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(0:00) Introduction to chronic pain and health empowerment (2:07) Spring into Health block party announcement (3:26) Addressing common health concerns and symptoms (7:02) Thyroid and metabolic health insights (9:07) The connection between gut health and chronic disease (11:19) Chronic pain: A lucrative aspect of healthcare (23:54) Comprehensive pain management strategies (26:03) Dietary influence on inflammation and pain (29:53) Managing thyroid and blood sugar without medications (31:16) Lifestyle approaches to reverse type 2 diabetes (35:50) Exploring the underlying causes of poor gut health (38:12) Understanding leaky gut syndrome (41:55) The role of stress and sleep in digestive health (44:49) The necessity of functional medicine in modern healthcare (47:17) Unveiling the root causes of health issues (49:02) Empowering listeners to learn about their bodies (49:37) Invitation for health consultations and resources (50:00) Updates on health-related events and staying informed (50:44) Final thoughts and podcast support mechanisms00:00:00
So let's be real.
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Chronic pain is a big business in the medical industry that there's no fortune to be made in
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getting people off medications out of pain and backing to living their lives.
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So instead, the system thrives on symptom management and not actual resolution.
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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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You were born ready for this.
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Welcome back to Health Decoded, where we unravel the complexities of health and wellness
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with science backed insights.
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I'm your host, doctor Alfred Alessi.
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And the famous co host, Matt Att.
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Good to see you, man.
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Today's episode is all about you, the listener, and giving you real answers to empower you to
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live to the healthiest and highest version of yourself.
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Yeah.
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Today, we're gonna be highlighting some questions we commonly hear that we helped,
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patients debunk and get functional, actionable answers.
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And here's a quick teaser.
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Stay tuned as these questions could have questions questions you better have, basically.
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A little bit of a mouthful there for you, guy.
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Man, that,
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it's a lot of things.
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What's going
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on with the beard?
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You're trying to trying to look like me or something?
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I am.
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I'm growing it out a little bit.
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Maybe it's a little bit of laziness, but, I dig it in.
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I'm digging it too.
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It's a good look.
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It makes you look a little bit like, more lumberjack y.
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The thing is is, like, mine grows straight out.
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It's it's kinda weird how that happens.
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It's like some guys, like, get that natural curl and that mine's freaking all wiry and
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grows straight out.
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It's weird.
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Well, it has to get some it has to
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get some length first, man.
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It's a My girls, like, tell me they're like, do you can't kiss me with your beard because I'm
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like, it's, it just goes straight into them like needles.
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We'll clarify for the listeners by girls he's talking about his daughters, not like a slew
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of women that he's kissing.
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So That's true.
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I got a lot of girls in my life.
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Awesome, man.
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Well, just a couple updates for everybody.
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You know, we're we're doing a really cool thing on March 8, man.
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I'm super excited.
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We're gonna be doing our spring into health block party at the clinic, Alessi Functional
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Health in Tampa, where we're gonna be having a bunch of really cool things going on.
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We're gonna be doing complimentary X rays and evaluations and health screens for our patients
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and friends and family, anyone who shows up.
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We're gonna have tons of free food from some local vendors.
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We're gonna have some local businesses out there displaying themselves.
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There's gonna be a dance fitness class with Jenna from Bands and Booty.
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There's gonna be ideally some other boot camp kind of fitness going on, and then some chair
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massage from, a good friend Jake Naderman with Uplevel Movement.
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So it's gonna be a really cool time.
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If you're in the Tampa area, March 8 from nine to 1PM, definitely come out.
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Completely free event.
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Would love to see everybody out there.
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We'll have some time slots for the, the exercise portion as well.
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So, you'll be able to kinda tag in, when those come about.
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So we'll make sure to get those programmed beforehand, so that you can sign up for some
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classes.
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You can get that that booty fit, or you can, or you can do some other classes that you might
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enjoy.
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Awesome, man.
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Yeah.
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Looking forward to that.
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Well, let's let's get into it, man.
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Today's episode, we really wanted to provide a ton of value just based on the things that we
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hear on a daily basis in the clinic.
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These are questions that we we get all the time.
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We've been doing this for, you know, five years, and and a lot of the questions tend to
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repeat themselves because we see the same things in this field.
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So we basically came up with, like, a list.
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We have, like, a running list of questions we hear.
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But for today, we came up with a list of some of the the more common ones, and we just kinda
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wanna get into it and and provide a little bit more detail.
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So we really put some time into answering these for you guys.
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So, also, you know, I will say if this is something that rings a bell or, strikes a nerve
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with you, then let's connect and let's let's let's see if we can help you out because there
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are ways to get around these things that you don't have to be frustrated and you don't have
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to deal with these symptoms and stuff like that.
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So, let's just start.
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The first one we have here is you know, we hear this all the time.
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Hey, my doctor my doctor quotes, my doctor says my labs are normal, but I still feel awful.
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I still have symptoms, whether it's fatigue, bloating, struggling to lose weight.
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So is there something missing in what they tested me?
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And, you know, so this is classic, man.
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The your labs are normal.
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So docs like, well, it's it must all be in your head.
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But here's the deal.
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Conventional lab ranges are based on statistical averages of the general population,
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which is not necessarily what's optimal for health.
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Right?
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Is average is not optimal.
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So let's be real.
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If the general population is increasingly overweight, inflamed, dealing with chronic
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disease, do you really wanna be in that average normal crowd?
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Probably not.
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Right?
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If we're talking about what health is and and what, like, thriving is.
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So traditional medicine relies on reference ranges that are designed only to catch the most
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extreme cases of dysfunction.
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So if you fall within that range, you're, you know, traditionally trained doctors are just
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gonna say you're normal.
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Right?
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But they don't the problem is these ranges don't account for functional deficiencies where
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a marker might technically be normal, but still suboptimal for proper physiological function.
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So that's where functional medicine, the approach we take, we dig deeper.
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So instead of stopping at the bare minimum, we take a systems based approach.
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We're looking at how different biomarkers interact and whether they align with optimal
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function, not just the absence of disease.
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So for example, let's talk about thyroid functions.
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Most conventional doctors will only run a TSH test.
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Right?
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That's your thyroid stimulating hormone.
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If that falls within the lab range, which can vary widely, by the way, between labs, they'll
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declare that thyroid as normal.
