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(0:00) Introduction and Matt Tack's health journey (3:30) Blood work and starting functional medicine (4:24) Targeted supplementation and TRT experience (6:11) Matt Tack's investment in health and Alessi Functional Health (7:15) Key takeaways from health transformation (8:55) Listener discounts and call to action00:00:00
We are living in a world of people silently suffering.
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People like me looking on the outside but struggling on the inside.
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People who don't even realize that there's an there's a better way.
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So functional medicine gave me a new lease on life.
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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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Hey, everybody.
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Welcome to the Health Decoded podcast where your host, Matt Tack, is gonna run solo today.
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So I have a very exciting story to tell you today, my journey.
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So what's up, everyone?
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Welcome back to the show.
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Today's episode is gonna just gonna be raw, real, and probably the most important one I've
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personally done yet.
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So I wanna take you on a journey, my journey into functional medicine, into healing and
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discovering what it actually means to look good, feel good, and play good.
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And not just physically, but mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
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So ultimately, how that journey led me to become a partner at Alessi Functional Health.
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I know that a lot of people come into the clinic and they're like, who's that tall guy
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that, comes in here like he owns the place?
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Well, that's me.
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I handle a lot of the business activities on the backside, the marketing activities for
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Alessi functional health.
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And then I step in where I need to be.
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So that is me, but let's let's back up a little bit.
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And I wanna tell you a little bit about why this all came about.
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So there was a time not long ago where I just felt off.
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I felt off.
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Like, I was driving a high performance car with the parking brake halfway on.
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And if anyone of you ever seen me, I'm I always try to stay relatively fit.
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I try to look good.
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But at the same time, I was off.
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So this is roughly around two years ago, I had brain fog.
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I was depressed.
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I had just no spark, no edge at the end of the day.
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I was working out, I looked like I had it all together, but on paper, I should've felt great.
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But something just wasn't clicking.
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And here's the thing, at the same time I had a nutritional brand, I was even hosting the Full
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Field podcast about health and wellness, yet something was off.
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I was preaching something I actually probably wasn't living by because I like, I didn't feel
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great.
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And that really hit hard.
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So here came the shift.
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There came a moment, and I remember it clearly, where I just said like, enough is enough.
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I gotta get I gotta figure this thing out.
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And so I was done pretending that everything was just gonna be fine.
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Done living in a body that wasn't absolutely firing on all cylinders, and really honestly,
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giving other people advice necessarily I wasn't following.
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Like, I wanted to feel optimized.
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So I leaned in.
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And leaning in that leaning in started with me becoming one of the first educational patient
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patients at for functional medicine purposes, at Alessi Functional Health.
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And what it did was chronicle that beta chronicled what somebody like me just wants to
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educate themselves.
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I wanted to educate them myself on, hey, why is my body feeling like this?
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What do I need?
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I don't just wanna be told, but I wanna learn.
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I wanna be more curious about this body that God has given me.
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So what do we do?
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We started with blood work.
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And not just any blood work.
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Real, deep, biometric, lab based results.
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Not the basic stuff that you're getting that you're gonna get to your annual physical that
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they're gonna check off and they're gonna put you in this range of people that might be 80
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years old and 20 years old, right?
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I wanna know about me.
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And so the uniqueness of me.
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So I uncovered the hormonal imbalances, the nutrient deficiencies, the inflammation that
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was going on in my body that I had no idea was there.
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Things traditional medicine never flags.
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So I got nerdy about it.
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I dove into the data.
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I wanted to understand my body at the cellular level, the plan.
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So what do we do?
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We got into the boardroom, targeted supplementation, lifestyle changes, and yes,
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TRT.
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I was advised to get on testosterone replacement therapy.
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The labs confirmed that I was deficient and low, and so I need to get on TRT.
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It wasn't a magic pill, but it was the spark that I needed to take control.
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So here's the process of what two years look like.
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Fast forward, the transformation of it all.
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Fast forward two years, my life looks completely different.
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Right?
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Remove the brain fog.
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That probably took about anywhere from three to four months where the brain fog was almost
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completely gone.
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My mood my mood rebalanced.
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I was I had more of a cadence.
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I wasn't as irritable.
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I didn't have as much anxiety.
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I was still working out, but through micro supplementation, through hormone replacement
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therapy and other things that I added on, through the functional medicine approach, man,
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I felt good.
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I was more alert, right?
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My central nervous system was just clicking on all cylinders.
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I had more energy through the roof, right?
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That 03:00 window of I was just dying and I was just wanting to go to sleep and on my couch or
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in my bed, that was gone.
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I have energy.
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Right?
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I was working out in the mornings, and I was able to sustain that energy throughout the rest
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of the day.
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I'm like, this is crazy.
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My focus my focus became sharper.
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I I wouldn't even be able to do a podcast like this and stay clearly focused throughout the
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entire process.
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And more importantly, I'm not just surviving anymore.
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I'm thriving.
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I'm playing good at the game of life.
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Right?
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That's where my motto comes into play.
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Look good, feel good, play good.
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Right?
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Everyone wants to look good so they become more confident, but you wanna feel good.
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You have to feel good in order to play the game good.
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And the game we call the game of life.
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And so that was big for me.
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That transformation, what it did for me physically, mentally, and spiritually is why I
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made the decision to invest into a less functional health.
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I just don't wanna be a patient anymore.
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I wanted to be part of the mission and the vision behind it.
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So that is ultimately why I became a partner.
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And here's what I saw.
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We are living in a world of people silently suffering.
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People like me looking on the outside, but struggling on the inside.
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People who don't even realize that there's an there's a better way.
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So functional medicine gave me a new lease on life, and I believe it can do the same for you
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and absolutely millions of others.
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So now I'm not just living it, I'm building it.
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Alessi Functional Health isn't just a clinic, it's a movement that's going to change lives.
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So here's some key takeaways that we always love to do in this podcast.
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Let me leave you just with a few of my personal journey.
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Looking fit doesn't mean you're healthy.
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So don't be fooled by the mirror.
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It's what's on the inside.
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If you feel off, trust your gut.
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You know your body than you know your body better than anyone, So trust it.
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Number three, functional medicine works if you work it.
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It's personalized, holistic, and rooted in why things are happening, not just what.
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Right?
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Number four, invest in yourself.
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So many people treat their, their bodies like cars.
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They hear the ticks, and they're like, I'll get to that later.
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But the reality is we only get one of these.
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So invest in yourself because nothing else works if your body and your mind don't.
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And number five, live by a code.
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For me, it's look good, feel good, play good, not just in fitness, but in the game of life.
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So that's my story from struggling silently to becoming a patient and now a partner.
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It's something that truly changed my life.
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If you're feeling stuck, foggy, or just something's off, lean in, start asking
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questions.
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And maybe, just maybe, consider what functional medicine could do for you.
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Thanks for listening in.
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I appreciate you.
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