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(0:00) Introduction to Health Decoded and chronic illness discussion (3:14) Host introductions, goals, and mission of the podcast and Alessi Functional Health (6:07) Patient success stories and challenges in modern healthcare (10:35) The importance of gut health in overall wellness (14:19) Next episode preview: The root cause revolution00:00:00
The evidence shows that 60% of people have some kind of chronic illness or metabolic disease.
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That's a massive number.
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That's a huge majority.
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So how can we combat that with natural things?
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Right?
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How can how can our lifestyle become medicine?
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Welcome to Health decode, your number one source for real health information with your
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host, doctor Alessi and Matt Tack.
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Alright.
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Welcome to episode 1 of Health Decoded.
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I'm your host, doctor Alessi, and your cohost, Matt Tan.
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Awesome, man.
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Awesome.
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Well, very exciting what we're doing here, man.
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And, this first episode, we just really want to introduce ourselves and let the audience know
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kind of what we're doing.
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We're pivoting from the full fueled podcast now rebranding as the Health Decoded podcast
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running in tandem with our functional wellness clinic in Tampa, Florida.
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And the mission, man, as it's always been, but even more so now is to help people to really
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discern what is health and what is maybe some BS.
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Right?
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And I think that's the biggest thing when it comes to functional health and functional
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medicine is, like, there's so many people out there just putting out information, what's real
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and what's not.
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And we have enough experience behind the both of us combined to really give people the truth
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and, honestly, keep it simple.
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So excited to be here.
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Excited for this.
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Let's do this.
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Let's just give a real quick kind of summary of who we are and where we come from, and I'll let
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you go first, man.
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Yeah.
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So my name is Matt Tack.
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I, am a certified personal trainer.
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Haven't used it a number of years, but through NASM.
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And I would consider myself in terms of, highly educated in the health and human performance,
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and what that means to be proactive about your health, especially for those men, and women
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that are getting into their forties and fifties and kind of thinking and longevity mindset.
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What does that mean to them?
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So I've spent a number of years just, unpacking what it means to me and helping out other
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individuals through the coaching process, of what human performance looks looks like, when
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you're entertaining thirties, forties, fifties, and sixties, and how you can still be optimal
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at any age.
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So I am a human performance specialist, both in the nutritional realm and then in the,
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physiological in terms of exercise.
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Awesome.
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Awesome.
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And And I'm doctor Alfred Alessi.
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If you're a patient in our office or if you're familiar with myself, you know that I'm a
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chiropractor and functional medicine doctor.
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And the goal is always prevention is better than cure, but there's oftentimes where people
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are behind the curve on some disease or illness.
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And what ways can we use natural solutions to, to achieve optimal health and not have to go
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through the conventional medicine route, which honestly can just be frustrating and just a
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rabbit hole of symptom based care.
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And so that's really what we wanna to streamline and kind of focus on with this show
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is how can we use natural solutions?
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How can we use our own our body's own intuitive healing systems to heal from disease and to
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stay healthy long term?
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So, you know, the reason, man, we were, like, rebranding this this show is because we were
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very much focused in our other podcast full fueled on a niche of men looking to optimize
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their health, which is that's not like this is gonna go away, but we just find that we can
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serve, like, the same with our clinic.
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We can serve more people with the approach that we're taking right now.
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And, really, the questions we always get, and I know you get it all the time, is, like, people
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come to you.
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Hey.
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Is this, you know, is this true?
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Is this real?
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Is this is this is this right?
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And they always have a million questions on something they heard online.
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So, you know, we both kinda came together on that.
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But, let let me ask you this, man.
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Like, if you had to say tell tell the listeners what's, like, the mission, right, between
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Alessi Functional Health and Health Decoded?
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Yeah.
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It's just a being more informed.
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Right?
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I think one of our big things in terms of, like, how what our outlook is, and what we
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always talk about is, constantly challenging things.
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Right?
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Being intuitive, more than reactive about things, having be more being more proactive
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about your health instead of reactive about your health.
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And so then what does that look like in terms of just like pure layman?
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And it's becoming more knowledgeable.
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Right?
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You when you have more knowledge, you have more more power.
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And so if you can utilize that and make it purposeful and put it to action, there's a lot
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of intention with your life around that.
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Right?
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And there's a lot of empowerment, in terms of how I can control, my daily activities when it
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comes to from very basic things to nutrition selection, all the way to, like, how I spend my
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time.
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Right?
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And how I efficiently spend my time so that maybe I can feel better, look better, play
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better.