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But here's what they're missing, and I see this all the time.
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So TSH is a signal hormone.
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It's not actually a thyroid hormone.
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It tells your thyroid what to do, but it doesn't measure if the actual if the thyroid is
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actually producing the hormones efficiently or if your cells are using them properly.
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So many patients have a normal TSH, but still feel awful because the free free t three, which
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is the active thyroid hormone is low or even their reverse t three is elevated.
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So then this blocks proper thyroid function.
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Also, other things like autoimmune thyroid conditions like Hashimoto's, it doesn't show up
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on a TSH alone.
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So the research actually shows that ninety percent of hypothyroidism cases are actually
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autoimmune in nature.
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That's a huge number, man.
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Ninety percent of hypothyroid, which is very common, they're autoimmune, meaning the body is
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attacking the thyroid gland.
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This is really cool.
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A study published in the journal of endocrinology and metabolism found that fifty
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percent of people with normal TSH still had symptoms of hypothyroidism due to an
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undiagnosed conversion issue or an autoimmune thyroid disease.
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So this means millions of people are being told they're fine while they're still struggling
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with the the the die off symptoms of that, which is weight gain, brain fog, cold
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intolerance, which is kind of a random one, but people have that, and then fatigue.
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And so this is all because they didn't check beyond the surface.
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They just looked at the the one marker.
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Another example I'll I'll I'll share is blood sugar and metabolic health.
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So it's all it's more than just about glucose.
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Right?
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Another major blind spot in this conventional testing.
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So many doctors will check your fasting glucose, but it's really just a snapshot of the
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blood sugar regulation.
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By the time fasting glucose has been elevated, insulin resistance has often been developing
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for years.
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So a better approach or a more functional approach is checking fasting insulin,
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hemoglobin a one c, and even doing like a continuous glucose monitoring.
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So that's where you wear one of those devices that kind of taps into the the capillaries on
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the surface of the skin, and it gives you constant feedback.
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The technology is really cool.
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It's Bluetooth to your phone.
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You can just track.
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It even alerts you if you get a spike in blood sugar or if you dip.
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So, again, that's a more functional approach.
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A study in The Lancet diabetes and endocrinology showed that eighty eight percent
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of US US adults have some degree of metabolic dysfunction.
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And we're these are all big numbers I'm spitting out here.
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Fifty percent, ninety percent, eighty eight percent.
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So, you know, I guess what I derive from that is that the conventional medicine approach just
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seems to be missing something.
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If people are going to their doctors and they're still eighty eight percent of people
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have some kind of metabolic dysfunction.
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Right?
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So we talk all the time about what is lifestyle, what is functional health look like.
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So, you know, the and, the last one I wanna really share is is gut dysfunction, and this is
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often overlooked.
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So gut dysfunction really is is is the key to inflammation and chronic disease.
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Standard lab panels ignore gut health.
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Right, despite the massive impact it has on metabolism, inflammation, immune function.
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If you have bloating, food sensitivity, brain fog, your doctor might just give you a a a
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label IBS and then say, you know, you're on your way.
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Right?
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But functional medicine is gonna look a little bit deeper.
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So we can do things such as comprehensive stool testing where we're gonna assess imbalances
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within the microbiome.
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We're gonna we can see inflammation.
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We can see if there's infections, parasites.
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We can check things like leaky gut markers.
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So there's a protein called zonulin that actually maintains the strength of the the the
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cells, the cell wall in your gut lining.
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And if there's issues with that protein, we can test for that and see if someone has things
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like leaky gut.
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Another thing is things like SIBO, which is small intestinal bacterial overgrowth.
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A lot of docs don't even know to test for this.
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In many cases of IBS are actually an overgrowth of bacteria in the small intestine that then
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causing those symptoms.
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So really the bottom line, man, is if your labs are normal, but you feel like trash, it's time
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to look a little bit deeper.
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Right?
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Something's being missed.
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So just because a number falls inside this arbitrary range doesn't really mean your body's
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functioning optimally.
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It just means you're you're in the same state as everyone else, which is probably suboptimal
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health.
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Right?
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So getting a second opinion, not just a quick glance is gonna be a better take.
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And conventional medicine often just waits until a disease develops before really acting.
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Whereas functional medicine, we're preventing disease.
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We're gonna optimize health and ensure that you actually feel your best, not just not sick.
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Right?
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So that's, I know that's a mouthful, but I I really think for when we hear that question,
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that's the route we need to take.
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Yeah.
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That's, I'd like such valuable information too in terms of how you can be the educator of your
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health.
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And, when you go to a standard, general practitioner, which many of our friends say it
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and a good friend of mine, Jason is the exact same thing.
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Right.
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He is showing precursors to just chronic pain.
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He's trying to figure it out, but his GP had no idea.
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So he's like, look, I can't help you.
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And so dealing with that root cause is an understanding of like, does he have
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fundamentally, what do his labs look like?
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And then fundamentally, how can, how can we identify some of the things that you just
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mentioned?
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But, you know, just kind of bringing it back home, I've been dealing with chronic pain for
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years.
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And, even when I didn't know.
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Right.
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You don't know what you don't know.
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How was I going to heal my body?
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And so we did the same thing, you know, a couple of years ago, I think at this point,
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maybe it was like last year, we had to dive into what my numbers look like.
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And, that was me being proactive and wanting to wanting to just figure things out right where I
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even had a small thyroid issue, and within my T3.
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And so we had to figure that stuff out and I had to create that hurdle and then, have now
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since, navigated, on the complete flip side, which my blood work comes back consistent every
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time.
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But why chronic pain?
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Let's talk about this.
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Why chronic pain is a cash cow for the medical system and I won't, no one's fixing it at the
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source.
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So let's be real.
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Chronic pain is a big business in the medical industry that there's no fortune to be made in
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getting people off medications out of pain and backing to living their lives.
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So instead the system thrives on symptom management and not actual resolution.
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So let's dive into just a few things that we need to talk about on the way the models are
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structured.
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So most conventional pain management follows the pharmaceutical first model.
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So I'm sure you've seen this when you go into a standard practitioner, get an antihistamine,
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right.
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Take some ibuprofen, you know, just.
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Those things are just a mass, the inflammation, that you're having in your body.
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Right.
