time.
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And it's such a unique thing when you can cast that vote.
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You're like, man, I got a little bit better today.
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And you cast it the next day.
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I got a little bit better today.
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And, usually, that comes with more knowledge.
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And that's really what Ascend is all about is giving you more knowledge.
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Your health is in your hands, and so you get to cast the vote, and then you get to receive
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that.
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You get to receive what comes out of that, and then you get to do.
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So on the outside of that is to do really the implementation piece.
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Really commit to it.
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If you know what's going to work out best for you, then you commit to it.
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And so for me, that's what it was.
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It just it was it was getting my blood work done.
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Like, I'd got to see what's going on.
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And then the next thing was getting into the detox.
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I really committed to the detox.
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I did the detox.
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And then the next thing was, what else do I need to do?
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And then testosterone replacement therapy.
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I'm telling you, it changed my it changed my life.
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And I recommend it for anyone that's either close to 40, post childbearing years, and may
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either male or female look into it.
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It's an amazing thing.
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But it allowed me to open up my mind to just be better for my wife, my children.
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It allows me better to my like, show up as a friend.
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And so that's ultimately why I personally invested in Ascend Functional Health because I
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believe in it so much.
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I believe in this mission.
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I believe in the story.
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I believe that it changed my life.
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It absolutely changed my life.
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And I could I am it.
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I'm not really a poster boy.
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I'm not out there all the time just shouting it from the rooftops, but I want to record a
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session that this could be you.
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Right?
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The we we do things all the time, and we see lives changed all the time at Asun Functional
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Health.
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And I'm not even saying come to us, but you can do it anywhere.
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And some people, you know, want to get their insurance covered, and that's less than
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optimal.
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I will say you usually insurance, they they show you a fraction of what you actually need
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to know.
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So we at Ascend Functional Health, we go that step above.
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You know, I'm reading 120 different biomarkers that I actually need to know about in order to
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optimize myself efficiently and ultimately giving you the feedback and the education of
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what the next steps are and how you can change your life.
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And so I would just recommend, really, I hope that I hope that quote sits with you as well.
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Every action is a vote for who you want to become.
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And that action, as small as it may be, it might be just, you know, that morning, it might
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be drinking more water.
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You know, that's one thing that I, you know, I love staying hydrated every day.
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But it also might be I need to become a little bit more educated about my body.
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I might need to get a little bit more blood work.
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I might need to do the detox.
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I might need to get on testosterone replacement therapy.
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I might need to really understand the microsupplementation that supports my body in
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order to lower the degrees of inflammation that might be going on.
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Right.
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And so I want you just to sit with that.
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Really sit with that quote of every action is a vote for who you want to become, and your story
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matters.
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It definitely does.
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And so with that being said, I always wanna leave our tagline.
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Your health is absolutely in your hands.
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Education comes first about your body.
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And so make sure you make sure you do something today.
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Today, make that action of what that actually looks like.
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This is what I have for you.
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So as always, with our podcast, if you're listening in, we are actually doing something
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Regardless of ever if you come to us or wherever you go, I just want to leave you with
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every action is a vote for who you want to become.
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I hope you have a great day, and let's go take charge of this day and make it your best.
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Alright?
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Have a great one, and we'll see you on the next one.
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