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And so we always go around the clock on what, I guess we could talk about the pillars, at which
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we move, although we won't purely, like, explain these in every episode, but it fuel
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movement, sleep, mind, spirit, and work.
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And if you can check those consistently on a daily basis and being like, Hey, where am I at
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with these things?
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You can ultimately evolve into a much better human.
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So that's what we wanna stay true to, as our purpose, but get people more educated and have
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them be cognizant of the decisions that they're making on
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a daily basis.
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Amen, man.
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So, yeah, the goal is definitely to provide listeners with a ton of valuable knowledge, not
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just, you know, me and you talking, but really just sharing, like, real, like, factual
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evidence.
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Like, hey.
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The evidence shows that 60% of people have some kind of chronic illness or metabolic disease.
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That's a massive number.
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That's a huge majority.
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So how can we combat that with natural things?
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Right?
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How can how can our lifestyle become medicine?
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And, honestly, we're gonna share a ton of patient testimonials from the office.
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We're gonna bring patients in and have patients kinda tell their story on the podcast, and we
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want people to submit questions to us that they have.
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Like, if you have a burning question, we want you to send it to ask at AlessiFXHealth dotcom.
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And if you send us that question, we will answer it on the show with your permission.
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And, you know, that being said, man, a prime example is a patient that we had and how us as
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practitioners all work together.
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We had a patient come in.
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She was actually referred to me from a friend of mine who's a chiropractor.
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Right?
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And so you can think, like, why is a chiropractor sending a patient to another
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chiropractor?
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Well, her gut based symptoms was a little bit more in line with what we handle in the office.
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This patient had been to multiple MDs, gastroenterologists, endocrinologists,
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everyone.
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And all they did was a bunch of really expensive tests, colonoscopies, put her through
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this whole ringer of things just to tell her that they they couldn't figure out what was
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going on with her, and they put her on proton pump inhibitors saying thinking that she had,
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high stomach acid.
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It was the opposite.
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She had low stomach acid due to insufficient, balance in her gut bacteria.
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All it took was a simple gut test to figure that out, which nobody ran because conventional
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medicine doesn't really know these kind of things.
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Right?
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So these kind of cool niche, I guess, nuanced tests that we're able to run with functional
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medicine, we found out what the problem was.
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Within 3 months, she was symptom free.
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Back no bloating, no indigestion.
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She could eat all the foods again, and it was because we eliminated the bad, reinoculated
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with good bacteria, and ultimately got her back to feeling amazing.
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And so that's just one story out of a a bunch of stories we're gonna talk about on this show,
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man.
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Talk about, man, talk about some of the the frustrations you've seen, you know, in the
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world of health care and and modern medicine.
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Right?
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If we talk about conventional medicine, not that we're knocking it by any means.
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Right?
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It it is there for a reason, and it's helpful, but sometimes can miss
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the mark.
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Anyone that highlights highlights to you?
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Yeah.
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I would say, you know, yeah.
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We definitely don't wanna come across as, like, we're anti medicine.
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Right?
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Like, anti, you know, it's it's more so having an under understanding and more intuitive,
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outlook with, with how you how you look at longevity and the overall health.
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Right?
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And how you maximize the days ahead.
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And so I would look at it, purely as, what kind of what I stated before, in terms of, like,
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alright.
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What what things what checks, and balances can I make in my life, to ultimately feel better?
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We have this model of look good, feel good, play good.
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Right?
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And so how am I incorporating these, like, small tactical things that ultimately can
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optimize my living?
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And so, as we look at our gut health, you know, that's a big thing is is really understanding
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how your gut and how it's correlating to even the hormones in your body and how they're
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transitioning.
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Right?
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Because a lot of times we're interrupting our gut, at its fullest capacity, and we're
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minimizing what the the benefits of it it does have.
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And then our hormones get all out of whack and our metabolism, and we blame it on aging.
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Right?
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But the the the reality is it's it's definitely not aging.
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And so then it becomes like, alright.
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Well, what do I need to do to reset things?
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And so that's why we wanna, like, utilize this platform and kind of decode the podcast of,
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like, what that means because a guy on our team, that's what he does for us.
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Right?
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He really he he would we take you through an entire process of leveling out your pH levels,
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getting your gut to perform at a higher level of efficiency, and resetting your metabolism so
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that you're living at optimal health.
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So, you know, one of the things that I see in today's day and age is specifically, I think
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people are questioning more and more about, like, our food and what they're putting into
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their body.
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I don't think that has actually correlated to the action component yet.
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Right?
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I think a lot of people are questioning, but they really don't care.
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Right?
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They're like, yeah.
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But it's there.
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Right?
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It's easy.