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Tylenol, all those things that are going to be over the counter, let's mask it.
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Instead of looking at maybe it might be a dehydration issue, right?
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A lot of times, getting your proper pH levels figured out before taking, an Excedrin, or an
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ibuprofen is the best protocol there.
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Muscle relaxers to numb the tightness, right?
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Where there's other things that you can use, like self myofascial release on some tight
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muscle groups of getting a foam roller.
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Right.
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Those are different actionable items that you can take.
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Hey, I got a strain, getting bodywork done routine, body, bodywork done.
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That's like an important thing instead of masking it with other antihistamines.
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Right.
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The other way, which steroid injections to suppress, symptoms temporarily.
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Right.
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A lot of times people, ah, we'll just give you a cortisol shot or we'll give you a steroid
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injection to just mask the pain once again, instead of diving into why is that why is that
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pain there in the first place?
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So asking those questions of, do I really need this?
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Now there are times where maybe those are appropriate, right, to just settle the muscle
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down muscles down and get them to relax so that you can use other measures.
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Opioids are a major thing in today, right?
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When the pain persists, Hey, just like mask it again.
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Now those aren't long term things that you need to put in place because those will ultimately
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be damaging to other organs in your body.
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You want to make sure you measure those things properly.
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And then when all else fails, Hey, we gotta give you surgery.
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Right.
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And usually that's the case is that like a there we're going to be angling you towards
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surgery so that you walk away with a massive medical bill.
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Or your insurance is stuck with it instead of trying to figure out, Hey, do I need this?
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And then what are measures that I can take, that potentially could get me out of this and I
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don't need surgery, right?
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There are always measures, always better questions that you can ask.
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So here's the problem.
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None of these pro none of these, approaches actually fix the root cause.
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They just slap a band aid on the symptoms and then keeping patients dependent on ongoing
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treatments.
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Right.
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I gotta buy this again.
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I gotta get more, antibiotics, whatever it looks like.
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But if we look at the science, it's clear that chronic pain, isn't just about pain itself.
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It's about what's driving it.
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So we always say, ask better questions, get better answers and the true root causes of
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chronic pain.
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So let's dive into these a little bit further.
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A lot of doctors just flat out ignore these.
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So chronic inflammation sensitizes pain receptors.
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Inflammation.
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Isn't just a buzzword.
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It's one of the primary drivers of a persistent pain.
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And, we love adding in these things because, people have done the research.
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So a 2020 study in the journal of pain research found that systematic inflammation lowers the
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pain threshold.
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So making the modern body more sensitive to pain signals.
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In other words, the more inflamed you are, the more everything is going to hurt.
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That's just the stress loads that are on your body naturally create more inflammation.
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So you need to utilize other measures to reduce that pain or that stress threshold to reduce
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the inflammation in your body.
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So inflammation leads to nerve hyper sensitivity, amplifying pain signals, even when
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there's no active injuries.
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So that can lead to other areas.
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One thing we do in our clinic, is we target the core root of the pain when it's actually might
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be creating inflammation in other areas.
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That's called our soft weight technology that basically naturally creates that's, that,
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regeneration, in new tissue that reduces the amount of inflammation and the target source.
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So that's a natural way of producing your body stem cells and it could be, Hey, the shoulder
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could be indicating a number of other areas, but if you deal with it directly where it's at,
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it could hinder, some other areas.
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So another, another thing that we want to talk about is, inflamed tissues have, more blood at
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poor blood flow and healing capacity, which is why injuries and aches seem to linger
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indefinitely.
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So we just wanna make sure that the restricted blood flow, hey, how much blood flow are you
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getting into your body?
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That naturally, that's why we believe in saunas.
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Right?
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Getting in saunas where you increase your blood flow, which, exacerbates, I shouldn't say
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really exacerbates, but increases the amount of blood flow, which increases, the promotion of
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just healing throughout the rest of your body.
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And what fuels, chronic inflammation.
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So we go back always to the root cause of like, Hey, what are you putting in your diet?
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One of the big precursors, that we like to explain to everything is like, usually it's
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dehydration that starts out right now.
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People getting enough water throughout the day.
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You need to drink, at minimum, really a three liters of water.
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I love getting a liter jug, and getting about three of those in daily.
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I do believe that liquid IVs and other portions that you can, you can put those in there.
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You don't, those do have some sugars, processed sugars that you probably don't want to be
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adding all the time.
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So you don't want to be continually dumping those in just water is a great source.
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So, but other things that are precursors to this as highly processed diet, right?
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Chronic stress, poor sleep, sedentary behavior.
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So are you eating and sitting down and watching TV?
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Right.
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One of the things that we've done as a habit structure within our families, we typically eat
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and then walk, right.
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That reduces that glycemic spike that you might have from carbohydrates, in fats that you've
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been eating for dinner or lunch.
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And so just walk, you know, even if a five, ten minute walk really helps and reduces that
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glycemic spike that you might have.
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So all things conventional medicine rarely address, right?
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Like, Hey, go for a walk after you eat.
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That's typically not a question that's asked you walk after you eat.
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Are you, are you properly hydrated throughout the day?
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So other things that we want to tap into is just poor movement, mechanics, and postural
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dysfunction that destroy joints.
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So most people don't injure themselves in one big catastrophic catastrophic event.
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Instead, chronic pain develops due to years of sitting too much.
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So that's a weakening of core stability and the shortening of the hip flexors.
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Right.
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So you'll see yourself, and that's where we kind of come into the clinic and structurally
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realign that, is to really elongate those hip flexors.
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So you don't have, any type of anterior flags, repetitive, faulty movement patterns, like
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walking with poor gait mechanics.
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You know, one of the things that our friend, Jake, is that for years I was running
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incorrectly.
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Right.
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I wasn't running where the there the outside of my toes roll in.
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And so even though it's a nerdy way to look at things, there was one of the things that I even
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had to look at of how I was running, and how I was properly be laying my feet.
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And I should be bowing my toes forward and landing on my toes and letting my heels come
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down softly.
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So even a running pattern is really important because usually people strike with that heel
00:21:19
first.
00:21:20
Right.
00:21:20
So those are the things to ask yourself as far as how am I walking right?
00:21:24
Are my legs like boat in?
00:21:26
How can I, how can I work on my abductor?
00:21:30
I might have an abductor complex from my just knees are, tilting it a little bit when I'm,
00:21:36
when I'm walking.
00:21:37
So those are, those are just some of the things from a walking standpoint, how important that
00:21:41
is.
00:21:42
And then ignoring muscle imbalances leading to improper.
00:21:47
Bloating and excess of wear and tear.
00:21:49
So, to explain this a little bit further, when you're ignoring your muscle imbalances, those
00:21:54
are just some of the things that have triggered from you maybe sitting throughout the day, you
00:21:59
becoming a little bit more shelled and rolled with your shoulders because you've, you've been
00:22:05
kinked up and dialing on a keyboard for a number of years.
00:22:09
Your neck is actually loaded a little bit forward, which creates muscular imbalances, in
00:22:14
your delts and your neck and the cervical region.
00:22:18
And, and you're, you're all crunched up, right?
00:22:21
What does that do that tightens up your whole body?
00:22:23
So your, your stress load is so much more increased, and you have all these imbalances
00:22:30
and until you rectify those, that stress will, will lead to diseases.
00:22:35
Right.
00:22:35
And so that's the important of just getting that relaxed state, of making sure you have
00:22:41
spinal realignment, both in the hips and in the cervical region.
00:22:46
But here's the catch.
00:22:48
So we don't want to just sit here and obviously dog on, you know, Western medicine, but there,
00:22:54
there are questions that you need to ask.
00:22:56
So most doctors never assess the biomechanics of your body.
00:23:00
Right.
00:23:01
They won't look at you and be like, Hey, the first thing we need to look at is actually your
00:23:05
spinal alignment.
00:23:07
And the second thing we have, we probably should reduce a little bit of that weight.
00:23:10
Right.
00:23:10
Being honest with people, is an important thing.
00:23:13
We need to lose weight.
00:23:14
We need to get your spine realigned so that you can reduce that stress load.
00:23:19
Instead, they prescribe painkillers and tell patients to yeah.
00:23:22
You probably should stretch a little bit more.
00:23:24
Right?
00:23:24
What does he what does even stretch look like?
00:23:26
What does that mean?
00:23:27
Stretch looks like, right?
00:23:28
Yeah.
00:23:29
Which doesn't fix the root issue.
00:23:32
So, as we dial in the functional medicine approach to actually fixing chronic pain, so
00:23:38
here's some, some mechanics that you can use.
00:23:40
If a pain is a symptom, not the problem, then the goal should be to identify and fix the root
00:23:45
cause.
00:23:46
That's exactly what we do with an integrative approach.
00:23:50
Number one, the spinal biomechanics correction.
00:23:54
So CBP has been proven in clinical studies to restore proper spinal alignment and reduce
00:24:02
chronic pain long term.
00:24:05
So we talked about getting the spinal realignment, that could be through
00:24:09
decompression therapy.
00:24:09
That could be through a number of different things, but decompression therapy, and
00:24:13
chiropractic correction, right?
00:24:15
Unlike traditional chiropractor adjustments, CBP focuses on correcting posture and movement
00:24:21
patterns, spreading, preventing pain from coming back.
00:24:25
That's one of our main goals at Alessi functional health too, is to allow you to live
00:24:29
with a pain free future, right?
00:24:31
It's not it's to educate you through the process.
00:24:34
That's our one differentiator, that we think we do the best, the absolute best in the game is
00:24:40
educating you so that you can go out and do it yourself.
00:24:43
Right.
00:24:44
And then we're always here for you, but those things are things that you can use soft wave
00:24:48
therapy for stem cell activation and tissue regeneration.
00:24:52
It's something that I talked on a little bit earlier, but soft waves use electro hydraulic
00:24:57
shock waves to stimulate cell stem cell production, reducing inflammation, accelerate
00:25:02
healing.
00:25:04
Check this out too.
00:25:05
This is a really cool, some clinical trials have shown this off wave.
00:25:10
They've used this quite a bit in Europe too.
00:25:12
I like how Europe usually things that follow right.
00:25:14
Europe will cause they have a less restrictive, they're a little bit more, forward thinking in
00:25:20
terms of like how they're utilizing.
00:25:22
A lot of people walk too.
00:25:24
So generally they aren't as overweight so they can use technologies like this, but clinical
00:25:29
trials have shown that soft weight therapy reduces pain up to 70% in just a few sessions,
00:25:34
particularly for tendon and joint issues.
00:25:38
And I just want to note on this, the reason why tendons and joints are so imperative, for the
00:25:44
purposes of longevity is because that's what holds your muscular structure, right?
00:25:49
So the largest organs in your body is your T the strength of your tendons and your joints
00:25:54
are going to be a direct indicator of how much muscle mass you can hold on to later in life.
00:25:59
So we need to make sure that we are protecting those.
00:26:03
And there's not an insane amount of inflammation, right?
00:26:06
Anti inflammatory nutrition to lower your pain markers.
00:26:11
This is where, you know, some supplementation comes in, but mainly it's through whole food
00:26:15
sources, but excess omega six fatty acids from vegetable oils, like drive chronic information.
00:26:22
Right.
00:26:22
While omega threes from wild caught fish, grass fed meat, lower it according to the journal of
00:26:28
American college of nutrition in 2018, that study the cutting out of pro process seed oils,
00:26:33
like, canola oil, soybean oil, and sunflower dramatically reduce inflammation and pain
00:26:39
levels.
00:26:42
As we, kind of wrap up my segment here, but targeting strength and mobility training, we
00:26:48
have GoDA and ATG methods.
00:26:50
But to go to the greatest of all time actions, something that I, I kind of explained it in a
00:26:55
little bit detail, but identifying faulty movement patterns, and retrains the body for
00:27:01
optical biomechanics reduces stress on joints.
00:27:05
That was one thing that I did because I realized that my impact on my heels, needed to
00:27:11
be reverted to more toe action.
00:27:13
Right.
00:27:14
So I have this rolling effect where I have a softer impact on my heels.
00:27:18
So the ATG, the athletic truth group, system focuses on strengthening and a full range of
00:27:24
motion, preventing joint breakdown.
00:27:28
As we were talking about, joints, how pivotal joints are, in promoting, muscular muscular
00:27:35
density, right.