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I think that will evolve and come along.
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But that's part of the process of what we're doing here in Health Decoded is we're we're
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really saying, hey.
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This is why you gotta shape and, shaping up and sharpen, kinda your the tools in your toolbox
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because ultimately, what you're doing is hindering your your highest level of
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optimization.
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Yeah, man.
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That's so true.
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And, you know, we're gonna talk about a lot of different things, but mostly all will kinda tie
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back to, the concept of, like, decoding what is health.
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Right?
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Getting to the bottom of it.
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And health is not just merely not feeling sick or the absence of disease, but health is it is
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my body performing, and is my body able to heal?
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Right?
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Like, because it should.
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Our body has these built in mechanisms that should heal if you get an injury, if you get an
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illness.
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It should do its job.
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Now when it doesn't, that's because there's something in the way.
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There's a hindrance.
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So, you know, we're gonna talk about root cause medicine, what it is.
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We're gonna talk about inflammation, gut health, weight loss, real weight loss, not
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like, you know, just, artificial medicine weight loss that then kind of rebounds and
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makes people more sick.
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Wanna talk about nutrition, detoxing, so many things.
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The the list goes on and on.
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We're gonna bring on some really awesome guests, people that we've had on the show
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before, people that we're gonna bring back, new guests.
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We're gonna revamp some of the older episodes that that were really popular and kind of
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reinvigorate those topics again.
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And I think it's it's just gonna really be cool, man.
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We're gonna once a month try to do a an episode where we just answer our listeners' questions.
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So we really want people, whether you're a patient or not, to to submit those questions to
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ask atalesifxhealth.com, and we will answer those for you live on the show.
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I'm excited, man.
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I I really think, like, just the mission is is so solidified as to why we're doing this and,
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you know, the import the importance of of these honest conversations and, like, debunking these
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health myths, man.
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Because, again, like, how many times is there some influencer who has zero credentials or
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credibility, but they're popular on Instagram and they're saying a bunch of things, and then
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how many people start trying stuff?
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Now that being said, we we're proponents of trying things.
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Like, it's not like I'm saying not to try something if you think it might help you.
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But, I mean, there's a fine line between the some of this kinda weird fringey stuff and
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people just trying to make a buck off of you.
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And so that's not what this is at all.
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We're not here to turn a profit off of anyone.
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We're not here to, you know, use someone's, illness as a way to make money.
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We are here to just give free information and value.
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And so we want people to be engaged, and we just want them to deliver, man.
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And act.
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Right?
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One of the biggest things, components, action on the backside of that.
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So, how are we incorporating this into potentially our daily lives?
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And a lot of them a lot of the stuff that we're gonna be going over here, like, that was super
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basic.
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I never thought of it that way, but we wanna explain health, and what it means and how to
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decode health at a 3rd grade level where every any anyone and everyone can understand it.
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And you can feel like your 20 year old self again.
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So, you know, a lot of our listeners are probably gonna be in their thirties and
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forties, maybe even older, fifties and sixties.
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And they're like, man, how can I get my health back?
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Right?
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And it really is, like, one day at a time, one step at a time, but building those fun getting
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those fundamentals, back in place, like shooting free throws.
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Hey, I need to hit a couple layups.
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That's right.
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And you build those.
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And, man, you're you feel like a completely new person.
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So, that's what we're gonna be walking you through.
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We'll get we'll get some nerdy on some stuff too, but, that's ultimately how we wanna just
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you know, we just wanna give it to you at at its core level, at the basic level, and, hope
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that you can understand and take some action.
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Yeah.
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The goal is to keep the information raw, real, but simple to digest, but based on science and
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fact.
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And so, that's the goal of this podcast.
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We do encourage you to subscribe.
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If you find value, please leave us a review and share.
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That's how we grow.
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That's how other people can find this and gain the valuable information as well.
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Our our next episode coming next week is gonna be the root cause revolution.
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So we're gonna talk about what is root cause medicine, versus symptom based care.
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We're gonna really get into the the topic of that and how we can kinda shift the mindset of
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our country to prevention versus waiting until something goes wrong.
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So, anything you wanna leave the the guest with today, Matt?
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No.
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I'm just excited about, this kind of next journey.
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I think it very clearly states of, you know, what we're gonna be talking about.
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We're decoding health.
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Right?
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We wanna give you the most value out of it.
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So I'm really excited about this, next season of podcasting that we're entering in and how
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much value it's gonna bring to the audience.
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Awesome.
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Together, we're decoding health and changing lives.
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Stay curious, stay empowered, and remember, your health is in your hands.
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