00:27:37
And maintaining that stronger joints you have, the more muscle mass you can, you can hold on
00:27:41
to a study in the sports health in 2021.
00:27:45
Found that targeted strength training reduces chronic knee and back pain by fifty to eighty
00:27:51
percent over time.
00:27:53
Something drugs could never, ever accomplish.
00:27:57
Man, and that's you said something there that is just so profound.
00:28:01
It's like fixing pain at the source and getting to the root cause of people's problems and
00:28:06
getting them healthy is actually bad for business.
00:28:08
Right?
00:28:08
And so that's the whole concept here is that conventional medicine and pharmaceutical
00:28:12
industry, it's a business, and and everyone knows that by now.
00:28:16
So if more people corrected their biomechanics, improved their metabolic health, reduced
00:28:20
inflammation naturally, guess what?
00:28:22
They wouldn't need these lifelong prescriptions of pain meds.
00:28:25
They wouldn't need the recurring steroid injections or the expensive surgeries that in
00:28:30
this country, the failure rate of surgery is fifty percent.
00:28:33
So flip a coin, you might come out there with a successful spinal surgery, you might walk out
00:28:38
of there debilitated.
00:28:39
Right?
00:28:40
And so that's bad business for the pharmaceutical industry is that, they're
00:28:44
they're just managing something so that you keep coming back, coming back, coming back.
00:28:48
And so we like you said, we do it differently at our clinic, and I tell every single person I
00:28:53
meet that my goal is for you to not need me.
00:28:57
Right?
00:28:57
Like, if I have you coming back to my office over and over again with an issue, right, with
00:29:02
an active acute issue, then we didn't do our job.
00:29:05
A lot of patients continue to come to us for preventative and optionally for maintenance
00:29:10
care because they choose to, but they don't need to.
00:29:12
And so Thanks.
00:29:13
You know, we've kind of taken the chiropractic model and gone a different route.
00:29:17
We're not trying to keep you on the hook forever.
00:29:19
We wanna discharge you at some point and say, hey.
00:29:21
You're good.
00:29:21
Now just maintain what we've taught you, and you'll be good.
00:29:24
Right?
00:29:25
And let let us empower you through this and educate you through this whole process, and now
00:29:29
you are the one who's in in control of your health.
00:29:31
So that's that's kind of the approach we take, and I've had other chiros be like, dude, that's
00:29:36
not a good business model.
00:29:37
And I'm like, well, we get a ton of people sending us their friends and family, and it's
00:29:40
actually been pretty good for us.
00:29:42
So because people wanna get out of pain.
00:29:43
They don't wanna feel like they're there forever.
00:29:45
They want an end line.
00:29:46
Right?
00:29:47
And so that's our goal.
00:29:49
So the next question that we had here on our list is, let's see.
00:29:53
I was told that taking medications for my thyroid or blood sugar is my only option.
00:29:58
Right?
00:29:58
And this kinda goes for anything.
00:30:00
Are there natural ways rather than just managing the symptoms?
00:30:03
And this is kind of what we just talked about.
00:30:04
Right?
00:30:05
Medications are not a real solution because they are not bioidentical.
00:30:09
Your body has to figure out what this is, and it's gonna have an action inside the body, but
00:30:14
it's not actually going to assimilate and do something that's gonna naturally cause your
00:30:19
body to start healing.
00:30:20
So I wouldn't say that I'm a % anti medication.
00:30:23
There's times when they're necessary, right, for short term interventions, acute conditions,
00:30:28
or lifesaving emergencies, of course.
00:30:30
But the problem is they're handed out like candy, right, often without a second thought as
00:30:35
to, like, why is the dysfunction happening in the first place.
00:30:38
And I think we're just gonna continue to beat the drum on this and and beat this dead horse
00:30:42
in our podcast that there's other options.
00:30:45
Right?
00:30:45
And so the, the medical the the conventional medicine operates basically on a diagnose and
00:30:51
prescribe model.
00:30:52
So you have x, here's x drug.
00:30:54
Right?
00:30:55
You have y, here's y drug.
00:30:56
And it's kind of a lazy system.
00:30:59
If you ask me, Nobody's really asking, like, why did this happen in the first place?
00:31:03
Hey.
00:31:03
Did you have a stressful event that might have triggered an autoimmune condition to then now
00:31:07
lead to these symptoms?
00:31:08
Right?
00:31:09
Did you go through some kind of major trauma?
00:31:11
Right?
00:31:12
What are what are these more, in-depth causes?
00:31:16
So, you know, a couple case studies that that we've got and and I'll kinda share here is,
00:31:21
like, managing versus reversing type two diabetes.
00:31:25
I think this is something that people still don't know is that type two diabetes, which is
00:31:29
a lifestyle related disease, it's not a genetic condition, is reversible.
00:31:35
I'll say that again.
00:31:36
Type two diabetes is reversible.
00:31:37
We have done it in our clinic, and we've helped people to get those numbers to normal.
00:31:41
So, you know, most doctors universally will just prescribe metformin and tell patients to
00:31:47
watch their diet.
00:31:49
But, like, what does that even mean?
00:31:50
Right?
00:31:50
Go go low carb, go keto, but they don't teach patients how to actually reverse insulin
00:31:56
resistance, which is the issue.
00:31:57
Right?
00:31:57
That's the root cause.
00:31:59
So, a a 2121 study in nature medicine found that a low carb, high protein diet combined
00:32:06
with resistance training can reduce hemoglobin a one c levels as effectively as metformin.
00:32:15
Wow.
00:32:16
Right?
00:32:16
So why?
00:32:17
Because it addresses the root cause, which is the insulin resistance rather than just
00:32:21
suppressing the blood sugar levels, which is the symptom.
00:32:25
So what actually causes insulin resistance?
00:32:28
Chronic consumption, chronic overconsumption of refined carbs and processed seed oils, lack of
00:32:34
muscle mass.
00:32:35
Right?
00:32:36
Muscle mass is the largest site in your body for glucose disposal and poor sleep and high
00:32:42
stress, which are gonna bump cortisol up and then lower insulin sensitivity.
00:32:46
So instead of just handing out metformin, like, why aren't we teaching patients to cut out the
00:32:51
processed sugar and the seed oils that are fueling the inflammation?
00:32:55
Encourage resistance training.
00:32:56
This is something you and I preach.
00:32:58
Right?
00:32:58
Get that muscle mass up because it's gonna improve glucose metabolism.
00:33:02
Your body's gonna utilize that glucose more.
00:33:04
And then addressing sleep quality and stress, which are gonna directly impact insulin
00:33:09
sensitivity and cortisol.
00:33:11
So if patients actually reverse their diabetes, they wouldn't need metformin for life.
00:33:16
Right?
00:33:16
But, again, that's bad for business for the the people selling metformin and the big pharma.
00:33:23
Also to add Yeah.
00:33:24
Also to add to that, you know, and what people a lot of people don't know, and that's why this
00:33:30
needs to be said is that it's not even just metformin, that this type two bi diabetics are
00:33:36
on, but a lot of people, you know, that have access weight, because that's those are
00:33:40
typically the people with type two diabetes.
00:33:43
They'll, you know, prescribe a GLP one and that will actually be targeting your muscle mass
00:33:51
first, which is why we say resistance training first, right?
00:33:55
Because if you're going to get on that, you're going to be losing 30% up to 30% of your muscle
00:34:02
mass, which it's not fat loss.
00:34:05
It's actually muscle loss.
00:34:07
And so when you combine those things, it's actually not the greatest precursor for the,
00:34:12
what longevity looks like to you because you're losing so much muscle mass in that time.
00:34:16
What you want to do is be targeting that fat first, right?
00:34:19
Lose the fat while you're gaining the muscle.
00:34:22
And then over time with a level of consistency and resistance training here, you know, I like
00:34:28
getting into what it should look like at minimum of three days a week for forty five
00:34:32
minutes.
00:34:33
That's what resistance training should look like for a type two diet.
00:34:38
Yep.
00:34:38
And so to expand on that, go listen to the last episode we did about weight loss and all of we
00:34:45
we got super into the weeds and and deep, we did a deep dive on everything you just said
00:34:50
there.
00:34:50
So that's a good summary.
00:34:52
So, you know, kind of to wrap up this question, like, medications should not be used as a as a
00:34:57
lifelong thing.
00:34:58
They should be a bridge between acute, right, emergent kind of thing to get you back to then,
00:35:04
lifestyle.
00:35:05
So medicate medications can be a useful tool.
00:35:08
Right?
00:35:08
But they're never the only tool, so I'll let people need to know that.
00:35:12
Right?
00:35:12
There's other options, but, again, temporary.
00:35:15
So you're just putting a Band Aid on a bullet wound sometimes.
00:35:18
Right?
00:35:18
So this is exactly why we we take functional medicine approach to look deeper because the
00:35:22
goal isn't to keep you dependent on drugs.
00:35:25
The goal is actual health restoration.
00:35:27
And so, you know, again, like, it's not the best business model because we're giving giving
00:35:33
you healthy, we're giving you the answers, and now you can do it on your own.
00:35:37
But we're not in the business of of taking people's money and keeping them sick.
00:35:40
We're in the pea the business of empowering and changing the world really through an impact
00:35:45
that's gonna be passed down through generations ultimately.
00:35:50
So here's question number four.
00:35:52
I eat well and exercise, but I still have some gut issues, inflammation, and brain fog could
00:35:58
hidden toxins, food, sensitive activities, or stress be the missing link.
00:36:04
So your gut is the command center of your health.
00:36:06
You have to understand that it's going to dictate everything.
00:36:09
It's going to have a neurological release to your brain.
00:36:12
All those things are going to be dictated from your gut.
00:36:14
In fact, they say your gut is actually your first brain.
00:36:18
Yeah.
00:36:19
That's going to actually show you everything that else is good that's going on.
00:36:22
So you want to make sure, when you have more of an alignment with your gut, you're going to
00:36:26
have in my, you're going to have a deep, deeper, spiritual sense.
00:36:30
You're going to have more cognitive release.
00:36:32
So make sure, these are the things that, you want to be putting in place.
00:36:36
So the gut isn't just about digestives, about the command center for your immune system,
00:36:41
brain function, metabolism, and even mood.
00:36:44
If your gun is off, everything is off, you know, it, but here's the problem.
00:36:49
Most people don't realize they have gut issues because they don't always show up as bloating
00:36:53
or stomach pain.
00:36:55
Instead, gut dysfunction can manifest as brain fog and fatigue, joint pain and inflammation,
00:37:01
anxiety, and depression, auto immune diseases, chronic skin condition like eczema and acne.
00:37:08
And yet conventional medicine barely acknowledges gut health issues, until you've
00:37:13
had full blown IBS or even Crohn's or colitis, but let's break down why your gut is so
00:37:18
critical to overall health and why just eating more fiber and popping at probiotic isn't
00:37:24
enough.
00:37:24
You know, those, those famous greens that everyone is on nowadays.
00:37:27
Right?
00:37:29
So here's gut dysbiosis, the CR the root of chronic inflammation and disease.
00:37:35
Your gut is a home of trillions of bacteria that regulate immune function, neurotransmitter
00:37:40
production, and metabolic health.
00:37:43
When your gut bacteria are balanced, you feel great when they're out of whack, then there's
00:37:49
dysbiosis.
00:37:51
If it can trigger systematic inflammation and disease.
00:37:54
So here's a study done in 2021 by gut micro microbes found that gut dysbiosis is a direct
00:38:03
directly linked to auto immune conditions, chronic inflammation, even mood disorders like
00:38:08
anxiety and depression.
00:38:10
So translation your gut microbiome.
00:38:12
Doesn't just affect digestion.
00:38:15
It affects your immune system and brain, which affect your digestion.
00:38:19
Right.
00:38:21
And what's wrecking people's gut health Antibiotics.
00:38:24
Right?
00:38:25
That's wiping out the solid gut bacteria that you have.
00:38:28
So think of your kids.
00:38:30
Right?
00:38:30
If you're constantly putting them antibiotics every single time, they get a little sniffly
00:38:34
cold.
00:38:35
That's exactly what it's doing.
00:38:40
Glyphosate, herbicides and non organic food.
00:38:43
Right?
00:38:44
Which have been linked to a leaky gut and, and microbiome disruption, processed foods, as we
00:38:50
talked about, artificial sweeteners, which feed bad bacteria and cause inflammation, chronic
00:38:55
stress, and poor sleep, all things that we mentioned, both of which alter gut bacteria and
00:39:00
composition and gut health.
00:39:03
Isn't just about digestion.
00:39:04
It's about preventing chronic disease before it even starts.
00:39:07
So let's dig into a little bit about what leaky gut is.
00:39:11
So typically this is where people are going to see this a little bit later in life.
00:39:14
You're not going to see this.
00:39:17
You, you could see this at an early age, right?
00:39:19
We might be actually seeing it more with the, the amount of gut and the gut dysfunction that
00:39:23
we're seeing in adolescents.
00:39:25
If you're an adolescent with leaky gut that's, that's, you know, those times are probably
00:39:30
coming, but typically you're going to see this in your twenties and thirties, leaky gut, is
00:39:35
intestinal permeability.
00:39:37
All right.
00:39:37
So just to give you a little bit of explanation about how the gut works, it goes, it breaks
00:39:42
down your food through the largest small intestines.
00:39:45
It's broken down.
00:39:46
All those micro macronutrients are then get into the gut and then they're pushed out into
00:39:51
the bloodstream.
00:39:52
So if you're in chronic inflammation, you're, you're not getting enough of those macro
00:39:57
micronutrients.
00:39:58
If you're, if your quality, if you feed your food sources, isn't there.
00:40:02
So this happens when the lining of your gut becomes damaged, allowing toxins, bacteria,
00:40:04
undigested food particles to leak into your bloodstream.
00:40:16
Research in the journal of clinical gastroenterology found that increased
00:40:21
intestinal permeability is linked to autoimmune disease.
00:40:25
Auto immune diseases like Hashimoto's rheumatoid arthritis and even multiple
00:40:30
sclerosis.
00:40:31
So what causes leaky gut?
00:40:34
So you have a number of different things that we already talked about.
00:40:37
But glyphosate, again, that's a herbicide and conventional food, weakens gut lining and
00:40:42
integrity.
00:40:43
So then you have, like the ibuprofen, the aspirins NSAIDs have been shown to increase gut
00:40:50
permeability.
00:40:52
So doing those on a daily basis is not something as a precursor for longevity, right?
00:40:58
Gluten and seed oils could trigger an inflammatory response that worsens gut barrier,
00:41:02
gut barrier dysfunction.
00:41:04
So if you're struggling with chronic inflammation of joint health or joint health or
00:41:08
auto immune issues, your gut is likely part of the problem, where you're going to dive into
00:41:15
the most, the most, where you can have a, a body that naturally heals itself is when you
00:41:25
focus on your stress and sleep receptors.
00:41:27
Right?
00:41:28
The overload gut killers.
00:41:30
Most people don't realize the stress and lasting sleep can literally change your gut
00:41:34
microbiome.
00:41:35
And you see your body recovers.
00:41:37
This is what's kind of cool about how the body works is that when you get proper sleep, your
00:41:44
spine is actually releasing fluid, right.
00:41:46
And allowing your cerebral fluid just to go and cleanse the brain.
00:41:51
Right.
00:41:52
And so you get a therapeutic soup, which indicates everything else in the body.
00:41:55
So if you're not getting proper sleep, your brain is not getting the proper nutrients that
00:42:01
it needs to potentially reduce the amount of inflammation in the body, particularly in the
00:42:06
gut.
00:42:06
So they're all interconnected.
00:42:08
High stress levels, increased cortisol, which directly impacts gut bacteria increases gut
00:42:13
permeability, decreased digestive enzyme production, leading to bloating reflux and
00:42:19
nutrient malabsorption.
00:42:21
This is important because what people don't realize is that when you have a backup and you
00:42:27
have heartburn, you have indigestion, that typically is because you have not enough
00:42:34
enzymes within the stomach.
00:42:35
Right?
00:42:36
So you want to make sure that maybe that you can incorporate, some, apple cider vinegar or
00:42:43
various things that have more digestive enzymes built up.
00:42:47
So that you're aiding that into the production of the breakdown before it gives in the largest
00:42:50
small intestine, right?
00:42:52
Fuel cravings for processed foods, sugar, further reckoning of gut health.
00:42:56
So the gut brain connection is very real.
00:42:59
And if your nervous system is constantly in flight or fight mode, your gut health will
00:43:04
eventually suffer.
00:43:10
Yeah.
00:43:11
So, you know, like, that's that's great, man.
00:43:13
And then it's all about, again, like, coming back to what's the functional medicine approach
00:43:16
to gut health.
00:43:17
And so you said it, like, instead of just throwing probiotics on the problem, which is,
00:43:23
like, basically, like planting flowers in a toxic waste dump, you're throwing a bunch of
00:43:27
good stuff onto something that's not working.
00:43:29
So the systematic approach is number one, we have to identify what are the inflammatory
00:43:34
triggers.
00:43:34
Right?
00:43:35
So we can assess for food intolerances such as gluten, dairy, seed oils, artificial sweeteners
00:43:40
that are contributing to the inflammation.
00:43:42
Then you gotta balance the gut microbiome.
00:43:44
We can check for stool tests.
00:43:46
We can see if there's dysbiosis, SIBO, candida overgrowth, parasites, toxins, and then find
00:43:53
out what those are and now reduce that toxic burden.
00:43:55
So, you know, if there is glyphosate exposure, heavy metals, mold, how do we get those out?
00:44:01
And then heal and rebuild.
00:44:02
So we use a combination of elimination dieting, fasting, anti inflammatory nutrition, gut
00:44:09
healing nutrients, some of the best like glutamine and collagen, and then lifestyle
00:44:13
changes to restore gut health from the ground up.
00:44:16
Right?
00:44:16
It's all about lifestyle because if you can create something that is foundationally part of
00:44:20
your lifestyle, then you can do that forever.
00:44:22
Right?
00:44:23
And so a healthy gut is gonna equal better metabolism, brain function, immune system, but
00:44:28
most doctors are just completely ignoring this now.
00:44:31
So unless you're dealing with full blown digestive stuff, they often just kinda dismiss
00:44:35
you as, again, IBS in air quotes.
00:44:38
So if you're dealing with chronic inflammation, brain fog, weight issues, autoimmune symptoms,
00:44:43
your gut is the first place to look because if your gut is off, everything else will be off.
00:44:48
Right?
00:44:49
So last question before we wrap up, this is just one I really, really wanna drive home is
00:44:57
and to say it in a nice way.
00:44:58
Right?
00:44:59
If your doctor is dismissing you or if your doctor is not listening to you or telling you
00:45:03
that it's in your head, get a different doctor.
00:45:06
Get a more functional doctor who's gonna sit there and take the time to understand what your
00:45:09
problems are.
00:45:10
So this is something we hear a lot.
00:45:12
Right?
00:45:13
It's every time I bring up alternative treatments like functional medicine or hormones
00:45:17
balancing or gut health, my doctor doesn't take it seriously.
00:45:20
So, like, why is conventional medicine so resistant to these holistic approaches that
00:45:25
I've heard work or actually do work.
00:45:27
Right?
00:45:28
And so, again, beating the drum here, conventional medicine isn't about prevention.
00:45:32
It's about lifelong customers because it's a profit driven system.
00:45:36
These doctors have to hit quotas of how many medications they give out a month, a week,
00:45:40
whatever.
00:45:41
Right?
00:45:41
And that's just the truth of it.
00:45:42
That's the ugly truth.
00:45:44
So the pharmaceutical companies are the ones funding the medical schools, the research, the
00:45:48
guidelines.
00:45:49
So the entire system is set up for them to have their kind of stake, right, or their way.
00:45:54
So conventional doctors are they're trained to prescribe, not prevent.
00:45:58
That's just how it is.
00:45:59
I'm not saying that they're bad people.
00:46:00
I'm not saying that they're ill intentioned.
00:46:02
That's just how they're trained.
00:46:04
Right?
00:46:04
And so if you were a a professional athlete and you were trained to do one thing and then now
00:46:09
they're telling you to do this, you're you're gonna have no idea what that is.
00:46:12
Right?
00:46:13
So they're trained to diagnose and prescribe medicine.
00:46:16
So according to JAMA, the journal of alternative medicine twenty nineteen, the
00:46:21
average doctor receives less than twenty hours of nutrition education in their entire medical
00:46:26
training.
00:46:27
Right?
00:46:27
So your doctor's not gonna be the one to tell you how to eat healthy.
00:46:30
That means they probably know more about the latest diabetes drug than actually how to
00:46:34
reverse insulin resistance with diet and exercise.
00:46:37
So, you know, honestly, let's be real.
00:46:39
When was the last time your your doc talked to you about gut health, microbiome, use things
00:46:44
like that strength training?
00:46:45
Right?
00:46:45
When was the last time they asked you if you work out, kinda what your hormones are doing?
00:46:48
They don't.
00:46:49
And because that's that's not what they're trained to do.
00:46:51
So the system being built on
00:46:52
How do you even go further and ask your doctor what, yeah, what do you know about the drug
00:46:58
you're prescribing me?
00:46:59
What do you what do you really know about the drug you're prescribing me?
00:47:01
Because typically What did the rep tell you?
00:47:04
Right?
00:47:04
Yeah.
00:47:05
What the rep tell you?
00:47:06
Yeah.
00:47:06
Yeah.
00:47:07
Exactly, man.
00:47:07
And so, you know, again, the system is built on chronic disease, not health.
00:47:11
So if you heal your gut, if you fix your your chronic pain through natural things, you're not
00:47:16
gonna need the system.
00:47:17
Right?
00:47:17
And so that's not good for them.
00:47:19
So, the functional medicine approach is always root cause.
00:47:23
Right?
00:47:24
We focus on metabolic health, balancing blood sugar, insulate insulin, inflammation before
00:47:30
diabetes develops.
00:47:31
Right?
00:47:32
Hormonal health, supporting the thyroid adrenals, sex hormones naturally instead of
00:47:37
just prescribing synthetic hormones, which, you know, bioidentical hormones can be helpful, and
00:47:43
and I think there's a time and a place for those, but they shouldn't be the first, and you
00:47:47
gotta use them wisely as well.
00:47:49
And then, obviously, like, this is a big one, man.
00:47:51
Biomechanics and movement.
00:47:53
Right?
00:47:53
If you can correct someone's posture the way their body moves before the chronic pain sets
00:47:57
in, you're gonna eliminate the need for things like over the counter NSAIDs, which so many
00:48:02
people just eat like candy.
00:48:04
And then obviously focusing on gut and immune health function.
00:48:06
So the bottom line is the system doesn't want you to be healthy, but we do.
00:48:13
We want you to be healthy.
00:48:14
We want you to thrive.
00:48:15
So conventional medicine isn't interested in those solutions.
00:48:19
But if you want Band Aids, right, if you just wanna cover it up and this is the weirdest
00:48:23
thing, man.
00:48:24
We see this a lot, actually.
00:48:25
Some patients come in and they just that's really what they want.
00:48:27
They're like, dude, I just wanna be out of pain for a little bit.
00:48:29
Let's just give me a couple of things.
00:48:31
And I'm like, hey.
00:48:32
That's we can do that.
00:48:33
If that's ultimately what you want, I'll serve you in that capacity.
00:48:36
But we always educate on why long term correctional things are best, and that's how
00:48:40
you can maintain long term.
00:48:42
So, that's what functional medicine is.
00:48:47
I love it.
00:48:48
This is a great episode.
00:48:49
Great education for people just to really understand, again, their body and to ask better
00:48:55
questions, to get better answers.
00:48:56
So we're here for you.
00:48:58
I love these questions that are coming through, but the truth is real health.
00:49:02
Isn't about coming from a prescription pad.
00:49:05
It comes from understanding your body, identifying the root cause of dysfunction and
00:49:09
making lifestyle changes that can actually create long term vitality.
00:49:14
Yes.
00:49:15
And if that, if that makes us the black sheep of the medical world, so be it because the
00:49:20
people getting the real results in our clinics, the ones ditching medications, reversing
00:49:25
chronic conditions, and actually feeling better.
00:49:27
Aren't the ones following the mainstream script.
00:49:30
Right.
00:49:30
They're the ones rewriting it.
00:49:32
So let's keep decoding health one truth at a time.
00:49:37
Beautiful, man.
00:49:37
A great great finish there.
00:49:39
I love that.
00:49:40
Awesome, man.
00:49:40
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00:49:42
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00:49:44
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00:49:58
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